Olivia Gude

Olivia Gude (/ˈɡʊdiː/; born 1950[1]) is an American artist and educator recognized for community public art mural and mosaic projects, and as the founding director of Spiral Workshops (an art program for teenagers as well as a curriculum research project on art education).[2][3] Gude was a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was on the visual-arts writing team for the Next Generation National Core Arts Standards.[4] She is now a professor of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[5] She is a Senior Artist member of the Chicago Public Art Group and author of the book Urban Art Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures.[6]

Biography

Raised in a "racially mixed, working class St. Louis neighborhood",[7] Gude received her undergraduate degree from Webster College.[8] After moving to Chicago in the 1970s, she attended the University of Chicago for her master's degree between 1980 and 1982.[7][9]

Work

Gude has helped create more than 50 public mosaics and murals with the help of various communities and generational groups.[10] As a member of the Chicago Public Art Group, she is considered a "core artist" by Kyle McKenzie.[11] One of her pieces, created in 1992 and entitled Where We Come From… Where We're Going, reflects tape-recorded statements made passers-by when asked questions by the artist. It is located in Hyde Park, Chicago.[12] Another early mural Gude designed with students and residents of Valmeyer, Illinois, stretched the length of the 54-foot public library and depicted the history of the town. Dedicated in 1993, it was destroyed by a flood 2 months later, but county officials preserved the plaster pieces in the hopes that it would be restored.[13] Along with Jon Pounds, she has co-designed many murals, including the 65-foot-long mural on the side of the Mifflin Street Community Co-op.[14] Other murals Gude has collaborated on include art in Los Angeles and Madison, Wisconsin.[7] One of her murals in Los Angeles celebrated the World Cup and was located near Highland Park.[15] Gude has also collaborated on a mural in Roseland-Pullman, which celebrated Eugene Debs and George Pullman, along with incorporating ethnic patterns into the design.[16] As of 2013, she has "been part of more than 50 significant public and mosaic projects that have involved a cross-section of generations".[10]

Gude's book, Urban Art Chicago is a 255-page guide to the public art of Chicago and is considered the first of its kind by the Chicago Tribune.[17] Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman, who wrote On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City praised Gude's book in The New York Times.[18] Gude has published many chapters in books and articles covering community art and art education. Gude's writing has appeared in Public Art Review, Art Journal, Art Education: the Journal of the National Art Education Association, Feminist Studies Journal, and in the SUNY Press book Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices.[19]

Olivia Gude began the program known as the Spiral Workshop. This is a Saturday art program where teens are given the opportunity to make and study contemporary art. Gude launched the Spiral Art Education Website in 2002 where innovative art projects developed through the Workshop's programs are published.[19]

Awards

In 1997, she won Best of Show and Best of Series from the National Art Education Association (NAEA).[20] Gude won the 1999 Illinois Governor's Award for Excellence in Downtown Revitalization in 2000 for her 1999 mural in DeKalb, Illinois.[10] She was also honored with the NAEA's Manuel Barkan Award in 2014 for her article "New School Art Styles: The Project of Art Education", which was published in Art Education in 2013.[21] Gude was also awarded the Illinois Art Education Association's Higher Education Art Educator of the Year.[5] Prior to that, in 2009, Gude was honored by the NAEA with the Viktor Lowenfeld Award, in recognition of her art-education contributions.[22]

References
  1. Gray, Mary Lackritz (2001). A Guide to Chicago Murals. Chicago: U of Chicago Press. p. 206. ISBN 0-226-30596-1.
  2. "Olivia Gude". uic.edu. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  3. Olivia Gude interview, retrieved 2015-11-18
  4. Sweeny, Robert (January 2014). "Standards & Assessment". Art Education. EBSCO. 67 (1): 4–5. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  5. Gude, Olivia. "Olivia Gude Biography", "National Art Education Association". Retrieved on 24 March 2018.
  6. Gude, Olivia (2000). Urban Art Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1566632843.
  7. Huebner, Jeff (4 February 1996). "Public Gude". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  8. Sweet, Kimberly (June 1996). "Local Color". The University of Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  9. Gude, Olivia; Munoz, Beatriz Santiag (1994). "Art Essay: Two Women On the Street". Feminist Studies. EBSCO. 20 (2): 301. doi:10.2307/3178154. JSTOR 3178154.
  10. Susnjara, Bob (11 July 2013). "Students create public art for Lake Zurich's Paulus Park". Chicago, Illinois: Daily Herald. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  11. McKenzie, Kyle (16 November 2012). "Community Art in Mid-America". Huffington Post. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  12. Browning, Laura M. (19 March 2010). "Where Are You Going? Hyde Park Mural Asks Big Questions". Chicago, Illinois: Chicagoist. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  13. Tang, Alisa (14 July 2014). "How a flood-prone village in the U.S. moved to higher, drier ground". Thomson Reuters Foundation. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  14. Adams, Barry (6 December 2006). "Co-op Mural Stands Out". Madison Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved 23 November 2015 – via Newspaper Archive.
  15. Griffin, Mary Jo (1 June 1994). "World Cup Art". Santa Ana Orange County Register. Retrieved 23 November 2015 – via Newspaper Archive.
  16. "Block Party to Celebrate Roseland-Pullman Mural". Harvey Star. 2 October 1988. Retrieved 23 November 2015 – via Newspaper Archive.
  17. Reardon, Patrick T. (19 September 2000). "Art Where Art Is Unexpected". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  18. "Answers About New York City's Community Murals, Part 2". The New York Times. New York City, New York. 23 April 2009. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  19. Gude, Olivia. "Olivia Gude", "Chicago Public Art Group" Retrieved on 24 March 2018.
  20. "Teacher, Artist, Community Activist". School Arts. EBSCO. 97 (8): 48. April 1998. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  21. "Professor Olivia Gude wins National Art Education Association Award". Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  22. "Renowned art educator Olivia Gude to speak Feb. 1". Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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