The Animation Career Review has announced its 12th annual animation school rankings, with Columbia College Chicago placing 3rd in Illinois, 4th in the Midwest, and 26th nationally.
In April, five Columbia College Chicago scholarship winners will travel to New York City where the Fashion Scholarship Fund will recognize the students at a gala event.
Columbia College Chicago is excited to announce that Andrew Whatley, Senior Director of Enrollment Marketing Communications, will appear on the popular, long-running quiz show Jeopardy! on Wednesday, January 11.
WBEZ's Reset talks about the Chicago adaptive apparel brand Joe & Bella and learns about their recent collaboration with Columbia College Chicago fashion students.
Join the Museum of Contemporary Photography for a virtual conversation between Refracting Histories artist Aaron Turner and photography scholar Shawn Michelle Smith. Turner and Smith will discuss Frederick Douglass as the most photographed person of the 19th century and his prescient views on the power of photography for shattering false narratives.
January 11, 2023
Presented virtually on Zoom
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"Minor Prophet," loosely based on the Judeo-Christian story of Job, witnesses a family faced with an existential crisis in a chillingly desperate landscape. This series blurs the line between traditional documentary and the fictional, leveraging the illusion of photographic truth to allow the individual characters in the narrative to function as surrogates in mythmaking.
Through February 1, 2023
C33 Gallery
33 E. Ida B. Wells Dr., Floor 1
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"Calumet in Dub" consists of an 8-channel speaker installation resulting from Norman W. Long’s research-based work delving into the ecology and soundscapes of the Southeast Side of Chicago along the Calumet and Little Calumet River area. Long has investigated how housing, labor, and environmental activism have coalesced in this location. The population demographics, ecological information, pollution statistics as well as direct field recordings from the Calumet region provide the raw data that Long utilizes to create sonic experiences.
Through February 17, 2023
Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S. Wabash Ave., Floor 1
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