The art of making perfumes began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Today, it is a multi-million dollar industry. Chicagoan Marilyn Miglin is renowned for her signature fragrance, Pheromone, one of the top-10 fragrances sold in luxury department stores nationwide. Ms. Miglin will take guests on a journey through the world of perfume and help us discover what heaven smells like. RSVP to luma@luc.edu or 312.915.7608
Events
What Does Heaven SMELL Like?
May 15, 2012
6pm
Location: LUMA, 820 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
$10 / $5 Intuit and LUMA Members
Outsider Art Environment Tour: France
May 16 - 24, 2012
$4,500 for double occupancy
$5,435 for single occupancy
Palais Idéal, Photo (c) Emmanuel Georges/ Collection Palais Idéal
Join Intuit as we explore the wonderful art environments of France. Centered in Paris, this tour will provide a variety of day trips to various museums and art environments throughout France. Price includes hotel accommodations, breakfasts and 3 group meals as well as ground transportation, entrance fees and English speaking guides during group day trips. For more detailed information on the sites we will be visiting, please click here. Please note that day-to-day itinerary is subject to change.
For further information or to place your reservation, please contact Intuit’s Education Director, Carol Ng-He.
Space is extremely limited, please reserve your spot today!
Closet Clearance Sale
June 2, 2012
10am-5pm
Free and open to the public
This event includes the sale of new and gently used women’s clothing, shoes, jewelry, hats, scarves, purses, and accessories donated from some of Chicago’s best closets.
Donations are currently being accepted and can be dropped off at Intuit (756 N Milwaukee Avenue) Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11am to 5pm. We ask that clothes be clean and on hangers if possible. All donors will receive a ticket to attend the sale one hour before the doors open. All proceeds from the sale benefit Intuit and unsold items will be donated to various charities.
For questions or volunteer opportunities, please email intuit@art.org.
What Does Heaven TASTE Like?
June 5, 2012
6pm
Location: LUMA, 820 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
$10 / $5 Intuit and LUMA Members
Join us for an evening of food and scholarship as we investigate food in heaven and the afterlife in Judaism, Buddhism, and ancient Egypt. After talks by Rabbi David Levinsky (Chicago Sinai Congregation), Yarina Liston (Loyola), and Emily Teeter (Oriental Institute), we will sample heavenly foods discussed in the lectures. RSVP to luma@luc.edu or 312.915.7608
Executive Director Meet-n-Greet
June 7, 2012
5-7:30pm
Free and open to the public
Joel Mangers has been named executive director to succeed Cleo Wilson following her retirement in June 2012. Joel will function as the chief executive officer supervising programming including curatorial, educational, administrative, financial, development, as well as implementing strategic marketing programs, and building visibility for the organization.
Joel, 45, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989, and Masters of Business Administration from Aurora University in 1997. He has served as Associate Director of Development of the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2006, and previously was Director of Community & Cultural Programming at the Center on Halsted, Chicago’s LGBT community center. In 1999, Joel was Corporate Partnership Development Officer at Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, where he worked until 2004.
Please join staff and the Board of Directors at our “meet-n-greet” as we welcome Joel to Intuit.
Film Series: Artist’s Heavens and Hells
June 14, 2012
6pm
Free and open to the public
In a Dream (2009), directed by Jeremy Zagar, Runtime: 80 minutes
Over the past four decades, Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life unfolds. The film features music by The Books, Explosions in the Sky, Efterklang, Bibio, Colleen & an original score by Kelli Scarr. To learn more or to watch the trailer, visit inadreammovie.com.
Film Screening: MAKE
June 16, 2012
3pm
$8 / $5 Intuit Members
Join us for the screening of the documentary MAKE, an intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott and Ike Morgan. All of these artists find their most powerful voice through art. Their interwoven stories bring together individuals whose worlds are as unique as their creations and explore why they are each consumed by their obsessive art making.
Filmmaker Scott Ogden will introduce the film and will be available for a Q&A session following the screening. Click here to watch the trailer.
Runtime: 69 minutes
Collect-O-Rama
May 12, 2012
10am-4pm
Location: Pulaski Field House, 1419 W. Blackhawk St., Chicago
Free and open to the public
You asked for it – Intuit’s really big de-accession sale for collectors, hoarders and eccentrics is back! This is a one day sale where you are in charge. Thin out your collection of outsider, folk, or just plain funky art and objects (and raise a little dough for Intuit in the process). No art dealers, no studios and no workshops – just collectors selling to collectors. See some of the items that will be for sale at collect-o-rama.com.
Film Series: Metaphorical Hell
May 10, 2012
6pm
Free and open to the public
The Exterminating Angel, 1962, directed by Luis Buñuel, Runtime: 95 min, Spanish with English subtitles
A group of bourgeois cosmopolitans are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave. Full of eerie and hilarious absurdity, over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they’ve built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals.
This screening will have a brief introduction by Zoran Samardzija, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Columbia College Chicago.
Cemetery Walk
May 5, 2012
10am-1pm
Location: Graceland Cemetery, 4001 N. Clark Street
SOLD OUT!
To complement the thought-provoking exhibition HEAVEN+HELL, join us for a guided tour of Graceland Cemetery with Marianne Matthews. Graceland Cemetery is an ideal location for studying post-life from the aesthetic, historical, religious, philosophical perspectives. Through this walk, we will examine the aesthetic values of Chicago’s elite and how they are represented after death.
This event will be open to adults and children alike to enjoy. Cost includes a luncheon immediately after the tour at Deleece Restaurant (3747 N. Southport, Chicago IL 60613), just west of the cemetery.
