Screening | Jupiter Selects Ambition and Nurturing Sensibilities
January 20, 20266:00 pm - 7:30 pm
It’s Just a Fucking Opening (still), 2025. Courtesy of Jupiter.
About the Event
Join us for a series of short films programmed by Chicago-based arts and culture publication Jupiter. Titled after a commencement speech delivered by Toni Morrison at Barnard College in 1979, Ambition and Nurturing Sensibilities probes at the emotional rigor required to sustain a creative practice and the intimate relationships that nourish the ground from which our artistic pursuits spring simultaneously. Including It’s Just a Fucking Opening (2025) by Josh Brainin, Camille Bacon, and Youssef Boucetta, Creative Detours (1992) by Bridgett M. Davis, L’Avance (2024) by Djiby Kebe, and all the love i could handle (2025) by Ruby Rose Collins, the program opens ground to ponder how the pursuit of our aspirations and the cultivation of our support systems are linked responsibilities.
Funding
Lead support for the 2025–26 season of MCA Talks is made possible by The Richard and Mary L. Gray Lecture Series through a generous gift to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign.
Generous support is provided by The Antje B. and John J. Jelinek Endowed Lecture and Symposium on Contemporary Art; the Kristina Barr Lectures, which were established through a generous gift by The Barr Fund to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign; The Gloria Brackstone Solow and Eugene A. Solow, MD, Memorial Lecture Series; and the Allen M. Turner Tribute Fund, honoring his past leadership as Chair of the Board of Trustees.