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Mercurial Lake
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Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida Chicago
Soledad Muñoz
Carolina Toro Cortès
Opening August 11th from 6-9pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Woven Memory is a series of site-specific installations commemorating the lives of the disappeared detainees and political executees of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990). The project is built around large-scale copper wire pieces made by artist Soledad Muñoz, which are installed in sites of memory related to the dictatorship or given to the family members of the disappeared detainees and political executees (most of them located in Chile). The imagery of the pieces is planned in collaboration with the communities associated with the sites and the historical materiality of copper is used to address the human right's violations related to the effects of extractivism in the Global South. For this exhibition we will present the woven portraits of New York journalist Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, from Chicago, who were murdered by the Chilean dictatorship in 1973. Accompanying the weavings photographs captured by Carolina Toro at Woven Memory's Chilean iterations in La Veleidosa mine (Tocopilla) and La Providencia (Antofagasta).
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Closing: Stitching Archives of Resistance
Arpillera Workshop with Bélgica Castro Fuentes, in person, August 4th 6-9 pm
On Display: the work of Bélgica Castro Fuentes and The Arpilleras from The Peace Museum's Traveling Exhibition.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
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Bélgica Castro Fuentes is a Chilean artist, activist, and cultural worker whose work has been crucial in the fight against human rights violations worldwide, especially against the Chilean civic-military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). She was a member of the Arpillera workshop of The Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared at the Vicariate of Solidarity. She joined this group in 1978, five years after the forced disappearance of her husband, Raúl San Martin Barrera, who was arrested on October 6, 1973, by the military dictatorship and is currently one of thousands Chilean disappeared detainees.
The Arpillera workshop of The Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared, primarily made up of women, gathered once a week at The Vicariate of Solidarity to embroider, talk, and remember their loved ones. They stitched together visual stories with scraps of fabrics and threads, leaving a testimony of what was happening, making their struggle visible, and denouncing the atrocities committed by the dictatorship. The resulting embroideries were called Arpilleras, named after the material they used as a backing (burlap) and were sold abroad by the Vicariate.
The dictatorship then exiled Bélgica to Sweden, where she has resided since 1986, developing an incredible body of work in the two cities where she has lived, first Vaxjo, and now Malmö. She is an inspiration to many artists and textile workers worldwide who admire her resilience, technique, and ability to express through cloth what words cannot define.
The Arpilleras from The Peace Museum's Traveling Exhibition were shown for the first time in 1983 for the "Patchwork and Peace Quilts" exhibition at the Peace Museum in Chicago. In addition to the twenty "Arpilleras from Chile," this art show featured Peace Quilts from Idaho and Illinois, woodcuts on human rights from Brazil, photo essays on Central American refugees and an open invitation for local quilters to contribute a square for the Midwest Peace Quilt. The "Arpilleras from Chile" were later added to the museum's Travelling Exhibitions program, an educational outreach initiative in which the Peace Museum would loan exhibits to schools, churches, galleries, and libraries. This program included titles such as "Give Peace a Chance" (with works by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Joan Baez, Gil Scott-Heron and Bob Marley), "The Unforgettable Fire" (with drawings by survivors of the Hiroshima bombing) and "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr - Peacemaker."
The Peace Museum was a gallery, resource center and workshop founded in 1981 in Chicago by muralists Mark Rogovin and Marjorie Craig Benton. The museum closed in 2007, and in 2011, the State of Illinois brought a suit to protect and distribute its collection. The "Arpilleras from Chile" collection is currently under the care of Mary McCann. It will be presented at Uri-Eichen with the original content of their labels, which contain the translations of the words embroidered on the works or their backstories.
For the closing of the exhibition Stitching Archives of Resistance, the artist Bélgica Castro Fuentes will teach a workshop in person at the gallery on August 4, 6-9 pm.
Open by appointment outside of receptions. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717 or email at gabbyfish@hotmail.com
Stitching Archives of Resistance
Opening July 14, 6-9 pm
On Display: the work of Bélgica Castro Fuentes and The Arpilleras from The Peace Museum's Traveling Exhibition.
Program 7pm: Struggle and Resistance Chile with Kathy Osberger and Mario Venegas.
Kathy will speak about her book I Surrender, a Memoir of Chile’s Dictatorship 1975
"A riveting account of terrors executed by the Pinochet regime upon the Chilean people and Catholic religious communities living among them. Osberger's narrative is heart-stopping. Her memoir witnesses to the suffering and resilience of the Chilean people, to heroic lives of her companions, and most movingly, of her own encounter with the divine in the midst of life-threatening perils." —Kathleen M. O’Connor, Columbia Theological Seminary
Arpillera Workshop with Bélgica Castro Fuentes, in person, August 4th 6-9 pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
poster maker paz pereira-vega (Instagram @holasoy_paz)
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| poster maker paz pereira-vega (Instagram @holasoy_paz) |
Bélgica Castro Fuentes is a Chilean artist, activist, and cultural worker whose work has been crucial in the fight against human rights violations worldwide, especially against the Chilean civic-military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). She was a member of the Arpillera workshop of The Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared at the Vicariate of Solidarity. She joined this group in 1978, five years after the forced disappearance of her husband, Raúl San Martin Barrera, who was arrested on October 6, 1973, by the military dictatorship and is currently one of thousands Chilean disappeared detainees.
The Arpillera workshop of The Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared, primarily made up of women, gathered once a week at The Vicariate of Solidarity to embroider, talk, and remember their loved ones. They stitched together visual stories with scraps of fabrics and threads, leaving a testimony of what was happening, making their struggle visible, and denouncing the atrocities committed by the dictatorship. The resulting embroideries were called Arpilleras, named after the material they used as a backing (burlap) and were sold abroad by the Vicariate.
The dictatorship then exiled Bélgica to Sweden, where she has resided since 1986, developing an incredible body of work in the two cities where she has lived, first Vaxjo, and now Malmö. She is an inspiration to many artists and textile workers worldwide who admire her resilience, technique, and ability to express through cloth what words cannot define.
The Arpilleras from The Peace Museum's Traveling Exhibition were shown for the first time in 1983 for the "Patchwork and Peace Quilts" exhibition at the Peace Museum in Chicago. In addition to the twenty "Arpilleras from Chile," this art show featured Peace Quilts from Idaho and Illinois, woodcuts on human rights from Brazil, photo essays on Central American refugees and an open invitation for local quilters to contribute a square for the Midwest Peace Quilt. The "Arpilleras from Chile" were later added to the museum's Travelling Exhibitions program, an educational outreach initiative in which the Peace Museum would loan exhibits to schools, churches, galleries, and libraries. This program included titles such as "Give Peace a Chance" (with works by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Joan Baez, Gil Scott-Heron and Bob Marley), "The Unforgettable Fire" (with drawings by survivors of the Hiroshima bombing) and "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr - Peacemaker."
The Peace Museum was a gallery, resource center and workshop founded in 1981 in Chicago by muralists Mark Rogovin and Marjorie Craig Benton. The museum closed in 2007, and in 2011, the State of Illinois brought a suit to protect and distribute its collection. The "Arpilleras from Chile" collection is currently under the care of Mary McCann. It will be presented at Uri-Eichen with the original content of their labels, which contain the translations of the words embroidered on the works or their backstories.
For the closing of the exhibition Stitching Archives of Resistance, the artist Bélgica Castro Fuentes will teach a workshop in person at the gallery on August 4, 6-9 pm.
Open by appointment outside of receptions. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717 or email at gabbyfish@hotmail.com
Film Screening: Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation, June 9th
June 9th - Film Screening: Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation
Reception 6-9pm and film at 7pm
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URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
About the Film:
"Controlling Interest (45 minutes) is one of the first documentary films to provide a critical analysis on the growth of multinational corporations, and their impacts on people and the environment. Upon its release, Controlling Interest quickly became a standard audio-visual text for those concerned about the growing impact of multinational corporations, examining how the ever-increasing concentration of money and power affects employment in the United States, shapes patterns of development across the world, and influences foreign policy. This is the film that helped kick-off the anti-globalisation movement. Remarkably candid interviews with business executives provide a rare glimpse of the reasoning behind corporate global strategy, and the never-ending search for resources, ever-cheaper labour, and the commodification of life. The film documents the impact of corporate decisions on people around the world, including how "freedom" has come increasingly to mean the freedom of global corporations to operate without restriction. Some of the case studies include Massachusetts' declining machine tool industry, Brazil's "economic miracle," and Chile before and after the 1973 coup." thoughtmaybe.com/controlling-interest
On Display in the Gallery: Secrets of State: U.S. Intervention in Chile Popular Unity (Unidad Popular, UP) posters dating from 1970-1973 which capture the priorities of the period and numerous formerly top-secret documents from the CIA, White House, FBI, and NSC records, curated by Peter Kornbluh.
Posters and documents on display from May 12th- July 7th.
Masks are highly recommended and available at the gallery, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Open by appointment outside of receptions. Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717.
Series Presented by the Committee to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Coup in Chile.
Secrets of State: U.S. Intervention in Chile
June 2nd from 6-9pm, program at 7pm: Peter Kornbluh author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability will join us to discuss the exhibit on display in the gallery of declassified documents that record the clandestine U.S. role in Chile and U.S. support for the Pinochet dictatorship. Also, Ruth Needleman who carried out interviews with right-wing Chilean leaders during the Allende period and then with AFL-CIO, AIFLD and other collaborators back in the U.S. after the coup, will share her research for the first time.
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URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
On Display in the Gallery:
Popular Unity (Unidad Popular, UP) posters dating from 1970-1973 which capture the priorities of the period and numerous formerly top-secret documents from the CIA, White House, FBI, and NSC records, curated by Peter Kornbluh.
OTHER FIRST PART OF SERIES EVENTS:
June 9th - Film Screening: Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation. Uri-Eichen Gallery, reception 6-9pm and film at 7pm
Posters and documents on display from May 12th- July 7th.
Masks are highly recommended and available at the gallery, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Open by appointment outside of receptions. Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717.
Series Presented by the Committee to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Coup in Chile.
More Background on the coup:
As the fiftieth anniversary of the bloody, U.S.-backed military coup in Chile approaches, the Uri-Eichen Gallery will feature six months of exhibits and programs that capture the stories of President Salvador Allende’s peaceful road to socialism, and the crushing U.S covert intervention to destabilize and bring down his democratically elected government.
With the dire threat of authoritarianism escalating around the world, the history of the overthrow of the Chilean democracy and the advent of the Pinochet dictatorship could not be more relevant.
*How did the people of Chile build popular power?
*How did the United States intervene to assist Chilean reactionaries and establish the deadly military regime of General Pinochet?
*How did Chileans rebuild a resistance movement to bring down that dictatorship?
* And what role did global solidarity play?
The documents and the artwork that recorded and inspired this dramatic history will be part of an evolving series of gallery exhibitions on Chile from May through October.
In November 1970, the Chilean Socialist Party's candidate for president, Salvador Allende, took office, promising that the wealth of Chile would be used to improve the lives of Chileans rather than to enrich US-controlled multinational corporations. Allende, himself a medical doctor, focused on making food, health care, education, and housing accessible and affordable for all. Government policies enabled workers to take control of their factories and supported rural labor in taking ownership of the land they had worked for more than a century.
Among Allende's first acts was the nationalization of key industrial, mining and communications sectors so that Chile’s resources would serve the people of Chile. An incredible flowering of popular arts and music provided the spirit for Allende’s peaceful transition to socialism. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans took the challenge and supported this peaceful revolution.
May 26th Film Screening: Patricio Guzman's Salvador Allende. Uri-Eichen Gallery. Reception 6-9. Film at 6:30pm.
Acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman(The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory) returned to his native Chile thirty years after the 1973 military coup that overthrew Chile's Popular Unity government to examine the life of its leader, Salvador Allende, both as a politician and a man.
Post Film Discussion with Mario Pino. Mario Pino is a Chilean lawyer and political activist. Mario obtained his JD at Universidad de Chile and a MA in Social Sciences at The University of Chicago. He was part of Chile's high-school student movement (2006) and university students movement (2011-2012). He is one of the founders of the Revolución Democrática party (Democratic Revolution), part of the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) coalition currently in the government. Mario was chair of International Relations in Revolucion Democratica (2017-2020) and served on the party's political committee. He has worked in International Organizations and in Chile's Senate as a Legislative Director. Mario currently works at The University of Chicago as Program Manager in the Center for Latin American Studies.
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URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
On Display in the Gallery: People Power: Salvador Allende's Chile and Secrets of State: U.S. Intervention in Chile
Popular Unity (Unidad Popular, UP) posters dating from 1970-1973 which capture the priorities of the period and numerous formerly top-secret documents from the CIA, White House, FBI, and NSC records, curated by Peter Kornbluh.
OTHER FIRST PART OF SERIES EVENTS::
June 2nd Secrets of State: U.S. Intervention in Chile from 6-9pm, program at 7pm:
Peter Kornbluh author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability will join us to discuss the exhibit on display in the gallery of declassified documents that record the clandestine U.S. role in Chile and U.S. support for the Pinochet dictatorship. Also, Ruth Needleman who carried out interviews with right-wing Chilean leaders during the Allende period and then with AFL-CIO, AIFLD and other collaborators back in the U.S. after the coup, will share her research for the first time.
June 9th - Film Screening: Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation. Uri-Eichen Gallery, reception 6-9pm and film at 7pm
June 30th Folks songs with Flo Estes. Uri-Eichen Gallery, reception 6-9. Music at 7pm Posters and documents on display from May 12th- July 7th.
Masks are highly recommended and available at the gallery, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Open by appointment outside of receptions. Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717.
Series Presented by the Committee to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Coup in Chile. More Background on the coup:
As the fiftieth anniversary of the bloody, U.S.-backed military coup in Chile approaches, the Uri-Eichen Gallery will feature six months of exhibits and programs that capture the stories of President Salvador Allende’s peaceful road to socialism, and the crushing U.S covert intervention to destabilize and bring down his democratically elected government. With the dire threat of authoritarianism escalating around the world, the history of the overthrow of the Chilean democracy and the advent of the Pinochet dictatorship could not be more relevant.
*How did the people of Chile build popular power?
*How did the United States intervene to assist Chilean reactionaries and establish the deadly military regime of General Pinochet?
*How did Chileans rebuild a resistance movement to bring down that dictatorship?
* And what role did global solidarity play?
The documents and the artwork that recorded and inspired this dramatic history will be part of an evolving series of gallery exhibitions on Chile from May through October. In November 1970, the Chilean Socialist Party’s candidate for president, Salvador Allende, took office, promising that the wealth of Chile would be used to improve the lives of Chileans rather than to enrich US-controlled multinational corporations. Allende, himself a medical doctor, focused on making food, health care, education, and housing accessible and affordable for all. Government policies enabled workers to take control of their factories and supported rural labor in taking ownership of the land they had worked for more than a century.
Among Allende's first acts was the nationalization of key industrial, mining and communications sectors so that Chile’s resources would serve the people of Chile. An incredible flowering of popular arts and music provided the spirit for Allende’s peaceful transition to socialism. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans took the challenge and supported this peaceful revolution.
People Power: Salvador Allende’s Chile
The 1st of 6 Months of Programs and Exhibits About the 50th Anniversary of the Coup in Chile
Uri-Eichen Gallery will be showing Popular Unity (Unidad Popular, UP) posters dating from 1970-1973 which capture the priorities of the period and numerous formerly top-secret documents from the CIA, White House, FBI, and NSC records, curated by Peter Kornbluh, who published The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Posters and documents on display from May 12th- July 7th.
Receptions:
May 26th Film Screening: Salvador Allende. Uri-Eichen Gallery. Reception 6-9. Film at 630pm.
June 2nd from 6-9pm
For the opening on June 2nd Secrets of State: U.S. Intervention in Chile: Peter Kornbluh author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability will join us to discuss the exhibit on display in the gallery of declassified documents that record the clandestine U.S. role in Chile and U.S. support for the Pinochet dictatorship. Also, Ruth Needleman who carried out interviews with right-wing Chilean leaders during the Allende period and then with AFL-CIO, AIFLD and other collaborators back in the U.S. after the coup, will share her research for the first time.
Masks are highly recommended and available at the gallery, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Open by appointment outside of receptions. Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717.
OTHER SERIES EVENTS:
June 9th - Film Screening: Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation. Uri-Eichen Gallery, reception 6-9pm and film at 7pm
June 30th Folks songs with Flo Estes. Uri-Eichen Gallery, reception 6-9. Music at 7pm
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In November 1970, the Chilean Socialist Party's candidate for president, Salvador Allende, took office, promising that the wealth of Chile would be used to improve the lives of Chileans rather than to enrich US-controlled multinational corporations. Allende, himself a medical doctor, focused on making food, health care, education, and housing accessible and affordable for all. Government policies enabled workers to take control of their factories and supported rural labor in taking ownership of the land they had worked for more than a century.
Among Allende's first acts was the nationalization of key industrial, mining and communications sectors so that Chile's resources would serve the people of Chile. An incredible flowering of popular arts and music provided the spirit for Allende's peaceful transition to socialism. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans took the challenge and supported this peaceful revolution.
Uri-Eichen Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717.
People Power: Salvador Allende’s Chile
The 1st of 6 Months of Programs and Exhibits About the 50th Anniversary of the Coup in Chile
Uri-Eichen Gallery will be showing Popular Unity (Unidad Popular, UP) posters dating from 1970-1973 which capture the priorities of the period and numerous formerly top-secret documents from the CIA, White House, FBI, and NSC records, curated by Peter Kornbluh, who published The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Posters and documents on display from May 12th- July 7th.
Receptions:
May 26th Film Screening: Salvador Allende. Uri-Eichen Gallery. Reception 6-9. Film at 630pm.
June 2nd from 6-9pm
For the opening on June 2nd Secrets of State: U.S. Intervention in Chile: Peter Kornbluh author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability will join us to discuss the exhibit on display in the gallery of declassified documents that record the clandestine U.S. role in Chile and U.S. support for the Pinochet dictatorship. Also, Ruth Needleman who carried out interviews with right-wing Chilean leaders during the Allende period and then with AFL-CIO, AIFLD and other collaborators back in the U.S. after the coup, will share her research for the first time.
Masks are highly recommended and available at the gallery, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Open by appointment outside of receptions. Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717.
OTHER SERIES EVENTS:
June 9th - Film Screening: Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation. Uri-Eichen Gallery, reception 6-9pm and film at 7pm
June 30th Folks songs with Flo Estes. Uri-Eichen Gallery, reception 6-9. Music at 7pm
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In November 1970, the Chilean Socialist Party's candidate for president, Salvador Allende, took office, promising that the wealth of Chile would be used to improve the lives of Chileans rather than to enrich US-controlled multinational corporations. Allende, himself a medical doctor, focused on making food, health care, education, and housing accessible and affordable for all. Government policies enabled workers to take control of their factories and supported rural labor in taking ownership of the land they had worked for more than a century.
Among Allende's first acts was the nationalization of key industrial, mining and communications sectors so that Chile's resources would serve the people of Chile. An incredible flowering of popular arts and music provided the spirit for Allende's peaceful transition to socialism. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans took the challenge and supported this peaceful revolution.
Uri-Eichen Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717.
People Power: Salvador Allende’s Chile
The 1st of 6 Months of Programs and Exhibits About the 50th Anniversary of the Coup in Chile
Uri-Eichen Gallery will be showing Popular Unity (Unidad Popular, UP) posters dating from 1970-1973 which capture the priorities of the period and numerous formerly top-secret documents from the CIA, White House, FBI, and NSC records, curated by Peter Kornbluh, who published The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Posters and documents on display from May 12th- July 7th.
Receptions:
May 12th from 6-9pm
June 2nd from 6-9pm
and other special events to be announced.
For the opening on May 12th Chilean as well as U.S. activists who were in Chile will share stories of the excitement, the class consciousness and the immense mobilizations that characterized Chile under the UP. Mario Venegas, who was a student leader at the Catholic University in Santiago and is now a human rights activist residing in Chicago, will paint the picture of what organizing at the local level was like at the time.
For the opening on June 2nd Secrets of State: U.S. Intervention in Chile: Peter Kornbluh author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability will join us to discuss the exhibit on display in the gallery of declassified documents that record the clandestine U.S. role in Chile and U.S. support for the Pinochet dictatorship. Also, Ruth Needleman who carried out interviews with right-wing Chilean leaders during the Allende period and then with AFL-CIO, AIFLD and other collaborators back in the U.S. after the coup, will share her research for the first time.
Masks are highly recommended and available at the gallery, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Open by appointment outside of receptions. Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717.
OTHER SERIES EVENTS:
May 15th- Film Screening: Memoria Obstinada from Chilean Director Patricio Guzman. University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. Film at 6pm. Post Film Discussion Mario Venegas and Mario Pino of Chile Amigo Chicago. 5733 S University Ave, Chicago, IL
May 26th Film Screening: Salvador Allende. Uri-Eichen Gallery. Reception 6-9. Film at 630pm.
June 9th - Film Screening: Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation. Uri-Eichen Gallery, reception 6-9pm and film at 7pm
June 30th Folks songs with Flo Estes. Uri-Eichen Gallery, reception 6-9. Music at 7pm
Uri-Eichen is a 501c3 and all volunteer run gallery in the same donated space since 2012. In these turbulent days, we need community venues committed to advancing a dialogue about building a civil society in our world today.
Series Presented by the Committee to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Coup in Chile.
More Background on the coup:
As the fiftieth anniversary of the bloody, U.S.-backed military coup in Chile approaches, the Uri-Eichen Gallery will feature six months of exhibits and programs that capture the stories of President Salvador Allende’s peaceful road to socialism, and the crushing U.S covert intervention to destabilize and bring down his democratically elected government.
With the dire threat of authoritarianism escalating around the world, the history of the overthrow of the Chilean democracy and the advent of the Pinochet dictatorship could not be more relevant.
*How did the people of Chile build popular power?
*How did the United States intervene to assist Chilean reactionaries and establish the deadly military regime of General Pinochet?
*How did Chileans rebuild a resistance movement to bring down that dictatorship?
* And what role did global solidarity play?
The documents and the artwork that recorded and inspired this dramatic history will be part of an evolving series of gallery exhibitions on Chile from May through October.
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the bloody, U.S.-backed military coup in Chile approaches, the Uri-Eichen Gallery will feature six months of exhibits and programs that capture the stories of President Salvador Allende’s peaceful road to socialism, and the crushing U.S covert intervention to destabilize and bring down his democratically elected government. With the dire threat of authoritarianism escalating around the world, the history of the overthrow of the Chilean democracy and the advent of the Pinochet dictatorship could not be more relevant. How did the people of Chile build popular power? How did the United States intervene to assist Chilean reactionaries and establish the deadly military regime of General Pinochet? How did Chileans rebuild a resistance movement to bring down that dictatorship? And what role did global solidarity play? The documents and the artwork that recorded and inspired this dramatic history will be part of an evolving series of gallery exhibitions on Chile from May through October.
Image: Ya No Basta Con Rezar Vicente Larrea, Luis Albornoz Quimantú Offset, Circa 1973
Mostly Men and Money on Maxwell Street
Photographs of Shakir Denar Karriem
Opening Reception: April 14th from 6-9pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Shakir Denar Karriem picked up a camera for the first time at age thirteen and hasn’t put it down yet. He uses the camera as a tool to tell human stories. A Chicago-born artist who loves his hometown and enjoys capturing all aspects of it, highlighting everything the city has to offer.
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Michael Gaylord James
Crossing Borders: Photographs from Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua
Closing Reception April 7th from 6-9pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Michael Gaylord James: My perspective and perceptions on life, on the realities of the world, were transformed in 1962 when I crossed the US border into Matamoros, México. It didn’t take much; I was ready, always rooting for the underdog, for “the people.” A Triumph motorcycle trip to Mexico City at age 20 sped my transformation from liberal young guy to radical young guy.
Then a fan of President Kennedy I was excited he was coming to the Capitol. There with my camera I was quickly learning not everyone liked him nor the USA. One photo later revealed scrubbed graffiti saying “Kennedy Largate,” “Kennedy get out of here!” In Guerrero signs expressing anti-US and pro leftist sentiment were abundant: “Comunismo Si, Capitalismo No, Viva Cuba, Cuba Si and USA No!” I had thought we were the good guys. Now I was seeing, hearing, learning; and I was changing. My eyes were open; as were my mind, and my heart.
Since then, I’ve been to other nations at odds with the USA’s imperialist policies, policies I reject. These photo selections are from visits to Mexico, Nicaragua, and Cuba, all countries in the Western Hemisphere influenced and shaped by US policy, and whose people stand opposed to the USA’s Imperialist control and subjugation.
My photography is framed by the human condition. This exhibit of work shot in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America records the universality of the people’s happiness and sadness, of hardship, and struggle, of determination and conviction.
 1997 Workers at Cuban Sugar Cane Processing Facility |
Salsedo Press: Helping Build Solidarity in Chicago and Beyond
Closing Reception: March 3rd from 6-9pm 
January 13th through March 3rd, 2023
Open by appointment outside of receptions.
Come see many of the posters and learn the history of Salsedo. They were worker owned and operated for 52 years until their closing in 2021. Their history encompassed everything in between those years, from the Hampton assassination in the Nixon era through the Trump administration-- serving the Women's movement, the ongoing struggle for Immigrant Rights, LBQT and Gender Equality, the Harold Washington elections, the anti-Iraq war movement, Occupy, BLM, and many, many more.
Masks will be required, and an air cleaner is installed in the space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Open by appointment outside of receptions.
Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717
Women's Rights Are Human Rights
Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
November 11th through January 4th, 2023
Open by appointment outside of receptions.
Join Uri-Eichen Gallery as we welcome back the Chicago Women's Liberation Union and the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective. Feminist posters on display from November 11 through January 4 for the annual Human Rights Day Show as we celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
On December 10, 1948, the United Nations passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its preamble announced the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people. Article 2 of 30 stated that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. At a time when the rights of women are being threatened globally and locally, the Uri-Eichen Gallery has chosen to address this threat in its annual year-end Human Rights Day exhibition. This year we are collaborating with the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union and Graphics Collective Herstory Project.
For more information go to cwluherstory.org
Reception: December 9th from 6pm to 9pm
Discussion 7-8:30pm: Estelle Carol from the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union on the posters from the Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective on display and Leaders from Chicago Abortion Rights Activism today.
Masks will be required, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Open by appointment outside of receptions.
Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717
Justice for the 43 Disappeared Mexican Students
Photographs by Larry Redmond
Opening Reception September 9th from 6pm to 10pm
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Larry Redmond and Friends
Live music -7:00 p.m. to 7:30
On Sept. 26, 2014, 43 Mexican students known for their leftist leanings and activism were disappeared. It is believed, ultimately, they were all murdered.
Former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam was arrested on August 26, 2022, for failing to thoroughly investigate the incident. This came a day after a truth commission formed by current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the students’ disappearance was a “crime of the state.”
One of many rallies conducted throughout Mexico, protesting the failure to investigate, was conducted in Mexico City on March 5, 2019. These images are from that rally.
Larry Redmond is a past-president of the Chicago Alliance of African-American Photographers (CAAAP). The mission of CAAAP is to capture images of Black life in America. His niche in that mission is photographing political marches and rallies. When he was on vacation in Mexico City in the spring of 2019, he stumbled upon a political rally in the making and he felt right at home. He had his camera already out, and he simply starting shooting. He had no idea initially how important this rally was. But as he looked at the signs, he understood. This rally was history in the making. And given the recent arrest of the then-attorney general, the timing of this exhibit could not be better. He is proud to be able to contribute to the telling of the story of the 43 Disappeared Mexican Students.
Open by appointment only outside of reception. Open by appointment through November 4th. For an appointment call 312 852 7717
Masks required, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, we just ask that you consume outside!
2101 S Halsted St
CHICAGO Illinois 60608
gabbyfish@hotmail.com
www.uri-eichen.com
Illustrating a Modern Education: the Textbook Drawings of Margaret Iannelli, 1925-1937
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 6pm - 10pm. Discussion 7pm
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Opening Reception with Tim Samuelson, Chicago Historian Emeritus.
On view through Friday, September 2nd
Iannelli was an accomplished artist who often worked alongside her husband, Park Ridge-based sculptor Alpohnso Iannelli. Margaret Iannelli (1893-1967) produced the illustrations on exhibition for a series of educational textbooks created by Carleton W. Washburne, longtime head of the Winnetka, IL school system, and published by Chicago’s Rand McNally & Company.
The illustrations reflect Margaret’s commitment to making modern art accessible in everyday life and the progressive philosophy behind the textbooks. Bold and colorful abstractions, the illustrations often have multi-cultural explorations and celebrations as their theme—rare in school textbooks of the era and, in some cases, rare today. Making them all the more exceptional is that the illustrations were produced after Margaret had become a patient at the Elgin State Hospital, where she would spend over half her life.
“Margaret Iannelli was a gifted Chicago-area artist who sought to bring modernism into people’s everyday lives through commercial design,” says Tim Samuelson, the exhibition’s curator and the now retired City of Chicago’s cultural historian. “Her early twentieth century work for advertising, fashion and school textbooks democratically provided modernism to a broad audience without preaching or pretense. Hidden behind the joy of her illustrations were struggles with mental illness, and the loss of personal recognition for her work in the shadow of a well-publicized artist-husband sharing the same surname.”
Open by appointment only outside of receptions though September 2nd. For an appointment call 312 852 7717
Masks required, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
2101 S Halsted St
CHICAGO Illinois 60608
gabbyfish@hotmail.com
www.uri-eichen.com
Mark Rogovin – Artist, Activist, Author, and “Seat-of-the-Pants” Historian
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Highlighting Mark's work in Mexico with Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, his murals in Chicago, creation and the work of the Public Art Workshop in Austin, Chicago, creation and the work of the Chicago Peace Museum, and his work preserving and sharing the history of the Haymarket Martyr's Monument.
Join all volunteer run URI-EICHEN Gallery- opening for in person indoor events for the 1st time since the pandemic with a retrospective of the life of artist Mark Rogovin.
Mark Rogovin – Artist, Activist, Author, and Seat-of-the-Pants HistorianMay 13th to July 1 by appointment outside of scheduled programs
URI-EICHEN Gallery
2101 S Halsted
Chicago IL 60608
In partnership with Michelle Rogovin, Alexis Ellers, the Illinois Labor History Society, and the Historical Society of Forest Park.
June 10 from 6-10pm with discussion at 7pm -Teaching, Mentoring, and Art for the People: Mark Rogovin in Mexico
Melanie Herzog
Mark Rogovin spent several summers in Mexico during the 1960s. He studied with sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett and worked with muralist on The March of Humanity, Siqueiros’s last, and largest mural. The centrality of education and mentorship in preparing young artists to create art for the people, as well as what he learned about sculpture and mural painting from Catlett and Siqueiros – to whom Catlett introduced Mark Rogovin, making his experience with Siqueiros possible – was crucial to his own development as a public artist, a teacher, and a mentor to the next generation in Chicago and beyond.
www.finearts.edgewood.edu/art-department/faculty/melanie-herzog
Masks will be required, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, we just ask that you consume outside! Questions and to schedule an appointment? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717
DE-MIL-I-TA-RIZE
Dissenters and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative 2020/2021
A windows only show at Uri-Eichen Gallery on display from 4-8 though 5-8
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Dissenters is a movement organization leading a new generation of young people to reclaim resources from the war industry, reinvest in life-giving institutions, and repair collaborative relationships with the earth and people around the world. They are building local teams of young people across the country to force institutions to divest from war and militarism, and reinvest in what our communities actually need. From campuses to congress, they are building grassroots power to cut off war elites once and for all.
In an effort to lift up this important work, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative has organized DE-MIL-I-TA-RISE—a print portfolio and booklet (not seen here)—for use in Dissenters’ organizing campaigns, popular education projects, and cultural programming.
This window show is a curated selection from a total of 30 screenprints, all printed at Hoofprint in Chicago, Illinois. Organizers of DE-MIL-I-TA-RISE include Aaron Hughes, Timmy Châu, Liz Born, Nadine Darwish, Alex Y. Ding, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and Roger Ourthiague Jr. Partner organizations include Dissenters, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, Hoofprint Press, For the People Artists Collective, About Face: Veterans Against the War, Prison+Neighborhood Arts/Education Project, Chicago ACT Collective, and emerging Veteran Art Movement.
Selected Artists: Iván Arenas, Molly Costello, Asha A. Edwards, William Estrada, Eric J. Garcia, Aaron Hughes, Nicole Marroquin, Fernando Martí, Citlali Perez, Claudia Qui, Grae Rosa, Monica Trinidad.
Mark Rogovin – Artist, Activist, Author, and “Seat-of-the-Pants” Historian
Join all volunteer run URI-EICHEN Gallery- opening for in person indoor events for the 1st time since the pandemic with a retrospective of the life of artist Mark Rogovin.
May 13th to July 1 by appointment outside of scheduled programs URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
In partnership with Michelle Rogovin, Alexis Ellers, and the ILHS, featuring work from Mark's time in Mexico, his public murals, the Public Art Workshop, the Peace Museum, and our beloved Haymarket Memorial.
Receptions:
May 13 from 6-10pm with discussion at 7pm - Rebecca Zorach
Mark Rogovin and the Black Left: Building an Art of Allyship
For decades, Mark Rogovin dedicated himself to the struggle for racial and economic justice through public art, activism, education, and publications. Alongside and intertwining with his work in murals, Mark celebrated the work of Black activists, including Margaret Burroughs (with whom he worked closely), Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis. This talk gives insights into the many projects he engaged in on behalf of their legacy of struggle.
June 10 from 6-10pm with discussion at 7pm - Melanie Herzog
Teaching, Mentoring, and Art for the People: Mark Rogovin in Mexico
Mark Rogovin spent several summers in Mexico during the 1960s. He studied with sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett and worked with muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros on The March of Humanity, Siqueiros’s last, and largest mural. The centrality of education and mentorship in preparing young artists to create art for the people, as well as what he learned about sculpture and mural painting from Catlett and Siqueiros – to whom Catlett introduced Mark Rogovin, making his experience with Siqueiros possible – was crucial to his own development as a public artist, a teacher, and a mentor to the next generation in Chicago and beyond.
Other events and programs to be announced!
Masks will be required, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717
Chicago For Abortion Rights Meets the Global Struggle
A windows only show at Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Outdoor Closing April 1st starting at 6pm and going to 730pm weather permitting.
Light Refreshments and Solidarity
Chicago for Abortion Rights is a network of activists and community members fighting for abortion rights and reproductive freedom. On display, a selection of photos and posters from protests and solidarity actions with allies in the struggle such as the Chicago Abortion Fund, Planned Parenthood IL, the Clinic Vest Project, the Illinois Single Payer Coalition, and the Chicago National Organization for Women.
On display from March 11th through April 5th
Opening April 8th: DE-MIL-I-TA-RISE
Dissenters portfolio by Justseeds Artists Cooperative.
Dissenters is a movement organization leading a new generation of young people to reclaim resources from the war industry, reinvest in life-giving institutions, and repair collaborative relationships with the earth and people around the world. They are building local teams of young people across the country to force institutions to divest from war and militarism, and reinvest in what our communities actually need. From campuses to congress, they are building grassroots power to cut off war elites once and for all.
In an effort to lift up this important work, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative has organized DE-MIL-I-TA-RISE—this portfolio and a booklet—for use in Dissenters’ organizing campaigns, popular education projects, and cultural programming
Part of this collection of prints will be on display in this windows only show through 5-6-22
Mark Rogovin – Artist, Activist, Author, and “Seat-of-the-Pants” Historian
Join all volunteer run URI-EICHEN Gallery- opening for in person events for the 1st time since the pandemic with a retrospective of the life of artist Mark Rogovin.
May 13th to July 1 by appointment outside of scheduled programs URI-EICHEN Gallery
2101 S Halsted
Chicago IL 60608
In partnership with Michelle Rogovin, Alexis Ellers, and the ILHS, featuring work from Mark's time in Mexico, his public murals, the Public Art Workshop, the Peace Museum, and our beloved Haymarket Memorial.
Receptions:
May 13 from 6-10pm with discussion at 7pm - Rebecca Zorach on Mark's Mural works
June 10 from 6-10pm with discussion at 7pm - Melanie Herzog on Mark's time with Siquieros and Elizabeth Catlett and how that influenced his later public work
Other events and programs to be announced!
Masks will be required, air cleaner installed in space. Snacks and drinks as usual, just ask that you consume outside!
Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717
Chicago For Abortion Rights Meets the Global Struggle Chicago For Abortion Rights Meets the Global Struggle
A windows only show at Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Outdoor opening March 11th starting at 6pm and going to 8pm weather permitting. 2101 S Halsted St Light Refreshments and Solidarity
Chicago for Abortion Rights is a network of activists and community members fighting for abortion rights and reproductive freedom. On display, a selection of photos and posters from protests and solidarity actions with allies in the struggle such as the Chicago Abortion Fund, Planned Parenthood IL, the Clinic Vest Project, the Illinois Single Payer Coalition, and the Chicago National Organization for Women.
On display from March 11th through April 5th
Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call (312) 852-7717
Art Institute of Chicago Workers United and Aram Han Sifuentes’ Protest Banner Lending Library
A windows only show at Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
On display in the windows of Uri-Eichen Gallery, 3 different AICWU banners over a month period from the Protest Banner Lending Library, a project of artist Aram Han Sifuentes.
From February 11th through March 9th
Art Institute of Chicago Workers United (AICWU) advocates for an equitable, sustainable, and transparent workplace for all employees. To achieve these values, staff at the museum and school have formed our unions with AFSCME Council 31.
The Art Institute of Chicago Workers United advocates for an equitable, sustainable, and transparent workplace for S/AIC employees at every level. We believe our institutions’ visions of an inspired and just society must begin with the inclusive, humane, and respectful treatment of staff. Actively working against systemic racism, we center the experiences and voices of BIPOC staff and endeavor to transform our institution’s colonialist legacy.
Image Source: Truthout, truthout.org: Museum Workers Are Joining the Growing Labor Movement
We, the members of the union, assert that all Art Institute workers deserve:
John Pitman Weber
Recent Wood and Lino Cut Prints
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only show from 1-14-22 through 2-9-22 .
Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Pitman Weber’s studio art and public art are both connected and in tension. An image may first appear in one and then reappear in altered form in the other. From mural to woodcut, this has happened just as often over the years as the other way around, but always theme and drawing come first. In both the subtext is often the challenge of living together, as we all must to share our neighborhoods and share our beautiful blue planet.
This small selection of recent woodcuts and linocuts reflects his identification with Pilsen, where he has lived for 16 years, and had friends and colleagues for over 40 years. A number of the prints also reflect his concern with his fellow migrants, both residents and those seeking refuge, who too often find a rude welcome. Finally, an early comment on our national, suicidal reliance on oil, and a fond memorial to the great printmaker and poet Carlos Cortez and his wife Mariana.
Chicago Public Art Group: 50 Years- Human Rights Day Show
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only show from December 10, 2021 through January 12, 2022.
Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
At a time when artists, cultural minorities, cultural heritage and cultural expressions are increasingly under attack, defending the cultural rights of individuals and communities has never been more important. -UNESCO
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948, observed by the international community as Human Rights Day.
Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Wall of Choices by John Pitman Weber 1971
The Chicago Public Art Group -CPAG - was founded in 1971 by a group of artists concerned with the relationship of art to society. The founding mission was to establish creative partnerships between artists and communities in an effort to transform and enhance the lives of residents in Chicago neighborhoods.
Childhood is Without Prejudice by William Walker 1977
THE URI-EICHEN GALLERY CELEBRATES HUMAN RIGHTS DAY AND THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF CPAG - THE CHICAGO PUBLIC ART GROUP - WITH THIS EXHIBIT
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Detenidxs Desaparecidxs / Disappeared Detainees
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only show from November 12 through December 8, 2021.
Works by Soledad Fátima Muñoz
This is the first in a multiyear series of shows and events surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Chilean Coup of 1973 and its connections to Chicago working with artist Soledad Fátima Muñoz
Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
In 1956, with the help of the Ford Foundation, the University of Chicago signed an exchange agreement with the Universidad Católica de Chile, in which students from the Chilean economic elites would study under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger at what is today The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics of the University of Chicago. The teachings of the “Chicago Boys” culminated in a book called El Ladrillo (The Brick), which was delivered to Navy Admiral José Toribio Merino, who was part of the “Junta” that installed Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the new head of state.The people of Chile were rendered passive to the point of being expendable, and the state perpetuated an ideological genocide against anyone who disagreed with the newly installed Neoliberal system.
“Detenidxs Desaparecidxs” depicts the profiles of the disappeared detainees of the Chilean military dictatorship (1973 - 1991), whose bodies have yet to be found. Soledad Fátima Muñoz is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural worker and researcher born in her family’s exile in Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Her work seeks to explore the ever-changing social spaces we inhabit and the archival properties of cloth. Through the investigation of the materiality of sound and the understanding of the woven structure as the continuation of our interconnected social gesture, her practice seeks to fabricate embodied instances that participate in the construction of a more equitable society and the creation of new archives of resistance.
In 2014 she started Genero, an audio project/label that focuses on the distribution and representation of women and non-binary artists within the sound realm. Subsequently, in 2017, she co-founded CURRENT "Feminist Electronic Art Symposium and Mentorship,” a multidisciplinary, electronic art program working with women, non-binary, and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) artists in Canada and beyond. Her latest collaborative audiovisual project entitled “La Parte de Atras de la Arpillera'' features a collection of interviews with Chilean textile workers whose experiences stitch together the country’s history of resistance. She studied Film at Universidad ARCIS in Santiago Chile, has a Diploma in Textile Arts from Capilano University in North Vancouver Canada, a Bachelor in Fine Arts Degree from Emily Carr University of Arts + Design in Vancouver and a Master in Fine Arts from the Department of Fiber and Material Studies of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Soledad has been the recipient of several awards, including the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago New Artist Society Full Merit Scholarship, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design President’s Media Award and most recently the Textile Society of America Student and New Professionals Award.
www.soledadmunoz.com
Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call 312 852 7717
19th Amendment: 2020 Vision
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only show.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted Chicago IL 60608
This windows only show, curated by Monica Trinidad, will be on display from
October 8th through November 9th.
19th Amendment: 2020 Vision features the poster art of 22 women and non-binary artists from across the U.S. The exhibition debuted at the Haight Street Art Center (San Francisco, CA) in September of 2020 to highlight the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, giving American (white) women the right to vote.
While celebratory, the artists also reflect on the complex and troubled history of the suffrage and voting rights movement in the U.S. Some allude to the posters and signs with which the suffragists protested in the 19th and early 20th centuries; some refer to more contemporary protest movements. This curated selection of posters from the original exhibition features work by Elizabeth Blancas, Jess X. Snow, Kah Yangni, Kate DeCiccio, Monica Trinidad, Nisha K. Sethi, Shyama R. Kuver, Sophia Zarders, Trap Bob, and Ytaelena Lopez. Posters are available for purchase through the Haight Street Art Center here .
Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call 312 852 7717
Flight of the Woodpecker: A Call to Action!
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only show.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
The windows will be on display from September 14, 2021 through October 5, 2021.
Jean Engelkemeir
In her work she hopes to highlight the urgency of the global climate crisis. Humans and the rest of the living world are inextricably intertwined and our fates lie precariously in the balance.
In a healthy world we live in harmony with the world upon which we rely for air, water, and food. But we live on a rapidly overheating planet caused by the careless consumption of fossil fuels, destruction of habitat, and apathy. The result is rising seas, extreme temperatures, more destructive storms, flooding in some areas and drought in others, loss of access to drinkable water and breathable air, and ever-worsening famine. Without drastic changes we are spiraling toward the extinction of all species - including our own. The fragile egg of the earth lies precariously balanced and the future is literally in our hands.
Casey Jones:
Avian artist.
Birds are life. They are integral to healthy ecosystems and dependent upon them. They are beautiful, iconic, and symbolic. Many specials have become extinct due to destructive and irresponsible human activity. Since 1970 the total bird population has decreased by 50%. Do you know the ivory billed woodpecker? It is now extinct due to logging of the once endless hardwood forest tracts throughout the southeastern United States. Are we all going the way of the Ivory Bill?
Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call 312 852 7717
Discover, Preserve, Grow: The Decay Devils
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only show.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Outdoor Opening Reception: The windows will be on display from August 13, 2021 through September 8, 2021.
Discover: Us, Them, and Now, addresses how people should recognize the nature of our environment and the diversity of people now rather than later. The peering eye symbolizes seeing past the barrier of differences within our cities represented by the hands.
Preserve: People, Places, and Things, showcases the importance of saving places, preserving the history of our cities while acknowledging the good and bad parts. Each picture in the collage tells a story of how people from various communities came together and worked as one to help create a safe useable space.
Grow: Business, Leaders, and Community, focuses on the growth of people within our cities. This includes supporting the needs for a more equally viable political, judicial, and economic climate. The interlocking hand to wrist portrays the trust, love, respect, and support a city needs develop strong leaders within our businesses and communities.
Decay Devils
The Decay Devils organization was formed by individuals located in the Chicagoland/Northwest Indiana area and was established in 2011. The Decay Devils organization goes beyond observation and documentation; we take action! Although Gary, Indiana was first to inspire us to capture the forgotten beauty of structures, we won’t stop there. Our organization wants very badly to help salvage what is left of historical buildings in urban neighborhoods and communities throughout the world. We hope to bring a sense of pride and beauty back to these areas one step at a time by learning different ways to prevent further decay and loss of revenue from current declining structures. The Decay Devils seek to explore and implement the ingenious ways other countries have used to preserve its historical ruins. Our goal is to generate multiple revenue streams off their uses and seamlessly blend old relics with modern-day infrastructures. We are currently campaigning to restore Union Station located in Gary, Indiana in which we gained ownership of in 2018.
www.decaydevils.org
FB: Decay Devils
Instagram: @decay_devils
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
The windows will be on display from August 13, 2021 through September 8, 2021.
Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call 312 852 7717
URI-EICHEN Gallery is excited to sponsor the 7th (In)Justice For All Film Festival.
The @IFAFFInternational is a Free virtual film festival Aug 12-21, that brings together amazing films, poets and panel discussions on mass incarceration, police brutality and other social injustices Get Your FREE tickets at www.injusticeforallff.com. Support Social Activism & Spread the Word! #IFAFF2021.
Saint Joan of the Stockyards (megacycle)
by Bertolt Brecht
translated by Frank Jones
adapted by Corey Smith
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only visual and audio show
Outdoor Opening Reception: July 16, 2021 at 8:30pm-10pm. Join us for an outside only reception for the new show. Seating, snacks and drinks, as always, available!
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Corey Smith’s Adaptation of Saint Joan of the Stockyards (megacycle)
Bertolt Brecht’s 1931 play, Saint Joan of the Stockyards, centers on “Joan Dark,” an employee of the Black Straw Hats (a charity modeled after the Salvation Army), who goes into the Chicago Stockyards to help feed the poor. Joan quickly finds herself entangled in a system of brutality, cynicism, and exploitation. The play tells the story of Joan’s political awakening and martyrdom, the pitiable emotions of the boss Pierpont Mauler, and the extreme daily fluctuations of the meatpacking industry.
This 90-year-old play is strikingly resonant in our contemporary times — from its damning indictment of the non-profit industrial complex to its clear-eyed portrayal of the crises of global capitalism. Brecht’s play points to the rich getting richer and the poor being told to work harder for less, no matter how many booms or busts seem to come and go.
Right now, a new Amazon distribution facility is being built in Bridgeport, blocks north of the former Stockyards and blocks south of Uri-Eichen Gallery. This new warehouse has been controversial — it has been the center of conversations around transparency in city planning, the role of community input in industrial development, and the ugly history of environmental racism on the Southwest Side.
The Southwest Side of Chicago has also played an important role in the story of the “megacycle,” an internal phrase for the grueling night shift in an Amazon warehouse. A walkout at an Amazon facility in Gage Park in April 2021 helped to increase the pay for such a shift by $1.50-$2.00 per hour. Amazon is moving to more and more of these 10-hour megacycle shifts to accommodate faster and faster delivery — extending the hours that customers can order an item and receive it the next day.
It is in this context — between the old stockyards and new Amazon warehouse — that a nightly restaging of Saint Joan of the Stockyards plays out in the windows of Uri-Eichen Gallery.
This “megacycle” adaptation takes place over the course of a ten-hour night shift — from sunset to sunrise — and recontextualizes the play as a collage of sound and light. The characters of Saint Joan, represented by sheer fabric forms, are illuminated by LED lights programmed in sync with a reading of the play. A 10-hour long musical composition serves as the emotional spine. This music gradually speeds up until the darkest point in the night, then slows down until sunrise, all the while cycling through the twelve major keys.
These cycles of night and day, boom and bust, acceleration and deceleration play out in the window to an audience of passersby on the street. The work can be viewed from sundown to sunup every night.
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only visual and audio show
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
The play will be on display from July 16, 2021 through August 9, 2021 and visible every night from 8:30pm - 5:30am.
Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com or call 312 852 7717
Uri-Eichen Gallery- 10th Anniversary Show
June 11, 2021 through July 7, 2021
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Uri-Eichen Gallery has hosted several hundred shows and special events in the last decade. Join us to review that history from June of 2011 to June of 2021-all work dedicated to human rights issues- from reparations to opposition to war and dozens of other related subjects.
Featured show series in the posters include 2013's Eight Hours -focused on labor rights, 2014 on Global Economic Inequality, 2015 on Reparations, 2016 on Income Inequality in the US, 2017 - 100 Years: 1917 and 2017, 2018 Reflections on 1968, and 2019 -5 pivotal Supreme Court Cases.
We look forward to our next 10 years helping to highlight the work of artists and movement builders- all fighting for a better world.
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only poster show curated by Christopher Urias
Uri-Eichen Gallery (window exhibition) 2101 S. Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608. The window posters will be on display from June 11, 2021 through July 7, 2021. Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com
“There’s a Palestine that dwells inside all of us”
Posters of the International Palestinian Solidarity Movement
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only poster show curated by Peter Kuttner and John Pitman Weber.
April 12 through June 10, 2021
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
The Uri-Eichen Gallery supports the international movement to promote the implementation of Palestinian refugees’ right of return and call for full equality between Palestinians and Israelis.
Approximately 750,000 Palestinians became refugees as a result of the 1948 war and United Nations resolution which led to the creation of the State of Israel. Palestine was partitioned with most of the land going to Israel. No Palestinians were allowed to return to the homes or communities from which they were displaced. The refugees’ right to return is well established in international law.
Uri-Eichen Gallery (window exhibition) 2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
The window posters will be on display from April 12, 2021 through June 10, 2021
Questions? Email: gabbyfish@hotmail.com
George Floyd and the largest uprising in the nation’s history
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only poster show curated by Larry Redmond
February 12, 2021 through April 8, 2021
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020. He was strangled to death when Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin put the full weight of his body on Floyd’s neck with his knee for more than nine minutes. In the weeks and months that followed during that summer, in what amounted to the largest uprising in the nation’s history, millions of people from every segment of American life took to the streets to protest Floyd’s death in hundreds of cities all across the country. Floyd’s death in the minds of many was the latest in a years long string of African-American men dying at the hands of the police.
This exhibit contains some of the thousands of signs and placards that were carried by protesters at some of the protests in Chicago. Though they were hastily made by individuals who may have never met, the pieces demonstrate a shared frustration with the status quo, and a determination to express dissatisfaction with the underlying cause of the epidemic of police killings of Black people, racism and white supremacy.
Uri-Eichen Gallery (window exhibition)
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
The window posters will be on display from February 12, 2021 through April 8, 2021
We Keep Each Other Safe
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only poster show curated by justseeds artist Monica Trinidad
January 8 through February 7, 2021
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
The 'We Keep Each Other Safe' poster series was curated by justseeds artist Monica Trinidad, in conjunction with the National Week of Mourning and Signs, Shrines, Collages, and a Mixtape: A Remote COVID Vigil that took place in Chicago in the fall of 2020, highlighting community-based ways we can keep each other safe in the streets during the pandemic, the uprisings for Black lives, and beyond.
The artists involved connected with abolitionist and grassroots community organizations in Chicago, including Love & Protect, Street Youth Rise Up, Lifted Voices, Axis Lab, and TM Productions, to collectively create messaging and visuals that were community-driven and representative of our visions for achieving real community safety.
Featuring work by : Asha Edwards, Grae Rosa, Peregrine Bermas, Nicole Trinidad, Molly Costello, and Monica Trinidad.
Uri-Eichen Gallery (window exhibition)
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Image caption: Monica Trinidad
The window posters will be on display from January 8, 2021 to February 7, 2021
The 51st (Free) State
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only poster show from The Prison Neighborhood Arts Project for Human Rights Day, December 2020
Featuring work by : Robert Curry, Ike Easley, Darrell Fair, Antoine Ford, Lamaine Jefferson, John Knight, Derrick Parks, Rayon Sampson, Johnny Taylor, Antwan Tyler, and Kevin Walker
December 11, 2020 through January 6, 2021
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
The 51st (Free) State is a project, generated at Stateville Prison, where over the last year research and discussions have centered around a nation of incarcerated people.
The prison population in the U.S. is, indeed, the size of and uses the resources of some nation states. The struggle, pain, joy, hope, creativity, intellect and vision of the 2.2 million people incarcerated in the U.S. also reflect that of any other nation of people.
The 51st (Free) State is a body of work that includes emblems, song, choreography, graphic narrative and stage sets that connects thousands of people incarcerated across the nation through a spatial-political imaginary. Far from being disposable, this community is one with a certain kind of sovereignty, where making a speculative state of freedom is a means to achieve a corporeal state of freedom. The works displayed in the windows at Uri Eichen Gallery are a set of nation-state emblems that articulate belonging for The 51st (Free) State.
Artists included: Robert Curry, Ike Easley, Darrell Fair, Antoine Ford, Lamaine Jefferson, John Knight, Derrick Parks, Rayon Sampson, Johnny Taylor, Antwan Tyler, and Kevin Walker.
Uri Eichen Gallery (window exhibition)
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Image caption: Derrick Parks
The window posters will be on display from Dec 11, 2020 to Jan 6, 2021
Mary Patten: Collaboration for a Better World
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only poster show from Mary Patten and collaborative projects such as the Madame Bihn Collective
November 13th through December 4th.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Mary Patten is a visual artist, video-maker, writer, educator, occasional curator, and a long-time community and political activist. Her interdisciplinary practice includes video, installation, writing, drawing, digital media, photography, small sculptures, and performance. In her studio work, collaborative projects, writing, and teaching, she addresses collisions and alignments between "politics" and art-making. The frailties of memory, speculative fiction, and the archive of the everyday are all evident in her "singular" work, where she claims authorship, fully aware that there are no wholly original ideas, that we are all shifting composites of one another.
Amos Paul Kennedy- the Election!
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents a windows only letterpress print show by Detroit-based artist Amos Kennedy on display from October 9th through November 12th.
October 9th through November 12th.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
UGLY GERRY/GERRY FEO, a graphic design show created by Tom Greensfelder from the font Ugly Gerry
September 11th through October 8th
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Gallery Join us to see the windows only show of the Gerry Font: Created by Ben Doessel and James Lee and designed by Tom Greensfelder at Uri-Eichen Gallery, 2101 S Halsted, Chicago.
The window posters will be on display from September 11th through October 8th.
Gerrymandering is the manipulation of the boundaries of an electoral constituency to favor one party or class. It is a way that governing parties try to cement themselves in power by tilting the political map steeply in their favor.
Fed up with gerrymandering in the U.S., Chicago-based designers Ben Doessel and James Lee are fighting back. The result is Ugly Gerry, an all-caps typeface featuring gerrymandered districts resembling each letter of the alphabet.
“Inspired by how janky our Illinois 4th district had become—it’s a notorious earmuff shape that looked like a U—we became interested in this issue. To ensure the eroding of democracy isn’t an issue that is lost in the news cycle, we created a typeface so our districts can become digital graffiti that voters and politicians can’t ignore.” —Ben Doessel & James Lee
The free font is available to download at www.uglygerry.com and don’t forget to vote on November 3rd!
Thanks to Tom Greensfelder and Peter Kuttner.
October: 9th-November 12: Amos Paul Kennedy- the Election
Protests on the Streets: a photography show by Larry Redmond in the windows of Uri-Eichen Gallery
July 10th through September 10th
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed. The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression with other groups planned a caravan rally for May 30th. It formed at 26th and Michigan, went east to State Street, then north on State downtown. I couldn't get any further north than Polk Street because of the congestion. That night is when the rioting took place.
A group called BlckRising planned a rally in the Beverly neighborhood for June 7, 2020. It formed up at 105th and Longwood, marched north to 95th Street, west on 95th to Western, then south on Western to 111th. At that point, they wanted to march west the the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood, because a lot of cops live there. However, the cops on the scene would not allow that, so the marchers sat down at that intersection. After about an hour, the marchers agreed to go west on 111th Street to the police station, and rally there.
The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression planned another rally around City Hall for June 17, 2020. The march was to demand the passage of the CPAC ordinance. A couple hundred people showed up in cars, on bicycles and on foot.
About Larry Redmond: I've always had an interest in art. As a child, I used to draw comic book characters. When I entered college, I had hoped to major in art. However, at the time UIC didn't have an art department. Now, I express myself visually through photography. I love photographing life in the street, especially marches and demonstrations. I graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I majored in Philosophy and minored in English. I later attended the John Marshall Law School, earning a Juris Doctor degree. I studied art and photography at Chicago State University where I developed my passion for Documentary Photography and Photojournalism. I have recently become a member of the Chicago Alliance of African-American Photographers because I appreciated the organization's dedication of professionalism and excellence in the practice of the art of photography. I am also a member of the Washington Park Camera Club. I currently live in Chicago with my wife and family.
Larry Redmond is part of the Board of Directors at Uri-Eichen Gallery
Moving From This Moment To The Next: A poster show in the windows of Uri-Eichen Gallery by Monica Trinidad
Opening Friday, June 19, 2020 through July 9.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. These words speak volumes to the way the last few weeks have felt, from Chicago to Minneapolis to New York to LA. In Chicago, the last several weeks have shown us the power of mutual aid in response to the pandemic, the long struggle ahead of us in the battle against environmental racism in Little Village, and a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement after the police murder of George Floyd, with a nationwide demand to defund the police. As Angela Davis recently said, "These demos won't last forever. The real work is work that is not recorded on video. So the question is, how do we move from this moment to the next? Art and culture play a role in shifting the consciousness. That has to be acknowledged."
The windows at Uri-Eichen Gallery have been used for nearly a decade to add to the debate about what world we want and the struggles to achieve it. Now, as the only safe space for us to do our work, we are launching a series of shows using only the windows- until it is safe for us to join together in the gallery space- we will see you in the street!
Protests in the Streets – photos from Larry Redmond, in the windows: July 10- August 9
Illustrating a Modern Education
Opening Friday, March 13, 2020 from 6-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
An accomplished artist who often worked alongside her husband, Park Ridge-based sculptor Alpohnso Iannelli, Margaret Iannelli (1893-1967) produced the illustrations on exhibition for a series of educational textbooks created by Carleton W. Washburne, longtime head of the Winnetka, IL school system, and published by Chicago’s Rand McNally & Company.
The illustrations reflect Margaret’s commitment to making modern art accessible in everyday life and the progressive philosophy behind the textbooks. Bold and colorful abstractions, the illustrations often have multi-cultural explorations and celebrations as their theme—rare in school textbooks of the era and, in some cases, rare today. Making them all the more exceptional is that the illustrations were produced after Margaret had become a patient at the Elgin State Hospital, where she would spend over half her life.
“Margaret Iannelli was a gifted Chicago-area artist who sought to bring modernism into people's everyday lives through commercial design,” says Tim Samuelson, the exhibition’s curator and the City of Chicago’s cultural historian. “Her early twentieth century work for advertising, fashion and school textbooks democratically provided modernism to a broad audience without preaching or pretense. Hidden behind the joy of her illustrations were struggles with mental illness, and the loss of personal recognition for her work in the shadow of a well-publicized artist-husband sharing the same surname.”
Closing: April 3, 2020 from 7-9pm. Please visit http://uri-eichen.com/ for more details.
Open by appointment only outside of receptions though May 1. For an appointment call 312 852 7717.
Cuban Animation from the 1960s to Today: Revolutionary Aspirations with Cuban Animator Ivette Avila
Closing Reception: Cuba - David Obermeyer
Opening Friday, March 6, 2020 from 7-9pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Post screening discussion with Alex Halkin of Americas Media Initiative and Ivette Avila
Ivette Ávila Martín, Animator, Director, Designer and Scriptwriter
Ivette earned an undergraduate degree in Biology 1999 and a masters in Anthropology in 2009 both at the University of Havana. Ivette received her animation training at the Cuban Television Animation Studios where she also worked. She is currently a freelance animator who collaborates with ICAIC (Cuban Film Ministry), Cuban Television and is a professor at the Film Program of the National Art School. In 2008 she founded CUCURUCHO Productions. She is also the Founder and Director of the children’s animation film festival, La Espiral and the yearly international animation festival, Animation Days in Havana. She has produced music videos and animated shorts receiving national and international awards in festivals worldwide such as VideEau in Montreal, and she received the award for Best Animation in the Cine Pobre Film Festival in Cuba in 2012. She has received awards for her animations in Argentina, Turkey, and Peru. Ivette has screened her work in the the Mobius Experimental Animations by Women. She is also a member of Cuban Society of Anthropology, and the Pantzerki Community of Women Puppeteers. Ivette is the Founder and Coordinator of the Children’s Animation Academy, ANIMALUZ.
David Obermeyer
Cuba
Artist talk with David Obermeyer
February 27 at 7pm-8:30pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Discussion with David Obermeyer 7pm
Obermeyer had the opportunity to travel to Havana, Cuba on two occasions in early 2019. He found himself wandering the streets of Havana concentrating on the everyday in Cuba, looking for the link that connects us all regardless of space.
Cuba is a complex country. The government provides everyone with housing, healthcare and a good education, a good model, but the sixty year embargo has made life a hardship for the Cuban people. There were bright spots in the economy during the Obama administration but the Trump Administration has taken us backwards as if that surprises anyone.
Obermeyer hopes Americans will work to end the embargo started 60 years ago whose sole purpose was to inflict hardship on the Cuban people. We need to stand up and embrace our socialist neighbors, in order to move forward.
Open by appointment only outside of receptions though March 6th. Please call 312 852 7717 for an appointment.
David Obermeyer
Cuba
Opening Friday, February 14, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Discussion with David Obermeyer 7pm
Obermeyer had the opportunity to travel to Havana, Cuba on two occasions in early 2019. He found himself wandering the streets of Havana concentrating on the everyday in Cuba, looking for the link that connects us all regardless of space.
Cuba is a complex country. The government provides everyone with housing, healthcare and a good education, a good model, but the sixty year embargo has made life a hardship for the Cuban people. There were bright spots in the economy during the Obama administration but the Trump Administration has taken us backwards as if that surprises anyone.
Obermeyer hopes Americans will work to end the embargo started 60 years ago whose sole purpose was to inflict hardship on the Cuban people. We need to stand up and embrace our socialist neighbors, in order to move forward.
Artist talk with David Obermeyer
February 27 at 7pm-8:30pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Open by appointment only outside of receptions though March 6th. Please call 312 852 7717 for an appointment.
Messenger
Dean La Prairie
Opening Friday, January 10, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
In the mid-nineties, when this project was shot over a two year period, the bike messenger was a common everyday fixture of the urban experience, a flesh and blood system of communication in a pre-internet world.
Although the familiar association the casual observer had of the messenger was one of perilous motion flitting through traffic, with a blasé disregard for its rules or conventions, La Prairie decided to approach it from the static convention of the portrait- he felt it was like asking anarchy to stand still for a moment and comb its hair.
He adopted the conventionality of the square format portrait because of its contrast in presenting fluid energy in repose, as well as the square’s challenge of presenting the messenger’s natural environment; the urban landscape.
Discussion 7pm with Dean La Prairie, Short Film Screening Concrete Rodeo from Chip Williams, and The Gig Economy Then and Now with Ashley Baber, PhD candidate in the sociology department at Loyola University Chicago. Her research interests include: inequality, urban sociology, political sociology, labor markets, the gig economy and the political economy of urban education. Her dissertation research focuses on how cities regulate gig industries and how these regulations go on to shape the local labor market. Ashley has published work on funding inequality across Chicago Public Schools, charter school expansion and public school closures in Chicago and the “sharing economy.” Ashley has taught courses on inequality in the United States at Loyola University and a course on inequality in Chicago for the Black Male Leadership Academy at Roosevelt University. She has received several awards including outstanding graduate instructor and outstanding service to the sociology department.
Open by appointment outside of receptions through February 7, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Human Rights Day Show: No Wall, No Cages!
Opening Friday, December 13, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Program 7pm: A group printmaker and mixed media show including Hector Duarte, John Pitman Weber, Carlos Barbarena, Diana Solis, Mark Nelson, Alexy Lanza, and Edgar Lopez.
Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) OCAD is an undocumented-led group that organizes against deportations, detention, criminalization, and incarceration, of Black, brown, and immigrant communities in Chicago and surrounding areas. Through grassroots organizing, legal and policy work, direct action and civil disobedience, and cross-movement building, we aim to defend our communities, challenge the institutions that target and dehumanize us, and build collective power.
Open by appointment through January 3rd. For an appointment, please call 312 852 7717
Corey Hagelberg: The Effects of Bad Government
Woodcut Prints
Opening Friday, November, 8, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Most of the work of Corey Hagelberg deals with the environmental injustice in his hometown Gary, Indiana. He holds an undergraduate degree in sculpture and a graduate degree in printmaking from Ball State University. He spent a decade travelling around the country, building public playgrounds in thirty states, which was a formative time in his artist growth.
In 2012, he co-founded the Calumet Artist Residency. Located in the Duneland neighborhood of Miller(Gary) in the Indiana Dunes, the residency aims to connect people, art and nature in the Calumet Region. Since then CAR has hosted over 35 artists, held hundreds of public events, built community gardens and facilitated the Gary Ecopolis project, to focus on local solutions to Climate Change. He is currently a Professor at Indiana University Northwest and maintains a studio practice focused on black and white woodcut and assemblage.
Program 7pm: Corey Hagelberg on his work at 7pm-8pm
Open by appointment outside of receptions through December 6, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Corey Hagelberg: The Effects of Bad Government
Woodcut Prints
Opening Friday, November, 8, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Most of the work of Corey Hagelberg deals with the environmental injustice in his hometown Gary, Indiana. He holds an undergraduate degree in sculpture and a graduate degree in printmaking from Ball State University. He spent a decade travelling around the country, building public playgrounds in thirty states, which was a formative time in his artist growth.
In 2012, he co-founded the Calumet Artist Residency. Located in the Duneland neighborhood of Miller(Gary) in the Indiana Dunes, the residency aims to connect people, art and nature in the Calumet Region. Since then CAR has hosted over 35 artists, held hundreds of public events, built community gardens and facilitated the Gary Ecopolis project, to focus on local solutions to Climate Change. He is currently a Professor at Indiana University Northwest and maintains a studio practice focused on black and white woodcut and assemblage.
Program 7pm: Corey Hagelberg on his work at 7pm-8pm
Open by appointment outside of receptions through December 6, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
INSTITUTO GRÁFICO DE CHICAGO PRESENTS:
Grabadolandia Print Demonstration: Iowa Foil Printer
Opening Friday, November, 16, 2019 1pm-3pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Join printmaker members of the board of Uri-Eichen Gallery for a demonstrations of roll leaf foil printmaking with the Iowa Foil Printer (IFP) in the gallery space. Bring a stencil, a xerox, or just yourself and leave with an image you create with the equipment from a vast pallette of colors.
More about the IFP: The IFP allows the artist exclusive control over the three basic principles of foil stamping. These principles are heat, pressure, and dwell time. Most varieties of foil available for use on paper substrates may be stamped and adhered at 200 degrees Fahrenheit or less using the IFP. The Iowa Foil Printer gives to artists the ability to create fine art with an extraordinary palette of roll leaf foil.
Corey Hagleberg will be on hand to talk about his woodcut prints on display in the gallery and describe his work and processes.
December 12-13 6pm-10pm- Human Rights Day Show: No Wall, No Cages! A group printmaker and mixed media show. Program 7pm: Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) OCAD is an undocumented-led group that organizes against deportations, detention, criminalization, and incarceration, of Black, brown, and immigrant communities in Chicago and surrounding areas. Through grassroots organizing, legal and policy work, direct action and civil disobedience, and cross-movement building, we aim to defend our communities, challenge the institutions that target and dehumanize us, and build collective power.
Be Here Now! Chip Thomas
Opening Friday, October 11, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
In this socio-politically charged moment when scientists warn us that we have at best 10 years to enact measures to curb CO2 emissions to limit the worse effects of climate change, at a time when nationalism and white supremacy define our politics resulting in policies that separate children from their parents at our southern border, when black and brown bodies are victims of state violence, at a time when we identify ourselves at the most advanced civilization in the world while leading the world in the percentage of the population incarcerated and at a time of nonstop wars (the U.S. has been at war 222 out of 243 years since its founding), this is a time that demands an informed citizenry motivated to help the arc of the moral universe bend a little faster towards justice.
This is a time that demands we be present now. The posters included in this show speak to the urgency of the moment.
Open by appointment outside of receptions through November 1, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Chip Thomas, aka “jetsonorama” is a photographer, public artist, activist and physician who has been working between Monument Valley and The Grand Canyon on the Navajo nation since 1987. There, he coordinates the Painted Desert Project – a community building project which manifests as a constellation of murals across the Navajo Nation painted by artists from all over the rez + the world. These murals aim to reflect love and appreciation of the rich history shared by the Navajo people back to Navajo people. As a member of the Justseeds Artists Co-operative he appreciates the opportunity to be part of a community of like-minded, socially engaged artists. You can find his large scale photographs pasted on the roadside, on the sides of houses in the northern Arizona desert, on the graphics of the Peoples Climate March, climateprints.org, Justseeds and 350.orgcarbon emissions campaign material.
We Are Witnesses: Chicago- (In)Justice for All Film Festival
We Are Witnesses: Chicago- (In)Justice for All Film Festival
Opening Friday, October 4, 2019 7pm-9pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
We Are Witnesses: Chicago
Part of the (In)Justice for All Film Festival
WE ARE WITNESSES: CHICAGO* is an immersive short-video series presenting intimate portraits of Chicagoans who have been touched by the criminal justice system. Produced by The Marshall Project in partnership with Kartemquin Films and Illinois Humanities, these films explore the nature of crime, punishment and forgiveness. https://www.themarshallproject.org/we-are-witnesses/chicago
Films introduced by Peter Kuttner and Discussion led by Larry Redmond
Peter Kuttner is a Chicago filmmaker, activist, and cameraman. He is known for his early socially-conscious documentary films that touch on topics such as opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, gentrification of Chicago, racism, and social class.
Larry Redmond is an attorney, writer and photographer.. He has worked as a criminal defense attorney representing high-profile death row inmates, several of whom were released pursuant to DNA testing. He is a member of the National Lawyers Guild. He is general counsel for the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
*Chicago Defender review
"New Criminal Justice Film Series from The Marshall Project Highlights Chicago Witnesses to System’s Injustices"
https://chicagodefender.com/new-criminal-justice-film-series-from-the-marshall-project-highlights-chicago-witnesses-to-systems-injustices/
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Open by appointment outside of receptions through October 4, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Supreme Court of the United States, Month 5:
Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission 2018. Pushback against LGBTQ Rights in the United States with Brave Space Alliance
Opening Friday, September 13, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
The work of the Brave Space Alliance and Rainbow Cakes and more!
Brave Space Alliance is the first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ Center located on the South Side of Chicago, dedicated to creating and providing affirming, culturally competent, for-us by-us resources, programming, and services for LGBTQ individuals on the South and West sides of the city. We strive to empower, embolden, and educate each other through mutual aid, knowledge-sharing, and the creation of community-sourced resources as we build toward the liberation of all oppressed peoples.
Program 7pm: Discussion of the Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision and the Work of the Brave Space Alliance. Celebrate the resistance with cake, punch and wedding snacks! Come dressed for a wedding of resistance fighters if you like, or come as you are!
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Open by appointment outside of receptions through October 4, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Supreme Court of the United States, Month 4:
Shelby County v Holder 2013.
Voter Suppression in the wake of Shelby County- Featuring cartoons about Shelby County v Holder and Voter Suppression from Eric Garcia, Angelo Lopez, Steve Greenberg, and more, one of a kind handmade prints from Amos Paul Kennedy, AFL CIO Get Out the Vote Posters, documents from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee fight for voting rights, and a discussion about voting rights in the aftermath of Shelby County, six years later.
Opening Friday, August 9, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Program 7pm: Stevie Valles, Executive Director of Chicago Votes about the work of Chicago Votes, Shelby V Holder, and voter suppression laws in the USA.
Cartoon credit: Eric Garcia
Open by appointment outside of receptions through September 1, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
How Shelby County v. Holder upended voting rights in America
VOX
By P.R. Lockhart Updated Jun 25, 2019, 7:49pm EDT
In recent years, threats to voting rights and the possibility of voter suppression have become increasingly serious concerns for civil rights groups. This was on full display in the 2018 midterm elections, as voting laws and regulations in several states impacted high-stakes races in ways that disproportionately affected voters of color.
But the concerns raised by these elections did not originate with high-profile 2018 contests in places like Georgia and Florida, both states where black, Latino, and Asian American voters struggled to cast a ballot. Instead, these issues can in part be directly traced back to a 2013 Supreme Court ruling in the case Shelby County v. Holder.
That ruling, which turns six years old this week, invalidated a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, long seen as one of the most important civil rights laws of the past century. On June 25, 2013, the court’s conservative majority ruled that the government was using an outdated and unconstitutional process to determine which states were required to have their voting rules approved by the government. Before the ruling, nine states (and several other counties and townships) had been subjected to this requirement.
Supreme Court of the United States, Month 3:
Graham v Connor 1989. Fighting Police Violence in Chicago
Opening Friday, July 12, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Work by the Invisible Institute, a new piece by Joey Mogul and Mary Patten of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, quilts by Dorothy Burge, sculpture by Dawn Liddicoatt, textiles by Jawaan Burge, photography by Johannil Napoleon.
Discussion 7pm: Flint Taylor- fighting police violence in Chicago.
Photo credit: Johannil Napoleon
Founding partner of the People’s Law Office, Taylor’s work in fighting against police torture in Chicago over the past 29 years has been instrumental in obtaining the conviction and imprisonment of police torture ringleader Jon Burge and the precedent setting decision that upheld the inclusion of former Mayor Richard M. Daley as a co-conspiring defendant in the Tillman civil rights case. He also worked with the movement to obtain reparations for 60 survivors of Chicago police torture.
Graham v Connor is a Supreme Court case that guides use-of-force decisions: Graham v. Connor. This was a civil lawsuit brought by a man who’d survived his encounter with police officers, but who’d been treated roughly, had his face shoved into the hood of a car, and broken his foot — all while he was suffering a diabetic attack. The court didn’t rule on whether the officers’ treatment of him had been justified, but it did say that the officers couldn’t justify their conduct just based on whether their intentions were good. They had to demonstrate that their actions were “objectively reasonable,” given the circumstances and compared with what other police officers might do. https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938226/police-shootings-killings-law-legal-standard-garner-graham-connor
Open by appointment outside of receptions through August 2, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
The Supreme Court of the United States: Month 2
Milliken v Bradley 1974. School Segregation in Chicago: Dyett Strike!
Opening Friday, June 14, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Join Uri-Eichen Gallery as we look at this forty-five year old decision undermining Brown v Board of Education by reviewing Chicago activists’ fight against the closure of Dyett High School. Materials from the strike including banners and posters on loan from Journey for Justice Alliance, Images from Ervin Lopez and Phil Cantor and more.
Program at 7pm: Jitu Brown, a leader in the Dyett Hunger Strike on Education Segregation today
Jitu Brown is the national director for the Journey for Justice Alliance, a network of 30 grassroots community based organizations in 23 cities organizing for community driven school improvement; and he was formerly the education organizer for the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO). Jitu has organized in the Kenwood Oakland neighborhood for over 17 years bringing community voices to the table on school issues. Jitu helped develop the Mid-South Education Association, a grassroots advocacy group made up of administrators, parents, teachers, young people and local school council (LSC) members to meet the needs of schools in the area.
Closing Friday
June 28, 2019 7pm-10pm
Film: With All Deliberate Speed.
This 2004 documentary examines, via newsreel footage and interviews, the contentious historical events that led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. It also looks at the ways in which many Americans fought to oppose the end of racial segregation, and at integration's messy aftermath.
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In the second month of our shows and discussions about SCOTUS decisions, we look Milliken v Bradley. a forty-five year old decision undermining Brown v Board of Education by reviewing Chicago activists’ fight against the closure of Dyett High School. Even in the middle of a school district, segregation can rear its head. The vigilance of the community members and supporters saved Dyett from closing. It did not however birth the green technology school they demanded.
This show features archived materials including community and student created banners, posters, photos, chains from the leaders' occupation of Chicago City Hall, chairs used by the strikers during the long hot summer hunger strike and materials from the strike including banners and posters on loan from Journey for Justice Alliance, Images from Ervin Lopez, Phil Cantor, and Alexy Irving
Milliken v. Bradley began in 1970, when the NAACP sued the state of Michigan to desegregate Detroit’s schools. In particular, they wanted a solution that would involve both the city and the suburbs since, by that point, the vast majority of Detroit’s residents were black, and meaningful de-segregation within city limits had become almost impossible.
After hours of testimony on redlining, exclusionary zoning, police-sanctioned violence, and other sordid tales of American housing discrimination, the federal judge on the case, Stephen Roth, agreed with the plaintiffs that government “at all levels” bore responsibility for residential segregation. As a result, Roth concluded, the government could not legitimately enforce the school boundaries that residential segregation was designed to exploit.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/24/youve-probably-never-heard-of-one-of-the-worst-supreme-court-decisions/?utm_term=.f2cd1aabf1f8 ;
SCOTUS ruled next. Find out more at the opening!
Open by appointment outside of receptions through July 5, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
The Supreme Court of the United States: Month 1
MAY: Roe v Wade 1973.
Closing Friday, June 7th, 2019 7pm-9pm
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Film Screening: JANE: AN ABORTION SERVICE
A film by Kate Kirtz and Nell Lundy
This 1996 film is a fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training.
New work by Amy Leners, Amina Ross, Angela Davis Fegan and Mary Clare Butler
Roe v Wade- the right to choose is under attack in the United States today. Join us to see new work from four women and fem identified artists at Uri-Eichen Gallery. See Angela Davis Fegan's work on paper Anointed Agency, Mary Clare Butler's cyanotype group Viability, Amy Leners’ participatory installation We Have Always Done What is Necessary, and conceptual work from Amina Alexander Ross.
AFTER FILM DISCUSSION: Chicago Abortion Fund and the Clinic Vest Project
Chicago Abortion Fund Board Members Aileen Kim and Meghan Daniel will discuss their work. We ask that attendees contribute to their care package collection or write a letter of support to people seeking the help of the Chicago Abortion Fund at our in gallery love letter station.
People having abortions in the current political and cultural climate need our support more than ever. CAF believes in providing loving, compassionate care to all folks accessing abortion services. We are collecting items for care packages to give to people having abortions all over the city and will distribute them at clinics along with printed affirmations and hand written love letters.
Collection items you can drop off at the gallery at the closing reception:
- Maxi pads
- Travel size bottles of unscented lotion
- Travel size bottles of unscented soap
- Travel size shampoos and conditioners
- Individually wrapped facial masks (similar to these)
- Small notebooks and journals
- Essential oils
- Candles
- Teabags
- Individually wrapped hard candies
Returning Guests to the Closing Reception: The Clinic Vest Project with Benita Ulisano As increasingly hostile anti-choice legislatures pass policies aimed at restricting women’s access to quality health care, the Clinic Vest Project is supporting the people who are on the front lines protecting patients’ ability to exercise their reproductive rights.
LA FEMINISTA
Opening Friday, April 12, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Tamara Torres - Photos & video, A Solo Exhibition
*La Feminista. Soy Yo?"("The Feminist. Am I?") a photography and video installation featuring women of different generations amplifying on the word feminism.
Open by appointment outside of receptions through May 4, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Torres’ photography, paintings, collage and performance art all offer elucidations of broader cultural movements intertwined with her own personal stories. Her art grapples with racism, women’s rights, and injustice in this era. Whether it’s her own personal story of perseverance after being born “a statistic,” as one teacher told her, doomed by the circumstances of birth, or telling the stories of those who have faced adversity and discrimination because of their background or culture, her art faces the truth of our common humanity. .
Open by appointment outside of receptions through May 4, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
“The Human Element”
Opening Friday, April 19, 2019, 7 to 10 PM
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
350Chicago is proud to partner with Uri-Eichen gallery in the screening of “The Human Element.” This film by James Balog examines the role human activity has played in altering the natural world, and the changing ways in which we, in turn, are being affected by it. If features often-overlooked victims of climate change through the catastrophic effects of each of the four elements. The film closes on a hopeful note that the fifth element, the Human Element, ca
A Frame of Reference
Opening March 8, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Foil Thermocollage
Jeff Kinzel, Kathy Steichen, Christopher Urias
“Kill your television.” “Drain the swamp.” “She’s a brick house.” Whether in political rhetoric, advertising, or lyrics, the metaphor elicits an emotional response. Cognitive scientists parse language in an effort to understand why people often make irrational choices—it seems clear that people respond to how something is said, often disregarding its larger context and meaning. The metaphor becomes a “frame” through which we are compelled to consider information.
Realizing that something as simple as a metaphor may influence our reasoning and encourage us to pause and try to be conscious of these influences. Once we consider that all information is framed in one way or another, we may be able to stand back and see ourselves looking at that information in a new way.
How does this translate to the visual realm? A Frame of Reference looks at works that illustrate people confronted with various framing devices: crowds looking at an animal on display or an art exhibit, people taking photos of someone taking a photo. These images themselves become metaphors for the rhetorical frames we encounter every day.
Program 7pm: Persuasion in politics and advertising with Jason DeSanto. DeSanto brings years of communication experience in the fields of law, government, and politics – spending more than a decade as a political speechwriter, debate strategist, and communications adviser. He has written for United States Senators and members of Congress, and he has served as a litigation partner at Chicago’s Freeborn & Peters LLP, specializing in cases implicating the intersection between speech and law, including defamation and First Amendment controversies. DeSanto teaches Persuasion in the MSC curriculum at Northwestern with a focus on language, leadership, and persuasion. A graduate of the Second City Conservatory he also periodically appears as a political satirist and commentator on various Chicago media. He has appeared as a First Amendment expert on national radio and acted as Special Assistant Attorney General of Illinois.
Open by appointment outside of receptions through April 5, 2019. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Conditional Citizenship - Prison + Neighborhood Art Project
Opening February 8, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
The designation of “citizen” is a powerful tool: both to confer a range of rights to certain individuals of a particular nation state, and also to exclude or dehumanize because of where one is born or their carceral status. In this way, the framework of U.S. citizenship functions to both grant rights and exclude them. Jelani Cobb suggests the idea of “contingency citizenship” when thinking about how Black and Brown people experience the law. Alicia Garza also refers to the tenuousness of citizenship for black folks, saying that citizenship is conditional: “This is the harsh reality for black people in America today. That we are expected to participate in democracy while receiving conditional citizenship in return.”
For people in prison, citizenship rights are fully suspended: the site of the prison becomes a territory of exception. When a person is awaiting trial for a criminal charge (even if a person can post bail), full citizenship rights are limited and monitored by “pre-trial services” which can include curfews, drug tests and more. After completing a prison sentence, and even after parole, people are excluded from housing options, job opportunities, and even access to higher education based solely on the conviction for which they served time. Today, 6.1 million people cannot vote—a core right of citizenship—due to a past conviction.
Over the last year, artists William Estrada and Aaron Hughes from the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project led print workshops with incarcerated artist to explore ideas of outsider, citizen, immigrant and other. The Conditional Citizenship exhibition features art from these workshops.
Poetry reading at 7:30: Audrey Petty, Tara Betts, Simone Waller, William Estrada and Sarah Ross will read writing by poets at Stateville prison.
Open by appointment outside of receptions through 3-1-19. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Screening of Message to the Grassroots: “The L.A. Uprising: Before, During, and... Is It Over?” and Q&A with Producer Nancy Buchanan
Opening February 23, 2019 7pm-9pm
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Discussion with LA producer Nancy Buchanan after the film.
So begins this program in the words of activist, organizer, and host of Pasadena-based cable access program Message to the Grassroots, Michael Zinzun. 27 years later, we are still grappling with the impact of the upheaval in Los Angeles in 1992 following the acquittal of the police officers whose criminal acts were watched by the whole world.
“The L.A. Uprising: Before, During, and... Is It Over?” is an hour-long documentary that aired in June 1992, just two months after the uprising. Produced by community organizers already well-embedded in the movement for police justice in Los Angeles, it explores the history of LAPD misconduct and violence, the Rodney King case, as well as the community’s own vision for the future.
Following the screening will be a Q&A with producer Nancy Buchanan, a Los Angeles-based video artist. From 1988-1998, she produced "Message to the Grassroots" with former Black Panther and community activist Michael Zinzun (1949-2006). Zinzun co-founded the Coalition Against Police Abuse in the early 1970s, and he worked with the families of those injured or killed by police; his show often focused on police brutality and other issues concerning social justice.
Fifteen episodes of “Message to the Grassroots” are now available to the public for the first time through the work of the Media Burn Archive and the support of the National Endowment for the Arts. Media Burn is a Chicago-based nonprofit that collects, preserves, and distributes documentary video and television produced by artists, activists, and community groups. Their mission is to use archival media to deepen context and encourage critical thought through a social justice lens.
Photo caption: Michael Zinzun reporting from the wreckage of a bookstore in Los Angeles, June 1992.
PRESENT ABSENCE Salome Chasnoff + Meredith Zielke
Opening January 11, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
PRESENT ABSENCE is a five-channel video installation that personalizes the lives of people killed by Chicago Police. These stories, generated from long-form interviews with family members, invite viewers to experience those murdered not as cases or statistics, as sensational media stories or police cover-up tales – but as unique human beings who made life-changing contributions to others, who are loved and mourned. For every story, five family members are in virtual conversation, each featured in their own screen to offer their piece of the completed picture. Present Absence uses multichannel storytelling in an intimate living room setting to facilitate deep listening and proffer paths to radical empathy.
Salome Chasnoff is a filmmaker and installation artist who is inspired by the enlightening, humanizing and healing capacities of storytelling. For 3 decades, she has maintained a collaborative social practice and exhibition career embracing and interrogating the indivisibility of the making of art and the making of relationship. Her installations aspire to create sacred spaces for community healing.
Meredith Zielke is a filmmaker and cinematographer. She works mainly in experimental documentary features and large-scale video installation. Her films have showed in numerous national and international festivals, conferences, galleries, educational institutions and community centers.
Discussion: 1-11-19 7pm Join us for the opening and panel discussion addressing resistance to Chicago police violence – featuring representatives of No Cop Academy, Invisible Institute, and Ronald Johnson Foundation.
Panel:
Page May is a Black, queer woman currently living as an organizer, educator and abolitionist in Chicago, and an organizer for #NoCopAcademy campaign – a youth-led, adult-supported effort backed by over 100 community organizations across Chicago, to stop the construction of a $95 million cop academy in West Garfield Park. Growing up in rural Vermont, Page moved to Chicago several years ago and became radicalized doing work around prisons and police. Page was one of eight youth delegates who traveled with We Charge Genocide to the United Nations and was the lead author of the shadow report submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture. Page is the co-founder of Assata's Daughters, an intergenerational organizing collective of radical Black women located in the city of Chicago.
Dorothy Holmes is the mother of Ronald “RonnieMan” Johnson, who on October 12, 2014 was shot and killed by Chicago Police Officer, George Hernandez, on the city’s South Side. He was 25 years old and the father of five. His death has been ruled a homicide. Dorothy has been advocating tirelessly for justice for her son. She has led the fight to rename the playground at the entrance of Washington Park, where Ronald was gunned down, in his name. Her annual Christmas toy drive supports families in need, foster families, homeless families, families of those incarcerated, and domestic violence families.
Maira Khwaja is a producer with the Invisible Institute, where she interviews young people about their experiences with police on the South Side of Chicago. She also produces events and workshops, and guides outreach communications. Her installation, which focuses on police misconduct records and history in public housing on the South Side, will be on view along with Present Absence. She is a first-generation Pakistani-American, born and raised in Pittsburgh. This is her seventh year in Chicago.
1-25-19 CLOSING Discussion will be a casual art and activism discussion and an opportunity for people to talk about current and upcoming projects and find support. Salome Chasnoff and Meredith Zielke will discuss the process of creating Present Absence and future plans.
Open by appointment outside of receptions through 2-1-19. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
PRESENT ABSENCE Salome Chasnoff + Meredith Zielke
CLOSING January 25, 2019 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Including a casual discussion about art and activism and an opportunity for people to talk about current and upcoming projects and find support. Salome Chasnoff and Meredith Zielke will discuss the process of creating Present Absence and future plans.
PRESENT ABSENCE is a five-channel video installation that personalizes the lives of people killed by Chicago Police. These stories, generated from long-form interviews with family members, invite viewers to experience those murdered not as cases or statistics, as sensational media stories or police cover-up tales – but as unique human beings who made life-changing contributions to others, who are loved and mourned. For every story, five family members are in virtual conversation, each featured in their own screen to offer their piece of the completed picture. Present Absence uses multichannel storytelling in an intimate living room setting to facilitate deep listening and proffer paths to radical empathy.
Salome Chasnoff is a filmmaker and installation artist who is inspired by the enlightening, humanizing and healing capacities of storytelling. For 3 decades, she has maintained a collaborative social practice and exhibition career embracing and interrogating the indivisibility of the making of art and the making of relationship. Her installations aspire to create sacred spaces for community healing.
Meredith Zielke is a filmmaker and cinematographer. She works mainly in experimental documentary features and large-scale video installation. Her films have showed in numerous national and international festivals, conferences, galleries, educational institutions and community centers.
Open by appointment outside of receptions through 2-1-19. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Pre-Existing
Opening December 14, 2018 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
December 14 Opening: Human Rights Day Show: Pre-Existing with Artists for Action Chicago photographers Nelson W Armour and Michael Kreuser. Discussion with Claudia Fegan, Chief Medical Executive Cook County Health and Hospital System and Physicians for a National Health Program. The ACA and the Fight for Single Payer today!
This Pre-Existing series shares the faces and stories of those with pre-existing conditions. Pre-existing conditions are not just a black and white list of what healthcare plans would rather not cover. They are the conditions of your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers. There continues to be harmful rhetoric that "people who lead good lives" don't have pre-existing conditions. In reality, pre-existing conditions come in all shapes and sizes. Many are born with them through hereditary conditions. Many are diagnosed as children. We put this series together as we believe that those with PEC have a right to affordable health care.
Our goal is to personalize the healthcare debate by showing the impact on individual people of covering pre-existing conditions. We are reaching out to individuals and groups to partner with us on this project. We aim to have portraits represent the wide diversity of our society. We post these portraits on our website and intend to both exhibit the work and publish a book of these portraits with proceeds going to organizations fighting for healthcare for all.
We met individuals at a location of their choice and took their portrait. Then, we or the individual, wrote up a short statement about their pre-existing condition.
Discussion- 7pm -Dr. Claudia Fegan is the National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program and Chief Medical Executive Cook County Health and Hospital System. In her current and past leadership roles in PNHP she has appeared on national television and radio programs on behalf of the organization, and has testified before congressional committees on a wide range of health care issues. She has lectured extensively to both medical and community audiences on health care reform in the U.S. and Canada, and is a co-author of the book “Universal Healthcare: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience” and a contributor to “10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care.
Open by appointment outside of receptions through 1-4-19. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Closing Reception: Revolution in Higher Ed 1968 and Now!
December 7, 2018 7pm-9pm Film and discussion
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Discussion with Marth Biondi (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1997) is a member of the Department of African American Studies with a courtesy joint appointment in the History Department at Northwestern Her book. The Black Revolution on Campus, is an account of the nationwide Black student movement of the late 1960s and early Black Studies movement of the 1970s. She is currently researching a book on neoliberalism, violence and Black life, focusing on Chicago since the 1980s.
FILM: AGENTS OF CHANGE 66min. Film at 7:15pm
From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student union at Cornell University in April, 1969, the struggle for a more relevant and meaningful education, including demands for black and ethnic studies programs, became a clarion call across the country in the late 1960's.
Through the stories of these young men and women who were at the forefront of these efforts, Agents of Change examines the untold story of the racial conditions on college campuses and in the country that led to these protests. The film’s characters were caught at the crossroads of the civil rights, black power, and anti-Vietnam war movements at a pivotal time in America’s history. Today, over 45 years later, many of the same demands are surfacing in campus protests across the country, revealing how much work remains to be done.
Open by appointment outside of receptions through 12-7-18. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Revolution in Higher Ed 1968 and Now!
Opening November 9, 2018 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Images from Paris, Mexico City, Chicago, and Madison, Organizing for equality and justice at home and abroad. University of Wisconsin images from John Wolf and Heiner Giese displayed in print for the first time since the Dow Chemical Protest on campus in 1967. Images of Paris Posters loaned from David Moberg.
Program 7pm: Prague, Paris and Chicago 1968, an eyewitness account, David Moberg and Barbara Engel. David Moberg is a progressive journalist who reported in 1968 about organizing and protest of university students in 1968. Barbara Engel has been an activist in the area of violence against women and girls for thirty-five years and was involved in the occupation of the University of Chicago in 1969.
HUM 255 [Kartemquin Films | 1970 | 28min]
In 1968, striking students at the University of Chicago occupied an administration building. A year later, two expelled young women were asked by their former classmates to talk about the experience as a class project.
Join Us! Our First Uri-Eichen Gallery Fundraiser!
Friday, October 12, 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Join us! Music, speakers, food, and an art auction!
Uri-Eichen Gallery is an all volunteer run 501(c)(3) gallery in Pilsen dedicated to social justice and human rights in operation since June of 2011. With changing shows monthly, discussions, films, music, spoken word, and more each month, Uri-Eichen is vital part of the Chicago arts and social justice movement. Suggested donation of $25
Labor Leader Sheilah Garland-Olaniran- she grew up in Flint where she walked the picket lines with her UAW father. Sheilah has organized across the country, most recently with National Nurses United. She is currently a member of the IL Coordinating Committee of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival.
Music! Drums and Keyboard with Paris and Larry and Chicago-based Folk-Hop/Fusion band Adam Gottlieb & OneLove. With upbeat music and lyrics directly inspired by current struggles for social justice they offer their songs to the soundtrack of a new revolution. Adam Gottlieb & OneLove is made up of Noah Silver-Mathews (bass), Tony Mest (drums/percussion), and Jed Lickerman (vocals/guitar/etc).Closing: Walkout! 1968 and 2018 School Walkouts
Filmmaker Rachel Dickson will be present to answer questions and talk about her experience.
In 1963, 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. Unseen 16mm footage of the boycott is combined with insights from the original participants and present-day protesters against school closings. ’63 Boycott connects the forgotten story of one of the largest northern civil rights demonstrations to contemporary issues around race, education, and youth activism
See the Walkout show: Images from Pemon Rami, former student walkout organizer in 1968, Nicole Marroquin- reflections on 1968 walkouts, Artists for Action Chicago on walkouts today!
Open by appointment outside of receptions until October 5th. Call (312) 852-7717 for an appointment.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608
Walkout! 1968 and 2018 School Walkouts
Opening: September 14th 6-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Images from Pemon Rami, former student walkout organizer in 1968, Nicole Marroquin- reflections on 1968 walkouts, Artists for Action Chicago on walkouts today!
Discussion 7pm: moderated by Richard Berg of the CTU, Organizing in Chicago Public Schools today with Rebecca Martinez and the history of the 1968 student strikes with Pemon Rami. Q and A with Artists for Action Chicago and Nicole Marroquin..
Vote With Your Feet! The Failures of Electoral Politics
Opening: August 10th 6-10pm
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Unfinished Business: 1968-2018 May through September
This five month series of shows and discussions explores the many ways the struggles of fifty years ago are the same struggles today in Chicago. "This is our basic conclusion: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal. It is time to make good the promises of American democracy to all citizens." -The 1968 Kerner Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report is a reminder of how America has in many ways fallen further behind in the struggle for equality and justice for all.
Vote With Your Feet! The Failures of Electoral Politics -Paintings from John Pitman Weber ’68 Convention Police Riot, Lionel Bottari’s original 1968 Convention Protest materials, Peace and Freedom Party posters and campaign lit for Eldridge Cleaver and Peggy Terry, Photos from Linn Ehrlich and others, wall-sized American flag, bunting, Yippie art and video loop of "The Battle of Michigan Ave”
Program 7pm, August 10th: Bob Lawson who worked on the Peace and Freedom Party's campaign in 1968-discussion… and what is next for 2018 and 2020?
Open by appointment outside of receptions until September 7th. Call (312) 852-7717 for an appointment.
September 14th: Walkout! 1968 and 2018 School Walkouts
October: Fundraiser and art auction for URI-EICHEN Gallery!
November: Revolution in Higher Ed
December: Human Rights Day Show: Pre-Existing with Artists for Action
"There goes the neighborhood!"
The Fair Housing Act of 1968
Unfinished Business: 1968-2018 May through September
This five month series of shows and discussions explores the many ways the struggles of fifty years ago are the same struggles today in Chicago. "This is our basic conclusion: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal. It is time to make good the promises of American democracy to all citizens." -The 1968 Kerner Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report is a reminder of how America has in many ways fallen further behind in the struggle for equality and justice for all.
Opening: FRIDAY JULY 13 6pm-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
"There goes the neighborhood!" The Fair Housing Act of 1968 - Segregation, Affordability and Gentrification of Chicago in 2018
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Activist-artist Tonika Lewis Johnson’svisually stunning photographs document daily life in Englewood. Johnson tenderly challenges the sensationalized, damage centered narrative of the Chicago South Side neighborhood in which she was raised. Her images celebrate the resilience of urban Black culture in Englewood by portraying levity, triumph, joy and normalcy.
Activist –artist Larry Redmond'sphotographsDocument the tear down of the Ida B. Wells housing project. Redmond used photos taken of the site in the 40s by Jack Delano, and juxtaposed them with his photos of the buildings.Good jobs leaving the city resulted in these neighborhoods running down.
Artists John Pitman Weber and Sonja Henderson:photos and prep sketches of the Martin Luther King Jr.memorial to Chicago's 1960s Fair Housing Movement,the 1966 marches in Marquette Parkin cooperation with IMAN and CPAG.
Bernard Kleina Photos from the 1966 housing march.
John Pitman Weber’s painting“For Sale” on gentrification of east Humbodlt Park.
The Marches in 1966 and the Monument in 2016:
In 1966 MLK and the Chicago Freedom Movement led marches all summer into all white areas in an effort to break up the pattern of solid housing segregation in Chicago. The housing segregation was supported by neighborhood "covenants" and enforced by real estate agents.
In Marquette Park they were met by a mob of angry whites, mainly young men, including overt neo-Nazis. The marchers, a racially mixed group of several hundred were showered with stones, bottles and bricks despite police presence. King was knocked down by a stone. The march was stopped at 67th and Kedzie, at the entrance to Marquette Park. The incident was documented and given national coverage.
The Monument:IMAN (Inner City Muslim Action Network), a community organization that also has a free clinic, housing rehab program and after school tutoring, initiated the effort to commemorate the 1966 Open Housing March and honor the neighborhood's evolution. Jon Pounds, longtime executive director of the Chicago Public Art Group, CPAG, met with IMANdirector Rami Nashashibi and they decided on carved brick as the medium for the monument to be in harmony with the mostly brick neighborhood. John Pitman Weber and Sonja Henderson became the lead artists who conceived the design together with architect Garth Wemmer. After a 1/3 size model was approved by the Park District board, the actual monument was created in one year and dedicated July, 2016. The monument is three vertical slabs covered by carved brick and stand on the south west corner of 67th and Kedzie, at the entrance to Marquette Park itself. A curved bench is decorated with colorful plaques made by hundreds of neighborhood residents and the portraits of eight grassroots neighborhood leaders. Special thanks to CPAG and Steve Weaver and IMAN and Rami Nashashibi
Screening: Video of US President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing of the signing the Civil Rights Act of 1968.The act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex and family status.
Title VIII of the Act is also known as the Fair Housing Act
Program at 7pm: A group of CHA public housing tenants and organizers of CHI, the Chicago Housing Initiative, willdiscuss continued de facto segregation in Chicago neighborhoods and the failure of the city to provide enough adequate subsidized rental apartments for poorand low-income families.A tenant member of the activist Lathrop Leadership Team of the Julia C. Lathrop Homes, a Chicago public housing project built in 1938 and currently being redeveloped as market-price and mixed income rental apartments, displacing over 500 CHA residents, will speak about the"Keeping the Promise" Ordinance proposal now being considered by the Chicago City Council and the implications of the growing trend to gentrify public housing sites. The discussion will be moderated by filmmaker Peter Kuttner, whose documentary film about Chicago teenagers in public housing, focusing on Lathrop Homes, is in early stages of production at the Community Television Network - CTVN -a youth media access organization in Humboldt Park. Q&A will follow.
Open by appointment outside of receptions until July 6. Call (312) 852-7717 for an appointment.
1968 and 2018: The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Opening: FRIDAY
JUNE 8th, 6pm-10pm,
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
"The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Portfolio" features a series of twenty-five screenprints by twenty-four artists that express the fundamental principles and core concepts that guide the work of the new Poor People’s Campaign. On December 4, 1967, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced plans for a Poor People’s Campaign and called for the nation to take dramatic steps to end poverty. In the wake of his assassination the Campaign went forward but fell short of its vision. Fifty years later, a new Poor People’s Campaign has emerged from over a decade of work by grassroots movements fighting to end poverty, racism, militarism, and environmental destruction. The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is building a broad and deep national movement—rooted in the leadership of poor people—to unite from the bottom up in a Campaign that can bring forth a moral revolution of values to achieve equality and justice for all people.
On the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beyond Vietnam speech, organizers from the new Poor People’s Campaign reached out to artists across the country with a general call for artwork addressing the themes central to the Campaign. Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative responded to the call by setting out to make a popular education portfolio for Campaign activists and organizers to use during regional and local teach-ins in preparation for the 40 Days of Moral Action that will begin on Mother’s Day, May 2018.
Note: Bill Mauldin’s 1968 political cartoon “Getting into Step” about the original Poor People’s Campaign was reprinted for educational purposes with an awareness of the problematic tropes used in the print.
Associated Artists
Aaron Hughes, Colin Matthes, Erik Ruin, Jesse Purcell, Josh MacPhee, Kevin Caplicki, Mary Tremonte, Nicolas Lampert, Paul Kjelland, Pete Railand, & Roger Peet
Other Artists
Art Hazelwood, Ashley Hufnagel, Eli Wright, Eric J. Garcia, Jane Norling, Joanna Ruckman, Mary Patten, Sam Companatico, Sarah Farahat, & Yvette M. Pino
Open by Appointment outside of receptions until July 6th. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717.
Join us on Saturday June 2, 6:30-9:00 p.m., at the
Opening: FRIDAY
JUNE 2nd, 6:30-9pm,
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com
Rooted in visits to Afro-Colombian communities and some remarkable black women who have given their lives to advocating for their people’s rights.
Photographer/author Michael Bracey and coauthor Ruth Goring will be present to talk about the book and to sign copies. Luz Marina Becerra, a prominent leader in the Afro-Colombian movement, will give a short presentation (with interpretation) about black women’s struggle to bring down boundaries of race, gender, and class.
Photographer MICHAEL BRACEY has received the CAAAP Portfolio of the Year award (2001), a Chicago Arts Assistance Council grant (2004), a Hutchinson Arts Association Council grant (2004), and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (2003) for Africans Within the Americas, a ten-year project of travel to twelve different countries documenting commonalities among people of African descent, which resulted in a traveling exhibition and a book. His other books include Urban Waters, The Black Christ Festival of Portobelo (Panama), and It’s All about the Hats. Rivers of Women is coauthored with Shirley LeFlore and published in 2013 by 2Leaf Press. Website: MichaelBracey.Photography.com
RUTH GORING grew up in Colombia, and in recent years she has provided accompaniment and advocacy to peace communities in that country. Her poetry collection Soap Is Political (Glass Lyre, 2015) is rooted in stories told to her by Colombians resisting war and other kinds of violence. Her 2017 picture book Adriana’s Angels / Los ángeles de Adriana tells the story of a Colombian child whose family has to flee after receiving threats (Sparkhouse Family); the Spanish edition won a silver Moonbeam Award. She is working on a series of chalk pastel portraits of Afrodescendant and indigenous Colombians, and in 2016-17 she led a team of artists in creating a mosaic/collage artwork honoring the people of the besieged eastern sector of Aleppo, Syria. Website: ruthgoringbooks.com
LUZ MARINA BECERRA PANESSO is a human rights defender, a spokesperson before national and international institutions, and an advocate for the rights of and reparations for Afro-Colombian communities. Currently she is serving as president of the National Association of Displaced Afro-Colombians (AFRODES) and its women’s initiative, La Comadre (Union of Displaced Afro-Colombian Women in Resistance).
Unfinished Business: 1968-2018
A five month series exploring the many ways the struggles of fifty years ago are the same struggles of today in Chicago on the anniversary of the release of the 1968 Kerner Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
An evening of films and discussion
Films:
President Johnson and the Kerner Commission From Eyes on the Prize: "Two Societies" [1967]
What's Going On? Marvin Gaye asks the musical question under silent archival US Army footage of the occupation of Chicago's Westside in the aftermath of the King Assassination [1968]
April 27 A peaceful demonstration is violently attacked by Chicago Police [1968]
Battle of Michigan Avenue The infamous August 28, 1968 Chicago police riot during the Democratic National Convention [1968]
Medium Cool A scene from a Hollywood movie of an actor searching for the young boy playing her son among the real police and US military occupying Grant Park . [1969]
Four Days in Chicago The final day of Occupy's mass demonstrations and marches during the 2012 NATO Summit.[2013]
Chicago Black Lives Matter Protest Police Shootings Interviews of protesters, filmed during a demonstration and march [2016]
May 11th Opening: April 1968 and Today: Police and Military Occupation of Chicago.
"This is our basic conclusion: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal. It is time to make good the promises of American democracy to all citizens." -The 1968 Kerner Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report is a reminder of how America has in many ways fallen further behind in the struggle for equality and justice for all.
May 11th Opening: April 1968 and Today: Police and Military Occupation of Chicago.
Photographs, Prints, Multimedia Work, and Films from Marc PoKempner, Larry Redmond, Gerard Evans, Carlos Cortez, Nelson W Armour and Michael Kreuser from Artists for Action Chicago, Kathy Weaver, Peter Kuttner, Christopher Urias and Kathy Steichen and more. Short films: 4-27-1968 Peace Protest, 2012 NATO.
MAY 11 Program 630pm:
Mary Scott-Boria lived near the Westside when Dr King was assassinated in April 1968. She is a lifelong activist from Chicago who has stood witness from many perspectives: a teenaged mother, the IL Black Panther Party, the Chicago Sexual Assault Services Network, Cook County Democratic Women, Mikva Challenge helping young people develop their voices in government and politics and CLAIM (Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers). Currently, Ms. Scott-Boria is the director of Urban Studies at the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
Bruce Thomas came to Chicago from Washington DC in 1967 as a Field Team Leader for National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission. He stayed, working first in social services -Illinois Institute for Social Policy and IL Department of Children & Family Services - and then in education, where he continues his work today. He co-created the school district in the Illinois correctional system, collaborated in the design and creation of an experimental Chicago elementary school, directed projects in advocacy and education, including the International Living Program--a pilot project that enabled older foster care youth in Chicago to study in Europe for an academic year. Currently Mr. Thomas works as a volunteer tutor in a Southside Chicago public elementary school and collaborating in the creation of The Holding Circle, a mental health component for teachers and students.
Uri-Eichen Gallery curator Peter Kuttner will moderate with a Q&A following the presentation. Mr. Kuttner was arrested and jailed for photographing the leafleting of National Guard called up after Dr. King's assassination. The leaflets urged the soldiers to refuse to occupy the community. Three weeks later, out on bond, he filmed the Chicago police attack on an anti-Vietnam War march and demonstration at which he was not arrested, having learned a lesson earlier in April.
By appointment through June 1. For an appointment call 312 852 7717
Like Water Through Stone
Exploring Race and the Environment
Join us at the Uri-Eichen Gallery on April 13th from 6pm to 10pm as we welcome the SAIC Social Movements.
Students in “Like Water through Stone”, an exhibit exploring race and the environment. Using their individual experiences with this subject, they are showcasing a body of work demonstrating their collective passion for art as catalyst for sociopolitical change in relation to the environment, racism, colonialism, and class relations.
This School of the Art Institute Class, “Global Social Movements,” covers movements throughout the western hemisphere, moving from theory and history to the increasingly global movements of today. Black Lives Matter, for example, is not just a U.S.-based movement. Millions of African descendants from Colombia and Venezuela to Brazil learned from the Black Power movement in the U.S. and struggle to confront a long heritage of slavery, racism and discrimination. Indigenous, women’s and youth movements gain strength through global solidarity and intersectionality.
While the show focuses on student work, it reflects an international perspective through the lives of the students. The exhibit include paintings, print work, sculpture as well as a film entitled “The Principles of Disappearance” by Lucia Peraza. There will also be a spoken word performance by Maddy Vincent entitled “Why I decided to fight”. Performances will continue throughout the night, including a live band later in the evening.
Artwork by Sara Dezara
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted | CHICAGO Illinois 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com | www.uri-eichen.com
By Appointment through May 4. For an appointment call 312 852 7717
Art of Resistance & Resilience in NW Indiana
A 21st-century Urban Colony
Opening: FRIDAYRanging from protest noisemakers to the work of recognized artists, this exhibit captures many forms of resistance, from posters, signs, and banners to community resilience through music, poetry, and street theater. Noted artist Corey Hagelberg will share a few of his striking wood cuts, including The Birth of Ecology, his newest. Thomas Frank, environmental activist, has collected an array of protest art through participatory art builds with communities in struggle. They cover the battle against BP and fossil fuels to the crisis in East Chicago where an entire community has been poisoned. Gary’s Poetry Project, part of the Calumet Artist Residency, provides colorful stencils of poems used on city buildings. Hand-painted signs alternate with artwork from established artists Kay Rosen, Tom Torluemke, and South Lake Artists Co-op (SLAC), Dave Stocker, and much more.
The program will highlight the victorious Goshen battle against an immigrant prison, the on-going protests against deportations at the Gary Airport, and the East Chicago battle against lead and arsenic. Spoken word performances, stories and music capture the spirit of NW Indiana’s fight against injustice.
Special Event: Celebrating the Fearless Anti War Activist Pat Hunt! Screening Shadow World.
Retrospective of Lavender Menace: Angela Davis Fegan
A survey of lavender menace interruptions in space 2014-2018
Program 7pm: Q and A with Angela Davis Fegan about the work and musical performance from Kara Jackson.
The lavender menace poster project is a public messaging and infiltration project produced through handmade paper production, letterpress printing and laser cut text. The paper production process involves incorporating organic and recycled/repurposed materials for symbolic/emblematic and grotesque results. Letterpress printing is used as subversion of the traditional means of mass commercial communication, and the current quaint production of wedding invitations.
The goal of the work is to produce multifaceted alluring/repulsive handmade objects that stand out from the slick media saturated environment and announce resistance from the status quo. The project stems from a desire to voice institutional critique and run interference on mainstream leftist organizations that market tolerance as freedom and rights as consumer choices. Fegan's interest, in these specific mediums, stems from her committed desire to craft handmade objects in the time of the supremacy of ephemeral digital experience. It is these types of handmade objects that lend themselves to the tactile viewing experience and to distribution through a network beyond that of a single location. It is meant for viewing in public space, such as bar bathrooms, community health centers, alleys, and hair salons.
The phrase "lavender menace" was coined by NOW leader Betty Friedan who used it at a NOW meeting in 1969, claiming that outspoken lesbians were a threat to the feminist movement, arguing that the presence of these women distracted from the goals of gaining economic and social equality for women. Women took this insult, resisted and fought back forming the Lavender Menace group- it was one of the groups created as backlash to this exclusion of lesbians.The group formed in 1970, with many members involved in the Gay Liberation Front and the National Organization for Women. Join us celebrating the coming 50th anniversary of this struggle!
Sunday, February 18 at 4pm: Film Screening: She's Beautiful When She's Angry. Discussion with Mary Ann Johnson, President of the Chicago Women’s History Center
Open by appointment outside of receptions until March 2. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Do Not Resist? 100 Years of Chicago Police Violence.
Opening: FRIDAY January 19, 6-9pm,Closing: SUBVERSIVE INVOLVEMENT The House Un-American Activities Committee in Chicago
FRIDAY January 12, 6-10pm,Program 7pm: Discussion and screening of archival interviews with Chicago artists and writers affected by HUAC’s controversial tactics that contributed to the fear, distrust, and repression that existed during the anticommunist hysteria of the 1950s-- Dr. Margaret Burroughs, Studs Terkel, Richard Durham and Nelson Algren. Lastly, a screening of late Dr. Quentin Young reading his statement to HUAC on why he refused to testify.
Following the short films, activist writer and editor Ethan Young, whose father Dr. Quentin Young is featured in the exhibit, will speak. In 1968, Ethan was 17 and a willing participant in the disruption of the Democratic Convention. In 2015, he wrote, "The Left has to raise its voice loud enough that it cannot be ignored, either by the governors or the governed."
Even though HUAC's attempts to silence progressive voices, especially the loud ones, ultimately failed, the Trump government continues to look for new ways. What did we learn from HUAC?
URI-EICHEN Gallery | 2101 S Halsted | Chicago 60608 Open by appointment outside of receptions- call 312 852 7717 www.uri-eichen.com
HUAC came to Chicago twice in violation of the US Constitution's Bill of Rights and the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights each guaranteeing all citizens the freedom of speech. HUAC was created by the US Congress in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. The Committee continued to exist until 1975. HUAC convened in Chicago twice. In 1952, the Committee came to investigate striking labor unions. In 1968, they returned, this time looking for what they called "Subversive Involvement in Disruption of the Democratic Party National Convention", the inspiration for the title of this exhibit.
SUBVERSIVE INVOLVEMENT
The House Un-American Activities Committee in Chicago Art, Photographs, Posters, Films, Videos, Documents, Music.Uri-Eichen Gallery will open its Human Rights Month exhibition SUBVERSIVE INVOLVEMENT:The House Un-American Activities Committee in Chicago in 1952 and 1968 featuring art, photographs, posters, documents, films videos and music.
Opening Program 7pm: In the early 1950s, McCarthyism was alive and well in Chicago. When union workers struck International Harvester in September, 1952, HUAC immediately scheduled a session and issued subpoenas for strike leaders. DeWitt Gilpin was one of them. Toni Gilpin, his daughter, will speak about the Farm Equipment Workers, their merger into the United Electrical Workers and how the union pickets shut HUAC down. [Toni Gilpin is a writer and labor historian, and co-author of On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers’ Strike at Yale University, 1984-85] At the same 1952 session, HUAC used similar tactics against the United Packinghouse Workers. UPWA was prepared having educated its members with its newspaper "The Packinghouse Worker". Sydney Harris was an editor and photographer for the paper. Jerry Harris, his son, will join Toni Gilpin, to share stories of their families' friendship, and to introduce his father's photographs included in the exhibit. [Jerry Harris is National Secretary of the Global Studies Association and on the International Executive Board of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism. He is the author of Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy. He is a former professor of History at DeVry University, Chicago.]
Closing Reception: Friday, January 12, 2018, 6-10pm.
Closing program 7pm: HUAC's 1968 visit to investigate the "disruption" of the Democratic Party national convention. The late Dr Quentin Young and five of the Chicago 8 conspirators refused to testify. A video of Dr Young's statement will be screened. Chicago artists affected by the blacklist generated by the HUAC witch hunt for Communists will discuss their work.
Open by appointment only. Please call 312 852 7717 for an appointment.
Shake the World
The Russian Revolution- 100 Years Later
The working class in Russia “shook the world” in 1917 when their revolution defeated capitalism and established a socialist democracy. This event inspired workers in every country including the United States to form political parties to try to do the same. This event had a profound effect on labor unions, movements of oppressed nationalities, women, the unemployed and of course artists. Shake the World will display art that expresses a yearning to be free of capitalist exploitation. The visual art and spoken word is inspired by the Bolshevik working class revolution in Russia 100 years ago. Frank Chapman of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization will speak on the significance of the revolution then and today.
Open by appointment only through 12-1-17. Please call 312 852 7717 for an appointment.
ARTISTS:
Myia Brown
Bonnie Coyle
Hayley Hodge
Sydney Hochsprung
Dan Odents
Eala O'Se
Ashley Nelson
Loren Rozewski
Erica Scott
SPOKEN WORD:
GC
Marlena Ceballos
Shadow Master MC
Shake the World
The Russian Revolution- 100 Years Later
The working class in Russia “shook the world” in 1917 when their revolution defeated capitalism and established a socialist democracy. This event inspired workers in every country including the United States to form political parties to try to do the same. This event had a profound effect on labor unions, movements of oppressed nationalities, women, the unemployed and of course artists. Shake the World will display art that expresses a yearning to be free of capitalist exploitation. The visual art and spoken word is inspired by the Bolshevik working class revolution in Russia 100 years ago. Frank Chapman of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization will speak on the significance of the revolution then and today.
Open by appointment only through 12-1-17. Please call 312 852 7717 for an appointment.
ARTISTS:
Myia Brown
Bonnie Coyle
Hayley Hodge
Sydney Hochsprung
Dan Odents
Eala O'Se
Ashley Nelson
Loren Rozewski
Erica Scott
SPOKEN WORD:
GC
Marlena Ceballos
Shadow Master MC
HotHouse and Marguerite Horberg present Cuba Si! Bloqueo No! Looking at the Revolution
Photographers: Marc Po Kempner, Rose Blouin, Marguerite Horberg, Eric Torres
Saturday October 14. 4-6pm Introductory remarks by Marguerite Horberg and Eric Torres
Program Selection of Documentary Shorts by Eric Torres.
All Guantánamo is Ours, a 37 minute film with English subtitles, shows the perspective and sentiment of the Cuban people, in particular those living in the towns around Guantanamo, about the illegal occupation of the U.S. Naval Base.
Friday November 3. 6 -11pm 6pm Closing Reception
7-11pm Film Screening double feature, donations accepted
7pm Black and Cuba –Robin Hayes 2013
Street-smart Ivy League students live as outcasts at their elite university, then they band together to go to Cuba to see if revolution is truly possible.
Interlude with remarks by Fanny Rushing and Prexy Nesbitt
9pm Eyes on the Rainbow 20th Anniversary screening !
Filmed in 1997, Eyes of The Rainbow: A documentary film with Assata Shakur was recorded in Cuba 33 years after her exile. It encompasses the African Spirit Oya to illustrate the struggles Shakur has faced as a Revolutionary. Director: Gloria Rolando
Tickets and more information www.hothouse.net
Special thanks to Simon Pyle at Latitude and Peter Kuttner for their kind assistance
Open by Appointment outside of receptions. For an appointment, please call 312 852 7717
100 Years: 1917 and 2017
Alison Jackson's Private- "Donald Trump" Photos. 1917 -2017: What is Today's "War for Democracy?” A second look at the Espionage Act.
Opening: FRIDAY September: 8, 6-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted
Chicago IL 60608
info@URI-EICHEN.com
Uri-Eichen Gallery hosts Alison Jackson photographs. Jackson, a British artist, self-published spoof photographs of Donald Trump, despite being told the President of the United States could take legal action against her.
Alison Jackson, who uses lookalikes to make work commenting on the “cult of celebrity” and the deceptive nature of many images, said she was warned against publishing the satirical photographs by her lawyers.
She could not find a publisher prepared to release the "hard-hitting" collection, which features a Trump double having sex with Miss Mexico in the Oval Office and as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Jackson said she decided to release the images herself because she believes it is wrong to allow artistic freedom to be curtailed.
(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alison-jackson-donald-trump-spoof-photos-sued-litigation-self-publishes-a7465041.html)
The enforcement of the Espionage Act in the US during WWI included the Federal Government use of the law to limit US mail service for publications critical of the war or the government. This, in turn, limited distribution of not only articles but also illustrations and cartoons the government determined to be critical, such as the Masses newspaper.
Jackson, in 2016, self published her photos out of fear of lawsuits from Trump. That same man now may enforce the law that 100 years ago, censored journalism and artists in America.
Alison Jackson is a contemporary artist who explores the cult of celebrity – an extraordinary phenomenon created by the media, publicity industries and the public figures themselves. Her work sits squarely in the middle of the current fake news, alternative facts or news debates. Jackson makes convincingly realistic work about celebrities doing things in private using lookalikes. Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. She creates scenarios we have all imagined but never seen – the hot images the media can’t get.
Jackson raises questions about whether we can believe what we see when we live in a mediated world of screens, imagery and internet. She comments on our voyeurism, on the power and seductive nature of imagery, and on our need to believe. Her work has established wide respect for her as an incisive, funny and thought-provoking commentator on the burgeoning phenomenon of contemporary celebrity culture.
Alison works across all arts and media platforms in TV, Publishing, books, is widely exhibited in galleries and museums attracting extensive interest in the news and press. Her images themselves have become just as much a part of popular culture as images of the real celebrities.
Open by Appointment outside of receptions. For an appointment, please call 312 852 7717
100 Years: 1917 and 2017
Cosing Reception Silent Sentinels No More! The 1917 Night of Terror and Women Unite Against Trump
THURSDAY August 31, 7-9pm, Film Screening: Iron Jawed Angels
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted
Chicago IL 60608
info@URI-EICHEN.com
Katja von Garnier's "Iron Jawed Angels" tells the remarkable and little-known story of a group of passionate and dynamic young women, led by Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and her friend Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), who put their lives on the line to fight for American women's right to vote.
Swank and O'Connor head an outstanding female ensemble, with Julia Ormond, Molly Parker, Laura Fraser, Brooke Smith and Vera Farmiga as a rebel band of young women seeking their seat at the table; and such cinematic icons as Lois Smith, Margo Martindale, and Anjelica Huston as the steely older generation of suffragettes.
This true story has startling parallels to today, as the young activists struggle with issues such as the challenges of protesting a popular President during wartime and the perennial balancing act between love and career. Utilizing a pulsing soundtrack, vivid colors, and a freewheeling camera, Katja von Garnier's ("bandits") driving filmmaking style shakes up the preconceptions of the period film and gives history a vibrant contemporary energy and relevance.
Film will start at 7 and is 2 hours and 5 minutes.
Group Show - Women's Marches. Protest Posters and Photos from Holiday Gerry, Ellen Larrimore, Linda Loew, Darlene Seilheimer, Christopher Urias, Lesly Wicks, Shelby Willford, and Heidi Zeiger. Mary Ann and Lucy McDonald’s original and a recreated Suffragette banner. Water Color and ink drawings of Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors by Emily Waters.
Open by Appointment outside of receptions. For an appointment, please call 312 852 7717
100 Years: 1917 and 2017
Silent Sentinels No More! The 1917 Night of Terror and Women Unite Against Trump
Opening: FRIDAY August 11, 6-10pm,
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted
Chicago IL 60608
info@URI-EICHEN.com
Group Show - Women's Marches. Protest Posters and Photos from Holiday Gerry, Ellen Larrimore, Linda Loew, Darlene Seilheimer, Christopher Urias, Shelby Willford, and Heidi Zeiger. Mary Ann and Lucy McDonald’s original and a recreated Suffragette banner. Water Color and ink drawings of Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors by Emily Waters.
Opening Reception: 7pm Discussion with Artists and Film
Short Film: Why We March
Filmmakers: Laurie Little, Jess Mattison and Theresa Campagna
A reflection on the journey between Chicago and DC, connecting voices of hope, empowerment and intersectionality during The Women's March, the largest protest in the history of the United States, as women and girls organize and rally after the inauguration of the 45th president. Two teams documented the march simultaneously in the two cities as women everywhere went on a journey to connect with their feminist roots. Focusing on intersectionality, mothers and daughters from every strata of the country reflect on the work that is to come for the women's movement and how we can mobilize for change.
Discussion Panel: Scholar/journalist Felicia Darnell, Lucy McDonald, filmmaker Laurie Little on the film. Discussion- Artists in group show- on the march!
Closing Reception: August 31, 7pm to 930pm- Film- Iron Jawed Angels
Open by Appointment outside of receptions. For an appointment, please call 312 852 7717
September: 8 Opening: Alison Jackson's Private- "Donald Trump" Photos. 1917 -2017: What is Today's "War for Democracy?” A second look at the Espionage Act.
The Night of Terror:The Silent Sentinals- On January 10, 1917, the group began their constant protest in front of the White House. Over the rest of the year, the women were arrested, with steadily worsening punishments, until in October, when Alice Paul was sentenced to seven months in prison. Other suffragists followed suit, and they were housed at Occoquan Workhouse.
There, Alice Paul was placed in solitary confinement with a diet of water and bread, which made her so weak that she had to be hospitalized, in which case she started a hunger strike. Other suffragist prisoners followed, and in response, the prison started force-feeding them.
On November 14, 1917, workhouse superintendent W. H. Whittaker ordered guards to brutalize the women. They were beaten, dragged, choked, kicked, and thrown. The night became known as the “Night of Terror.”
The treatment of the women hit the newspapers and got more of the public on their side. By November 28, 1917, all the protesters were released, and their victory only pushed them forward, the protests continuing in earnest.
Then, almost a year since the start of their protests in front of the White House, President Woodrow Wilson announced his support for the women’s suffrage movement on January 9, 1918. The Silent Sentinels then turned their attention to Congress, and by the end of 1918, most members of Congress supported the movement. By June 4, 1919, both houses of Congress had passed the amendment allowing women to vote.
Finally, on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th amendment, thereby giving women in the United States the right to vote.
The Silent Sentinels were fierce, and their unwillingness to use a conservative approach and look at politicians as allies helped them hold the feet of President Wilson and Congress to the fire. They, along with other suffragists from around the United States, paved the way for women’s rights today.
From: nationalwomansparty.org
How does their struggle connect to women today and to the American public’s struggle to resist Trump?
September: Alison Jackson's Private- "Donald Trump" Photos. 1917 -2017: What is Today's "War for Democracy?” A second look at the Espionage Act
100 Years: 1917 and 2017
The Rise of Hate
THURSDAY August 3, 7-9pm,
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted
Chicago IL 60608
info@URI-EICHEN.com
Closing Reception: August 3rd 7-9pm Film “Strange Fruit” Discussion panel on film and reading from Christian Picciolini, music and spoken word with Kara Jackson and Antwon “Lord” Funches
Strange Fruit is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. The saga brings viewers face- to- face with the terror of lynching even as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood if white - and death if Black. It examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement.
Christian Picciolini is an Emmy® Award-winning television producer, a prolific public speaker, a published author, and a reformed extremist. His work and life purpose are born of an ongoing and profound need to atone for a grisly past, and to make something of his time on this planet by contributing to the greater good. After leaving the violent far-right hate movement he was part of during his youth, he began the painstaking process of rebuilding his life. Christian earned a degree in International Relations from DePaul University, began his own global entertainment media firm, and was appointed a member of the Chicago Grammy Rock Music Committee and board member for the Chicago Intl. Movies and Music Festival. Christian is displaying some objects related to his former skinhead life in this show.
Antwon “Lord” Funches is a Chicago-born Nichiren-Buddhist, playwright,poet, actor, and BA Theater major attending the University of Illinoisat Chicago (UIC). Antwon’s work focuses heavily on a queer Black male perspective, documenting aspects of gender, race, class, and sexuality that inhabit his everyday interactions. Notable accomplishments include: winning Louder Than a Bomb Chicago 2015; winning the National Poetry Book Festival 2015 Slam in Washington, D.C., and winning theSpoken Word category of YoungArts 2015 in Miami, Florida. Antwon is adisciplined craftsman who offers “grey,” human perspectives on polarized social issues.
Kara Jackson’s poetry explores the essence of invisibility, the authentic elements of language, and divine womanhood, along with its placement in the world. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois. As a young activist, she seeks to make women visible and end the violent language spoken between men and women around the world. Her upcoming charity work includes a Period Drive, which seeks to provide feminine products, underwear, and other necessities to homeless women. She is the winner of her sophomore class poetry slam, which included over a hundred students. She has received the Scholastic Art and Writing Award for her short story Nursery Rhymes, which won a silver medal at a national level. Jackson is a member of the Spoken Word club at Oak Park River Forest High school. She represented the school in the Louder Than a Bomb festival in 2016 and 2017. Her work is to be featured in the forthcoming book by Kevin Coval, The End of Chiraq. She recently released her first song Discomfort on Soundcloud.
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
Ell Persons was lynched in 1917 in Memphis. It was reported at the time that thousands attended the lynching. We will remember Persons and discuss the work of the Equal Justice Initiative at this reception. Through the work of the EJI mapping lynching in America , 800 more victims of this terrorism have been discovered than were known before their research.
Milano’s White Power Worldwide grew out of concern about the growth of the White Power movement within the United States. Beginning with his time spent at ICP in 2012, this project has taken him across the US to Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Texas, Ohio, and Arizona. The work concentrates on two different, but allying, groups- the Ku Klux Klan which is a homegrown group and the National Socialist Movement, the country’s largest Neo Nazi group.
100 Years: 1917 and 2017
The Rise of Hate
Looking at the work of the Equal Justice Initiative - Mapping Lynching in the USA and Remembering the Lynching of Ell Persons in 1917. Johnny Milano's Series “White Pride Worldwide” and Christian Picciolini, co-founder of Life After Hate and author of "Romantic Violence: Memoirs Of An American Skinhead", displays objects related to the white supremacist skinhead movement.
Opening: FRIDAY JULY 14, 6-10pm,
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted
Chicago IL 60608
info@URI-EICHEN.com
Opening Reception: 7pm Reading with Christian Picciolini from "Romantic Violence.” 8pm: Music and Spoken Word with Kara Jackson
Closing Reception: August 3rd 7-9pm Film “Strange Fruit” Discussion panel on film and reading from Christian Picciolini
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
Ell Persons was lynched in 1917 in Memphis. It was reported at the time that thousands attended the lynching. We will remember Persons and discuss the work of the Equal Justice Initiative at this reception. Through the work of the EJI mapping lynching in America , 800 more victims of this terrorism have been discovered than were known before their research.
Milano’s White Power Worldwide grew out of concern about the growth of the White Power movement within the United States. Beginning with his time spent at ICP in 2012, this project has taken him across the US to Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Texas, Ohio, and Arizona. The work concentrates on two different, but allying, groups- the Ku Klux Klan which is a homegrown group and the National Socialist Movement, the country’s largest Neo Nazi group.
Christian Picciolini is an Emmy® Award-winning television producer, a prolific public speaker, a published author, and a reformed extremist. His work and life purpose are born of an ongoing and profound need to atone for a grisly past, and to make something of his time on this planet by contributing to the greater good. After leaving the violent far-right hate movement he was part of during his youth, he began the painstaking process of rebuilding his life. Christian earned a degree in International Relations from DePaul University, began his own global entertainment media firm, and was appointed a member of the Chicago Grammy Rock Music Committee and board member for the Chicago Intl. Movies and Music Festival. Christian is displaying some objects related to his former skinhead life in this show.
Kara Jackson’s poetry explores the essence of invisibility, the authentic elements of language, and divine womanhood, along with its placement in the world. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois. As a young activist, she seeks to make women visible and end the violent language spoken between men and women around the world. Her upcoming charity work includes a Period Drive, which seeks to provide feminine products, underwear, and other necessities to homeless women. She is the winner of her sophomore class poetry slam, which included over a hundred students. She has received the Scholastic Art and Writing Award for her short story Nursery Rhymes, which won a silver medal at a national level. Jackson is a member of the Spoken Word club at Oak Park River Forest High school. She represented the school in the Louder Than a Bomb festival in 2016 and 2017. Her work is to be featured in the forthcoming book by Kevin Coval, The End of Chiraq. She recently released her first song Discomfort on Soundcloud.
Strange Fruit is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. The saga brings viewers face- to- face with the terror of lynching even as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood if white - and death if Black. It examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement.
Open by Appointment outside of receptions. For an appointment, please call 312 852 7717
August: Silent Sentinels No More! The 1917 Night of Terror and Women Unite Against Trump: Group Show - Women's Marches
September: Alison Jackson's Private- "Donald Trump" Photos. 1917 -2017: What is Today's "War for Democracy?” A second look at the Espionage Act
October: Cuba Si! Bloqueo No! Looking at the Revolution
November: Russian Revolution 100th Anniversary
December: Human Rights Day Show-The Chicago House Un-American Activities Hearings
January: 100 Years of Chicago Police Violence
100 Years: 1917 and 2017
The Rise of Hate
Looking at the work of the Equal Justice Initiative - Mapping Lynching in the USA and Remembering the Lynching of Ell Persons in 1917. Johnny Milano's Series “White Pride Worldwide” and Christian Picciolini, co-founder of Life After Hate and author of "Romantic Violence: Memoirs Of An American Skinhead", displays objects related to the white supremacist skinhead movement.
Opening: FRIDAY JULY 14, 6-10pm,
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted
Chicago IL 60608
info@URI-EICHEN.com
Opening Reception: 7pm Reading with Christian Picciolini from "Romantic Violence.” 8pm: Music and Spoken Word with Kara Jackson
Closing Reception: August 3rd 7-9pm Film “Strange Fruit” Discussion panel on film and reading from Christian Picciolini
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
Ell Persons was lynched in 1917 in Memphis. It was reported at the time that thousands attended the lynching. We will remember Persons and discuss the work of the Equal Justice Initiative at this reception. Through the work of the EJI mapping lynching in America , 800 more victims of this terrorism have been discovered than were known before their research.
Milano’s White Power Worldwide grew out of concern about the growth of the White Power movement within the United States. Beginning with his time spent at ICP in 2012, this project has taken him across the US to Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Texas, Ohio, and Arizona. The work concentrates on two different, but allying, groups- the Ku Klux Klan which is a homegrown group and the National Socialist Movement, the country’s largest Neo Nazi group.
Christian Picciolini is an Emmy® Award-winning television producer, a prolific public speaker, a published author, and a reformed extremist. His work and life purpose are born of an ongoing and profound need to atone for a grisly past, and to make something of his time on this planet by contributing to the greater good. After leaving the violent far-right hate movement he was part of during his youth, he began the painstaking process of rebuilding his life. Christian earned a degree in International Relations from DePaul University, began his own global entertainment media firm, and was appointed a member of the Chicago Grammy Rock Music Committee and board member for the Chicago Intl. Movies and Music Festival. Christian is displaying some objects related to his former skinhead life in this show.
Kara Jackson’s poetry explores the essence of invisibility, the authentic elements of language, and divine womanhood, along with its placement in the world. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois. As a young activist, she seeks to make women visible and end the violent language spoken between men and women around the world. Her upcoming charity work includes a Period Drive, which seeks to provide feminine products, underwear, and other necessities to homeless women. She is the winner of her sophomore class poetry slam, which included over a hundred students. She has received the Scholastic Art and Writing Award for her short story Nursery Rhymes, which won a silver medal at a national level. Jackson is a member of the Spoken Word club at Oak Park River Forest High school. She represented the school in the Louder Than a Bomb festival in 2016 and 2017. Her work is to be featured in the forthcoming book by Kevin Coval, The End of Chiraq. She recently released her first song Discomfort on Soundcloud.
Strange Fruit is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. The saga brings viewers face- to- face with the terror of lynching even as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood if white - and death if Black. It examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement.
Open by Appointment outside of receptions. For an appointment, please call 312 852 7717
August: Silent Sentinels No More! The 1917 Night of Terror and Women Unite Against Trump: Group Show - Women's Marches
September: Alison Jackson's Private- "Donald Trump" Photos. 1917 -2017: What is Today's "War for Democracy?” A second look at the Espionage Act
October: Cuba Si! Bloqueo No! Looking at the Revolution
November: Russian Revolution 100th Anniversary
December: Human Rights Day Show-The Chicago House Un-American Activities Hearings
January: 100 Years of Chicago Police Violence
Series May through September: 100 Years: 1917 and 2017 Compelled: The Selective Service Act of 1917- War is Trauma, Celebrating People's History: Iraq Veterans Against the War - Ten Years of Fighting for Peace and Justice, and Aaron Hughes' Dust Memories
Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted Chicago 60608
Opening June 9th, 6-10pm Discussion 7pm: Counter Recruitment work in CPS and other schools of Pat Hunt of NorthWest Suburban Peace & Education Project and Arny Stieber and Frank Fitzgerald of Chicago Chapter of Vets for Peace
Open by appointment through July 7. For an Appointment call 312 852 7717
About the show:
War Is Trauma is a portfolio of handmade prints produced by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in collaboration with the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). This portfolio transpired out of a street poster project, from November 2010, which a number of Justseeds artists provided graphics for "Operation Recovery" - a campaign to stop the deployment of traumatized troops and win service members and veterans right to heal. Posters were pasted in public, replacing many corporate advertisements, to focus public attention towards the issues not being discussed - GI Resistance, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sexual assault in the military or Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). For this project over 30 artists from Justseeds, IVAW, and our allies have each created a print that addresses “Operation Recovery,” its larger goals of supporting service member and veterans right to heal, GI resistance, challenging the culture of militarism in the US, and ending the war in Afghanistan. A total of 130 portfolios have been created that we hope inspire 130 exhibitions that can act as a starting point to bring different people together – veterans, civilians, Iraqis, Afghans, and others to dialogue on issues.
'Celebrate People's History: Iraq Veterans Against the War - Ten Years of Fighting for Justice and Peace' is a portfolio poster project honoring IVAW's ten year history of speaking out against the wars and taking action to bring home the impact of these wars. The portfolio features contributions from IVAW members, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative members, along with allied veterans, artists and writers. It highlights key ideas, moments, projects, tactics and individuals from IVAW history in order to uplift IVAW's ongoing struggle, inspire others to take action, and preserve a snapshot of movement history.
Aaron Hughes’ Dust Memories: Dust Memories is a series of drawings, paintings, and collages that communicate the ambiguous and anxious moments of his deployment with the 1244th Transportation Company in support of combat operations in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. In 2008, a series of ten artist books were produced. The hand bound accordion book and it’s cyclical structure was conceived as a metaphor for continually repeating memories of his deployment, as well as representing the reality that this journey in many ways is still being carried out. The book was made with a generous grant from Booklyn Arts and has been collected by many private and public collections. Public Collections: Clark Arts Institute, Lafayette College, Library of Congress, Pritzker Military Library, Stanford University, University of California Irvine, University of Connecticut, and Yale University. Aaron Hughes is an artist, activist, organizer, teacher, and Iraq War veteran based in Chicago.
About Just Seeds: With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. We believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. To this end, we produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheatpaste on the streets—all while offering each other daily support as allies and friends.
About the discussion 6-9 at 7pm:
Chicago Chapter of Veterans For Peace: Arny Stieber - MBA, Retired CEO, Coordinator of the Chicago Chapter of Veterans For Peace. Moved the Chapter to focus on the de-militarization of CPS as the main project. Army, infantry in the U.S. war against the people of Viet Nam.
Frank Fitzgerald - Professor of Sociology at College of St. Rose in Albany, NY. B.A., Loyola University; M.A., New School for Social Research; Ph.D., The State University of New York at Binghamton. Associate (non-veteran) member of Veterans For Peace. Developed a video and web site on de-militarizing CPS - http://EducationNotMilitarization.org. Headed up a fund raising initiative to place de-militarization billboards around the city.
Pat Hunt joined NorthWest Suburban Peace & Education Project in the fall of 2004. The group had just started counter-recruiting in all 6 high schools in District 214. This district is in the northwest suburbs of Chicago (hence the group’s name!) and includes Elk Grove H.S., Buffalo Grove H.S., Rolling Meadows H.S., Prospect H.S., Wheeling H.S., and Hersey H.S. We go to each high school once a month, set up a table, put out information that students can take home, and talk to students about options after high school other than the military. ¬¬¬We have also branched out from just counter-recruiting to issues of peace and social justice. We have hosted community forums, film screenings, and vigils that go right to the heart of peace and social justice.
For Other Purposes: a Retrospective of 40 Years of Posters from Chicago's Salsedo Press
Opening: FRIDAY MAY 12, 6-10pm, URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
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Receptions: Thursday May 18, 25, and June 1 -Open 7-9pm
For Appointment outside of receptions until June 2: call 312 852 7717
One hundred years ago, in 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act, just two months after the US entered World War I. All laws passed by the US government are assigned two names. The shorter one is merely intended to provide a convenient name for referring to it; the longer one to provide a description of the purpose or scope of the legislation. As its name indicates the Espionage Act was designed to arrest and prosecute spies. The official longer title reveals much more about how the law was used to discourage dissent not only the war, but to any government policy: An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.
The wording of the Espionage Act left a great deal of room for aggressive prosecutors and overzealous patriots to interpret it as they wished. Things got worse the next year when Congress passed more draconian amendments to the Act that outlawed statements during war that were "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive … about the form of government of the United States." Among those charged with offenses under the Act were socialist labor leader and four-time US presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs and anarchist activists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. The 1919 [Atty. Gen. A. Mitchell ] Palmer Raids, targeting Communist and Anarchist immigrants, used the powers of the Act as justification for arrests leading to deportations. . In June of 1919, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's home was bombed and, a year later, the headquarters of the JP Morgan bank on Wall Street. Although neither was related to the war, the Espionage Act's longer description kicked in "better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes."
In the interest of those "other purposes", the investigation of the bombings led to the arrest and subsequent death while in police custody of Andreo Salsedo, the anarchist printer whose name Salsedo Press took 40 years ago. Uri-Eichen joins the progressive community of Chicago in celebrating Salsedo Press with a retrospective of posters called "For Other Purposes". [The Espionage Act is still intact. It was invoked in the cases of Daniel Ellsberg 1971 release of the Pentagon Papers and more recently against Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for their roles in making government documents available to to the public.]
Film Screening, Discussion and Closing Reception For Other Purposes
Opening: FRIDAY MAY 12, 6-10pm, URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
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Film: 7pm Sacco and Vanzetti
June 1, 7-9pm
Leading the post-screening discussion, Lionel Bottari will draw on his deep Italian roots, his work as a storyteller, musician and puppeteer, as well as his trade union experience as a third-generation member of the IWW - Industrial Workers of the World. The Wobblies organized strikes in support of Sacco and Vanzetti before their wrongful conviction and execution.
For Appointment outside of receptions until June 2: call 312 852 7717
Salsedo Press was named for Andrea Salsedo, an Italian-born anarchist printer who was arrested in the Spring of 1920 and held for 8 weeks, before being thrown from a 14th floor window of the US Justice Department's Bureau of Investigations in NYC..
Two days later, two men who knew Salsedo were arrested in Braintree, MA for robbery and murder - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Sacco and Vanzetti, a 2006 documentary by Peter Miller tells of thecase that came to symbolize the bigotry and intolerance directed at immigrants and dissenters in America. Millions of people around the world protested on their behalf, and now, 90 years later, their story continues to have great resonance, as civil liberties and the rights of immigrants are again under attack.
Powerful prison writings (given voice by John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub) and passionate interviews with Howard Zinn, Arlo Guthrie and Studs Terkel are interwoven with artwork, music, and film clips. Through the story of Sacco and Vanzetti, audiences will experience a universal - and very timely - tale of official injustice and human resilience.
Join us a Uri-Eichen Gallery for the film, a discussion and the closing reception for the first in our five month series "100 Years - 1917 to 2017". May's exhibit is For Other Purposes: The Espionage Act of 1917 and a 40 Year Retrospective of the Posters of Salsedo Press.
One hundred years ago, in 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act, just two months after the US entered World War I. All laws passed by the US government are assigned two names. The shorter one is merely intended to provide a convenient name for referring to it; the longer one to provide a description of the purpose or scope of the legislation. As its name indicates the Espionage Act was designed to arrest and prosecute spies. The official longer title reveals much more about how the law was used to discourage dissent not only the war, but to any government policy: An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.
The wording of the Espionage Act left a great deal of room for aggressive prosecutors and overzealous patriots to interpret it as they wished. Things got worse the next year when Congress passed more draconian amendments to the Act that outlawed statements during war that were "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive … about the form of government of the United States." Among those charged with offenses under the Act were socialist labor leader and four-time US presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs and anarchist activists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. The 1919 [Atty. Gen. A. Mitchell ] Palmer Raids, targeting Communist and Anarchist immigrants, used the powers of the Act as justification for arrests leading to deportations. . In June of 1919, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's home was bombed and, a year later, the headquarters of the JP Morgan bank on Wall Street. Although neither was related to the war, the Espionage Act's longer description kicked in "better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes."
In the interest of those "other purposes", the investigation of the bombings led to the arrest and subsequent death while in police custody of Andreo Salsedo, the anarchist printer whose name Salsedo Press took 40 years ago. Uri-Eichen joins the progressive community of Chicago in celebrating Salsedo Press with a retrospective of posters called "For Other Purposes". [The Espionage Act is still intact. It was invoked in the cases of Daniel Ellsberg 1971 release of the Pentagon Papers and more recently against Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for their roles in making government documents available to to the public.]
“NO”: Igniting Oppositional Consciousness
Opening – Friday, April 14, 6-10pm, URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
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As uncertainty strains on our daily lives, voices from various backgrounds stand together in “NO”: Igniting Oppositional Consciousness, a show in response and in opposition to the global political right wing shift.
No is curated by student artists at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the course titled Social Movements from a Global Perspective, which attempts to define what it means to be a part of a “movement” in its entirety. This exploration is facilitated via classroom visitors imparting first-hand accounts, documentary narratives, and active dialogue. While the syllabus focuses largely on the social justice movements of 20–21st century North and South America, it is motivated, above all, by a general probing of the connections that tie successfully driven movements together. Topics of discourse have ranged from immigration and labor laws to the rights of indigenous peoples. This show confronts what it means to be an artist activist in today’s social climate, beyond the attendance of a protest. With the recent surge in protest as a response to uprisings of oppression, having this stage upon which to contribute intersectional activism is both essential and eye-opening. Students have produced and curated provocative works to further expose the course’s discourse to the outside world. Both within the classroom and on the walls of the gallery, the exhibition examines the crucial connections between creativity and resistance.
Group Show:, Ally Berkowitz ,Noa Billick, Morgan Bussy, Kristine Dalbey, Nicole Demczuk, Eric Garcia, Josselyn Garcia, Angeline Sofia Holt, Shannon Jarhling, Hellen Jo, Farnaz Khosh-Sirat, Maria Louisa, Joseph Josue Mora, Noëlle Pouzar, Navi Schiff, Ona Sian, Aram Han Sifuentes, Joanna Sit, Annie Rose Soler, Lindsay Stewart, Michaela Vaughan, Lisa Vinebaum, Thaib A. Wahab
April 14: Program 7pm
Shannon Jarhling: Speaking about the SAIC Social Movements from a Global Perspective class that organized the show and how the artist-students have been questioning their role in social activism and social change.
Noa Billick: Speaking about her curatorial role in the show, discusses the exhibit, and reflects on the students’ concerns, core values and involvement in social change activism.
SAIC Professor Ruth Needleman: Q and A
Performance: (approximately 730pm) A Witness: In All Probability - Performance by Maria Luisa and Erin Delany, SAIC. The performance discusses the United State’s dismissal of past atrocities it has committed as a nation to both Native American people and the earth as a whole and it's refusal to acknowledge and learn from it's violent history. The performance incorporates legal documents specific to the dealings between the U.S. and the Sioux nation, spanning from the Blackhill treaty in 1868 to present day cease and desist orders surrounding DAPL. The romanticism, reliance and abuse of the earth acknowledges our inescapable complicity in our own demise
Live Music: Plus Sign, Half Awake, and Shark Fangs + (Plus Sign) is President of the World; a rapper, educator, writer, and community organizer who likes to play a lot of games on his way to granting eternal life to our planet! His work can be found at tenderdiscovery.com
InJustice for All Film Festival
If These Walls Could Talk
Film and Reception with the filmmaker, Julian Hamer
Friday, April 28th 6pm -10pm
Film at 7pm
A documentary examining the Sandtown Mural Project in Baltimore and its impact in the Sandtown-Winchester community following the unrest and uprising due to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody on April 19, 2015. The Sandtown Mural Project features a group of 10 local artists creating works of art curated by Ernest Shaw and Nether. Walls were painted during October 2015 through December 2015
Discussion- after the film: public art's role in political action
After Freddie Gray unrest, activists hope to transform Sandtown-Winchester with murals, gardens
A Sandtown mural project is torn over the meaning of the American flag
Series May through September: 100 Years: 1917 and 2017
For Other Purposes: a Retrospective of 40 Years of Posters from Chicago's Salsedo Press
A first look at the Espionage Act of 1917
Opening: FRIDAY MAY 12, 6-10pm
Receptions: Thursday May 18, 25, and June 1 -Open 7-9pm
For Appointment outside of receptions until June 2: call 312 852 7717
June: Compelled: The Selective Service Act of 1917- War is Trauma, Celebrating People's History: Iraq Veterans Against the War - Ten Years of Fighting for Peace and Justice, and Aaron Hughes' Dust Memories
July: The Rise of Hate: Johnny Milano's Series “White Pride Worldwide”, Christian Picciolini, and the Work of the Equal Justice Initiative - Mapping Lynching in the USA.
August: Silent Sentinels No More! The 1917 Night of Terror and Women Unite Against Trump: Group Show - Women's Marches
September: Alison Jackson's Private- "Donald Trump" Photos. 1917 -2017: What is Today's "War for Democracy?" A second look at the Espionage Act
October: Cuba Si! Bloqueo No! Looking at the Revolution
November: Russian Revolution 100th Anniversary
December: Human Rights Day Show-The Chicago House Un-American Activities Hearings
January: 100 Years of Chicago Police Violence
Open by appointment through May 5, Call for an appointment 312 852 7717
Semblance of Order
Opening – Friday, March 10, 6-10pm
Open by appointment through April 7
Call for an appointment 312 852 7717
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
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Semblance of Order presents new work by artists Michael Rado, Frances Lightbound and Louis Kishfy in response to designed objects in urban spaces that reinforce real and perceived security. Building upon research into defensive architecture in Chicago from the group’s previous collaborative project, Semblance of Order sets the haphazard against the highly-designed, prodding at the material systems of safety, prevention and (over)protection. It is through these concrete material systems that the group intends to dismantle and reconfigure abstract perceptions of authority, ownership and otherness.
Photograph taken by Michael Rado, Frances Lightbound and Louis Kishfy; Chicago Loop; 2015.
Topographies of Defense (2015-2016) was a project led by Michael Rado, Louis Kishfy and Frances Lightbound which examined design in the urban sphere whose primary function is to discourage, rather than facilitate, human usage. Elements such as homeless spikes, decorative security facades, anti-skate rails, bollards, benches, planters and landscaping elements all contribute to a covertly defensive reconfiguration of public space. With a focused lens on Chicago, the project comprised an online photographic archive, an introduction during Sullivan Galleries’ exhibition Outside Design and culminated with a public symposium and gallery exhibition held at the LeRoy Neiman Center in Chicago.
Michael Rado is originally from the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, and currently lives and works in New York City. Rado’s interdisciplinary work spans sculpture, installation, and video, and critically celebrates the spirit of his middle-class heritage, prodding at themes of privilege, privacy, and sovereignty. He earned his MFA in Studio from the School of Art institute of Chicago (2016), and BFA from the University of Michigan (2009). Rado’s recent work has been exhibited at a range of venues in Chicago, notably at EXPO Chicago (2016), Pulaski Park with Fieldwork Collaborative Projects, and at Edra Soto and Dan Sullivan’s East Garfield Park gallery, The Franklin. Along with Lightbound, he is a fellow in the 2016-2017 Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide fellowship.
Frances Lightbound is an artist based between Chicago and Glasgow, having earned her MFA from SAIC (2016) and a BA (Hons) from Glasgow School of Art (2012). Working primarily in printmaking, sculpture, and installation, her work examines symbolism and authority in the built environment and issues relating to the division of space and property. She is a current HATCH artist resident at Chicago Artists Coalition, and a participant in the 2016-2017 Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide fellowship.
Louis Kishfy is a technologist who currently lives and works in Rhode Island. Kishfy’s practice is rooted predominantly in sculpture and installation; exploring his interests in sociology, postmodern philosophy, and environmental psychology. He is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MDes, 2016) and the University of Rhode Island (BS, 2012).
Photographs by Danielle Dolan and Thomas Kiefer
Immigrants and the American Dream
Including part of the El Sueno Americano Series from Thomas Kiefer/INSTITUTE
Opening – Friday, February 10, 6-10pm
Discussion 730pm
Live Music 8pm: Linda Boyle and Jesus Azteca Sanchez
Open by appointment through March 3rd
Call for an appointment 312 852 7717
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
Danielle Dolan is a fine art photographer who has lived in the Belmont-Cragin neighborhood on Chicago’s northwest side since 2013. She studied photography at the University of Missouri, Harrington College of Design, and Columbia College Chicago, where she graduated with her Bachelor’s in 2016. Living in Belmont-Cragin in the same household as Mexican immigrants exposed her to the reality of what it means to be an immigrant living in the United States today.
After hearing countless stories from her boyfriend’s family members, she learned that many risked their lives to travel thousands of miles, sometimes without food or water, in order to get to the States. All of their belongings and ties to home were left behind in pursuit of greater opportunities that were not available to them in Mexico. Upon arrival to the States, they were met with greater obstacles, oppression, and systemic racism. Still, despite their hardships, they will each say their sacrifice was worth it.
“Immigrants” aims to capture a fleeting emotion in each subject after they recount their experience crossing the Mexico-US border, or recall the journeys that their loved ones have endured. Small excerpts from each interview are included with the portraits so that the viewer may gain some insight on what each experience entailed. Each story in the series is connected with the same underlying theme of chasing the American Dream. They range from tales of terror to childish delight. She hopes the viewers are able to see through the eyes of those who have lived through it all, even if they are only allowed a glimpse
Tom Kiefer: El Sueno Americano- Working as a janitor from July 2003 until August 2014 I was greatly disturbed by the volume of food, clothing and personal belongings thrown away at a single U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility. For many of those years, I was allowed to collect and take the food transported by migrants, that was discarded during the first stages of processing, to our community food bank, an estimated sixty tons by the person who managed it.
The personal effects and belongings were another matter: Why would someone throw away a rosary or bible? Why would someone throw away a wallet? Why would a pair of shoes, for all intents and purpose “brand new”, be tossed in the trash?
The ideals upon which this country was founded seem to be under attack as never before, two hundred and thirty nine years since we declared ourselves a nation. “The beacon of hope”, fairness, democracy, equality, faith and grace seems more and more like a sales gimmick, limited to certain groups of people.
How we treat others is a reflection of who we are. When belts, shoelaces, toothbrushes, socks, shoes, underwear, pants, shirts, jackets, watches, bibles, wallets, coins, cell phones, keys, jewelry, calling-cards, water, food, soap, deodorant, gloves, medicine, birth control pills, blankets and rosaries are considered non-essential personal property and discarded, regardless of the amount and origin, something becomes less than human
There is something inherently disturbing behind many of the images presented in El Sueno Americano Project that defies logical and rational explanation: Why was all this thrown away?
Linda Boyle: Singer, song writer and social historian Linda Boyle has been performing for decades. She sings in many languages and genres, with a vast repertoire in Spanish, as well as well-researched songs.
Linda has been a educator for over thirty years, teaching grades 4-12 as well as Adult Education and English as a Second Language. She has taught Reading, U.S. History, Chicago Studies, and specializes in the history of women, labor, immigrants, and peace and social justice movements. In her twenty-five years in Special Education, she has had roles as both a teacher and school director. Her workshops include the use of music in differentiated and literacy instruction, and as an expressive therapy in working with youth who have experienced trauma and abuse.
Michael Gaylord James • Onward!
Onward: Movements, Activists, Politics and Politicians
Closing Reception • 6-10 PM • Friday • February 3, 2017
January 13 – February 3, 2017
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
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michaelgaylordjames.com
Photographer and activist Michael James presents a new selection of photos, to start the New Year with a positive vision. James believes “the struggle for social and political change is a long one—always and forever, with plenty of ups and downs. Now is a time in our history when we need to do a lot of progressive organizing.”
His new show Onward: Movements, Activists, Politics, and Politicians 1962 - 2015 is at the Uri Eichen Gallery from January 13th through February 3. James’s photos remind us of much that has transpired over the years, and hopefully encourage us to continue onward, going forward on a positive path in the quest for a just and better world.
The exhibit includes a selection of James’s photos taken over a 54-year span. His memories of the situations and circumstances he captured accompany the photos.
Included in the Exhibit are:
President Kennedy in Mexico, participants in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Governor Kerner on the stump in Peoria, SNCC and SDS organizers in alley conversation, the 20th Anniversary of the March on Washington, Sandinista soldiers, Roman Pucinski and Jesse Jackson at Harold Washington’s inauguration, Anarchist Cheerleaders on May Day, Katy Hogan and Dennis Kucinich at the Heartland Café, Obama at the Heartland and at Chicago State, Quinn under fire from AFSCME at the Illinois State Fair, the Chuy Garcia campaign and Black Lives Matters.
Call for an appointment 312 852-7717
Revolutionary Poets Brigade: Overthrowing Capitalism (Vol. 3)
Sunday, January 29 at 5 PM - 8 PM
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
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For the third time, we are overthrowing capitalism! (Who knew it would take more than two volumes of poetry?!) Please join the Chicago Revolutionary Poets Brigade (#RPBchi) and friends for what promises to be a fun but unflinching night of real-talk featuring not just poems from the new international anthology published by the San Francisco RPB (including some of our own members), but also performances from some of the brave poets we have worked with over the last three years! In the spirit of this volume's subtitle, "Reclaiming Community," we are structuring the event in order to emphasize not so much the book itself (although we will be proudly selling the newly released copies!) but the wonderful web of culture we are woven into as revolutionary poets and organizations in Chicago!
Keep your eyes on the list of performers as it is officially released here over the next few weeks!
Hope you can come!
*Hasta La Victoria Siempre*
-Adam G (on behalf of the RPBchi)
Featured Performers:
- Lew Rosenbaum
- Diana Zwinak
- Poets from the Harlan Academy Louder Than A Bomb Team
- Heather Byrd Roberts (from Young Chicago Authors)
- Eric Allen Yankee
- RJ El (from Young Chicago Authors)
- Elizabeth Marino
- Lisa Wagner (from the Guild Complex)
- Adam Gottlieb
- Poetic Taee
- Call for an appointment 312 852-7717
Michael Gaylord James • Onward!
Onward: Movements, Activists, Politics and Politicians
Opening Reception • 6-10 PM • Friday • January 13, 2017
Closing Reception • 6-10 PM • Friday • February 3, 2017
January 13 – February 3, 2017
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
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Photographer and activist Michael James presents a new selection of photos, to start the New Year with a positive vision. James believes “the struggle for social and political change is a long one—always and forever, with plenty of ups and downs. Now is a time in our history when we need to do a lot of progressive organizing.”
His new show Onward: Movements, Activists, Politics, and Politicians 1962 - 2015 is at the Uri Eichen Gallery from January 13th through February 3. James’s photos remind us of much that has transpired over the years, and hopefully encourage us to continue onward, going forward on a positive path in the quest for a just and better world.
The exhibit includes a selection of James’s photos taken over a 54-year span. His memories of the situations and circumstances he captured accompany the photos.
Included in the Exhibit are:
President Kennedy in Mexico, participants in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Governor Kerner on the stump in Peoria, SNCC and SDS organizers in alley conversation, the 20th Anniversary of the March on Washington, Sandinista soldiers, Roman Pucinski and Jesse Jackson at Harold Washington’s inauguration, Anarchist Cheerleaders on May Day, Katy Hogan and Dennis Kucinich at the Heartland Café, Obama at the Heartland and at Chicago State, Quinn under fire from AFSCME at the Illinois State Fair, the Chuy Garcia campaign and Black Lives Matters.
Call for an appointment 312 852-7717
A Voice For Victims
Drawings by Kathy Weaver with Photos by Dr. Zaher Sahloul
Opening Reception: Friday, December 9, 6pm to 10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
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Dr. Zaher Sahloul and Kathy Weaver speaking at 7:30
Show Dates: December 9– January 6, 2017
Gallery Hours:please call 312 852-7717 for an appointment.
Free and Open to the Public
Contact:Kathy Steichen gabbyfish@hotmail.com
Uri-Eichen Gallery presents our 5th Annual Human Rights Day Show “A Voice for Victims: Drawings by Kathy Weaver with Photos by Dr. Zaher Sahloul”, an exhibition featuring the work of Kathy Weaver and photographs of Syria by Dr. Zaher Sahloul.Dr. Sahloul is a Chicago-area critical care specialist who heads the Syrian American Medical Society, a non-profit humanitarian organization established in 2007.
Weaver’s drawings address components of war and in particular, the plight of war victims in Syria. Dr. Sahloul’s photos show the devastation he witnessed on several trips to administer to patients in the underground hospitals of Aleppo.Weaver’s work with issues of war and Dr. Sahloul’s community activism combine to bring their unique views to a show of narrative works that address conflict in today’s world.
Weaver’s large-scale drawings series “War Devours Us” show the toll of violent confrontation and explore the effects of war on soldiers and civilians.Tonal qualities of the drawing highlight the newsreel-like action. The interplay between hard edge airbrushed areas and expressive charcoal lines emphasizes the discrepancy between the inhumanity of violent destruction and death and the humanity of those refugees and victims who persist and endure in the events of war.
Dr. Sahloul is the immediate past president of and a senior advisor to the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), a humanitarian and advocacy organization that provides medical relief to Syrians and Syrian refugees. Dr. Sahloul is also the founder of the American Relief Coalition for Syria, a coalition of 14 US-based humanitarian organizations working in Syria. Dr. Sahloul risks his life to travel to work in the underground hospitals in Aleppo so he can bear witness and be a voice for the victims. The photographs on view are from his recent medical mission trips to Aleppo. They attest to the tragedy that keeps unfolding in Syria and also to the forbearance of those who remain there.
The exhibitors hope the images will help people remember the suffering of war especially that of the children of Syria. Weaver and Sahloul refuse to accept that what is going on in Syria is normal.
Kembrew’s Critique Boutique
Opening - November 11, 6-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
Screening of Copyright Criminals and Artist Discussion 730pm
Open by appointment through December 2. For an appointment call 312 852 7717 
Kembrew’s Critique Boutique, hosted by the Uri-Eichen Gallery in Chicago, is your one-stop outlet for serious fun. This gallery show features solo and collaborative work by Kembrew McLeod, a media scholar and artist whose projects cross several mediums and practices. His multimedia, multimodal body of work explores how dissent can seep through the cracks of the popular culture that provides our lingua franca, a language that is often privatized and fenced off by intellectual property laws. This was underscored in his 1998 piece, Freedom of Expression®, when Kembrew trademarked that iconic phrase and later threatened AT&T with legal action for “using freedom of expression without permission” in an ad. This conceptual pop-up shop showcases an interconnected oeuvre that includes books, zines and other print ephemera, as well as documentaries, audio projects, and politically-charged “pranks” — such as Freedom of Expression®, selling Kembrew’s Soul, and the exploits of his intrepid alter ego, RoboProfessor (who has crossed paths with Bill Clinton, Michele Bachman and others).
Bio: Kembrew McLeod is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He has published and produced several books, documentaries, and other award-winning work.
Open by appointment through December 2. Call for an appointment 312 852 7717
Pilsen Open Studios Openings:
THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY
A Tale Of Billionaires And Ballot Bandits
The film reveals how nearly one million minority voters can lose their vote this November.
When Donald Trump says, "This election is rigged"—he should know. His buddies are rigging it.
Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida’s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans’ dark operation, Crosscheck, designed to steal a million votes by November.
Crosscheck is controlled by a Trump henchman, Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State who claims his computer program has identified 7.2 million people in 29 states who may have voted twice in the same election--a felony crime. The catch? Most of these ‘suspects’ are minorities—in other words, mainly Democratic voters. Yet the lists and the evidence remain “confidential.”
Palast and his investigative partner Leni Badpenny do what it takes to get their hands on the data, analyzing it to find the names of nearly one million Americans about to lose their vote by November.
They hunt down and confront Kobach with the evidence of his "lynching by laptop." Then they are off to find the billionaires behind this voting scam. The search takes Palast from Kansas to the Arctic, the Congo, and to a swanky Hamptons dinner party held by Trump’s sugar-daddy, John Paulson, a.k.a. "JP The Foreclosure King." Palast and Badpenny stake out top GOP donors, the billionaire known as "The Vulture" and the Koch brothers, whom Palast nails with a damning tape recording.
In this real life detective story brought to life in a film noir style with cartoon animation, secret documents, hidden cameras, and a little help from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Detectives Ice-T and Richard Belzer, Shailene Woodley, Rosario Dawson, Willie Nelson and Ed Asner, Palast and his associates expose the darkest plans of the uber-rich to steal America’s democracy.
Open by appointment through November 4. Call for an appointment 312 852 7717
October: The Election
Monoprints by: Jeff Kinzel, Doug Ruschhaupt, Kathy Steichen,Special Guest Rick Perlstein -730pm: Discussion: the Election! What Trump means to the Republican Party: what happens if he loses, and what happens if he wins. About the battle between Clinton and Sanders and what that will mean for the future of the Democratic Party
Rick Perlstein is the author of three best-selling and prize-winning histories of the American right and is working on a fourth. He contributes journalism to publications including Esquire, the New Republic, and the Nation.
Jeff Kinzel has been working with the medium of foil for more than twenty years. Born and raised in New York, he pursued his initial art studies at the Art Students League and the National Academy, also working as a studio assistant to painter Ellsworth Kelly. Later, he undertook graduate art studies at the University of Iowa. Kinzel’s paintings and foil works have been exhibited in solo and group shows abroad as well as in New York, Iowa, and North Carolina, where he now lives and works. He has taught extensively, both in the public-school system and as an independent arts educator, and today runs a small school based on an organic farm in Western North Carolina.
Douglas Ruschhaupt works in Milwaukee, WI and was a student of sculptor Julius Schmidt and Virginia Meyers at the University of Iowa
Kathy Steichen co-founded Uri-Eichen Gallery with her husband, Christopher Urias, in 2011. She has led the programming development and coordination of over 100 visual art and community events at the gallery in the last 4 years. She is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a M.S. in Union Leadership and Administration from UMASS Amherst. She has worked in the labor movement for more than 18 years as an organizer and union staff representative where she represents private and public sector local unions. She has been a practicing print-maker for over 25 years focused on work related to social justice themes.
Christopher Urias co-founded Uri-Eichen Gallery. He is a Pilsen, Chicago native who graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago focused on printmaking.
We Want Freedom Closing Reception
October 7
6pm-10pm
730pm Discussion
The exhibition's closing night discussion will focus on criminal justice and the police. Original Rainbow Coalition members will speak of their experiences with the Chicago Police Department and FBI, including the harassment, brutality and infiltration that plagued not only the political organizations but the communities they served. Frank Chapman and panelists will compare today's movement to stop police violence with community control, citizen oversight or even abolition.
The discussion will be moderated by Peter Kuttner, Rising Up Angry Free Legal Program (1970), The End of the Nightstick: Confronting Police Brutality in Chicago (1993) filmmaker [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTthOb1DXmM] and the [In]justice For All Film Festival (2017) co-director of programming [http://www.injusticeforallff.com/].
We Want Freedom Film Festival- See the exhibit and see these films!
Saturday October 1, 4pm-630pm:
PROGRAM #1
Troublemakers [1966 | 56 minutes | Norm Fruchter/Robert Machover A documentary about the organization of New Left. In the film, Tom Hayden and a group of students from the Students for a Democratic Society movement are being followed. In 1965 they went to Newark to set up the Newark Community Union Project together with its black community. This film deals with the problems the (white) organizers were confronted with while making an attempt to improve the living conditions of the (black) population. Troublemakers was the first documentary ever to be shown at the prestigious New York Film Festival. 
We Got To Live Here [1965 | 20 Minutes | Robert Machover/Norm Fruchter. A portrait of the Black community of Clinton Hill in Newark, NJ. Roughly edited silent footage shot on the streets of the neighborhood was shown to people who lived there and their comments were recorded, along with music and talk taken from local radio, to create the sound track . Films start at 430pm. Post-screening discussion with Peter Kuttner, exhibit curator and filmmaker
Saturday October 1, 630pm-9pm
PROGRAM #2
The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky & His Legacy [1999 | 57min | Bob Hercule/Bruce Orenstein] The story of ordinary people making demands for the power to govern their own lives. Narrated by Alec Baldwin, the documentary examines both the history of community organizing — through the work of Saul Alinsky — as well as the current state of community organizing, as shown by contemporary organizations in New York and Texas. In a larger sense, the program is about the restoration of American democracy through shared public participation in civil life — a vital antidote to an era of increased citizen alienation and voter apathy.
Power to the People [1989 | 26 minutes | December 4th Committee] This film, made on the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton speaks to Black, Latino and White activists who worked with and were influenced by Fred Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party. They recall the late 1960s and how the Panther experience still affects their current community work. In doing so, they tell the story of the IL Party and the murder and how it led to the empowerment of Chicago's African-American communities and the election of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983. Films start at 7pm. Post-screening discussion with Peter Kuttner, exhibit curator and filmmaker
Sunday October 2, 3pm-6pm
PROGRAM #3
American Revolution 2 [1969 | 76 minutes | Mike Gray/Howard Alk] A gritty but essential documentary charting social turbulences in late 1960's Chicago. American Revolution 2 includes footage of the 1968 Democratic Convention protest and riot, a critique of the events by working class African-Americans in Chicago, and attempts by the Black Panther Party to organize poor, southern white youths of the Young Patriot Party on the city's north side. Using direct sound, a handheld camera, no script, black-and-white film stock, and natural lighting, the directors' no-frills approach appropriately reflects the raw energy of this upheaval.
Trick Bag [1974 | 21 minutes | Kartemquin,/Rising Up Angry] White gang members, Vietnam vets, and young factory workers from Chicago's neighborhoods tell of their personal experience with racism: who gets hurt and who profits. Restored in 2011 thanks to a prestigious National Film Preservation Foundation grant. Films start at 330pm. Post-screening discussion with Peter Kuttner, exhibit curator and filmmaker
Sunday October 2 6-9pm
PROGRAM #4
The Murder of Fred Hampton [1971 | 88 minutes | Mike Gray/Howard Alk] An unprecedented, historically significant documentary on the slain leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, killed in 1969 by Chicago police while he slept in his apartment. Filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk were already shooting a portrait of this charismatic speaker and community organizer when his murder occurred. Arriving at the crime scene only a few hours after the police raid, the unsettling footage they captured was later used to contradict news reports and police testimony in what many believe to be Hampton's assassination.
Right On: A Friend Remembers Fred Hampton [1989 |18 minutes | December 4th Committee] Veteran community activist Jorja English Palmer [1930-2005] talks of the events of 1948-1969 which led Fred Hampton to the leadership of the Illinois Black Panther Party and to his murder as part of the FBI's secret counter intelligence program – COINTELPRO. Films start at 630pm. Post-screening discussion with Peter Kuttner, exhibit curator and filmmaker
We Want Freedom!
The Black Panther Party Platform &
Chicago's Rainbow Coalition
The 5th Month in a 5 month series on Income Inequality in America—and fighting back against it!
Uri-Eichen Gallery, 2101 S Halsted, Chicago
Opening September 9th, 6pm to 10pm
Panel Discussion September 9, 730pm: The Rainbow Coalition then and now!
Emphasis on the Serve the People programs: Breakfast for Children, Free Legal Programs and Health Clinic: Featuring photographs, posters, leaflets and newspapers from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, Young Patriots, Rising Up Angry and others who accepted the Panther's assessment of social and economic inequalities and used their "Ten Point Program" as a model in their own communities.
Rainbow Ephemera: A shelf of books the members of the Rainbow read, a loop of movie trailers of the films the Rainbow saw in theaters and a stack of vinyl records the Rainbow listened and danced to.
Open by appointment through October 7. Call for an appointment 312 852 7717
"We Want Freedom!"
The Black Panther Party Ten Point Plan & Chicago's Original Rainbow Coalition
[1968-1972]
In the period following the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and the Democratic Convention protests, a coalition emerged among the Black Panthers, Young Lords, Young Patriots, Rising Up Angry. Labeled the Rainbow Coalition by Fred Hampton, Chairman of the IL Black Panther Party, these groups accepted the Panther's assessment of social injustice and economic inequality and used the Panther's "Ten Point Program" as a model in their own communities.
"We Want Freedom" will include photographs, posters, leaflets, buttons and newspapers.
A program of speakers, films and music will accompany the exhibit- look out for more details!
Closing Reception Income Inequality A Cartoon Exhibit
Join URI-EICHEN for our 4th show in a 5 month series about Income Inequality in America.
Closing Reception - September 2, 6-10pm
Panel Discussion with Mike Konopacki and Gary Huck at 730pm.
Kirk Anderson
Clay Bennett
Eric Garcia
Gary Huck
Mike Keefe
Mike Konopacki
Jimmy Margulies
Jack Ohman
Joel Pett
Andy Singer
Signe Wilkinson
Matt Wuerker
In 1889, Puck magazine founder Joseph Keppler's cartoon, "The Bosses of the Senate," depicted top-hatted capitalists ruling the U.S. Senate dressed in huge moneybags labeled with every trust from coal to sugar. Above the senate chamber is a sign “This is the Senate: Of the monopolists, by the monopolists, for the monopolists.”
That same year, another Puck cartoonist, Samuel Ehrhardt, compared feudal overlords plundering peasants and serfs to the corporate oligarchs of his day exacting duties from farmers, workers and small businessmen. The title: “History Repeats Itself – The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages and the Robber Barons of Today.”
This was the Gilded Age—a period in the late 19th century when America was a plutocracy dominated by ruthless "robber barons" whose power and wealth left much of nation disenfranchised and impoverished.
History is repeating itself again. As former Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently observed: “In many respects America is back to the same giant concentrations of wealth and economic power that endangered democracy a century ago.” With 400 individuals owning half the country's wealth and politicians in the grip of elites who fill campaign coffers, income inequality has soared, leaving workers behind even as productivity and profits rise.
Cartoonists in the first Gilded Age—Keppler, Ehrhardt, Thomas Nast, Homer Davenport, and others—were relentless in their searing contempt of plutocrats and the economic injustices they visited upon others. But what of cartoonists in this New Gilded Age?
Just as Chicago humorist and muckraker journalist Finley Peter Dunne espoused at the turn of the last century, they too "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." They are as creative and committed as ever in holding true to a proud tradition of scorn for greed, corruption, and the sabotage of American democracy.
The evidence is this exhibit.
Mike Konopacki
Income Inequality A Cartoon Exhibit
Join URI-EICHEN for our 4th show in a 5 month series about Income Inequality in America.
Opening - August 12, 6-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
Kirk Anderson
Clay Bennett
Eric Garcia
Gary Huck
Mike Keefe
Mike Konopacki
Jimmy Margulies
Jack Ohman
Joel Pett
Andy Singer
Signe Wilkinson
Matt Wuerker
credit: Jimmy Margulies
1% PRIVILEGE IN A TIME OF GLOBAL INEQUALITY The 3rd month in a five month series of art shows and discussions about income inequality in America
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted
Opening - July, 8 6-10pm
An exhibit curated by Myles Little and with written commentary byMAXWELL STREET’S LAST HOPE
Join URI-EICHEN for our second show in a 5 month series about Income Inequality in America
Opening - June 10, 6-10pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Night Live Music: Low-reen & the Maxwell St Market Blues Band, featuring Killer Ray Allison, Rasheed Stewart Muhammad, & Chris Alexander.
MAXWELL STREET’S LAST HOPE will explore the meager resources that remained available in the 1990s to the once thriving community of the Maxwell Street Market neighborhood. In 1989, a master plan published by the University of Illinois at Chicago made it clear that expansion south of Roosevelt Road would ultimately consume the Maxwell Street neighborhood and displace its world famous open‐air street market. In response, preservation and community activists came together to defend the spirit and built fabric of a place that had persevered economically and socially for nearly a century due to its character of entrepreneurship, cultural diversity, and resilience. Photographs by Ron Gordon and Lee Landry document this historically pivotal time, and a multimedia assemblage by artist Nicholas Jackson recalls the struggle.
Photo credit Lee Landry
Since 1997, the Maxwell Street Foundation (MSF) has sought to preserve and interpret the history of Chicago’s Maxwell Street for future generations.
To fulfill its mission, the MSF has collected Maxwell Street artifacts, developed public programs and presentations city- and suburban-wide, created a book and portfolio of Maxwell Street images, and contributed to exhibitions at the Chicago History Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, and the Spertus Institute.
Frank Scott Jr. Photo credit Lee Landry
In this exhibition, the MSF will draw on its collection and the work of its board members to explore the economic injustice served to the Maxwell Street Market neighborhood as it faced redevelopment in the 1990s. Fully realized in 2002 with the emergence of the University Village Marketplace comprised of mixed-use retail shops, eateries and dormitories, the face of historic Maxwell Street was forever changed to exclude its former residents and most of its former businesses. Its century-old streetscape that had served as an authentic public space for a cultural mix of residents, shoppers, vendors, merchants, street musicians and performers was erased, and the spirit of “the place” surrendered.
Jimmy Lee Robinson. Photo credit Lee Landry
Lee Landry is a photojournalist, a Unit Still Photographer for film productions, and a long-standing illustrator. He is also a traveler and has traveled half way around the world with camera in tow. In his images, he documents almost everything he does and his experiences similar to the way of a writer. Having been published in various magazines, newspapers and books, Lee took aim at the Maxwell Street Market in the 1990s and developed a photographic project series entitled: Maxwell Street: The People. Well-known for its food, its stores, blues music and the market itself, Lee photographed the people who lived and worked there that few knew about: the people of Maxwell Street. Lee is on the board of directors for the Maxwell Street Foundation.
Pinetop Perkins. Photo credit Lee Landry
Ron Gordon is a photographer and preservationist whose work includes the documentation of Maxwell Street buildings, its streetscape, and sometimes the people who resided there. Having lived in Pilsen for 30 years, Ron's work frequently focused on Chicago's south and west sides. During 1995-1996, he was commissioned by the University of Illinois at Chicago to prepare the photographic work for the Level 1 HABS/HAER documentation required by the federal government for the Maxwell Street area redevelopment. He also photographed an iconic image of one of the last buildings' demise on Maxwell Street during a fire on the eve of the Millennium, now published in City 2000: words and images about Chicago and its People. Quoting Ron, "Often I have been the last person to document something as it was about to disappear. This visual record of changes in the urban landscape is also social documentary, since architecture cannot exist without people, or people without architecture."
Ron earned a BA in language and literature (1965), an MA in literature (1968), and completed preliminary doctoral studies in language and literature at the University of Illinois. He is the recipient of a Fullbright travel grant and two Focus Infinity Fund grants, and owns the Ron Gordon Photographic Services photo lab. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Historical Society, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Illinois State Museum, the Paris Art Center, and the Library of Congress. He has co-authored with John Paulett two books for Arcadia Publishing, Inc., "Printers Row Chicago" (2003) and "Forgotten Chicago" (2004). In March 2016, Ron relocated to North Carolina with his wife Sallie. Ron has gifted a substantial quantity of his photographic work to the Maxwell Street Foundation documenting Maxwell Street’s transition.
Nick Jackson is a photographer, illustrator, and writer concerned with the intersection of personal and regional histories. Nick spearheaded a StoryCorps partnership with the Maxwell Street Foundation in 2015 recording the oral histories of people associated with the market, its music, and neighborhood. From 2012 to 2014, Nick served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a rural Ukrainian town where he taught English and art classes. Since returning to Chicago, he has continued teaching as well as producing illustrations and comics. These include Falling Rocks, an illustrated narrative of the protests in Kyiv that he presented in the "Brain Frame" performative comics reading series. He is currently a finalist for a Fulbright study grant that will possibly send him back to the Ukraine next year. Nick holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is on the board of directors for the Maxwell Street Foundation.
The Last Fish: Water is a Human Right!
Hosted by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade
May 21, 6:30-9:30pm
For more than two years, emergency manager dictators under the direction of Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan have been laying waste to state public resources. The most egregious acts have been the water shutoffs in Detroit, the destruction of Detroit public schools, and the poisoning of a whole city with contaminated water. Flint, Michigan changed its water source 2 years ago to the Flint River and since then residents have suffered lead poisoning and other ailments due to other toxins in the water. All the children of the city are now affected, an irreversible process. Since this disgrace came to national attention a few months ago, similar problems have been cropping up all across the country. At the same time, emergency managers have been imposed in many communities across the country, steps toward wiping out the last vestiges we have of democracy.
This is a poetic response to the crisis in Michigan and the harbinger it holds for the entire country. It follows National Poetry Month, and we can think of no better way to dedicate our word-weapons than in defense of Flint and for the preservation of democracy. Art is not simply a mirror to reflect society; it is a hammer to shape it!
Featured Poets
Angelina Llongueras
Sarah Carson
"the Bard of the Flint Working Class"
Eric Allen Yankee
Elizabeth Marino
Lew Rosenbaum
Robert Wilson, jr
Michelle Saltouros
Music:
Adam Gottlieb & OneLove
Performance:
Sojourner Zenobia
Speakers:
Cranston Knight
Andy Willis
Arielle Maldonado
Commemorating Les Orear and the
Union Stockyard Gate
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted
May 14, 2 pm-4 pm
Join Uri-Eichen Gallery and the Illinois Labor History Society for a free reception and photography display featuring images celebrating the life of ILHS co-founder Les Orear and Chicago stockyard workers and the exhibit of Oscar Magallanes' work (see above) The reception will take place immediately following the commemoration of a bench and plaque to honor Les Orear at the site of Stockyard Gate, located at the intersection of Halsted and Exchange, near 41st Street. Les Orear passed away at the age of 103, in 2014. He dedicated his life to organizing for workers' rights and preserving and sharing their history. He was an organizer for United Packinghouse Workers of America and co-founder and president emeritus of the Illinois Labor History Society.
Oscar Magallanes, New American Portrait
Join URI-EICHEN as we start our 5 month series about Income Inequality in America
Opening - May 13, 6-10pm
Uri-Eichen Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
7pm: Artist Discussion with Oscar Magallanes and Citizen Action Illinois Discussion on Fighting Inequality in Illinois 
A “New American Portrait” is an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles based artist Oscar Magallanes. Magallanes’ work is heavily influenced by the social and environmental issues of his upbringing of the Mexican Barrio. His work is known for its use bold graphics, cultural and political iconography, along with visual rhetoric of popular people’s movements such as that of labor and civil rights movements.
This new body of work pays homage to Diego Rivera and Bertram David Wolfe’s “Portrait of America” which was a collaboration in 1934 that tasked students of the New Workers School in New York to research alternate histories of labor in the United States. While Rivera and Wolfe’s work was unapologetically communist and idealistic in its assertion that the workers’ movement would create a classless society, we can clearly see in the 82 years since the widening rift between the working class and the wealthy in the United States today. Rivera’s work while having proven naive in the ability of communism to challenge capitalism, has at the same time been proven correct in it’s predictions of capitalism’s oppressiveness to labor.
Set against the current theater of politics in which xenophobia has replaced the “good neighbor” Magallanes’ work serves as a portrait of America through its relationship with labor. A changing portrait of late capitalism or post-industrialism that reflects the enduring historical traumas of a complex people’s history of a nation.
Magallanes was raised in the Azusa Barrio of Los Angeles. At the age of fifteen, he was expelled from high school, but was accepted into the Ryman Arts program at the Otis-Parsons College campus which encouraged him to become a professional artist. His artwork is influenced by the cultural and social elements of his upbringing along with his years of previous work as a graphic designer. The experience of participating in two distinct worlds continues to inform the work.
April 22nd 6pm-10pm: 120 DAYS: Undocumented in America (In)Justice for All Film Screening, Film at 7pm
Uri-Eichen Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
Family man Miguel Cortes could be forced to leave the country in four months as a result of his immigration status. In exchange for Miguel agreeing to leave the country voluntarily and paying a $5,000 bond, a North Carolina immigration judge offers him 120 days to get his affairs in order before leaving his wife and two daughters in the United States to continue their education. Miguel has 120 Days to work hard, save money and weigh his options about returning to Mexico alone, or risk changing his name and disappearing back into another U.S. city illegally to keep his family together. http://www.120daysmovie.com/ 
“The (In)Justice for All Film Festival is an exciting and groundbreaking event designed to raise awareness about the magnitude of the harm caused by mass incarceration, by harnessing the creative energies of dedicated, socially conscious filmmakers. See these films, expand your mind, grow your heart, and join the movement for justice.” –Michelle Alexander
From April 21 through April 30, 2015, the power of film will be harnessed in the service of justice as the (In)Justice for All Film Festival presents a series of FREE screenings, many of which feature panel discussions to provide addition context. Please avail yourself of this unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of the issues, to be angered, to be touched, and most importantly, to be called to action. Go to www.injusticeforallff.com for more information, and to RSVP.
Con Justicia Para Todos
Opening April 8, 2016 6pm-10pm
Uri-Eichen Gallery, 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL, 60608
Uri-Eichen Gallery, in partnership with the Latino Art Conference at UIC and the Third Annual (In)Justice For All Film Festival, hosts a group show of artists in Pilsen and Little Village, Chicago, about justice issues in the Latino Community. Group show with Rene Arceo, Eric Garcia, Nicole Marroquin and Pauline Camacho’s students at Benito Juarez High Community Academy, Gabriel Villa, and The 96 Acres Project.
Reception and screening for (In)Justice for All Film Festival: 4-22 6pm-10pm
By Appointment through 5-5-16
Rene Arceo was Born in Mexico in 1959 and moved to Chicago in 1979. He studied fine arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1981-85). He received a BFA and a Teacher Certificate (K-12 grade). Arceo has participated in dozens of group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Poland, France, Nicaragua and Spain. Arceo lives in Chicago where he co-founded the Galeria Ink Works (1984-87) and the Mexican Printmaking Workshop (1990-96). He founded Arceo Press in 2005 to foster international collaborations among printmakers. Arceo is currently a member of Consejo Grafico (a national network of Latino print shops), Chicago Society of Artists, FEDECMI Casa Michoacán-Chicago, and Mid America Print Alliance. www.arceoART.us/ArceoPress
Eric Garcia is known for mixing history and culture with contemporary themes, Eric J. Garcia always tries to create art that is much more than just aesthetics. Garcia has shown in numerous national and international exhibitions, has received many awards such as the prestigious Jacob Javits Fellowship and is currently an artist in residence at the Hyde Park Art Center. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Garcia came to Chicago in 2007, to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he earned his Masters of Fine Arts degree. A versatile artist working in an assortment of media, from hand-printed posters, to published political cartoons, to sculptural installations.
Gabriel Villa was born and raised in the El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez border region and currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, where he is an active member of the arts community. Villa received his MFA from the University of Delaware. Villa is an experienced teacher and was Visiting Artist at Stateville Prison, Crest Hill IL, with the Prison Neighborhood & Prison Arts Project. Villa served from 2005-2011 as Director of Yollocalli Arts Reach, a youth initiative of the National Museum of Mexican Art and also served as Co-Curator for the Chicago Kraft Foods Gallery from 2006-2011 at the National Museum of Mexican Art
Nicole Marroquin is an interdisciplinary artist whose creative practice includes collaboration, research, teaching, and strategic intervention. Marroquin is an experienced classroom teacher and has collaborated with youth on art-based action research. In addition to activism in education, Marroquin exhibits internationally. Marroquin and Paulina Camacho, an Art Teacher at Benito Juarez Community Academy, are presenting student work that will be presented at the LAN symposium at UIC and at the National Art Education Association conference on Latino social justice history, including piece related to the campaign to build Benito Juarez High Community Academy.
96 Acres is a series of community-engaged, site-responsive art projects that involve community stakeholders’ ideas about social and restorative justice issues, and that examine the impact of incarceration at the Cook County Jail on Chicago’s West Side. 96 Acres uses multi-disciplinary practices to explore the social and political implications of incarceration on communities of color. Through creative processes and coalition building, 96 Acres aims to generate alternative narratives reflecting on power and responsibility by presenting insightful and informed collective responses for the transformation of a space that occupies 96 acres, but has a much larger reaching outcome.
May –September: Each month a new show on growing income inequality in America- Oscar Magallanes, Uri-Eichen collaborates with the Maxwell Street Foundation, 1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality (a collaboration with the Gage Gallery), Cartoons about economic inequality curated by Mike Konopacki and Gary Huck, and more!
Autonomia Contra la Muerte / Autonomy Against Death
Social Justice Posters from Mexico. Posters and Prints from Grafica de Lucha, Escuela Cultura Popular Martires del 68, and Mujeres Grabando Resistencia
Opening March 11 from 6pm to 10pm
Uri-Eichen Gallery 2101 S Halsted, Chicago IL 60608
Presenting linocut & silkscreen prints from the struggle in Mexico from collectives Grafica de Lucha, Mujeres Grabando Resistencia, & Escuela de Cultura Popular Martires del 68. These works hail from a country in which the government maintains an internal war against its own population sponsored by transnational capitol & imperialist governments like the U.S.A.
Proceeds of poster and print sales 100% to support the movements! Most prints priced at $25
Donations accepted on opening evening for Budget or Else Save CSU- Support the students at Chicago State University as they fight Governor Rauner’s attack on higher education and working people in Chicago!
Discussion 7pm
Celeste Ixchel on the posters, Jeanette Martin from STITCH Milwaukee, a community organization, and Pancho MacFarland on the Zapatista Movement.
Pancho McFarland, PhD, is a former b-boy, current hip hop head, professor of sociology at Chicago State University, author, martial artist and father. He is an activist within the food justice and local food movements and is a martial artist.
Jeanette Martin is a chingona Xicana artist and organizer from Milwaukee.She is one of the founders of STITCH, has taught a Latina Radical Arts class at UWMilwaukee, where she was also Media Specialist at the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, served as Gender & Sexuality Resource Center Program Assistant at Marquette University and is currently opening a panadera gallery space in Milwaukee,WI
Celeste Ixchel will be speaking about the posters. She has collaborated and celebrated with STITCH in Milwaukee. She created posters with Grafica de Lucha and was blown away when she met la Martires 68 in 1997 set up in the street outside the historic site of Costureras-- site of the September 19th Union of Seamstresses in Mexico City. She has recently been inspired by the works of Mujeres Grabando Resistencia.
Mujeres Grabando Resistencias – Women Recording Resistance Is a collective of women engravers based out of Mexico City. Their objective is to create reproducible images, in the streets of Mexico & other countries of Abya Yala ( pre colonialist name for American continent), with clear, understandable messages against violence towards women & for women’s right to self defense.
The School of Popular Culture “Martyrs of 68” was born in January 1988, 20 years after the massacre of Tlatelolco, to commemorate the fateful historical event in which countless peaceful protesters, from all walks of life, were brutally murdered by Mexican military and police with the support of the U.S CIA. Artistic and cultural workshops are held with the goal of sharing tools and knowledge that serve social movements and accomplish daily graphic production in the silkscreen and engraving workshops.
Graphica de Lucha is a visual call to organize, take to the streets & awaken consciousness. The images travel from hand to hand, on the walls of the streets, in collective spaces and where ever people organize for justice . These are graphics that fight back, invite reflection, counter fear, inspire and mobilize. Since the launch of the Zapatistan 6th Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle in 2005, Graphica de Lucha has been both a traveling and stationary workshop creating silkscreened and digital images in various languages which call for action & social justice.
Live music with Linda Boyle and Adam Gottlieb 8pm
Linda doesn't just sing a song, she tells our stories. A Chicago singer, song writer, Linda Boyle's repertoire includes many originals, roots, world, folk, Blues, Country and Old Time. She sings in several languages, with a large repertoire in Spanish. Her performances include festivals in the Midwest to South Dakota and countless rallies and events supporting peace, anti-racism, workers, public education, immigrant rights and folks with disabilities.
Open by appointment through April 1, 2016. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717
Opening February 12th 6pm-10pm
Also displayed art work created by children during the Dyett Hunger strike and work created by Drummond students.
Artists Discussion 7pm
Spoken word poets and music by 4/12 Seconds of Reverb (CPS teachers make the best music!)
Elen Gradman is a Chicago based artist and teacher. She is an activist in labor and education support and she has employer her art to support the movement in Chicago.
Fred Klonsky has lived in Chicago for more than 40 years. Fred was the president of his teachers union local, was a K-5 teacher for nearly three decades, and writes and draws about justice issues in Chicago.
Special Event: PAPER PROTEST WORKSHOP with Ellen Gradman
2-28
1pm-4pm
Have something to say? Have a desire to create a radical image? Want to express an idea visually, but not sure how to do it? Then this workshop is for you! No art experience is necessary! The wonderful thing about activism art (Artivism) is at the core it is inclusive and democratic. The workspace will be in Uri-Eichen Gallery, and participants will be surrounded by the art work of Fred Klonsky and Ellen Gradman. We will also refer to iconic revolutionary art for inspiration. Each participant will create a personal, Paper Protest. You will be exposed to ways to think big, yet edit your thoughts to create a visual image with or without words. A variety of materials will be used including but not limited to; paper, markers, stencils, clip art, computer/copy machine printouts. We will also discuss ways to use the images created in the immediate future.
All materials provided, no charge rsvp to Ellen Gradman at everychicago@gmail.com
By Appointment through March 4. To
Opening January 15 from 6-10pm
7pm Film Screening of Citizenfour
Following the Film: Discussion- America Post 9/11: Whistleblowers and the Surveillance State. Moderated by Kari Lydersen, panel includes Rory Fanning, Joe Isobaker, and Brandon Smith.
About Not a Bug Splat: Since 2004, drone strikes in Pakistan have killed an estimated 3,000+ people. While some of these were high-profile targets, a large number were civilians, including 160 children. The people who operate the drones describe their casualties as “bug splats”, since viewing the body through a grainy-green video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed. In order to show the drone operators the actual face of the children they might end up bombing - rather than a dehumanized dot on a screen – the collaborative printed an extremely large scale (70 feet by 100 feet approximately) portrait of a child done attack survivor living in the area where the drones are operated. The portrait was laid upon the ground facing up, so that a drone camera will capture her, transmitting her to the drone operator’s screen. This is a part of the Inside Out Project with French Artist J.R. This show is a collaboration between Uri-Eichen Gallery and Ali Rez, Saks Afridi, Assam Khalid, Akash Goel, JR, Insiya Syed, Noor Behram, Jamil Akhtar, the artists in the collaborative and the InsideOut project.
Please see www.saksafridi.com, alimumtaz.com and notabugsplat.com for more on this work.
About Citizenfour: Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. Citizenfour is the last part in a three part series of documentaries about post 9-11 America. Citizenfour won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars. URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted CHICAGO Illinois 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com | www.uri-eichen.com By appointment through 2-5-16. For an appointment call 312 852 7717.
About the Panel:
Rory Fanning walked across the United States for the Pat Tillman Foundation in 2008–2009, following two deployments to Afghanistan with the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion. He is a war resister, military counter recruiter, and writer living in Chicago, Illinois. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Nation, Mother Jones, Salon, Truthout, TruthDig, TomDispatch, Jacobin, Socialist Worker and others. He speaks at high schools and universities about his walk across the US and his experience in the military.
Brandon Smith is a Chicago-based independent journalist who, with the help of whistleblowers and the Freedom of Information Act, has reported on civil rights abuses, privatization of public assets, digital privacy concerns, and pollution of land and water. Smith recently fought for the release of the Laquan McDonald dashcam video in the City of Chicago.
Joe Iosbaker is a member of Anti-War Committee – Chicago. In 2010, Joe was one of the 23 anti-war activists raided by the FBI and subpoenaed to a federal grand jury. He was a national coordinator for the anti-NATO protest in 2012. He is a coordinator for the Committee to Stop FBI Repression in their campaign for Justice for Rasmea Odeh. In 2015, he became a member of the Steering Committee of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
Kari Lydersen is a Chicago-based reporter, author and journalism instructor. She currently is co-director of the Social Justice News Nexus, a Fellowship program at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University that brings together graduate students and professional reporters to do in-depth stories on topics including drug policy and mental health. From 2013-2014, she was a research associate at the Medill Watchdog Project at Northwestern. She is the author of four books including Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun (City Lights, 2008), Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Window Factory Takeover and What it Says About the Economic Crisis (Melville House, 2009) and most recently Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s 99% (Haymarket Books, 2013). She also has taught journalism at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and she works with youth from marginalized communities through the non-profit journalism program We the People Media.
Screening Film At the River I Stand Film at 530pm
Discussion: Dr. King’s Economic Justice Campaign moderated by Mike Siviwe ElliotMichael Bracey, Ruth Goring and Mary Kelsey
A multimedia show of photography, pastels and drawings about human rights in Afro Colombian CommunitieOpening discussions 7pm December 11th.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted CHICAGO Illinois 60608 | info@URI-EICHEN.com | www.uri-eichen.com | By appointment through 1-1-16. For an appointment call 312 852 7717.
Michael Bracey is a freelance photographer currently living in Chicago, Illinois. His work has been published in various magazines, newspapers, annual reports, and purchased by many private collectors worldwide. He is the author of several books, the latest being Rivers of Women, co-authored with Shirley LeFlore and published by 2LeafPress.org He holds an Associates of Arts degree from Hutchinson Community College, Hutchinson, Kansas (1979), a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Webster University, St. Louis, MO (1981), and a Master of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago (1997).
Mary Kelsey’s art looks at how human culture functions within the natural physical environment. She received a Fulbright research grant for Central America, where her drawings of rural culture were published in several formats, including the first native language primer for school children of an indigenous rain forest group. Kelsey’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited in New York, Boston and other cities. She has degrees in anthropology from Stanford and in painting from the Museum School, Boston. She has taught at Syracuse University and Cape Cod Community College. She has illustrated and designed books and other publications, painted museum installations, and exhibited nationally. Her work has appeared in publications in Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and the US.
Ruth Goring’s poetry collections are Soap Is Political (Glass Lyre, 2015) and Yellow Doors (WordFarm, 2004). Her poems have also appeared, or will soon, in Calyx, RHINO, Crab Creek Review, Pilgrimage, Sin Fronteras, New Madrid, Reunion, Zona de carga / Loading Zone, and elsewhere. Having grown up in Colombia, she has provided accompaniment and advocacy to peace communities in that country; one form that has taken is a series of chalk pastel portraits of Afro-Colombians. Currently she serves on the board of Colombia Vive Chicago. Hear her recent Chicago Public Radio reading/interview at http://www.wbez.org/series/global-activism/global-activism-poet-ruth-goring-says-colombia-soap-political-113428. Ruth is a senior manuscript editor at University of Chicago Press and teaches in the Graham School’s editing certificate program.
Michael Bracey, Ruth Goring and Mary Kelsey
Opening December 4, 6-10pm- featuring Ruth Goring, Michael Bracey, and December 11, 6-10pm- featuring Mary Kelsey and discussion with Steve Cagan. Opening discussions at each reception moderated by Kari Lydersen
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted CHICAGO Illinois 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com | www.uri-eichen.com
By appointment through 1-1-16. For an appointment call 312 852 7717.
OPENING: Friday, November 13th, 2015 - 6:00pm-10:00pm
Collections of Joe Hill’s union, the Industrial Workers of the World General Headquarters, the collections of the Illinois Labor History Society and the Fight for Joe Hill!, Posters from Molly Crabapple, and Jon Langford’s Joe Hill’s Coffin!
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted CHICAGO Illinois 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com | www.uri-eichen.com
OPENING: Friday, October 9, 2015 - 6:00pm -10pm
Pilsen Open Studios Hours: Saturday, October 24 and Sunday October 25 12:00pm-6pm
100% of sales from Pilsen Stories will fund gallery programming and are tax deductible (Uri-Eichen is now a 501c3!)
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted CHICAGO Illinois 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com | www.uri-eichen.com
Artist Discussion September 11, 7pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted CHICAGO Illinois 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com | www.uri-eichen.com
The 4th month in the 5 month series: 40 Acres and a Mule: A Series of Visual Art Shows and Discussions about Reparations for Slavery.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted CHICAGO Illinois 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com | www.uri-eichen.com
The 4th month in the 5 month series: 40 Acres and a Mule: A Series of Visual Art Shows and Discussions about Reparations for Slavery.
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted CHICAGO Illinois 60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com | www.uri-eichen.com
The 4th month in the 5 month series: 40 Acres and a Mule: A Series of Visual Art Shows and Discussions about Reparations for Slavery.
Quilombos and the Fight for Reparations in Brazil
The 3rd month in the 5 month series:
40 Acres and a Mule: A Series of Visual Art Shows and Discussions about Reparations for Slavery
Reparations: A Walk Through History Photography of Farrad Ali and Michael Bracey
A photographic exhibition and discussion
Featuring : "F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature." author William J. Maxwell. Join us as we launch our series on reparations for slavery with this May Day event.
Joe Hill 100 Years Part 4: Paintings from James Wechsler and Cartoons and Paintings from Jorge Franklin Cardenas
Opening April 10, 6-10pm
Join us as we feature two artists working on themes of social justice. James Wechsler’s Freedom of Information series of modern paintings on historical FBI repression of Americans on the left and Jorge Franklin Cardenas’s comics, paintings and writing about worker rights and his imprisonment for “making fun of Francisco Franco” after the Republican loss of Spanish Civil War. Much of the original Franklin Cardenas work hanging in the gallery has never been shown before. Join us as we celebrate the work of two artists standing proud to fight for freedom of speech, just like Joe Hill!
2101 South HalstedOPENING PROGRAMS:
7pm-8pm: Panel discussion- Using Satire and Parody in Political Expression: featuring Rick Perlstein, Gary Huck, Jerry Boyle and moderated by Paul Durica
9pm-10pm Mark Dvorak plays the songs of Joe Hill!
All events are free and open to the public
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted CHICAGO Illinois 60608
info@URI-EICHEN.com
www.uri-eichen.com
By Appointment through Friday, May 1. For an appointment call 312 852 7717
Killed
Opening March 13th, 6-10pm
8PM, March 13th: Special Guest Speaker Tom Burke. Tom Burke is a labor and international solidarity activist from a large Irish American family in Chicago. He witnessed the British war in Ireland and supports Irish freedom.
2101 South HalstedColm McCarthy is an Irish photographer and printmaker whose work focuses primarily on sociopolitical commentary. He currently lives with his wife Jane and their family in Madison, Wisconsin.
Upcoming Shows:
Seeing Red
Closing Reception March 6th, 6-9pm
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Seeing Red
Opening February 13th, 6-10pm
2101 South HalstedProgram February 13th, 8pm- Get Out the Vote Chicago! Political Poster Collage Workshop with Mike Konopacki and Gary Huck
Mike Konopacki graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He began labor cartooning for the Madison Press Connection, a local daily created by striking newspaper workers in 1978. In 1983 he and Gary Huck created Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons, syndicating their cartoons to the labor press in the U.S. and Canada.Closing Reception, People at Work
February 6, 6-9pm.
2101 South Halsted
People at Work Photographs by Michael Gaylord James
Opening January 9th, 6-10pm.
2101 South HalstedArtist Discussion 8pm
3rd Annual Human Rights Day Show: Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers.
Opening 6-10pm
Topics covered in the exhibition include:
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Group Show Artist Discussion 8pm
Live Music with Kara Jackson 9pm
Joe Hill 100 Years Part 3- LABOR / MIGRANT / GULF Group Show.
Opening November 14th 6-10pm, 2 Venues, next door to each other!
URI-EICHEN Gallery | 2101 S Halsted and 2107 S Halsted
Chicago
Labor Migrant Gulf is a comprehensive art exhibit featuring nearly 100 artists, bringing awareness to the migrant working poor in the Persian/Arabian Gulf, the US –Mexican border and throughout the world. This exhibit, born in the United States, is inspired by laborers half way around the world, while keeping a clear eye on regional borders in the Western Hemisphere. A significant goal of Labor Migrant Gulf is to integrate new works and actions by artists in the towns and cities where it travels.
The exhibit’s center pieces are two boteh created by over 70 artists from San Diego, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Mexico City, Tijuana, Berlin, Milan, Beirut, Paris, Rome, Dubai, Toronto, Vancouver, Hawai’i and Los Angeles. Labor Migrant Gulf began as a contribution to Gulf Labor, based in New York to protest the building of cultural institutions such as the Guggenheim and Louvre in Abu Dhabi on the backs of migrant labor.
Featuring Live Music with Bucky Halker, playing Joe Hill music! Joe Hill -the worker, the singer, artist, and fighter for labor rights: join us for a night of his music surrounded by LABOR / MIGRANT / GULF. Music 8pm
Title: Fist of the Day
Medium: Silk screen print
Dimensions: 36” x 24”
Artist: Hend Al Mansour
Year: 2014
Join Us! Friday, October 24th for Following the Box
Following the Box - an Evening with Jerry Zbiral and Alan Teller
Friday, Oct. 24, 7pm-9pm
A chance discovery of a box of photographs from India in 1945 launches a quest to identify the photographer and to the creation of new artworks with both American and Indian artists. Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral recount a fascinating cross-cultural journey, following Ghurka soldiers in rural India and passionate discussions with West Bengali artists as they draw inspirations from an outsider’s vision of 70 years ago.
How a mysterious box of photos sent an Evanston couple halfway around the world
URI-EICHEN Gallery
2101 S Halsted
Chicago
For a quarter century, Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller have been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer behind images from 1940s India.... Hear the unfolding story and see the images from the mysterious box!
Join us for this special one night event. Snacks served! All events are free and open to the public! If you have questions, please call 312 852 7717 or email at gabbyfish@hotmail.com
For more information about Following the Box please check out: followingthebox@gmail.com
All events are free and open to the public!
Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 8pm,
and Sunday, October 19, 2014, from 12 to 6pm
The New Way of War: the Expansion of Drones and Seeking Sanctuary
Kathy Steichen and Christopher Urias
One of a Kind Monoprints of Archival Commercial Foil and Collage
URI-EICHEN Gallery
2101 S Halsted
Chicago
URI-EICHEN Gallery hosts an exhibit about the expanding use of drones. On our border, in other countries, and here at home, drones have posed a real threat to privacy, to freedom, and as a weapon of war. The monoprints on display, about drone use in war and here in the U.S. explore the growing use of the weapon and surveillance drone. Drone victims speak of seeking sanctuary of a cloudy day somewhere in a country targeted by the U.S. so that the drones cannot fly or of immigrants crossing the Mexican / U.S. border seek sanctuary in America, only to be stopped by the observance of a drone, piloted thousands of miles away.
The New Way of War: the Expansion of Drones and Seeking Sanctuary
Kathy Steichen and Christopher Urias
One of a Kind Monoprints of Archival Commercial Foil and Collage
October 10, 6-10pm Chicago Artists Month Opening
URI-EICHEN Gallery
2101 S Halsted
Chicago
URI-EICHEN Gallery hosts an exhibit about the expanding use of drones. On our border, in other countries, and here at home, drones have posed a real threat to privacy, to freedom, and as a weapon of war. The monoprints on display, about drone use in war and here in the U.S. explore the growing use of the weapon and surveillance drone. Drone victims speak of seeking sanctuary of a cloudy day somewhere in a country targeted by the U.S. so that the drones cannot fly or of immigrants crossing the Mexican / U.S. border seek sanctuary in America, only to be stopped by the observance of a drone, piloted thousands of miles away.
8pm Special Guest Speaker Kathy Kelly from Voices for Creative Nonviolence and short film screening: Walking the Walk: A March Against Drone Warfare
About Kathy Kelly: She co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org), a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. During each of nine recent trips to Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly, as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe that “where you stand determines what you see.” Kelly has also joined with activists in various regions of the country to protest drone warfare by holding demonstrations outside of U.S. military bases in Nevada, upstate New York, and, most recently, at Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri.
Pilsen Open Studios Openings:
Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 8pm, and Sunday, October 19, 2014, from 12 to 6pm
Special Event October 24, 7pm-9pm Following the Box: Jerri Zbiral and Allan Teller
2014 Global Human Rights and Economic Justice Series- Join us for the final series month!
September 12, 6-10pm
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An exhibition of 58 posters from campaigns using economic pressure to secure people’s rights and achieve justice, including:
From American Friends Service Committee and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, LA
2014 Global Human Rights and Economic Justice Series- Join us for the final series month!
All events are free and open to the public!
An exhibition of 58 posters from campaigns using economic pressure to secure people’s rights and achieve justice, including:
• United Farm Worker grape and lettuce boycott
• Anti-Apartheid Movement
• Anti-Sweatshop campaigns
• Palestinian call for Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS)
• And many other campaigns
BOYCOTTS ! September 12 at 8pm Opening panel discussion.
Moderated by Bob Bruno, Director of the Labor Studies Program at the University of Illinois. Featuring Emily Twarog (US Boycotts), Anne Carlson (CPS Testing Boycott), Discussion of Willis Wagons Boycott and film Screening of work in progress by Kartemquin Films, after the panel.
About the panel:
Robert Bruno, Director of the Labor Studies Program and a Professor of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois, wrote Steelworker Alley: How Class Works In Youngstown(1999), Reforming the Chicago Teamsters: The Story of Local 705 (2003) and Justified by Work: The Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches (2008) a he has taught many different labor relations courses, specializing in collective bargaining, labor history and American politics, as well as given numerous public presentations on labor relations.
Dr. Emily E. LB. Twarog is an assistant professor of history and labor studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Labor and Employment Relations – Labor Education Program. Emily spent 15 years in the food service industry as a line cook, drive-thru cashier, assistant pastry chef, bread baker, and server. She is currently at work on a book (“Politics in the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in 20th Century America”) that examines the ways in which housewives in America used food protests as a political tool to gain political influence both locally and nationally.
Anne Carlson teaches a combined class of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders at Drummond Montessori Magnet, where she is also the CTU delegate. She has taught in CPS since 1998. Before becoming a Montessori-trained teacher, she worked as a dual-language (Spanish) instructor. She is also a parent of three children, two of whom attend her school. In February 2014, following the lead of Saucedo Academy, she organized a boycott, with some teachers at Drummond, of the Illinois State Achievement Test (ISAT).
Kartemquin Films Presents a 20 minute work in progress: '63 Boycott- After the panel discussion, a screening of this work in progress. This short documentary and web project that highlights the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott, one of the largest Civil Rights’ demonstrations in the city’s history. Through never-released 16mm footage and then-and-now interviews with participants, the project engages the broader public in the importance of this largely forgotten event and connects it to the struggles surrounding today’s public education system. This film serves as a platform to discuss the significance of contemporary education reform issues in Chicago.
For more info, email gabbyfish@hotmail.com Open by appointment through October 3rd-- for an appointment call 312 852 7717
Anya Ulinich presents Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel, a graphic novel about dating, love, sex, immigration, motherhood, literature, and the meaning of life.
August 22, 6 - 10pm Reception
"Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel has no antecedents, that it transcends its influences so thoroughly it creates a form, a language, all its own." - The Los Angeles Times
Jeff Frank, a National Lawyers Guild attorney, has been involved with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) for over 10 years. Since 2009, Jeff has been the national coordinator for the Friends of the MST (www.mstbrazil.org), the US based support group for the MST. In that capacity, Jeff has coordinated the visits of MST militants to the US and facilitated US activists in connecting with the MST in Brazil. Most recently, Jeff helped lead a delegation of Friends of the MST members and US activists to the MST's 6th Congress in order to strengthen international solidarity.
BUCKY HALKER, Ph.D., is a singer-songwriter, performer, and scholar with a dozen recordings to his credit, including Welcome to Labor Land, a recording of Illinois labor songs from the past, and the all-originalsWisconsin 2-13-63, vols. 1 & 2. His new double-CD release, The Ghost of Woody Guthrie (2012), offers an original music tribute to Woody Guthrie.
(following the May Day activities)
The Uri-Eichen Gallery - 5:30 PM Light Buffet & 6:00 PM Meeting The Gallery is located at 2101 S. Halsted in Chicago.
Special Presentation by Christian Pilichowski,
International Representative of the French CGT
The Global Fight Against Austerity & the Rebirth of the
Word Labor Movement
Weber has participated in major international and national travelling shows, including the Museum of Modern Art’s “Committed to Print,” the Jewish Museum’s “Bridges and Boundries,” “Kunst und Krieg” 1989, Berlin, the recent “Poetic Dialogue Project,” and “Windows and Mirrors,” from the AFSC, travelling nationally. He is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Spertus Museum, the DePaul University Museum, the Brauer Museum of Valparaiso U., the Cohen Library of City College, CCNY, the Koehnline Museum of Oakton College and t Elmhurst College, Illinois Benedictine, Loyola and the Illiinois Labor History Society. He has had over 30 solo shows, including five in New York City. Most recently he exhibited at the Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport. Weber co-founded the Chicago Mural Group (now Chicago Public Art Group) with the late William Walker in 1970-71. He authored, with Eva and James Cockcroft Toward A People’s Art (Dutton, 1977), the classic account of the early years of the contemporary mural movement, reissued in 1998 in an expanded edition by U. of New Mexico Press.
Join URI-EICHEN Gallery for a night of music, art, and discussion featuring Jon Langford
Joe Hill 100 Years, Part 1 of a series at URI-EICHEN Gallery celebrating Joe Hill's life, songs, art and the Industrial Workers of the World
The final show in the 8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hoursfor What We Will series of art shows about worker rights
Chicago Teachers Union: Rank and File CTU member photos, art, strike posters, member testimonials.100s of members and supporters images on display!
URI-EICHEN Gallery | 2101 S Halsted El- Halsted
By appointment through October 3. For an appointment call 312 852 7717Co-sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society
Open by appointment through August 30th
For an appointment call (312) 852-7717
Panel Discussion 8pm
Live Music
Faith communities and the labor movement have long been allies in the fight for worker justice, from the historic Catholic Labor Guild network and the Jewish Lyceum, Cesar Chavez's Farmworkers' Movement and Martin Luther King's support for sanitation workers.
On August 9th Interfaith Worker Justice and the URI-EICHEN Gallery invite you to take a look at the important role people of faith play in supporting campaigns and programs that impact the lives of low-wage workers and their families.
Featuring documentary photography from local and national campaigns, worker leaders in campaigns, music, and discussion.
Film: Picture Man:The Poetry of Photographer Milton Rogovin. Milton Rogovin wrote poems about some of his most meaningful images – some poems were funny and others wereserious. These photo/poems were woven into this 20 minute film
Post film discussion with Mark Rogovin
Mark Rogovin was an assistantto Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros on his last mural, the March of Humanity. He received an MFA degree from the Art Institute of Chicago andgraduated in 1970. He founded the Public Art Workshop, a mural center in the Austin community. Among other projects he co-authored Mural Manual, the onlystep-by-step guide to producing murals for classrooms and street corners.
In 1981 he co-founded the Peace Museum. In 1997 he directed a nationwide organization to celebrate thecentennial of singer and activist Paul Robeson. Mark now heads the Rogovin Collection with a mission to promote the educational use of the socialdocumentary photography of his father, Milton Rogovin. In 2011 he directed and produced Be Filled With the Spirit,a film on the Storefront series of Milton's photographs
Portraits in Steel Photo-Oral History Video
Michael Frisch
Many of Milton Rogovin’s subjects in the 1970s Working People Series were Buffalo NY steelworkers. By the late 1980s,all were ex-steelworkers: every Buffalo mill, foundry, and shop in which Rogovin had photographed had closed. Thisled Rogovin to a unique project: he invited oral historian Michael Frisch to conduct life history interviews with WorkingPeople photo subjects, and Rogovin took new portraits of each worker. The resulting book and travelling exhibit(Portraits in Steel , Cornell University Press, 1993) presented Buffalo steelworkers in their own words and imagesbefore and after the onslaught of plant closings and deindustrialization.
Recently, new technical capacities have led Frisch to revisit the project, working directly now with the interview audiorecordings rather than transcription texts. He is combining the photographic portraits with selected audio passages in thephoto subjects’ voices—a combination surprisingly rare in documentary photography.
The URI-EICHEN Gallery complements the exhibit of Rogovin’s photographs with a video sample of this new work-in-progress.Frisch and Mark Rogovin, Milton’s son, hope this may grow into a full multimedia exhibit and/or a comprehensive digitalversion of Portraits in Steel combining worker voices and photographic portraits.
June 14, 6pm-11:30pm (Show open by appointment only through June 31)
The second show in the series Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest, Eight Hours for What We Will: A series of art shows, events and music - about work.
Roundtable Discussion 730pm: panel from the states: moderated by Illinois Labor History Society President Larry Spivack with Harriet Rowan, investigative journalist, Arthur Kohl Riggs Wisconsin Activist, Candidate for Governor, George Macaluso, Laborer from Michigan, and Indiana University Professor Ruth Needleman.
Live Music The Brothers StarRace, consists of two members Richard Juarez and Raul Juarez. The brothers have casually played music together for years. Inspired by many artists, the Brothers StarRace play and write music reflecting their lives growing up in Chicago‘s Mexican American community of Little Village and the struggles of youth
Film 10pm : WE ARE WISCONSIN is a feature length documentary film that follows the day-to-day unfolding of public outcry against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s controversial budget-repair bill, focusing on the human story behind a remarkable popular uprising forged on the floor of the Madison Capitol. Director, Amie Williams, Executive Producer, Doug Pray
Featuring nearly 40 artists, poets, activists, story tellers and musicians. Panel Discussion 730-9pm. Live Music, 9-10 pm. Film We Are Wisconsin 10-11:30pm.
Presented by URI-EICHEN Gallery, 2101 S Halsted, Chicago
Photo by Katie Jesse
"El Hijo del Pueblo" The Son of the Village
Rudy Lozano was a community and labor organizer in the Pilsen/Little Village area. He worked throughout Chicago to join African American, Mexican, and Puerto Rican communities together to successfully elect the first African American Mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington. Rudy Lozano was taken away from his people at the young age of 31.
The Lozano family will speak on Rudy's legacy and the organization that began in his memory - Centro Sin Fronteras.
More than a dozen artists from the community will participate in an art show and auction, spoken word by Michael Reyes , Poetry, and Live Performance by Rosalba Valdez "La Voz de Los Imigrantes"
Commemorating Rudy and speaking about his legacy will be
Rudy Lozano Jr., Emma Lozano , Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Rev. Walter Slim Coleman
All Donations and proceeds will go to a campaign to support the Children of the Migrants, to stop the deportations, and the fight for the human rights of immigrants at Centro Sin Fronteras
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refreshments served
Harriet Rowan founded the Information Station during the occupation of the Wisconsin State Capitol, which served as a hub for information and coordination for the 17 days that people slept inside the Capitol. She has remained involved as an activist, and works as an investigative journalist, researching issues like the influence ALEC has on Wisconsin and national politics.
Arthur Kohl-Riggs is a Wisconsin activist, organizer and citizen journalist. After spending every night at the Capitol during the historic occupation he launched the blog Shit Scott Walker Is Doing To My State (SSWIDTMS) which just recently passed one million views on it's youtube channel. He also ran against Scott Walker in the Republican primary of the recall election as a "Lincoln/La Follette Republican" receiving 20,000 votes.
George Macaluso comes from a family of Laborers, working for the International Headquarters and then in Michigan for more than twenty years. He documented to protests through his photography and was proud to see so many members from varied unions fight together. George is also an artist featured in the show.
Ruth Needleman is professor emeritus from Labor Studies, Indiana University. Still teaching and practicing activism, Ruth participated consistently in the Indiana battles against right-to-work, defunding of Planned Parenthood, stripping bargaining rights from teachers and opposing charter schools replacing public education in Gary. Long-time organizer, she worked with Cesar Chavez in California, was a teamster at UPS and at a plastics sweatshop in NYC. Author of Black Freedom Fighters in Steel, and many articles examining today's labor unions, Ruth used the opportunities to integrate photography.
Larry Spivack, moderator, is Regional Director for AFSCME Council 31 and the President of the Illinois Labor History Society, the deed-holder of the Haymarket Memorial in Forest Park, IL. He believes we all have a duty and obligations to do something of service to help our communities. He does this through the labor movement and the golden rule.
- About the Artists, activists, poets and storytellers - Voices from the Protests Co-sponsored by the Illinois Labor History SocietyToday many creative immigrant youth are growing up in and around Chicago,more American than any other nationality, but embracing everything and everyonethat makes us who we are.It is time for a change – a re-examination of whatmakes America the innovative and creative place it is: immigrants fully welcomedinto the melting pot of America. America was founded by immigrants, and stillvividly diverse because of it. Chicago area youth of immigrant heritage presenttheir diverse backgrounds, the battles being waged for equality and justice,creatively through music, visual art, spoken word and film in this group show atURI-EICHEN Gallery.
Visual Artists:
Jam One, Mario Perez, Veronica Martinez and Josef Guzman
Performance Artists:Richard Juarez (acoustic guitar) and DJ Jam One
Visual art show will be open for appointments through the end of April. CallKathy @ 312 852 7717 for appointment
Kathy Kelly recently returned from a 12th trip to Afghanistan where she spenta month as a guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers in a working classneighborhood of Kabul. Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Sheand her colleagues live alongside ordinary people in areas afflicted by U.S.wars and weapons, learning from them and helping raise their voices on behalf ofending wars. Kelly traveled to Gaza in November 2012. She has also joined Voicesto protest drone warfare at various military bases in the U.S.
The eventis co-sponsored by Amnesty International's Security with Human Rights Campaign -Amnesty International's global movement of more than 3 million supporters aroundthe world - are working to stop, and ensure accountability for human rightsviolations committed by the U.S. government in the name of unending "globalwar." Carrie Neff Maley, Campaigner for Amnesty will be speaking about thenegative consequences for human rights of the USA's "global war" framework.
EmanuelLove is a Chicago-based freelance photographer. His work rangesfrom landscapes to portraiture. Emanuel wanted to capture "a piece of history"with his NATO series.
In the tradition of Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia, Ian Poundsrecounts the at turns humorous and inspiring story of his solo journey toAfghanistan as a response to a splintered life, landing him as the onlywesterner in an orphanage in Kabul. After four years teaching over 300 boys andgirls representative of all regions and races, Pounds gives unique insight tothe people and the country of America's longest conflict. Ultimately this is thetale of how, in living among children of war a man discovers how truly a land,its people and a broken heart can become Undestroyed. Admission Free.Donations accepted after the ninety-minute performance.
Listen to Ian Pounds interview: This is Hell! WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago
Saturday, February 23rd at 10:25 am
Sponsored by Amnesty International Midwest Region and the University ofChicago Human Rights Program
Opening Reception: Friday December 14, 6pm to 10pm
Panel Discussion 8pm to 9pm - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Doesit Matter Today?
Panel Discussion featuring: Ansou Diallo, Student Activist CoordinatorAmnesty International Illinois, Patrick Kelly, Doctoral Candidate, InternationalHistory, University of Chicago, Larry Spivack, President of the Illinois LaborHistory Society.
Amnesty International Youth Photo Show through January 2, 2013
Appointments @ 312-852 7717 URI-EICHEN Gallery, 2101 South Halsted, Chicago60608 info@URI-EICHEN.com www.uri-eichen.comwww.facebook.com/URIEICHENGallery
Ansou Diallo
Student Activist Coordinator Amnesty International USA Midwest RegionalOffice
I'm originally from Senegal; a French speaking country located in westAfrica. I joined Amnesty International Senegal in 1998.When I was a teenager, Ibelieved that I could help to end violences that was happening in the south ofSenegal, Casamance. It was said that the first president promised theinhabitants of that particular region to be an independent nation. But promiseswere not kept which resulted in a conflict that last more than 25 years today.After becoming an AI member, I got involved so much that I acquired leadershipskills that enabled me to be elected as the National Youth Coordinator.
In the mean time, I was a board member of the AI African Youth Network. Oncein the US, I decided to carry on shining the light, and I joined AmnestyInternational USA. I was recently appointed as the Student Activist Coordinatorfor the state of Illinois.
Patrick William Kelly
Patrick William Kelly is a doctoral candidate in international history at theUniversity of Chicago. He researches and teaches broadly in 20th centuryinternational history, focusing on the expansion of global civil society throughthe lens of human rights and humanitarian activism. His dissertation exploresthe surge in transnational human rights activism in the Americas (Latin America& the United States) in response to state repression in the Southern Cone fromthe late 1960s through the early 1980s.
It develops its argument through four sustained case studies in Brazil,Chile, Argentina, and the United States, seeking to understand the tensions andcontradictions that emerged when a diverse array of actors--church andsolidarity activists, political exiles, Amnesty International members,international lawyers, and bureaucrats at the United Nations and theOrganization of American States--formed tenuous coalitions over evolving notionsof human rights. His work shows how activists innovated novel techniques anddiscourses as many moved away from grandiose visions to change theworld--visions of revolution, often violent and bloody--to fashion minimalisthavens from violence. A recipient of the fellowships from the Social ScienceResearch Council as well as the Fulbright-Hays, Kelly’s study draws on archivalresearch and oral interviews in eight countries throughout the Americas andEurope. He has taught and assisted courses in the Department of History, theHuman Rights Program, the Center on Latin American Studies, and InternationalStudies.
Larry Spivack
Larry Spivack is Regional Director for AFSCME Council 31 (American Federationof State County and Municipal Employees). He began working for the union in 1984as an organizer after teaching school for five years during which time he servedas a local union Vice-President in AFSCME. He was subsequently appointed as anAFSCME staff representative. During his tenure with AFSCME he has held a varietyof titles serving in a number of capacities. His primary duties include thesupervision of staff in the field, assisting local AFSCME unions in collectivebargaining, education, internal organizing and general day to day problemsolving as well as helping to implement the policies and goals of Council 31.Mr. Spivack is President of the Illinois Labor History Society (ILHS). TheIllinois Labor History Society is one of the most distinguished labor historysocieties in the United States. The ILHS holds the deed to the HaymarketMemorial in Forest Park, a National Historic Site, and was one of the keyorganizations that helped obtain the monument at the site of the Haymarket eventin Chicago.
Mr. Spivack is married and lives in Oak Park. He believes we all have a dutyand obligation to do something of service to help our communities. He does thisthrough the labor movement and the golden rule.
Leah Bolger is national president of Veterans for Peace. A commander in theUS Navy, she retired in 2000 after a 20 year career. She recently returned froma trip to Pakistan, where she was part of a delegation of peace activists thatjoined a march with thousands of Pakistanis against the US/NATO drone attacks.
Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid is the founder of the Muslim Peace Coalition. He isthe Chair of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, the premiereinterfaith organization in the world. He was one of the initiators of theCoalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda last year. He will speak aboutwhat is happening in Pakistan, the Afghan War, and the response there to thedrone attacks.
The event is sponsored by the Anti-War Committee
We are hosted by URI-EICHEN Gallery, which this month has a show entitled“Reflections on NATO in the New Chicago” -http://www.chicagoartistsmonth.org/nato-reflections-new-chicago
The artists feature subjects that are anecdotes of the NATO Summit in May.
Kathy Steichen & Christopher Urias- Chicago Artist Month Show & Pilsen OpenStudios, Reflections on NATO in the New Chicago
Chicago is a new city under new leadership and under the stresses of theeconomic crisis that has faced the world for the last few years. Thisexhibition, comprised of monoprints by Christopher Urias and Kathy Steichen,created in the weeks after the NATO Summit in Chicago in May of 2012 reflectsthe new realities and the struggles Chicagoans have waged to have a voice forchange and a better city.
is an artist, book illustrator, political activist, labor unionist, feminist,pacifist, humanist. This is the story of one woman’s unwavering commitment toart, peace, justice and social change. September 7 and 14, 6pm-10pm - Also adocumentary about Peggy Lipschutz's life will be screened.
Women's Graphics Collective : Posters from the The Chicago Women's LiberationUnion (CWLU), the first women's liberation union in the country, was formed in1969 to help unite the emerging women's movement in Chicago.
Kathy Steichen & Christopher Urias: Print, Collage and Assemblage - Book,Paper and Textile PART 2
Kathy Steichen & Christopher Urias: Print, Collage and Assemblage - Book,Paper and Textile
Portoluz (Portoluz.org) presents Occuprint Discussion Group - Poster Art andPolitical Strategy a program in the series WPA 2.0, a brand new deal
Roy Villalobos, Muralist
Larry Spivack Illinois Labor History Society
Friday May 11, 2012 from 5pm to 11pmArt of the Occupy Movement Sponsored by Portoluz, Occuprint and URI-EICHENGallery
Special Guest
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky will be speaking about the Occupy Movement andthe fight for Progressive Politics in America at 5pm
URI-EICHEN Gallery welcomes you to Pilsen for a graphic design postershow ofart from the Occupy Movement in cooperation with Occuprint. Occuprint Showcasesposters from the worldwide Occupy movement. Friday May 11, 2012 from 5pm to 11pm-
Portoluz.org
Portoluz presents Art of the Occupy Movement a program in the series WPA 2.0,a brand new deal
Uri-Eichen Gallery welcomes you to Pilsen for a graphic design poster show ofart from the Occupy Movement in cooperation with Occuprint. Occuprint showcasesposters from the worldwide Occupy movement. Posters on Occuprint can provide animportant bridge between supporters who may not speak the same language, yetknow they are part of the same struggle. www.uri-eichen.com
Occuprint is dedicated to the poster art of the global Occupy movement. TheOccuprint website is meant to connect people with this work, and provide a baseof support for print-related media within the #Occupy movement. All postersdisplayed on the site are part of the creative commons, and available to bedownloaded for noncommercial use, though we ask that artists are givenattribution.
Our Print Lab is a collaboration with the Occupy Wall Street Screen PrintingGuild, an official working group within the New York City General Assembly.Everyone is welcome to print with them. We house a collection of graphics forscreenprinting, many of which are used by the Guild itself. We look forward tocreating and distributing more printed matter by supporting the development ofscreenprinting labs at other occupations, and by printing more of the wonderfulposters that we are receiving.
Occuprint is currently being curated by Molly Fair, Jesse Goldstein, JoshMacPhee and John Boy. We are always open to finding new collaborators, so pleasedo get in touch.
We have 11 artists from the Occupy Chicago Rebel Arts Collective showing in the upcoming opening! Occupy Chicago Art, Occupy Chicago Rebel Arts Collective
Christopher Urias
