ART-IN-PLACE is a collaboration between CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions that invites artists to exhibit an original work of art outside their home or from a window visible to the public between May 20- June 20, 2020. This collective action provides artists and community members in Chicagoland neighborhoods (and beyond) with a sense of hope and connectivity through the experience of public art during an unprecedented moment of isolation. The exhibited works will be featured in a curated collection of postcards made available for purchase in the coming weeks with proceeds benefiting the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund to support local Illinois artists and arts organizations. Original artwork will also be available for sale

Artist Ed Oh draws inspiration from Goya’s Witches’ Sabbath for a painting in progress during the quarantine, and finds new connections between Spanish witch hunts of the 17th century and today’s political climate.

“Are You A Foreign Artist?” is a series of reviews written by art critic Lori Waxman, in partnership with Li-Ming Hu during her solo exhibition DISCOmbobulation at Co-Prosperity Sphere.

The following reviews were written between 3 and 9pm on Saturday, February 22th, 2020.

Quarantine Day 62-67 in the life of artist, Grant Reynolds.

Early show at Lumpen Radio Twitch Channel. With Lumpen Radio show hosts and hometown favorite band, Chandeliers, on the bill!

Toast, a brunch place with two locations in Bucktown and Lincoln Park, closed down permanently. The workers have to somehow find new employment amongst the largest unemployment hike in recent history. The owners have to build up their lives again. The customers have to find a new place to eat and enjoy each other's company.

The home in Chicago where we’ve spent the last decade has been a creative and nurturing sanctuary for my young son and I. In quarantine, just as before quarantine, when we are here together we feel free to create, whether that be a song, poem, drawing, or handcraft. We generate joy through creation; both my son and I are fueled by the chaos and glee that creation can bring.

Thinking about the in-betweens, the happenstances, and the moments we encounter and create in our day-to-day, we organized Kedzie Stretch as a collaborative public art project located in Logan Square.

From May 11 to June 11, 2020, S.H.E. Gallery and The Broken Glass Collective host an online fundraiser for Life-Span, a sexual assault and domestic violence relief organization in Chicago.

How do our thoughts, lifestyles, and work need to shift to be sustainable because of the pandemic? Can artists offer solutions? Writer Micco Caporale looks to multimedia artist Kristin McWharter’s Movement Workshop for a Post-COVID Reality for answers.

The week of featured live radio shows on Lumpen Radio, 105.5fm and Lumpen Radio Twitch concerts.

DJ collective Sonorama shares some b-side Latin tunes and discuss the troubles of sharing music and connecting with community in quarantine.

Quarantine Day 56-61 in the life of artist, Grant Reynolds.

So, do you want the good news? Or the bad news?

Part video essay, anti-travelogue, poem, and elegiac score, Other Instrumental Subjects (2020), uses moving image, silence, and sound to reflect on the charged act of looking out the window, learning to play clarinet, and the importance of Foucault’s foundational 1975 essay, “Panopticism." The video, presented in seven short stanzas, moves through issues of private and public space while deliberating on the entangled nature of personal and social politics in a time of quarantine.

Our weekly concert series continues this Saturday with performances curated by LA-Ex Presents:

QT Contributor, Brian Mier, shares a video by Doug Engle, on on his recent trip from Rio de Janeiro to his parents' house in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

MAYDAY MAYDAY: A Quarantine PUPPET SHOW by: HEREACLITUS “HERE” VERNON.

At 1900 or 1900 hours (military time) or 7pm (CST)
Tune in on Hereaclitus Here Vernon’s https://zoom.us/j/7164040293

Friday's featured artist, Gina Wynbrandt, shares a comic about ingesting commercial messaging around the pandemic.

On some level, everything in charcoal becomes a Memento Mori.