CHICAGO — Woman Made Gallery (WMG) presents a group exhibition with works by 38 artists, curated by Riva Lehrer. Humans Being II is an exhibit that focuses on the experience of disability as explored through contemporary art. Included are painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, and photography works.
Curator: Riva Lehrer, adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute is internationally known in Disability Culture, as an active and influential curator, writer and lecturer. She curated the Access Living Art Collection, the only public collection of professional work on the subject of impairment in the United States, and is co-chair of the Programming Committee for Bodies of Work.
Exhibiting Artists: Loretta Bebeau, Carol Chase Bjerke, Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn, Jeffery Carl, Octavia Carney, Marie France Cournoyer, Madelyn Covey, Melissa Jay Craig, MK Czerwiec, John Dunkleman, Laura Ferguson, Jessica Van Fleteren, Claire Gilliam, Iris Gill, Andrew Godfrey, Ellen Holtzblatt, Elizabeth Jameson, Danielle Juracka, Jennifer Justice, Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer, Tim Lowly, Keturah Lynn, Neil Marcus, Rachael McHan, Maryellen Murphy, Sophia Nahli, Heidi Tehilla Newman, Mark Parsons, David Richards, Elizabeth Riggle, Jes Sachse, Katherine Sherwood, Angela Swan, Cheryl Thomas, Gwynneth VanLaven, Kathy Weaver, Jon Wos, Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi.
Woman Made Gallery is proud to be a participant in the simultaneous Bodies of Work Festival, for which this exhibition and its accompanying literary events are a part.
Woman Made Gallery
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
Woman Made Gallery is supported in part by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; a CityArts Program II grant from the City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs; the Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development, a donor-advised fund of the Chicago Community Trust; the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund; a major anonymous donor; and the generosity of its members and contributors.
