Page 23 - Columbia College Chicago Student Handbook 2024-2025

STUDENT LIFE Student Life at Columbia College Chicago is exciting and engaging, and unlike anything found on other college campuses. Student Life extends learning beyond the classroom through theory and practice in all forms of environment, venue and medium. We have designed programs to develop the whole student and strengthen academic success. Student Life consists of: Department of Exhibitions, Performance and Student Spaces (DEPS) Multiple Locations students.colum.edu/deps The Department of Exhibitions, Performance and Student Spaces (DEPS) manages galleries, performance spaces, and art boutique of Columbia College Chicago. An extension of the studios and classrooms, the department fosters vibrant environments for students to interact, and view and highlight their bodies of work within the larger urban community. The spaces provide students from every discipline with a myriad of opportunities to gain essential, hands-on experience, stimulating artistic expression and professional development through collaboration. DEPS Resources include: C33 Gallery 33 E. Ida B. Wells Dr. | 1st Floor Located on the corner of East Ida B. Wells Drive and South Wabash Avenue, C33 is managed by a student coordinator in conjunction with DEPS. This gallery presents an average of seven exhibitions per year and hosts a wide range of student-authored work. C33 provides students of all disciplines the opportunity to present their work in a professional exhibition space through an open call that current Columbia College Chicago students can apply to each semester. Haus and Hokin Gallery at the Quincy Wong Center for Artistic Expression 623 S. Wabash Ave. | 1st Floor Turn left at the entrance to 623 S. Wabash to find the Quincy Wong Center for Creative Expression and visit HAUS, Columbia’s student nightclub, which exhibits media of all kinds. The Hokin partners with academic departments to conceive, curate, design, market, and produce exhibitions in the gallery with a particular focus on providing professional exhibitions by scholarship recipients. The gallery also doubles as a beautiful, peaceful student space for relaxing, studying, and hosting events. Herman Conaway Center and Glass Curtain Gallery 1104 S. Wabash Ave. | 1st Floor The Conaway Center is an open layout, multi-purpose event space and student hangout area. Hosting events such as concerts, dance, theater, panel discussions, job fairs, conferences, and fashion shows, the Conaway Center is home base for many Columbia students. Adjacent to the Conaway is the renowned Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago’s ‘teaching gallery’. The Glass Curtain 21