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.
As a partner in the Chicago Millennium Project, the Block Museum has combined its popular Conversation series with the final millennium topic Transitions. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Admission is free. The Dittmar Memorial Gallery opened in 1972 to enhance the mission of Northwestern University by utilizing visual art as a vehicle for transmitting culture and knowledge. The gallery currently places emphasis on ethnic cultural art, art by emerging artists, art by or about women, artwork by Northwestern undergraduate and graduate art students and traveling art shows.