Sixty Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:47:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-Sixty_Logo_Icon_Green-32x32.png Sixty Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/ 32 32 Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Interview with Siobhan McKissic https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/chicago-archives-artists-project-interview-with-siobhan-mckissic/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73546 Archivist Siobhan McKissic discusses the power of literally holding our histories in our hands and how she approached the Honey Pot Archive with this mindset.

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]]> Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Interview with Honey Pot Performance https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/chicago-archives-artists-project-interview-with-honey-pot-performance-archive/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:43:21 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73326 Meida Teresa McNeal, Aisha Josina Jean-Baptiste, and Kimeco Roberson discuss the origins and evolution of Honey Pot Performance.

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]]> Skinning the Rabbit: Four Poems by Temperance Aghamohammadi https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/skinning-the-rabbit-four-poems-by-temperance-aghamohammadi/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=74113 In excerpts from her forthcoming chapbook “Behnt,” Temperance Aghamohammadi honors the relentless, transformative powers of grief while working against the orthodox tropes.

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]]> To Create Is to Endure: A Photo Essay https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/to-create-is-to-endure-a-photo-essay/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=74067 An invitation to witness what often goes unseen in photography—the emotional risk, the quiet discipline, and the deep care behind choosing to capture.

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]]> Finding Solace and Awe Along The Great Lakes: A Review of On an Inland Sea https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/finding-solace-and-awe-along-the-great-lakes-a-review-of-on-an-inland-sea/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=74207 A reflection on the vastness of The Great Lakes through poems, essays, and personal stories set in Belt Publishing's newest anthology.

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]]> The Mississippi River’s Power and Influence on an Artist’s Artistic Practice: An Interview with Allena Marie Brazier https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-mississippi-rivers-power-and-influence-on-an-artists-artistic-practice-an-interview-with-allena-marie-brazier/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73528 On seeing the river as more than a collaborator.

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]]> Martyrs: Three poems by Lakota Kikyo https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/martyrs-three-poems-by-lakota-kikyo/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:02:02 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73387 In three poems, spoken word artist Lakota Kikyo explores a range of themes like financial hardship, white-supremacist colonialism, and spiritual rebirth.

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]]> Mountain Call: An Interview with Ivan David Ng and Hai-Wen Lin https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/mountain-call-an-interview-with-ivan-david-ng-and-hai-wen-lin/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:25:59 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=74133 Two Hakka artists discuss the origins of their friendship and artistic collaboration and reflect on cultural mythologies of the sky and the folk art practices that inspire their work.

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]]> Codifying Reality: What is Spoken and What is Felt? https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/codifying-reality-what-is-spoken-and-what-is-felt/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:31:12 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=74004 Personal and collective histories lay at the center of Shifting Tongues at Charlotte Street Foundation.

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]]> Encountering Digital Diaspora: A Review of “Close to the Clouds” at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/encountering-digital-diaspora-a-review-of-close-to-the-clouds-at-bemis-center-for-contemporary-arts/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:28:22 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=74099 In a group exhibition curated by Curator-in-Residence Kathy Cho, nine artists explore the unfamiliar terrain of new technologies.

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]]> March Art Picks https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/march-art-picks-9/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:16:57 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=74037 Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for March 2026.

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]]> Bearing Witness Under the Big Top: Counterpublic’s Circus of Life in St. Louis https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/bearing-witness-under-the-big-top-counterpublics-circus-of-life-in-st-louis/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73766 Artists from a variety of backgrounds convene to tell their stories, all in the service to the community of St. Louis, Missouri.

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]]> ‘Find Your Genre’: Micro-Reviews from the 61st Chicago International Film Festival https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/find-your-genre-micro-reviews-from-the-61st-chicago-international-film-festival/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73504 As Chicago cinema lovers find year-round alternatives to mainstream Hollywood movies, how is the Chicago International Film Festival adapting?

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]]> Remembering Together: Ruby Que and Kat Bawden on Kinship https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/remembering-together-ruby-que-and-kat-bawden-on-kinship/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73459 An interview with the artists about memory, art-making, and collaboration.

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]]> Through the Looking Glass: Chicago, Change, and the Architecture of Instability https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/through-the-looking-glass-chicago-change-and-the-architecture-of-instability/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:08:41 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73562 The Sixth Architectural Biennial suggests that architecture’s power lies not in permanence, but in its ability to reveal, question, and respond to the changing ground beneath it.

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]]> WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73327 In a sequel to her 2019 zine "The Wagons Ain't Here Yet...", poet Joss Barton confronts ongoing genocide, authoritarianism, and cultural violence and resists the necropolitical state through an apoplectic transsexual liturgy.

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]]> patronage https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/patronage/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73345 Does paying men for their time, insight, or bodies allow you to be truly unfiltered and selfish?

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]]> Tuning Away From Mechanized Listening: Juanjosé Rivas’s Workshop at Co-Prosperity’s Subversion Camp  https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tuning-away-from-mechanized-listening-juanjose-rivass-workshop-co-prosperitys-subversion-camp/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:04:40 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73232 A conversation on the idea of planned obsolescence and tech recycling as a means of resistance.

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]]> Sintonizando Fuera del Sonido Automatizado: Juanjose Rivas’ Taller en el Campamento de Subversión de Co-Prosperity https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/sintonizando-fuera-del-sonido-automatizado-juanjose-rivas-taller-en-el-campamento-de-subversion-de-co-prosperity/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:04:37 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73243 Una conversación sobre la idea de la obsolescencia y el reciclaje tecnológico como resistencia.

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]]> (Arts) Writing as Exorcism https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/arts-writing-as-exorcism/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:26:47 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=72845 What exorcism can teach us about writing, gendered power, and agency.

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]]> Reflecting on “Signal Overload” at Star Lite Drive-In in Bloomington, Indiana https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/reflecting-on-signal-overload-at-star-lite-drive-in-in-bloomington-indiana/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:17:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73050 Ian Carstens stitches, patches, weaves perspectives together and lets signals cross and multiply in this experimental review.

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]]> February Art Picks https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/february-art-picks-10/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73307 Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for February 2026.

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]]> Getting to Know Quilt Church—Chicago’s Queer Hand Quilting Workshop: An Interview with Eve Emrich and Jamie Hopkins https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/getting-to-know-quilt-church-chicagos-queer-hand-quilting-workshop-an-interview-with-eve-emrich-and-jamie-hopkins/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73173 Artist and curator Zola Rollins interviews two members of Quilt Church, a community quilting project where people work side-by-side to learn a technique rooted in softness, tension, and binding.

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]]> EXTENDED BREAKDOWN(s) with Noa Micaela Fields https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/extended-breakdowns-w-noa-micaela-fields/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73067 Interdisciplinary artist Jared Brown and poet Noa Micaela Fields on the symbiotic relationships between queer nightlife, intimacy, community, and art.

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]]> Una toxina amenaza, pero también invita https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/una-toxina-amenaza-pero-tambien-invita/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:08:35 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73197 En la última exposición del artista agustine zegers en la Galería 400, el olor a petróleo evoca recuerdos y emociones para explorar nuestra paradójica ternura hacia las toxinas creadas por el hombre.

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]]> TUNING AWAY FROM MECHANIZED LISTENING: Interview with Teddy Sandler about Sonic Resonance https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tuning-way-from-mechanized-listening-interview-with-teddy-sandler-about-sonic-resonance/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=72560 How does a retreat pass on the art of Djing and active listening?

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]]> Tracing the significance of the Roger Brown Study Collection (1997-2025) within the midwest arts ecosystem https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tracing-the-significance-of-the-roger-brown-study-collection-1997-2025-within-the-midwest-arts-ecosystem/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=72584 Gabrielle Christiansen examines the contentious sale of the Roger Brown Study Collection and the threatened future of the artist’s former home in Lincoln Park.

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]]> Third Spaces for the Struggle: On Build, Miss Willa’s, and the Work of Belonging https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/third-spaces-for-the-struggle-on-build-miss-willas-and-the-work-of-belonging/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:01:18 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=73017 A conversation between one of the new co-owners of Build Coffee & Books in Chicago, and Ryan Sorrell at The Kansas City Defender as they save and revive Missouri's oldest Black bookstore, Miss Willa's Books & Vinyl.

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]]> Review: You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-you-will-have-revelations-along-felled-branches-and-longer-roots-routes/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:26:37 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=72989 Susannah Papish reviews Temitayo Ogunbiyi’s exhibition, "You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes."

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]]> Short-and-Sweet: A Note on Sixty’s Year-End Slowdown https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/short-and-sweet-a-note-on-sixtys-year-end-slowdown/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:39:08 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=72888 A quick message about our annual collective slowdown from November 26 to January 4.

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