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HOW DO I BOOK A GROUP OF 10 OR MORE?
Group sales deadline for this event is: Friday, October 21.

Join two Lloyd Hall Scholars Program Art classes on a special Culture Bus trip to Chicago the last weekend in October. Leaving Ann Arbor, Saturday morning, Oct. 29th and returning late Sunday evening, Oct. 30th, you (and a friend?) will stay one night at the Congress Plaza Hotel located just two blocks from the Chicago Art Institute and Millenium Park. The trip will include reserved seating to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of The Merchant of Venice, a fantastic architectural boat tour of Chicago by river, and tickets to both the Chicago Art Institute and the Chicago Contemporary Art Museum. All tickets, round trip bus transportation and hotel accommodations are included in the all inclusive low price of $195.00 per person (based on double-occupancy).

*Meals are not included and are at your own expense. Transportation is provided courtesy of Arts at Michigan (a $50 value).

The Twelfth Annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art: SOFA CHICAGO 2005

The Sphere of the Material

Whether one stands before a monumental ceramic human head made from 8000 pounds of clay by James Tyler, pondering the single word TRUTH carved repeatedly into it like a scar or mantra; the polished, raw surfaces of an Ivan Mares molded glass sculpture, at once a lamentation and tribute to nature's brute carvings and selective sheen; or Norie Hatakeyama's ectoplasm of simple packing paper, mysteriously alive, breeding dead-end tunnels from the inside-is to be confronted by these artworks' very objecthood, their materiality and virtuosity of process.

Special Exhibitions "Convergence: Crossing the Divide" - The Studio Furniture of Tasmania and America

Studio furniture makers from opposite sides of the world present the most recent designs in contemporary studio furniture, often combining historical traditions with sculptural interpretations. Presented by The Furniture Society.

"Flatware: Function + Fantasy"

An exhibit of flatware from Metalsmith magazine's 'Exhibition in Print 2005', co-curated by Rosanne Raab, independent curator/collection adviser, and Boris Bally, designer/metalsmith. Presented by the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG).

Updating Traditions

Chicago Shakespeare Theater THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
September 2 - November 12, 2005

Artistic Director Barbara Gaines kicks off this diverse and far-reaching season with Shakespeare's most controversial play about opposing worlds-of prejudice and persecution, of young love and liberty. Shylock, the outsider, is performed by Mike Nussbaum. Kate Fry is the strong and savvy Portia, and Timothy Edward Kane, her devoted Bassanio.

For more info: http://www.chicagoshakes.com/

Chicago Art Institute
East Asian Ceramics: Then and Now
July 2 - November 6, 2005
Gallery 109

Overview: Contemporary ceramic artists in East Asia continually draw upon their cultures' highly developed traditions. An artist may use a glaze that became popular centuries earlier or experiment with a traditional glaze by changing the resulting color. Contemporary artists also quote wares of the past through form and technique. In this exhibition featuring works from China, Korea, and Japan, pairs of contemporary and premodern objects are on display. In each case, the artist of the contemporary piece consciously adopts aspects of the earlier ware while creating a thoroughly modern work of art.

Paris: Photographs from a Time That Was
August 13 - November 6
Galleries 1 and 2

1945: Creativity and Crisis, Chicago Architecture and Design of the World War II Era
Gallery 227
May 7, 2005 - January 8, 2006

Overview: Nineteen forty-five was a pivotal year that marked not only the end of the Second World War but also the close of an era that encompassed the boom years of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. It heralded a new age of peace, prosperity, and equality, or at least the dreams for them. This exhibition and series of public programs will focus on American architecture and design of the 1940s, a neglected decade when compared with the celebrated accomplishments of the Machine Age 1920s and '30s and the International Style of the 1950s. The exhibition will be drawn from the extensive collections of architectural drawings and models within the Art Institute. It will consist of approximately 80 objects in a special installation by Stanley Tigerman within the Kisho Kurokawa Gallery of architecture. It also commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in mid-August 2005. The objects within the exhibition will be organized thematically based on the results of several think-tank sessions with scholars of architectural and urban history, design history, and American history.

For more info: http://www.artic.edu/aic

The Official Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise

Only the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago's First Lady, and Chicago's Little Lady can showcase Chicago's world renowned city architecture with style, class and comfort. Open air and air conditioned seating is available.

Learn about the architecture and design of over 50 buildings as described by trained volunteer guides.

For more info: http://www.cruisechicago.com/cflady/arcsell.html http://www.architecture.org/

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
July 2 - October 30, 2005

One of the most innovative artists of the late twentieth century, Flavin (1933-1996) is best known for his works that consist almost entirely of fluorescent tubes in ten colors and five shapes. Large presentations of his art have rarely been seen due to the site-specific nature of many of his works. This exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to his achievement as a major proponent of minimalism. The exhibition will include approximately forty-five light works beginning with a series called "icons," made from 1961 to 1963, which are constructed boxes with attached incandescent or fluorescent lights that show the influence of artists such as Barnett Newman and Marcel Duchamp.

Organized chronologically, the exhibition includes the "monuments" to Vladmir Tatlin, works made for corners that integrate light with architecture, large-scale installations and "barrier" pieces, works made in homage to fellow artists or as reflections of Flavin's thinking on political subjects, and a selection of works on paper that reveal Flavin's thought processes and working methods. The MCA's presentation will also include a re-creation of the 1967-68 exhibition of Flavin's work alternating pink and "gold" at the MCA, one of the earliest and most important installations of his work.

William J. O'Brien
October 8 - 30

Appropriating images from a wide range of materials, William O'Brien's artwork comments on media, the structure of information, and his ideas about sexuality. Through drawings, fiber art, video, paintings, and installations, O'Brien attempts to create an authentic relationship between his art and his life. For this exhibition, the artist will create an installation that reflects the constant state of flux and exploration that appears in all of his work.

For more info: http://www.mcachicago.org