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Artwork by Josh Martin

1-800-Cultivate

Josh Martin, Heather Banas, Anthony Park Kascak

1-800-CULTIVATE

Curated by Aaron Becker

April 20 – May 20, 2026

Opening reception: Thursday, April 23, 2026 / 5-8pm

1-800 CULTIVATE is a group show that captures the nuance, understanding and maintenance required when pursuing our creative expressions.  

With the pressures of life feeling more volatile than ever, we find reprieve in our solitary studio practice. However, this collective of artists not only create work but continuously till, plant and water their artistic surroundings. Unlike some contemporary artists, they not only pursue the fruits of their labor but contribute to their greater artistic communities.

Josh Martin is a tattooer and ceramicist residing in Kansas City, Missouri. His art practice of 17 years has been influenced by early Americana consisting of tattoo imagery, patterns, fabrics, and language tropes from the midwest. He draws from memories and emotions to develop a visual language filled with humor and sarcasm throughout his work.  

Heather Banas is a ceramic artist and educator living in Chicago, IL.For ten years, her love for music that has sad lyrics set to upbeat poppy sounds have influenced her work to feature sad subjects depicted in colorful surface design. Her educational focus revolves around spreading  the joy and empowerment of glaze chemistry knowledge and surface design techniques.

Anthony Park Kascak (he/him) is a first generation Korean-American with a BFA in Art Practices and BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder, and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. He has attended residencies and exhibited work in Germany, China, South Korea, and around the United States. Anthony is currently an artist in residence at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago, IL. His work examines the disorientation of cultural hybridity through narrative vessels, sculptures of dogs, and a reconsideration of historical ceramic forms.

 

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Reckoning

A solo show by Metals Artist in Residence Lillian Frazer

April 6 – 24

Annex Gallery | 2nd Floor

Closing Reception & Artist Talk: April 24, 5-7 pm

RSVP HERE

Reckoning is a mixed-media exhibition reflecting my personal journey of healing and growing into a more spiritually based life. By manipulating the through-lines of our defined reality, my work has restructured the internal feminine, allowing for moments of pause and sensitivity to further intuition and find ground. The connection to the earth has revealed the maternal aspects of vitality, connecting to concepts of grounding, divination, and generation.

Vase by Kitt Gallan

Kitt Gallan

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Kitt Gallan

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Lounge Gallery

April 3-30, 2026

Closing reception: April 23, 2026 5-8pm

Kitt is a mixed media artist currently based in Chicago. She works primarily in ceramics but dabbles in a variety of media including painting, drawing, metals, and textiles. Her current work explores how these materials can be woven together to form a cohesive narrative.

She works out of Studio 202 at Lillstreet Art Center where she also works as a Studio Glaze Technician in the Ceramics Department.

Dutes Miller

For a Darkend Room

Hidden Gallery

For a Darkend Room

installation by Dutes Miller

March 1 – May 31, 2026

For a darkend room is a small immersive installation exploiting the particular architecture of the gallery. The space is part cave, part temple, and part bathroom stall, all of which can be small spaces of an intimate but public nature. Elements of the installation include a cast ceramic sculpture, painted spray foam objects, a tinted plaster room divider, dark mylar curtains, small lighting elements, a small corner seat,  and a soundscape.  

Dutes Miller’s work has been written about on artforum, Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago, New City, and the Chicago Tribune and has been included in exhibitions at several national venues including Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York, Lump in North Carolina, White Flag Projects in St. Louis and in Chicago at the Hyde Partk Art Center, Ukrainian Museum of Art, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and The Franklin.

His collaborative work with his husband Stan Shellabarger, as Miller & Shellabarger, won a 2008 Artadia Award and a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award and has been written about in Art in America, Artforum, Art & Auction, Frieze, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, Flash Art, and the Chicago Tribune. They have work in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul Art Museum, Indiana University Art Museum, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Spencer Museum of Art, among others. Miller received a BFA from Illinois State University. He is represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and lives and works in Chicago.