Director | Lorelei Stewart

In her tenure as Director of Gallery 400 since September 2000, Stewart has curated the group exhibitions Drawn Out, Depiction, Color Vaue, Loop, Revolutions Per Minute and Inside the City and organized the one-person exhibitions Rubén Ortiz Torres: Impure Beauty, Jenny Perlin: A worry free life or your money back, and Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy...Stupid. In 2002 she initiated the acclaimed annual At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago series. As a member of the Voices Lecture Series selection board she has regularly invited accomplished, interesting younger artists to speak at the university. Stewart serves on the University of Illinois at Chicago's Public Art Committee as well as the UIC College of Architecture and the Arts Strategic Planning Committee and faculty and curator search committees of the School of Art and Design and Jane Addams Hull House Museum.

Stewart's essay on The Alchemy of Comedy...Stupid was published in the catalog for the show early in 2007. Stewart has also written for the Studio Museum catalog Frequency as well as local Chicago publications. She has taught at the graduate level at UIC and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, she has lectured and conducted critiques at the School of the Art Institute, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has participated in panel discussions at various Chicago area venues. In 2003 she was a juror for Milwaukee's Mary L. Nohl Artist Fellowships and a nominator for the 2004 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Awards in Chicago. In 2005 she was a juror for the Artadia Awards to Chicago artists.As a graduate student at Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies from 1998-2000, she curated A World All Too Familiar and co-curated Positioning. As part of her graduate studies she was simultaneously a research intern at the MOCA LA and a curatorial intern at inSITE2000 San Diego/Tijuana. From 1994-98 Stewart was Program Director at New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Stewart holds a BA from Smith College, Massachusetts and a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C.

Assistant Director | Anthony Elms

Elms joined Gallery 400 as Assistant Director in July 2005. An
artist and writer, he is also the Editor of WhiteWalls, a not-for-profit
organization that publishes artists' projects. With WhiteWalls he has
curated and/or edited five issues of the journal WhiteWalls;  fourteen books; the CD Pillow Plays Brotzmann (with Bottrop-Boy); and the 7inch single Filler (with Academy Records).

His writings have appeared in Art Asia Pacific, Artforum, Artforum.com, Cakewalk, Coterie, Interreview.org, Modern Painters, New Art Examiner, and Time Out Chicago. He has also written essays for the catalogs The Here and Now (Chicago Cultural Center), The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art (Betty Rymer Gallery, SAIC), Crossings (Chicago Cultural Center), Spin/Spun: Danielle Gustafson-Sundell and
Melissa Pokorny (Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage), Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago), and Tony Tasset: All Things Must Pass (Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis). His essay, "A Broad Hat Does Not Always Cover a Vulnerable Head", on artist Brennan McGaffey, was recently published in In The Place of Sound: Architecture/Music/Acoustics (Cambridge Scholars Press). As an artist, Elms' works have been included in projects exhibited at Artists' Space (New York), Boom (Oak Park), Gahlberg Gallery (Glen Ellyn), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Mandrake (Los Angeles), Mess Hall (Chicago), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Randolph Street Gallery (Chicago), Suburban (Oak Park), and Temporary Services (Chicago), among others. He has curated the exhibitions: Andreas Fischer, Matthew Hanner, Robert Jacobs; Mean souls, like mean pictures, are often found in good-looking frames (with Elaine Ng) The Devil is in the Details; Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-61 (with John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis); Interstellar Low Ways (with Huey Copeland); and Carol Jackson. Additionally, he has taught at the University of Chicago's Laboratory Schools; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and the University of Illinois, Chicago; lectured internationally; and participated in numerous panel discussions. In 2007 he was one of six jurors for the inaugural round of the Creative Capital/ Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant initiative.

Gallery Assistant | Chaz Evans

Chaz joined the gallery staff as Graduate Gallery Assistant in the
fall of 2008. Chaz works as electronic marketing coordinator,
audience development and education coordinator and exhibition
assistant. He is currently working toward his MA in Art History at
UIC focusing on performance, new media, and software art. He completed
his BA in theatre and performance Studies at North Park University in
2006 and formerly worked as Box Office Coordinator at Chicago's Museum
of Contemporary Art. Chaz is also the founder and director of
Chicago-based performance collective, parker.

Gallery Assistant | Ellen Hartwell Alderman

Ellen Hartwell Alderman joined Gallery 400 as a Graduate Gallery Assistant in August 2009 where she is the Voices Lecture Series Coordinator, Graphic Designer and an Exhibition Assistant. Ellen is an artist, writer, and designer, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Art History Department at UIC with a concentration in Architecture, Design and Urbanism. Her background is in comparative literature, sculpture and metal work, architectural and gender theory, and graphic design. Ellen received a MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, a BA and a BFA from the University of Michigan in History of Art and Comparative Literature, and Metalwork and Jewelry Design in 2003. During 2008-2009 Ellen served as the Administrative Director of the SUGs Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Archivist | Caroline Carlsmith

Caroline Carlsmith joined the staff of Gallery 400 in fall of 2009 to assist in the galleryÕs efforts to digitize their archive, as well as to help create a new Gallery 400 website and a publicly accessible online database of archive material in association with the UIC libraries: projects made possible by the generous assistance of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. In addition Caroline is involved in a collaborative effort with the Chicago Park District to develop Gallery 400 arts programming in the soon to be opened Adams-Sangamon Park. A Chicago-based artist and writer, Caroline holds a BFA and a BA in Visual Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Accounting Aide | Kristen Miller

Kristen has been working as the accounting aide assisting the gallery with processing of payments and other financial work. She is currently a nursing student and will be graduating in May of this year with her bachelorÕs of science.

Gallery Assistant | Sean Gregory

Sean joined Gallery 400 as an Undergraduate Assistant in December 2009 and is working on his BFA.  He assists in maintaining the gallery space and the current website.