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View of an art gallery with sculptures on pedestals.

Grounding, Advocating, and Experimenting with Craft: What I Learned From “Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond”

Xiao Faria daCunha reviews "Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond" for Sixty Inches from Center.

Questions with a Curator featuring Sheridan Tucker Anderson

Art Design Chicago and Curator Sheridan Tucker Anderson discuss the history, impact, and legacy of Elizabeth Catlett.  
Artist Victoria Martinez stands in front of an installation of her large-scale textile artworks.

Video: Artist Victoria Martinez Shares her Art and Influences

A native of Chicago’s Pilsen community, artist Victoria Martinez talks about how the neighborhood she grew up in has influenced her practice.
Portrait of Alice Shaddle seated among a collection of her artworks.

Reflecting on Alice Shaddle’s Fuller Circles: Art, Legacy, and Community

A reintroduction of the diverse work of Alice Shaddle (1928 – 2017) to new audiences through a poignant exploration of the artist's intricate weave of family, community, and curation.
An abstract female form from shoulders to thighs, without hands. The vagina is formed from an inverted torso and a pair of legs.

Exuberant Experimentation: Christina Ramberg’s Late Works

Thea Liberty Nichols writes about Chicago artist Christina Ramberg (1946-1945), who is the subject of the Art Institute's retrospective exhibition opening April 20.  
Ruth Duckworth, "Clouds Over Lake Michigan," (© Estate of Ruth Duckworth; photo by Bob.)

HYPERALLERGIC Examines Ruth Duckworth’s Defiance as a Ceramicist

Ruth Duckworth’s ceramics channel the world around us through elements of fragility, earthly phenomenon, and connection to the nonhuman.
Metal egret’s beak and torso against the sky.

it wants to lie down, you want it to stand up: a letter to Ruth*

A letter written to artist Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009) is the most recent composition to come out of the editorial partnership between Art Design Chicago and Sixty Inches from Center.
A young artist stand in a ceramics studio holding a work in progress. Other students are working at a long table behind her.

A Conversation on Engagement with Kahari Blackburn

Terra Foundation Intern Kaitlin Rikala interviews the Smart Museum’s Art Design Chicago Engagement Fellow Kahari Blackburn.

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Grounding, Advocating, and Experimenting with Craft: What I Learned From “Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond”

Questions with a Curator featuring Sheridan Tucker Anderson

Video: Artist Victoria Martinez Shares her Art and Influences

Reflecting on Alice Shaddle’s Fuller Circles: Art, Legacy, and Community

Exuberant Experimentation: Christina Ramberg’s Late Works

HYPERALLERGIC Examines Ruth Duckworth’s Defiance as a Ceramicist

it wants to lie down, you want it to stand up: a letter to Ruth*

A Conversation on Engagement with Kahari Blackburn