SMALL Showroom Opening smallma.org Hours: 5-9pm Admission: Free Join us on the opening day of the SMALL Showroom for tastings and demonstrations of some products made by some of the over 100 members of the Small Manufacturing Alliance. Few Spirits, Half Acre Beer Company, Koval Distillery, Bridgeport Coffee, Urban Belly Foods, and other companies will be sampling their wares all night long. The Small Manufacturing Alliance (SMALL) is being launched during Version Festival 12. SMALL is a new organization that promotes companies and individuals that make locally manufactured products and provide services to small businesses and creators. To showcase these products The SMALL Showroom will open from May 4th  to May 27, 2012 in the Co-Prosperity Sphere. We think of the Showroom as a People’s Macy’s. Each Friday during May we will host promotional events, supper clubs and tastings.  Creators of these local products will be demonstrating and sampling out their wares to the public. With the opening of Cast-offs by Deirdre Colgan: “Future Relics – Cast-offs” are an attempt to monumentalize the throwaway objects we usually discard. Taking the void space of a variety of ordinary household objects, Colgan uses concrete to freeze them in time while retaining their lids - reconnecting each with its past life. In this ongoing series of work, “Future Relics,” Colgan seeks to lift ordinary household containers out of their generic disposable condition and into the realm of the precious and relic.

February 3 – 17, 2012 Opening Friday, February 3rd 6-8pm Survey The Chicago Project is highlighting the work of artist Watie White. An intermediary, whose traditional selection of mediums, printmaking, painting and drawing, benefits White’s exquisite skill in interpreting our fundamental experiences. A catalog of the Chicago Project will be available at the Teachers Lounge Project Space at DePaul University. The Chicago Project is curated by Jim Duignan.