Damon Locks: Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
@ SAIC | MacLean Center
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, July 13th, at 6PM
Description: 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 the 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. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. He spent 4 years as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts’ SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy High School. In the spring of 2022, he taught his first semester in the Sound Department on improvisation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Damon leads the Black Monument Ensemble and co-founded the band The Eternals.
Photo credit: Ricardo Adame
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