GET YOUR CREATIVE LIFE IN ORDER
It can be tough to carve the space to focus on one's own creative work. Join Arts + Public Life, Chicago Critic’s Table, and Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel for Getting Your Creative Life in Order, a salon conversation that tackles strategies for organizing and prioritizing your practice.
Through discussion and making, creatives of all ilks will be inspired to experiment with building routine and commitment into their creative practices.
This session serves as a collective brainstorm with seasoned artists who have struck a balance between committing to their personal practice and life's conditions. Together we’ll explore sustainable containers for our creativity and ideate on what we want our creative life to look like and how to build it.
After the salon panel, we will move into a zine-making and collage workshop where creatives will write, sketch, and assemble a moodboard / roadmap towards their creative life.
✂️ SALON PANELISTS & FACILITATORS ✂️
Chicago Critic's Table Fellow Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel moderates the session. Yasmin is a Chicago-based dramaturg, journalist, and oral historian. As a queer, fat, brown femme, they endeavor to amplify and archive stories that go lost/stolen/forgotten. They founded BIYA BIYA Productions to platform and pay emerging artists focusing on cultural preservation of diasporic communities.
Cori Nakaruma Lin is a Japanese, Taiwanese, Okinawan-American multimedia visual artist based in Chicago. By painting, documenting, and weaving, Cori is finding her way to a world that prioritizes ecological and community care. Cori’s artwork is created in conversation with Asian-American communities in Chicago and the midwest.
Jasjyot Sighn Hans is an illustrator unendingly inspired by an explosive neon mix of fashion, music and pop culture. He has a constant regard for things past and a voracity for all that is current. He studied animation film design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and has an MFA in Illustration Practice from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. His work chronicles around themes of body image, sexuality and self love.
This program is in partnership with Arts + Public Life of UChicago.