Merging Creative and
Intellectual exploration
The Useless Tool: Skate Sessions with Kyle Beachy, Tina Post, Alexis Sablone, June 2, 2022
Merging Creative and Intellectual exploration
About Us
A forum for experimental collaboration between artists and scholars.
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry is dedicated to removing barriers that separate intellectual and artistic exploration. Through support, programming, publications, and other outlets, we provide a space for reimagining the relationship between these two modes of creativity, investigation, and expression.
Our website is currently under construction. We look forward to unveiling our newly designed digital presence soon. In the meantime, learn more about our activities and events.
Fellowships
Designed to foster intensive and experimental collaborations between artists and scholars, fellowships at the Gray Center are open to individuals at any stage of professional development in their fields, from emerging leaders to recognized figures.
Announcing the Inaugural KAVAH Fermata
Artist Tiffany Chung and UChicago historian Mark Bradley are the inaugural recipients of new philanthropic initiative that pairs an artist and scholar to generate experimental new work in response to social conflicts and challenges.
Portable Gray
An interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the weirdness found at the intersection of the arts and scholarship, Portable Gray features essays, interviews, poetry, musical compositions, and non-traditional academic research.
Programs
SIDEBAR
The Gray Center welcomes the public for an ongoing conversation series with invited artists and scholars featuring food, drink, and meaningful engagement.
Gray Sound
Artists and the community engage in performance and discussion to explore the boundaries of sound.
Events
From our ongoing programs to special happenings, the Gray Center offers a panoply of virtual and in-person discussions, performances, screenings, get-togethers, and more throughout the year.
Projects
The Gray Center sponsors various projects that experiment with the intersection of arts practice and scholarship. Past examples include unconventional formats for symposia and conferences, multimedia exhibitions, institutional collaborations within and outside the university, and workshops and other events that expand existing programming on campus.