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Haughville’s Holy Fire
This article is a tribute to Haughville, the small West Indianapolis neighborhood that has become my teacher and my church. My poetry of place is interspersed with the voices of several artists who are part of this sacred congregation we call an arts scene.
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Haughville’s Fuego Santo
Este artículo es un homenaje a Haughville, el pequeño barrio del oeste de Indianápolis que se ha convertido en mi maestro y mi iglesia. Mi poesía del lugar se entremezcla con las voces de varios artistas que forman parte de esta congregación sagrada que llamamos escena artística.
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Love For Printing
Take a walk with Bob McCamant, one of the founders of the Chicago Reader. This 8-page comic series explores his love for print media and credits those who helped shape the platform for Chicago’s cultural landscape since the 70’s.
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Cosmic Docks
What does it mean to find one’s true self? Performer Nora Sharp explores the question in their “trans tall-tale about orbiting the sources of yourself and yearning for clarity in a broken world.”
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Artist Grants Give Communities Power
How have community-based artists grants come to reflect the hearts of neighborhoods such as Chicago’s Albany Park? A writer finds answers.
Sixty is a worker-led organization and publishing platform that produces collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in Chicago and the Midwest. Learn more about our work.
Art Picks
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June Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for June 2025.
Sixty Bilingual
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Haughville’s Holy Fire
This article is a tribute to Haughville, the small West Indianapolis neighborhood that has become my teacher and my church. My poetry of place is interspersed with the voices of several artists who are part of this sacred congregation we call an arts scene.
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Haughville’s Fuego Santo
Este artículo es un homenaje a Haughville, el pequeño barrio del oeste de Indianápolis que se ha convertido en mi maestro y mi iglesia. Mi poesía del lugar se entremezcla con las voces de varios artistas que forman parte de esta congregación sagrada que llamamos escena artística.
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El Sonido Es Mi Brújula
In this bilingual comic, young Chilean sound artist Mauricio Lopéz F. invites us to explore labor and housing practices through sound, kinetics, and new technologies. Some of his work will be exhibited at Comfort Station from June 7-29, 2025.
Interviews
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Love For Printing
Take a walk with Bob McCamant, one of the founders of the Chicago Reader. This 8-page comic series explores his love for print media and credits those who helped shape the platform for Chicago’s cultural landscape since the 70’s.
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See It All the Way Out: Questions of Value and Labor with Samantha Box
What happens when we pause to recognize the images all around us and confront how we are seen by others?
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The Vitality of What Has Always Been: Interview with Sa’dia Rehman
Family displacement, unlived memory, environmental devastation, colonial violence, embodied experience, submergence, and emergence in the work of Sa’dia Rehman.
On Archives
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When Clouds Roll Away: A Community Reflection on the Johnson Publishing Company Archives
A look at “When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive,” through reflections from attendees, artist Theaster Gates, and the author’s own insights.
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From Chicago to Montgomery: Connecting the North and South
Connecting Gwendolyn Brooks’ 1971 poem “In Montgomery” and photographs by Moneta Sleet Jr. with the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement for Great Migration-descendant people.
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2024 Chicago Archives + Artists Festival: Embodying the Archive
Join us for our 3rd Chicago Archives + Artists Festival, a three-day gathering that focuses on legacy preservation and archive nurturing for Chicago’s artists, curators, and cultural workers.
The Latest Sixty News
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Sixty is Officially (Re) Open for Pitches!
Learn about Sixty’s newly-defined publishing priorities and submit your pitch!
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Reaffirming Sixty’s Editorial Vision: A 60-Day Pause
The Sixty editorial team is taking 60 days to work on developing a strategic plan that will: reaffirm our values, hone our editorial voice in service of those values, and identify priorities for future publishing.
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Find & Seek: A New Community-Building Initiative
Sixty introduces a new a way for Sixty’s community of artists, cultural workers, and culture lovers to build new connections and spark new relationships throughout the Midwest.