Nomadic Studio
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Space Design
Exhibition Design
Installation Design
Print Design
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This was part of a city-wide initiative, called Studio Chicago, which included many cultural institutions across the city.
The Brief
Image from the Extraneous Education Conference in the Main Gallery
I've designed physical experiences too.
Nomadic Studio was a 4.5 month interactive exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum with approximately 30 events,150 artists/educators/presenters, over 400 pieces of art and a completely designed, built, and functioning workspace. We did most of the work ourselves. From concept design, print design & production, art direction, installations, construction, art object design, video, audio, web design, art & event planning, etc.
Nomadic Studio was always humming– the palpable dynamism would have made most museums cringe with envy.
Thea Liberty Nichols, from her review in Bad at Sports
Our intention was to celebrate the incidental, provisional, mobile, and related sites of production. We built various functioning studios within the space while also exhibiting beautiful art on the gallery walls (including our installations) that rotated with the monthly theme. We envisioned a place where people would feel welcome to sit, have a conversation, create, teach and learn.
Our exhibit was part of Studio Chicago, a yearlong collaborative project that focused on the artist’s studio. Through exhibitions, talks, publications, tours, and research, participating organizations celebrated the working artist and revealed their sites of creative production from historical and contemporary perspectives.
Other partners included Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Columbia College, Gallery 400, Hyde Park Art Center, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Threewalls.
We've been chipping away at finishing a website as a retrospective. It still needs work, but it includes quite a bit.
Street Cred: This image was taken on Fullerton Avenue in Chicago on the DePaul University Campus. We were responsible for the design and creation of everything, down to the logo, banners, photos, and even the briefcase-box in the banner image.