Members of the Curatorial Practice class at the Northern Illinois University School of Art and Design invote the public to the opening of their visual and thought-provoking exhibition: Rise: Symbols of Protest. The exhibition opens Monday, November 27, in The Annette and Jerry Johns Student Art Gallery in Visual Arts Building room 214, in DeKalb, Ill.
The attendees of the opening will experience dramatic tales of the First Amendment through the poetry and reminiscences of special guest, activist Lew Rosenbaum.
Lew Rosenbaum has turned his hand to many things in his life, but primarily he has been a bookseller at several literary and political bookstores, both in Chicago and Los Angeles. He is a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, and he writes for The People’s Tribune newsletter, edits the online Chicago Labor and Arts Notes, and has recently published his second volume of poetry, Seed of Revolution.
Visitors to Rise: Symbols of Protest will have the opportunity to add their voices to the exhibition, as well as to eat their words by creating unique protest sign cookies.
Rise: Symbols of Protest will regularly be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and from 10 a.m. – noon on Fridays from November 27 through December 7th.
Admission to the exhibition is free.
For more information contact the Jack Olson Gallery at JackOlsonGallery@gmail.com or phone (815) 753-4521.
