Upcoming Events
2024 Annual Student Exhibition
The annual College of DuPage Student Exhibition is making its return to the Cleve Carney Museum of Art! This event showcases the talents of students from the Fine Arts program, with each year's entries being judged by guest jurors from the greater Chicagoland art community. This year's selections will be made by Bill Gross and Dahlia Tulett from the 65GRAND gallery.
In addition to showcasing the creative works of College of DuPage students, the exhibition also recognizes outstanding submissions with awards. First place ($750), second place ($500), and third place ($250) awards will be presented in the categories of 2D and 3D/New Media works, along with a Best in Show award ($1,000).
For more information and to submit your work for consideration, please complete the submission form by Friday, March 22, 2024 Form here.
Grid Luck: Alberto Aguilar
In the upcoming exhibit "Grid Luck," Alberto Aguilar explores the grid's role as both a generative and expansive tool. Drawing inspiration from the College of DuPage Permanent Art Collection, the exhibit reimagines the materials and spaces within the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, leading to the creation of new site-specific works. Aguilar's innovative approach to using existing objects from institutional spaces as his materials offers a fresh take on traditional art-making, providing a new perspective on often overlooked possibilities.
For more information on Aguilar's work, visit his website.
Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng - Visiting Artist Series
JAPHETH ASIEDU-KWARTENG
Visiting Artist
Lecture:
4/17/24, 1-2pm — Belushi Auditorium
Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng works primarily in ceramics to make an imminently contemporary statement that exemplifies an approach which transcends form and questions the relationship between tradition and modernity, cultural exchange, and tension. He has exhibited extensively locally and internationally, including 2022 and 2021 NCECA Annual. He is a member of NCECA, IAC and Artaxis. Among several publications and other scholarly works, Japheth was a presenter at 2021 and 2023 NCECA Conferences respectively. Japheth holds a BA Industrial Art (Ceramics option) from KNUST, Ghana, and an MFA in Ceramics from Illinois State University, USA. He has works in the permanent collections of the University Galleries, Normal, Illinois and other private collectors in the United States.
2024 Faculty Spotlight
The Faculty Spotlight exhibition returns to the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, featuring works by the College of DuPage's full-time and adjunct faculty. This exhibition provides a platform for the community to engage with a variety of artistic expressions and techniques demonstrated by the COD Fine Arts Faculty.
For more information or to contribute artwork to this exhibition, COD Faculty are encouraged to fill out the submission form linked here by Friday, March 1, 2024.
Chris Sancomb - Visiting Artist Series
CHRIS SANCOMB
Visiting Artist in Residence, March 2-16, 2024
Lecture:
3/6/24, 1-2pm — Playhouse Theatre
Chris Sancomb is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and educator who explores the intersections of creative practice through a wide range of media. His socially engaged design practice is focused on creating inclusive, interactive, and hands-on community based design collaborations that support varied learning styles, promote empathy, and help develop creative confidence. His studio research is focused on creating visual experiences that represent unobservable phenomena within the architecture of the universe. This work represents an expression of wonder at the elusive magnitude of Space, and serves as a way of obtaining knowledge and understanding through inquiry, synthesis, material exploration and making.
Unearth Artist Talk
We are thrilled to announce an exclusive Artist Talk at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA), featuring the insightful perspectives behind the "Unearth" exhibition. Join us to delve into the captivating worlds created by Karen Perl, Emily Rapport, and Gwendolyn Zabicki, as they share the stories and inspirations behind their evocative urban scenes.
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday, February 27th
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Cleve Carney Museum of Art, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, Illinois, 60137
"Unearth" explores the transient nature of the built environment and finds beauty in the mundane aspects of city life, as depicted through the artists' unique perspectives and choice of materials. This talk promises to be an enriching experience, offering a deeper understanding of the themes and techniques present in the exhibition.
Dylan Miner - Visiting Artist Series
DYLAN MINER
Visiting Artist
Lecture:
2/13/24, 11am-12pm — Belushi Auditorium
Dylan AT Miner is an artist, activist, and scholar. He holds a PhD in Arts of the Américas from The University of New Mexico. He is currently Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Previously, he served as Dean and Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at Michigan State University. As an artist, he has hung nearly 30 solo art exhibitions, as well as participated in more than 115 group exhibitions. He is a founding member of the artist collective Justseeds. His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island (2014) was published by the University of Arizona Press. Born and raised in Michigan, Miner is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
UNEARTH
UNEARTH opens at the CCMA January 20 and runs through March 10, 2024.
The built environment is an aspirational reflection of social self-awareness. Buildings are torn down, built up, and then torn down again. An empty lot holds space like a pause. The push to optimize our bodies, schedules, and relationships underscores the impermanence of all structures to time and calamity. In the tradition of American painters from the early 20th century who described the activities and moments that comprise daily life, the three artists represented in this proposal find beauty and meaning in everyday urban scenes.
United by their choice of materials, painters Perl, Rapport, and Zabicki follow strong individual sensibilities to delve into perceived reality and unearth a moment or interaction that, when painted, reveals an intensely present experience.
Dylan Yarbrough Artist Talk
Join us at the CCMA for an artist talk with exhibiting artist Dylan Yarbrough, as he speaks about his Eclipse series, currently featured in Once: 2023 Emerging Artist Exhibit. This talk is free and open to the public.
Alana Ferguson - Visiting Artist Series
ALANA FERGUSON
Visiting Artist
Lecture: 11/15/2023, 11am-12pm — Belushi Auditorium
Alana Ferguson is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in Chicago. She is interested in the construction and use of social conventions to frame individual choices, experiences and psychology. She received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2012, an MAT from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016, and an MFA from University of Chicago in 2021. Her work has been exhibited most recently at the Logan Center Gallery at University of Chicago, Belong Gallery, and the Evanston Art Center.
Future Firm - Visiting Artist Series
FUTURE FIRM
Visiting Architect
Lecture:
10/18/23, 11am-12pm — Playhouse Theatre
Future Firm is a Chicago-based architecture and design research office. Founded by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke in 2015, the architecture practice spans diverse scales: from exhibition spaces to residential and commercial buildings to urban and territorial speculations. Future Firm’s work has been exhibited at Exhibit Columbus, Storefront for Art & Architecture, Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism, New Museum’s Ideas City, and the Chicago Architecture Center. Future Firm also currently operates The Night Gallery, a nocturnal exhibition space on Chicago's South side, which features video and film works by artists and architects from sunset to sunrise.
ONCE Reception
Join us for the opening reception of Once: 2023 Annual Emerging Artist Exhibit. This event is free and open to the public. Awards will be announced at 6pm.
More about Once here
ONCE: 2023 Annual Emerging Artist Exhibit
Once is the Cleve Carney Art Museum’s juried emerging artist exhibition. This exhibition provides a survey of contemporary artwork being created by emerging artists in the region and across the country. Once is meant to be a stepping stone for those early in their artistic careers.
India Johnson - Visiting Artist Series
INDIA JOHNSON
Visiting Artist in Residence, September 2023
Lecture:
9/20/23, 1-2PM — CHC 1020
India Johnson (b. 1992) is a Minneapolis-based artist who makes books and non-books (what’s a non-book? perhaps an installation or participatory project in or about libraries). India’s work associates textiles with formal practices for organizing information, and has been installed in churches, libraries, and galleries throughout the Midwest. In 2020, she received an MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book and became a founding member of LGBTQ Iowa Archives & Library. She is half of Late Night Copies Press, a micro-publisher of zines that feature material from queer archives. India’s critical writing about books and libraries has been published in print by Image, and in SONNET(S) (Ugly Duckling Press, 2020).
Pedro Gramaxo
Pedro Gramaxo
April 12, 2023, 1 p.m. CHC 1020
Pedro Gramaxo (Lisbon, 1989) is a Portuguese contemporary artist working internationally in constructive art, photography and film, analyzing and deepening our relation with space, time, memory and altered states of perception. Pedro has been exhibiting in solo and group shows and public spaces since 2012 from Portugal, Italy, Holland and Bosnia and Herzegovina to Brazil, China, Russia, Argentina and Iceland. His work has been published in physical and digital magazines and art platforms all over the world. Graduated in architecture from Lusíada University in Lisbon (2010), Masters in Arts (2012), where his academic education crossedbred between Art and Architecture, developing a technical research based practice within the contexts of “art spaces” and the representation of art “contexts”, enhancing the physical aspects of phenomenology.
2023 Annual Student Exhibition Reception
Open March 15 - April 2, 2023
Reception Wednesday, March 15, 5pm-7pm
This exhibit is located in Wings and Techcetera Student Galleries, SSC 2210 and 2211.
Featuring artwork by students in the Fine Arts program, the Annual Student Exhibition is juried by guest jurors from the art world in the greater Chicagoland area. This year we are delighted to have artist and instructor Erin Washington as our juror. In addition to presenting the work of College of DuPage students, awards are handed out to outstanding submissions. The awards announcement will be made at the reception held on March 15th. This event is free and open to the public. Come join us to celebrate our COD student artists!
Deke Weaver - Visiting Artist Series
Deke Weaver
March 14, 1 p.m. Belushi Performance Hall
Deke Weaver’s multidisciplinary work has been presented by 21c Museum Hotels, PBS, Sundance Film Festival, Channel 4/U.K., New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, Chicago Humanities Festival, Berlin Video Festival, The Moth, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and many others including livestock pavilions, backyard sheds, forests, prairies, night clubs and living rooms. A Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Capital grantee, and Illinois Arts Council Fellow, he is currently a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with appointments in the School of Art & Design, the Department of Theater, the Department of Dance, and faculty affiliation with the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. unreliablebestiary.org
Alex Chitty - Visiting Artist Series
Alex Chitty
February 8, 11 a.m. Belushi Performance Hall
Visiting Artist Series
Alex Chitty (b. 1979, Miami, FL)
Chitty is a British/American transdisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago, IL.
MFA = School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Printmedia), 2008
BFA = Smith College (Smith Scholar: Education, Biology, Fine Art), 2001
Chitty is represented by PATRON Gallery and has worked with students, educators and institutions locally, throughout the United States and abroad; Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Horticultural Society of New York, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Smith College, University of Chicago, Spudnik Press, ACRE residency, Moraine Valley Community College, Columbia College, Aby Warburg Library, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Palau Coral Reef Research Foundation, Belize Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Oxbow School of Arts, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recent Exhibitions include: Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, PATRON Gallery, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Elmhurst Art Museum, Virginia Commonwealth University, Luce Gallery, KMAC Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Reception - Edra Soto: “The Myth of Closure”
Museum reception for Edra Soto’s “The Myth of Closure”.
Alberto Aguilar - Visiting Artist Series
Alberto Aguilar
November 9, 2022, 1 p.m. Studio Theatre
Visiting Artist Series
Alberto Aguilar (b. 1974, Chicago) is a Chicago based artist that uses whatever material is at hand in an attempt to make a meaningful connection with the viewer. He does not distinguish his art practice from his other various life roles which allows him to make work wherever he is.
He has shown and presented his work at various museums, galleries, storefronts, homes and street corners around the world. Some of these include the Queens Museum, El Torito Supermercado, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the corner of Cesar Chavez Ave and North Broadway in Los Angeles, CA, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, Chicago City Hall, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Museo Del Jamon in Madrid, Spain, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago River Jackson Bridge, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, El Cosmico Trailer Park, Marfa, TX, El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba, Iowa rest stop I-80. His work is in the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Jorge Lucero Study Collection, Soho House, Meta - Facebook, The National Museum of Mexican Art, The Office of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Along with some members of his family he collectively organizes Mayfield, a multi-use space which operates on the grounds of his home
Brian Harper - Visiting Artist Series
Brian Harper
October 18, 2022, 1 p.m. Playhouse Theatre
Visiting Artist Series
Brian Harper is an Associate Professor of Fine Art and Head of the Ceramics Area at Indiana University Southeast. Brian is also the Founder and Executive Director of Artaxis, a 501(c)3 non-profit art organization that engages the ceramics community through promotional, educational, and networking programs while celebrating diverse artistic practices and being a resource of aesthetic values. He manages Artaxis.org, which hosts over 10,000 images of artwork by over 950 Artaxis members worldwide. He holds a BFA from Northern Arizona University and an MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. His artwork has been exhibited in over 100 national and international exhibitions. He lives in New Albany, Indiana with his wife Tiffany Carbonneau and their daughter June, and their dog, Oliver.
Curator Tour With Justin Witte
Join CCMA Chief Curator Justin Witte as he provides a tour of Erin Washington’s exhibition “I Think We’re Alone Now”. Witte will be leading a tour at 1 & 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Curator Tour with Justin Witte
Join CCMA Chief Curator Justin Witte as he provides a tour of Erin Washington’s exhibition I Think We’re Alone Now. Witte will be leading a tour at 1 & 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Susan Kirt - Visiting Artist Series
Susan Kirt
September 20, 2022, 1 p.m. Belushi Performance Hall
Visiting Artist Series
Susan is camera-wielding, Chicago based botanist. She is passionate about prairies and insects having been raised “volunteering” at the College of DuPage restorations with her parents from an early age. Susan was bitten by the macrophotography “bug” ten years ago, and finds insects particularly fascinating. As a photographer and scientist, Susan hopes her viewers are awed by the overlooked insects around them and inspired to protect their local habitat.
Susan holds an AS (Biology) degree from COD in addition degrees in Botany and Prairie Ecology. She is looking forward to returning to COD as the Artist-In-Resident this fall and cannot wait to share her passion for prairies, insects and photography with students and the community.
Recently Susan contributed photographs for the new Save The Dunes Living in the Dunes Pollinator Guide (available online). As a Field Museum Research Associate, her photography is also featured in their downloadable Rapid Field Guides.
Resources
susankirtphotography.com
Facebook and Instagram: @SusanKirtPhotography
Save the Dunes Pollinator Guide
Rapid Field Guide Example: Orchids of the Chicago Region
Reception and Artist Talk
Come celebrate the opening of Erin Washington’s “I Think We’re Alone Now”. Washington will be giving a talk about her work in the museum during the reception. This event is free and open to the public.
Tickets on Sale Party
Join us Saturday, August 6 at 11am for the MAC’s Ticket’s On Sale Party! This will be the first opportunity to purchase tickets for the 2023 Warhol exhibit, as well as tickets for the MAC’s 2022-2023 Performance Series, Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, and New Philharmonic.
Cocktails and Conversation (off site at Common Good Cocktail House)
Come for cocktails and discussion about the Hooking Up exhibition.
Reception and Artist Talk
Come celebrate our summer collection exhibition, Hooking Up. This reception is free and open to the public. The reception takes place prior to the evening’s Lakeside performance.