MAK Center for Art and Architecture announces new Director
Jia Yi Gu joins the MAK Center from her previous role as Executive Director of Materials & Applications, a Los Angeles-based project space for experimental architecture.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
.- After an extended search, the Museum of Applied Arts has named Jia Yi Gu as the new director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, its Los Angeles-based satellite location.
An advocate for experimental approaches to institution-building and trans-disciplinary curatorial practice, Jia Yi Gu joins the MAK Center from her previous role as Executive Director of Materials & Applications, a Los Angeles-based project space for experimental architecture. During her tenure from 20142020, she launched two new project spaces, M&A Storefront in Echo Park and M&A x Craft Courtyard; initiated an emergent leadership and programming board; developed M&As annual curatorial topics, including Staging Construction and Ecologies of Care; and
EXPO CHICAGO to reschedule April exposition, secures series of dates starting July 2021
EXPO CHICAGO 2019 Vernissage. Image by Cory Dewald. Courtesy of EXPO CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, IL
.-EXPO CHICAGO today announced that it is rescheduling its 2021 in-person exposition and has secured a series of dates at Navy Pier from July 2021 onincluding its historic dates September 23 26in order to ensure the safety of participating exhibitors and patrons of the ninth edition. EXPO CHICAGO will organize a virtual exposition during its previously scheduled in-person dates of April 8 11, 2021. Details on the virtual expositions programmatic themes and participants will be announced in the coming weeks.