Collaborators

Kirk Anderson is a long time theatre artist in Chicago. In 2015 he founded Facility Theatre Company along with Shawna Franks and Maria Stephens. Since that time, Facility produced six theatrical presentations...

Jim Duignan is an artist living and working with Chicago. As a sculptor, photographer, publisher, educator, Duignan’s work investigates questions of history, activism, and peacemaking in urban...

Darby Jack Gustafson is an artist, art journalist, and radio host hailing from Birmingham, AL. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Columbia College Chicago, Darby has been involved in many aspects of...

Kazuki Guzmán is a Chicago-based designer that creates domestic objects and furniture. Guzmán’s current work focuses on mingei, Japanese folk-crafts, as a methodology for an appreciation of handmade...

Jerry was an essential and pioneering figure in the field and our visual art education program.

Sabrina Marie Huchthausen (b.1993) is an artist based in Chicago, studying at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Early College Program (2010- 2012), and receiving a BFA (2016). Much of her work circulates...

Nikki Jarecki's journey is a testament to the transformative power of art and education. From a challenging childhood, she found solace and sanctuary in nature and art, where her identity took root and...

Jeremy Kreusch is Director of Interpretation and In-Gallery Learning at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where he develops experiences that invite reflection and connection among people and art.

Malose Malahlela is a co-founder and artistic director of Keleketla! Library together with Rangoato Hlasane. Keleketla! is a timeless, radical storytelling and narrative portal, an [arts] archive, cultural...

David Maruzzella is a writer, editor, and translator based in Chicago. He was educated at New York University, the École normale supérieure in Paris, and DePaul University from which he received his Ph.D...

Erik Parsons is a theatre artist turned educator currently working on his dissertation as a doctoral candidate of Curriculum Studies at DePaul. An Artist -educator at heart, he has been in the education...

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Hillary (she/her) has been an art teacher since the early days of setting up "class" with her dolls and small whiteboard, showing them how to draw cartoon pandas. Since then she earned a….

Max is a carpenter who specializes in cabinet making and offbeat projects.

A native of Chicago, Jeff Zimmermann has achieved national and international recognition for his large scale murals featuring painted images of contemporary pop culture and sensitively rendered….

Ionit Behar is the Curator at DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), Chicago, and the co-founder and co-director of BeharXSchachman. Most recently she curated a large-scale public art project at...

Grecia Garcia Camacho is an upcoming graduate of the master’s program in Education, Culture, and Society at DePaul. She was born and raised in Mexico and completed her bachelor’s in Psychology there...

Born and raised in Chicago, Lísa Gutierrez is an artist, educator, and interventionist whose work explores themes of the natural world, identity, and culture. She earned her associate degree through...

Rachel L. S. Harper, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary artist, philosopher, curator, professor, researcher, and consultant. She is the founder of Seen + Heard, a social practice project advocating for the cultural lives....

Nick Hostert is an artist and educator in the Chicago area whose pedagogical expertise centers contemporary art practices at the core of quality arts curriculum and instruction. Nick has taught visual...

Nick Jackson is a drawer, photographer, amateur oral historian, and professional curious itch-scratcher. His work puts journalistic storytelling and raw, expressive markmaking in the same...

Jeffrey Kowalkowski is proud to serve as “composer in residence” for Stockyard Institute.

Jorge Lucero is a Mexican-American artist who currently serves as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also Associate...

Lloyd Mandelbaum is the founder and proprietor of Chicago Crucible LLC, which is a fine art foundry located in Hamilton, Michigan. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art...

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English Language Arts and History Teacher, Grades 6-12. Adjunct Professor in Art Education. Minister of Education, University of Hip-Hop. Lavie Raven is a history and English language arts instructor...

I spent nearly eighteen years in Chicago as a public school art teacher, art critic, curator, activist, and artist. In graduate school I got involved in anticarceral activist projects, and my dissertation was on....

Prior to establishing Adaptive Operations, Charlie was the Creative Director at Rebuilding Exchange, a building materials reuse non profit, where he ran the in-house custom design and fabrication shop...

Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Zeb is a graffiti writer, scholar and activist utilizing transdisciplinary lens-based media to achieve his murals, performative activations, and pedagogical interventions.