Around the Coyote Art Festivals
Around the Coyote
2008 Spring Festival
At Looptopia
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Visual Art at the Around the Coyote Riverwalk Gallery
Located on the riverfront at Wacker and Wabash
Friday, May 2: 5pm to midnight
Saturday, May 3: 11am to 10pm
Sunday, May 4: 11am to 6pm
Performance and Open Studios at the Fine Arts Building
410 S. Michigan Ave
Friday, May 2: 5pm to 3:30am
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Please join us
May 2nd, 3rd and 4th as thousands of art collectors, enthusiasts, and visitors will converge on Chicago's loop as Around the Coyote joins
forces with Looptopia! Each year, hundreds of painters, photographers, sculptors, actors, performance artists, poets, and filmmakers participate in our festivals
for the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work to visitors from the United States and abroad. This year we are pleased to offer a festival that will kick off
on May 2nd in correlation with Looptopia, one of Chicago's newest cultural celebrations which drew over 200,000 people last year!
THE AROUND THE COYOTE SPRING FESTIVAL
WILL TAKE PLACE AT TWO MAIN VENUES
The visual art component of the festival will be held at the Around the Coyote Riverwalk Gallery, located on the riverwalk at Wacker and
Wabash, in the heart of Looptopia events! The visual art venue will be open all weekend (May 2 - 4), featuring nearly 100 visual artists!
The second venue, the historic Fine Arts Building (410 S. Michigan Ave.) will be open as a performance and open studio venue the night of
Looptopia only (May 2 from 5pm to 8am)--that's one jam-packed night of performing arts and open studios! The space will serve as a major
Looptopia and Around the Coyote Festival venue featuring open visual artists' studios, as well as literary, theatre, music, and cross
disciplinary performances representing a cross section of Chicago's best emerging talents.
VISUAL ARTISTS
ATC RIVERWALK GALLERY
ON THE RIVERFRONT AT WACKER + WABASH
FRIDAY May 2 :: 5pm - 11pm
SATURDAY May 3 :: 11am - 10pm
SUNDAY May 4 :: 11am - 6pm
FINE ARTS BLDG
410 S MICHIGAN AVE
FRIDAY May 2 :: 5pm-2am
Pianoforte Foundation
Beacon Street Gallery and Theatre
Finestra Art Space
Ossia School of Music
Machold Fine Violins
Tango Chicago
Kundalini Yoga in the Loop (KYG)
The Moving Dock Theatre Co.
Standard Usage Project Collective
Anita Miller
Michael Barlow
Pete Cramblit
Glenn Doering
Kathleen Newman
Keith Peterson
Zoe Spirra
Ford Willoughby
Deborah Adams-Doering
Riverwalk Gallery
Photo: S O'Keefe
PERFORMANCE
MUSIC
FINE ARTS BLDG : PIANOFORTE SPACE
410 S MICHIGAN AVE : FRIDAY, May 2
Rob Clearfield
5pm
CUBE Ensemble
5:30pm
Paul Giallorenzo
6:20pm
Colorlist
7pm
The Giving Tree Band
7:40pm
Golosa
8:30pm
Las Guitarras de Espana
9:20pm
Bossa Saravah
10pm
Khupera Tum
10:50pm
About a Girl
11:40pm
Philip Morris
12:20am
Violence Ammunition/Crash Davis
1am
FILM + VIDEO
Ryan Scheidt:
Centrifuge
FINE ARTS BLDG : CURTIS HALL
410 S MICHIGAN AVE : FRIDAY, May 2
SAIC's WAVEFORMS
Curated by J.C. Loewe, James Murray and Leone Reeves
Work by Anida Yoeu Ali, James Murray, Nathan Butler, Gillian Pena, The Ssion, Gonzalo Escobar, Ryan Tacata, Ann Boyd, Jodie Mack
7-10pm
Curated by Alexander Stewart
Work by Andy Roche, Inge Hoonte, Xander Marro, Chelsea Knight, Eric Patrick, Jared Larsen, Melika Bass, Brendan Meara
10pm-12am
Curated by Colin Palombi
Work by Kent Lambert, Brian Hank Henry, Michael Robinson, Cynthia Madansky, Alma Boro, Brian Boyce, Steve Reinke, Daniel Barrow
12-2am
POSTHUMOUSLY YOURS
Work by the late Chicago video artist Zack Stiglicz
Courtesy of Shellie Fleming
2-2:30am
CULTURAL CENTER : CASSIDY THEATER
78 E WASHINGTON ST : FRIDAY, May 2
DIGITAL ANTIDOTES curated by LiveBox
9:45-10:45pm
A collection of animated work featuring Bradley Hyppa, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Hillary Mushkin, Orit Ben Shitut, Jessica Westbrook and more.
LITERARY
Alysse Liebovich:
Gas Robot
FINE ARTS BLDG : CYSO SPACE
410 S MICHIGAN AVE : FRIDAY, May 2
Psychopharmacology & Fiction
An Electronic Lecture
6pm
Works in progress by SAIC's VCS graduate students
7pm
Reading Hybridity
8pm
Let Us Now Proclaim the Mystery
A Novel Reading and Sociological Film Experiment
9pm
The Stable
A Compilation of Art & Performance by Julia Klein
12am
The Visual Narrative Project
Guest curated by Matthew Kelson, CAID
1am
THEATRE
FINE ARTS BLDG : WILLIAM LEE VIOLIN WORKSHOP
410 S MICHIGAN AVE : FRIDAY, May 2
Pluto Was a Planet
8-10pm
A staged reading written by Laura Jacqmin, directed by Megan Shuchman and dramaturgy by Becky Perlman
CURATORS CHOICE
All visual art applicants (unless otherwise noted on their application) will be considered for Curator's Choice distinction.
Unlike previous festivals, there will not be a Curator's Choice Exhibition. The participants chosen for this honor will be
designated a "Curator's Choice" artist in our schedule and catalog, and they will be given special curator's choice signage for
display in their booths.
GUEST VISUAL ARTS CURATOR
Our 2008 Spring Festival at Looptopia Guest Curator is Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago. She is currently organizing two major exhibitionsoMCA EXPOSED: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007,
and Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City. Widholm Rodrigues has curated solo exhibitions of work by
artists including Jose Damasceno, Julian Opie, Valerie Hegarty, Dianna Frid, and Julia Oldham. Rodrigues Widholm received her MA in
Art History, Theory & Criticism from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
Ross Martens:
Tiny Gallery, East Wing
Kristi McGuire collects master's degrees from local institutions (the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute) en route to retheorizing the theory of the critical space-out. A native Detroiter transplanted to Chicago via New York , she's an associate editor at Chicago Review, a worker bee at the University of Chicago Press, and the writer of more than one impenetrable thesis.
Music
Seth Vanek and Aaron Rodgers, our music curators, began a working relationship over twenty years ago while attending the first grade. And while the original plan of a "really cool pizza place" never materialized, many years later the two created a record company (FP Records) and a performance space (The Ice Factory). Over the years, the two developed a fascination both with music that exists on the fringe of contemporary tastes and the murky business that often surrounds and sustains these esoteric forms. Through their endeavors, Mr. Vanek and Mr. Rodgers found themselves immersed in a musical culture that often defies convention, but never ceases to amaze.
Film
Catherine Forester
Theatre
Megan Shuchman graduated in 2005 from the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Women's Studies. Her university directing credits include several student productions and showcases, culminating in an award-winning production of Eve Ensler's FLOATING RHODA AND THE GLUE MA. In addition to active participation in a variety of campus theatre groups, Megan piloted a creative arts program, directing and producing plays in prisons and juvenile detention centers across Michigan. In relationship to this organization, upon graduation, Megan accepted a job with Big Brothers Big Sisters, managing a mentoring program for children of incarcerated parents. After moving to Chicago in September 2007, she began serving as the Literary Department Apprentice at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Currently, she is an Assistant Director and House Manager at Steppenwolf, and is excited to be working with Around the Coyote.
Around the Coyote, a 501(c)3 non-profit, supports, promotes and makes accessible Chicago's multidisciplinary arts community. Our activities enhance public discourse and provide
creative outlets for emerging artists. Year-round programming includes multi-media arts festivals featuring visual art, theater, dance, video and poetry in the spring and fall;
art exhibitions in the Around the Coyote gallery; an artist-in-residence program; membership opportunities for artists and art aficionados; educational outreach for all ages
through multi-media art workshops, lectures, collaborations with local schools and agencies, and career development workshops for artists. This programming is partially supported
by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the CityArts Program 2 grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Gallery/Office Hours: Tuesday
through Friday 10-6pm and Saturday 12-6pm. Directions: Located in the historic Flat Iron Arts Building, take the Blue Line to Damen Avenue. Chicago, Illinois USA
