Hey Chicago Families, come imagine, create, and think like an artist during the free Artist Studio Family Day at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago om March 13. Admission is FREE for families with children 12 and under. Families can recreate a busy day in the studio and discover how artists have turned their studios into the subject of their art during a tour of Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside and Out.
Every second Saturday from 11 am to 3 pm, the MCA invites families to learn about the art of our time through free hands-on art activities, scavenger hunts, Look ‘n’ Learn stations, and more. Admission is FREE for families with children 12 and under. Activities are appropriate for all ages and support for Family Programs is provided in part through the MCA Women’s Board Family Education Initiative.
Activities
1. Artist Books (Fourth floor)
Create a sketch book for your drawings and ideas. Led by artist Annie Heckman.
2. Portable Studios (Second floor)
Construct a portable studio space with the help artist Elena Goetz.
3. Idea Banks (First floor)
Led by artist Kate McQuillen, decorate small boxes where you can store ideas for future projects.
4. Tot Spot (Ground floor)
Refreshments await you on the ground floor, where you can recharge in between art-making activities.
About the PRODUCTION SITE Exhibition
Throughout art history, artists have reflexively looked at the very site where art work is produced — the studio — as a source of inspiration for their work. Production Site reexamines the artist’s studio as subject, presenting work that documents, depicts, reconstructs, or otherwise invokes that space, revealing how the studio functions as a place where research, experimentation, production, and social activity intersect.
The exhibition reflects and addresses the pivotal role of the studio in artists’ practice while alluding to its enduring status in the popular imagination. The works that comprise Production Site include multi-channel video projections, photographic light-boxes and installations, and life-sized fabrications of artists’ studios — real and imagined — that either extol the virtues of the studio or problematize the preconceived and often highly romanticized notions associated with it. The exhibition provides the viewer with an unprecedented and illuminating look at how some of the most compelling artists of our time have demystified, remystified, and reconsidered this site within the physical and conjectured space of the work of art.
Family Day: Artist Studio
March 13, 2010, 11 am – 3 pm
Free admission for families with children ages 12 and under
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Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E. Chicago
Chicago, IL 60611
312.280.2660
Hours:
Tuesday, 10 am – 8 pm (FREE DAY)
Wednesday – Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm
