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Join us tomorrow for the next ART NOW lecture series speaker, Molly English!The Animals Naming Eve Naming the Animals Na...
10/07/2025

Join us tomorrow for the next ART NOW lecture series speaker, Molly English!

The Animals Naming Eve Naming the Animals Naming Eve
Columbia College alum Molly English returns to share her practice of storytelling through textile, natural dye, and assemblage—exploring interspecies relationships, material agency, and the irreducible difference between our animal Self and the animal Other.

Molly English is a multidisciplinary artist living in Chicago. She received her BA from Columbia College Chicago, and her MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In her work, she creates grotesque mythologies, abundantly-textured objects, and material assemblages as a means of investigating relational meaning-making in today’s world.

This talk will be held on Wednesday October 8, 2025 at 600 S Michigan Ave, Ferguson Hall, room 101 from 6-7:30 PM. This talk is free and open to the public and all Columbia students, faculty, and workers. There is no registration for this location for visitors outside of Columbia. Please have guests visit the lobby desk before they enter the hall. We can’t wait to see you there! brekfast

How it feel when you don’t support local artistsCome visit ShopColumbia today and support your local artists! Find the p...
10/01/2025

How it feel when you don’t support local artists

Come visit ShopColumbia today and support your local artists! Find the perfect sweatshirt to spice up your wardrobe or a sticker to decorate your water bottle.
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Free Pancakes at the School of Visual Arts! While supplies last!l. All are welcome! 623 building, Open Studio (rm. 809) ...
09/26/2025

Free Pancakes at the School of Visual Arts! While supplies last!l. All are welcome! 623 building, Open Studio (rm. 809)

It’s almost the time for the Fall ART NOW lecture series to begin. Please join us in welcoming our first guest Bridget S...
09/11/2025

It’s almost the time for the Fall ART NOW lecture series to begin. Please join us in welcoming our first guest Bridget Smith.

We Must Live!
UK-based artist Bridget Smith works with photography, video and site-specific installations to explore the relationship between the real and the imagined within social and architectural spaces.

Her artwork addresses our conflicted desire to feel both connected and transported: within society, the landscape and the wider universe. Smith’s approach to photography interweaves multiple positions: analogue and digital, still and moving, and the photograph as both sculpture and object.

In her talk she discusses her practice and its broad approach to recurring and evolving themes, taking in still photography, documentary films and site-specific installations. Her video, ‘We Must Live!’ is part of the exhibition, Channeling body ← Image → viewer at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Sep 2 – Dec 20.

Smith is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London. She has exhibited widely over the past 30 years including at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; V&A Museum, London; Musee D’Art Contemporain, Paris and Centre de Arte Salamanca, Spain. Her artworks are held in numerous collections at home and abroad.

This talk will be held on September 17, 2025 at Ferguson Hall, room 101 from 6-7:30pm. This talk is free and open to the public and all Columbia students, faculty, and workers. There is no registration for this location for visitors outside of Columbia. Just visit the lobby desk for location of the hall if you are unfamiliar. We hope to see you there!

Portrait - credit: Barney Snow
Image - caption: We Must Live!, 2011, HD Video, 30:29 minutes

✨Aeipathy✨Opening Reception Friday May 16, 2025, 5-7pm. The Hokin Gallery. 623 S Wabash.May 9-30, 2025The School of Visu...
05/14/2025

✨Aeipathy✨
Opening Reception Friday May 16, 2025, 5-7pm.
The Hokin Gallery. 623 S Wabash.
May 9-30, 2025

The School of Visual Arts and Student Spaces for art and collaboration at Columbia College Chicago are excited to introduce the 2025 BA in Fine Arts exhibition.
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Participating artists: Maya Abraham, Hannah Banwell, Grace Barnes, Abby Bensel, Claudia Braun, Jordan Brown, Ayla Chandola, Maegan Collins, Meauna L Cooper, Anya Cronin, Mia Dalton, Jay Holmes, Berenice Lopez, McKenzie Marlette, Aubri Nicolle Nava, Jua Nochio, Katie O’Connor, Miel Reyes, Saja Stormer, Mari Taleff, Kayla Williams, Mecca A Winston.
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Join us for the final ART NOW of the semester with Maria Burundarena!✨Art as Transformation✨Maria Burundarena explores t...
04/23/2025

Join us for the final ART NOW of the semester with Maria Burundarena!

✨Art as Transformation✨
Maria Burundarena explores the power of art to transform spaces, offering new ways of seeing, experiencing, and being in the world. Through installation and site-specific interventions, she challenges perceptions, using photography, collage, and sculptural forms to reassemble overlooked surfaces and reimagine their presence. Her work navigates the boundaries between materiality and image, seducing and disorienting through shifts in scale, light, and context.

María Burundarena (b. 1989, Paris) is a Chicago-based visual artist and educator raised in Buenos Aires. Her work spans garment design, photography, and installations using print media, light projection, and reflective materials. She has exhibited at ZAZ 10 Times Square, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Artists Coalition, and Cleve Carney Museum of Art, among others. In 2024, she was named one of Chicago’s Breakout Artists and received the DCASE Individual Artists Program grant. She holds a BFA from Universidad de Buenos Aires (FADU) and an MFA from SAIC, where she currently is a lecturer in the Contemporary Practices Department.
Headshot photo credit: Eugene I-Peng Tang
Silver peninsula, 2022, site specific installation, Northerly Island Chicago, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist

This talk will be held at the 1104 S Wabash Avenue building 8th floor Film Row Cinema on Wednesday April 30, 2025 from 6-7:30pm CDT. This event is free and open to the public and all Columbia students, faculty, and staff. Guests outside of Columbia please register for this free event online. Links can be found in the bio.

See you all at 4pm! Experimental Production II and Professor Ted Hardin Screen a selection of Teresa Serrano’s video wor...
04/23/2025

See you all at 4pm! Experimental Production II and Professor Ted Hardin Screen a selection of Teresa Serrano’s video works. Curated by Ximena Alarcón with the presentation by Karen Cordero Reiman.

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