ART THEORY AND PRACTICE

Welcome to the Department of Art Theory & Practice (AT&P) at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. The department has both an undergraduate program, offering a baccalaureate degree, and a graduate program, offering a Masters of Fine Arts degree.

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faculty

Pamela Bannos
Dan Devening
Jeanne Dunning
Kelly Kaczynski
Judy Ledgerwood
Marlena Novak
Michael Rakowitz
Steve Reinke
Lane Relyea
James Valerio

 Michael Rakowitz

Michael Rakowitz (b. 1973, New York) is an artist based in Chicago and New York City. In 1998 he initiated paraSite, an ongoing project

in which the artist custom builds inflatable shelters for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a building's heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system. His work has appeared in venues workldwide including P.S. 1, MoMA, MassMOCA, Castello di Rivoli, the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 8, Tirana Biennale, National Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt, and Transmediale 05. He has had solo exhibitions at Lombard-Fried Projects in New York, Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea in Torino, and Stadtturgmgalerie/Kunstraum Innsbruck. His recent public project, "Return," was presented by Creative Time in New York. He is the recipient of a 2008 Creative Capital Grant for a collaboration with Emna Zghal, the Sharjah Biennial Jury Award, a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Architecture and Environmental Structures, the 2003 Dena Foundations Award, and

the 2002 Design 21 Grand  Prix from UNESCO. Upcoming exhibtions include the 16th Biennale of Sydney in June, 2008. His work is in many private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMa), Architecture and Design Collection, UNESCO, Paris, and the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. Rakowitz is also Contributing Editor for Surface Tension: A Journal on Spatial Arts.

 

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Associate Professor
office: 3-355 Kresge
m-rakowitz@northwestern.edu