September Art Picks
A growing list of exhibitions, talks, art fairs, book releases, performances, concerts, celebrations, and more happening during the art season opening month.
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June Art Picks
As the temperature rises, so do your options for performances, exhibitions, talks, film screenings, and more throughout the city.
March Art Picks
A list of exhibitions, performances, book releases, talks, concerts, screenings, and more happening around the city this month.
December Art Picks
A list of art, performance, talks, and other events happening across Chicago.
Sixty on Sixty: An Interview with Andrea Sparr-Jaswa
In the wake of her 30th birthday, I joined Andrea Sparr-Jaswa in her beautifully decorated Logan Square apartment. Andrea is a long time resident of the neighborhood and a contributing writer to the Chicago Arts Archive. Amidst bites of fudge cake, we chatted about Andrea’s academic background, and her opinions on art, Chicago, and orbital sanders. Sixty on Sixty is a new series in which SIFCers interview one another, allowing readers to get to know the fine folks who bring you the latest from Chicago’s art scene. Tell me a bit about your educational background. How did you get involved with art history and writing for the arts? I went to college for a while, changing my majors and trying to figure out what I wanted to do. Art history was always the class that I wouldn’t miss, even if it was at 8 AM. I always liked writing the papers, and I always enjoyed doing the work. It always seemed so fascinating to me. For a while I pushed against it, because I …
Intersections: A Conversation with Mankwe Ndosi and Dushun Mosley at Elastic Arts
A conversation with musicians from Elastic Arts’ series, Intersections.
AMP-CHI: A Creative Collaboration
Elastic Arts collaborates with many people in the local and national art world to bring Chicago some of the most interesting mixes of creative forms. As part of SIFC Chicago’s Going Mobile campaign, Elastic was one of the stops because AMP-CHI, the brainchild of Alpha Bruton and Susan Fox brought together Chicago artists, musicians and poets for a night of complete sensory stimulation–words for your mind, music for your ears and art for your eyes. As Artet, the jazz trio headed by Hanah Jon Taylor, played an amazing blend of experimental jazz, Alpha Bruton created live work on a projector through a combination of illustrations on transparencies and the pouring of watercolor, which projected onto the band. The exchange of inspiration was transferred back and forth from artist to musician–it was obvious how they were reacting to one another. To learn more about how AMP-CHI came to the Elastic stage, I spoke with Susan Fox, the curator of the event, who also serves as Development & Outreach Coordinator for Elastic Arts. AMP-CHI at Elastic Arts …