Upcoming
IN CONCERT WITH JEN DE LOS REYES
Friday, June 21, 20246:00 PM
Saturday, July 27, 20249:00 PM
Co-Prosperity3219 South Morgan StreetChicagoUnited States (map)
IN CONCERT WITH JEN DE LOS REYES: MID-CAREER SURVEY EXHIBITION AND PUBLICATION
The first mid-career retrospective of influential social practice artist, organizer, and educator Jen de los Reyes* Canadian-born, Ithaca, NY-based Reyes has made a concerted effort to live and make work in accordance with her principles, including pragmatic organizing practices informed by her early years in punk music communities and recent anti-corporate and anti-racist direct action
Key projects of Reyes’ include flagship social practice conference Open Engagement (2007—2019) which showcased and launched a generation of socially engaged art; community urban garden Garbage Hill Farms in Chicago’s Southwest Side; The Disappearing Birds of North America: 389 Birds on the Verge of Extinction, a multi-faceted project with 389 artists and designers; and presentations including “Matching Minorities//Doubtful Doubles” (2020), an online workshop which called out racist practices in museums and educational institutions.
This retrospective exhibition, organized by Anthony Stepter, Astria Suparak and Nick Wylie, illuminates more than twenty years of artmaking, organizing, writing, and radical teaching by Jen de los Reyes. Through careful consideration of her life and career, patterns emerge that connect Reyes’s work to broader social contexts and art movements.
On the occasion of this exhibition, Co-Prosperity has produced a three book risograph publication series contextualizing the artist’s career and impact. The publication includes essays by Sampada Aranke; René De Guzman; Tom Finkelpearl; Eliza Gregory, Mark Menjivar, and Lexa Walsh; Zoë Heyn-Jones; Lee Painter-Kim; Stephanie Parrish; and Anthony Stepter, Astria Suparak, and Nick Wylie. Publication was designed by Josh Cook and Oscar Solis.
The opening reception for the exhibition will take place on Friday June 21 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
CLASS IN PROGRESS: LAND: ART, ECOLOGY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM
Wednesday, June 22, 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Free admission
As part of the Pedagogies section of this exhibition, Reyes will be sharing a glimpse into her own classroom. Class In Progress: LAND: Art, Ecology, and Environmental Activism outlines the syllabus, content, motivations, and assignments from her forthcoming class. In this moment of climate collapse the relationship of art to the land has an urgent new meaning. The course surveys artist’s engagement with land from a material, historical, spiritual and political perspective.
The talk will consist of twelve micro lectures that are a portrait of the weekly progression of the semester. Attendees will leave with an in progress reading list, and draft assignments and engagements.
ARTIST TALK RADIO BROADCAST
Wednesday, June 19, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
lumpenradio.com + www.lumpen.tv
WLPN-LP 105.5FM
Broadcasting on Lumpen Radio, tune in for an artist talk by Reyes interspersed with song selections related to the artist’s practice. The live broadcast will be archived and available for listening at the exhibition.
DANCE PARTY
Friday, July 26, 2024, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
As a nod to over a decade of Open Engagement dance parties that capped off each of the annual convenings, the exhibition will close with a dance party that will bring together some of the conference’s favorite DJs.
HOW TO MAKE A SCENE
Saturday, July 27, 2024 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at Co-Prosperity and streaming live on lumpen.tv
www.lumpen.tv
Join Jen de los Reyes and a panel of artist organizers from Chicago past and present as they discuss their projects and practices as part of a series of talks in collaboration with Art + Design Chicago.
Past
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Small School presents a talk by visiting artist Jen de los Reyes, 6pm Thursday April 18 at the Dix Park Chapel.
Raleigh, NC
Friday, April 5, 2024
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
Keynote Lecture by Jen de los Reyes
The Current State of DEI
UW Art Building, 5:30pm
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER
Lecture by Jen de los Reyes
Art & Art History Department
Visiting Arts & Scholars Program
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309
DIE D.E.I.: A Discussion on the Horrors of Institutional Inclusion
Co-hosted by Stop DiscriminAsian and Museums Moving Forward, with support from the Ford Foundation
Saturday, Oct. 15 at 5pm EST / 2pm PST
Live on Zoom. Register here.
ASL interpretation available.
Diversity is a fact. Inclusion is a practice. Equity is the goal. But what happens when diverse staff are hired into toxic institutions and then expected to somehow solve the problems by serving on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committees? Or when institutions engage in performative programming without cultural competency? And when diversity hires are made at museums, galleries, universities, and organizations that have not worked toward meaningful cultural change or real equity?
On October 15th at 5pm EST / 2pm PST, join members of SDA and invited guests Rashayla Marie Brown, Michele Carlson, May Maylisa Cat, and Justin Seiji Waddell for a virtual haunted house of the horrors of D.E.I. in cultural institutions where we will examine some of the horrific and harmful practices around DEI, while making a case for better ways to approach this necessary work. Attendees can choose to participate in the conversation by sharing their own experiences to be workshopped by the panel.
"DIE D.E.I: A Discussion on the Horrors of Institutional Inclusion"is the sequel to "MATCHING MINORITIES//DOUBTFUL DOUBLES: A conversation on institutionalized racism, tokenism, microaggressions, and inclusion vs. optics in the art world,” a session organized in 2020 by Stop DiscriminAsian members Jen de los Reyes and Astria Suparak.
Thursday November 19, 2020 4:30 PM PST, Future Art Ecosystems
An online roundtable on the topic of Future Art Ecosystems, which will ask us to radically rethink and realize different structures for the production, distribution and the reception of contemporary art. Given the current interwoven status of art, technology, communication, and activism, can there be a truly revolutionary path for the arts sector?
Featuring Anaïs Duplan, Jen de los Reyes, and Willa Köerner. Moderated by Ceci Moss, this event is part of Critical Transformations: A Forum on New Futures. Hosted on Zoom, the talk is free & open to all. RSVP here.
Critical Transformations: A Forum on New Futures is a monthly series of online roundtable conversations that invites visionary artists, curators, activists, designers, architects, and arts organizers around the globe to discuss their work in creating groundbreaking new models for the arts sector curated by Ceci Moss and hosted by the Shumka Centre.
Gallery 400, Pandemic Lessons: What Just Happened?!, Thursday, June 18, 2020 4 - 5:30pm
Carolina Ibarra, Orozco Academy, Fine Arts & Sciences Elementary School
Jen de los Reyes, Associate Director, UIC School of Art & Art History
Caroline Kent, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Scott Sikkema, Mark Diaz & Joseph Spilberg, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE)
What are the various ways in which artists/art educators have ‘pivoted' in response to the crisis? What worked? What didn't work? What were/are the ongoing challenges? This first conversation in the Pandemic lessons series focused on the adaptations and the creative solutions, challenges, and failures teachers experienced and developed.
Reunion Chicago, Revolutionary Artists: A Workshop on Creativity in Times of Crisis, Friday, May 22, 2020 at 1pm CST
In this time where cultural institutions are shuttered, and many of us are spending unprecedented amounts of time in our homes, how can we consider our domestic spaces and lives as resources to support and generate culture? How can we create work and culture that is supported by our very existence—is not a struggle? Join me for a conversation and workshop on the importance and shifting roles of artists and creators while we navigate Covid-19. The workshop will focus on finding individual and emergent approaches to supporting ourselves, our creative work, culture and community through crisis and beyond.
RSVP here: https://bit.ly/letsdolunch0522
Common Field, Matching Minorities//Doubtful Doubles: A Conversation on Institutionalized Racism, Tokenism, Microaggressions, and Inclusion vs. Optics in the Art World, Saturday, April 25, 2020
with Astria Suparak (Oakland, CA), Jen Delos Reyes (Chicago, IL), Lisa Lee (Chicago, IL)
Jen de los Reyes (Open Engagement), Lisa Yun Lee (National Public Housing Museum), and Astria Suparak (Independent curator and artist) have all been mistaken for one another in professional settings, told how much they look like each other, had their individuality and professional accomplishments erased in these moments, and in immeasurable ways all had to grapple with racism in their professional spheres and beyond. Join them for a conversation on institutionalized racism, tokenism, microaggressions, and inclusion vs. optics in the art world. Attendees will be asked to participate in the conversation by sharing their own experiences, retorts, effective responses, and solutions to overt and covert racism within the art world and academia, and those who have not experienced or witnessed these kinds of biases are invited to check their own assumptions and listen for ways they can serve as allies and change makers for the field.
Little Leyte Dinner, UIC Green Space, October 12, 2019 Chicago, IL
As the tropical plants at the UIC Plant Research Laboratory migrate for the season back into the greenhouse join us for a dinner lead by artist and educator Jen de los Reyes inspired by her own family’s migration from the Philippines.
The three course dinner will pair personal stories along with traditional dishes from the Philippines that have been adapted to reflect the geographic paths taken by her family.
All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Malibago National High School in Mailbago Babatngon, Leyte.
Saturday October 12, 2019
UIC Greenhouse
6pm-8pm
Tickets $10.00
For more information see https://www.uicgreenspace.com/
October 24, 2019, 6-7:30 pm, Toronto, Textile Museum of Canada
JEN DE LOS REYES: THE SOCIAL WEAVERS
Since 2007 Jen Delos Reyes has been at the helm of Open Engagement—an artist-led initiative committed to expanding the dialogue around and serving as a site of care for the field of socially engaged art.
In conjunction with the exhibitions Wild and Tapestry of the Spirit, de los Reyes will give a talk exploring the ways that socially engaged artists work as what David Brooks describes as “weavers”, connecting communities, reinforcing connections, and strengthening the social fabric.
PRICING: General $20; Members $15*; Students $10
TICKETS: Available here
Emergent Futures: State of the Field
Three days of exchanges and social research in North Carolina’s Triangle & Triad
September 13 – Chapel Hill
September 14 – Durham
September 15 – Greensboro
For a full decade, Open Engagement has brought together artists, activists, and scholars for an intensive yearly conference in a wide range of cities like New York, Chicago, Oakland, Portland, and Regina. Founded by artists and characterized by its grassroots self-organization, OE has stood out as a key context for socially engaged practitioners and theorists alike. Participants have ranged from the local to the international, including people like Angela Davis, Suzanne Lacy, Lucy Lippard, Mel Chin, Rick Lowe, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, J. Morgan Puett, Tom Finkelpearl, Claire Doherty, Michael Rakowitz, Pablo Helguera, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Emily Jacir, Julie Ault, and Theaster Gates.
As part of Open Engagement’s research year to re-assess its future and evaluate the needs of the field, they will be hosted in the NC Triangle & Triad September 13-15 2019 by the FHI Social Practice Lab at Duke, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Chapel Hill, and various local organizations. The OE team will keynote the weekend, sharing their trajectory and making space for conversations on local needs, and envisioning the future of the field. NC partners will present a series of programs and events highlighting the work of socially engaged artists, activists, students, scholars, community members, as well as organizations working within the area. This event has been organized by Pedro Lasch (Duke) and Lee Walton (UNC-G), in collaboration with local individuals and groups.
NCAA CINCINNATI: SEPT. 18-21, 2019
This year’s NCAA conference will be collaboratively hosted by three institutions: The University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), The Art Academy of Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky University’s School of the Arts (SOTA).
I will deliver the keynote address on September 20th at 9:15am
More information on the conference here.
Tuesday, May 7 from 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Inside Out: Cultural Institutions & Communities, AAMC
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Grounded in the belief that art can promote dialogue and enable understanding, art organizations seek new methods for bringing the transformative power of art and artists to bear on contemporary issues. This panel invites curators, educators, and arts practitioners from organizations of varied scale and scope to discuss their methodologies and working processes for expanding the role of the institution in our communities. At a time when socially engaged art largely exists outside the realm of the institution, what space has been made to enable thoughtful dialogue through exhibitions, educational and outreach programs, residencies, and artist interventions? This panel will address questions including what steps a curator, administrator, or educator needs to take to act responsibly as a bridge within our communities, and how to act as a catalyst for relational art practices that invite effective and meaningful collaboration with individuals, communities, and non-arts institutions.
Moderator/Organizer:
Lisa Sutcliffe, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee
Art Museum
Panelists:
Kristin Collins, Curator of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum
Jen de los Reyes
Franklin Sirmans, Director, Perez Art Museum
Stephanie Smith, Chief Curator, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia
Commonwealth University
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 12:00 PM -1:00 PM
Chicago Style, Ace Hotel Chicago in the Mahoney Event Space311 North Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60607
“Beyond a Buy-Out: Political and Community Activism within Bars”
Bars have been centers for social agitation throughout history. How are today’s bars actively aiding in the movement towards a more inclusive, equitable, safe, and sustainable society?
Moderated by: Jen de los Reyes (School of Art at the University of Illinois Chicago)
Panelists: Dan Q. Dao (writer, activist), Alex Maynard (Starline Social Club), Kristen Kaza (Chicago Reader + Slo’ Mo)
Thursday, March 28, 2019, Minneapolis
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Visiting Artist Lecture: Jen de los Reyes
Liberal Arts Lecture
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Auditorium 140
February 14, CAA, New York
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel: Feminist Matters, 1968 and Beyond featuring: Kim Nguyen + Eunsong Kim, Kimberly Kay Lamm, Vanessa Parent, and Jen de los Reyes
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the year 1968, best known adoringly as the “year of global insurrection” by historians, activists, and students of the decade. This year, also not-coincedentally, was transformational in the art world as artists reconceptualized what it meant to make work, what counted as work, and what the limits of object-making meant for artwork. Lucy Lippard and John Chandler famously encapsulated these considerations in their 1968 invocation of art’s dematerialization. At the same time, Lippard and other Art Workers doubled down on the deeply material labor of artistic practice, calling for equitable work conditions, meaningful wages, and access to resources and recognition from major cultural institutions. These kinds of practices were of course national and global in scope, as artists demanded political, economic, and representational power within cultural storehouses, while also producing work that shifted the conceptual, material, and affective language of art-making in the 20th century. How might we think about this tension between the material and im/dematerial as an ongoing feminist aesthetic concern? In what ways does the commitment to valuing artistic labor while at once producing work that challenged, if not eviscerated the idea of value itself point us to a site of feminist potential? How do these various histories embody, anticipate, and even foreclose contemporary feminist praxes? This panel aims to account for a feminist politics of aesthetics in 1968’s wake in order to account for all its contemporary intersectional, conceptual, material, and political possibilities.
2:00-3:30pm
Panel: Teaching Art as Social Action: Pros, Cons, Observations, Experiences
Sponsored by the RADICAL ART CAUCUS
CHAIRS:
Jeffrey Kasper
& Chloë Bass, Queens College Art Department
DISCUSSANT:
Gregory G. Sholette, Queens College Art Department
Presentations:
“Spaces of Learning”
BFAMFAPHD (Susan Jahoda, UMASS Amherst
and Caroline Woolard, University of Hartford)
“Audacious Acts: A Means of Empowering Students and Future Activists
Sheryl A. Oring, University of North Carolina Greensboro
“We Live in Activist Times: Social Praxis Art, Art Activism, and the Political “
Todd M. Ayoung, Pratt Institute
”Walking the Talk: Despite the Institution
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Beverly E. Naidus, University of Washington, Tacoma
”Why Socially Engaged Art Can't Be Taught
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Jen de los Reyes, University of Illinois at Chicago
November 9, 2018, 9:30am – Saturday, November 10, 2018, 5:00pm
Location: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, Ann Arbor MI 48104
Calendar: Stamps Events
RSVP: Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event.
Talking About a Revolution: Art, Design & the Institution is a two-day symposium that will explore the role(s) of art, design and the art institution in effecting social and political change.
At a time when basic human civil rights and civil liberties are being egregiously renegotiated and unjustly overturned in both the public and political spheres how does, should or can the artist, designer, curator, institution, and art community respond? How have they responded in the past and how are they responding now? Does art, design, and the institution have a voice or place in this struggle? Should it? What is its responsibility? How can art and design help shape a more just and equitable future?
Join us as we invite artists, designers, writers, educators, activists, curators, art institution leaders, and the public to discuss art actions, art futures and the art institution as a catalyst for social and political change. The symposium will include panel discussions, talks, public conversations, and a special performance.
Participants: Stephanie Dinkins, Daniel Byers, Brendan Fernandes, Maren Hassinger, Holly Hughes, Maria Hupfield (Native Art Department International), Ingrid LaFleur, Josh MacPhee, Jen de los Reyes, Tylonn J. Sawyer, Gregory Sholette, Lumi Tan, and Marc-Olivier Wahler.
September 7-8, 2018, Social Practice.Social Justice, Houston, TX
Presented by Project Row Houses (PRH), “Social Practice.Social Justice” is a day-long symposium bringing together artists, activists and thought leaders to Houston’s Third Ward. The symposium begins Friday evening with a special dinner hosted by Project Row Houses. It continues with Day 2 on Saturday morning with a panel discussion on neighborhood development and the strategies used in communities impacted by disinvestment. This session will be followed by a keynote address from Lisa Dent, thought leader and advocate for cultural workers, living artists and shape-shifters. The afternoon session will conclude the symposium, with a panel centered on utilizing creativity, imagination and engagement.
Beyond Social Practice, Afternoon Panel, moderated by Gia Hamilton, Cultural Producer
2:30 – 4:00 p.m
The panelists will present their individual practices and discuss the broad, often vague definition of "social practice" as well as their observed impact of art and creativity on the community.
Panelists:
Artist Shani Peters, New York based
Artist Nathaniel Donnett, Houston based
Cultural worker Jen de los Reyes, Chicago based
September 19, 2018, University Illinois at Chicago, Gallery 400
Art Education and Other Worlds
This talk will take inspiration from science and speculative fiction to re-imagine art education for K-12, art schools, and museums.
4-5pm
September 22, 2018, UMass Amherst, UMCA
XTCA Symposium 10 a.m. ⎼ 5 p.m
We Need to Know Where We Have Been to Know Where We Are Going.
Socially engaged art is experiencing a moment of high interest in the contemporary art world, with funders, institutions, and beyond. This way of working in the world as an artist is not new, these practices have longstanding precedents. This talk will lay out a parallel history of social art and social movements, propose methodologies, and speculate on the future of the field.
August 3, 2018, Iowa Arts Summit
Rethinking Art Education for Everyone
What should art education look like today? This session will take a broad historical look at approaches to art education that will touch on K-12, art schools, and museum education. Taking inspiration from radical approaches to education and alternative structures, audience members will be asked to reconsider tried and true approaches and be given suggestions of other ways.
May 9, 2018, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Chicago Style: Do Touch The Art: Outstanding Menu Design
Natasha David (Nitecap; New York), Iain Griffiths (Trash Tiki, Dandelyan; London), Morgan Schick (Trick Dog, Bon Vivants; San Francisco)
Moderated by Jen de los Reyes (School of Art + Art History, University of Illinois; Chicago)
May 11, 2018 , 7:30pm -9:30pm, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Examining SUSTAINABILITY internally, the core team behind Open Engagement (Jen de los Reyes, Crystal Baxley, and Latham Zearfoss) will be in conversation with Laura Raicovich and Paul Ramirez Jonas to reflect on the conference, now in its 10th iteration. Together they will examine the conference’s history and model, and reflect on how to move the project forward.
Open Engagement 2018 will take place May 11 – 13, 2018 at the Queens Museum and a constellation of sites throughout New York City. In addition to exploring the intersections of art and activism, this year’s conference will explore the expansive theme of SUSTAINABILITY and will feature presenters Lucy Lippard and Mel Chin.
Interview in Tom Tom Magazine December 2017
Artists In Conversation: Cathy Hsiao x Jen De Los Reyes
November 16-19, 2017, Open Engagement at the Chicago Art Book Fair
Chicago Athletic Association, 12 S Michigan Ave
The first Chicago Art Book Fair will showcase emerging directions and diverse legacies within small press arts publishing. The fair will feature an international group of approximately 100 arts publishers, small presses, book artists, comics artists, zinemakers and printmakers. The CABF will connect artists and publishers with each other and to a public audience, through programming, workshops, and of course through the temporary book market that serves as the fair's focal point and main gathering space. CABF will be free and open to the public.
November 2, 2017, The Therapy Sessions w/ Dushko Petrovich, Jen Delos Reyes
Hungry Brain, 2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, Illinois
A lecture and listening party based on my therapeutic record shopping habit.
July 27, 2017, In Conversation: Paul Druecke and Jen de los Reyes, Milwaukee Art Museum
6 PM, 700 N. Art Museum Drive
Participate in a conversation about the social practice of art: art as a means
to engage and build community. Jen Delos Reyes is a community arts organizer
and associate director of the School of Art and Art History at the University
of Illinois, Chicago. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition Paul
Druecke: A Social Event Archive.
July 27, 2017, In Conversation: Paul Druecke and Jen de los Reyes, Milwaukee Art Museum
6 PM, 700 N. Art Museum Drive
Participate in a conversation about the social practice of art: art as a means
to engage and build community. Jen Delos Reyes is a community arts organizer
and associate director of the School of Art and Art History at the University
of Illinois, Chicago. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition Paul
Druecke: A Social Event Archive.
June 13-25, 2017, Art Lessons: What I Never Thought I Would Learn About Life From Contemporary Art, Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Jen de los Reyes has known she wanted to be an artist since she was a child. She spent 7 years in higher education studying art, spent over a decade teaching in art schools, and has spent countless hours at museums, art fairs, biennials, and galleries.
Art is a major part of her life, yet for some reason it is always unexpected when she felt she has really learned something from art. In those moments that art really connected to her life, it managed to illustrate deep and meaningful connections, and the result were life lessons that got to the core of our humanity, connections, and complexities.
For this exhibition Delos Reyes will write a short collection of short essays and stories capturing when the art she has encountered found its way into surprising aspects of her life, an imparted life lessons in the process.
Stories and essays will include reflections on: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sophie Calle, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Paul Ramirez Jonas, and Diane Borsato
For a portion of the exhibition de los Reyes will be in residence in the Adobe Books space writing these reflections and sharing the results each day. Full schedule of writing hours and programming for June as Follows:
Tuesday June 13th
Writing hours 12–5PM
Kick off happy hour with the artist featuring cocktails inspired by the featured artists 7pm-8pm
Wednesday June 14th
Writing hours 12–5PM
Reading with Artist Lori Gordon 7pm-8pm
Join Lori Gordon for a reading of a story of an artwork that taught her a valuable life lesson.
Thursday June 15th
Writing hours 12–5PM, Artist talk 7pm-8pm
Friday June 16th
Writing hours 12-5PM, Reception 5-7pm
May 2017, Woven Magazine Issue 03: The Maker's Impression
Issue Three examines the unique capacity of the artist and designer to reflect the times in which we live, to express values and beliefs, and make small nudges towards a more inclusive and thoughtful world. Whether through a photograph, a canvas, or a finely tooled leather boot, art and design wield the power to challenge accepted norms, put life in perspective, connect communities, or dive into a deeper view of time. From a multitude of approaches and tools, we look at the way artists, entrepreneurs, and craftsmen and women leave their mark with a lasting impression.
From Brooklyn, New York to Costa Mesa, California; from Marfa, Texas to Chicago, Illinois, we share the impressions eight artists and craftsmen are leaving with their work, including photographers Bee & Rog Walker, painter and illustrator Kyle Steed, textile designers Jenna Wilson and Cary Vaughan of Ace & Jig, and Open Engagement's Jen de los Reyes.
May 13-July 1, 2017, The Dangerous Professors, Triumph Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Dangerous Professors, a curatorial project exhibiting over one hundred and fifty artists–educators, acts as a counter-action to the pervasive rightwing impulse whose spirit jeopardizes civil, artistic and academic freedom by calling out, shaming, and harming those it opposes. The exhibition responds by first inviting artists who define themselves as educators to participate, the result of which creates a list of art-educators that can be deemed, in the current political climate, as dangerous. Second, the exhibition portrays the spectrum of art done by the presumably “dangerous” educators, and has the potential to become “dangerous art.” Third, the exhibition will provide a publication that voices the individual concerns of the artists-educators participating in the show. The text will structure a platform for public dialogue that furthers the development of strategies toward radical education.
April 21, 2017, Say It While You Still Mean It: Conversations on Art and Practice, Book Release
Open Engagement in Print is proud to release Say It While You Still Mean It: Conversations on Art and Practice.
Open Engagement is an annual artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art.
Bad at Sports is a weekly podcast, a series of objects, events, and a daily blog produced in Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City, which features artists and art worlders in conversation about art and the community of makers.
Bad at Sports and Open Engagement are two of the principle spaces from which artists witness and investigate the scope of an emerging practice. Say It While You Still Mean It: Conversations on Art & Practice presents nine luminaries, fellow travelers in conversation about a dynamic meaning making.
April 21-23, 2017, Open Engagement: JUSTICE, Chicago. IL
Open Engagement (OE) is an annual artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. The conference highlights the work of transdisciplinary artists, activists, students, scholars, community members, and organizations working within the complex social issues and struggles of our time.
Open Engagement 2017 — JUSTICE will take place at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a constellation of sites across the city. This year’s conference, guided by the curatorial vision of Romi Crawford and Lisa Yun Lee, will feature presenters including Theaster Gates, Maria Gaspar, Maria Varela, Ai-jen Poo, Marisa Jahn and Laurie Jo Reynolds.
April 18, 2017, Radio Free Bridgeport, Lumpen Radio, Chicago. IL
April 16, 2017, The Arts Section, 90.9 FM Chicago, IL
March 29, 2017, Art 21: Open Engagement Interview
Open Engagement: An Interview with Jen Delos Reyes by Mark Reamy
March 23, 2017, Art Practical Issue 8.3 Art Can't Do Anything If We Don't
To All the Futures We Can Imagine
March 18, 2017, Lillian Smith Symposium, Keynote Speaker, Athens, GA
Through presentations and conversation with special guest speakers and artists moderated by acclaimed scholar and writer Barbara Brown Taylor, this symposium will explore art in the public arena as a form of cultural expression and an inspiration for social change. Genres will include murals, graffiti, outdoor art installations, performances in public spaces, and more.
"To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art . . . this is what man’s journey is about, I think.” –Lillian Smith, The Journey
February 23, 2017, Duke University, DURHAM NC
FHI Social Practice Lab and Duke Vice Provost for the Arts Collateral Fund present A Public Lecture with Jen Delos Reyes (performed with drums, bass, and electric guitars)
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm THE CARRACK 947 E. Main St, Durham, NC
Drums, voice, and visuals: Jen de los Reyes (artist and guest speaker) Guitars & vocals: Trey Richardson and Scott McSwain, bass: Tim Bryant
Join Jen de los Reyes for a performance and artist talk in collaboration with local musicians, students, faculty, and staff. Her lecture will be delivered throughout a set list of songs they will perform together that reference utopian leanings, relationship breakdowns, and leading a meaningful life. The songs will serve as anchor points to discuss her own socially engaged art practice, as well as content to contemplate collaborative impulses, and the potential artists have of imagining new ways of being in the world together.
February 8, 2017, University of Chicago
MFA Lecture
November 17, 2016, Lecture University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
A performance and artist talk in collaboration with local musicians/UIUC students, faculty, and staff. The lecture will be delivered throughout a set list of songs they will perform together that reference utopian leanings, relationship breakdowns, and leading a meaningful life. The songs will serve as anchor points to discuss her own socially engaged art practice, as well as content to contemplate collaborative impulses, and the potential artists have of imagining new ways of being in the world together.
October 11, 2016, Primer No.11, Chicago
7pm-11pm, 2033 W North ave
October 3, 2016, Lecture GVSU, Grand Valley
Lecture as part of the GVSU lecture series, Art and the Radical.
October 1, 2016, Sputnik Press Cooperative Benefit
7pm-10pm 1821 West Hubbard, Chicago
September 12 2016, Trunk Show Chicago, IL
As part of Trunk Show de los Reyes will create a bumper sticker about collectively, exclusivity, and group dynamics.
TRUNK SHOW is a mobile exhibition space usually located in Chicago. They feature monthly solo shows for which artists are commissioned to design a limited edition bumper sticker. The sticker lives, rides along with, and helps propel the medium beat up 1999 forest green Ford Taurus owned by Raven Falquez Munsell and Jesse Malmed. In addition to the month-long exhibitions, the editioned bumper stickers are sold (from the trunk) for a collector-friendly price and by annual subscription. Openings follow a nomadic, symbiotic logic and include a public affixing, cool tunes and road snacks.
September 22-25, 2016, EXPO Chicago, IL
As part of the UIC booth at EXPO Chicago Reyes will create an interactive installation.
HOURS
Friday, September 23 | 11:00am–7:00pm
Saturday, September 24 | 11:00am–7:00pm
Sunday, September 25 | 11:00am–6:00pm
LOCATION
Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave
Chicago, IL 60611
October 5, 2016, #Drakestudies, Chicago, IL
Featured speakers: Kevin Coval, Angel Ysaguirre, Felicia Mings, and Anthony Steptor
Drakestudies explores the cultural significance and phenomenon that is Aubrey “Drake” Graham. The hashtag #Drakestudies has been applied to posts in which within the academy there is an instance, experience or example that emerges in which a Drake reference, lyric, or move can be applied, or used to understand, further, or enhance. In the same way that the loose framing of "Lebowski studies" emerged to define how hundreds of scholars and cultural critics were using the Cohen brothers’ film The Big Lebowski as a tool for analysis on a number of issues, #Drakestudies is an area that can encompass a range of subjects and concerns from gender studies, philosophy, pop-culture, to economics
5:00pm-6:00pm Soho House Chicago
April 1 to May 8, 2016, LocuStLed
Woodland Pattern 720 E Locust Street Milwaukee, WI
curated by Paul Druecke
Alec Finlay Anika Wilson Anne Bray Arijit Sen Assaf Evron Brenda Cárdenas Chuck Stebelton Dan Torop Debra Brehmer Donna Stonecipher Jason S. Yi Jennifer de los Reyes Joshua Martin Ballew Kate Sierzputowski Margaret Noodin Martha Wilson Matt Cook Alderman Michael J. Murphy Michelle Grabner/Brad Killam Monique Meloche Nick Tobier Nirmal Raja Riverwest Coop Riverwest Yogashala Robert J. Baumann Roberto Harrison Roger White Sabina Ott Santiago Cucullu Sara Krajewski Sector 2337 Shalem Healing Inc. Stacy Szymaszek Stephanie Barber Temporary Art Review Thalia Field Theresa Columbus Thomas Hellstrom Tyanna Buie Zach Hill
April 29-May 1, 2016 Open Engagement: Power, Oakland, CA
Open Engagement 2016 — POWER will take place April 29–May 1, 2016 at the Oakland Museum of California and additional sites throughout the Bay Area. The conference theme will be guided by the curatorial vision of René de Guzman and feature keynote speakers Angela Davis and Suzanne Lacy.
Oakland Museum of California
June 22, 2016 Lecture: I'm Going to Live the Live the Life I Sign About in My Song- Pittsburgh, PA
To celebrate the release of I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in my Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning join us for a lecture that traces the social and historical influences that have informed artists whose work sought to connect art and daily life and examines in a parallel fashion the social movements, cultural theory, and philosophies that were influencing these artists from political activism, intentional living, and Eastern philosophies. This lecture will highlight in depth a selection of artists from the book who use daily acts of living to connect their artistic practice to their life values and philosophies, and situate these everyday tasks in relation to larger political and social issues including labor, economics, food production, ways of living, and education.
Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center
1000 Madison Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
July 3-9, 2016, Visiting Artist/Scholar Ox-Bow, Michigan
In addition to its talented faculty, Ox-Bow hosts a series of distinguished visiting artists, art historians, and critics each summer. These Visiting Artists have been chosen to complement the program offerings. Visiting Artists give slide presentations of their work, are available for individual and group critiques, and visit classes to talk with students and faculty. They share their work and ideas, their success, and their insight with both students and staff.
July 28-31, 2016, The Art Gym, Portland, OR
The Art Gym presents its first summer outdoor project, I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song, by Jen de los Reyes, from July 29 to 31, 2016. Inspired by her newly released book, I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning, the summer project will take place in a small geodesic dome on the Marylhurst University campus. Each day, Delos Reyes will serve cocktails in the dome during happy hour and will be on hand to discuss the ideas in the book. Invited artists will also host events and talks each day, and on Sunday, July 31, Delos Reyes will give a reading from her book.
The Art Gym’s 2016 summer programming is generously funded by the Collins Foundation and Jen Delos Reyes’s book received support from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. This special edition of I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning is The Art Gym’s 75th publication.
The Art Gym is supported by the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation, the Collins Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Art Gym’s publication fund is supported by the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation and Linda Hutchins and John Montague. Other individuals and businesses provided additional support.
August 5-26, 2016, Distant Friends at Raygun Projects Toowoomba, Australia
Solo exhibition exploring personal email correspondence.
August 11, 2016, Discussion at Gallery 400 with Randall Szott, Chicago, IL
To celebrate the launch of I'm Going To Live the Life I Sing About In My Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning, I will be in conversation with Randall Szott about art and everyday life.
March 30, 2016, Expanded Art History for Plants, Chicago, IL
"How Does an Archive Think?" with Chris Collins, Jen Delos Reyes, & Matthew Jesse Jackson.
EAHFP is a monthly pseudo-lecture series (as part of Uptool's series of ongoing programming at the UIC greenhouse) that imagines a premise in which Art History is designed for anyone: kids, animals, plants, scholars; the Pizza Hut waiter as much as the Frankfurt School. The presentations in this series are therefore "expanded" in the sense that they are not only made somewhat more art historically general, but also entered into arenas of playing with its form and limitations. Which is to lead to a pontification following this hyphen - how do we talk about art history without a powerpoint or a stack of papers in front of our face outside of a classroom or conference? Answers are not necessarily expected, powerpoints are not necessarily denied, and papers will most certainly be used. The provocation is simply: play with all these things to make a potentially generative mess.
November 21-22, 2015The MCA Chicago, Cage Unrequited, Chicago, IL
In collaboration with Lisa Yun Lee we will be contributing a 15 minute segment to Cage Unrequited, a 25-hour marathon reading of experimental composer John Cage’s influential book Silence: Lectures and Writings (1961) that will take place at the MCA on Sunday November 22.
Organized by visual artist Pope.L, the performance reimagines the book for contemporary audiences by filtering a bit of the past through the voices and attitudes of a diverse community of more than 100 invited readers from Chicago.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois
December 2, 2015 University Illinois at Chicago, Trivial Pursuits
Lecture : #DrakeStudies: Life, Love, and Aubrey in the Academy.
Trivial Pursuits is a weekly lunchtime lecture series where UIC School of Art & Art History faculty, staff, and students give talks on things they are passionate about, it just can't be their own work!
12pm
Henry Hall, 106, UIC
June 13, 2015, The Wassaic Project Summer Preview Party, Wassaic, NY
5-8pm
Maxon Mills Porch
37 Furnace Bank Rd
Wassaic NY 12592
June 19, 2015, San Francisco, CA
Lecture, “What Can an Exhibition Do (beyond the institutional context)?” at SFAI.
March 13, 2015, Berkeley, CA
Questioning Aesthetics Symposium
308A Doe Library
History of Art Department, UC Berkeley
Free and open to the public
In conjunction with the launching of the second, fully revised and expanded six volume edition of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (July 2014), the Arts Research Center will co-host a full day symposium on Friday, March 13, 2015, looking at aesthetics as both the subject and object of critique, and as a way to explore and expand new forms of aesthetics research in many disciplines.
Shannon Jackson (UC Berkeley), Moderator
Grant Kester (UC San Diego)
Dee Hibbert-Jones (UC Santa Cruz)
Ted Purves (California College of Art)
Susanne Cockrell (California College of Arts)
Jen de los Reyes (Artist, Educator and community arts organizer)
March 26, 2015, Sacramento, CA
6:30pm-8:30pm
Join the Crocker Art Museum, Verge Center for the Arts, and Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission for the first panel discussion of a series of free hands-on workshops exploring innovative forms of artistic engagement in our community. Learn how artists across the country respond to social taboos, constructs, and challenges through their artwork as a way to stimulate meaningful conversation.
Panelists will share a variety of bold, participatory, and innovative artistic projects and processes that incorporate relevant social issues as a way to engage community. Panelists include Jen de los Reyes, Professor of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University's Social Practice MFA program and Sacramento-based artist Seyed Alavi.
Free and open to the public.
March 5, 2015, Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, March 5, 2015, 4pm
Big City Forum
MDP Design Dialogues: Territories and Storylines
Curated by Leonardo Bravo
Big City Forum Wind Tunnel Residency will feature visual makers, thinkers, and activists who are creating new storylines, exploring un-chartered territories, and reshaping their practice.
Featuring: Jen de los Reyes, Sarah Williams, Jaitip Srisomburananont.
In this presentation we will explore practices around sustainable artist-led culture that focus on place, engagement, and dialogue. Big City Forum advocates direct engagement, appearing in person, speaking truth, taking risks–no matter how large or small. Past, present, future. It’s the doing that matters. The Wind Tunnel Art Center College of Design South Campus 950 S. Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91105 Big City Forum (BCF) founded by Los Angeles-based artist, educator, and activist Leonardo Bravo, is an independent, interdisciplinary project that explores the intersection between design-based creative disciplines within the context of public space, the built environment, and social change.
February 4, 2015, Alfred, NY
Alfred University, Conversation Series. 9:00am.
December 19, 2014, Portland, OR
I will be giving a talk about education for Creative Mornings Portland on December 19th at the Lab at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. What should an arts education look like today? Can education change the role of artists and designers in society? Hoe does teaching change when it is done with compassion? How does one navigate and resist the often emotionally toxic world of academia? With the rising cost of education what can we do differently? You can register here.
November 6-8, 2014, Cleveland, OH
I will be in Cleaveland from November 6-8 for the Unruly Engagements conference the Cleveland Institute of Art. I will be the closing respondent for the event on Saturday evening. For more information on the conference and keynote speaker Shannon Jackson click here. You can register here.
September 23, 2014, Pittsburg, PA
5pm Kresge Theater
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Lecture
October 9, 2014, Stockton, CA
12pm Tillie Lewis Theater
San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton
Lecture in conjunction with the Art and Social Change exhibition October 9 – November 6, 2014
OCTOBER 4–11, 2014, Portland, OR
THE LAST WHOLE EARTH CATALOG LIBRARY, DESIGN WEEK PORTLAND
For Design Week Portland 2014 Jen de los Reyes has assembled a Whole Earth Catalog reading room geared toward design thinking, education, and meaningful living. The non-lending resource library features over three dozen titles originally listed in the catalog that focus on thinking through form, utopian experiments, cost effective living, survival, radical pedagogy, architecture without architects, nature, and philosophy.
Delos Reyes will be available for library consultation throughout the week to discuss how these titles connect to her current book project I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning.
The library is located in Design Week Portlandʼs Head Quarters in Pioneer Square.
Consultation Hours:
October 7, 2014 11:00am-12:30pm
October 10, 2014 4:30pm-6:00pm
I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning is made possible through the generous support of the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
OCTOBER 23–NOVEMBER 30, 2014, TOKYO, JAPAN
SHEROS, LAMP GALLERY
SHEROS is an homage to our role models, mentors and muses. The exhibition will consist of letters written by artists to their female heroes, with accompanying images and artwork.
Gallery visitors will also have the opportunity to write letters and bring images to hang in the exhibition.
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2014 Unruly Engagements: On the Social Turn in Contemporary Art and Design,
Cleveland, Ohio
Shannon Jackson as keynote speaker and Jen de los Reyes as special respondent.
SEPTEMBER 5–7, 2014, CALGARY, AB
KEYNOTE SPEAKER INTERSITE VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL
I will be the keynote lecturer at Intersite Visual Arts Festival: in Dreams I Walk With You.
Intersite Visual Arts Festival (IVAF) actively engages an unsuspecting public and advocates for contemporary art practices through the decentralized presentation of exhibitions, happenings, and performances outside of the traditional gallery setting.
AUGUST 13, 2014, TORONTO, ON
IN CONVERSATION WITH DIANE BORSATO AT THE POWER PLANT
In Conversation
Socially Engaged Art
Jen de los Reyes and Diane Borsato
Wednesday, 13 August, 7:30 PM
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
JULY 14–15, 2014, Michigan
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PERSONAL AND SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH SOCIAL WORK AND THE ARTS
As part of the Personal and Societal Transformation through Social Work and the Arts symposium I will be speaking about my work developing programs that foster art as a force for social change.
JULY 12, 2014, Los Angeles, CA
VISITING ARTIST SUNDOWN SCHOOLHOUSE SUMMER 2014: THE LOS ANGELES SEMINARY FOR EMBODIED AND CIVIC ARTS
As part of my current book project featuring Fritz Haeg I will be a visitor at the Sundown Schoolhouse summer 2014: THE LOS ANGELES SEMINARY FOR EMBODIED AND CIVIC ARTS.
JUNE 27, 2014, PA
MILDRED’S LANE GUEST LECTURE
Artist Lecture on current book project—I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in my Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning
JUNE 16–22, 2014, Iowa City, Iowa
PROBLEM SOLVING SOCIAL PRACTICE IN ART: VARIATIONS, INSTANCES, TENDENCIES, TRAJECTORIES, AND DISCOURSES
From June 16 to June 20, 2014, a group of scholars, community organizers, and artists will meet to cast a wide net on the idea of “social practice in art,” examining and exposing gaps in the topic both in scholarly terms and in how those terms relate to community actions and organizations. Through a potpourri of practitioners and perspectives, this working group will contribute to a collaborative conversation and document a unique cross section of the current trends on the subject.
JUNE 1–31, 2014, Portland, OR
TALKING ABOUT MUSEUMS IN PUBLIC
Talking About Museums in Public is organized by Jen Delos Reyes and brings together a group of Portland artists to encourage public conversation and thinking about the role of museums in people’s lives in the 21st century. Projects will take place in the month of June throughout the city and at the Portland Art Museum.
MAY 15, 2014, Queens, NY
A CONVERSATION WITH KEYNOTE PRESENTERS J. MORGAN PUETT AND MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES.
May 15, 2014, A conversation with keynote presenters J. Morgan Puett and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
Life/Work
Open Engagement 2014, May 16-18
FEBRUARY 13, 2014, Chicago, IL
CAA CRITICAL CRAFT FORUM CRAFT AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
Time: 2/13/2014, 5:30 PM—7:00 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor, Boulevard C, 720 South Michigan Avenue (Map)
JANUARY 31, 2014, Los Angeles, CA
BOOK LAUNCH LA ART BOOK FAIR
‘Scottish publishers Bronze Age Editions and Museums Press will launch two new publications by Nina Hartmann and Jen de los Reyes. Presented by Good Press.’
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA,
152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, USA.
JANUARY 18, 2014, PITTSBURGH, PA
PUBLIC ART 101
Public Art 101 is a day-long workshop for artists ready to learn more about how to work in the public realm.
It is organized by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and also features portfolio reviews on January 17th.
2014
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
I am excited to announce that I am the 2014 Artist in Residence at the Portland Art Museum. This Artist in Residence term is specifically targeted towards increasing the presence of socially engaged art practices supported by the Portland Art Museum.
2014
MINDFUL SOCIAL MEDIA
Follow me on Instagram where I will be sharing my work, what and who inspires me, and current research.
Mondays
#Book of the Week
Tuesdays
#PortlandArtMuseum #A.I.R
#Historyofengagement
Wednesdays
#Record of the Week
Thursdays
#tbt
Fridays
#Life/Work #Inspiration
GETTING TO KNOW YOU(TUBE): THE BOOK, Portland, OR
Getting to Know You(Tube) founders Crystal Baxley have published a book on the project – featuring essays and reflections by Crystal & Stefan, Jen Delos Reyes, Sean Schumacher and Justen Harn, and Jamie Edwards’ infamous alien comments script.
OCTOBER 7, 2013, PORTLAND, OR
OPENING PARTY DESIGN WEEK
I will be spinning Motown and Soul records with the fabulous Will Bryant for the opening of Design Week Portland.
Monday, October 07
7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
OCTOBER 8, 2013, PORTLAND,OR
SHARE DOCUMENT, DESIGN WEEK
Join us for an evening of readings from five Portlanders, each applying their perspective to the broad topic of design. Limited-edition books containing the evening’s writings and published by Ampersand will be available for purchase at the event.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013, Portland, OR
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ARTIST TALK
As part of the Artist Talks series at the Portland Art Museum, in which local artists discuss work on view in the galleries that delight, puzzle, or inspire them, I will be talking about Bruce Nauman’s Record from the portfolio 7 Objects/69.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013, Portland, OR
GETTING TO KNOW YOU(TUBE) AT TBA
As part of PICA’s TBA Festival I will be presenting at Getting to Know You(Tube) at the Works.
AUGUST 9–11, 2013, Wisconsin
ACRE RESIDENCY
From August 9-11, 2013 I will be at ACRE conducting studio visits and leading a reading group.
JUNE 27, 2013, Chicago, IL
SPEED IDEATING & SERVICE MEDIA
From 7 – 8pm, Jen and collaborator Ariana Jacob will lead a public session of SPEED IDEATING around content from Service Media. SPEED IDEATING takes the same format as speed dating but with a different goal: instead of determining romantic compatibility, short, directed conversations aim to expand participants’ networks and spark new ideas.
JUNE 11–AUGUST 8, 2013, Chicago, IL
HYDE PARK ART CENTER ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
While in residence, de los Reyes plans to explore the notion of life practice as art practice and will visit a Shaker community to conduct research. Opportunities to engage with the artist during her residency include Speed Ideating & Service Media on June 27, 7-8pm and an Open Studio on July 27, 2-4pm, both at the Art Center.
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE MFA PROGRAM LAUNCHES ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS BOOK SERIES WITH PUBLICATION STUDIO
Art and Social Practice Reference Points is a book series edited by Jen de los Reyes and produced in conjunction with current MFA students that cover three areas related to socially engaged art: people, thematic volumes, and workbooks.
COMMON PEOPLE PUBLISHED BY MUSEUMS PRESS AND BRONZE AGE EDITIONS
One hundred one sheet zines from one hundred international artists.
Published by Museums Press and Bronze Age Editions
MAY 17-19 2013, Portland, OR
OPEN ENGAGEMENT 2013
This year’s conference features keynote presenters Claire Doherty, Tom Finkelpearl, and Michael Rakowitz.
CRAFTING CONVERSATION: ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE AND THE ART OF THE ASK, THURSDAY MAY 9, 6:30-8PM, THE LAB AT MOCC
A panel discussion that will ask socially engaged artists to reflect on how they reach out to communities, craft an ask, and otherwise manage to convince collaborators and institutions to realize projects along side them.
MIND TRAINING- JEN DELOS REYES AND JASON STURGILL, APRIL 5-JUNE 7, 2013, Portland, OR
PICA RESEOURCE ROOM
Weekly on Fridays during the PSU Resource Room Residency from 3pm-6pm
Jen de los Reyes and Jason Sturgill will host a group reading and
research session inspired by Lojong mind training practice.
INTRODUCING: THE ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE WORKBOOK MARCH 20 – APRIL 7 AT CIVIC SPACE IN WINDSOR, ON.
Introducing: The Art and Social Practice Workbook March 20 – April 7 at Civic Space in Windsor, ON.
The exhibition will run from March 20 – April 7 at Civic Space in Windsor, ON.
ONE PERSON SHOW, OCT 6-26, 2012 NASHVILLE, TN.
OPEN gallery is pleased to present new work by artist Jen de los Reyes. In this exhibition Delos Reyes grapples with the role of the individual in group work and social art.
Opening reception October 6, 2012
WORLD PORTABLE GALLERY CONVENTION 2012 SEPTEMBER 1, 2012 – SEPTEMBER 29, 2012. HALIFAX, NS.
I will be participating in: Observer of Beautiful Forms. A Curatorial Project by F* Mtn.
SEPTEMBER 19-23, 2012, Chicago, IL
EXPO CHICAGO
From September 20-23, 2012 the Hyde Park Art Center will host Jen de los Reyes and the Center for Art and Social Practice at Expo Chicago where they will present, “Selling It.” The Center for Art and Social Practice is directed by Reyes and was developed out of PSU’s Art and Social Practice MFA program.
MAY 18-20, 2012, Portland, OR
OPEN ENGAGEMENT 2012
Open Engagement is a free conference that will take place May 18-20, 2012, in Portland, Oregon.
NOW AVAILABLE FROM PUBLICATION STUDIO
Open Engagement: Art and Social Practice 2007-2011 is a collection of essays, lecture transcriptions, interviews, photographs, and project documentation focused on socially engaged art that has emerged from the Open Engagement conference directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes.
ONLY BIRDS SING THE MUSIC OF HEAVEN IN THIS WORLD, MARCH 23–JULY 7, 2012, San Francisco, CA
Opening Reception
Thursday, March 22, 6-8pm
51 Yerba Buena Lane
San Francisco, CA 94103
(@ Mission between Third & Fourth)
LECTURE AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, MARCH 8, 2012, Montreal, QB
Lecture at Concordia University, March 8, 2012
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
March 8, 2012
6:00pm
SOCIAL PRACTICE ART: A HISTORY
I am pleased to announce that the Social Practice Art: A History box sets created by my fall 2011 History of Art and Social Practice students are now available at Nationale and Reading Frenzy in Portland, OR. Some great zines on socially engaged art!
MANITOBA FOLKWAYS COLLECTION NOW AVAILABLE!
Manitoba Folkways Collection Now Available!
I am pleased to announce the release of the Manitoba Folkways Collection!
All three volumes are available for digital download are available here: http://www.canadianfolkways.com
UTOPIA, OH
Utopia, OH
Opening Saturday, Sept. 24th from 7-10 PM
Through Saturday, October 15th
Open gallery hours Sundays from 1-4 PM
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDE:
-Randall Szott in conversation with Shannon Stratton, Nancy Zastudil and Duncan MacKenzie
-The Order of the Third Bird (Sal Randolph and D. Graham Burnett)
-Cheon Lee and Arthur Brum
-Jen de los Reyes
-Mark Harris
-Wyatt Niehaus
-Kelly Frigard
DITCH PROJECTS-JON COHRS, JEN DELOS REYES, SARA RABINOWITZ
Ditch Projects-Jon Cohrs, Jen de los Reyes, Sara Rabinowitz
September 3, 2011- October 1, 2011 at DITCH
Hours: 12 noon – 5 PM Saturday
Opening Reception: September 3, 2011 – 7PM
YA5 #2 RELEASE PARTY, JUNE 17, 2011
YA5 #2 Release Party
Galaxy Restaurant & Lounge
909 East Burnside Street
7p – FREE!
MAY 13-15, 2011, Portland, OR
OPEN ENGAGEMENT 2011
The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed and founded by Jen de los Reyes.
ART CRITICISM & OTHER STORIES, THURSDAY, MAY 19
Art Criticism & Other Stories A collection of fan fiction about contemporary art by six artists.
Thursday, May 19 from 7-9pm @ Monograph Bookworks 5005 NE 27th AVENUE at ALBERTA PORTLAND, OREGON 97211 USA
GETTING TO KNOW YOU(TUBE), APRIL 19TH, 2011
Getting To Know You(Tube), April 19th, 2011
featuring short YouTube presentations by
Jen de los Reyes
Caleb Dechant
Tate Breswick
Krystal South
+ more
FREE–TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
Happening at Field Work
1101 SW Jefferson, Portland OR
check out previous GTKYT events at
http://gettingtoknowyoutube.tumblr.com
THE CONFERENCE OF CONFERENCES, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2011, Vancouver, BC
CONFERENCE OF CONFERENCES Listening in & talking back to art discourse Saturday February 26, 2011 Conference of Conferences is a day long symposium of curated selections from recent art & theory conferences around the world. Recordings of lectures, podcasts & panels will be re-presented to conference participants, and will be followed by local respondents.
CONFERENCE ON CONFERENCES, SFU, MARCH 4-5, 2011, Vancouver, BC
I will be presenting on Open Engagement at THE CONFERENCE ON THE CONFERENCE March 4th and 5th, 2011 Simon Fraser University A School for the Contemporary Arts Graduate Candidate’s Symposium/Exhibition Vancouver, BC. Canada http://theconferenceontheconference.ca/
THE OPEN DAY BOOK, NOVEMBER 2, 2010, Los Angeles, CA
I have work that will be featured in The Open Day Book, edited by David Earle.
The Open Day Book serves as a perpetual calendar that can be used in a traditional manner, but also lets you interact with the work of more than 300 of today’s most captivating artists, all of whom have visually responded to a day of the year.
MILDRED’S LANE FUNDRAISER OCTOBER 30, 2010
I will be contributing work to a fundraiser for Mildred’s Lane. The auction is scheduled to take place October 30th 2010. For more information visit www.mildredslane.com
SHINE A LIGHT, PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, OCT 15, 2010
Shine a Light presents a different kind of museum experience by re-imagining the galleries, lobbies, courtyard, and other spaces in unexpected ways and challenging traditional notions of art-making. This year’s event will let Museum-goers touch—and even tie the knot with—works of art, enjoy break dancing and music in the galleries, and see nude wrestling performances.
MILDRED’S LANE JUNE 24-28, 2010
I will be traveling out to Mildred’s Lane to give a seminar titled “Land, Music, People: People’s Songs, Alan Lomax, and “folk” in Contemporary Art.”
Mildred’s Lane is collaboration between artists Mark Dion, J. Morgan Puett and their associates. This Project is a long-term experiment in large-scale project , research and event based practices with a living museum and an educational institution attached. This active site is a 92+-acre compound in the upper Delaware River Valley region of Pennsylvania near New York City.
127 PRINCE: ON THE ART OF SOCIAL PRACTICE AND THE SOCIAL PRACTICE OF ART.
127 Prince is a new journal named after the location of artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1971 restaurant FOOD.
Like FOOD, 127 Prince hopes to function as a site for conversation.
The journal will present and examine ideas on the art of social practice,
and the social practice of art.
CONDENSATIONS OF THE SOCIAL, SMACK MELLON, NY, JUNE 19-AUGUST 1, 2010
Curated by Sara Reisman
Pablo Helguera, Portland State University’s Social Practice MFA Program, Mary Mattingly, Mladen Miljanovic, Tim Rollins + K.O.S., and Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Exhibition dates:
June 19 – August 1, 2010
Artists’ reception:
Saturday, June 19, 5 – 8 pm
LATERAL LEARNING CURATED BY PAUL BUTLER, PUBLISHED BY VANTAGE
A book about pedagogy, community, disaster and art.
www.vantageartprojects.com
ARTS ENGAGE! SYMPOSIUM, HALIFAX, NS, JUNE 18-20, 2010
The Arts Engage! Symposium and Training Intensive will take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia from June 14 to June 20, 2010 inclusive. Speaker http://www.artsengage.com/
EARCOS 2010, MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Date: March 25-28, 2010
Venue: International School Manila, Philippines
Presenter
PORTRAIT PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES
PORTRAIT PROJECTS
FEBRUARY 13, 2010 – MARCH 6, 2010
A group exhibition consisting of video, photography, sculpture, and installation. The show examines intimate and historical relationships with subjects such as friends, strangers, and animals.
PEOPLE NEVER NOTICE ANYTHING READING, APEXART, New York, NY
Thursday, February 18, 2010
4-5pm: Volunteer public reading of People Don’t Notice Anything notebooks, a project by Jen Delos Reyes.
www.apexart.org
OPEN ENGAGEMENT CONFERENCE 2010, Portland, OR
May 14-17, 2010
Portland, Oregon
THE INCIDENTAL PERSON AT APEXART, New York, NY
The Incidental Person at apexart
Curated by Antony Hudek, the show runs from January 6 to February 20, 2010.
PARTIES PRENANTES AT BÉTONSALON, Paris, FR
Parties Prenantes at Bétonsalon
A proposal of Mélanie Bouteloup (Bétonsalon), Julien Lanchet & Sara Martinetti (students at Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7)
NOVEMBER 30, WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE WE HAVE BEEN TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: A HISTORY OF SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART PRACTICE
In the spring of 2009 I taught a course on the history of socially engaged art practice at Portland State University. The outcome of this course is a mass written collaboration between over 20 art and social practice students along with contributions by artists and writers including Paul Butler, Harrell Fletcher, Ted Purves, Helena Keefe, Joseph del Pesco and more.
OCTOBER 23, AMPERSAND INTERNATIONAL ARTS, 7:00PM, “SEE HOW THEY SHINE”, San Francisco, CA
As part of Lori Gordon’s upcoming solo exhibition “Snippets” I will be organizing a choral performance titled “See How They Shine.”
JESSICA JAMES LANSDON’S PARTY ANIMAL! Regina, SK
As part of the current exhibition at the Sherwood Village Dunlop Gallery, Block Party, Jessica James Lansdon’s “Party Animal” was just completed.
OCTOBER 3, NUIT BLANCHE, Toronto, ON
I will be participating in a billboard project organized for Nuit Blanche by Paul Butler. The exhibition will take place in dozens of 4 x 6 ft advertising poster-frames throughout downtown Toronto for one night only in October, 2009.
SEPTEMBER 19, THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM REVEALS SHINE A LIGHT: A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
For one night only, on Saturday, September 19 from 6 p.m. to midnight, the Portland Art Museum hosts Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum. The event consists of six hours of performances, installations, tours, workshops, and games by 15 artists drawn from the PSU MFA Art and Social Practice concentration.
AUGUST 10, S.A.S.E PRESENTED BY ASDF, New York, NY
S.A.S.E. uses the idea of the self addressed stamped envelope as its foundation (a method of distribution within the postal mail system that is always initiated by the one who wants to receive the information).
This method of distribution was (futilely) translated into a digital communication system, e-mail.
Eleven people were asked to organize an exhibition of images that would be contained within the space of an e-mail.
Ten e-mail exhibitions were created (each includes a selection of images, a statement, and a works list).
To receive the e-mail exhibition one would initiate the process by sending a request e-mail.
BLOCK PARTY AT THE DUNLOP ART GALLERY AUGUST 1-OCTOBER 11, 2009, Regina, SK
Block Party is a playful experiment in community formation through the socially-engaged art practices of three artists. Jen de los Reyes has invited collaborators Jessica James Lansdon and Lori Gordon to take part in an exhibition that will develop out of the encounters between the artists, the Sherwood Village Branch Library, and its neighbourhood.
AUGUST 1, ARTIST TALK AT THE DUNLOP ART GALLERY, Regina, SK
Artist Talk with Jen de los Reyes
Saturday, August 1, 2:00 pm
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK.
JUNE 14, IT’S POSSIBLE, Portland, OR
Graduate exhibition catalogue for the upcoming PSU MFA Social Practice show at Disjecta is back from the press.
Features an essay I wrote for the catalogue titled “The Quirky Ones”
JUNE 5, PDF: PUBLIC DOCUMENT FILES AT PSONE, Iowa City, Iowa
30 artists/artist groups were invited by me to produce a PDF file on their own work as well as 10 files on artists or subjects they think are related to ideas surrounding public and social art work.
PDF opens June 1st, 2009, at Public Space One in Iwowa City
MAY 21, GUEST LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Noon hour lecture at the University of Cincinnati, “You Can Have It All: Social Practice 1993-”
ART TALK AM BOX SET
I am featured in a beautiful box set of transcripts from Art Talk AM on the Radio.
The set features Cyrus W. Smith in conversation with contemporary artists on KPSU Radio from 2008-2009.
Including: Regine Basha, Dan Attoe, Patrick Rock, Courtney Fink, Chris Johanson, Calvin johnson, Lucky Dragons, Daniel Bozhkov, Harrell Fletcher and Jen de los Reyes
APRIL 30, NO GALLERY LEFT BEHIND, Cincinnati, OH
Opening of group show No Gallery Left Behind at Reed Gallery, DAAP, Cincinnati
Show includes some of the following artists: Ryan Mulligan, Harrell Fletcher, Miranda July, Annie Schorgl and many more
APRIL 23, GUEST LECTURE, WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
April 23, 12:30 pm. Guest lecture, Willamette University. Salem, OR
FEBRUARY 7, SOCIAL PRACTICE WEST, San Francisco, CA
Saturday February 7, 2:00 pm. Social Practice West at the SF MoMA. Ted Purves, chair and assistant professor, Graduate Program in Fine Arts, California College of the Arts Jen de los Reyes, adjunct Assistant Professor, Portland State University Randall Szott, writer. Panel discussions as part of The Art of Participation 1950- Phyllis Wattis Theater 2:00 p.m.
FEBRUARY 7, SOCIAL PRACTICE JAM SESSION AT SOUTHERN EXPOSURE, San Francisco, CA
Saturday, February 7, 7:30 pm. Social Practice Jam Session at Southern Exposure. Party moderator and DJ with Jessica James Lansdon
JANUARY 30, TALK AT CAMOSUN COLLEGE, Vancouver, BC
January 30. 2:30 pm. Talk at Camosun College with Harrell Fletcher and the PSU Social Practice students.
JANUARY 30, ASSUME NOTHING: NEW SOCIAL PRACTICE SYMPOSIUM, Vancouver, BC
Friday, January 30, 2009. Talk at U Vic with the PSU Social Practice students in conjunction with Assume Nothing: New Social Practice Symposium
HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY
How To Write a Short Story or How I Spent My Summer Vacation,
featured in Issue #16 of
I Left This Here For You To Read
MATTHEW HIGGS FAN ZINE
Curated a Matthew Higgs fan zine.
Contributors include: Paul Butler, Ashley Neese, Lori Gordon
Ana Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Hannah Jickling
NOVEMBER 24, IN CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW HIGGS, Portland, OR
Interviewed Matthew Higgs on KPSU for Art Talk AM
NOVEMBER 5, FREE PUBLIC RENTALS, CHICO, CA
Free Public Rentals Wednesday, November 5, 2008
SEPTEMBER 29, ARTIST TALK AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Jen Delos Reyes- Artist Talk Monday, September 29 7:00 pm at Shattuck Hall Annex
SEPTEMBER 7, CHORAL SOCIETY (FOR WEDNESDAY LUPYPCHIW), Calgary, AB
September 7th, Art City Festival, Calgary, AB. 2 pm at Olympic Plaza, ‚ Choral Society for Wednesday Lupypchiw‚(photo credit Marc Hutchinson)
SEPTEMBER 6, ARTIST TALK AT TRUCK GALLERY, Calgary, AB
Jen Delos Reyes—On the Soapbox
Saturday, September 6, 6:00 pm
Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB
AUGUST 9, PROVFLUX FESTIVAL, New York, NY
I organized a project for Provflux Festival called Satellite Festivals.
JUNE 6, INFINITE EXCHANGE GALLERY, SAN JOSE, CA
Infinite Exchange Gallery at San Jose ICA as part of 01 Biennale. Zero1 2008: San Jose, California in collaboration with San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) June 6, 2008, from 6-11 pm