Writers Workshop
Art Writing and Criticism: Voice, Context, Power
6018North is pleased to announce an online workshop on art criticism. The workshop's aim is twofold: to contribute to the development of Chicago-area writers who engage critically with contemporary art, and in the longer term, to bring contemporary art to new audiences. During July and August 2020, Carmen Luz Corredor, Amanda Dee, Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas-O’Neal, Felicia Holman, Jacklynn Kelsey, Lauren Lombre, Susan Musich, Josepha R. Natzke, Marina Resende Santos, and Sarina Shane join us to hone and advance their art writing, criticism, and practical skills. Workshop leader Lise McKean – with a group of guest speakers and one-on-one editors including Asha Iman Veal, Susan Snodgrass, Kate Sierzputowski, and Agnieszka Gratza – provide readings and assignments to expand the conversation about the art form and to offer one-on-one feedback for emerging writers. The workshop features guests including Candida Alvarez, Wisdom Baty, Stephanie Cristello, SY Lim, Faheem Majeed, Ciera McKissick, Caroline Ng, Edra Soto, Amanda Williams, and Ji Yang.
Writing from the Workshop
What Will We See? A Review of Windows to the World at 6018|North by Amanda Dee
Tying Up the Wolves: An Interview with artist Angela Lopez by Amanda Dee
Jane Georges on Feeler: An interview with artist Jane Georges by Susan Musich
Windows to Our World: A Review of Windows to the World at 6018|North by Susan Musich
Rebellion in the Front Yard: A Review of Windows to the World at 6018|North by Marina Resende Santos
Workshop Leaders
Lise McKean, Ph.D., is an anthropologist, writer, editor, and occasional curator. Her art-writing includes catalog essays as well as articles and interviews for badatsports.com and other publications. Her degrees are from the University of Chicago, the University of Hawai'i, and Sydney University.
Asha Iman Veal is a writer, curator, and educator with a focus on curatorial theory as well as how art and cultural production serve as forms of advocacy and public discourse as part of the faculty in Arts Administration & Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Susan Snodgrass is a Chicago-based critic and editor. She has written for both print and online publications, most notably for Art in America, for which she served as a Corresponding Editor (1994–2013), and ARTMargins Online, devoted to contemporary art in the global margins and for whom she is coeditor.
Kate Sierzputowski is a freelance writer and curator based in Chicago. Sierzputowski founded the website INSIDE\WITHIN, contributes art writing to Hyperallergic, Colossal, the Chicago Reader, and is a co-director of the artist-run gallery Julius Caesar.
Agnieszka Gratza’s writing about art, performance and film has featured in frieze, ArtReview, Artforum, Flash Art, Mousse, Metropolis M, KUNSTforum, The Calvert Journal, PAJ, Sight & Sound, The Quietus, The White Review, the New Statesman, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and The Observer.
6018North is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of culture and the arts in Chicago. Writers Workshop is generously supported by an anonymous donor. This program is funded in part by Illinois Humanities and an anonymous donor advised fund at The Chicago Community Foundation. 6018North projects are partially supported by 3Arts, the AD3 Innovation Bootcamp Grant, an anonymous donor advised fund at The Chicago Community Foundation, a CityArts Innovation Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, the Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Field Foundation of Illinois, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, IL Humanities, the Illinois Arts Council, the Illinois Arts Council Youth Employment Grant, the Joyce Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations.