by Alicia | Jul 24, 2012 | Critical Fierceness Grant, Curatorial, News
Since its founding in 2005, Chances Dances has sought to create a safe space for all gender expressions by bringing together the varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago. The creation of the Critical Fierceness grant expands upon this goal by offering a unique opportunity...
by Alicia | Jul 24, 2012 | ACRE, Curatorial, News
ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is a volunteer-run non-profit based in Chicago devoted to employing various systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a generative community of cultural producers. ACRE investigates and institutes...
by Alicia | Nov 11, 2011 | Art, Projects, Queer
I had the delightful pleasure of participating in Chicago-based artist Marie Walz’s live performance art piece, “Nick Rhodes/Outer Space/Waffle” (2011) at Food & Performance: A Showcase of Performance Art involving Edibles. Nick Rhodes/Outer...
by Alicia | Jun 1, 2011 | Art, Art - Photography & Performance, News, Photography
Six months before my grandmother died, I dropped out of Oberlin College and enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I felt compelled to be in Chicago, and to help my family care for my grandmother before she passed. I completed the imagery for this...
by Alicia | Nov 9, 2010 | News, Only for the Internet: When I Fell In Love With the WWW, Projects
These are excellent depictions of...
by Alicia | Aug 17, 2010 | Art, Art - Photography & Performance, Photography, Photography: Brassai's 1932 Gay World in Queer 2012, Projects
We restaged Brassai’s 1932 photograph “Butch and Femme,” which captures a gay Parisian couple out to dinner. Reimagining this photograph in the context of the 21st century leads viewers to question what it means to be queer, and questions the assumed...
