Empty Bowls Fundraiser and Soup Service

Gallery 400, a not-for-profit arts space at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), supports contemporary art, architecture, and design through exhibitions, lectures, publications, and programs that prioritize interpretative reflection and critical inquiry. Gallery 400’s mission is to be a contemporary art hub for social interaction, transformative experience, and multi-dimensional learning. Creating a place to connect, Gallery 400 actively positions its exhibitions and public programs as opportunities with which to build community and as avenues for learning in informal social settings. Operating within an urban public university, Gallery 400 offers innovative programming that serves a range of audiences across the fabric of Chicago and UIC’s diverse communities.

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Empty Bowls Fundraiser produced by Lan Tuazon and Liz McCarthy

Join us for the third annual Empty Bowls Soup event hosted by artists Liz McCarthy and Lan Tuazon of Gnarware Workshop. Since 2020, McCarthy and Tuazon have collaborated to bring Empty Bowls, a grassroots tradition to fight food insecurity, to Chicago. In the Empty Bowls tradition, ceramicists create bowls for sale, with proceeds benefiting local mutual aid organizations. All bowls in For Each Other are for sale in the gallery, and this year’s proceeds directly support Pilsen Food Pantry, UIC Food Pantry, Love Fridge, McKinley Park Mutual Aid, and PMI Community Kitchen. Beginning November 1, bowls will be on sale on <a href="http://www.gnarwareworkshop.com/empty-bowl" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gnarware’s website</a> until the morning of the event. In collaboration with the Hyde Park Art Center and a collection of contributing artists, commune with us to enjoy a free bowl of soup and tour For Each Other. This year’s soup donation is made possible by the Public Media Institute’s <a href="https://www.communitykitchenchicago.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Community Kitchen</a> program. Soup is provided by chefs at <a href="https://the-buddy-system.com/kimski" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kimski</a>, <a href="https://www.donermen.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DonerMen Food Truck</a>, <a href="http://www.dmentap.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DMen Tap</a>, and <a href="https://www.wherewithallchi.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wherewithall</a>. Leftover soup will be relocated to Love Fridges and underserved encampments throughout the city.A﻿BOUT Liz McCarthy (She/they) is a Chicago-based artist that combines ceramics with other objects and performances. She is founding Director of the GnarWare Workshop ceramics school and community studio. She is also a lecturer in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, she has a solo exhibition, "MONSTRARE," currently on view at Belong Gallery in Chicago through November 5th 2022. Lan Tuazon lives and works in Chicago where she is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the School of Art Institute in Chicago. Solo exhibitions of her work include the Brooklyn Museum and Storefront of Art and Architecture in New York, Youngworld, Inc in Detroit, Julius Caesar in Chicago, and the Visual Arts Center in Texas. Lan Tuazon has exhibited internationally at the Neue Galerie in the Imperial Palace of Austria, Bucharest Biennale 4, the WKV Kunstverein in Germany, the Lowry Museum in London, and her most recent solo exhibition in Chicago titled, Future Fossils: Sum presented at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2021.

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