Curated by Stephanie Smith
Beyond Green includes existing works, commissions, and previously presented work that has been “recycled,” spotlighting ways in which artists are building paths to new forms of practice. Many of the artists work collaboratively and leaven serious social aims with playful, off-the-grid spark, updating the Bauhaus notion of form following function or more recent Beuysian social sculpture. Their approaches range from the metaphorical to the pragmatic, sometimes serving as models for audience activism.
The exhibition, curated by Stephanie Smith, director of collections and exhibitions and curator of contemporary art at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, is accompanied by a 160-page illustrated catalogue (with artists’ texts and interviews, as well as essays by Smith and by design historian Victor Margolin) and a podcast.

Free Soil (Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic, Nis Rømer), F.R.U.I.T., 2005
Allora & Calzadilla, Free Soil (Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic, & Nis Rømer), JAM (Jane Palmer & Marianne Fairbanks), Learning Group (Brett Bloom, Julio Castro, Rikke Luther, & Cecelia Wendt), Brennan McGaffey & Temporary Services, Nils Norman, People Powered, Dan Peterman, Marjetica Potrc, Michael Rakowitz, Frances Whitehead, WochenKlausur, Andrea Zittel

Allora & Calzadilla, Under Discussion, 2004-05

Michael Rakowitz, paraSITE (Bill S.), 1998
Marquette, Michigan
January 19, 2009 - March 30, 2009
Portland, Oregon
September 11, 2008 - December 12, 2008
Hartford, Connecticut
April 4, 2008 - June 10, 2008
London, Ontario, Canada
January 5, 2008 - March 16, 2008
Greencastle, Indiana
September 14, 2007 - December 2, 2007
Cincinnati, Ohio
May 5, 2007 - July 15, 2007
Northampton, Massachusetts
February 2, 2007 - April 15, 2007
Long Beach, California
November 1, 2006 - December 17, 2006
New York, New York
February 2, 2006 - May 7, 2006
Chicago, Illinois
October 6, 2005 - January 15, 2006