Point Line Projects

Intermission + Closing Reception for
Collections in Black: A Celebration of Black Comic Book Culture
Thursday, January 16 | 6-10pm
Don't miss your FINAL opportunity to see this extraordinary exhibition!

This month, Intermission features the closing reception of Collections in Black: A Celebration of Black Comic Book Culture.

Join us for:

An 8pm tour and gallery talk with exhibition curator Big Phill joined by special guests including collectors, authors, and artists featured in the exhibition.

A special appearance of live-action comic characters from Pittsburgh’s own Heroineburgh (presented by our partner and Intermission host Comicsburgh).

A raffle and chance to win a premier collector’s set of Heroineburgh comic books and trading cards. (Note: You must attend Intermission to enter and win.)

Live music featuring Soul singer and New Kensington native Cam Chambers.

21 and over + City Stylish Attire | Cash Bar and food for purchase

Admission is FREE.
Registration is required for the 8pm gallery tour with Big Phill.

Link: https://aacc-awc.prospect2.com/lt.php?x=3DZy~GDJJ3GgDH.r_QxMVxVz13VWjN~2jMUwjXjGVqLN5pF_-0y.zeV02I2nk_M~j_Y2XnTG

ON VIEW // 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘒𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘳: 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴
Gallery and bookshop hours: Wed–Sat, 12–5 p.m.
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, Illinois 60610

The Graham Foundation presents Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines, a concise yet rich examination of Frederick Kiesler’s (1890–1965) experimental design practice through the activities of his Laboratory for Design Correlation at Columbia University from the late 1930s to the early 1940s. The output of Kiesler’s Laboratory included research, design studies, and drawings that probed the possibilities of his theory of biotechnique, while reflecting on the relation between design, energy, and the human body (its posture, respiration rates, and image consciousness). The exhibition highlights two of Kiesler’s most essential and ambitious projects developed at the Laboratory: the Mobile Home Library and the Vision Machine. Together these projects illustrate the fantastical scope and applications of Kiesler’s correalism: a design approach he conceived to “express the dynamics of continual interaction between man and his natural and technological environments.”

Image 1: Photographer unknown, "Frederick Kiesler’s Mobile Home Library hinge," 1938. Photograph, 7.97 x 5.07 in (20.2 x 12.9 cm). Copyright Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna (www.grahamfoundation.org)

Image 2: Frederick Kiesler, "Mobile Home Library as represented in the 'Correalism Manifesto,'" 1947. Copyright Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna (www.grahamfoundation.org)

PLP, meet Cambridge, Massachusetts! After three years as Curator of Public Programs and five years directing the annual showcase of student work at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, PLP Founder Sarah Rafson is on to a new adventure as the Associate Director of Public Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Congratulations, Sarah! We’re excited for the new opportunities that await you.

Speaking of new adventures—PLP Design and Communications Coordinator Makenzie O’Connor just launched their new project in partnership with Chas Wagner. Paper + Dirt is a bookshop, reading room, and community classroom located at 7105 Reynolds St. Stop in Thursdays & Fridays noon-6pm to peruse their collection of architecture and new literary magazines and to plan your dream public programming.