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Catalogue accompanying the 2008 exhibition 1968: Art and Politics in Chicago, which examined the response by visual artists to the events surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention and presidential election.

Some Kind of Duty features all new handmade weavings by Chicago-based artist Karolina Gnatowski, known as kg. In monumental and small-scale tapestries, kg, anAmerican artist who was born in Poland incorporates references ranging from Polish immigration, badminton, Jim Morrison, and feminist fiber artists to addiction, mourning, and their pet. The artist's keen attention to the details of life's coincidences and moments of intersection finds a fitting form in their reverence for the history of tapestry weaving, and the evidence of everyday life incorporated into the artist's work makes their weavings an offering to those both living and dead. This catalog accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum, and it features full-color plates of the works on view, an interview between the artist and DPAM Director and Chief Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm, an essay by K. L. H. Wells, assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and poems written by the artist to accompany each work.

"This catalogue was published on the ocasion of the exhibition Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago at Dapaul Art Museum, September 6-December 16, 2018"--Colophon.

Countering conventional accounts of art history, which have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, the exhibition "Out of Easy Reach" presents the work of twenty-four US-based, female-identifying artists from the black and Latina diasporas. The exhibition proposes myriad ways that artists are employing abstraction as a tool to explore histories both personal and universal, with focuses on mapping, migration, archives, landscape, vernacular culture, language, and the body. This catalog--which accompanies an exhibition opening in April 2018 at the DePaul Art Museum, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Stony Island Arts Bank--includes full-color plates of the works on view; commissioned essays by exhibition curator Allison Glenn, and Cameron Shaw, executive director and founding editor of Pelican Bomb; and short-form contributions about each artist featured in the exhibition written by invited scholars, curators, writers, and artists.

"Idol Structures"," an exhibition of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artistMatt Siber, probes the systems of corporate and mass-media communication that permeate the urban landscape. Rather than focusing on the message itself, Siber emphasizes the physical infrastructure that delivers visual messaging, thereby revealing a component meant to stay invisible and subservient to image, text, and graphics. By aestheticizing the conceptually mute elements of this system in meticulous photographs and finely crafted sculptures, Siber interrogates the power of the intended message, undermining its ability to persuade and influence. ""Idol Structures ""features essays by Gregory J. Harris, Assistant Curator at the DePaul Art Museum, and David Raskin, "Mohn Family Professor of Contemporary Art History."

Catalog of an exhibition held at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois, May 14 - August 9, 2015.

"Rooted in Soil" exhibition catalogue presents information on the topic of an undervalued resource, soil. Exploring soil through the arts provides an understanding of the primal importance of this resource and our responsibilities for stewardship. "Rooted in Soil, "brings together fifteen artists who parse the cycle of life and death, address critical issues of soil degradation and combine leading scientific approaches and fresh philosophical perspectives. Artists included: Jane Fulton Alt, Vaughn Bell, Edward Burtynsky, John Gerrard, Julia Goodman, Sam Taylor- Johnson, Jenny Kendler, Jae Rhim Lee, Sally Mann, Vik Muniz, Claire Pentecost, Justin Rang, Arthur Rothstein, Linda Swanson, and Adriaen van Utrecht .The exhibition catalogue includes an essay by co-curators Laura Fatemi, Interim Director of the DePaul Art Museum and Farrah Fatemi, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Studies at St Michaels College in Vermont.Liam Heneghan, Professor and Department Chair of Environmental Science and Studies at DePaul University, provides a scholarly essay, "In The Kingdom of Decay" on the importance of death and decay in the soil and how decomposition leads to rebirth and regeneration. "

The Works Progress Administration gave federal financial support to a wide range of artistic projects during the Depression, from fiction to fine art. This book accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum in celebration of the generous gift to the museum of one hundred WPA-era prints from the collection of Belverd and Marian Needles.

Focuses on the largely Mexican-American Chicago neighborhoods of Pilsen and the Little Village, capturing their residents' homes and lives in multifaceted, dynamic images of weddings and graffiti artists, street corners and empty lots, and the euphoria of fire hydrants turned would-be baptismal fonts in the blistering summer sun.

The German-born, Chicago-based artist Peter Karklins creates small pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. This title shows Karklins' work to be a fertile topic for discussion and a vibrant example of intuitive art.

For over a century the Chicago art community has struggled to define itself in relation to other urban art centers. This book and the exhibition on which it is based reframe Chicago as an artistic center in its own right, with a perspective and community as distinctive as its geography, economy, and politics.