This intergenerational show fills all the museum’s galleries and features more than 75 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and installations by 38 artists of Latin-American descent living and working in the United States, primarily in the Chicago area. Author: Kyle MacMillan

Ivan LOZANO of Archives + Futures (A+F), a podcast for and about Latinx and Indigenous visual artists of the Americas.

Curator and 'Chicagoan of the Year' talks through the pioneering women artists represented in the Chicago Tribute section.

In 2020, Frieze Viewing Room (Frieze New York edition) will pay homage to the pioneering women artists of Chicago, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of women’s right to vote. Curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm (Director and Chief Curator, DePaul Art Museum), who was just named ‘Chicagoan of the Year’ by the Chicago Tribune, the section will unfold throughout the fair, featuring presentations by eminent artists such as Gladys Nilsson (Garth Greenan), Suellen Rocca (Matthew Marks Gallery), Clare Rojas (Kavi Gupta), Evelyn Statsinger (Richard Gray Gallery), Faith Wilding (Anat Ebgi), Torkwase Dyson (Rhona Hoffman Gallery), Melissa Leandro (Andrew Rafacz), amongst others.

By Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, JAN 22, 2020

Fourteen works of varying codes of abstraction vie to construct the curatorial narrative mapping private and social terrains. The exhibition spaces divide two themes of “Time Share,” the larger and lead theme, with the smaller, related exhibit, “Warm Welcome.”

Identities of space here are measured in a multitude of aspects: personal, geological, architectural, intimate, humble, beautiful (or at least elevated), humorous, eccentric, as well as time- or event-based. -Rusty Freeman is the Director of Visual Arts, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL.

Hyde Park Art Center is proud to announce the return of Ground Floor, the fifth iteration of the biennial exhibition that features artwork by some of Chicago’s most promising emergent talent.

“Tangential subjects come into view. The thoughts, however, can, I believe, be traced back to the event of a thread.” -Anni Albers, On Weaving

This exhibition brings together three artists whose nuanced and abiding interests in weaving, fiber, and textile arts evoke the multilinear progression of both thought and material that Albers describes.

Curated by Joseriberto Perez
August 25 - October 7
Opening reception: Thursday, September 13
6:00 - 9:00 pm

Tile Blush
8375 NE 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33138


Tile Blush is pleased to announce our current exhibition Painting: Network of Escape, curated by Joseriberto Perez with text by Eddie Negron.

Next Generation of Image Makers 2018
Melissa Leandro

Latino Arts Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, March 23 at 5:00 p.m.

KT Hawbaker
Chicago Tribune, February 1, 2018
Welcome to Melissa Leandro’s Miami. 'Trop-i-cal' weaves together narrative of family, and dislocation.

January 27, 2018, 5-8PM
Work by: Melissa Leandro and Lindsay Rhyner
Efrain Lopez Gallery: 908 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

CARA OBER, DECEMBER 11, 2017
A Meditation on Collaboration with a Miami Art Fair

The Unsolicited Sideshow is a pop-up exhibition and event series that explores how the contemporary condition of ‘otherness’ informs architectural expression. It opens at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel as a corollary exhibit to the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial’s main stage at the Chicago Cultural Center.

“The Making,” choreographed by Seldoms director Carrie Hanson. Costuming by Melissa Leandro

Luminarts Fellowship Celebration

Que Pasa USA, Charlotte Street Foundation

Inter-University Program for
Latino Research (IUPLR)
University of Illinois at Chicago

Oral Historian, Elisa Shoenberger is interviewing women and/or people who identify as female who work in an artistic field who live in Chicago.

Chicago Cultural Center

Latino Art Now Biennial

Arts Incubator Chicago

Paula Calvo interviewed one of the winners of the Dimensions of an Artist Grant (Melissa Leandro), which was sponsored by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Student Government.

Melissa Leandro Jacquard project

LULA CAFE’S ART PROGRAMMING

Fine Arts Professional

A thoughtful examination of visual art, in and around the city.
Preview: Weavemaker Pro @ The Plaines Project

Melissa Leandro received her BFA in Fibers and Material Studies from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is very much tied to creating installations that combine both soft sculpture and sound art. Her practice also involves weaving, both on the floor loom and Jacquard.

Youngblood: Homecoming 2012 is the fifth annual installment of the New World School of the Arts alumni show.

bold Welcome to our Textile blog! bold We showcase work from our Textile Department's faculty, monitors and students. Our department is a growing community of artists who are interested in traditional and contemporary craft media.

Artreach at Lillstreet is dedicated to bringing hands-on art experiences into your community. Whether your community is an elementary or high school, a nursing home, a church, an afterschool group or something completely different, we are there for you. Or take an on-site field trip to our sister organization, Lillstreet Art Center. Artreach at Lillstreet is a nonprofit organization providing high quality arts education and public art programs for people and communities in need and we believe all communities need art, with hands-on experiences in ceramics, painting & drawing, puppet & mask making, and more.

The Collective Gap, Charlotte Street Foundation