CONNECT is again presented at SOFA Chicago by Chubb Personal Insurance. It offers students, working under the supervision of faculty, the opportunity to create innovative environments incorporating seating, lighting and objects, and to exhibit their designs to an international audience.
Above image: Diagram from the #thinkdavis team, University of California, Davis.
On Friday, November 7, 2014 from 3-4pm in Room 326. Garth Clark, Chief Editor of CFile, an online weekly on global contemporary ceramics and design, art and architecture, will moderate a panel with team leaders. At time when the world of art is becoming more elitist, obscure and separated from daily life and society at large, what is the responsibility (if any) for art education to encourage engagement with the public at large through, if not art itself, at least through creativity that celebrates the universal human condition? Clark asks how can this be encouraged and from the creatives’ point of view, sustained and funded. CONNECT participants are John DeSalvo, Illinois Institute of Technology; Deborah Schneiderman, Pratt Institute; Brett Snyder, University of California, Davis; Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati; Monica Correia, University of Iowa and Charlotte Hamlin; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Founded in 1994, SOFA CHICAGO (Sculpture Objects Functional Art + Design) is Chicago’s longest continuously running art fair and the world’s foremost fair dedicated to masterworks of contemporary art and design in all media including glass, ceramics, wood, fiber and metal. During the past two decades, SOFA CHICAGO has grown to attract more than 30,000 visitors every year and exhibitors from the U.S. and around the world. SOFA CHICAGO is open Friday and Saturday 11 am – 7 pm; and Sunday 12 pm – 6pm. Tickets are available in advance or at the door, and they allow access to all aspects of SOFA CHICAGO. Tickets are $20 for general admission; $30 for three-day pass. Students and seniors (with ID), and groups (10 or more) are $15.
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