Artist Stories

Why did you start a network of arts websites for Chicago, and how are you going about it?

What is your most successful strategy for getting your work out there?

TEN COMMON MISTAKES ARTS GROUPS MAKE WHEN SEEKING GRANTS (from somebody who spent years seeking grants before joining a foundation and gradually learning how much he’d been doing wrong)

What advice do you have for starting a non-profit?

How can art-making impact social and political issues?

How and why was the Chicago Fringe Festival conceived?

Why is your work important in our current political/cultural climate?

How do you balance parenthood with your artistic practice?

Backstories and Collaboration

Why did you start re-staging historical works of choreography and how did you choose the works you reconstruct?

Endorsement Deals: Who gets them? How?

How has today's art-practice changed? An Artist's Comment on Then and Now

What is your most successful strategy for getting your work out there?

Finding Alternatives to the For-Profit Gallery System

As a Casting Director, what advice do you have for actors looking to get gigs?

How have you cultivated relationships with curators?

What advice would you pass on to young artist curators just starting out?

What job has been the most useful to your music career, and how did you get it?

As an awardee for the 2007 CAAP grant, how are you going to use the funds and how has it affected your practice?

What are the censorship issues you have experienced and how are they affecting your creative process?

What made you decide to open mini dutch gallery and what's it like to live there?

Graduate School Portfolio preparation: Do's and Don'ts

Do slide registries work?

How do you maintain the continual output expected of a successful mid-career artist?

As Art Editor for Newcity and also an independent curator, how do you deal with issues of conflict of interest?