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  • Sixty + Candor Arts: Something to look forward to

    by Sixty Inches From Center

    Sign up for this special subscription series of six thematic printed issues compiling essays, interviews, and articles Sixty has published over the years, selected by our editors.

    February 22, 2021
    Archive Digs, Archives
  • Leave a Message After The Beep: Sixty Anniversary Voicemails

    by Sixty Inches From Center

    A series of anniversary voicemails left by people love and artists we've worked with over the years. The first feature curator and artist Jenny Lam and teaching artist Marcus Davis.

    February 12, 2021
    Archives, Sound, Film + Video
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    Write for Sixty

    by Sixty Inches From Center

    Sixty welcomes writers and artists of all experience levels to pitch ideas for traditional and experimental arts writing around topics, and practices that are relevant to the cultural landscapes of the Midwest. Priority will be given to writing by, about, and for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists, artists with disabilities, and the long list of writing, art-making, and cultural practices that have been neglected in...

    November 25, 2020
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  • Sixty is Looking for Writers 21-and-under!

    by Sixty Inches From Center

    We're searching for writers to cover Chicago's emerging art scenes--visual art, music, performance, dance, poetry and all other art forms.

    November 24, 2020
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  • Recursos Hacia la Liberación Negra

    by Sixty Inches From Center

    Esta lista es un punto de partida y su intención es dar un punto de entrada a los esfuerzos de organización que están y han estado ocurriendo a nuestro alrededor ya por mucho tiempo.

    June 28, 2020
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  • Resources Towards Black Liberation

    by Sixty Inches From Center

    150+ resources to build your knowledge and understanding of abolition and liberation movements, and community caretaking initiatives for Black and non-Black POC communities. And a list of Black-led and Black-owned efforts in and beyond Chicago to direct dollars, attention, and time to.

    June 9, 2020
    Archives, Community, Featured, Resources
  • In the Cut: A Virtual Exhibition by TRACE + Alt_

    by TRACE

    An exhibition project featuring the work of Darius Hazen, Catherine Arroyo, Danelise Comas, Paris Dority, and Preleah Campbell, published in collaboration with artists from TRACE (Teens Re-Imagining Art, Community, & Environment) in collaboration with mentors Jon Veal and Jordan Campbell of Alt_.

    May 20, 2020
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  • In Case of Emergency: Artist Resources For You, For Us

    by Sixty Inches From Center

    All of us at Sixty can’t help but to think about the strain that is being put on our arts community in Chicago and across the Midwest. Exhibitions, performances, and fundraisers are being canceled or postponed indefinitely, contract opportunities are halting, schools and cultural institutions are being shut down, side-gigs at and income from bars, restaurants, and retail stores are dwindling. We are also...

    March 17, 2020
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Imagen de portada: CeaseDays lleva un gorro negro, una chaqueta negra con una sudadera con capucha negra debajo y jeans negros. Tiene las manos metidas en los bolsillos del jean. Está frente de un mural de graffiti con el color del base negro y letras de color morado y amarillo.
December 21, 2020

El Nido Suroeste: Una entrevista con CeaseDays

October 6, 2020

El Nido Suroeste: Una entrevista con Gloria “Gloe&...

June 28, 2020

Recursos Hacia la Liberación Negra

May 13, 2020

Perto de Lá < > Close to There: Inaê Moreira and...

May 13, 2020

Perto de Lá < > Close to There: Inaê Moreira and...

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Featured Image: Stephen Signa-Aviles stands in his studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is wearing dark jeans and a dark, short-sleeved hooded sweatshirt, and a black face mask with a white graphic pattern. He looks up and into the camera. His studio space is narrow and cluttered. There are various works in progress, as well as shelving units with paints, books, and other materials. Photo courtesy of Stephen Signa-Aviles.

Working From Home: Four Art Students Reflect on Making in a Pandemic

Published by Jessica Hammie

During the summer of 2020, with COVID-19 cases rapidly rising, it became clear that higher education would have to look different in the near future. There was a lot...

April 11, 2021
Archives, Artists, Featured, Interviews, Sixty Regional

Review: 36° 15’ 43” N 29° 59’ 14” E at Goldfinch Gallery

Published by Christina Nafziger

Texture as memory, as language, as impression of thought and purpose; this is what is brought forth onto and within the imprints on the surface of objects made by...

April 9, 2021
Artists, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Featured

Learning and Making: Reparations for the Earth

Published by Grace Needlman

Learning and Making invites teachers, students, artists, and people who are all three at once to explore the radical possibilities that exist at the intersection of making and learning....

April 6, 2021
Archives, Community, Featured, Interviews
Bodies Immersed installation overview

It’s On Us to Change Our Own Worlds: A Review of Bodies Immersed, at Roots & Culture

Published by Kirin Wachter-Grene

What feels particularly acute and tender in Bodies Immersed, the exhibition currently on view at Roots & Culture, is the urgency underlying the artists’ contemporary visions. While utopian ideals...

April 2, 2021
Archives, Artists, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Featured
An abstract composition of shapes comprising of pink and blue half circles, yellow squares, and ripped blue paper on a light blue background.

April Art Picks

Published by Sixty Inches From Center

If you’ve followed us for a while, you know that our Art Picks offer a wide scope of events that are relevant to our audiences because we and the...

April 1, 2021
Art Picks, Exhibitions, Featured, Happenings
7. Chris Bradley, installation view of Usual Objects. From left to right: Attic, 2021. Wood, stainless steel, steel, aluminum tube, 3D printed PLA, black cord, LED, acetate, paint, 15 x 14.5 x 14 inches. Cellar, 2021. Wood, steel, 3D printed PLA, epoxy putty, paint, LED, modeling turf, twine, 12 x 15 x 10 inches. Breeze, 2021. Wood, steel, stainless steel, 3D printed PLA, PET plastic, LEDs, muffin fans, fabric, 19 x 19 x 19 inches.

Usual Objects in Unusual Times

Published by Susan J. Musich

“All of our worlds shrunk down to our homes and our thoughts,” writes artist Madeleine Leplae about this past year, during which she began to appreciate time spent outdoors...

April 1, 2021
Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Featured
Featured image: An installation view of Sergio Lucena: The Blue that embraces me... at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery. Three paintings hang on a white wall. Photo by Evan Jenkins, Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim.

Review of Sergio Lucena: “The Blue that embraces me…” at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Published by Jennifer Torwudzo-Stroh

Any other time, it would go without saying, but in 2021, it’s worth mentioning that art is best seen in person. As we inch toward a return to normalcy,...

April 1, 2021
Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Featured

The Door Ajar: A Conversation with Leah Ke Yi Zheng

Published by Nicky Ni

My friendship with Leah Ke Yi Zheng (Instagram) started rather serendipitously. She was a stranger sitting next to me at a communal table inside Intelligentsia Coffee on East Randolph...

March 26, 2021
Artists, Exhibitions, Featured, Interviews
Image: Deep Water and Drowning Are Not The Same Thing by YoYo Lander, 2019. The mixed-media piece shows a nude woman with brown skin sitting with her head in her arms. She wears a red head wrap and sits on blue sheets. Image courtesy of the artist.

Not All Fair: The Black Female Nude in Art

Published by Jennifer Torwudzo-Stroh

In Greek mythology, Andromeda was a princess like many before her, achingly beautiful, conspicuously silent, and waiting to be rescued. In her young life, her beauty had been her...

March 24, 2021
Essays + Reviews, Featured
Seeds of Resistance installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Eat Pomegranate Photography. Image courtesy of the museum.

A Seed, a Flower, a Field, a Battleground: A Review of Seeds of Resistance at the Broad Art Museum

Published by Ally Fouts

I grab a knife and puncture a small slit into what I consider to be the top of a watermelon. The knife stands erect, and I push it down...

March 17, 2021
Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Featured, Sixty Regional
Featured image: A photograph of the Struma river, which cuts through the middle of the image (and also through the middle of Sandanski, Bulgaria), flanked by levees on either side. The water level is pretty low, so there is vegetation growing along the levees. On the left side of the river is a street and apartment complexes. On the right there is a street beyond which the edges of a school yard are visible. There is a mountain range visible in the distance. Photo by the author.

Existing as a Pharmakon: claiming the liminal space of language and location as a birthright

Published by Yoana Tosheva

I have been thinking, lately, about what it means to want a home. Actually, I have been thinking about what it means to want a home for the last...

March 12, 2021
Community, Essays + Reviews, Featured
Celeste Malvar Stewart fitting a model in her Columbus, Ohio atelier. Photo by Jake Holler.

Celeste Malvar-Stewart: Zero-Waste Haute Couture in Columbus, Ohio

Published by Amber Gibson

Celeste Malvar-Stewart has been a pioneer of sustainable and ethical fashion for 25 years, creating zero-waste bespoke felted dresses made with alpaca and sheep fibers from her appointment-only Columbus...

March 11, 2021
Artists, Featured, Interviews, Sixty Regional

Flowers for Ourselves IG Live Series

Published by Sixty Inches From Center

give me a moment…i am adjusting the roses in my tongue. –the rose farm, Nayyirah Waheed Flowers for Ourselves are conversations that celebrate and show love to the writers,...

March 10, 2021
Archives, Featured
Image: Installation view of Chicago Artists Coalition’s Repository and Repertoire. José Santiago Pérez's sculptural pieces Un/Burden (so you may release), 2020, and Un/Burden (so you may restore), 2020, sit in the foreground on a white exhibition plinth. The piece on the left is composed of light-pink coiled emergency blankets and plastic lacing. The piece on the right is composed of silver and purple emergency blankets and plastic lacing. In the background Jazmine Harris' self-portrait Untitled is exhibited on the wall. To the left of Harris' piece, is Perez's, Un/Burden (so you may continue), 2020: two rimmed sculptural light pink and aqua-marine sculptural forms composed of the same materials. Photo courtesy of the artist and curator.

The House You Built: Memory, Touch, and Performance in Repository and Repertoire

Published by Annette LePique

The body is an archive: a hard drive, memorial, escape pod, Netflix queue, a bound of Gordian knots surrounding soft rooms.

March 3, 2021
Artists, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Featured
A collage illustration of turquoise and light grey stripes on a black background. Image created by Ryan Edmund Thiel.

March Art Picks

Published by Sixty Inches From Center

If you’ve followed us for a while, you know that our Art Picks offer a wide scope of events that are relevant to our audiences because we and the...

March 1, 2021
Art Picks, Exhibitions, Featured

Review: November at Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design

Published by Reg Zehner

This is a disclaimer for the review since I am driving some of my methodologies in my writing from the White Pube’s Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad’s...

February 27, 2021
Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Featured, Sixty Regional
Featured image: A black and white photograph of branches with organic, yellow shapes. Create by Ryan Edmund Thiel.

Chronic

Published by Brit Cooper Robinson

I hate medical offices. The one I’m sitting in now is especially bleak and harsh. The tiny exam room makes me feel trapped with its cold floors and blinding...

February 25, 2021
Essays + Reviews, Featured

The Flying Trapeze: Michelle Reid, Photographer and Dancer

Published by Elisa Shoenberger

Photographer Robert Frank is credited with saying, “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” Photographer and dancer, Michelle Reid manages to capture the...

February 23, 2021
Archives, Columns + Series, Essays + Reviews, Featured
Featured image: (Mariano's mural) Color Me South Side, 2019 by Dorian Sylvain. A crowd of people stand in front of a colorful mural depicting several people. Photo by Chris Devins.

Dorian Sylvain: Muralist, Teaching Artist, Curator, and Community Planner

Published by Alkebuluan Merriweather

As a long term resident of South Side Chicago, Dorian Sylvain‘s artwork is no stranger to myself or others. I first met Dorian in 2015 at Mana Contemporary during...

February 22, 2021
Artists, Featured, Interviews
Elinor Carucci, Red #3, 2015

Reproductive Agency—The Political Made Visual

Published by Susan J. Musich

January 22nd marked the 48th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, but the debate around reproductive rights didn’t end there. Denying Title X family planning dollars to providers...

February 21, 2021
Artists, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Featured

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