Cara, Trish, and Jasmine

IN PROGRESS SHOTS!
(Not the best quality photos... sorry.)


That's all for now!

More from El Rey!

El Rey

Street View

Vedale & Jansen

Center street between Bramen & Weil street

Lesley and Patrick's public art piece: LaCausa (5th and Walker)

Molly, Julio, and Ryan installing their first project on the side of a building near 13th and Mitchell

Josh MacPhee Speaking at MAPC!

Josh will be speaking at 10:00 am Thursday 10/14 at the Mid America Print Conference at the Humphrey location. It is not to be missed!

Bio:
Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His work often revolves around themes of history, radical politics, and public space. His most recent books are Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today (PM Press, 2009) and Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now (AK Press, 2009, co-edited with Dara Greenwald). He also organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Series and is part of the public art group Spectresofliberty.com.

http://www.justseeds.org/artists/josh_macphee/

Aaron Hughes speaks at UWM

Aaron Hughes / Artist’s Now lecture

Wednesday, October 13^th

7:00pm

UWM

ACL 120

Free and open to the public

Photo: of "Operation First Casualty" a performance in Chicago.

Aaron Hughes is an artist, an Iraq War veteran, and a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW.) He was a student at the University of Illinois-Urbana when his National Guard unit, the 1244th Transportation Company Army National Guard, was called to active duty on January 30, 2003.

Three months later, his Company was deployed to Kuwait. There he supported combat operations by transporting supplies from camps and ports in Kuwait to camps in Iraq. After three deployment extensions, totaling fifteen months, his Company was redeployed back to Illinois.

Hughes returned to the University of Illinois in the spring of 2005 and became a painting major. Photos that he took in Iraq served as the basis for many of his paintings. At U of I and in graduate art school at Northwestern University he expanded his mediums to performance, video, book arts, and collage. Much of the work was about trying to make sense of his war experience.

In 2006, Hughes joined Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), a national membership organization consisting of veterans and active duty service members who have served in the US military since September 11, 2001. IVAW currently has a membership of over 1,700 people spread throughout the 50 states as well as Canada, Europe, and Iraq, and has 61 active chapters, including six on military bases.

Presently, Aaron is an organizing team leader for IVAW and spends much of the year traveling around the country to meet with various IVAW chapters, organized labor, and other groups committed to ending the wars in the Middle East.

Aaron’s influence on IVAW’s tactics has been substantial, especially his ideas on how to merge art with activism. He helped organize Operation First Casualty – a street theater action by IVAW members where veterans re-enact their combat patrol experiences in US cities. He also has introduced street art techniques (mud stencil actions) and a host of other creative methods to help “bring the war home” and focus much needed public attention on GI rights, Post Dramatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and stopping the re-deployment of soldiers with traumatic injuries.