Envisioning One's Living Conditions November 1, 2009

November 1st: "Envisioning One's Living Conditions," Tour of Anthony Elm's collections, 2 PM

On November 1st, we will lead an excursion to the Artist and Exhibition Ephemera Collection of Anthony Elms, at his home in the Northwest Side. We will meet at the gallery at 2 PM and take the train together over to Anthony's house where he will introduce his collection and participants will be given time to peruse the materials.

Anthony Elms' collection includes show invites, correspondence, museum brochures, exhibition posters, self-produced posters and broadsheets, postcards, clothing, DVDs, mail art, knickknacks, LPs, scribbles, CDs and doodads as of March 25, 2008. The full collection is listed at http://www.publiccollectors.org/AnthonyElmsEphemera.htm as part of Public Collectors.

BIO: Anthony Elms is the assistant director of Gallery 400, the editor of WhiteWalls, and a writer. As an artist, Elms' works have been included in projects exhibited at Artists' Space (New York), Boom (Oak Park), Gahlberg Gallery (Glen Ellyn), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Randolph Street Gallery (Chicago), Suburban (Oak Park), and Temporary Services (Chicago), among others.

Public Collectors consists of informal agreements where collectors allow the contents of their collection to be published and permit those who are curious to directly experience the objects in person. Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.

Official Website: http://www.three-walls.org