email: rubacca [at] rubaccaquon [dot] com
Rebecca Grady is a Chicagoan by way of Alaska and Maine. When she was too little to walk, she was pulled around on a sled by a german sheperd called Namer.
education
Master of Fine Arts - Studio Arts (expected 2010)
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Ceramics, Sculpture (2004)
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, Sculpture (1999)
Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunk, Maine, Ceramics, Drawing
(1998)
exhibitions, parades, and readings
2007 Hothouse, Chicago, Illinois "SmartMouth"
2007 Reversible Eye, Chicago, Illinois "Existential Style"
2007 Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, Illinois "NFO/XPO/Version
Fest 07"
2007 Warehouse Club, Chicago, Illinois "Great Lakes Society
for Exploring Girls"
2007 Medicine Lake, Plymouth, Minnesota "Art Shanty Projects"
2006 All Rise Gallery, Chicago, Illinois "The Perfect Man"
2006 Lobot Gallery, Oakland, California "New Cartography"
2006 Iron Studios, Chicago, Illinois "NFO/XPO/Version Fest
06"
2005 Reversible Eye, Chicago, Illinois "Puppet and Doll
Show"
2005 The Orange Show, Houston, Texas "Everyone's Art Car
Parade"
2005 Diamonds on Archer, Chicago, Illinois "Crushin'"
2004 Mess Hall, Chicago, Illinois "Mapping: Part II"
2004 Buddy, Chicago, Illinois "20 x 20 x 20"
2004 Living Quarters, Chicago, Illinois "Patchwork"
2004 General Store @ Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, New York
"Drunk vs. Stoned"
2004 Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois "BFA Thesis Show"
2003 Texas Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois "Big Open Nothings"
2003 Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois "Chicago Art Open"
arts related employment
2007-2008 Jeweler, Sarah McGuire Studio, Chicago, Illinois
2006-2008 Comic Book Instructor, After School Matters, Chicago,
Illinois
2005-2006 Arts and Crafts Instructor, The Chinese American Service
League, Chicago, Illinois
2005 Instructor, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003-2005 Instructor and Programming Coordinator, Artists and Children
Create Together, Chicago, Illinois
awards, grants, and residencies
2008 University of Illinois Board of Trustees Tuition Waiver and Navona/KRP Scholarship
2008 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
2007 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago,
Department of Cultural Affairs
2007 Art Shanty Projects Residency and Grant, The Soap Factory,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2005 Everyone's Art Car Parade Travel Assistance Award, The Orange
Show, Houston, Texas
2005 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago,
Department of Cultural Affairs
2000-2004 Academic Merit Scholarship, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
press
Del Curto, Jessica. "Superheroes:
Class Creates Comic Books Based on Personal Experiences", Extra, 11/8/07.
Brandel, Jennifer. "The Soft Shop/Pimp My Shack/Illcutyou.com/Shanty",
Mule Magazine, #4.
Brandel, Jennifer.
"Soft Shop on the Crackling Ice", 848, Chicago Public Radio. Aired on 2/08/2007.
Levinson, Cate. "Static". Punk Planet. Issue #67 May/June 2005.