UIC School of Art & Art History

During Summer Session 2 ART 280: Collaborative Printmaking & Justice students researched the Just Transition Framework and responded to the eight pillars by generating 11 in. x 17in. Linoleum prints.

Each students pulled twenty-five prints using our and hand colored them using watercolor. The prints will be digitally distributed to regional Environmental Justice Organizations across the region.

ART 280: Collaborative Printmaking & Justice students have been working hard on developing relief print using linoleum and adding watercolor highlights. Students were asked to generate a graphic on a theme that was important to them and these are some of the prints they generated. Look forward to sharing their 11”x17” Environmental Justice Posters next week!

Natural Dye Workshop with Katelyn Patton, UIC MFA 2024!
Date: Saturday, July 13th, 2024
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: The workshop will begin at the Roti Roti Art Center of Buchanan, Michigan, with an artist talk by Katelyn Patton. We will then move to a nearby forest location, where we will gather natural materials, and Katelyn will lead a workshop on the dyeing process.
The $60 fee includes instruction, all materials, and lunch. All welcome! Buchanan is an easy 2 hr drive from Chicago, or you can take an Amtrak train to Niles Station.
Direct link to register:
https://rotirotiartcenter.corsizio.com/event/663c0e5859b773134c57b92c

Workshop description:
Interested in learning about natural dyes? Join instructor Katelyn Patton to learn about the different colors that can be derived from common weedy plants like buckthorn and pokeweed as we use the forest as a resource for material. We will go over the process of natural dyeing from start to finish. Class will start with an information session at the Art Center and proceed to private property just outside Buchanan. Bring your own transportation. Dress to forage: hats, gloves, sturdy shoes or boots, sunscreen and water. If participants have pruners or choppers that is helpful, but not necessary. A light lunch will be provided or you are free to bring your own. Participants will each take home one cotton and one silk bandana dyed with different colors and treatments.

This week is National Teacher Appreciation week, a time when we show gratitude to our teachers for the important work they do every day. To all of the teachers out there, we see you! Special congratulations to BFA in Art Education grad Desiree Rosales on winning a Crumbl Teacher of the Year Award. Desiree says everything has been going great with teaching so far, "I wouldn't be here without the support and guidance I received from everyone at UIC." Way to go, Desiree!!
**Let's all remember to thank a teacher this week.**

Join Gallery 400 this Friday, May 10 from 5-7 p.m. for the opening reception of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, a group exhibition that takes shape around the role of inheritance across multiple dimensions of our lives. The exhibition probes the tensions between which legacies we choose to acquire, hold on to, or reject across culture and personal life.

It features new commissions by Caroline Kent and Nate Young, Eli Greene, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, and S*an D. Henry-Smith. Other artists included are Sonya Clark, Cameron Clayborn, Bouchra Khalili, and Carmen Winant.

Meet some of the artists and enjoy light refreshments!

STUDENT NEWS!
MFA student, Laurel Hauge, has a solo show at The Plan titled Getting There, which opened on Saturday, April 20th! If you couldn't make it to the opening, there are other opportunities to see the show during the gallery's open hours and one of the performances!

Performative interventions will be carried out on Sundays with the schedule below:

7pm Sat, April 20, opening night — Trey Jefferson Rozell
2.30pm Sun, April 21 — Jessica Zawadowicz
2.30pm Sun, April 28 — Shir Ende (MFA '18)
2.30pm Sun, May 05 — Megan Creamer
2.30pm Sun, May 12 — Chris Reeves(PhD '21) & Lauren Sudbrink (MFA '15)
2.30pm Sun, May 19 — Asya Dubrovina (MFA '21)
2.30pm Sun, May 26 — Andi Crist (MFA '24)

April 21 - May 26
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago
Sundays Noon-4pm

We are extremely excited to celebrate the Art Education Senior Cohort and their completion of Apprentice Teaching! Come listen to their presentations this Tuesday 4/23 from 5:30p-7:30p and learn about their teaching process and the work they were able to generate with their students!

Amelia Lozada

Brianna Reyes

Amy Chen

Sarah Gorman

We are extremely excited to celebrate the Art Education Senior Cohort and their completion of Apprentice Teaching! Come listen to their presentations this Tuesday 4/23 from 5:30p-7:30p and learn about their teaching process and the work they were able to generate with their students!

Eli Fritsch

Katy Wong

Annie Eck

Meet MFA student Luke Sanders!

Sacramento, CA native Luke Sanders attempts to illustrate a version of manhood that leaves room to be passive, swishy, introspective, vulnerable, unheroic, awkward, nervous, and doubtful. He is trying to move into a more radically affirmative relationship with his aging q***r body. He draws with a mirror and a stick, using self-portraiture to reflect his inner weather and describe what happens when he sits with himself.

Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort!

Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th.
A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

Second image: Luke Sanders, SP w/ black spill, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by the artist.
Third image: Luke Sanders, SP holding gnome in mud, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by the artist.

Please join us for the final student teaching presentations of the BFA in Art Education cohort and graduating class of 2024!

DATE: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
TIME: 5:30-7:30 pm
LOCATION: UIC Art & Exhibition Hall Room 5202, 400 S. Peoria St., Chicago, 60607
This event will be hybrid - email for the Zoom link: [email protected]

Gallery 400 is extending the deadline for proposals for the Art and Exhibition Hall Lobby Competition! This competition is open to all current University of Illinois at Chicago Art BFA and MFA students. The winning project will have 24-hour visibility in the prominent lobby location for the Summer 2024 semester. Winners will also receive a $200 honorarium!⁠ Submit your proposal by Monday, April 22.⁠
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We are looking for UIC students to submit work that aligns with themes explored in our upcoming exhibition upcoming exhibition, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, opening May 10th. This group exhibition takes shape around the role inheritance has across multiple dimensions of our lives. Posed as an inquiry that probes the tensions between which legacies we choose to acquire, the topic of inheritance demands reflection on one's relationship with ancestors and what we would like to endow our descendants with.⁠
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While we encourage students to submit work that coincides with 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, all proposals will be accepted for consideration.⁠
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For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit:
https://gallery400.uic.edu/interact/lobby-competition/

Photo courtesy: Samuel Schwindt, The Breaking Down Became a Proliferation/The Glitz and Glam Felt so Alive (Halloween 1989), 2023.

Lobby Competition - Gallery 400 Gallery 400 and the School of Art and Art History are excited to announce a public exhibition opportunity open to all current University of Illinois Chicago BFA and MFA students. Once per semester, a current student will be selected by committee to exhibit a site-specific work on the front wall in t...

Meet MFA student Sarah Isela Aguilar!

Sarah Isela Aguilar dibuja y fue nacida y criada en una casa de ladrillo rojo con dos arbustos mal podados a la entrada. Ella recibió su BFA en la Universidad de Texas en El Paso (2019) con una concentración en Dibujo y Grabado. Vive y trabaja en Chicago y va a conseguir una MFA en la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago (2024).

Sarah Isela Aguilar is a drawer born and raised in a red brick house with two badly pruned bushes at the end of the driveway. She received a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso (2019) with a concentration in Drawing and a minor in Printmaking.
She lives and works in Chicago where she’s an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort!

Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th.
A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

Second image: Sarah Isela Aguilar, "map", carbon paper, folds, graphite, 2024.

Art Education Juniors were tasked in making exploratory exemplars for a highschool level art class using Batik and a form of resist. Students worked over a period of 4 weeks to develop these works of art and we are excited to share these with you. 

1. Analy Tirado Zacarias
2. Cheri Tanamal
3. Alicia Mullis
4. Natalie Bennett
5. Alejandra Guzman
6. Dan Velasco
7. Sam Patricio
8. Ricardo Castañeda

Join us for "All Things Considered", an interdisciplinary exhibition using sound, material, space, and creative research to explore social perspectives. We invite you to bear witness to all this collectivity.

April 16 - 19, 2024
400 S Peoria St Chicago, IL 5th Floor

Art Education Juniors were tasked in making exploratory exemplars for a highschool level art class using Batik and a form of resist. Students worked over a period of 4 weeks to develop these works of art and we are excited to share these with you.

1. Gaby Perez
2. Cory Gul
3. Raven Day
4. Sam Franco
5. Daniel Gantner
6. Viviana Ortiz
7. Ashley Torres
8. Binh Nguyen

Meet MFA student Le Hien Minh!

Le Hien Minh’s current work demonstrates an unwavering dedication to exploring significant subjects that reverberate with the deeper currents of society. With the female experience at its center, her work maps the complex interconnections among the myriad socio-historical and cultural forces that affect modern life, including politics, culture, race, gender, labor, and class. At once contemplative and challenging, her work transcends the superficial, revealing profound nuances of these themes and infusing them with mystical, spiritual, and magical elements. With her distinctive approach to metaphysics, Le Hien Minh creates a compelling yet uncanny experience that invites viewers to immerse themselves in contemplation, considering the dynamic interchange between actuality and potentiality, as well as the subtle interconnection between abstractness and concreteness. Through this thought- provoking lens, she poses questions about existence and the nature of being.

Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort! Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th.
A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

MFA Panel: Wednesday, April 10th 12:00pm-1:00 pm
UIC Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Moderator: Nate Young
Artists: Luke Sanders, Queen Hibbler, Le Hien Minh and Sarah Isela Aguilar.
Professor, and director of the MFA Graduate studies program, Nate Young leads interdisciplinary artists Luke Sanders, Queen Hibbler, Sarah Isela Aguilar, and Le Hien Minh in a discussion spanning time and space. Whether it's 2-dimensions translated into portraiture or 3-dimensional conversions of space, the artists will discuss their autonomous artistic voices rooted in disparate grassroots.

Second image: Le Hien Minh, ‘Blessed Lady of the Nail’, 2023, traditional Vietnamese handmade Dó paper, resin, wood, 73 x 27 x 27cm. Photo by Laurel Hauge.
Third image: Le Hien Minh, ‘Minority Model’, 2023, traditional Vietnamese handmade Dó paper, wood, acrylic 88 x 66 x 22cm. Photo by Laurel Hauge.

Join Gallery 400 today from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Gallery 400 Lecture Room for the final Voices lecture of the semester with filmmaker S. Torriano Berry! A member of the influential Black film movement the LA Rebellion, Berry’s work spans from coming-of-age vignettes to urban horror to the first Belizean dramatic television series.

Berry will screen his 1983 MFA project “Rich” (1983), which follows a young Black man on the eve of his high-school graduation, and discuss his early work made as a student at UCLA in the 80s.

Art Education Juniors were tasked in making exploratory exemplars for a highschool level art class using Batik and a form of resist. Students worked over a period of 4 weeks to develop these works of art and we are excited to share these with you.

1. Allison Rich
2. Al Yucuis
3. Mary Sampson
4. Ana Schikschnus
5. Abby Moon-Sarudi
6. Bit Schobert
7. Ella Smith
8-9. Maxwell Chalk

Meet MFA student, Queen Hibbler!

Queen Hibbler. Each year, I feel it may be easier than the last. But I find myself yearning to be understood while also not wanting to be consumed. The juxtaposition of these two notions haunts me while I navigate through this lifetime as a Black woman. A q***r femme just now sprouting their idiosyncratic wings. The click-clacking of my super-long nails against the sides of my paint cups, rattling against the keyboard are all pieces of the work. Endless voice notes, tons of backspaces, and exasperated sighs all make up the work. The process of the work is also the work. If I am bound to be gazed upon, I might as well take control of what will be exhibited. Autonomy is one thing that I know that I’ve been striving to achieve, especially in my older years.

Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort!

Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th.
A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

MFA Panel: Wednesday, April 10th 12:00pm-1:00 pm
UIC Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Moderator: Nate Young
Artists: Luke Sanders, Queen Hibbler, Le Hien Minh and Sarah Isela Aguilar.
Professor, and director of the MFA Graduate studies program, Nate Young leads interdisciplinary artists Luke Sanders, Queen Hibbler, Sarah Isela Aguilar, and Le Hien Minh in a discussion spanning time and space. Whether it's 2-dimensions translated into portraiture or 3-dimensional conversions of space, the artists will discuss their autonomous artistic voices rooted in disparate grassroots.

Second image: Queen Hibbler, "Off Work", acrylic on canvas paper, 2023.
Third image: Queen Hibbler, "Hot Local Employee", linocut print, 2023.

Meet MFA student Samuel Schwindt!

Samuel Schwindt (b. 1996, Indianapolis, IN) is a leather sculptor in Chicago, IL. His object-and-space focused practice has ancestries in sculptural lineages, leather-craft heritages, and q***r histories. Schwindt manifests monumental-scale constructions through leather, light, ligatures, luxuries, limerence, legacies, legends, and lamentations. The works are figure-adjacent sculptures that are ambiguous, alien, ambivalent, and amorphous portraits.

Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort!

Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th.
A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

Second image: Sam Schwindt, PVNCTVRE, Translucent leather, cross-stitches, meat hooks, 2024.

Join us for a conversation between MFA ART student, Samuel Schwindt, and PhD, Art History student, Madison Whitaker!

Moderated by Iris Bernblum, Professor, Art.

Lunch will be served!

Thursday, April 4
5:30 PM - 7 PM
Gallery 400
Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.

Images: (left) Samuel Schwindt, An Ambivalent Figure That Feels Like a Secret I'll Never Forget, 2023
(right) Michel Delsol, Sheree Rose and Bob Flanagan, Wedding Vows with 'S' Cutting. 1994

Meet MFA student Andi Crist!

Andi Crist (b. 1988, Birmingham, AL) is a conceptual artist based in Chicago. Her sculptural practice employs a variety of media, including woodworking, ceramics, and casting, which is complemented by a career as a professional art handler and
fabricator. By pairing humor and skepticism with craft-based techniques, Crist critically examines the value systems at play in the arts economy. Absurdity and utility target intellectualism with a serious dedication to craftsmanship and a “master-of-none” attitude. Objects are rooted in real iterations of themselves, and replications reflect a world where work and play become both synonymous and antagonistic. With keen self-awareness and an often-sardonic approach to the gallery as a white cube, Crist’s work incites critical examinations of contemporary studio practices and the theatre of the exhibition space.

Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort!

Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th.
A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

MFA Panel: Wednesday, April 3rd 12:00pm-1:00pm
UIC Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Moderator: Matt Metzger
Artists: Andi Crist, Katelyn Patton and Samuel Schwindt.
Professor, and Chair of the Department of Art, Matthew Metzger leads artists Andi Crist, Katelyn Patton, and Samuel Schwindt in a wide-ranging sculptural conversation. The discussion not only encompasses object-making site-specific to Chicago - but also skewers the language we use to describe objects and sculptural philosophies.

Second Image: Andi Crist, Artist’s Ladder, Various hardwoods, steel hardware, leather, rubber, 2023.
Photo credit: Luke Sanders.

Third Image: Andi Crist, Five O’Clock Somewhere, Hand-tufted wool rug,10’ x 8’,2023.
Photo credit: Eileen Mueller.

Meet MFA student Sarah Whyte!

Sarah Whyte (b. 1997) is a fiber artist and painter whose work questions her identity as a
transracial, transnational, Chinese American woman and adoptee. She was born in China and
lived in an orphanage. She was then adopted from Jiangxi province and brought to the United
States, where she grew up. She looks to China to understand her story. However, she can only
understand China through a Western lens without direct access to her motherland’s location,
language, history, and culture. In her artwork, she explores the complicated intersections of
international adoption with global issues such as imperialism, militarism, and colonization. She
also draws on personal matters around identity, racism, and discrimination. She uses painting
and textile techniques such as embroidery to tell her personal stories about adoption and
identity and to bring the complexities of transnational adoption to the fore. She utilizes her lived
experiences as clues to reveal histories around human rights, international relations, and race
politics. Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort!
Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th.
A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th. First Image: Sarah Whyte Studio Photo, credit to Matthew Yimet Second Image: Sarah Whyte, The Mulberry Bird, Fiber-Materials: pen, cotton, buttons, thread, Size: 33in h x 25in w, Year:2023
Third Image: Sarah Whyte, Feel Grateful, Sculpture-Materials: Chinese newspaper, American newspaper, paper, and cardboard, Size: 19in h x 11in w, Year:2022

Meet MFA student Jovita Alvares!

Jovita Alvares (b.1993) is a multidisciplinary artist working in photo-based media, video, text, textiles, and installation. Growing up as part of an ethno-religious minority in Pakistan, Alvares has always felt sensitive to how forms of otherization emerge, and through her practice, focuses on relocating the 'Other' to the forefront. Drawing on firsthand experiences, her research often begins by parsing through photographic archives as a guide to challenge modes of meaning-making through form and gesture. Her current research explores how histories of colonialism, imperialism, and the partition of India incited layers of erasure and exclusion within marginalized communities in South Asia. Using her family archive as a lens, she interrogates how these dislocations impact notions of home, belonging, and identity. Alvares is the recipient of the Imran Mir Prize for emerging artists and a USEFP Fulbright Scholar.

Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort!

Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th.
A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

MFA Panel: Wednesday, March 27th 12:00pm-1:00pm
UIC Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Moderator: Dan Peterman
Artists: B'alam Waykan Garcia, Jovita Alvares and Sarah Whyte.

Second Image: Jovita Alvares, Where do you hide? Where can I find you?, Linen, cyanotype, bleach, 2023

Third Image: Jovita Alvares, rooted I, Carving, 2023

The Anthropocene Lab invites you to a bee workshop!

March 27th @ 5pm
UIC Greenhouse, 1020 S. Union Ave.

Co-sponsered by the UIC Office of Sustainability, The UIC Greenhouse, The UIC Art Garden, and The UIC Art Department.

Meet MFA student B’alam Waykan García!

B’alam Waykan García (b. 1991, Sololá, Guatemala.) I am a multimedia Kaqchikel artist. I use performance, poetry, installation, and other visual arts to speak out about the violence that racialized bodies have internalized. My work is aware of the irony of the world we move in and the standards to which we are subjected, so I play with identities, genders, races, and other categories that try to define me to address the issues that have been designated for me, for us, by others. My questions point to the structures that oppress us and seek to problematize the conformity of observance, so creating art for me is a way to shake the table where I’ve been given a seat.

Web: https://www.instagram.com/balamchis

Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort!
Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th.
A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

MFA Panel: Wednesday, March 27th 12:00pm-1:00pm
UIC Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Moderator: Dan Peterman
Artists: B’alam Waykan García, Jovita Alvares and Sarah Whyte.
Professor Dan Peterman leads a discussion on the work of B’alam Waykan García, Jovita Alvares, and Sarah Whyte. Their practices span multiple disciplines living in the digital and actual - all guided through meditations on individual identity in relation to an increasingly globalized world. The discussions will expand from physical material manifestations - to realizations into 4-Dimensional time and space.

Second Image: B’alam Waykan García, Worry Dolls, 2022. Courtesy [B’alam Waykan García]
Third Image: B’alam Waykan García, still from video, A Prophecy, 2023. Courtesy [B’alam Waykan García]

SAVE THE DATE: 2024 UIC BFA Thesis Exhibition!

April 9th-April 19th
400 S. Peoria St. Chicago, IL
5th Floor
Closing Reception: Friday, April 19th from 5-8 p.m

We are excited to announce the 2024 UIC Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition! This thesis cohort will graduate in May and is the culmination of their research as artists in the undergrad. Come celebrate the new work and achievements with 30 of Chicago's active artists. All are welcome, save the date, and we hope to see you on the 19th!

The theme "T R A N S C I E N C E" encapsulates the essence of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis art show, representing a passage through transitional stages. Their artworks mirror the fluidity of identities and realities, capturing the fleeting nature of emotions, memories, observations, and the intricate spaces in between. Employing a diverse range of experimental techniques, encompassing both traditional and digital mediums, they bring to life the concept of transience in tangible and emotive expressions.

Meet MFA student Katelyn Patton!

Katelyn Patton (b. 1990) is a visual artist who was born and raised in the Midwest and
works in Chicago. Her practice focuses on the urban ecology and biodiversity of plants
in the city and beyond, how materials and color are naturally derived from them, and
how this hyper-localized knowledge can be used to connect multiple overlapping
histories, stories, and meanings. She has been the Maker-In-Residence at the Harold
Washington Library, received a DCASE award in 2020, and has had solo shows at
Extra Projects, the Lillstreet Arts Center, and the NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery. She
was awarded the UIC Sustainability Fund to establish the UIC Art Garden, a space for
cross-disciplinary explorations with plants and alternative materials.
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Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort! Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th. A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

MFA Panel: Wednesday, April 3rd 12:00pm-1:00pm
UIC Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Moderator: Matt Metzger
Artists: Andi Crist, Katelyn Patton and Samuel Schwindt.
Professor, and Chair of the Department of Art, Matthew Metzger leads artists Andi Crist, Katelyn Patton, and Samuel Schwindt in a wide-ranging sculptural conversation. The discussion not only encompasses object-making site-specific to Chicago - but also skewers the language we use to describe objects and sculptural philosophies.

Second Image: Katelyn Patton, The Dose Makes The Poison, 2024. Courtesy [Katelyn Patton].

Third Image: Katelyn Patton, Buckthorn Berries, 2024. Courtesy [Katelyn Patton].

SAVE THE DATE!

Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2024 MFA cohort! Shows open Tues. March 26 through Sat. April 20th. A closing reception from 5-8pm will be held at on Friday, April 19th.

2024 MFA Candidates:
Andi Crist
B’alam Waykan Garcia
Jovita Alvares
Katelyn Patton
Le Hien Minh
Luke Sanders
Queen Hibbler
Samuel Schwindt
Sarah Isela Aguilar
Sarah Whyte

MFA Panel: Wednesday, March 27th 12:00pm-1:00pm
UIC Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Moderator: Dan Peterman
Artists: B'alam Waykan Garcia, Jovita Alvares and Sarah Whyte.
Professor Dan Peterman leads a discussion on the work of B'alam Waykan Garcia, Jovita Alvares, and Sarah Whyte. Their practices span multiple disciplines living in the digital and actual - all guided through meditations on individual identity in relation to an increasingly globalized world. The discussions will expand from physical material manifestations - to realizations into 4-Dimensional time and space.

MFA Panel: Wednesday, April 3rd 12:00pm-1:00pm
UIC Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Moderator: Matt Metzger
Artists: Andi Crist, Katelyn Patton and Samuel Schwindt.
Professor, and Chair of the Department of Art, Matthew Metzger leads artists Andi Crist, Katelyn Patton, and Samuel Schwindt in a wide-ranging sculptural conversation. The discussion not only encompasses object-making site-specific to Chicago - but also skewers the language we use to describe objects and sculptural philosophies.

MFA Panel: Wednesday, April 10th 12:00pm-1:00 pm
UIC Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Moderator: Nate Young
Artists: Luke Sanders, Queen Hibbler, Le Hien Minh and Sarah Isela Aguilar.
Professor, and director of the MFA Graduate studies program, Nate Young leads interdisciplinary artists Luke Sanders, Queen Hibbler, Sarah Isela Aguilar, and Le Hien Minh in a discussion spanning time and space. Whether it's 2-dimensions translated into portraiture or 3-dimensional conversions of space, the artists will discuss their autonomous artistic voices rooted in disparate grassroots.