avery r. young (Artist Talk)
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, September 25th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
Arts and Public Life 2012-13 Artist-in-Residence avery r. young discusses his work in conjunction with the exhibition The Distance Between.
avery r. young’s work blends phonetics, linguistics, hymns, jazz, and hip-hop to explore the politics and attributes of the African-American experience. young’s work, which he calls “sunday mornin jook joint,†merges spiritual and secular aesthetics with dramatic and comedic sensibilities.
A Cave Canem Fellow, young has worked as a teaching artist, mentoring youth in creative writing and theatre. He has written curriculum for Columbia College Chicago, Young Leeds Authors, True Star magazine, and Chicago Public Schools’ Art Integration Department.
young’s essays on HIV awareness, misogyny and sexism in arts and media, educational reform, and workplace art integration have been published in AIMPrint, The Teaching Artist Journal and swaggerzine.
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