A conversation between Austin McCann and Zak Mucha
@ Letters to Nora
1500 S Western Ave, Ste. 408, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 23rd, at 2PM
Please join us at the gallery on Saturday, November 23 at 2:00pm for a conversation between Austin McCann, artist, Psychotherapist, and Zak Mucha, LCSW, psychoanalyst and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.
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Austin McCann is an artist, researcher, and psychotherapist living in Chicago. He holds a BA in Performance Studies from New College of Florida, an MFA in Art from the University of Illinois Chicago, and an AM in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago. He is a fellow at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.
Zak Mucha, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He spent seven years working as the supervisor of an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, providing 24/7 services to persons suffering from severe psychosis, substance abuse issues, and homelessness. Mucha has worked as a counselor and consultant for U.S. combat veterans undergoing training for digital forensic investigations in child pornography.
Before going into the clinical field, Mucha has worked as a freelance journalist, truck driver, furniture mover, construction worker, union organizer, and staff member at a juvenile DCFS locked unit. He is the author of Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work as well as the poetry collection, The Ambulatorium.
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