Online: Voices: Damon Locks
@ Gallery 400
https://uic.zoom.us/j/135946245
Opening Tuesday, March 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
THIS EVENT WILL BE OCCURRING VIA ZOOM.
https://uic.zoom.us/j/135946245
Damon will be talking about his work with Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project, the S.P.A.C.E. program (via Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) a high school on the south side, and his work with the Black Monument Ensemble and making sounds in real time!
Bio: Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a recipient of the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts and the 2016 MAKER Grant. He operated as an Artist Mentor in the Chicago Artist Coalition program FIELD/WORK. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. Currently he works as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts’ SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at the high school, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy.
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