Sesenta presenta a new addition to the bilingual comic series by Carlos Matallana respondiendo a el concert de Pelican and Uniform at Metro Chicago, October 24, 2023.
About the artist: Carlos Matallana’s (He/Him) illustration tool is ink/pen on paper, He relies on high contrast and its expressionism qualities. Like an anonymous quiet observant, he prefers to illustrate his characters from the back. He enjoys illustrating full body characters standing or in movement, revealing attitudes and feelings through posture or even clothing instead of facial expressions. He published the graphic novel Brea https://manualofviolence.org/ in 2018. Instagram @tropipunk
A video comic review of a sound healing experience presented at Kehrein Center
for the Arts.
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.
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.
Six decades after 32 men were arrested by police and publicly outed by the Chicago Tribune, artist and writer Samuel Schwindt went in search of one of these men, a sculptor, and discovered a specter in the archives.
![Rachel sitting in the studio while showing off her piece “[Saccharomyces]”, the largest of the pellicle weavings. The piece includes cool-toned reds and blues, as well as yellows, teals, and creams and is a 83” x 16’8” handwoven Jacquard. The pellicle weavings use blending of color and patterns and shapes to illustrate the way yeast (or communities of yeast, i.e. pellicles) recycle physical materials in our world. They are flat and sometimes intentionally confusing, textural abstractions. To the right is the yarn shelving wall and their 16 Shaft Leclerc Loom. To the left are additional supplies resting on a shelving unit, filled with cones, skeins, and more. Photo by Viki Stark.](https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/22-300x200.jpg)
A discussion about bringing materials through their whole life cycle.
In the first North American production of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek’s “Charges (The Supplicants),” audience members witness a chorus of refugees in need.