Lisa Vinebaum is an interdisciplinary artist, critical writer, curator and educator. Her practice combines performance, public interventions, fiber processes and protest tactics to explore the performance and enactment of identity, and the re-inscription of the language of labor struggles in the context of economic globalization and deregulation. Read more →
Clover Morell is an artist & curator who creates interdisciplinary performances and media works. Each piece is created in response to the structures and limitations of the site and/or theme of exhibition. Often collaborative and experimental by nature, Clover’s work examines the human spirit, interpersonal politics, perception, memory and discomfort. Read more →
Industry of the Ordinary’s (Mathew Wilson and Adam Brooks) emphasis is on challenging pejorative notions of the ordinary and, in doing so, moving beyond the quotidian. Read more →
Autumn Hays works primarily in time based art and uses a wide variety of media. Born in San Diego, CA she received an honors BA in visual arts and writing from UCSD. She also works as a curator, writer, activist, organizer and teacher. Read more →
Michael Thomas co-founded Lucky Pierre in 1996 with Mary Zerkel as a art making collaborative dedicated to creating works and events that are socially engaged, formally challenging and intellectually rigorous. The work of Lucky Pierre is project based with collaborators to create under the group name Lucky Pierre. The collaborators are often not artists, but those interested in the process, in creating meaning, in working with fellow humans. Read more →
Great Lakes Ensemble is an artistic exploration of the Great Lakes region – with musicians, dancers and visual artists who join the ensemble during performances and other creative projects. Read more →
Church of Contemporary Art (CoCA) seeks to provide secular fellowship to cultural workers throughout our region and the world. Inclusive in nature, CoCA provides arts professionals with a much-needed alternative to traditional fundraising. CoCA accepts members of all disciplines. Read more →
Sallie Smith’s performance based work attempts to examine the many conflicting traumas inflicted on peoples, mainly women through media absorption. Using performative gestures and different monologues Smith strives to gain insight and come into direct conflict with this loss and in turn perhaps achieve any real sense of self. Read more →
taisha ciara paggett makes things and is interested in what bodies do. She believes language is tricky, thoughts are powerful, and that people are most beautiful when looking up.
David Lakein is a Chicago and Berlin based interdisciplinary artist, director-choreographer, performer, educator and writer, whose artwork swirls around the borders between theater, dance, cabaret, installation and performance art. Read more →
Jennifer Mills is a performance artist and comedian living and working in Chicago. Her work focuses on the mass dissemination of original art pieces and her work is in collections around the world, including the Beth DeWoody Collection and the Steve Turner Contemporary Collection. Read more →