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Art@Cole’s 23rd exhibit featuring Peanut Gallery Artists

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Sweater Kittens Variety Hour
Sweater Kittens Variety Hour

Art@Cole’s 23rd exhibit featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
On display through November

Article in LoganSquarist about the event!
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FUN+ART
Sunday, October 27, 7pm-10pm
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee, Chicago

Join AnySquared as we team up with the Sweater Kittens to celebrate our 23rd exhibit at Cole’s featuring Peanut Gallery Artists.

Reception for Art@Cole’s #23 featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
7pm  |  front room

Sweater Kittens Variety Hour
8pm  |  back room/stage***
Kick of Halloween week with some creeped-out comedy, games and prizes.

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Art@Cole’s exhibit includes Traci Hercher, Brandon Howe, Charlie Megna, and Kelly Reaves. The Peanut Gallery is a space for creative collaboration, experimentation, exhibition and good, old-fashioned mingling. Our goal is to connect creative people with one another and nurture a vibrant, inclusive community, while encouraging questioning of established norms and general, good-spirited mischief. We believe that 10 minds are greater than one, and collaboration/ communication/ cooperation is the basis for progress.

Traci Hercher  |  As a right-handed, left-eye dominant artist, I locate and examine incongruities in America. Working primarily in the medium of photography during a moment in which our lives are over-photographed, I purposely document the anomalies. I seek to accomplish this without exploiting photography’s most unique and valuable trait: its veracity. I am invested in the relationship between myself and my subjects, as well as that of my body and the apparatuses by which I arrest movement in the world. I strive for objectivity despite its elusiveness; each photograph answers the question, What would this look like if I were not here?

Brandon Howe  |  The work was generated spontaneously, with little or no forethought regarding the final image. Over time, consistencies reveal themselves and patterns emerge. I believe in this method of art-making as a means of channeling what cannot be consciously defined.

Charlie Megna  |  Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophy, Tribal rituals and American skate culture, my colorful gouache and gold-leaf paintings combine loaded, symbolic motifs with the banal, the humorous and the commonplace.  In these tribe paintings we recognize glimpses of sacred ceremonies that feel familiar, but that expand with closer inspection into mystery and secrecy.  In addition to the paintings, I create costumes, physical relics, writings of the tribes myths, symbols and so on to further realize this created world.

Kelly Reaves  |  My work embraces hedonism. It is my attempt at clarity while clumsily bobbing in a pool of indulgence, my slaphappy pursuit of an unclear reward, drunkenly driven by manic whims and lofty but fleeting notions. I want my work to appeal to our most basic human emotions through lurid visual cues and a visceral manipulation of materials. I try to elicit lewd thoughts with only paint strokes. Oil painting is an ostentatious pursuit, combined with vulgar party deco to indulge my cravings for salty men, greasy sandwiches and sticky messes.

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***The Sweater Kittens are Totally Ghoul!

Lineup Featuring…

  • Witch standup with Annie Donley and Sarah Ashley
  • Scary bits with Matt Barats and Nick Mestad
  • Larissa Zageris, Katie Johnston-Smith and Joey Gilmore invoke the dead!
  • The bootastic Anothony Oberbeck
  • And a wicked jam with Graham

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Cinema Minima Residency | Call for Filmmakers | Announcing Winning Essays

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Call For Filmmakers
Time to Make Short Films
Make interpretations of essays any length under 5 min (30 sec/1 min/3 min, etc). Any aesthetic, format, or translation experimentation through film/video encouraged.

  • Deadline extended to Friday Nov 1st for submitting finished film(s). All Films can be dropped off or mailed to AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647. All films received by November 1st will be screened. projects@anysquared.com

See Full Rules for Film Submissions

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Announcing the Cinema Minima Winning Essays

1 Beverly Scott I Do But Do He
2 Brenton Harper-Murray Choke
3 Robert Castillo Robert and John Got Married

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Thanks to all the other writers who participated in the Writers Event on October 6: Tucker Dryden, Rajiv Haque, Jim Markus, and Mackenzie Wilson. We had a great event on October 6th and the competition was close! We will be publishing their excellent submissions after October 20th.Gratitude to Tucker Dryden, Kelly Ahlfeld, Jessica Lynne Bright, Zachary Hart Baker and Chris Elam for performing, announcing, and taking us though the evening with style! A special shout out to Cole’s Bar for always supporting Cinema Minima and AnySquared!

See you in November. Time to make films!

Make something! We Have Supplies!

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Studio Day on Wednesdays!
3pm to 8pm
AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee.

Drop in to AnySquared’s Weekly Artmaking Day:
We have painting, drawing and collage supplies here to share: You don’t have to bring anything unless you are working on a specific project. If you find the door locked, text/call number at entrance. (We don’t have a doorbell.) Always free.

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Cinema Minima Writers Event | Audience Chooses Top 3 Writers!

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Writers Event
Audience Chooses Top 3 Writers!
Sunday October 6 at 8pm
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee

Join us this Sunday and help us choose the winners! The three chosen submissions win $100 each and their work translated into film. The rest get published online. Should be a great time because we also have an entertaining crew to help us along. 

  • Writers: still time to submit before the Oct 6 Writers Event!
    Get your under-1000-words together, BE at the event, and get a shot to win $100! See full rules

  • Shy about reading your submission on stage?
    No worries: Cinema Minima will have an elite group of readers ready to make your words jump off the page and into hearts and minds of the audience.

Our crew of excellent and entertaining readers include:

  • Tucker Dryden
  • Kelly Ahlfeld
  • Jessica Lynne Bright
  • Zachary Hart Baker

Plus: music by Chris Elam

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This two part series encourages participation
from the audience and the people creating:
CALL FOR WRITERS & FILMMAKERS.
See submission rules for writing and rules for film.

Phase 1: Writers
The first installment is a special Writers Event on October 6th where writers submissions are presented to an audience who chooses top 3 writers who win $100 each and their contribution made into film(s). Writers Rules for Submission

Phase 2: Filmmakers
In the second phase, the top 3 writing selections will be posted for the filmmakers to choose from. The filmmakers will have a three week window to create and submit a short film/video(s) based on the writing(s). November 3rd is the FILM Premiere of all films/video. Best in Show chosen by the audience and receives a future featured screening and $100+. Honorable mentions also chosen. (The + is a percentage of the bar take for the evening of the premiere).  Filmmakers Deadlines and Rules for Submission

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Peanut Gallery Artists | Art@Cole’s #23

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Art@Cole’s 23rd exhibit
featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
Traci Hercher, Brandon Howe, Charlie Megna, and Kelly Reaves
On display through Mid-November
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee, Chicago

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FUN+ART
Sunday, October 27, 7pm-10pm
Join AnySquared as we team up with the Sweater Kittens to celebrate our 23rd exhibit at Cole’s featuring Peanut Gallery Artists.

  • Reception 
for Art@Cole’s #23
    featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
    7pm  |  front room
  • Sweater Kittens Variety Hour
    8pm  |  back room/stage

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The Peanut Gallery  |  A space for creative collaboration, experimentation, exhibition and good, old-fashioned mingling. Our goal is to connect creative people with one another and nurture a vibrant, inclusive community, while encouraging questioning of established norms and general, good-spirited mischief. We believe that 10 minds are greater than one, and collaboration/ communication/ cooperation is the basis for progress.

  • Traci Hercher  |  As a right-handed, left-eye dominant artist, I locate and examine incongruities in America. Working primarily in the medium of photography during a moment in which our lives are over-photographed, I purposely document the anomalies. I seek to accomplish this without exploiting photography’s most unique and valuable trait: its veracity. I am invested in the relationship between myself and my subjects, as well as that of my body and the apparatuses by which I arrest movement in the world. I strive for objectivity despite its elusiveness; each photograph answers the question, What would this look like if I were not here?
  • Brandon Howe  |  The work was generated spontaneously, with little or no forethought regarding the final image. Over time, consistencies reveal themselves and patterns emerge. I believe in this method of art-making as a means of channeling what cannot be consciously defined.
  • Charlie Megna  |  Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophy, Tribal rituals and American skate culture, my colorful gouache and gold-leaf paintings combine loaded, symbolic motifs with the banal, the humorous and the commonplace.  In these tribe paintings we recognize glimpses of sacred ceremonies that feel familiar, but that expand with closer inspection into mystery and secrecy.  In addition to the paintings, I create costumes, physical relics, writings of the tribes myths, symbols and so on to further realize this created world.
  • Kelly Reaves  |  My work embraces hedonism. It is my attempt at clarity while clumsily bobbing in a pool of indulgence, my slaphappy pursuit of an unclear reward, drunkenly driven by manic whims and lofty but fleeting notions.I want my work to appeal to our most basic human emotions through lurid visual cues and a visceral manipulation of materials. I try to elicit lewd thoughts with only paint strokes. Oil painting is an ostentatious pursuit, combined with vulgar party deco to indulge my cravings for salty men, greasy sandwiches and sticky messes.

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Art-Starter | A benefit for AnySquared’s Cinema Minima Residency

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Art-Starter
A benefit for AnySquared’s Cinema Minima Residency
Monday, September 30, 10pm-?
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee

Get your drink on and be merry! Listen to some jams laid down by the AnySquared All-star DJ Crew! Featuring:

  • BSYES!
  • Strand Theory’s “Movie Mosh”
  • T.K.O.
  • Mike Bolsinga(tronic!)
  • Dj Ink jet and the Drum Scanner!

Join us at Cole’s: every drink sold helps support the Cinema Minima Residency: our project encourages writers and filmmakers to create new works of art and then shares the pieces with the wider community.

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Make something! Studio Day on Wednesdays!

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TOMORROW: Make something!
Studio Day on Wednesdays!
3pm to 8pm
AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee.

Drop in to AnySquared’s Weekly Artmaking Day:
We have painting, drawing and collage supplies here to share: You don’t have to bring anything unless you are working on a specific project. If you find the door locked, text/call number at entrance. (We don’t have a doorbell.) Always free.

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Make something! Studio Day Wednesdays!

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Make something!
Studio Day on Wednesdays!
3pm to 8pm
AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee.

Drop in to AnySquared’s Weekly Artmaking Day:
We have painting, drawing and collage supplies here to share: You don’t have to bring anything unless you are working on a specific project. If you find the door locked, text/call number at entrance. (We don’t have a doorbell.) Always free.

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