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Chicago Artist Writers is a platform that asks artists and art workers to write traditional and experimental criticism that serves under-represented arts programming in Chicago.

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  • Toufic El Rassi
  • Willy Smart
  • Xiao Faria da Cunha
  • Yuri Stone
  • Zachary Cahill
  • Zsofi Valyi-Nagy

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Artists

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Inez Walker

Interviews

Faheem Majeed on “Post Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980-2016”

Dan Gunn
September 29, 2016
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider ArtArkee ChaneyFaheem MajeedInez WalkerLonnie HolleyMinnie EvansRonald LockettThornton Dial

Taking the ‘post-black’ and grafting it onto ‘black folk art’ is an attempt to have a new conversation. We are tired of having this same conversation.

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