Long ignored in both film histories and social studies, home movies capture a range of details about everyday life that elude textual evidence as well as still photographs. As records created by everyday people, home movies are ripe for interpreting nuances of cultural expression, from fashion to foodways to the ways people walk down the street. Home movies also provide unique evidence of the ways in which people represent themselves on camera, precursors to the “selfies” of today.
Alyssa Brubaker is Exhibitions Manager at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, where she supports the curator in planning exhibitions and programming of global contemporary art. She also supports the production and presentation of student art in the Logan Center Gallery.
Tufting Gun Tapestries presents textile experiments produced by the art and architecture collective Assemble, and multidisciplinary artist Duval Timothy in collaboration with staff and students from the Material Institute in New Orleans. Exploring alternative education and spatial practices, this project transforms the Logan Center Gallery into an active site of learning and production through the investigation of an ancient carpet making technique that is reimagined with contemporary tufting equipment.
Explore the OI Museum as we celebrate 100 years of pioneering research and study of the earliest civilizations in the ancient Middle East. In this tour, we will uncover the history of the OI through the artifacts in the galleries. We will also look at some of the more than 500 new objects from the museum collection that have never been on permanent public display, including an Islamic exhibit featuring a fragment that contains the oldest known text of the famous A Thousand and One Nights.
Explore the OI Museum as we celebrate 100 years of pioneering research and study of the earliest civilizations in the ancient Middle East. In this tour, we will uncover the history of the OI through the artifacts in the galleries. We will also look at some of the more than 500 new objects from the museum collection that have never been on permanent public display, including an Islamic exhibit featuring a fragment that contains the oldest known text of the famous A Thousand and One Nights.
Join exhibition co-curator Laura Steward for a tour of this outdoor sound art exhibition, which presents site-specific works by nine Chicago artists exploring thresholds, passageways, and common spaces across the University of Chicago’s campus.
