Talk the Walk : A Curatorial Tour of Columbia College's Exhibition Spaces

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.

list of exhibitions by venue

C33 GALLERY
33 East Congress (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.

AVERILL AND BERNARD LEVITON
A+D GALLERY
619 S. Wabash Avenue
Exhibition Run: September 25 – November 8, 2008

Off the Beaten Road: a multimedia exhibition that presents a 21st century interpretation of the Beats by contemporary Chicago artists.

Artists’ Talks at 5:30 (Jason Lazarus), 6:00 (Diana Guerrero Macia), and 7:00 (Greg Stimac)

HOKIN GALLERY & ANNEX
623 S. Wabash Avenue
Exhibition Run: September 2 – October 18, 2008

Weisman Scholarship Exhibition: Works by student winners of the 2008 Weisman scholarship. Weisman scholars are students at Columbia College who are awarded grants to complete communications projects from the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Fund.

Winners announced at 7 pm.

SHOP COLUMBIA
623 S. Wabash, 1st floor

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 @ COLUMBIA
AND A+D’S PRINT SHOP
623 S. Wabash, 2nd floor

Etching Demonstrations at Anchor Graphics 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 7 pm.

GLASS CURTAIN GALLERY
1104 S. Wabash Avenue
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.

CENTER FOR
BOOK AND PAPER ARTS
1104 S. Wabash Avenue, 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.

COLUMBIA COLLEGE LIBRARY
623 S. Michigan Avenue
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.

MUSEUM OF
CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st floor
Exhibition Run: September 5 – November 1, 2008

ON THE ROAD: Dave Anderson: Rough Beauty; Farm Security Administration Photographs / Dorothea Lange; also Robert Frank’s The Americans.