Mess Hall storefront view, 2011. (Image Credit: Tempestt Hazel.) When attending shows it is common to walk away with little more than a piece of ephemera and a new art experience. Instead of offering the usual experience, the 13 artists in Of Us at Mess Hall each crafted different forms of exchange, inviting everyone there to walk away with hand-made or artist-harvested tokens. I left with a fast-food... 

  Get out a pen and paper–you’ll want to write down and remember where you’re going this weekend. FRIDAY || July 22, 2011 PechaKucha Presentations: Memorials That Do Political Work Ten speakers will present short presentations exploring the memorial form and some of its most interesting and relevant examples. Pecha Kucha is a public lecture format invented in Japan by Klein... 

The sun is shining, the weather is sweet. This weekend is Father’s Day and here are some of the hand-picked events that we at Sixty Inches From Center suggest you check out, with your pops, with friends or otherwise.     FRIDAY || June 17, 2011 2nd Annual Sweet Tooth: Charity Bake Sale Carnival To celebrate their first year, The Chicago Urban Art Society will bring you the goods–art,... 

I recently met up with the two women behind threewalls’ current threewallsSALON series, Ania Szremski and Rebecca Hernandez.  Both are currently studying for their MA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and have a breadth of knowledge about, well, the idea of knowledge itself.  We covered a range of topics, from our realization that we each have an apparent “imposter complex” to professionalization... 

In case you haven’t heard,  ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) has been lighting a fire in Chicago with their weekly exhibitions of resident artists in various spaces around the city.  As a kick off to a series of interviews that Sixty Inches From Center is doing with resident artists, I had a conversation with Co-Founder Emily Green. In part one of our conversation,... 

Erik L. Peterson and Meredith Weber during installation of {SWWMYOSBL} Hall of Fame. January 28, 2011. (Photo Credit: Tempestt Hazel) When Meredith Weber, Chicago artist and one-third of Happy Collaborationists (Happy C), invited us over to check out the installation of their latest exhibition, {SWWMYOSBL} Hall of Fame, a solo project by Erik L. Peterson, we jumped on the chance. In 2010 Happy C had...