Stop by Marwen's 2007 Technology Fire Sale from 5PM-7PM on December 14th. Computers, monitors, audio input devices, scanners, and other gadgets will all be priced to go. Not only are the prices right, we are also giving away CDs loaded with free/open-source art making software!

It is going to be a busy evening around Marwen. The Fall Term Exhibition will be on display, there will be family workshops, free unclaimed art from 2007 courses, and a raffle.

Eddie Morfin's piece for the Alumni Artist-In-Residence Show at Marwen includes a wall for visitors to copy a quote from Mahatma Gandhi in their own handwriting.

"We have to make truth and nonviolence not a matter of individual practice, but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it"

I noticed the note pictured above amongst the text the other day.

EWW!!!!!
Haven't seen Maria Gaspar's eerie video installation in the alumni gallery? Want to share it with a friend? Take a look at a clip now (unless you're about to have a meal)



For the rest of the awesome art up in the gallery now, take a look HERE

Marwen's Executive Director, Antonia Contro, has a just published a beautiful book. It was created around her exhibition entitled "Closed | Open" at the Newberry Library last spring.

There will be two book signings in Chicago in the next month- one at Newberry Library on September 19 at 6:00 and the second at the Museum of Contemporary Art on October 2 at 7:00.

BACK TO SCHOOL! BACK TO SCHOOL! I hope everyone had a g-r-e-a-t summer and that the first week of school wasn't too bad... I know we're all looking forward to Marwen students returning to classes in just a few weeks.

And now for a personal plug... If anyone has any questions or wants additional counseling on college stuff (stuff= applications, essays, financial aid, portfolio preparation, test prep, etc) just come by and say hi, you know where I work. Or give me a call, the number is: 312.944.2418 x.207.

Hope to talk/see you all soon.
Sarah (assistant manager of college and career programs)

Check out the new blog for Marwen's alumni Artists-In-Residence! Five former Marwen students are taking up shop in the studios this summer, making amazing artwork, and some of them have something to say (and show) about it. You can stay tuned to their thoughts, photos, and videos. Check it out here, subscribe to the blog!
http://artistsinresidence.blogspot.com/

On the Verge: Youth Video Festival
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Doors open at 11AM, Screening starts at 12PM
at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago