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An Evening with Your Contemporaries
February 18 / 4:30 –  8:30

from Lumpen: We are opening a new joint project with our friends and collaborators called The (Con)Temporary Art Space this Tuesday. It’s located at 208 S Wabash. It will be open Tuesday through Sunday 11:30am to 5:30 pm and later on Thursday.

Here’s the brief mission statement:
The (Con) Temporary Art Space, due to open February 16th, 2010, will be an avenue for discussion, research and action. The former retail space will be used as a working studio by cultural workers, producers, artists and designers for projects they are working on collectively and individually. The Public will be able to absorb these presentations as well as share their ideas about contemporary art. The (Con)Temporary Art Space will function as a information center and a place to learn about Chicago’s diverse art ecology.
Read more about the space’s mission here.

We are opening up a shop to sell what we think are the best artist publications around. There is also a co-working space/studio, a reading lounge, and the (An)Other Chicago Mapping project. Every Thursday night we will feature a new exhibition and opening showing work by various groups, spaces and individuals that represent the variety of Chicago’s art worlds.

Why don’t you join us Thursday, February 18 4:30pm to 8:30pm for our grand opening and inaugural exhibition showing work by the founding members? Stop by and find out how you can have a show in our Display Case Gallery or participate in the space, or help us create a collaborative map of the city’s Other Culture.