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Fall 2011 Archive
Thomas Jackson Exhibit
Thurs. Sept. 8 - 12
Photography is, for Thomas, a relaxing pursuit that takes one outside of oneself. Depending on the context where he finds himself behind a camera, Thomas enjoys being taken into a variety of photographic circumstances. It is important for him to capture those moments of relaxation and exploration in such a way that allows his photographic subjects to represent themselves. Attending to what is already present, Thomas hopes that his photography will allow others to feel a sense of wonder, relaxation, and exploration.
Michael Zerang/Fred Lonberg-Holm Duo
cello and drumset
Sept. 19th - 8pm
Suggested Donation:
$10 non members
$5 artists and students
Percussionist Michael Zerang and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm have been working together since the latter moved to Chicago in 1995. Their shared interests and backgrounds in contemporary European, American and non-western classical music, as well as popular and liturgical music's have helped to form a very close musical relationship.
They were recipients of a 1998 Chicago Artists International Program grant, and did their first joint trip to Europe in November 1998. Since then, they have performed extensively, together and separately at international festivals and clubs
Randall Hall
experimental saxophone
Sept. 20 - 7:30pm
Randall Hall is a leading interpreter of contemporary music for saxophone. His performances of new music range from the contemplative to the ferocious, and feature his mastery of extended techniques, most notably his formidable slap tongue, cutting edge electronics and white-hot improvisations. Innova Recordings describes his music as "high-octane, supercharged sax". In addition to his solo concerts he regularly performs in the contemporary improvisation duo Pendulum. Hall is also a distinguished interpreter of traditional concert music.
The first exhibition of Nomadic Fantasia: Indra's Net
Site-specific/mind-mapping art and project exhibition 2011
September 15 -24
Artists have expended the discourse of space and time as they have sought to engage with an environment. This movement have questioned not only about forms of art, but also expended the notion of art and art experience. In this show, each artist focuses on a site and mind specificity though locality, mapping, situating and positioning
Curator/Director:
Yun Jeong Hong
Artist list:
Michael Collins
Liliya Lifanova
Stephen Cartwright
Onodera Masako
Rui Sasaki
Motoko Furuhashi
Kisaeng: Flower that Speaks, Flower that Understands
Date: September 30 to October 9, 2011
Opening: September 30, 5pm
Material Play is an exhibition of jewelry focusing on material experimentation.
“Soyeon’s latest pieces, employing gold, lace, sponge, porcelain, paper and found objects, hinge on an investigation of the value of objects. She is increasingly interested in reassessing and transforming values that are seen as innate or inviolable: as such, she often enjoys working with pre-owned jewelry made from precious metals.”
- Nicholas Estrada, author of the Ring Book
Keith Harden
October 13th 7:30pm
$10 adults
$5 students
For many years Keith was one of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois' most well-known musicians. Keith performed at concerts, clubs, festivals, live radio shows, recording studios, and private parties, and opened for legendary performers including Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Bobby Blue Bland, Dr. John, Delbert McClinton, Mighty Joe Young, Big Daddy Kinsey, and many others... Primarily a guitarist-singer, Keith plays other instruments, including dobro, harmonica, little bit of blues mandolin, and occasionally writes on piano.
As a solo performer, Keith was known for his renditions of vintage blues and folksy material, originals, and unique versions of classic cover tunes. Keith has performed with a wide variety of duo partners, sometimes as an accompanist and back in the day played with his electric power-trio blues band The Keith Harden Band, featuring Andy Burnett and Billy Galt.
Dan Keding "Tales from the Darkest Night" Readings from Edgar Allen Poe & Tellings of Traditional Horror Tales
7:30-9:30pm
Friday Oct. 14th
Saturday Oct. 15th
$12 adults
$10 students
Dan Keding, storyteller of international acclaim, is well known for his telling of traditional world folktales, personal narratives of his boyhood in Chicago, ghost stories and dark tales, and superbly crafted original pieces. As a child he learned the traditional stories that his grandmother brought to this country from Croatia. A well-respected ballad singer, he accompanies himself on guitar, banjo and spoons. This combination of dynamic storytelling and powerful ballad singing has made him a festival and concert favorite throughout the US, Great Britain and Ireland, endearing him to audiences of all ages.
A Poetic Moon:
Work by Selena Wang
Oct 11th - Oct 16th
Open Gallery Hours:
Oct. 13th, 14th, 15th- 7:00pm-9:30pm
"Currently I am a sub-freshmen student at the University Laboratory High School. Like many
other children, I started making art when I was a young child. Apart from my formal school art education, I studied at the UIUC School of Art and Design's Saturday Art School for Children from kindergarten to 6th grade. My father likes to encourage me to participate in art-related events in the community. He entered a piece of my artwork into a formal group art exhibition at the Illini Union Art Gallery of the UIUC in 2006. That piece was an abstract painting I had made at the Parkland College Child Development Center when I was 3 years old. In the middle of 2000 I participated a few times in the Champaign Camera Club's the Best in Show annual photography competition and received two awards from the youth division. I participated in the Boneyard Arts Festival several times in the last a few years. For me, studying art is a necessary part of my education which teaches me observation and appreciation. It is also fun and I enjoy the creativity of making art."
St.Jude Catholic Worker Community Benefit Dinner
Sunday October 16th
5-9pm
Food donated from local restaurants will be served with local musicians offering entertainment.
Come learn about the almost 80 year history of the Catholic Worker movement, about the mission and vision of St. Jude Catholic Worker
A donation of $10-20 is suggested and all proceeds go to sustaining the house's basic needs.
For more information, call 217-355-9774
or email stjudecatholicworker@gmail.com
Venice Gas House Trolley
Oct. 22nd
2 to 4pm- Drum and Spoken Word
Workshop (FREE)
8:30pm- Concert ($8)
Venice Gas House Trolley (Madison, WI) grooves body and mind creating a unique and organic live music experience. VGHT's original jam-based songs and poems transport audiences on a creatively wild and transformational journey through darkness and into the light. Spoken of by fans as "A Cerebral Groove" and "Sacred Existential Fusion Rock,"
Praised by the media and fans alike for their new approach to words and intense yet chilled psychedelic jam, the Trolley has emerged as originators of their own genre. VGHT encapsulates the dirty 1960s rock of Jefferson Airplane, the slinky but aggressive and funky grooves of Claypool, the eccentric and experimental sounds of Zappa, the eclectic jam and fun attitude of Phish, the rockin' hip-hop and reggae beats of 311, and the flowin' words of Tom Waits.
SWANN Special Care Center Benefit
Opening:
Oct. 21st
7pm to 10pm
9pm-1am: live music
Closing:
Oct. 23rd
1pm to 4pm
2:30pm to 3:30pm: Artist Meet & Greet
Swann Special Care Center is a not-for-profit residential home and school for more than 100 children and adults with severe and profound developmental disabilities.
The art program at 2418 W. Springfield Avenue began primarily as an income-generating effort for residents of Swann Special Care Center. A secondary purpose was to provide residents with additional opportunities for self-expression, while working on choice-making and communication skills.
Designed by a retired art teacher and members of the RDC advisory committee who are art professors at the University of Illinois, the art activities offer a multitude of opportunities for choice-making, sensory stimulation, range of motion exercises, and positioning changes. The residents' work is transferred into digital images and then used to create greeting cards. These images will be on display at indi go Gallery, along with prints and cards, all of which will be for sale. Proceeds will go to supporting SWANN special care center and the art program.
Etherphonic Theremin Ensemble
November 4th- 7:30pm
The Etherphonic Theremin Ensemble, formed in 2010 at Urbana, Illinois, provides a
rare opportunity to experience the otherworldly sound of massed theremins with original
musical compositions by bringing micro-tonal, textural "space music" down to Earth and
onto your concert stage.
What is a theremin? The theremin is
a musical instrument played without
touching. Its ethereal sound is drawn
from the electromagnetic fields around
its antennas making it the world's first
and foremost "space-controlled"
musical instrument.
Drew Ninmer Quartet
November 8th at 7 pm
Drew Ninmer- trumpet
Easton Stuard- piano
Mike Harmon- bass
Jay Sawyer- drums
In 2010, Drew Ninmer formed the Drew Ninmer quartet with University of Illinois jazz studies graduate students Easton Stuard, Mike Harmon, and Jay Sawyer. This group has played at various locations around Champaign/Urbana and are all in-demand musicians in the area. Along with playing jazz standards, this group plays compositions and arrangements produced within the group. These musicians are all currently a part of the University of Illinois' Concert Jazz Band that recently won a Downbeat Jazz Award for Outstanding College Jazz Ensemble. Music fans in Champaign/Urbana are accustomed to seeing these individuals playing around the area virtually every night. It is always special, though, to hear all of these talented musicians perform together on the same stage.
Squirm Orchestra & The Minor 2nds
November 11th- 7pm
$7 adults/ $5 students/ ages 10 and under FREE
Squirm Orchestra is an instrumental quartet that nibbles on the edges of jazz, experimental, hotwired gamelan, rock, drone, electronic and free form musics, but doesn't reside in any of them. A quartet based in southwest Michigan/northwest Indiana, they utilize guitar, bass, drums, flute, thumb piano, glockenspiel, school bells, and samplers, among other things. They have composed and performed live soundtracks for a half dozen silent films, toured throughout the midwest and east coast, gotten praise from WFMU ("finely crafted both visually and aurally"), BBC's Radio 3 ("very fine"), The Onion's AV Club ("think The Books meets the industrial clang of Einsturzende Neubauten"), and have shared stages with acts varying from Mucca Pazza, Freakwater, Mice Parade, Boom Bip, Archer Prewitt, Jonny Corndawg, and The USAISAMONSTER.
The Minor 2nds are a quintet of very young musicians (plus two older "kids" thrown in) who play everything from covers of Loudon Wainright III, The Extraordinaires, and Carolina Chocolate Drops to originals in the terrain of folk/Philip Glass/ornate pop/country. Two violins, flute, glockenspiel, Rhodes piano, and a rubber band bass, wielded by 5 people not old enough to drive. An older drummer and guitarist to make sure they make it to the gigs. A little something for everyone.
The event: Stories and Beer Presents...The Out-of-Towners: Writers of Southern Illinois University
Time: 5:30-8 on Saturday, November 12th
The Writers/Readers: Austin Kodra, Joshua Bontrager, Jenny Flack, Shawn Mitchell, Nick Ostdick
In this all-academic edition of Stories and Beer, we're happy to host poets and fictioneers from the MFA program at Southern Illinois University. Prepare to be rocked, rolled, and read to.
Pressing On
solo exhibition by Megan Stroech
October 24th - November 15th
Opening: November 5th, 6-8pm
My work deals with the psychological awkwardness one feels when placed in a new, unknown environment. I am interested in the way in which one copes with feelings of displacement through the formation of pre-established relationships to previous people, places or objects. Through the visual representation of familiar physical forces in the world such as gravity or balance, I aim to evoke psychological feelings of uneasiness or discomfort, intended to mimic those of displacement. With the use of these visual and physical equivalents to non-physical states, the work may induce a more palpable and experiential interpretation.
Ryan Groff: An Evening with Your Mother ("Trees" Release Show) and Megan Johns
Friday, November 18th 8:30 - 11:30 pm
$5 cover charge- no age limit
Megan Johns- 8:30
An Evening with Your Mother- 9:00
Ryan Groff-9:45
"Body of Work"
by Phil Strang
Opening: November 18th 6-9pm
With music by: Jamin' Jimmy Bean 7-8pm
November 18th- November 27th
Phil began painting in Junior High School in New York. His first major project was a mural of Romeo and Juliet, which stood for 30 years on the wall across from the library. Later he painted a jungle scene on his bedroom wall.
Phil came to the University of Illinois to study Architecture and even though he aced freehand drawing, he graduated 4 ½ years later with a BS in Communications. Phil was co-owner and manager of Record Service for 34 years, and in that time period he published a book of poetry, put out two records, performed in over 45 plays at various venues in town and wrote articles and reviews for three local papers.
After Record Service folded in 2003, Phil began painting in earnest on glass, producing at least 25 new pieces of work a year for 7 years, while raising two kids as a single dad. He combines the Impressionism of Van Gogh with the modernism of a graphic novelist.
Children's Christmas Basket items:
-Children's Tylenol and Children's Ibuprophen
-Bath products for kids
-Kids' towels
-Playdough
-Plastic placemats (for the kids to use Playdough)
-Children's books and Board books (ages 5 - 11)
-Arts & Crafts supplies:
Washable Crayons
Washable Coloring pencils
Washable Markers (Crayola Pip Squeaks are great for wee hands)
Washable Kid's Paint
Kid's paint brushes
Construction Paper
Glue sticks
Foam stickers
Kids' scissors
Craft scissors
Coloring books
Activity books
Dry erase board and dry erase markers
Play food
Harry Potter books
Legos Building blocks
Kids' board games (ages 5 to 15)
African American Dolls
Wii Fitness/Activity games for teenagers
Every little bit helps!
John Coppess
December 10th 7pm
$5 admission
John Coppess began creating leatherwork art as summer 4-H projects when he was eleven years old. Over the years he continued developing his skill by making belts, wallets, and coin purses as presents for family and friends. When he retired from day work at 55 years old, he started selling his leather creations at the Urbana Market at the Square. In three seasons, he has created for customers nearly 1,000 handcrafted items, of which half have been custom orders. He especially loves creating unique, original instrument straps for musicians.
John's interest in music began at birth. His father sang and played the guitar, and John grew up singing with his dad after supper around the kitchen table. When he was 8 years old, John lost his father to a farm accident, and at 15 began teaching himself to play the guitar so he could sing the songs he and his father had sung. John began singing in public when he opened his leatherwork booth at the farmers' market. He has since gone on to play many venues in Champaign/Urbana as well as in his home town of Sheridan, Indiana. Three years ago he began composing his own songs, and he now has an original repertoire of over 30 country, folk, and cowboy songs.
2011 Christmas Wishlist Drive for the
Center for Women in Transition
December 10th, 7:00-8:30pm
The Center for Women in Transition, The Center, CWT or CWIT ... exists to empower women and their children. The agency provides housing and supportive services for families experiencing homelessness or who are victims of domestic violence. For more information please visit http://www.cuhomeless.com .
Below are some the items that the center needs this holiday season. There will be drop off boxes at indi go December 10th.
Women's Christmas Basket:
1. Pillows
2. Thermometer
3. Over the counter medications:
-Tylenol Cold-Tylenol Flu-Dayquill-Ibuprophen-Pepto Bismol4.Kleenex
5. Disinfectant wipes
6. Toilet paper
7. Bras and underwear - various sizes, NEW
8. Personal care products:
-Shampoo-Conditioner-Body Wash-Body lotion-Hand cream-Face cream-Bar Soap-Products for African American hair-Makeup products-Nail polish and polish remover-Toothpaste-Tooth brushes-Deodorant9. Towels
10. Washcloths
11. House slippers for women
12. Twin sheet sets
13. Storage bins/tote boxes - various sizes
14. Ziptop bags - Quart and Gallon sizes
15. Bus passes/Tokens
Elizabeth Buckley CD Release Party
Tuesday, December 13th - 6:30pm
Tickets: $20
Signed CD - Performance
Food & Spirits - Art Mart
Floral Arrangements - Fleurish
Viola- Masumi Per Rostad
Piano- Dewitt Tipton
"Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Buckley possesses a voice of unique warmth and clarity. Praised as "a talented actress," "brilliant and lovely," "producing high notes with thrilling effect" by John Frayne of the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, she is equally comfortable in staged roles as well as concert and chamber music. This fall, Elizabeth released her début solo CD, Must the Winter Come So Soon?featuring Brahms' Zwei Gesänge with Grammy award winning violist, Masumi Per Rostad, of the Pacifica Quartet. Currently, it is available on iTunes and Amazon.
French Kiss- Patrick Harness
The Artist's Process - Dec 3-13th
Open Gallery Hours:
12/6-12/9: 4-8pm
Also open for the Elizabeth Buckley CD Release Party, December 13, 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Patrick Harness - Master Artist
Jason Michael Bentley - Professional Artist
Lindsey Snell - MFA Candidate
Ella Brown Dunn - NG Art Instructor
Next Generation - Students
"The colors I choose are intended to convey a heightened awareness of the subject matter. My hope is to capture images of shelter, growth, space and pleasure in their most elemental forms. Although I am most gratified by the process of creating, I also hope to provide the viewer with a respite from the relentless pace of modern life."- Patrick Harness
"I work loosely with pencil, charcoal, watercolor and gouache. The spontaneous nature of the latter two mediums often command immediate decisions at times. This gives movement to the subject matter and allows me to bring to the viewer snippets of time that represent intimate aspects of the human condition." - Jason Michael Bentley
Evelyn Nesbit after Gertrude Käsebier- Jason Michael Bentley
PRETTY PINK
The color pink in contradictory in nature. Found rarely in the natural world and all too present in consumer products, pink evokes the saccharine, the plastic, the feminine, the fragile, and even the pleasurable. Using color as a guide, PRETTY PINK is an exploration of the color as both foolery and facade. Discarded costume jewels are transformed though a candy-like coating that alters their form and function.- Lindsey Snell
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO + SOUND
STRANGE NEW INSTRUMENTS
POETRY + LIVE HIP HOP
DEC. 16TH
8PM-12AM
FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY:
CHRIS HAMPSON
JASON FINKLEMAN
JACOB BARTON
BRANDON BEACHUM
KEVIN CORY LESURE
MICHEAL BURNS
AMIEL RYSDAHL
Holiday Storytelling with Dan Keding
Dec 17th, 6pm
$10 adults/ $5 students and children
Dan Keding will bring his story bag to the concert stage with tales of Christmas and the Holiday Season. You'll hear about his adventures as a boy when he organized a living nativity to stories about Santa's banjo playing skill - a little known holiday secret and other holiday tales from around the world. This is a family concert to celebrate not only the holidays but also being together. Dan is an internationally recognized storyteller, musician and author who lives across the border in Urbana.
Twelve Dark Paths
Will Arnold
Dec 14th- Dec 28th
Will Arnold was born in 1984 in Elmira, New York. He graduated from Bucknell University in 2007 with a degree in Computer Science and worked for several years as a software developer before turning his attentions full time to photography. His work investigates rural and suburban America and the relationship between the physical landscape and its inhabitants. Will currently resides in Urbana, Illinois where he is teaching and pursuing his MFA in photography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
http://www.twarnold.com/
Worlds Within
Luke Bial and Tim Chao
Dec 14th- Dec 28th
Each person has their own unique thoughts, emotions, ideas, and dreams that make up who they are and how they are perceived. Hidden inside their heads are their worlds. Through the use of black and white photography and multiple exposures, Luke Bial and Tim Chao bring together both the inner and outer worlds of people.
Classical Guitarist Rachel Schiff:
European Music from the 16th Century
Lute to the Modern Day Classical Guitar
January 4 at 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Rachel has spent the past two years studying throughout Europe studying with some of the most prominent classical guitarists alive today. She began her studies at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with Maestro Oscar Ghiglia before moving to Germany to study at the Koblenz International Guitar Academy with Dale Kavanagh. Currently, Rachel is studying at the prestigious
Hochschule fuer Musik und Tanz (Conservatory for Music and Dance) in Cologne, Germany. At the Academy, Rachel joins students from Greece, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Brazil, and Israel to study with Argentinian guitarist Roberto Aussel.
Rachel's concert at Indi Go will take the listener throughout Europe, exploring music from the last four centuries. She will begin and end the evening with music from England, opening her program with music written for the 16th century lute by John Dowland and ending with music written for the 20th century classical guitar by William Walton. She will also explore music from early and late Spain as well as music from Hungary.
Please visit Rachel's website at www.rachelschiff.com for more information, including videos and
contact information.
