February 12 – 15, 2014, Chicago
Presentations at the College Art Association’s 102nd Annual Conference

Escape Group, The People in Dining Room 5 Wish to Have Your Attention
Arranged as a play to take place in three installments over the course of three days, The People in Dining Room 5 Wish to Have Your Attention presents time-based works relating to difference, health, and family within a dramatic structure. Escape Group is Anthony Romero and Jillian Soto.
Featured artists include: Daviel Shy, Nic Kay, Judith Leeman, Joseph Hutto, Jennifer Patino, Blake Russell, Oli Rodriguez, Precious Davis, and more.

Jillian Bruschera, Yesterday's Paper
Yesterday’s Paper is a pop-up papermaking station where you can try your hand at pulling a simple sheet of handmade paper - all made from the collected conference waste.
Yesterday’s Paper is a “Make and Take”:
- You donate paper waste from the CAA conference.
- Using an electric blender, we turn this trash in to pulp for paper making.
- You help aid the pulp-making process by shredding your trash into small postage stamp sized squares. 
- Sheets dry over night at Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper and return, serving as take-away material.
- You are invited to either “Take or Make”: Take a piece of this paper or mark-make on one of these papers (drawing, writing, etcetera) and leave it behind for the next person.
Conference attendees involved with the table become part of a workflow that results in community-created paper artworks. Yesterday’s Paper is a way to generate conversation about hand papermaking, sustainability, waste, and the community engaged art form known as social practice. Yesterday’s Paper is in conjunction with Columbia College’s exhibition Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art.