Madeleine Tudor
The Field Museum
312-665-7471
mtudor@fieldmuseum.org
Keep updated on the Calumet Heritage Partnership and the National Heriate Area even if you're unavailable for the conference!
Art and Heritage:
The Making of the Calumet Region
Join us in an exploration of art and placemaking in the bi-state Calumet region. How do landscape paintings, theater performances, and public art work to "tell the story" of the natural environment, the industrial history, and the ethnic diversity of the Calumet region?
The arts play a major role in creating and expressing the meaning of a place. They feed its vitality. They speak to its quality of life. No wonder that the Calumet Heritage Partnership's quest to obtain National Heritage Area status for this special place--the Calumet region--needs to support and be supported by the arts.
Presentations, panel discussions, and participatory activities will look at how the arts contribute to National Heritage Areas in general and their importance in creating a Calumet Heritage Area. The conference will also include updates on the progress being made towards NHA status. Morning conference activities will be followed by an afternoon tour that showcases some of the region's artistic gems, with a special focus on great work being done within just a few miles of either side of the state line.
In order to facilitate networking, display tables will be available for heritage organizations, arts organizations, and individual artists to display their work. Please note that this is not an opportunity to sell your work. Table space is limited. If you're interested in a display table, please contact Madeleine Tudor (mtudor@fieldmuseum.org or 312-665-7471) by October 15.
Pictured above is a sample of art that represents the diversity of work to be found across the Calumet region, with regard to time, geography and media. From left to right: a detail of the "Visions in Pullman" mural, located in the Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, designed and painted by students of Chicago's American Academy of Art (1996); "Spring in the Dunes by the South Shore Line," depicting the Indiana Dunes, poster designed by Raymond Huelster (1928); Republic Steel/Memorial Day Massacre Monument, designed by Ed Blaszak, and located on the Southeast Side of Chicago (1981); works from the exhibit “From Rust to Restoration: Basque Art and the Bilbao Effect,” displayed at the South Shore Arts Center, Munster, IN, in 2006; and a detail of the mural "Watch us Grow," by Geoffry Smalley, in Hammond, Indiana (1998).
Registration Fee $30
Lunch, afternoon tours and membership in the Calumet Heritage Partnership
are included in the registration fee.
Reduced student and senior rates are available.
Register Now!
The October 15 deadline is here so register today!
Preliminary Program
8:30 a.m.
Registration and Coffee
9:00 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Mark Bouman President, Calumet Heritage Partnership
John Cain Executive Director, South Shore Arts
9:15 a.m.
Keynote Address
Judith O'Toole Director and CEO, Westmoreland Museum of American Art
The Westmoreland Museum is part of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area and home to "Born of Fire," an innovative exhibition of paintings, documentary film, and folk music that tell the story of the industrial heritage of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
10:15 a.m.
Facilitated Panel Discussion
Carolyn Saxton President and CEO, Legacy Foundation
Roman Villareal Acclaimed local artist and proprietor of Under the Bridge Gallery
Barb Labus Artist/Illustrator and staff member at Shirley Heinze Land Trust
Facilitator: Susan Eleuterio Independent Folklorist and Educator
Panelists will discuss questions such as:
How does art help to maintain and/or create the image of the Calumet region?
How can art play a role in a Calumet National Heritage Area?
A facilitated discussion with the audience will follow.
12:00 p.m.
Important Announcement about National Heritage and the Calumet Region
12:15 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Pat Wisniewski Owner, For Goodness Sake Productions
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.Arts and Heritage Tour
This bus and walking tour will begin at the South Shore Arts center and explore points of arts and heritage interest in Chicago's Southeast Side and in Downtown Hammond.
