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Collaborators

Meet the allies of the Stockyard Institute

There is an expansive network of relationships built slowly over decades, of all those who have participated in Stockyard Institute in the past, present, and future. This network of artists, teachers, children, activists, scholars, and neighbors is a subterranean power grid of sharing, for civic good, and for the personal self-determination of one's own fate.   

-- Rachel Harper

Kirk Anderson

Kirk Anderson

Artistic Director

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

Jim Duignan

Founding Artist & Endowed Professor of
Arts Education at DePaul University

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

Darby Jack Gustafson

Artist, Art Journalist & Radio Host

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

Kazuki Guzmán

Artist, Designer, &
Assistant Director SAIC

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 Hausman

Jerry Hausman

Pioneer in the field of art education

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

Sabrina Huchthausen

Sabrina Huchthausen

Artist

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

Nikki Jarecki

Artist & Educator

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

Jeremy Kreusch

Artist & Director of Interpretation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

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

Malose Malahlela

Co-founder, Artistic Director:
Keleketla Media Arts Project

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

David Maruzzella

Writer, Editor, and Translator

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

Erik Parsons

Educator and Educational Researcher

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...

Phil Schultz

Phil Schultz

Artist & Owner, Chicago Sign Systems

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Hillary Vazquez

Hillary Vazquez

Visual Arts Teacher

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 Winkelstein

Max Winkelstein

Carpenter

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

Jeff Zimmermann

Jeff Zimmermann

Artist

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

Ionit Behar

Curator DePaul Art Museum

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 Gabriela Garcia Camacho

Grecia Gabriela Garcia Camacho

Education, Youth & Art Advocate

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...

Lisa (Ana Elizabeth) Gutierrez

Lisa (Ana Elizabeth) Gutierrez

Artist & Educator

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 Harper

Rachel Harper

Artist & Teacher

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

Nick Hostert

Artist & Teacher

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 Merlock Jackson

Nick Merlock Jackson

Artist

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

Jeffrey Kowalkowski

Musician & Teacher

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

Jorge Lucero

Jorge Lucero

Artist & Teacher

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

Lloyd Mandelbaum

Founder
Chicago Crucible LLC

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...

Nikki Nudo

Nikki Nudo

Communications, Growth, and Public Engagement Coordinator for Stockyard Institute

If you would like to collaborate with us, please reach out to me!

Lavie Raven

Lavie Raven

Teacher, Adjunct Professor
& Minister of Education

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...

Bert Stabler

Bert Stabler

Artist & Assistant Professor

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....

Charlie Vinz

Charlie Vinz

Founder, Adaptive Operations

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...

Zeb

Zeb

Professional Graffiti Wizard

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.

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