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Artist Talk with Jeff Zimmermann
The God Particle is the most recent installation at the Chicago Cultural Center by artist and muralist Jeff Zimmermann. Throughout Chicago Artists Month, Zimmermann was on site installing the work and...
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"What’s Your Art?"| You Came, You Saw, We Celebrated
Thank you. We at Sixty Inches From Center want to thank you all for coming out to “What’s Your Art?” Celebrating the Art Centers of Chicago. You could have been anywhere in the city and you chose to...
View ArticleWeekly Picks: February 12 – 19, 2014
Our weekly calendar is a list of visual art related events happening in Chicago. RISK: Empathy, Art and Social Practice Thursday, February 13, 2014 | Exhibition Runs Through April 26, 2014 Opening...
View ArticleWeekly Picks: March 10 – 16, 2014
Our weekly calendar is a list of visual art related events happening in Chicago. The events that we choose are loosely curated based on the information that is put in front of us. If you would like to...
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Inferno, Purgatory, or Paradise: An Interview with Sabina Ott
I call Sabina Ott “my eyes and ears to the Chicago art scene.” Her endless ability to wow with her art, which was on view from August 30 to January 4 in the huge-scale “here and there pink melon joy”...
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Click here to get our Art Picks and latest articles delivered to your inbox monthly. FEATURED Tues, Nov 8th GET OUT AND VOTE! Find Your Polling Place. Find out who is on your ballot and what they’re...
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The Ars Poetica and Origin Story of Krista Franklin
At twenty-one, I stood at the crossroad of Hell & Here, evil peering at me behind a blue-red eye. I armed myself with the memories of Pentecostal tent revivals, apple orchards, the strawberry...
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Click here to get our Art Picks and latest articles delivered to your inbox monthly. FEATURED Mon, Dec 12, 6:30pm Wrote One: A Gathering of Arts Writers + Media Makers in Chicago Rootwork Gallery (645...
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Click here to get our Art Picks and latest articles delivered to your inbox monthly. Featured Events + Actions Thurs, Feb 2, 8:30pm Art, Now. Act, Now: A Night of Art and Action for Refugee Rights...
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Our Art Picks are created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, and cross-promoted through Windy City Times, one of the longest locally-published LGBTQ weeklies...
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School’s Out: Eugene “Eda” Wade’s Doors for Malcolm X College
Thirty-two freestanding doors, previously painted by Eugene “Eda” Wade for Chicago Malcolm X Community College, are currently on display at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of CCC’s “Year of Public...
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‘Go Fuck Yourself with a Cactus’: On the Politics of Space, Chicago Art, and...
I watch people warn each other about which Chicago neighborhoods they shouldn’t go to, which streets they shouldn’t live past – all the time. Neighborhoods that are mostly white or halfway gentrified...
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Our Art Picks are created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, and cross-promoted through Windy City Times, one of the longest locally-published LGBTQ weeklies...
View ArticleSixty at the Chicago Architecture Biennial
With the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial‘s theme of “Make New History” in mind, Sixty is presenting two panel discussions that consider how space, architecture, and art are all used together as...
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May Art Picks
Our Art Picks are created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, and cross-promoted through Windy City Times, one of the longest locally-published LGBTQ weeklies...
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Dissenting through Craft with Aram Han Sifuentes
Born out of frustration at the country’s current political state and feeling unsafe to protest, fiber and social practice artist Aram Han Sifuentes began making fabric protest banners the day after the...
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June Art Picks
Our Art Picks are created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, and cross-promoted through Windy City Times, one of the longest locally-published LGBTQ weeklies...
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Body Passages: Poets and Dancers Discuss Collaborative Processes In Progress
This is the first article in an ongoing series about Body Passages, a partnership between Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and The Chicago Poetry Center. This series gives brief looks into a 10 month,...
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Body Passages: Exploring Visual Art with Poets Lorraine Harrell and David...
This is the second article in an ongoing series about Body Passages, a partnership between Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and The Chicago Poetry Center (the first is here). This series gives brief looks...
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September Art Picks
Our Art Picks are created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, and cross-promoted through Windy City Times, one of the longest locally-published LGBTQ weeklies...
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Beyond the Page: Udita Upadhyaya’s “nevernotmusic” (the book)
“Beyond the Page” digs into the process and practice of writers and artists who work at the intersection of literary arts and other fields. This interview is the third of three with interdisciplinary...
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November Art Picks
Our Art Picks are created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, and cross-promoted through Windy City Times, one of the longest locally-published LGBTQ weeklies...
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Body Passages: Culminating Collaborations
This is the fourth and final article in a series about Body Passages, a partnership between Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and The Chicago Poetry Center (the first, second, and third pieces can be found...
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Locating Your Practice in ‘African American Designers in Chicago: Art,...
A century’s legacy of Black designers working at the nexus of the quotidian, politics, history, and market capitalism is brought into focus through African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce...
View ArticleArt Chicago Interview: Project Onward
Project Onward takes a unique approach in working with and promoting artists who have disabilities. The post Art Chicago Interview: Project Onward appeared first on Sixty Inches From Center.
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