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STUDIO HOURS:Saturdays, 11 am - 3 pmSamantha Hill takes up resi-dence in Gallery 5 every Satur-day during the exhibition totalk to visitors and build herinstallation.

RISK reception:Thursday, February 13, 5:30 -8:30 pmat Glass Curtain Gallery1104 S Wabash Ave, first floor, Chicago, IL

See more artwork by Saman-tha Hill in the related exhibi-tion RISK: Empathy, Art, andSocial Practice at ColumbiaCollege’s Glass Curtain Gallery.The exhibition also featureswork by Alberto Aguilar, JimDuignan, Industry of the Ordi-nary, Kirsten Leenaars, Fa-heem Majeed, Cecil McDonald,Jr., Jennifer Mills, Cheryl Pope,Museum of ContemporaryPhenomenon, Potluck:Chicago, Fereshteh Toosi

Stompin' at the Parkway BallroomSaturday, April 5, 7-11 pmat 4455 S. King DriveChicago

Exhibition Reception Sunday, April 13, 3-5 pm Join the artist in celebratingthe exhibition at the Art Center

Sweet Tea PartySunday, May 3, 12:30-2 pmat Sacred Keepers Youth Garden 48th & King Drive Chicago

Artist talk: Samantha Hill Tuesday, May 6, 6 pm

Cover: Installation view of SamanthaHill: Topographical Depictions of theBronzeville Renaissance, 2014 at theHyde Park Art Center.

Gallery 5February 2– May 18, 2014

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Topographical Depictions ofthe Bronzeville Renaissance:

by Samantha Hill

In partnership with Columbia College Chicago as acomponent of their exhibition:

using the yellow sticky notes or clothes pins provided to include otherephemera. An accumulating contribution of 2D and 3D material, familyphotographs, and stories is collected and strung together creating newnarratives that grow, change, and reshape history. In March, Hill will in-troduce tintype portraits of youth from Bronzeville and the greatersouthside, which she will create using the Art Centers photography darkroom, into her ever-changing chronology.

This exhibition is a satellite component to the exhibition Risk: Empathy,Art and Social Practice concurrently on view at several venues includingThe Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago (from February12 until May 6), 6018North, and Dorchester Projects’ Archive House andHyde Park Art Center. RISK considers the interdependent role of empa-thy and risk in socially engaged art as practiced by Chicago contempo-rary artists. The exhibitioncurated by Amy Mooney andNeysa Page-Lieberman fo-cuses on artists who seek toactivate communities, invitethe outside in, blur the lines ofpublic/private, reveal our mu-tual dependencies, and effectsocial change.

Bronzeville’s history is collected, sorted and reimagined in an ever-changing, interactive new installation by artist and activist SamanthaHill. A transdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on archives, oral storycollecting, social projects, and art facilitations, Hill creates multi-mediainstallations and performances within historic buildings, landmarks andpublic locations. Hill’s first solo exhibition, Topographical Depictions ofthe Bronzeville Renaissance, focuses her collection on oral narrativesand materials donated from the African American community inBronzeville to create an interactive layered map installation at the ArtCenter.

During the run of the exhibition, Samantha Hill is in residence in thegallery (see back for hours) to construct the artwork in real time andshift her collection process from a singular decision-making practice to apublic solicitation. The public is invited to assist with the mappingprocess by adding their personal responses to installation in the gallery

Left:Samantha Hill, Topographical Depic-tions of the Bronzeville Renaissance,installation view, dimensions variable,items courtesy of the Bronzeville Historical Society.

Right:Installation image: found photograph, 1939

Samantha Hill (b.1974, Philadelphia, PA) has exhibited her work fre-quently over the past fiveyears in venues including theMuseum of Science and Indus-try, Rockefeller Chapel andVox Populi (Philadelphia). Shehas received several honors,including the International Sculpture Center Award in 2006 & 2008, theSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Merit Scholarship in Sculp-ture, and the Philadelphia Sculptors Award. She participated in theArtist-in-Residence Programs at The Center for the Study of Race, Poli-tics and Culture (2011) at the University of Chicago and the McColl Cen-ter for Visual Art (Charlotte). Hill received her MFA from the School ofthe Art Institute of Chicago (2010) and her BFA from Moore College ofArt & Design (2008).