F Newsmagazine - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Art, Culture, and Politics

Holly Bresnahan

The Commercial Non-Profit

Alderman Exhibitions Puts Artists and Viewers First


Inventive programming events like this have distinguished Alderman Exhibitions, recently established by 32-year-old Ellen Alderman, from other galleries in Chicago’s West Loop. Program Director at the Graham Foundation, the Chicago-based non-profit specializing in architecture and the fine arts, Alderman has integrated principles acquired through her non-profit role into the structure of her for-profit gallery, proving that traditional art world boundaries are anything but fixed.

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