Installation of the structural steel framework will continue through mid-October. The Block Museum's outdoor sculpture garden remains partially on view to the public. Sculptures located near the construction site have been either removed or wrapped for protection. Parking is available at the Evanston Public Library. Two films will be screened as part of the Reeltime monthly series.
Admission is free.
The Cry of My Birth Residency Project has invited five African artists to Chicago from Oct. 31 to Dec. 4, 1999. Residencies will be hosted by the University of Chicago, School of the Art Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia College and Northwestern University's Department of Art Theory and Practice. Ghada Amer, the distinguished resident artist at Northwestern, will be developing curriculum and working with students. Currently based in New York, she will give a slide presentation of her contemporary fiber-based installations characterized by a political subtext. Admission is free.