Weekly Events Calendar: 9.13.06

Art & Design Events...

September is Kids Design Month at Apartment Therapy
- Next Month is the Fall Colors Contest! Get ready to enter.
Renegade Craft Fair
- DIY event with over 150 vendors, where "you'll find all sorts of cool stuff ranging from comic books to cool craft patterns, and gigposters to reconstructed clothing."
- Wicker Park, 1425 N. Damen Ave.
- Saturday-Sunday, September 16-17
Ikebana Event at Urbanest
- Ikebana demonstration (the Japanese artform of flower arrangement), sushi, wine, live music and a preview of the Fall '06 furniture collection.
- Urbanest, 5228 N. Clark St.
- Friday, September 15, 7-9 pm

Contemplating a Roller - Max Kahn/Eleanor Coen - Major Works

"Two of Chicago s most influential printmakers and painters, Eleanor Coen (b. 1916) and Max Kahn (1901-2005) were the indomitable artistic couple of the 40s and 50s, cultivating and spreading print techniques they learned in Mexico a decade earlier. Kahn, who studied in Paris under a student of Rodin's in the 20s, is credited with introducing color lithography to the United States, and Coen s incisive and penetrating investigations of urban landscapes and figures - particularly children - are considered iconic Chicago images."
Corbett vs. Dempsey: Modern Art & Uncommon Objects, 1120 N. Ashland Ave.
September 8-October 14

Bruce Mau: Massive Change Lecture

Curator of Massive Change Bruce Mau and students from the IWB, a program founded in 2003 by George Brown College and Bruce Mau Design, discuss their experience researching, writing, and designing the exhibition: Massive Change: The Future of Global Design
MCA, 220 E. Chicago Ave.
Saturday, September 16, 3 pm

Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work

"One of the most important American photographers of the 20th century, Harry Callahan holds particular significance for Chicago, where he made some of his most influential work."
The Art Institure of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Closes September 24

Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930

“This exhibit is designed to show an American audience the talent and unique nature of Ukrainian avant-garde art and to help understand that the artists are, indeed, Ukrainian, not Russian, a difference not always appreciated in the West. Moreover, the exhibition is equally important because it will also help Ukrainians acquaint themselves with their own cultural heritage.”
Exhibit Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph St.
Through October 15