Henbane Collective
Henbane Artist Amber Hawk Swanson will be included in
She Got Game (working title)
Arlington Arts Center, Virginia
(including solo performance in conjunction with group show)
01/13—03/18/12.
Acre
Meg has been offered a slot in the Acre Residency in Steuben, WI.
Henbane Artist Amber Hawk Swanson will be an
Artist in Residence
Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, NY
07/27—08/22/11
(including an open studio event, 08/20/11, 6-7:30pm)
Kristie Engel Gallery
Molly Schafer and Jenny Kendler's work for their Endangered Species Print Project will be on display as part of the Wicked Little Critter exhibition opening July 9th.
Bolt Artist-in-Residence
Henbane artists Jenny Kendler, Amber Hawk Swanson and Stacia Yeapanis have been selected for a new, year-long residency program at run by Chicago Artists' Coalition and housed in their brand new space in the West Loop.
Meg Leary was awarded a 2011 Chicago Artist Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant!
Poonie's Cabaret
Meg Leary will be performing at Links Hall on June 6th at 8:00 pm. She will be premiering a new performance work.
Henbane Artist Amber Hawk Swanson will deliver a
Keynote Address
(Dis)embodied Feminisms: New Perspectives on Gender,
Sexuality and Identity Conference
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
05/13/11
Incantation
Henbane Artists, Jenny Kendler, Molly Schafer and Meg Leary will have work in the show Incantation at the Peanut Gallery on May 6, 2011.
Wild Things

The Endangered Species Print Project (Schafer & Kendler) participated in the 2011 Wild Things conference at University of Illinois, Chicago
Stacia Yeapanis' Solo Exhibition at Strawdog Theater
Stacia Yeapanis is pleased to announce the exhibition of work from her series of cross-stitched embroideries Everybody Hurts at Strawdog Theatre Company. The exhibition will include new works that have never been exhibited in Chicago, along with work that had it's debut at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 2009 in the 3-person exhibition MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis.
Opening reception for the artist: 6-7pm, April 29th
Show run: April 24 - May 28, 2011
Video Village at Index Art
Henbane artist Stacia Yeapanis will exhibit her video installation 90210 House at Index Art (Newark, NJ) as part of “Video Village,” a group exhibition and fundraiser for Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL), exploring experimental forms of ethnographic travelogue and highlighting new outlets for mental conceptions of foreign space and place.
Curated by Noah Collier and Stephanie Szerlip
Reception: Saturday, April 2nd, 7- 11pm
Open Crit at Hyde Park Art Center
Henbane artist Stacia Yeapanis will be participating in the Open Crit program at Hyde Park Art Center on March 16, 2011. This is a public critique with moderators Dawoud Bey and Hamza Walker.
Two Gold Addy Awards!
Molly Schafer and Jenny Kendler's art for The Center for Biological Diversity has won 2 gold Addy Awards!
I am MIyax Now
Molly Schafer will be giving an artist's talk at Mess Hall in Chicago
Endangered Species Condoms
Yes seriously. Jenny Kendler and Molly Schafer were commissioned by the Center for Biological DIversity to illustrate the condom packing for their overpopulation campaign.
Renegade Craft Fair

The Endangered Species Print Project (Schafer & Kendler) had a booth at Chicago's Renegade Craft Fair.
My Feminism is 80s Teen Movie Flavored
Henbane artist Stacia Yeapanis has written an Off-Topic post on the Bad at Sports blog.
The Endangered SPecies Print Project

The Endangered Species Print Project first gallery exhibition!
ParasolMag
Molly Schafer and Jenny Kendler are interviewed about their work in the new issue of Parasol.
ESPP in ReadyMade & Orion magazines
Henbane artists Molly Schafer & Jenny Kendler's The Endangered Species Print Project is featured in both ReadyMade and Orion magazines this month.
Henbane Artist Amber Hawk Swanson is an
Artist in Residence
Year-long Residency for NYC Arts Workers
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA), New York City
(including a culminating retreat in Hudson, NY 07/15—18/11
and Artist Talks 08/10/11 at the EFA Project Space 6:30-8:30pm)
Annalemma Magazine
Molly Schafer was commissioned to create a drawing for the new issue of Annalemma.
Molly Schafer at Lump Gallery
Dawn Horse Schafer's solo show will open at Lump Gallery on October 2 and run through Halloween.
Snakes On a Plane, Lemurs On a Plate
Henbane artists Molly Schafer & Jenny Kendler have written an Off-Topic post on the Bad at Sports blog.
Losing Yourself in the 21st Century
Amber Hawk Swanson and Stacia Yeapanis both have work in the traveling exhibition Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, which is currently showing at The Georgia State University Welch Gallery (Atlanta). The show will travel to Maryland Art Place (Baltimore) in February 2010.
Urban Art Projects Performance Art Festival
Amber Hawk Swanson screened To Have, To Hold, and To Violate: Amber and the Doll, Las Vegas Wedding (2007) at this festival in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September 2009.
Cohabit
Cohabit, a solo show of Jenny Kendler's new drawings, opens Oct. 22nd at the COOP in Chicago's West Loop.
RE: Figure: A Contemporary Look at Figurative Representation in Art
3 Henbane artists (Amber, Jenny, and Stacia) are rocking this exhibition curated by Cole Robertson for the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College.
Work Acquired by The Museum of Contemporary Photography
At the end of MP3, two works by Stacia Yeapanis will become part of the museum's permanent collection.
MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, Stacia Yeapanis
Stacia Yeapanis' first monograph has been published as part of the Midwest Photographers Publication Project, which is accompanied by a 3 person exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College (Chicago).
The book can be purchased here.
Congratulations!
Molly Schafer and Stacia Yeapanis have been awarded CAAP grants from the city of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Endangered Species Print Project
Jenny Kendler and Molly Schafer have launched The Endangered Species Print Project. 100% of the proceeds from ESPP's limited-edition prints support the critically endangered species they depict. Editions are limited to the species' remaining population count.