John Preus is a Chicago-based artist, builder, and musician whose work explores forms of attachment, craft, art, and community life. Through his workshop Dilettante Studios, he designed and built the seats in the Spontaenous Interventions workshop/reading room using reclaimed material. His work has been exhibited at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Heilbronn Kunstverein-Germany, the Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago. He will speak about the relationships between art, design, and fabrication in his work.