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

600 block of S. Wabash Ave.

Low Rider Vehicles on Parade
Fifteen automobiles created by low rider car clubs in the Chicago area will be on display in the heart of Columbia’s urban campus.

(Exhibition run: Two nights only, October 11-12.)

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

Vodou Tou
Columbia students respond to the works presented in the exhibition Vodou Riche: Contemporary Haitian Art that will be on display in the Glass Curtain Gallery through October 16.

The Haitian dance group, Mesdame Lakay will perform multiple times throughout the evening at C33 Gallery.

Tour Times: 5:30 and 7 pm
(Exhibition Run: October 11 – January 2, 2008)

A+D Gallery
619 S. Wabash Ave.

GIRL ON GUY: the object of my desire
24 Women Artists present works about their love for men.

Tour Times: 6 pm Denenge Akpem performs Vaquera Serenade: Rise of Cueruda Negra (literally means “the black female skin”) and 7 pm gallery tour.

Hokin Gallery & Annex
623 S. Wabash Ave.

Weisman Exhibition
Works by student winners of the Weisman Scholarship 2007. Albert P. Weisman Scholars are students at Columbia College Chicago who are awarded grants to complete communications projects from the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Fund.

Tour Times: 5:30 and 7pm
(Exhibition Run: September 4 – October 19, 2007)

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

Etching Demonstrations
Etching Demonstrations in Anchor Graphics' print shop from 5:30 – 8pm. Everybody is invited and you can make something that might surprise you!

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

Par Avion
Students present digital illustrations and interpretations
of artists’ stamps.

Tour Times: 5:30 and 7pm
(Exhibition Run: October 11 – October 31, 2007)

The Museum of
Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Ave. 1st floor

Loaded Landscapes
Loaded Landscapes offers a peculiar series of landscape photography, one concerned with place, but only insofar as it relates to human history. Talk the Walk ’07 is the closing reception for this exhibition.

(Exhibition Run: August 16 – October 13, 2007)

Columbia College
Chicago Library
624 S. Michigan Ave.

Art of the Library
Four times a year, Columbia College Chicago’s library presents work from the permanent collection, including work by faculty, staff, alumni and students. (Exhibition is on open run.)

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

Vodou Riche:
Contemporary Art of Haiti
Haitian-born artists, whose works are informed by Vodou, Haiti’s national religion, present painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, textiles and assemblage.

Tour Times: 5:30 and 7pm
(Exhibition Run: August 27 – October 16, 2007)

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

Reading, Writing & ‘rithmetic:
The Way We Used to Learn
Before t.v., video and webinars, we learned the basic 3 r’s a simpler way. Come see writing manuals, early readers, math and geometry tomes dating back to the 17th century.

Tour Times: 5:30 and 7:00pm
(Exhibition Run: September 15 – October 27, 2007)