Family Day | Future Past

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About the Artists

Sabba S. Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who grew up in a Pakistani household in the Midwest. Elahi received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is recipient of artist residencies at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Ragdale, and a finalist for the Mother Art Prize (2020). Her art across fibers, drawing, performance, and installation, resists dehumanization and cultural erasure, intersecting narratives of self, community, and structures of power. She is a current recipient of the Jackman Goldwasser Residency at the Hyde Park Art Center and teaches in the Philosophy & Humanities Department at Oakton College.

Alex Belardo Kostiw is an artist, designer, and educator whose practice centers on storytelling. They explore unknown parts and possibilities in the everyday and in ourselves, as well as ways that personal connections cross time and space. Rooted in print and communication, Kostiw’s practice deals in poetic elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. Their work often invites close reading and interaction, even as it resists complete unravelling. Kostiw is an assistant professor in Visual Communication Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They also teach printmaking at Spudnik Press and design publications for institutions with a focus on underrepresented perspectives in art and culture. Their work is collected in the Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Pratt Institute Artist’s Books Collection, RISD Artist’s Books Collection, Zine Collection at Tufts SMFA Library, and Haas Arts Library Special Collections at Yale, among others.

Poems While You Wait is a collective of poets and their vintage typewriters that provides patrons with an unexpected and decontextualized encounter with poetry. The process is simple: give us your name, give us the topic that you would like us to write a poem about (ranging from specific to abstract with as much information or as little as you’d like), and give us 10 minutes while you wander around. Upon your return you receive a custom-made, one-of-a-kind original poem to keep for yourself or to give as a gift.

Funding

Support for Family Programs is provided in part by the MCA Women’s Board Family Education Initiative, Northern Trust, and Peoples Gas Community Fund.