Creating (in) Community Day
August 17, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Join us for Creating (in) Community Day! Research shows all sorts of beautiful benefits to making art in community: combating loneliness, building trust and empathy, and supporting health aging. With that in mind, we are excited to launch an annual community making day where we invite our neighbors to join us on the meadow for a group activity. This year’s event will be led by our Longform Mentor, kg gnatowski.
Participants will create a large collective weaving along the lagoon and are encouraged to bring materials from home to contribute. The day will provide opportunities for rich conversations and the kindling of new friendships across generations and experiences. Registration is free but required. Lunch is included for all participants. The final weaving will be on display through to the fall, weather permitting.
This program is inspired by the book Project Unlonely by Jeremy Noble. Ox-Bow House will have copies of the book available for purchase.
(top) headshot of kg; (bottom) Standards, kj, 2021, 10 x 12 inches. Images courtesy of the artist.
kg (b. Poland) makes weavings and writes poetry from their home studio by the lake in Chicago. kg values the small the domestic and the everyday, situating those politics in their studio and curatorial practices. They have exhibited work with Horse and Pony (Berlin), The Brooklyn Academy Of Music,The Bruce High Quality Foundation and The Gowanas Ballroom (New York), Left Field Gallery and Adjunct Positions (Los Angeles), Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis), Monique Meloche Gallery, Gallery 400, Julius Caesar and LVL3 (Chicago), The John Michael Kohler Art Center (Wisconsin) and their most recent solo exhibition, Here Comes That Feeling at Hawthorne Contemporary in Milwaukee. Some Kind Of Duty, Their expansive weaving survey hosted by The DePaul Art Museum is available as a monograph through the museum shop and online. In 2017 kg attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The Vermont Studio Center as a fellow in 2018. Current exhibitions include Intranarratives hosted by the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal. Upcoming shows include Stitch, Woven, Hooked at The Lubeznik art Center and Beyond: Tapestry Expanded at The Peeler Art Center at DePauw University.