C33 Gallery
33 E. Congress Pkwy.
(corner of Congress and Harrison Streets)

Exhibition Run: October 6–November 14, 2008

Beat CafÉ
A multimedia exhibition and performance space exploring connections from the 50’s movement to contemporary culture, featuring work by Columbia’s radio students – Opening Reception.

Performances of Kerouac’s only radio play, The Spirit of ’14, at 6 and 7 pm.

Shop Columbia
623 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor

Grand Opening
Join us in a grand opening celebration of our brand new student-centered store, Shop Columbia. Offering a wide spectrum of artwork and artistic services, Shop Columbia features student talent including painting, drawing, prints, jewelry, sculpture and anything else the wildly creative Columbia students create.

Anchor Graphics
623 S. Wabash Ave., 2nd floor

Etching Demonstrations
Join Anchor Graphics for etching demonstrations in A+D’s new print shop from 5:30–8pm. Everybody is invited and you can make something that might surprise you!

The Project Room
(gallery of the Interactive Arts and Media Department)
623 S. Wabash, 4th floor

Exhibition Run: September 18 – October 23, 2008

Pixelshift
A student exhibition of interactive art and media works.

Tour Times: 5:30 and 7pm

Columbia College Chicago Library
624 S. Michigan Ave.

Exhibition Run: October 1–November 30, 2008

Beat Station, Kerouac Corner and Beyond the Beats
See the literary offerings that highlight the work of the Beat Generation and contemporary Beat-influenced work.

Center for Book & Paper Arts
1104 S. Wabash Ave. 2nd floor

Exhibition Run: October 3–November 26, 2008

Jack Kerouac: On the Road
exhibition of the original typescript scroll

Experimental Literature and the Intersection with Artists’ Books

On the Road Around the World
66 International Book Covers of Kerouac’s On the Road’s foreign editions from the Collection of Horst Spandler

Tours led by curator Brad Freeman at 6 and 7 pm.

Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor

Exhibition Run: September 2–October 18, 2008

Scavenger Constructs
Five visual artists re-contextualize everyday objects to create sculpture. Features Chicago artist, Mara Baker. Presented in tandem with Columbia’s Critical Encounters initiative, Human/Nature.

Mara Baker presentation at 6 pm.

This year Talk the Walk 08 features a celebration of the Beat generation in a series of exhibitions and programs entitled, …and the Beats go on.

A rickshaw cab will chauffeur guests to see the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road at the Center for Book & Paper Arts on 11th Street and all the way back up Wabash to sit in at the opening reception of a Beat-inspired coffeehouse, The Beat Café, at C33 Gallery.

In between you can experience a 21st century take on the Beat generation at A+D Gallery, the nonconformist fashion of the Beats at the Conaway Center and an exhibition of photographs by Beat contemporaries, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.