At Around the Coyote, change is good. That's why we have decided to move our festival to October - that's October 12- 14th, to be exact - smack dab in the middle of Chicago Artists Month! But that's not all -- in our constant effort to make our festivals reflect the newest and most outstanding emerging art in Chicago, Around the Coyote has hired a new team of curators to bring an even more dynamic lineup of theatre events, literary performances, live music shows, film and video presentations, and special visual arts projects. We are also continuing our efforts to diversify the nature of our festival's offerings, with new initiatives in interdisciplinary performance, installation and public art projects including site-specific outdoor installations at the Nelson Algren Triangle at the intersection of Milwaukee and Division Aves.
Some things however are best left the same: The annual Curator's Choice Show, a best of the fest exhibition based on visual arts exhibitors will again be curated by one of Chicago's top contemporary arts professionals - Shannon Stratton, chief curator of ThreeWalls . In addition, we will also debut a new site-specific project by Haseeb Ahmed, our fall artist-in-residence. And, as always, the festival will be riddled with amazing parties, exhibits and performances at venues throughout Wicker Park. In addition to our nightly after-parties and our wildly popular closing night bash, we will be kicking things off with our Opening Night Party (on Thurs, Oct. 11 from 8 - midnight at the Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935 -1/2 West North Ave). The Opening Night Party serves as the official debut of our artist-in-residence project, Curator's Choice Silent Auction and raffle, a fundraiser for Around the Coyote's free arts education program. Party-goers will be able to indulge themselves with food catered by a fabulous area restaurant and quench their thirst with plenty of Peroni Beer. Curator's Choice artists include: Craig Anderson, Agata Czeremuszkin, Mara Baker, Leah Hessler, Sophia Pichinos, Iwona Biederman, Lisa Lindvay, Austin Eddy, Sari Maxfield, and Robert Burnier
Our 2007 Fall Arts Festival will take place in multiple venues throughout the Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood, but the best place to start the festival and pick up your festival guide is the Around the Coyote Gallery in the Flatiron Arts Building 1935-1/2 W. North Avenue. Over 300 painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists and printmakers join up with emerging artists from Chicago's theatre, music, literary and film communities to offer a weekend packed full of exhibits, lectures, art tours and performances.
Guided Tours and Lectures
After all tours, all participants are invited for free appetizers with your dinner reservation at Club Lucky, 1824 W. Wabansia, 773-227-2300.
To reserve space on the tour call 773-342-6777.
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Public Art Tour
Around the Coyote will offer a Public Art Tour during our Fall Arts Festival (Friday, October 12 at 6:30pm and Sunday, October 14 at 3pm; free. Tour begins in the lobby of the Wicker Park Fieldhouse, 1425 N. Damen). Public Art curators Ben Schaafsma and Stevie Greco will guide the tour highlighting outdoor public art projects throughout Wicker Park which have been installed for the festival weekend. Outdoor sculptures in Wicker Park, parking spaces reclaimed as parks, community composting projects and outdoor film screenings will all be discussed within the context of public art throughout Chicago. Supported in part by SSA #33
Beginning Collectors Tour
Around the Coyote will again offer the popular Beginning Collectors Tour (Saturday, October 13 at 1:00pm; $10 in addition to festival admission; limit 20; begins at the Around the Coyote Gallery) during our Fall Arts Festival. Around the Coyote Executive Director Allison Stites offers a tour of the fall festival meant to demystify the art buying experience. Tips on how to start and maintain an art collection will be given. Allison will highlight some of her favorite festival artists, introduce the tour to those artists, and answer questions.
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Neighborhood Studio Tour
Around the Coyote is offering a Neighborhood Studio Tour (Saturday, October 13 at 4pm; $10 in addition to festival admission; limit 20, begins at Wow & Zen, 1912 N. Damen, where drinks and appetizers will be provided). This tour will be led by Festival Coordinator, Jessica Cochran, and will highlight some of the outstanding artists living in the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods. The tour will include private homes used as artist studios as well as two major art studio buildings in the neighborhood: The Flatiron Arts Building and The Splat Flats.
Fall Artist-in-Residence lecture
Our resident artist, Haseeb Ahmed, will give a Fall Artist-in-Residence lecture on the concept and execution of the site-specific piece created in our gallery space. His motivations, trials and tribulations, and career as an artist will all be discussed. Sunday, October 14 at 1pm. Free with festival admission or $10. Haseeb Ahmed is an emerging artist, curator and architect based in Chicago. A founding member of Studio Jeeraan, an architecture and design studio he has worked on addressing the issues confronting the American Muslim community internally and externally through public works. A reading room designed for the Downtown Islamic Center in Chicago is to be completed September 2007. He is completing a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture and Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently Haseeb is curating an exhibit of the late Palestinian political cartoonist Naji al-Ali and contemporary Palestinian artists in dialogue with him. Haseeb's studio practice consists of the negotiation of Islamic practice and the American context through large scale installations. He has worked closely with craftsmen in Pakistan to create Translations Rug Co. which combines traditional rug making techniques and 3-D modeling technology. Haseeb has exhibited work in Germany , Switzerland, and United States.
Curator's Choice Tour
We will also be offering a Curator's Choice Tour highlighting artists included in the Curator's Choice exhibit. The tour will be guided by our guest curator, Shannon Stratton chief curator at ThreeWalls and one Chicago's leading art professionals. Her methods of curating exhibitions, how she finds artists, and how collectors can build solid collections will all be discussed (Sunday, October 14 following the Artist-in-Residence lecture; $10 in addition to festival admission; limit 20; begins at the Around the Coyote Gallery).
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