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12/11 - as, is, The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL

12/2 — Microlights Picture Show, Microlights, Milwaukee, WI

11/29 — as, is, The Union Cinema, Milwaukee, WI

10/20 — Name TBD, Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL

9/28 — Night School, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, IL
9/23-11/4 — Green Noise, GCADD, Granite City, IL

9/16&17 — INGING (world premiere!) at the Chicago Underground Film Festival

NO MORE BORDERS / bag to raise funds for migrants / Buddy Chicago's Helping Handles Fundraiser (buy buy buy!)

8/20 — or Sandwich, Artist; or Restless Regulars; or Skirmisher Reunion Tour; or Ska Santa Fe; or Adobe Photoshop; or A Poem You Can Wear on Your Head; or Poppe Up Shoppe; or Flea Market Cap-italism; or Bill’d Board; or Heady, Made, Bob’s Galleria, Santa Fe, NM

8/12 — Flea Market Cap-italism, LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA

8/9 — Jesse Malmed — Still, Moving, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA

8/5 — Jesse Malmed — Still, Moving, Luminous Mansion, Portland, OR

6/21 — Jesse Malmed Reunion Tour opens for NUCCI and Grateful Dead Moon, Hornet Haus, Steuben, WI

6/16-24 — ACRE, Steuben, WI

6/12 — Notional Anthem at Sports Mysticism at Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL

6/7 — Stray, with the body at Woodbine, Queens, NY

6/3 — Move on the Mood at Co-Prosperity as part of Nancy and the Voids as part of Full Moon Performances as part of good morning, moon, Chicago, IL

6/2 — Psychedelic Relic (Yard Collage) at Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB

4/8 — Dance to Anything, Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC

3/30 — Objects, Lessened, Union Cinema, Milwaukee, WI

3/11 — Some Differences Between Poetry and Standup, Good Weather, Chicago, IL

3/2 — )Wave Hello( , Union Cinema, Milwaukee, WI

12/10/22 - 3/3/23 — JESSE MALMED ~ CLIQUE & CLAQUE at FOLIO ART AND BOOKS, Green Bay, WI

12/8/22 — SNOW IS THIS at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

10/1 — COSMIC CON and JESSE MALMED SELLS OUT (if you want it) at Hi-Lo Press in Atlanta as part of ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN AND IT COULD BE RIGHT NOW

9/24 — Missing Nostalgia as part of Dance to Anything, Drama Club, Chicago

9/8-9/11 — COMMERCIAL GALLERY - THESE MESSAGES at MdW Fair, Chicago

9/2 - 9/29 - AFTER WORLD PLAY at SULK // Alex Bradley Cohen, Alberto Aguilar, Jesse Malmed

9/3 - 9/25 - JESSE MALMED - YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE at Comfort Station


8/14 - 10/22 — Loud, Lord at Good Weather
(Devon Dikeou, Ron Ewert, Hunter Foster, Amy Garofano, Jacob Goudreault, Michelle Grabner, Max Guy, Angel Harrold, Jessica Harvey, Jesse Malmed, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Jerry Phillips, John Pittman, Matt Siegle, Dylan Spaysky, Moses Tolliver, Julian Van Der Moere, Kevin Weil, Ang Ziqi Zhang, Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Bruno Zhu, Alivia Zivich)


6/26-7/11 - Programming Coordinator at ACRE, Steuben, WI

6/5-6/18 - Co-Teaching The Expanded Field in the Expanding Field at Ox-Bow School of Art with Breanne Trammell, Saugatuck, MI

4/23-24 - Nightingale Cinema's Farewell (for now) Festival:
4/23 - Curator of Lunch Poems at the Nightingale Cinema
4/23 - Guest on Therapy Sessions
4/23 - Late Night Shorts curated by Aaron Walker
4/24 - Curator of less-ness-ness-less

4/21 - The Language of Gesture (curated by Kym McDaniel), Stevens Point, WI

4/8 - NUBISMS at BUDDY MFC x Printed Matter

4/2 - Performance at Co-Prosperity on the occasion of the release of the Flatland Atlas

April - Rev. Jesse Malmed - (Con Text, Sin Tax) at Public Storage, as part of the office of possible projects' exhibition of alternative exhibition spaces, Fayetteville, AR

3/31-4/3 — TRAILER for Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival


April - July — hacked website, temporary stand-in, &c &c

3/20 - Cellular Cinema 58 - The End, Minneapolis, MN


3/5 — performance at Patient Info

2/27 - 3/27 — The Office (US) presents Jesse Malmed Covers Robert Barry (as part of I feel like a bootlegger's wife. Look! at Apparatus Projects)

2/27 - 3/27 — contributor to Thomas Huston's Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art (as part of I feel like a bootlegger's wife. Look! at Apparatus Projects)

2/12-3/5 — Range Anxiety at Patient Info

1/18-1/24 — Bubbe Gallery presents Sissy Bershad - Party Pickins at the Chicago Cultural Center


840 Jokes (camera emoji: William Estrada)


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12/9 — Auctioneer, Public Media Institute/Co-Prosperity, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Now? SUBLET MY PRACTICE

11/28 - *pitter pattern*

11/27 — A Look Back (CFA at ESS)

11/6 — YOU TALKING TO ME at the CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

10/17 — The Screening is the Event: Cinema as Performance at Union Docs, New York, NY

10/12 — Associate Adjunct Auctioneer, ACRE Benefit

10/9 — "A Gertrude Stein is an Alice B. Toklas with Turkey" performance at the 9th Annual Sandwich Summit: No Limits, Only Fans! Twitch

9/11 — 840 JOKES performed for/within/amidst Lauren Sudbrink's Full of Subtlety if You Believe Me at Co-Prosperity

8/22-9/5 - "Air Messages (13 Ways)", essay for Devin Balara for Bird Show

8/19 — A CONCRETE CLOUD (the Nightingale Cinema at the Hyde Park Art Center) Chicago, IL

7/11 — First Annual Meeting of Rhythm/Rythmn Society, Hoffner Lodge, Cincinnati, OH

7/10 — THE WAY A BLUE IS NEVER SINGULAR as part of Breanne Trammell's exhibition Slow Burn at Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

6/12 — WHIMP at The Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL

JETSY MERCHBLATT electronic boutique

TRUNK SHOW stickers and books are now *exclusively* carried by BUDDY!


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INFINITE COLLAGE KITS available and for sale and for you $5-25 sliding scale via BUDDY

3/20/2021 — The Host in the Machine, Living within the Play


2/13/2021 — Something to See, Nowhere to Go: Civilization and Dis Content; Topos in the Age of Deterretorialized Exhibitionism; Masked Virality; and the Tensity of the New-Now and Not-Now, presentation at College Art Association, within the panel Quarantine Inside the White Cube, chaired by Chris Reeves and featuring Curtis Miller and Breanne Trammell

1/16/2021 — THE LATE LATE LATE LATE LATE LATE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JESSE MALMED // 2 AM (CST) to ?? Saturday (so late that it’s Sunday), January 16, 2021 // As part of Flatland’s Old Future's Almanac Telethon ~~> twitch.tv/latecapital // A talk show mostly about dreams hosted by Jesse Malmed with guests Allison Cekala, Michael Paul Lopez, Nellie Kluz, Alex Bradley Cohen, Carisa Mitchell, Gina Rae La Cerva, Dr. Adam F. Johnson, Lauren Walsh and Blair Bogin, Midnight Snacker Stella J. Brown, Special Correspondent Lori Felker and Musical Guest Mikey Rae. // 333.33 minutes, color, sound, video, 2021


9/30 - 10/4/2020 — Works Sited presents Words in sequins like a sin with no nym; the void and the ‘noid (The Gorgeous Georges Perect and Brech playing dominos at the converted Sunglass Pizza, a volume slim and shaded, like money for nothing, like the schticks of the free, like being still moving, like where things that aren’t alive live, maybe not the shards but what they reflect at the NADA Chicago Open




9/1/2020 — 7 pm VISITING ARTIST LECTURE ~> ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY / ONLINE EVERYWHERE


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Squint, Reanimate: Un Oeuf Scrambled & Portmanteaus for Brunch (Puzzles and Poems for the Placidly at Home)

Reflections from the Quarantine Times

See These (Optical Wind Chime)
Profile in the Chicago Tribune

Selected Works Gallery — The Long Goodbye

MDL Contemporary — Collage Art Association

3/1 — Reading / Release Funny Looking Dog Quarterly & Sobotka Literary Magazine at Hopleaf

3/6 — Jesse Malmed — Been Theres Then at Microlights (Milwaukee)

3/14 — Jesse Malmed Reunion Tour at Onion City Film Festival POSTPONED!

3/15 — Jesse Malmed — A Single Perhap at Flatland POSTPONED!

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11/2-30 YOU WALK INTO | RAINBO CLUB | CHICAGO

11/2 CROAK | RAINBO CLUB | CHICAGO

10/22 THE JOY OF ENJOYING | TYLER CONTEMPORARY | PHILADELPHIA

10/6 READING THE MIND OF AN IDIOT | SEATTLE FREEZER | SHEBOYGAN


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8/2 - Poem for Charades | Elastic


8/28 - No Theme | Performances, Chicago Artists Coalition


8/29 - Terrain Exhibitions Launch Party, Aspect Ratio


8/31 - Families Belong Together: Fundraiser for OCAD and Raices, Comfort Station


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6/15 - 7/? — POME at Seattle Freezer, Seattle


6/28 - 7/26 — Fuzzy Transposition at MONACO, St. Louis


7/18 — BEEN THERE'S THEN, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago = + =


1/18 — AND MAGICS: The Films of Josh B Mabe, and His Chicago Favorites, Los Angeles Film Forum

2/23 — Winter Pageant, No Nation, Chicago

3/10 — Casey Puccini's I DON'T CARE, The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago

3/22 — CEILING STUDY (The Just OK Depression) premiere at Moving_Image_00:05, Heaven Gallery, Chicago

3/23 — SPLINTER CELLS ('gainst Ligeti) premiere at Onion City Film Festival, Chicago

4/1 — JACOB CIOCCI — PAIN IS JUST A PROGRAM BUT SO IS PHOTOSHOP, The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago

4/20 — LANGUAGE AND LIVENESS FESTIVAL, Gallery 400 Lecture Room, Chicago

5/16 — CARPET DIEM, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL






NEWCITY FILM 50 PROFILE HERE


10/17 | Writing for TRESPASS | UIC Great Space, Chicago

10/23 | Nixon/Kennedy Debate Reenactment | Arts Club of Chicago (with Illinois Humanities), Chicago

10/25 | Writing for Temporary Openings Show Us How | Open House Contemporary, Chicago

10/28 | Contribution to Templates for Public Art by Limited Time Engagement | Compound Yellow, Oak Park


11/6 | Local Control: Karl Hess in the World of Ideas (by Daniel Tucker) | The Nightingale Cinema | Chicago

11/8 | No Chill | UIC Great Space, Chicago

11/11 | Table Read of Memoir-ees" or "Ms. Ghost Right" Nellie Kluz & Jesse Malmed | Flatland, Chicago

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8/31 - 9/26 | The Fucs at Work for the People (or Forget About Fred Hampton) | Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago


9/8 | Pocket Object | Juice Box Gallery, Kansas City

9/14 | ARTISTS' KARAOKE ARCHIVE at Remembrance / Resistance | Weinberg Newton Gallery, Chicago

9/19 | THE BEAM: Bolen + Barnett, Stratman, Gibisser and Semiconductor | The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago

9/21 | Moving_Image_00:04 | ACRE Projects, Chicago

10/6 | Up Is Down! Public Project | The Block Museum at Northwestern University, Evanston

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8/31 — THE FUCS / Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago

7/21 - 8/30 — The Madeleine Stowe Show(e), Covington, KY

8/11-12 — Trunk Show at the Cincinnati Art Book Fair

8/11 — "LOVE HAD UNDERTAKEN ME / CREATIVE INDIFFERENCES / CHURLISH FIGURES / &c" — Poetry Reading at the Cincinnati Art Book Fair

8/11 — WORD ON THE STREET at the Cincinnati Art Book Fair

6/30-7/1 — Fire in the Mountains, Holiday Forever, Jackson, WY

6/23 - 4-7 - SOME THINGS SHOULD GO - The Back Room at Kim's Corner

5/9 - Side | Show, SAIC, Chicago

5/11 - Laughing With White Teeth, Cimatheque, Cairo

5/21 - Pool Party 2, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn

5/23 - 8/12 - Inquiry 01, Spertus, Chicago

5/26 - Companion Pieces, Anytime Dept., Cincinnati

5/31 - CROAK! Free Range, Chicago

6/5 - CHI-BAL, Sight Unseen, Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore

6/7-10 - CROSSROADS, SFMOMA, San Francisco

6/8 - Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater, Chicago

6/10 - Collage Rock / Ten Tiny Plays / Teared Up: A Film Screening

April - June - Dramaturge-in-Residence at the Back Room of Kim's Corner


Friday, March 23Later, Capitalism: A Braided Program of Works by Lydia Moyer and Jesse Malmed
Boathouse Microcinema, Portland, OR


Saturday, March 24Untitled (Just Kidding)
Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR


Sunday, March 25 — The Live to Tape Artist Television Festival: Procedural Processional
Open Signal, Portland, OR

Works for the screen by Ilene Segalove, Mary Helena Clark, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Jessie Stead, Sean J. Patrick Carney, LJ Frezza, Jennifer Reeder, Jayson Musson + Scott Ross, By Way of Today (Kyle Schlie + Cameron Gibson), Let’s Paint TV (John Kilduff), Ellen Nielsen and Anna Ialeggio, a performance by John Niekrasz and a talk show by Emily Bernstein

Monday, March 26 — Untitled (Just Kidding)
EXcinema, Grand Illusion, Seattle, WA


Tuesday, March 27 Untitled (Just Kidding)
Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC


Friday, March 30Untitled (Just Kidding)
San Francisco Cinematheque, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA




1/11 — Guest at Therapy Sessions


1/26 — Heaven Is a Place at Heaven Gallery

2/25 — Heaven Is a Place Performances and Talks at Heaven Gallery
3/6 — Heaven Is a Place Screening at the Nightingale Cinema
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FLAT RATE SHIPPING named by Newcity as one of the Top 5 Shows Noncommercial/Alternative Space shows of 2017

12/1 — Variety Hours: t/here and the/n - MCA Chicago

12/8-31 — OUTSIDE JOKES - DEMO Project, ACRE TV

12/9 — Untitled (Just Kidding) at the Cincinnati Art Book Fair NEW JUMBLE IN THE MOST RECENT ISSUE OF THE SMUDGE!

11/2 — Guest Host, Therapy Sessions with Guest Guests Jen Delos Reyes and Dushko Petrovich - Hungry Brain

11/4 — Flat Rate Shipping Performances - Roots & Culture (as part of Gallery Weekend Chicago)

11/8 — Flat Rate Shipping Dinner

11/15 — Asides and Besides 2 - The Nightingale Cinema

11/18 — Trunk Show Catalogue Release 10/13 - 11/11 - FLAT RATE SHIPPING — Two-Person show with Derrick Woods-Morrow at Roots and Culture

JUST REMEMBERED THIS PDF-OBJECT

10/6 - FULL MOON KARAOKE in MILWAUKEE

10/10 - When I was in college I once went to a talk on “experimental meta-thesis” which turned out to be about metathesis and I guess most science is “experimental” (a talk)

INCITE: AN INTERVIEW WITH JESSE MALMED BY CHRISTINA BATTLE

9-9 – 10-2 — IDLE HANDS - PILOT PROJECTS, PHILADELPHIA

TENSE FUTURES (WATCHING WATCHES) for NETCAPSULE

WORKS OF: A CONVERSATION WITH DAN MILLER BY JESSE MALMED

DOCUMENTED DIALOGUES: SELINA TREPP & JESSE MALMED

8-7-17 — WAX LONG

JULY — PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR at ACRE

POST YES BILLS — COMPOUND YELLOW - OAK PARK

OFFICE DESPOT — D GALLERY - CHICAGO

THIS IS REVOLTING — ONLINE - EVERYWHERE

WORLDPLAY - PRODUCE MODEL WITH ALEX BRADLEY COHEN AND ALBERTO AGUILAR

STANDARDS VARIANCE - PUBLIC ACCESS - CHICAGO

LTD. WEAR 2 - LVL3 - CHICAGO

THE DANGEROUS PROFESSORS - TRIUMPH - CHICAGO

5/28 LITERAL UNDERGROUND COMEDY NIGHT - PRODUCE MODEL GALLERY - CHICAGO

6/2 — HOW TO HAVE YOUR OWN TELEVISION SHOW (YOU ALREADY DO) - CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

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8/15 - 10/31 - How to have your own television show (you already do!) (excerpt) ACRETV

10/1 - PDF-SUBJECTS PERFORMANCE WITH ALBERTO AGUILAR - MANA - CHICAGO

10/2 - EVERY HOUSE HAS A DOOR TRUNK SHOW - MANA - CHICAGO (OUR FINAL SHOW!)

10/5 - EMCEEING THE ACRE BENEFIT - CHICAGO

10/8 - 10/30 - THE MONTH SHOW WITH JESSE MALMED - PRINTTEXT - INDIANAPOLIS

10/8 - SCREENING - GENERAL PUBLIC COLLECTIVE - INDIANAPOLIS

10/19 - WRETCHED NOBLES / BETWEEN WORLDS - NIGHTINGALE - CHICAGO

10/23 - THE ANDRE TRILOGY - NIGHTINGALE - CHICAGO

10/30 - 12/04 HOME MEANT IMPROV / UNCERTAINTY MAKES A GREAT SHOW - COMPOUND YELLOW - OAK PARK

11/4 - GROUP SHOW - CHICAGO

12/9 - 1/21 BEING THERE (ADDS DONNA, CHICAGO)

1/14 - AMBIGUITY FORUM - RENAISSANCE SOCIETY - CHICAGO

1/29 - 2/5 - 4’33” (IN THE STYLE OF) JOHN CAGE KARAOKE - ROMAN SUSAN - CHICAGO

2/5 - A SONG AN HOUR - MANA CONTEMPORARY - CHICAGO

JANUARY/FEBRUARY - WINTER FORMAL - CIRCLE CONTEMPORARY - CHICAGO

4/11 - UNTITLED (JUST KIDDING) SOLO SCREENING AT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO

4/23 - SELF-TITLED (ROUGH CUT) AT EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA (ABQ)

4/20-22 - IOWA CITY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

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Soon and recent (while I de-delete my website):

6/1–6/5 — STILL NEVER THE SAME installed at CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

6/3, 10, 17 — Experimental Video Architecture at the Venice Biennale of Architecture presented by Filmessay

6/3–8/20 — Re: Place at Zephyr Gallery (Louisville)

6/15 — ACRE Summer Send Off

6/16–7/20 — Dick Blick Father's Day Show

6/18 — CALL FOR AWARENESS! Alberto Aguilar for Trunk Show

6/18 – 8/12 PDF/OBJECTS at Mana Contemporary (Chicago)

July — POST YES BILLS at Roman Susan

July — Programming Coordinator, ACRE

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Summer 2015 — In The Works Residency (Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events at the Chicago Cultural Center)

July — Visiting Artist Liaison at ACRE Residency

7/30 — Panelist, "I am for an art" at Chicago Artists Coalition

8/8 — Claire Arctander for Trunk Show

8/9 — Body Doubles (Other People's Screens, Cincinnati)

8/15 — Performance at Club Nutz to benefit The Hills

8/20 — John Niekrasz at TUSK

8/20, 8/22 — Chicago Loves Cincinnati

8/23 — Claire Arctander for Trunk Show at the Terrain Biennial

8/30 — Performance at Chicago Cultural Center

9/4 — Garcia, Rios + Romero for Trunk Show

9/5 — Shower Songs for Aquabahn on LUMPEN RADIO (3pm)

9/6-10/10 — Resident at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency

9/10-12 — DINCA VISION QUEST

10/24 — Anne Elizabeth Moore for Trunk Show (as part of PLATFORMS: Ten Years of Chances Dances)

10/26 — Trunk Show's First Performance

10/31 — Gesso Malmed, Formal Painter, Dominion of Chuckles

11/1 — Second Verse (Same as the First), at Tritriangle (w/ Philip von Zweck, Zarzutzki + D. Edward Davis)

11/7 — Scott Wolniak for Trunk Show

11/7 — Your Program of Programs at Chicago Filmmakers

11/15 — Cinema Contra presents Untitled (Just Kidding) in Denver

12/5-18 — Test Patterns at Flux Factory (NY)

12/6 — PLAYLIST+ at Roots and Culture (CHI)

12/8 — The Spaces Between Cities at Grand Illusion (SEA)

12/8 — John Niekrasz's ORECHESTRA BECOMES RADICALIZED (PDX)

12/10 — SO IS THIS at the Nightingale (CHI)

12/12 — Blur and Messy (DUOS) at Co-Prosperity Sphere (CHI)

12/19 — Alex Bradley Cohen for Trunk Show (CHI)

1/31 — Jessica Campbell for Trunk Show (Fernwey)

2/6 — Alessandro Bosetti — Plane/Taléa presented by Lampo at the Poetry Foundation (performer)

2/8-2/14 EKE NAME on ACRE TV (collaboration with Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney)

2/17 — Visiting Artist Lecture, Pitzer College

2/19 — UNTITLED (JUST KIDDING) at the Echo Park Film Center (LA)

2/19 — Sad Sack at Vacancy (LA)

2/29 — UNTITLED (JUST KIDDING) at Cellular Cinema (Minneapolis)

3/2 — Janie Geiser's THE NERVOUS FILMS at The Nightingale

3/4 — SELF-TITLED at ONION CITY

3/5 — Clay Hickson for Trunk Show at the Empty Bottle

3/10 — THAW CHOIR, Links Hall Benefit

3/12 — UNTITLED (JUST KIDDING) at the Madison Public Library

3/13 — THE FIERY PART OF FIRE (Cameron Gibson) at the Nightingale

4/2, 4/5 — After Dinner, Before Dancing (ACRE) at Chicago Filmmakers

4/3 — WHIRRED, WHIRLED at CROSSROADS (San Francisco)

4/8 — Weird Movies from the Middle of America (Reykjavik)

4/12 — Aay Preston-Myint for Trunk Show

3/5 - 4/23 — Chicago and Vicinity at Shane Campbell Gallery

3/25 - 5/20 — Document V at the Luminary (St. Louis)

4/23 — BYOB Chicago 

4/26 — ACRE TV Live at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

4/27 — Alex MacKenzie at the Nightingale

5/7, 5/10 — An Evening with Ox-Bow at Chicago Filmmakers