"We Do Not Say No"
Sarah and Joseph Belknap on collaboration
We talked to one of our favorite artist couples, Sarah and Joseph Belknap, about their creative partnership.
Artists in Conversation:
Made-Up with Danny Volk: Theaster Gates
A peek inside the artist's studio/compound.
Danny meets Theaster Gates at his studio on South Kimbark.
Far From the Art World
A curator on producing public art in Japan
I made my first foray into public art in Chicago in 2012. Or rather, attempted to. For months I struggled with pessimistic ward office secretaries, confusing city government bureaucracy, and unresponsive city departments. I sought out advice from a veteran art planner in the city and tried to rebound from each bureaucratic defeat. I asked the artist I was working with for patience and pushed our spring installation proposal into summer. I was moving to Japan at the end of July, so time was running out.
Made-Up with Danny Volk: Casey Smallwood
Getting the artist out from behind the camera
Usually at home behind the camera, we got Casey to do a bit of acting.
Mentoring with Pastries and Vodou
Learning from a mentor and passing the knowledge onto others.
Neysa Page-Lieberman on her Mentor, Marilyn Houlberg
Mentoring is More
When mentorship becomes a lifelong endeavor.
"… we are going to a drum battle!” A drum battle? The voice on the phone was my mentor and writing teacher, Randy Albers.
Lin Hixson: Choreographer, Teacher, Director, Mentor
Mentorship as a way of life.
Lin Hixson is this amazing director, you see. From a 21 year run with Goat Island to her now thoroughly established performance project Every House Has a Door with Matthew Goulish, not to mention teaching for years at the School of the Art Institute and running this amazing summer program called Abandoned Practices – Well, let’s just say, many people could call her their mentor.
Growing through Collaboration: The Arts of Life Mentorship Partnership
A special opportunity for equal growth and learning on both sides of an artistic partnership.
What does it mean to look up to someone? To respect, learn and grown? A mentorship is a relationship based partnership. At The Arts of Life, an alternative day program for people with and without disabilities, artist-mentors play a big part in the community.
Made-Up with Danny Volk: Richard Williamson
Richard sits down and shares with Danny his fear of commitment, secret love of make-up, and a bit of whisky.
A Toast to the Host
Perspectives from six years of running a talk show in a bar.
Like many performance-based things, doing the show is the easy part. Putting the show together? That’s hard.
Made-Up with Danny Volk: Dado
The Hungarian director-turned-sculptor discusses her shift in focus
I realized after all these years of making plays that I'm a sculptor.
Post-Apocalyptic Production
Lessons learned from a season of filming a web series
When we decided to produce our own film project, we had some tough decisions to make.
Blue Mountain Clues
A curatorial misunderstanding reunites one artist with her history
I had fallen asleep in my artistic life; I had been sleepwalking. My rediscovery was an awakening of sorts.
Visas for International Artists
Jeroen Nelemans on how to win the "extraordinary visa"
The only thing you know is that if you do not get the visa, you have 10 days to leave the country. It's a complete mind-fuck.
Artist Sarah Best on Fiscal Sponsorship
An ambitious project is realized via Links Hall
Realizing my vision was priceless. It was crucial in my transition from an emerging artist to something more.
Career Moves: Writer to Artist to Playwright
Jyl Bonaguro's four-year quest for Enlightenment
I wrote the play because, as a female, I wanted the world to know about this amazing woman, and no one would listen.
Becoming the Sun King
Baroque dance theory applied to contemporary ballet
In baroque dance the body moves like waves, or the sea. If the blood in your body related to water, then that water had an ebb and flow to it that guided your dancing. The body in baroque dance is in constant, living motion.
Plucking a Path from Painting to Sculpture
Neha Vedpathak on inventing new techniques
The technique evolved from tweaking the paper with a single pushpin to separate its fibers. The plucked paper resembled lace, which I then use to make individual sculptures and installations. Developing this technique taught me the material and has given me a distinctive voice to approach three-dimensional objects and space.
Going Solo: Taking Control of Your Art
Tips on writing and performing your own solo show
You’re an actor, sitting with a bunch of other actors in a theatre lobby waiting for your audition. People are silently studying their sides or mouthing monologues to themselves.
Enraptured and Intimidated: Building a Creative Community
Micki LeSueur, founder of Fictlicious, on running a reading series
Since no one hacked into my computer to read the stories I wasn’t submitting or peered through my living room window in the hopes of finding some insecure writer slugging it out with her laptop, the only way I was going to participate in a live reading series was if I bum-rushed the stage. Or started my own.
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