Art Here Art Now
The great thing about attending events with professional photographer friends is that they steal your camera and start snapping great pictures. Jabari Zuberi, an artist who has a solo show at UIC in December, acted as my personal photographer for the evening. Last night for the Kick-off of Chicago Artists Month, Jabari and I met in Hyde Park for Art Here Art Now, a show coordinated by the wonderful Dara Epison in association with the University of Chicago. The show featured an open-storefront studio where artists Cydney Lewis, Michelle Weber, and Marty Burns will be working alongside installations by Andre Callot, Danielle Paz and Peter Zeigler. The studio artists were working each Saturday in October, with doors open for the public to come and take a peek into the creative process. I spoke with Cydney for a brief moment about working in a public studio such as this one, and she spoke briefly about how different it will be to work in such an open space when people can come in to have a conversation and ask …