Programs

Please join us for upcoming events

All programs of the Talking to Action and Safehouse exhibitions will be hosted at Sullivan Galleries unless otherwise noted.  Programs are developed by Department of Exhibitions staff working with Graduate Curatorial Assistants Almudena Caso Burbano (MA 2019), Carlos Salazar Lermont (Dual MA 2019) and Xavier Robles Arma (MA 2019).

To schedule a class visit or tour of the Talking to Action exhibition, please contact Assistant Director, Hannah Barco hbarco@saic.edu.

Opening Reception

Friday, September 28, from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Please join us for the opening reception on Friday. More information about upcoming public programs, will be posted shortly.

Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall

Saturday, September15th & Sunday September 16th, 7:00-10:00 p.m. Rain date: Saturday, September 22 & Sunday, September 23, 7:00-10:00 p.m.

You are invited to join and experience as the North-end wall bordering the Cook County Jail becomes a screen transformed by audio and animations created by currently and previously detained individuals at Cook County Jail. This live, free, public art installation will act as a space of exchange and communication between two communities – those …

A Brief History of Political Prisoners in the United States with Jan Susler

Monday, October 1st, 6:00 P.M.

Jan Susler joined People’s Law Office in 1982 after working for six years as a Clinical Law Professor at the legal clinic at Southern Illinois University’s School of Law, Prison Legal Aid. At the People’s Law Office she continued her litigation and advocacy work on prisoners’ rights issues and also took on representing people wrongfully …

Curator’s Tour with Bill Kelly Jr.

Monday, October 1, 12:00 p.m.

Join exhibition curator Bill Kelley Jr. for a walk through of the exhibition and discussion of the works on view. Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas is curated by Bill Kelley, Jr., curator and lead researcher with Karen Moss, consulting curator. Talking to Action is organized by Ben Maltz Gallery at …

On Art, Liberation, and the Political Subject, Elizam Escobar in conversation with Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Tuesday, October 2nd, 6:00 P.M.

Elizam Escobar is an artist and writer. Escobar earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Art from the University of Puerto Rico and continued his studies at the University of New York City and the New York Art Students League. He worked as a cartoonist and as a teacher at several public schools and the Art School at …

Colonialism and the Unconscious with Patricia Gherovici

Wednesday, October 17th, 6:00 P.M.

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS), Honorary Member at IPTAR the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City,  and Founding Member of Das Unbehagen.  ​Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press: 2003) ...

Learning Art and Resistance from the South. Vol. 1 Brian Holmes in conversation with Iconoclasistas

Thursday, October 18 2018, 12:00 p.m - 1.30 p.m

Join us for the first event of this reflection cycle which focuses on Latin America’s art practices that have taken form of resistance against past and present social, economic, and political oppression. In this occasion Brian Holmes will be in conversation with Iconoclasistas, an Argentinian collective working in critical collaborative mapping through the fields of …

Resonant Frequencies: Broadcasting Through Cook County Jail

Tuesday, November 6th, 4:30 P.M,

Artist Maria Gaspar with Radioactive Instructor, Michael De Anda Muñiz in conversation with Radioactive Ensemble members Rahmon Ali, Christopher Coleman, and Alexander Soto Join us for a public discussion that examines the work of the Radioactive Project, a year-long community-based art project with detained individuals inside Cook County Jail which resulted in a large-scale public …

Learning Art and Resistance from the South. Vol. 2 Ionit Behar in conversation with Dignicraft

Wednesday November 7, 12:00 p.m - 1.:30 p.m

Join us for the second  event of this reflection cycle which focuses on Latin America’s art practices that have taken form of resistance against past and present social, economic, and political oppression. In this occasion Ionit Behar will be in conversation with Dignicraft, a Mexican collective that has worked along Purépecha families in the development …

Performing Networks: Art and Action in the International Mail Art Movement

Monday, November 12, 6:00 P.M

Please join us for an evening conversation with art historian and curator Zanna Gilbert, who is a research specialist in the Getty Research Institute’s curatorial department. She completed her PhD at the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex, UK, in collaboration with Tate Modern. From 2012 to 2015, Gilbert was …

Learning Art and Resistance from the South. Vol. 3 Josh Rios in conversation with Sandra de la Loza

Thursday November 29, 12:00 p.m - 1:30 p.m

Join us for the third and last event of this reflection cycle which focuses on Latin America’s art practices that have taken form of resistance against past and present social, economic, and political oppression. In this occasion Josh Rios will be in conversation with Sandra de la Loza, a Chicano artists based in L.A. Sandra …