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  • Thursday
    Pre-conference Intensives 
    10:00am  -  7:30pm

    Museum Education: A Radical Practice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Pre-Conference 


    3:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Accessible Outdoor Events

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Pre-Conference 


  • Friday
    Open Houses 
    10:00am  -  12:00pm

    Practicing Utopia Over Breakfast

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    10:00am  -  12:00pm

    The Mushroom at the End of the World: A Student-led Conversation on Eco-Justice Now

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House  Teen Track 


    10:00am  -  2:00pm

    If You Remember, I’ll Remember  

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    10:00am  -  12:00pm

    Arts Spaces and Placekeeping as Resistance

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    10:00am  -  7:00pm

    Propeller Fund Open Houses

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    10:30am  -  12:00pm

    Race and Place: Some Chicago Girls on Art and Architecture + The Protest Banner Lending Library

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Weinberg/Newton Gallery: In Acts

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibition Projects (ACRE)

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  6:00pm

    Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice Symposium and Reception

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Open House at Roots & Culture

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  3:00pm

    A National Museum in the Heart of the Mexican Community

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    3:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Move Me Soul with Damon Locks at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House  Teen Track 


    4:00pm  -  6:00pm

    PUBLIC SCHOOL: Open House with Project Fielding

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    4:00pm  -  6:00pm

    On Stewardship

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    4:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Art in Our Times

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    4:00pm  -  6:00pm

    School of the Art Institute of Chicago at Homan Square

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House  Teen Track 


    5:30pm  -  7:00pm

    Party Noire Presents: Black Joy Kickback

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House Tour 


    Featured 
    4:00pm  -  6:00pm

    We Shouldn’t Have Policies We Are Afraid to Talk About: A Symposium on Public Crime Registries

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    7:30pm  -  9:00pm

    The Tamir Rice Memorial Project (Theaster Gates in Conversation with Lisa Lee and Romi Crawford)

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    After Hours 
    9:00pm  -  12:00am

    JOY

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Party 


  • Saturday

    OE 2017 opens at 9am Saturday and Sunday, with panels, workshops, presentations, conversations, trainings and projects happening throughout the day. After the day’s sessions have wrapped, please join us for the evening’s Featured Presentation and an after-hours celebration.

    Open Platform 
    12:00pm  -  12:15pm

    Welcome to Camp America: Looking for Common Ground

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    12:20pm  -  12:35pm

    Weinberg/Newton Gallery: At the corner of art and activism in Chicago

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    12:40pm  -  12:55pm

    Street Talk – How the arts interface between communities and police in post-conflict Northern Ireland.

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    1:00pm  -  1:15pm

    Artist Working: A Year-Long Durational Performance on Art, Caregiving, and Value

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    1:20pm  -  1:35pm

    Terms of Art: How Visual Communication is Transforming Legal Advocacy

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    1:40pm  -  1:55pm

    Ecstatic Nudes : Reclaiming, Black Joy, Radical Love & Representation

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    2:00pm  -  2:15pm

    A Dictionary of the Revolution: Documenting Public Political Speech in Egypt

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    2:20pm  -  2:35pm

    Organize: A Commemoration and Celebration of the Biloxi Wade-Ins of 1959-1960

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    2:40pm  -  2:55pm

    Abundance: Ancestral crops as resilience and research

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    3:00pm  -  3:15pm

    Towards a philosophy of socially-engaged photography

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    3:20pm  -  3:35pm

    I Move Hearts and Large Objects

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    3:40pm  -  3:55pm

    PIE-Q: A poetic reframing for arts & culture campaigning

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    4:00pm  -  4:15pm

    Algorithms, Big Data & Social Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    4:20pm  -  4:35pm

    Stories of Solidarity

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    All Day 
    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Present Futures: Strategies Toward Emancipation

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    From the INside

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Open Engagement: Homegrown Justice Stand

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    Morning 
    9:30am  -  11:30am

    Understanding Adultism & Building Partnerships with Youth

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Training 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    California State University Dominguez Hills & Big City Forum: Praxis Studio

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel  Teen Track 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Together A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE: North Lawndale voices, art and activism

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Funding Social Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Restorative Visual Justice: Artists & Culture Workers Reimaging Englewood

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    I Can’t Breathe

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    10:00am  -  5:00pm

    The Coalition of Docile and Agreeable Femmes of Color for the Continuation and Propagation of White Fragility

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Maintenance, Justice, and Self-Determination: Connections and tensions between sustained social practice and its archives

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Observing Power: A History of Imagery and Agency

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    Lunchtime 
    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Walk in Our Shoes

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Photography & Social Practice Workshop: Critical Questions and Resources

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Lunchtime 


    12:00pm  -  1:00pm

    ManyHands/LightWork

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Lunchtime 


    Afternoon 
    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Identity, Power and Oppression

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Training 


    2:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Education in Crisis: Student Debt and School Privatization

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    TRAP House Chicago: Streetwear × Art × Radical Restorative Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Training 


    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Creating Access

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Training 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Should I Do This Project? Developing Ethics Guidelines Together.

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Curating Justice: Institutional & Independent Perspectives on Social Change

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Party Noire: Black Joy through creativity, resistance, and community

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Word!

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Workshop 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Working Through A Wall

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    A Living Chance: Storytelling to End Life Without Parole

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    3:00pm  -  4:00pm

    What is a Feminist Social Practice?

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    4:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Sappho and Sweat: queerfeminist experimental movement seminar/dance party

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    4:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Prison-Museum-Zoo

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    Evening 
    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Can I Get a Witness?: Legal Observing and Know Your Rights for Community Safety

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Workshop 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation  Teen Track 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Time, Memory, and Justice in Marginalized Communities

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Urban Futures Lab: A Model for Creative Civic Leadership

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel  Teen Track 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Refugee Activism as informant for new urban collectives and just environments

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    34,000 Pillows

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation  Teen Track 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Whose Museum? Our Museum. How contemporary art museums can create justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Developing Artistic TV

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    Featured 
    7:00pm  -  8:30pm

    Ai-jen Poo and Marisa Jahn – Solutions for the CareForce

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    After Hours 
    9:00pm  -  9:20pm

    Utopic Monster Theory: On Democracy

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Project 


    9:20pm  -  9:50pm

    Arts of Life Band

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    9:50pm  -  10:20pm

    Rebirth Garments Presents Radical Visibility: A QueerCrip Dress Reform Movement

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Project 


    10:30pm  -  1:00am

    ¡JUST DANCE!

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


  • Sunday

    OE 2017 opens at 9am Saturday and Sunday, with panels, workshops, presentations, conversations, trainings and projects happening throughout the day. After the day’s sessions have wrapped, please join us for the evening’s Featured Presentation and an after-hours celebration.

    Open Platform 
    12:00pm  -  12:15pm

    Making A Way Out Of No Way

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    12:20pm  -  12:35pm

    Working at Navajo Mountain. The Implications of Social Practice.

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    12:40pm  -  12:55pm

    Draw From Life

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    1:00pm  -  1:15pm

    Art and Human Rights: Creativity for Social Change

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    1:20pm  -  1:35pm

    #NEWGLOBALMATRIARCHY

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    1:40pm  -  1:55pm

    Bonerkill’s guide to alternative resource extraction (formally known as “How to Steal”). A work in progress.

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    2:00pm  -  2:15pm

    Performing Inequality: Self-Organised Protest and the Politics of the Maternal

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    2:20pm  -  2:35pm

    Research in the midst of Decolonization: Cape Town, South Africa

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    2:40pm  -  2:55pm

    Incarceration: A New Narrative Through the Arts

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    3:00pm  -  3:15pm

    Network Anxieties Design Packets

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    3:20pm  -  3:35pm

    Art Revolution: Social Engagement in the K-12 Environment

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    3:40pm  -  3:55pm

    ways of knowing

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    4:00pm  -  4:15pm

    The Jumpsuit Project

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    4:20pm  -  4:35pm

    Deeply Rooted: Excavating Individual & Institutional Racism

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    All Day 
    10:00am  -  5:00pm

    The Coalition of Docile and Agreeable Femmes of Color for the Continuation and Propagation of White Fragility

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Present Futures: Strategies Toward Emancipation (Part Two)

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    From the INside

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Open Engagement: Homegrown Justice Stand

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    Morning 
    9:00am  -  9:45am

    Golden Class Language Breakfast

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Project 


    9:30am  -  11:30am

    TRAP House Chicago: Streetwear × Art × Radical Restorative Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Training 


    9:30am  -  11:30am

    Fighting Adultism Within and Outside Organizations

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Training 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    #FirstWorldProblems: Building international and inter-cultural solidarity

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    What’s the Plan? Artists, Planners and New Models for Civic Decision-Making

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    The “art” of resource development: supporting We Are Here in post-crisis NL

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    From Calais Jungle to a Dagenham housing estate: sparking community cohesion through the arts

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Performing Racial and Reproductive Justice: a play and workshop

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Workshop 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Building MASS Action: Museum As Site for Social Action

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    Lunchtime 
    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Lunchtime 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    ALTour UIC

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Lunchtime 


    12:00pm  -  2:00pm

    We are WITCH: A Ritual Performance for the Fundamental Right of Education

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and CareForce One, Tours and Public Disco

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    Afternoon 
    2:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Response: Funding Social Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Luz del Día: Copyrighting the Light of Day

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Creating Access

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Training 


    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Working at the Intersections: Reproductive Justice Includes Racial Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Training 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Inverting Expertise: Creative strategies to challenge the Criminal Justice System

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Black Spatial Relics: Justice as a Regional Identity

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    No Admin, No Art: The Power of Management Commons on Artist Flourishing

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    The Rural Model: Community Engagement with an Under-Represented Population

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Public Art and Justice, Fast and Slow

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    #FreeTheYouth: Art as an Incarceration Alternative

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation  Teen Track 


    3:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Assembling and Reassembling: Decolonizing the (media) archive

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    4:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Beyond Narrative: Journalism as an Organizing Tool

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    Evening 
    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    STREETWORK: Engaging Education Outside the Classroom

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Mirror Casket–Ferguson Protest Art and Beyond

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Beauty Breaks: On Tender Resistance

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Bridging the Rural / Urban Divide

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Workshop 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Traveling Minds: The Power of Youth and Contemporary Art

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation  Teen Track 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    The Space in Be-Tween: Teens, Institutions, and Social Practice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Party Out of Bounds: Crafting Queer Art Economies and Ways of (Night) Life

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    How Art Making Gave Birth to a Reparations Campaign (#RahmRepNow) for Chicago Police Torture Survivors

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    Featured 
    7:30pm  -  9:00pm

    Maria Varela and Maria Gaspar Featured Presentation

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    After Hours 
    9:00pm  -  11:00pm

    Open Engagement Closing Event with Slo ‘Mo Party

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


  • OEHQ

    When you arrive at OE 2017 make your first stop OEHQ! There you’ll find all of the necessary conference materials, including the printed program and your conference name tag. Your name tag is required to attend Open Engagement sessions, including the Featured Presentations. Please keep your name tag with you at all times. OEHQ have the most up-to-date information about the conference throughout the weekend, including any schedule/location changes.

    OEHQ 2017 Hours are:
    Friday, April 21st: 9:00am – 12:00pm
    Saturday, April 22nd: 9:00am – 5:00pm
    Sunday, April 23rd: 9:00am – 4:00pm

    OEHQ 2017 will be located at:
    University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
    Art and Exhibition Hall
    1st floor
    400 S Peoria
    Chicago, IL 60607

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