You searched for feed - Sixty Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:02:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-Sixty_Logo_Icon_Green-32x32.png You searched for feed - Sixty Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/ 32 32 Mister Wallace and the Vessel of Futurehood https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/erik-wallace-mister-wallace-cool-mom/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:07:45 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=31630 Erik Lamar Wallace II, a.k.a Mister Wallace, a.k.a It Girl, a.k.a Mister Cool Mom, is about to blow up. Erik Lamar Wallace II, a.k.a Mister Wallace, a.k.a It Girl, a.k.a Mister…

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]]> Recipes for a post-colonial kitchen: maize / Recetas para una cocina poscolonial: el maíz https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/recipes-for-a-post-colonial-kitchen-maize-recetas-para-una-cocina-poscolonial-el-maiz/ Wed, 27 Nov 2019 21:44:50 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=36496 I remember the days before smartphones when my parents would load me and my brothers up into our white, blue velvet interior, 1985 Oldsmobile Toronado to make the 2-day trip…

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]]> Reflections on the Critique with Kerry James Marshall: Everett Williams https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/reflections-on-the-critique-with-kerry-james-marshall-everett-williams/ Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:47:37 +0000 http://www.sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/?p=2710 On September 10, 2010 three artists participated in the Open Crit sessions at Hyde Park Art Center. As always, the session is mediated by photographer and HPAC board member Dawoud…

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]]> Battle for Independents at PBS https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/battle-for-independents-at-pbs/ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:41:06 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/magazine/?p=1711 On December 18, I was invited to attend a live-feed viewing of the National Black Programming Consortium’s panel on Digital Diversity. The conversation was framed around the upcoming application for…

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]]> Elbow Grease: Play and Being Played: Survival Tactics of an Artist https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/elbow-grease-play-and-being-played-survival-tactics-of-an-artist/ Tue, 30 May 2023 15:37:33 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=54935 In surviving as an artist, there is a thin line between opportunity and exploitation.

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]]> If You Know You Know https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/if-you-know-you-know/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:44:22 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=40284 Free Fall face flat on sheets Stomach meeting mattress massage, A deep sigh + a settle. This is the downpour I mean When I pray for rain ——————————————— The presence…

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]]> Faces of Hyde Park with Brian Carroll https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/faces-of-hyde-park-with-brian-carroll/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:43:28 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=32484 I must have stumbled upon Brian’s work when I first moved to Chicago — roughly five years ago — where I found my home in Hyde Park. It’s been years and…

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]]> The Artist’s Responsibility https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-artists-responsibility/ Mon, 23 May 2011 18:02:16 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/?p=7486 Let me ask you this: What is an artist’s responsibility? Should they take the ideas that shape contemporary society and translate them into a visual language? Are they the ones…

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]]> Nurturing Community: Interview with George Wilson of BBF Family Services https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/nurturing-community-interview-with-george-wilson-of-bbf-family-services/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:08:28 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=32649 Since last year, BBF Family Services has functioned as the community focal point, or hub, for the Envisioning Justice initiative in the neighborhood of North Lawndale.  In the fall, I spoke…

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]]> Books & Breakfast at The Breathing Room https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/books-breakfast-at-the-breathing-room/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 03:19:12 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=32256 The #LetUsBreathe Collective is an alliance of artists and activists who come together, organizing through a creative lens to imagine a world without prisons and police. The Collective operates the…

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]]> Designing for a Fertile Future https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/designing-for-a-fertilefuture/ Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:04:04 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=26421 As a designer who is concerned about the future of the planet, Jessica Gorse thinks sustainability is not a sufficient goal. If humans are to stem ongoing environmental and political crises, according…

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]]> Week Ends, Art Begins || July 29th – 31st https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/week-ends-art-begins-july-29th-31st/ Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:21:53 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/?p=9185 Our weekly calendar is a list of visual art related events happening in Chicago.

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]]> Wear Your Geese with Confidence: An Interview with the Puterbaugh Sisters https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wear-your-geese-with-confidence-an-interview-with-the-puterbaugh-sisters/ Mon, 30 May 2011 19:43:23 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/?p=7912 "If you're going to choose a city to be an alcoholic, it's Chicago."

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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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]]> 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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]]> What Lives In Us Is Never Lost—Review of “Black Defined 1: Ceramics” https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/what-lives-in-us-is-never-lost-review-of-black-defined-1-ceramics/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:55:57 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=72740 How does one exhibition with a bold claim
in the title begin the work of defining Blackness through ceramics?

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]]> Midway to Home: A Review of The Rockford Anthology https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/midway-to-home-a-review-of-the-rockford-anthology/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=70109 A look at Belt Publishing's new book "The Rockford Anthology" through the eyes of a writer reconsidering their relationship to their hometown.

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]]> Anchor Editorial: We Become Less bound by / I miss outside: A reflection piece with Darryl Cowherd  https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/we-become-less-bound-by-i-miss-outside-a-reflection-piece-with-darryl-cowherd/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:57:45 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=68625 Photographer Darryl Cowherd and archival images from the Chicago Park District tell a story about how Black youth in Chicago have historically transformed public space through presence, play, and protest, asserting their right to visibility, safety, and spatial justice amid systemic exclusion.

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]]> Meet the 2025 Sixty x Bemis Center Critic-in-Residence! https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/meet-the-2025-sixty-x-bemis-center-critic-in-residence/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=68152 This summer, Pia Singh will be traveling to Bemis Center in Omaha for our fourth annual Critic-in-Residence program!

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]]> Mother Bis: Six Poems by Ulrich Baer https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/mother-bis-six-poems-by-ulrich-baer/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:09:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=65328 Inspired by the poetry of Zukofsky, Sobin, and Ronald Johnson, Ulrich Baer engineers a new language for queer expressions of desire and carves out, through language, an impossible location in the world.

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]]> Unbroken: Hope y Resistencia https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/unbroken-hope-y-resistencia/ Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:13:47 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=64385 A collection of poems about existence, resistance and hope. Highlighting how we can proudly take up space in a world surrounded by struggle and injustice.

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]]> Things We Did to Cool Our Bodies: Four Poems https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/things-we-did-to-cool-our-bodies-five-poems-by-nabeela-washington/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:19:41 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=63118 Four poems on the interplay between personal and collective experiences of identity, heritage, loss, and resilience.

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]]> The House That Lives Within Me: an Interview with Mariana Noreña https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-house-that-lives-within-me-an-interview-with-mariana-norena/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:26:44 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=62272 For Noreña, the landscape and materials she finds in the natural world are the starting point for an artistic practice through which she investigates and questions the histories of a place and her own relationship with her surroundings.

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]]> Look Longer: Reflections on Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/look-longer-reflections-on-opening-passages-photographers-respond-to-chicago-and-paris/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:18:36 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=61777 Ghosh and roach go on a journey across the city to a multi-venue and multi-neighborhood project Opening Passages that de-centers the Loop as the main hub for cultural creativity in Chicago.

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]]> Meet This Year’s Sixty + Bemis Center Critic-in-Residence https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/meet-this-years-sixty-bemis-center-critic-in-residence/ Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:55:19 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=61473 Sixty and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts are once again partnering on our annual Critic-in-Residence Program, bringing one of Sixty's writers to Omaha!

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]]> A Miserable Party https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-miserable-party/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:37:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=60841 riley yaxley pens an elegant, elegiac, and heartbreaking ode to the dissolution of a relationship, the perils of love, trans womanhood, and the grace that is found through writing the self.

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]]> Wrong and Strong: Learning from Pope.L https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wrong-and-strong-learning-from-pope-l/ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:40:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=60550 Students remember the teachings of the late Pope.L.

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]]> AMULETOS, HACEDORES, Y VOCES Parte I https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/amuletos-hacedores-y-voces-parte-i/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:28:46 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=59961 Esta selección de artistas que fueron parte de Amuletos nos han ofrecido un vaivén de sensaciones que pasarán entre la fortaleza, la ternura, la delicadeza, y la pérdida. Escuchen como los Amuleto se van cargando de profundidad en cada palabra que nos brindan.

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]]> AMULETOS, MAKERS, AND VOICES Part I https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/amuletos-makers-and-voices-part-i/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:30:02 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=59906 This selection of artists from Amuletos offers us a collection of sensations oscillating between strength, tenderness, delicacy, and loss. Listen to how the Amulets are charged with depth in every word they give us via audio diaries.

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]]> "Blue Glue and Other Explorations": An Interview with Mara Baker https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/blue-glue-and-other-explorations-an-interview-with-mara-baker/ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:51:17 +0000 http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/?p=5844 Mara Baker discusses her past work and new installation at Happy Collaborationsits

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