Join Sixty Inches From Center for the 2024 Chicago Archives + Artists Festival! This year’s festival embraces the theme of embodiment. The 3-day gathering explores the ways archivists and artists preserve the legacies of our communities via talks, performances, music, and workshops.
The festival includes its usual offerings, such as the Archive Roll Call, an artist-designed Photo Booth (hosted by artist and Sixty Visuals Editor Ireashia M. Bennett), and a series of archive digs and unfurlings—a term and format borrowed from Never The Same’s 2013 project Unfurling: Five Explorations in Art, Activism, and Archiving. This is also a continued celebration of Sixty’s recently-released book Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Case Studies in Collaboration, published by For the Birds Trapped in Airports.
The space is adorned with a site-specific installation by artist and Sixty contributor Natalia Villanueva Linares, and with a new mural by artist and Sixty Collective Co-Lead Katia Perez Fuentes. The night closes with a Festival Wind Down featuring BAILAR Y LLORAR 🎭 (a.k.a. DJ Jungyal & Light of Your Vida).
This year’s festival is co-curated by Kate Hadley Toftness, Tempestt Hazel, and Christina Nafziger. Visit Sixty’s website for the full schedule.
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An initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with artists and organizations across the city, Art Design Chicago is a series of events and exhibitions that highlight the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
