Art Historian, academic, organizer, activist, critic, artist, performer, and curator.  Rebecca Zorach even found time to write a book titled Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance.

Dec. 12th-  Scott Speh Scott Speh has built one of Chicago's most enticing galleries in Western Exhibitions, a gallery that showcases art that one might say would never be found on a print from Bed Bath & Beyond.  He is also an Instructor in Arts Administration and Policy at S.A.I.C. His gallery brings visibility to Chicago Artist at such art fairs as The Armory Show 2009 ( New York City); NADA 2008 (Miami, FL); New York Art Book Fair 2008; Milwaukee International 2008, 2006; Volta 2008 (Basel, Switzerland), and in Chicago at NEXT 2008, and the MDW Fair (2011).

Neighborhood Reclamation Strategies and Land Liberation Tactics with Max Rameau of Take Back the Land 6:00PM , Monday, November 28, 2011 @ The Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219-21 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL A severe housing crisis is gripping families and communities across the United States. Since the fall of 2008, the US Government purchased millions of foreclosed properties from banks through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The concrete result has been the transfer of $1.5 trillion in public wealth into the hands of private institutions and individuals to preserve their fortunes. While taking money from everyday workers and handing it over to huge, too big to fail, financial institutions helped forestall the collapse of the world's financial markets, it has not prevented the displacement and dispossession of millions of ordinary families. The banks have been saved, but the people have been abandoned. Because billions of dollars in public funds were used to buy these homes, we assert those homes are now public housing and must be used to solve the housing crisis by providing homes to millions of families and individuals. The Take Back the Land Movement has directly challenged those laws which allow banks to reap record profits while millions of families face eviction and homelessness. Challenging unjust laws requires a protracted direct action campaign of civil disobedience designed to prioritize people over profits in a tangible way. As such, the Movement focuses on defending families against eviction and “liberating” vacant government owned and foreclosed homes, moving homeless people into people-less homes. Learn the strategies and tactics that have been successfully utilized in the struggle to reclaim for the 99% the open spaces withheld from them by the 1%. THIS EVENT IS HOSTED BY OCCUPY CHICAGO & COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST FORECLOSURE AND EVICTION

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JOIN US AT A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY PARTY FOR MARIA'S PACKAGED GOODS & COMMUNITY BAR on SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 Maria’s is celebrating our one year anniversary since we remade the family bar. We are throwing a special party at MARIA’S, and at our gallery, the CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE, to commemorate this milestone on Saturday, SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 We are working with some of our favorite breweries to bring you an extraordinary tasting experience.  It will be a veritable CRAFT BEER NIRVANA! Half Acre, Three Floyds, 5 Rabbit and Dogfish Head are bringing a ton of their flagship & rare beers to the party THE PARTY BEGINS @ MARIA’S FROM 4PM - 3AM! with plenty of rare beers on draft & specials running all night long JOIN US FROM 6-10 PM AT THE CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE 3219 South Morgan Street in Chicago, Illinois for ALL U CAN EAT & DRINK! Admission is $15 at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. You can try all the flagship beers you want, but rare beers will be $3 a pour. The CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE will be serving over a dozen of their flagship ales and a half dozen RARE ales until the kegs run dry. There will performances by some of our favorite musical acts. Delicious food will be served along with some Whiskey sampling and other niceties. We will also be showing our collection of depression era WPA inspired posters !!! http://www.printervention.org/ THE LINE_UP FOR THE MARIA'S PARTY WILL BE CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE 3219 S Morgan Street 6pm-10pm FIRST FLOOR FLAGSHIP BEERS 5 Rabbits 5 Rabbit 5 Rabbits 5 Lizard Dogfish Head 60 MInute Dogfish Head Punk'in Ale Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre Half Acre Gossamer Half Acre Daisy Cutter Three Floyds Alpha King Three Floyds Gumball Three Floyds Pride THE RARE BEER BASEMENT 5 Rabbits 5 Vulture Dogfish Head 120 Minute' Dogfish Head World Wide Stout 2010 (Randallized!!) Dogfish Head Hell Hound on My Ale Half Acre Galactic Daisy Cutter Three Floyds Amon Amarth Ragnarok MARIAS 960 W 31st Street 4pm til close.. We will be serving on draft the following: Dogfish Head Dogfish Head Punk'in Ale Dogfish Head 120 Minute Dogfish Head Bitches Brew Half Acre Galactic Double Daisy Cutter Three Floyds Moloko Three Floyds Zombie Dust Three Floyds Thick White Freeks

Guest: Michele Grabner 6:30pm The Co-Prosperity School is an Artist-Run School for and about the advancement and understanding of contemporary Chicago Art. Through guest speakers and class member presentations we will shine a light on the contemporary art scene of Chicago. One of our goals is to break down the panel discussion dialogue of Chicago’s art and bring it to a more informal group discussion format in which shapers of Chicago’s Art World themselves tell of the contemporary scene.   Members can discuss their own work, or the work of others.

Guest: Stephanie Brooks  6:30pm The Co-Prosperity School is an Artist-Run School for and about the advancement and understanding of contemporary Chicago Art. Through guest speakers and class member presentations we will shine a light on the contemporary art scene of Chicago. One of our goals is to break down the panel discussion dialogue of Chicago’s art and bring it to a more informal group discussion format in which shapers of Chicago’s Art World themselves tell of the contemporary scene.   Members can discuss their own work, or the work of others.

Guest: Bert Stabler  6:30pm The Co-Prosperity School is an Artist-Run School for and about the advancement and understanding of contemporary Chicago Art. Through guest speakers and class member presentations we will shine a light on the contemporary art scene of Chicago. One of our goals is to break down the panel discussion dialogue of Chicago’s art and bring it to a more informal group discussion format in which shapers of Chicago’s Art World themselves tell of the contemporary scene.   Members can discuss their own work, or the work of others.