Asked to create a blog post about the exhibition Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations), we wanted to craft a document that demonstrates, rather than describes, our curatorial process. Our challenge was to find a light-hearted, simple, and...

Images from last week's Extreme T-Shirt Makeover: Gallery Edition are now up on flickr! Students got the chance to spruce up their old t-shirts with screen-printed designs by UIC alum Aay Preston-Myint, while learning about the screen printing...

Nested within our current exhibition Archival Impluse lies a unique brand of archive, which also provides an opportunity for creativity on paper. The Alliance of Pentaphilic Curators (aka Jason Dunda and Teena McClelland) have installed 5x5 Porcelain Venues—25 toilet paper holders (21 in the gallery space and 4 in our public restrooms) that serve as a space for participation and display. Toilet paper rolls are free and available for your drawings or other creative forms of bath tissue expression.

Here it is, Gallery 400’s new website. Completely redesigned by Chicago-based Neoteric Design, the site has a new structure, navigation, and look, as well as numerous small features that aid intuitive exploration and get you the information you need. More than redesigned, the site has been reimagined.

Ever since Gallery 400, with the support of the IMLS Foundation, began our ongoing effort to reorganize and digitize our archive, I have been sorting, reading, scanning, organizing, and inventorying my way through box upon box of press releases,...

Trained as a painter, I accidentally became a writer, then editor, then curator. This may go a small way to describe why I am always taken by the mess of production and presentationnot just the big gestures, the intended gesturesthe small,...

So, what has Gallery 400 been up to since June when we closed our last shows? You may have read snippets here and on Facebook and Twitter. But I thought I'd give you a wider view. We've been doing a lot of thinking and prepping, preparing for new...