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Floating Museum: A Lion for Every House Art Institute Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL  June 11 – October 17

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Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford – “Garden Gipsoteca: Hercules”, c. 2019

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“Garden Gipsoteca: Hercules” (2019), marble, resin, pigment, urethane foam, steel, abd wood, 84 x 36 x 24 inches. 

Glitches Distort Household Objects and Art Historical Figures in Sculptures by Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford

Artist Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford reenvisions classical sculptures as chaotic, glitched assemblages that piece together fragmented bits of the original work.

All images © Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, by James Prinz

“Hyperlexia: Venus” (2021), marble, resin, foam, and fiberglass, 40 x 30 x 24 inches

“Mr. Coffee” (2019), sand blasting sand, resin, urethane foam, steel, hardware, and wood, 68 x 48 x 24 inches

Detail of “Garden Gipsoteca: Hercules” (2019), marble, resin, pigment, urethane foam, steel, abd wood, 84 x 36 x 24 inches

“Hyperlexia: Moka” (2020), aluminum, resin, foam, and fiberglass, 41 x 40 x 14 inches

“Hyperlexia: Solicitude” (2021), foam, pigment, and wood, 48 x 36 x 36 inches

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Glitches Distort Household Objects and Art Historical Figures in Sculptures by Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford

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Episode 598: The Floating Museum

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A Monumental episode featuring the full Co-Directing cast of The Floating Museum, Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Andrew Schachman, and Avery R. Young.  We parley over a loving critique of the traditional museum model, setting our sites on the whole city of Chicago for the foundation of a new museum.

Docked in it’s penultimate port, the Floating Museum’ barge can currently be found at Chicago’s Riverwalk in analog space, and at http://ift.tt/2eDiV1b on the high seas of the interweb.

Shout outs to Megan Sauve, Development Director and Kate Schlachter, Project Manager of The Floating Museum.

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5 Temporary Public Art Installations to See Before Summer Ends

Written by: Elysian Koglmeier on behalf of the Public Art Archive

The air is getting cooler. The sun is rising later. That means, *gasp,* summer is coming to an end! Embrace these last weeks of warm sunshine and vacation calendars by checking out these 5 outdoor temporary public art works.

Stamford, CT

ART SHAPES! Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit

Hosted by: Stamford’s Art in Public Places

Where: Downtown Stamford

Through August 31, 2017

Summer is a great time to enjoy your local main street - sit outside and sip on an iced coffee; read a book on a park bench, window shop, and more.

Stamford Downtown hosts an outdoor sculpture exhibit to draw locals and visitors to its streets - a wonderful example of invigorating downtown through creative placemaking. This year’s exhibit consists of 39 painted fiberglass geometric shapes. Artists were invited to submit designs for the Shapes; submissions were reviewed by a jury; and the final designs were selected by the event’s sponsors.

Photo Credit: Michael Cummo / Hearst Connecticut Media

New York City, NY

Open House

By Liz Glynn

Where: Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 60th Street and Fifth Avenue

Through: September 24, 2017

Thousands of locals and tourists flock to Central Park during the hot, sticky days of summer for shaded and cool respite.

Those entering the park via the Doris C. Freedman Plaza will encounter lavish ballroom furniture... sculpted out of concrete. Los Angeles artist, Liz Glynn, transforms the plaza with her witty installation, Open House, funded by The Public Art Fund.

Glynn is known for “recharging” artifacts from the past. Open House is a middle ground between a democratic public space, Central Park, and the extravagant private gathering places of New York City’s wealthy elite. Glynn’s sculptured furniture are remakes from one of the grandest Gilded Age interiors on Fifth Avenue- the now demolished William C. Whitney Ballroom. She invites the public to sit and enjoy what used to be a private and exclusive interior space that is now open and accessible to everyone.

Photo by James Ewing, courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY.

Chicago, IL

The Floating Museum

By: Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, and Andrew Schachman

Where: Chicago Riverwalk

Through: September 29, 2017

Image Courtesy of The Floating Museum

Nothing beats a Chicago summer. Residents emerge from a long winter hibernation. They strip themselves of their down coats; slather on the SPF and head to iconic landmarks like Lake Michigan and the Chicago Riverwalk.

Those walking along the Chicago River will be surprised to see a floating pop-up museum.

The Floating Museum is pioneered by a collective of creatives (artists, professors, poets, and more) that want to break down institutional walls and bring art to underserved communities. This contents of the Museum focus on Chicago’s African American history and is in conjunction with the DuSable Museum of African American History.  

The Floating Museum is a collaborative arts organization that creates temporary, site-responsive museum spaces to activate sites of cultural potential throughout Chicago’s neighborhoods. They engage local artists, historians and organizations in events that challenge traditional museum thinking and generate community engagement conversation.

San Francisco, CA

Photosynthesis

By: Illuminate

Where: Golden Gate Park

Through: October 21, 2017

Photo Courtesy of Conservatory of Flowers

Summer nights are perfectly spent outdoors with sunset picnics, stargazing, and fireworks.

San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers is transformed from sundown to midnight in Golden Gate Park; it bursts with psychedelic colors and spinning flower mandalas. The facade of the Victorian greenhouse is the canvas for Illuminate, a nonprofit arts organization. It was commissioned to honor the 50th anniversary of San Francisco’s Summer of Love (1967) and its “Flower Child” legacy.

Illuminate masterfully organized numerous partners to bring this light art extravaganza to fruition. The work was developed in partnership with San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, San Francisco Parks Alliance, and the Conservatory of Flowers.

Philadelphia, PA

Big Bling

By: Martin Puryear

Where: Along Kelly Drive between Fountain Green Drive and the Connecting Railway and Girard Avenue Bridges

Through: November 2017

Photo by Caitlin Martin, courtesy of the Association for Public Art.

Summer is the time of large ice cream cones, extra long beach towels, and towering cheeseburgers. Philadelphia added another colossal summer treat to the list - Big Bling.

The wooden sculpture is 40-feet high, wrapped in chain-link fence and sports a massive gold-leafed shackle on the top. Some may see an abstract form; others may see an animal. I personally see an elephant with a long trunk reaching down to the ground.

Puryear states: “I tend not to tell people what they’re looking at when they’re in the presence of my work. I trust people’s eyes. I trust their imagination.”

Big Bling was commissioned by Madison Park Conservancy, New York and originally exhibited in Madison Park. It is a great example of how temporary work does not have to be a “one-hit-wonder.” It can continue to be temporary, but occupy various locations by traveling from city to city, bringing surprise and delight to thousands.

Big Bling was also a 2017 Public Art Network Year in Review awardee. Find out more about the PAN Year in Review on our PAA blog post on July 17, 2017.

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#ThrowbackThursday: Check out this triptych of material mystery, three sculptural works completed by past artist-in-residence Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford in Hall of Khan, his solo show at the Art Center. We'll give you three guesses as to what these are made out of (hint: one material is chocolate, and another is freeze dried pineapple.)

(Photography by Alice Bucknell, Art Center Intern)

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Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford (A ‘11) League of Nations Chicago Cultural Center 78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602 June 02 - August 29 

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Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford (A ‘11) The Long Dream  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 November 07, 2020 - January 21, 2021

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Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford (A '11)

Floating Museum: A Lion for Every House Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603 June 11 - October 17

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Hyperallergic: A Museum Floats Down the Chicago River

The Floating Museum’s River Assembly project at Park No. 571, Chicago (image courtesy the Floating Museum)

CHICAGO — A river cuts across Chicago, flowing past Bucktown in the north and Chinatown in the south before emptying out into Lake Michigan. More than the lakefront, the Chicago River belongs to the people, reaching neighborhoods outside of the downtown hub and interacting with communities of varying affluence, racial makeup, and distances to the lake. Beginning this week, a Chicago-based arts collective called the Floating Museum is adding a new congregation point along the river. The collective is made up of a core team of six — Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Andrew Schachman, Avery R. Young, Megan Sauve, and Kate Schlachter — and their newest installation, River Assembly, sits on a barge at Park No. 571, docking at various locations between August 7 and August 27 to bring arts programming to audiences along its route.

The Floating Museum’s River Assembly literally floats. The barge is modeled after industrial rafts that carried goods and raw materials down the Chicago River between the 1830s and 1980s, and it measures 26 feet by 100 feet — small compared to the nearby Studio Gang-designed Eleanor Boathouse by the water’s edge. Like all of the collective’s exhibitions, this one challenges the idea of a museum as a physical, immovable site.

“Our collective activates the idea of the museum without a brick and mortar institution. We were thinking a lot about institutional critique,” Hulsebos-Spofford said. “Our broader project … is talking about making the city a museum campus.”

Over the summer, the collective has been engaging communities on the Southeast Side. Through a partnership with the nonprofit SkyART, 10 youth artists participated in an intensive workshop throughout July. The program included field trips to cultural organizations and culminates in the students’ curated work being installed in crates and displayed on the Floating Museum this month. That is, not only did these budding artists go to museums, but the Floating Museum — in barge and collective form alike — came to them.

The Floating Museum installs River Assembly (image courtesy the Floating Museum)

A big, bold “ARE WE THERE YET?” is emblazoned across one of the crates stacked on the barge, calling attention to the vessel’s journey along the river. The phrase also reflects the evolving face of the Floating Museum, which first came together in 2007 when collective co-directors Majeed and Hulsebos-Spofford met each other in the University of Illinois at Chicago MFA program. Since then, the Floating Museum has taken on numerous iterations, remaining amorphous and ambiguous in location. Weekly, it holds workshops and performances across the city, and last summer, it created a temporary installation at a South Side park.

River Assembly decenters Chicago’s museum district concentrated along Lake Michigan. Enter the keywords “Chicago” and “museum” into any search engine, and chances are, the same few venues will feature at the top of the results. There’s the Field Museum, home to a T-rex fossil named Sue. Further north, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art hold their own against coastal hard-hitters. Then, attractions such as the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Museum of Science and Industry, and the Chicago History Museum round out the list of top lakeside attractions along the eastern shore of the city. River Assembly, on the other hand, moves freely and often, aggregating people along a different waterfront.

“The river is a space with communities around it,” Majeed told Hyperallergic. “We work with communities in order to bring them into the space of the museum.”

In addition to the SkyART crates, which spill out onto shore in boundless heaps of color, the barge features choir rehearsals, dance performances, film screenings, and panel talks. All four elements will come together for the August 27 finale, “art.i.fact: an intersection of art, history & discipline.” Via live performances and displayed art and video, the event will commemorate the deaths of Chicago-born Emmett Till, whose horrific lynching marked a critical juncture in the Civil Rights Movement, and Chicago-native Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the DuSable Museum namesake regarded as the city’s first permanent resident.

The mood on the barge varies day by day, depending on variables like weather, programming, and audience. But against a backdrop of water, there’s one constant: The mountain of painted and bejeweled crates draws eyes toward the river just as much as it does toward itself. It’s in this symbiosis with its site that River Assembly becomes a floating museum, a space unmoored yet no less accessible.

The Floating Museum’s River Assembly travels from Park No. 571 to the Chicago Riverwalk’s River Theater on August 15. The art crates will be on display at Navy Pier (600 E Grand Ave, Chicago) August 27–September 29 to coincide with the Chicago Architecture Biennial and EXPO Chicago. See the full schedule of opening hours and events here.

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