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Sixty Inches from Center

Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Case Studies in Collaboration

Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Case Studies in Collaboration

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This limited edition is almost sold out! At this time Sixty Inches from Center is prioritizing copies for libraries and archives, so if this is you, please reach out: studio@forthebirdstrappedinairports.com.

Until we can fund another print run, you can track down copies that will soon be for sale at Inga bookstore in Pilsen and Buddy at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Sixty Inches From Center will also have plenty available at their Chicago Archives + Artists Festival in August 2024. Stay tuned here!

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Since 2017, Sixty’s Chicago Archives + Artists Project (CA+AP) has been pairing artists with archives across the city of Chicago to spark new experiments in creative interpretation.

The book Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Case Studies in Collaboration serves as a site for new archive-inspired explorations, a directory of Chicago-based archives and collections, and a printed space where past artists, archivists, librarians, curators, and other collaborators can reflect on 5+ years of the Chicago Archives + Artists Project.

The book features two new artist/archive pairings with printmaker Ben Blount who spent time in the archives of Shorefront Legacy Center, and artist/poet Natasha Mijares who explored the Latinx art collection at DePaul Art Museum.

The book features writings from Oscar Arriola (Zine Mercado/Chicago Public Library), Sara Chapman + Dan Erdman (Media Burn), Sky Cubacub (Rebirth Garments), Meg Duguid + Michael Thomas (Culture/Math), Marc Fischer (Public Collectors/Temporary Services), Kate Hadley Toftness (Sixty), Tempestt Hazel (Sixty), Ivan LOZANO (CA+AP Artist), David Maruzzella (DPAM), H. Melt (CA+AP Artist), On the Real Film (CA+AP Artists), Jennifer Patiño (Sixty), Jessica Pushor (Chicago History Museum), Morris “Dino” Robinson (Shorefront), Robert Sloane (Chicago Public Library), Nell Taylor (Read/Write Library), Lauren Shadford (Voices of Contemporary Art), Darryl DeAngelo Terrell (CA+AP Artist), and more.

Edited by Kate Hadley Toftness, with support from Tempestt Hazel, Christina Nafziger, and Persephone Van Ort. Designed by Matthew Austin of For the Birds Trapped in Airports.

This publication is made possible through generous support from the Hauser & Wirth Institute and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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