2007 View/download PDF - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Spring at the MCA
As we moved into winter and spring with
MCA EXPOSED: Defining Moments in
Photography, 1967–2007 and Rudolf Stingel,
we o¤ered many complementary programs
to help engage the public on many levels:
• People Who Shape Our World
talks, including those by New Yorker
art critic Jerry Saltz and artist Vik
Muniz
• Saturday Shorts, a new and very
successful program of three-hour
workshops in which adults learn fun
skills such as how to make pinhole
cameras
• MCA EXPOSED iPod audio tour,
featuring five artists discussing
their works as well as that of another
artist in the show whose work they
admire (such as Jeanne Dunning
talking about her work The Pink and
Vito Acconci’s Stretch)
• Sold-out Creation Labs, which o¤er
30-minute tours and 90-minute
studio sessions for grades 3–8, for
the tenth year
• Four Family Days, which attracted
1,000 visitors this year and was
sponsored in part by the Women’s
Board Family Education Initiative
and Target
drew a huge crowd to browse the latest
in independent publications. The event
attracted significant media attention,
including mentions in the Chicago Sun
Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, and
Time Out Chicago.
Contemporary art challenges and mystifies
as well as delights, calms, provokes, and
even shocks viewers. The work on view
in the MCA’s galleries changes dramatically
from one year to the next, but our
commitment to the museum remains
consistent: to provide programs that assist
our visitors through rewarding journeys of
exploration and discovery.
The Zines, Comics, and Other Hip Lit
Fair, conceived in conjunction with the
Chris Ware exhibition and presented in
partnership with Quimby’s Bookstore,
attracted such an eclectic audience that
we did it again in Spring 2007. Held
on a Sunday in May, the four-hour fair
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