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Chicago Archives + Artists Project 2022
We are thrilled to announce this year’s pairings for the 2022 Chicago Archives + Artists Project!
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Feeling Safe While Taking Up Space: The Forefront of Luya Poetry’s Open Mics
Luya Poetry has five guidelines that keep disabled, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ artists centered, safe, and at the mic.
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They just use your mind, and you never get the credit/It’s enough to drive you crazy, if you let it: A Brief History of Organizing Art Institute of Chicago Workers United (AICWU), or, Training an AI to karaoke a Dolly Parton banger, as set to the machinations of history
Reflections on historical circumstance, class consciousness, union organization among art workers, and continuously advocating for the dignified worth of our labor.
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Where the Money Reside? Grant Writing for Your Archives
A workshop on funding opportunities to support archival work and projects.
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Smiling Behind the Sun: An Interview with Matt Sopron
A conversation about graffiti and tattoo art, making work while in prison and afterwards, and using artwork to get freed.
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Washington Park Camera Club Celebrates Olmsted 200: South Park Then & Now
The Washington Park Camera Club revisits the history of Jackson Park, Washington Park, and Midway Plaisance in a contemporary context with a series of walking tours and photo essays.
Art Picks
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September Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for September 2022.
Sixty News
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Chicago Archives + Artists Project 2022
We are thrilled to announce this year’s pairings for the 2022 Chicago Archives + Artists Project!
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Where the Money Reside? Grant Writing for Your Archives
A workshop on funding opportunities to support archival work and projects.
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Meet the 2022 Muña Cohort!
Read the essays and interviews written by the 2022 cohort of the arts-writing program, Muña!
Arts in the Midwest
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A Review of Artist Run Spaces at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati
The show explores artist-run spaces throughout Ohio and northern Kentucky — spaces where exhibitions, poetry readings, radical events, teachings, concerts, and other forms of cultural community organizing occur on a quasi-regular basis.
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Stepping In and Seeing Through with Artist Kelly Clare
Kelly Clare embraces the visceral quality of materials, never turning away an opportunity to acquire discarded objects and pair them in unlikely ways.
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Rooting Deeper with Nicole Anderson-Cobb and Latrelle Bright
Nicole Anderson-Cobb and Latrelle Bright discuss their research on Allerton Park during their artist residency at Allerton Park Research Center in Monticello, IL.
Art Design Chicago
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Washington Park Camera Club Celebrates Olmsted 200: South Park Then & Now
The Washington Park Camera Club revisits the history of Jackson Park, Washington Park, and Midway Plaisance in a contemporary context with a series of walking tours and photo essays.
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Building a Home for Muses: An Interview with Art Preserve Curator Laura Bickford on Ray Yoshida’s Collections
Jen Torwudzo-Stroh talks to Art Preserve curator Laura Bickford about the late Ray Yoshida’s object-collecting as an expressive art in its own right and the connections of everyday objects.
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Social Art and Performing Art Criticism: Lori Waxman at Weinberg/Newton Gallery
With her project “60 wrd/min art critic”, Lori Waxman shows us how the niche relationship between artist and critic can be used to bolster social ties in the greater community outside of the insular art world.
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On Black Presidential Portraits, Punchlines, and Power with Ross Stanton Jordan
Reflections on nearly a century of fictional and speculative Black president portrayals, artists’ responses to the Obama era, and the power of comedy.
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Notes on Designing Cultural Change
Three founders of local design studios speak about designing for social and cultural change within Chicago’s communities.
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In My Mother’s House There Is Still God: A Response to the Film ‘to render the infinite’
A lyrical essay inspired by different characters from ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ by Lorraine Hansberry and in response to the film ‘to render the infinte’ by zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal.