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March 31, 2014
CONTACT: Nikole Muzzy
(312) 553-5787
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“Where Appetites Find Shapes” Collaborative Art Exhibition Opens in President’s Gallery
In partnership with ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions), exhibition highlights work
by a trio of artists while in a residency program in rural Wisconsin
Chicago, IL – Opening next month in the President’s Gallery at Harold Washington College, one of the City
Colleges of Chicago, is the collaborative exhibition “Where Appetites Find Shapes.” For this show, Harold
Washington College partnered with ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions), a volunteer-run
non-profit based in Chicago devoted to providing an affordable, cooperative, and dialogue-oriented
residency program and other supports for emerging artists. The exhibition features pieces by three artists
who spent the summer working in rural Wisconsin including an audio piece with accompanying video,
photographs, paintings, and a site-specific sculpture created for the President’s Gallery.
Artists Liz Heller, Macon Reed and Madsen Minax participated in the ACRE residency program on a farm in
Steuben, Wis., last summer and in this exhibition present experimental projects begun during that time.
Throughout the residency, artists meet and form collaborations with like-minded peers, learn new skills,
and discuss ideas with a group of dedicated, talented makers. This exhibition features three artists linked
by their talents for transforming objects, ideas, and affects. Though each artist created their works
independently, the pieces reflect influences from other artists in the show.
WHEN:
April 7 through May 15, 2014
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday or by appointment
Public Receptions on April 7 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
WHERE:
President’s Gallery (Room 1105) at Harold Washington College
30 E. Lake St.
COST:
FREE and open to the public
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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Liz Heller (Madison, Wis.) is a visual artist, born and raised in Miami, Fla. After earning her
bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., Heller made the
Midwest her home. She received her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Art from Columbia
College Chicago in 2010 and is currently an 2014 MFA Candidate at the University of Wisconsin at
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Madison. Heller was the recipient of the 2014 David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship
for Women in the Arts and will have three solo shows in the spring of 2014.
Macon Reed’s (Chicago, Ill.) work explores the limits of optimism and team spirit in the face of
imminent disaster, questioning lines drawn between transformation and failure, trauma and
healing, playfulness and escapism. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in
2013 and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. She has exhibited and performed
in The Dah Theatre International Research Center (Belgrade), The Kitchen and ABC No Rio (New
York), The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies (Portland, ME), Arlington Arts Center (Arlington,
VA), Chicago Artists Month, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Madsen Minax (Houston, Texas) received an MFA in Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern
University in 2012 and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Moving image
works have been featured widely, including screenings at the British Film Institute in London,
Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam, the Athens International Film and Video Festival, Philadelphia
Independent Film Festival, Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, and Museum of Contemporary Art in
San Antonio. His work has also appeared on television in the United States on PBS and the cable
channel FreeSpeech TV, and in Canada on the CBC. Madsen is currently a Core Fellow at the
Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Preview of Upcoming Exhibitions in the President’s Gallery
Interaction/Assignment
May 22 – June 10
AP Studio Arts students at Schurz High School exhibit work alongside visiting artists Maya Mackrandilal,
Casey Smallwood, Jovencio de la Paz, Rafael Vera, Amanda Williams, and Annie Heckman. This exhibition
will be presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
City Colleges of Chicago Faculty Exhibition June 19 – July 17
Faculty from across the City Colleges will present their work in a variety of disciplines.
About City Colleges of Chicago
The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) is the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest
in the nation, with 5,800 faculty and staff serving 115,000 students annually at seven colleges and six
satellite sites city-wide. CCC is in the midst of a Reinvention, a collaborative effort to review and revise
programs and practices to ensure students leave CCC college- and career-ready. Its internationallyrenowned College to Careers initiative partners with industry-leading companies to prepare Chicagoans for
careers in growing fields.
The City Colleges of Chicago includes seven colleges: Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy-King College,
Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College, Harold Washington College and Wilbur
Wright College. The system also oversees the Washburne Culinary Institute, the French Pastry School, two
restaurants, two cafes, a banquet facility, five Child Development Centers, the Center for Distance Learning,
the Workforce Academy, the public broadcast station WYCC-TV Channel 20 and radio station WKKC-FM
89.3. For more information about City Colleges of Chicago, call (773) COLLEGE or visit www.ccc.edu.
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