Co-Sponsored by UIS Visual Arts Gallery and Illinois Arts Council
This special collaboration features curator, writer, and artist advocate Tempestt Hazel leading a discussion and Q&A session featuring Chicago-based artist Stephanie Graham, whose work will be on display at the UIS Visual Arts Gallery. As an African-American artist, Graham’s photographs, videos, and installations are armed with humor, satire, and soul in an effort to make otherwise difficult conversations on race and gender easier and more comfortable in this increasingly divisive political and cultural climate. Graham’s projects have been presented at venues all over the Chicago area and are held in the public collection of the Chicago Historical Society. Tempestt Hazel will discuss the work she has done to promote art and artists who work along the margins outside of mainstream historical narratives across the spectrum of gender, race, ability, and being. Hazel is the founding editor of Sixty Inches from Center, and the art program officer for the Field Foundation of Illinois.
Stephanie Graham is a Chicago-based artist who makes work about subcultures, social class, relationships and Black America. Her projects have been presented at the Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Chicago Artist Coalition, and Terrain Exhibitions, and the Gene Siskel Film Center. Graham’s work has been featured in Studio Photography Magazine and the Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers. Her work is held in the public collection of the Chicago Historical Society.
Tempestt Hazel is a curator, writer, and founding editor of Sixty Inches From Center. She is the Art Program Officer for the Field Foundation of Illinois. Hazel has developed programming for Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago Artist Coalition, and the University of Chicago. Exhibitions and research have been produced with the University of North Texas, South Side Community Art Center, and Black Metropolis Research Consortium. Her writing has been published by UChicago Press, Candor Arts, and for Artslant, the Broad Museum (Lansing), and Duke University.
