MCA Studio: The Big Here: Chicago
Maggie Pucket, The Big Here
Courtesy of the artistAbout
Organized by artist Maggie Puckett, The Big Here: Chicago is a dynamic, participatory installation of 35 questions designed to test and increase ecological awareness. With each question—articulated on organic-based, hand-made paper, amplifying the question's content—visitors are encouraged to write and draw answers directly on the installation, which will ultimately be bound into an artist's book. Puckett's project is an extension of [Social Paper](http://www.colum.edu/Academics/Interarts/events/exhibitions/upco ming-exhibitions/index.php), a concurrent exhibition at the Center for Book and Paper Arts that considers contemporary applications of the art of hand paper-making in relation to socially engaged art practice.
Visitors can also participate in paper-making demonstrations facilitated by Columbia College Interdisciplinary Arts graduate students with a variety of pulps generated from plant fibers, some of which were cultivated in the Center for Book and Paper Arts Papermaker’s Garden, located in the heart of Chicago’s South Loop.
Social Paper is on view at the Center for Book and Paper Arts February 10–April 15, 2014.
About the Artist
Maggie Puckett is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She received her MFA in Book and Paper Arts from the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago, and her work has been shown recently at Cornell University, Co-Prosperity Sphere, and the LA Art Book Fair.