Humanities Day 2019 - Lunchtime Tours

The Visual Record: An Introduction to the South Side Home Movie Project, 1–2 p.m.

sspatterson — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:03:55 +0000

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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. Join the South Side Home Movie Project for an introduction to this unique initiative to collect, preserve, digitize, and exhibit amateur films from Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods. Featuring film clips from the 1920s–1980s, this session invites attendees to imagine new ways of activating and preserving community knowledge through home movies. Families who have donated their films to the SSHMP will be on hand to narrate their films and share the experience of preserving their home movies and seeing them on screen for the first time in decades.

Alyssa Brubaker

sspatterson — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:52:27 +0000

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Guided Tour of "Tufting Gun Tapestries" at the Logan Center for the Arts, 12–1 p.m.

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Lunchtime Tours

Logan Center

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.

Guided Tour of "Tufting Gun Tapestries" at the Logan Center for the Arts, 12–1 p.m.

sspatterson — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:50:36 +0000

Presenter:

Alyssa Brubaker

Lunchtime Tours

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.

**This tour is sold out.**

Guided Tour of "Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals" at the Neubauer Collegium, 1–2 p.m.

sspatterson — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:46:26 +0000

Presenter:

University Staff

Lunchtime Tours

Guided tour of Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals. Exhibit details to be announced September 4.

**This tour is sold out.**

Guided Tour of "Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals" at the Neubauer Collegium, 12–1 p.m.

sspatterson — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:43:53 +0000

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University Staff

Lunchtime Tours

Guided tour of Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals. Exhibit details to be announced September 4.

**This tour is sold out.**

Guided Tour of the "Oriental Institute at 100: A Laboratory for Exploring the Middle East" at the Oriental Institute, 1–2 p.m.

sspatterson — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:02:39 +0000

Presenter:

University Staff

Lunchtime Tours

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.

**This tour is sold out.**

Guided Tour of the "Oriental Institute at 100: A Laboratory for Exploring the Middle East" at the Oriental Institute, 12–1 p.m.

sspatterson — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:02:38 +0000

Presenter:

University Staff

Lunchtime Tours

**This tour is sold out.**

University Staff

sspatterson — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:55:34 +0000

Presentation:

Guided Tour of the "Oriental Institute at 100: A Laboratory for Exploring the Middle East" at the Oriental Institute, 1–2 p.m.

Guided Tour of the "Oriental Institute at 100: A Laboratory for Exploring the Middle East" at the Oriental Institute, 12–1 p.m.

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Lunchtime Tours

Museum Staff

Laura Steward

sspatterson — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:54:35 +0000

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Guided Tour of "The Chicago Sound Show" at the Smart Museum, 12–1 p.m.

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Lunchtime Tours

Museum Co-Curator

Laura Steward is co-curator of the Smart Museum.

Guided Tour of "The Chicago Sound Show" at the Smart Museum, 12–1 p.m.

sspatterson — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:47:36 +0000

Presenter:

Laura Steward

Lunchtime Tours

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.

**This tour is sold out.**