MOVING+HOLDING FLOW, EAH LAB

The University of Chicago Environmental Arts+Humanities Lab (which I direct) presents

Moving + Holding Flow: An Exposition on Water Ecologies

conceived and co-curated by Colten Hallam

featuring work by:

localStyle (Marlena Novak + Jay Alan Yim)

Beate Geissler + Oliver Sann

Eric Leonardson

Amber Ginsburg

Eleonore Zurawski

Juan Arango Palacios

Caleb Burke

Brielle Stein

Rachel Havrelock + the River Speaks project

Damien Bright

Christina Cannon

Victoria Saramago

Jennifer Scappettone

Damien Bright

Corey Byrnes

Brian Holmes

Noam Levinsky

Jasmine Jones

Maya Nguyen

Stephanie Soileau

Léon Pradeau + CJ Nizard

Saturday, May 2, 2026, 12–5pm

Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, 929 E. 60th St.

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The Environmental Arts + Humanities Lab at The University of Chicago is thrilled to announce our spring pop-up exposition, “Moving + Holding Flow: An Exposition on Water Ecologies,” to be held on May 2, 2025, 12pm–5pm, at the Gray Center for Arts + Inquiry and adjoining gallery in Midway Studios (929 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL, 60637).

This multidisciplinary event will feature over 20 Chicago-based artists, writers, scholars, and performers across a range of media (from painting to sound art) who work with water as a topic of ecological, biological, philosophical, sociopolitical, and emotional import.

A waste-free locally oriented lunch, a research roundtable, short performances, and the chance to meet practitioners around the city devoted to the study and protection of water.

Please join us for this immersive experience, which is free and open to the public! We only ask that you RSVP.

Organized by the Department of English, Environmental Arts+Humanities Lab, and Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization at The University of Chicago