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Boulevard Dreamers on WBEZ: A weird, wonderful variety show pays tribute to Chicago culture
You’ll find a little bit of everything in Water Music on the Beach: Boulevard Dreamers, where every performer gets equal pay and stage...
MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions
MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions
Artist Talk: The Politics of Imagination
Join us for the screening of Kirsten Leenaars’ work (Re)Housing the American Dream: Freedom Principles (2018) followed by an artist’s talk.
Interviews with the Artists, Round One
in this interview we talk with Leenaars and Craig and revisit their amazing, collaborative video created for last fall's Lit & Luz Festival.
Five Artists Rewarded Artist Response Grant
Artist Response Program is going to five individual artists and artist teams in project-related grants
Five Chicago artists and artistic teams have been awarded $100,000 grants from DCASE.
Five Chicago artists and artistic teams have been awarded $100,000 grants from DCASE.
‘The Long Dream’ and a labor nightmare
The MCA's latest exhibit preaches equity, but behind the scenes artists and former museum employees are demanding real change.
Newcity Film 50, 2020: Chicago's Screen Gems
Film 50 2020: Chicago’s Screen Gems
60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC Review: The Broadcast
The Broadcast proposes that the youth of this country have voices that badly need to be heard amidst the noise and chaos of our media landsc
Watch the recording of the MCA Virtual Studio Visit: in conversation with Kirsten Leenaars
Chicago artist Kirsten Leenaars uses collaborative techniques to create artworks that investigate our media landscape and encourage critical
Cleve Carney Museum of Art: Stuck in the Studio: Kirsten Leenaars
As part of Cleve Carney Museum of Art Create's ongoing series 'Stuck in the Studio' CCMA curator Justin Witte talks with Chicago-based video
The State News: New Broad Art exhibit features multimedia and local students
Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will be previewing their new multimedia exhibit titled “The Broadcast."
ARTSY: 6 Artists Imagine What a World without Prisons Looks Like
Over the past two years, Chicago artists and locals have turned to art to consider criminal justice reform.
(Re)imagining Tomorrow: a documentary
(Re)imagining Tomorrow, 2018, documentary 22:32 min A group of middle schoolers living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, talk about what it means...
Local artists take on the criminal justice system in new exhibit
"For video artist Kirsten Leenaars, “envisioning justice” is about building strong communities even in the face of incarceration."
Interview: Kirsten Leenaars: (Re)Housing the American Dream
Interview with Kirsten Leenaars about documentary project: (Re)Housing the American Dream.
Review by David Mark Wise Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer at Contemporary Workshop, Chicago
New City, April 17, 2008 Kirsten Leenaars’ Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer is a fragile and vulnerable video installation now showing...
Review EAM Biennial Chicago Statements, Elmhurst Art Museum
Review by Lorix Waxman (Chicago Tribune) EAM Biennial Chicago Statements, Elmhurst Art Museum. Review: https://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/...
Everyday Resistance in the Art Space
Women in Art Today Introduction: Everyday Resistance in the Art Space by Jeffreen M. Hayes Art is one of the few spaces where the...