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Studio Day Artmaking Sessions Every Wednesday, 3pm–10pm AnySquared Studio, 2328 N. Milwaukee Ave
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Join us weekly! For 7 years of Wednesdays, AnySquared has been nurturing artists and creating community at our weekly Studio Sessions. Stop in. Make Art. Meet People. Brainstorm Projects. Plot Liberation. Be Social or Stay Focused. Make a proposal: at Studio Day AnySquared discusses upcoming art projects. Free.
AnySquaredis an all-volunteer collaborative and artistic network. Propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with artists, neighbors and the wider community, our mission is to support, produce and promote collaborative projects that facilitate arts activities through inclusive participation. Our foundation is built upon the idea that we can do anything as long as we do it together.
May 2017 Events Newsletter > ––––– Figure Tuesdays > AnySquared’s Weekly Life Drawing Sessions7 pm – 10 pm at Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee May Sessions: May 2 • May 9 • May 16 • May 23 (Note: NO SESSION day after Memorial Day) June Sessions: June 6 • June 13 • June 20 • … Read more
Over at AnySquared, we share skills during Studio Day in the 8 O’clock Shops. These are short, free, skill-specific presentations. In this video, Flash ABC from Artistic Bombing Crew shares spraypainttechniques. Look for more workshop videos to come and new Eight-O’Clock Shops this fall! As you watch, you also get that sweet, AnySquared flavor … Read more
Currently on Display Art@Cole’s #28: Narrative Paintings by Andrea Kaspryk Cole’s, 2338 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. ____ Andrea Kaspryk’s background as a writer and long-time student of literature informs her narrative visual art. Much of her work explores experiences of conflict and division that stems from having been a young adult at odds with … Read more
______ Current Exhibition This week is the last week to check out work by Angela Davis Fegan through October 31. _______ Upcoming Exhibition HIP FOR ARTSTERS AT COLE’S by Fugscreens on Display November 6–December 3, 2011 Opening Reception: Monday, November 14 at 8pm Founded by Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff, Fugscreens Studios is an independent silk screen studio … Read more
• Art at Cole’s #4:Gutter, a South End featured exhibition for the 2010 Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival. Curated by Cheri Basak, Anne-Katrin Elliot, and Rebekah Brown(July 17—August 21, 2010)
• Art at Cole’s #5:Old Stuff: An Exhibition of Old Works by Tracy Kostenbader (August 22—September 3, 2010)
• Art at Cole’s #8:*QUirk* an exhibition highlighting the offbeat, the funny, and the grotesquely twisted work of Nicole Syrquin, Jeff Strong, Katina Petsas and Gabe Patti.(On Display November 15 — December 31, 2010)
• Art at Cole’s #9:Paintings By MacKenzie Stonis (On Display January 2 — February 19, 2011)
• Art at Cole’s #11:Works by Melanie Kasten & Scott Pandel (On Display April 12 — May 29, 2011)
• Art at Cole’s #12:Works by Matthew Bremer for the Milwaukee Ave Arts Fest (On Display July 23— September 4, 2011)
• Art at Cole’s #13:Works by Angela Davis Fegan (On Display September 14— October 31, 2011) Art @ Cole’s
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Call for Artists Art at Cole’s is seeking artists’ and group show proposals for future shows.Interested individual artists: Email projects@anysquared.com (Art at Cole’s” in subject) and include:
1) name 2) medium 3) email and/or website 4) phone number 5) a one sentence description 6 ) attach 3 jpg images of your work. Interested curators or art group: Curated or group exhibition proposals will also be considered.
My work explores notions of gender, ethnic identity and power. It depicts female subjects in imagined spaces or environments composed of urban exteriors, religious interiors, everyday objects and emotionally charged talismans. These spaces are fantastical elaborations on metropolitan existence and cathedrals that use historically/traditionally powerful iconography and symbolism. Placing these subjects in this context is meant to afford power in a representation style usually reserved for religious icons; thus affording them power without overt sexualization as objects. This process continues for me as I shift mediums and materials. The beginning of this body of work is heavily rooted in drawing and building up surfaces with dry materials and has now shifted to a larger scale, using markers and wet media. As a supplement to this work, I also create etchings and lithographs that correspond to some of the existing pieces. Currently I am questioning the role of everyday routine and objects in the creation and establishment of ceremony. angeladavisfegan.com
Works by Melanie Kasten & Scott Pandel April 12 — May 29, 2011
Melanie Kasten | melaniekasten.com | As a designer, I thoroughly enjoy applying modern ideas to traditional methods and images. Within my work you will find many references to animals and nature combined with man-made items from our everyday life. This work is meant to embody what in this day in age comes naturally to us; riding a bike, potting plants, etc. These things have become part of daily life, or at least my daily life. My goal is to acknowledge and embrace these acts and recognize them within the beauty of nature that surrounds us.
Scott Pandel | ScottPandel.com | This body of work is an introspection into moments I once reveled in, that stand clear in my memory, while the culmination of the surrounding feeling of these moments come to pass in a poignant reminder that these pictures, these moments are all but what is left of the fading memories of a time I once loved.
