Scales of Sentiment: 1992 Virginia and Rubin’s Vase
Studio Pedagogy Writing Studio Pedagogy Writing Photos by Guanyu Xu Scales of Sentiment: 1992 Virginia and Rubin’s Vase February 11–April 10, 2022 Mana Contemporary ChicagoChicago, IL “Mind Map” is a bi-monthly program, curated by S.Y. Lim, that invites Chicago-based artists to create a time-based and site-specific work that shows the artists’ processes. Mind […]
U T E N S I L
Studio Pedagogy Writing Studio Pedagogy Writing Exhibition Utensil Comfort Station, Chicago IL November 6 – December 5, 2021 The work continues the collective and prompted efforts of Alden Burke, Caroline Dahlberg, Mariel Harari, Azalea Henderson, Stephanie Koch, and Maggie Wong. – What is a prompt? A prompt is an invitation to ease into entanglements, a […]
I made us a paperweight; I am now on chapter 2 (fragments 2 – 5)
cast pewter (buried granite, quartz, brick, and ceramic), laser printed booklet, wooden lectern. Created for the Terrain Biennial, Chicagoland, 2021 I made us a paperweight; I am now on chapter 2 (fragments 2 – 5) is a series of reproductions of my mother’s marginalia in Frantz Fanon’s text The Wretched of the Earth: the handbook […]
FOR MEDIUM
Studio Pedagogy Writing Studio Pedagogy Writing Exhibition (selected works) Medium David Sprecher, Bill Wells, Maggie Wong March 14th, 2020 — July 10th, 2021 take care Los Angeles, CA How to get close without eliminating distance? Is this what our technology aspires to? Perhaps it is that our everyday language is abstract, more so than […]
Close To You
Studio Pedagogy Writing Studio Pedagogy Writing Play the record: Close To You, 2018 Link to performance lecture script – The song “They Long to Be Close to You” was written by songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David in 1963, but made famous in 1970 by the Carpenters. Since its creation, the song has […]
Coloring Room
An interactive exhibition and Museum Educator Graduate Scholars project at The Art Institute of Chicago. How can sensory focused experiences expand visitors’ sense of belonging and participation in an art institution? My objective was to build a methodology for creating interactive, unfacilitated, informal learning environments in the Art Institute of Chicago’s Interactive Gallery. “Coloring Room” […]
MAKING OUT
Studio Pedagogy Writing Studio Pedagogy Writing Making Out October 2017 SITE Sharp, 37 S Wabash, Chicago IL Press Release MAKING OUT turns the SITE gallery into a space of playful resistance. The work will center around a large installation of bleachers that suggest a high school football field — the kind of bleachers […]
Work-in-progress
Maggie Wong makes art, writes about art, writes art, reads art, shares art, mentors artists, and is mentored by artists. She studies. Maggie Wong holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she now works as a lecturer. Additionally, she is the Associate Director of Iceberg Projects in Rogers […]
You and I
You and I (2016) comprise objects conceived from my memories of playing with my autistic sister. The remakes are scaled to adult size, made from fabric and wood, and painted chroma-key green. When we were children, the toys had simultaneous functions – a tunnel was a place for us to hide from “the monster” while […]