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Exhibit opening: Friday, June 4, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
Gallery walk: Saturday, June 5, 11 a.m.
On Friday, June 4, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., the traveling exhibit 17 Swedish Designers stops at the Museum as part of its 2009-2011 U.S. Tour. 17 Swedish Designers features 17 award-winning female artists and designers specializing in textiles, furniture, glass works, and other mediums. It is based off the book 17 Swedish Designers, chez Pascale by designer Pascale Cottard-Olsson, who portraited all 17 designers as well as reflected on her career.
All 17 designers exhibited at the small Gallery Pascale in Stockholm early in their careers, and they reunite in the book and exhibit, 17 Swedish Designers. The exhibit’s artists and designers each display three to ten of their latest pieces, celebrating female artists and designers as well as Swedish innovative design.
Designers in the exhibit are:
Pia Amsell, Carina Seth-Andersson, Lena Bergström, Camilla Diedrich, Monica Förster, Front, Anki Gneib, Nina Jobs, Anna Kraitz, Lotta Kühlhorn, Anna Lerinder, Ulrika Mårtensson, Anna von Schewen, Eva Schildt, Sara Szyber, Pia Törnell and Barbro Wesslander
Events scheduled for 17 Swedish Designers are:
Exhibit Opening: Friday, June 4, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Gallery Walk: Saturday, June 5, 11 a.m.
Start with Art: Wednesday, June 9, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Family Night: Friday, June 25, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
17 Swedish Designers is sponsored by Ikea Shaumburg, The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince, City Arts Grants, and the Illinois Arts Council.
To find out more about Ikea, please click here.
On Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, the Museum’s new exhibit titled Nordic Light opens, which is a collection of paintings about light in nature by artist Johan Thunberg. From forest to sea and everything in between, through all kinds of weather and seasons, Thunberg attempts to capture and display the “special light” in nature. Using Swedish landscape in his own naturalistic and individualistic way, the artist claims to give the same he sees—all the beautiful things that nature gives you.
Events scheduled for Nordic Light are:
