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SUMMARY:Workshop: Ukiyo-e with Mami Takahashi
DESCRIPTION:Delve into the historic art of Japanese woodblock printing with Takahashi Sensei!\n\n\nUkiyo-e Workshop\nwith Mami Takahashi\nJuly 5\, 2025\n1:30pm – 4:30pm\n \n$45 for Materials & Admission\n\nJoin us on July 5th at 1:30pm for a workshop instructing guests on the art of Ukiyo-e\, a traditional Japanese printmaking techniques that dates back to the 17th century.\n \n“From the earliest points in my artistic practice to the present\, I have always had an affection and an interest in the beauty and precision in traditional Japanese printmaking techniques\, and have at various times integrated the skills I learned from working with these techniques into my practices. \nThis introductory workshop introduces students to the processes of Japanese block printmaking focusing on inking and printing. In this one-time workshop\, participants will not curve\, but watch the demonstration of curving by the instructor\, then learn and work on the coloring and printing techniques.” – Mami Takahashi \n\n\n\nAbout the teaching artist: \nMami Takahashi is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist and a scholar working in multiple cities including Chicago and Tokyo. She earned her MFA in Contemporary Studio Practice from Portland State University in 2013 and a BFA in Japanese Painting from Joshibi University of Art and Design in Japan. \nWith ongoing artistic research\, practice\, and teaching\, Takahashi explores different approaches to actualize Japanese aesthetics to enhance cultural perspectives in many U.S. communities. Takahashi also aims to connect Japan and communities in Chicago by teaching traditional and modern art-making techniques.
URL:https://imss.org/program/workshop-ukiyo-e-with-mami-takahashi-2/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Show & Tell for Grown-Ups!: Historically Misinformed Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Let’s have fun & learn something together!\n\n\nShow & Tell for Grown-Ups!\nHistorically Misinformed Medicine\nJuly 10\, 2025\nShow & Tell for Grown-Ups is a show for sharing niche curiosities. Our goal is to redefine what a night out with friends can mean. Let’s have fun & learn something together! \nAudiences has been asking for it and now we’re so honored & excited to partner with The International Museum of Surgical Science. We’re bringing this Show & Tell edutainment platform to this engaging museum so we can connect with more brilliant people wanting to share their knowledge with others. \nSign Up to Share! You don’t need a PHD to teach us at Show & Tell for Grown-Ups!Presenters can signup online for a 5-minute slot to share something their passionate about. Then we open Q&A with the audience. It’s a night of learning\, laughing\, and meeting other passionate people. We can’t wait to meet you! \nDo you have a passion for historical medical practices that you want to share with an inclusive and engaged audience? Signup to share at Show & Tell for Grown-Ups! \nPresenter signup: https://forms.office.com/r/gfMRYyRR7p \nWhat to learn more about Show & Tell for Grown-Ups? Check out their website www.tellmewhyshow.com or on instagram @tellmewhyitscool_show . \n\n\nAnd don’t forget – $5 discount code with an RSVP on the Pie app
URL:https://imss.org/program/show-tell-for-grown-ups-historically-misinformed-medicine-2/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:IMSS 2nd Annual Art Fair
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our 2nd Annual Art Fair to support local artists and for special after-hours Museum access!\n\nIMSS 2nd Annual Art Fair!  \nJuly 16th\, 5:00pm-8:00pm \n\n\nTickets:  \nFree with RSVP ($5 Suggested Donation)  \n\n\nCelebrate local creativity at our 2nd Annual Art Fair on July 16th from 5:00–8:00 PM! Discover unique works by local artists\, shop one-of-a-kind pieces\, and enjoy special after-hours access to the Museum. It’s the perfect summer evening of art\, community\, and inspiration—don’t miss it\, RSVP today! \n\n\nArtists Include: \n\nAodan\nTBD Collective\nFontaine Scarelli\nCortney Makes Art!\nPolina Pechkova\nGeneva Bowers\nAshley Baranczyk\n\n\nProject Onward\nGabriel Chalfin-Piney-González\nHannah Graber\n\n\n\n\nWe’re excited to partner with Tom’s Travelin’ Coffee Truck for this event! Their truck will be parked onsite with coffee & other beverages available for purchase!
URL:https://imss.org/program/imss-2nd-annual-art-fair/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Japanese Papermaking
DESCRIPTION:Explore the artistry of traditional Japanese paper-making with Human Body Watermarks\, led by artist Mami Takahashi.\n\n\nJapanese Papermaking Workshop for Beginners\nwith Mami Takahashi\nJuly 20\, 2025\n2:30pm – 4:30pm\n \nParticipants will make traditional Japanese paper\, called Washi\, with human body-themed watermarks at this paper-making workshop. Washi is typically made from Japanese Mulberry or Mitsumata wood bark. These barks are used daily in Japan\, and they include architectural elements like Shoji screens and folding fans. \nAll levels are welcome to enjoy this workshop! \n \n\n\n\nAbout Mami Takahashi: \nMami Takahashi is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist and a scholar working in multiple cities including Chicago and Tokyo. She earned her MFA in Contemporary Studio Practice from Portland State University in 2013 and a BFA in Japanese Painting from Joshibi University of Art and Design in Japan. \nWith ongoing artistic research\, practice\, and teaching\, Takahashi explores different approaches to actualize Japanese aesthetics to enhance cultural perspectives in many U.S. communities. Takahashi also aims to connect Japan and communities in Chicago by teaching traditional and modern art-making techniques.
URL:https://imss.org/program/workshop-japanese-papermaking-4/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Performance: Breathing Race Into the Machine
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special durational performance by the artist Vanessa Damilola Macaulay.\n\n\nBreathing Race into the Machine \nPerformance July 24th\, 12:00pm-7:00pm \nFree with RSVP \n \n\n\nExperience a compelling durational performance by artist Vanessa Damilola Macaulay\, inspired by her exhibit Breathing Race Into the Machine.This 7-hour performance invites guests to come and go freely—arrive at any time\, stay as long as you like\, and re-enter throughout the day. \n\n\nAbout Breathing Race Into The Machine: \nBreathing Race into the Machine interrogates the racial logics encoded in medical instruments\, not as corrupted deviations from a neutral standard but as systems deliberately engineered to encode inequality. Centering the spirometer\, a device used to measure lung capacity\, the exhibition reveals how this tool of clinical diagnosis doubled as a mechanism of racial classification. The spirometer\, developed in the 19th century\, helped forge and legitimise pseudoscientific claims that Black people had diminished lung capacity\, reinforcing myths of biological inferiority. These claims were not discarded with time; they have been absorbed into contemporary medical protocols\, algorithms\, and diagnostic thresholds. The racial bias encoded in the spirometer persists\, along with the ideology that justified it\, as an enduring fiction that pathologises Black breath while disguising power as science. \n \nIn this exhibition\, breath is not a symbol but a contested physiological threshold\, a racialised site of measurement and control. For Black people\, the reading of breath has long been made legible only to institutions of slavery and their afterlives in policing\, medicine\, environmental policy\, education\, and the carceral state\, where the simple act of breathing remains a site of surveillance\, suspicion\, and control. Rather than repair or redeem the spirometer\, Vanessa Damilola Macaulay unsettles its logic\, reimagining its function and offering a new grammar for how breath is measured\, heard\, and understood. Through sculpture\, sound\, performance and archival excavation\, she challenges the ways bodies are rendered measurable. Breathing Race into the Machine is not about outdated science; it is a powerful examination of how modern technologies continue to extract legibility from Black flesh while remaining fundamentally inadequate to comprehend the complexity of Black life in the US and beyond. \n\n\nAbout the Artist \n\n\n\nVanessa Damilola Macaulay\, a Black British artist based in Chicago\, works across performance\, video\, and photography to explore how creative strategies can centre Black life in ways that resist and reimagine systems of antiblackness. Each project takes a distinct form\, shaped by embodied inquiry and social urgency. Macaulay’s work\, grounded in Black feminist epistemologies and speculative modes of inquiry\, challenges inherited narratives and constructs new visual and performative languages for imagining Black life beyond survival. Recent works include This Way Up with Care\, a performance that examines the struggles associated with crossing borders\, and The Architect\, an immersive performance on a double-decker bus in London shown at the Greenwich & Docklands International Festival. Macaulay’s work has been featured in theatres\, exhibitions and residencies across the UK\, South Africa\, Europe\, and the U.S. \n \nLearn More: https://www.vanessamacaulay.com/ \n\n\n\nThis project is partially supported by a grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. \n\n\n\nThe International Museum of Surgical Science acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
URL:https://imss.org/program/performance-breathing-race-into-the-machine/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:The Artistry of Plastic Surgery: Exhibition Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of two new exhibits\, “The Dawn of Modern Plastic Surgery” & “The Art of Facial Sculpting”!\n\n\nThe Artistry of Plastic Surgery:\n \nThe Dawn of Modern Plastic Surgery: The Faces of the Great Wars\nPravin K. Patel\, MD \nDavid E. Morris\, MD \n \n&\n \nThe Art of Facial Sculpting\nDavid Morris\, MD \nEduardo Arias\, MSc\, CCA \nCamille Blackman\, BA \nRosemary Seelaus\, BS\, MAMS\, CCA \nMelinda Whitmore\, BA\, MFA \n \nExhibition Opening Reception\n \n6:00pm-8:00pm\nFree with RSVP\n \nSpecial thanks to Mimis N. Cohen\, MD \n\n\n\nThe Artistry of Plastic Surgery \nThe devastation of the two world wars played a pivotal role in shaping the field of modern plastic surgery. In the early twentieth century\, surgeons became artisans—suturing torn flesh like tailors mending fabric\, reinforcing facial structures like carpenters restoring damaged frames. These groundbreaking reconstructive techniques laid the foundation for a discipline that would evolve beyond necessity into the realm of aesthetics. \nSimultaneously\, artists—painters\, sculptors\, and draftsmen documenting the wars—engaged in parallel work. They studied the human form\, deconstructing and reimagining faces and bodies through drawings\, sculpture\, and canvas. Anatomical study\, once central to classical realism\, became a bridge between art and medicine\, guiding surgeons in their quest to restore symmetry\, balance\, and expression. The artist’s eye informed the surgeon’s hand\, just as surgical reconstructions inspired new artistic interpretations of the human body. \nBy the latter half of the twentieth century\, plastic surgery had moved beyond reconstruction to self-reinvention. Like artists shaping raw material into beauty\, surgeons refined and reshaped faces and bodies to align with personal desires and cultural ideals. The line between restoration and enhancement blurred\, and the human body itself became a canvas for transformation. \nWith the dawn of the new millennium came once-unimaginable feats—most notably\, full-face transplantation. Surgeons\, like sculptors working in living clay\, not only rebuilt faces but gave patients entirely new ones. These innovations merged medicine\, aesthetics\, and identity in unprecedented ways. \nToday\, the relationship between plastic surgery and art continues to evolve. Surgeons and artists share a common pursuit: to shape\, refine\, and redefine the human form. Whether working with marble or muscle\, canvas or cartilage\, both seek to capture the essence of beauty\, resilience\, and identity in constant flux. \nThe International Museum of Surgical Science is proud to present these coinciding exhibtions as “A Year of Plastic Surgery”—a yearlong exploration of this remarkable field. Through monthly programming\, we celebrate the masters of both flesh and form\, bridging the worlds of surgical innovation and figurative art. \n\n\n\n(left ). Illustration of Facial Musculature\, Melinda Whitmore \n(right) Facial écorché Demonstrating Musculature on Right Side of Face\, Melinda Whitmore \n\n\nHeader Image: A soldier of Company K\, 110th Regt. Infantry (formerly 3rd and 10th Inf.\, Pennsylvania National Guard)\, just wounded\, receiving first-aid treatment from a comrade. Varennes-en-Argonne\, France\, on September 26\, 1918. U.S. Army / U.S. National Archives
URL:https://imss.org/program/the-artistry-of-plastic-surgery-exhibition-opening-reception/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
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