Henry Darger: As Told by the Vivian Girls
May 15, 2008, 5:30pm - 8:30pm, Meet at Intuit
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Cost: $40 / Intuit members: $35
Join Intuit and Dog & Pony Theater for a special performance of As Told by the Vivian Girls at Theatre on the Lake. We will meet at Intuit for a tour of the Darger exhibition and the Henry Darger Room Collection. A light dinner and cocktails will be served before heading to the performance. Transportation will be provided between Intuit and Theater on the Lake.
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Life and Art of Chris Hipkiss with Annie Carlano
Saturday, May 17, 2008, 11:00am
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Carlano will provide an insightful look into Hipkiss’s incredibly complex, large-scale drawings of a post-apocalyptic future. Annie Carlano is the curator of North American and European Collections at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Carlano is the recipient of two Mellon Fellowships, and has lectured and published worldwide. Vernacular Visionaries: 20th Century Outsider Art in Context, an important book in the field of outsider art, was edited by Carlano and published by Yale University Press. This talk is free and open to the public.
Paper & Carriage: Release Party
Thursday, May 29, 2008, 6pm
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Featuring the writing of Henry Darger, Dan Beachy-Quick, Rolf Achilles, Kate Zambreno, Richard Stern, and Juliana Driever, with images by Daniel Johnston, artist multiples by Sherri Lynn Wood and Carmen Prince with an artist centerfold curated by Brooke Anderson, in conjunction with the exhibit "DARGERisms" at The American Folk Art Museum in New York. Participating with Intuit's permenant installation of Henry Darger's room, Dan S. Wang will letterpress a cover featuring the list of objects in Darger's room.
Darger's Army Goes to the Symphony
Thursday, June 5, 2008, 8:00pm
Symphony Center
Cost: $85 - $1000
We invite you to join us for an Intuit event like no other—a night at the symphony! Art that you know and love has been transformed into music by composer Jefferson Friedman—Sacred Heart: Explosion, the Chicago premier of an orchestral work based on one of Henry Darger’s more intense paintings, the diptych entitled “Sacred Heart: Explosion.”
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MIlwaukee Avenue Arts Corridor: Graduate Symposium
Saturday, June 7, 2008, 10:30am - 5:30pm
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
As part of the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Corridor (MAAC), Intuit will offer its space to the Feminist Art Project on Saturday, June 7, 2008. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. Welcome by Joanna Gardner-Huggett at 11:00 a.m. There will be a closing reception at Woman Made Gallery at 6:30pm. To view the full schedule of events, click here. MAAC is a collaboration of area arts organizations providing excellence in the arts through exhibitions, education and community programming. MAAC participants are ARC, Intuit and Woman Made. Free and open to the public.
