Art--Exhibitions

Description of the Collection

Administrative files of the activities and events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus hosted by Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) in 1969.

Description of the Collection

Materials generated by or related to the art @ iit activity begun in 2004 to establish an art gallery on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology. Includes announcements, publicity materials, exhibit catalogs, etc. Oversize material consists of three display posters for exhibitions of art by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Dee Breger, and Ben f. Laposky.

Content Description Papers of Benjamin de Brie Taylor, artist and educator, including correspondence, personal records, professional files, and artwork. Personal correspondence includes letters from family and friends as well as business exchanges. Extensive correspondence with mother Gertrude de Brie and sister Alix contain substantial biographical and family information. Correspondence with mother and father over the 1940s could provide interesting perspectives on war time and postwar Europe- some with...

Description of the Collection

A-V materials sent from Pres. Lew Collens' office (some c/o Judy Carr). The films have not been viewed; presumably, they all have some connection to people and/or programs of Illinois Institute of Technology.

Description of the Collection Video is of WTTW-TV (Channel 11) Chicago Tonight program from July 12, 2005. An hour-long show which includes a clip on Terry Karpowicz and his art exhibit at the Illinois Institute of Technology at the 45 minute mark. Karpowicz talks about his abstract sculptures and gives a tour of his West Loop studio. Next they go to the Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology where Karpowicz's pieces were on temporary exhibit in the university's "art @ IIT" exhibit series. This, the...