Claire Ashley is from Edinburgh, Scotland. She lives and works in Chicago. She received a BFA from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland in 1993, and an MFA in 1995 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown in the U.S. at, among others, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hyde Park Art Center, The Chicago Cultural Center, The Chicago Public Library, Defibrillator Performance Space, Devening Projects, Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space, and Terrain Exterior Exhibition Space, Chicago; ACRE, Steuben WI; PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO; Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL; El Centro Community College Art Gallery, Dallas, TX; SideCar, Hammond, IN; Eggman and Walrus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; and Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL. And in Scotland at: gallerA1, Edinburgh; and The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Departments of Contemporary Practices, and Painting and Drawing.

Joseph Ravens creates time-based art works that encompass text, movement, installation, technology, costume, and object. He completed his undergraduate degree in theater at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; studied audio/visuals at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in Performance Art. Over the past decade Ravens has presented his work at international festivals throughout Asia, Europe, South America, and the US. He is a recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Interdisciplinary/Performance Art, and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for New Performance Forms, as well as other grants and awards from state and city institutions that have allowed him to foster an international reputation. Founder and Executive Director of DEFIBRILLATOR performance art gallery, Ravens was recently named a 2012 Chicago New City Breakout Artist.


Artist Talk
Friday, September 21, 12:15 pm -1:45 pm
Room B209, SMFA