The Richard and Mary L Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry is a forum at the University of Chicago for experimental collaborations between artists and scholars.

Our Fellows

Augusta Read Thomas
Robert Bird
Chase Joynt
Sayed Kashua
James Carpenter
Patrick Jagoda
Daniel Tucker
Claudia Lavista
Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Margaret M Mitchell
Sha Xin Wei
Anne Wagner
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Events

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Jan

Cinema 53: American Promise with Eve L. Ewing and Amanda Lewis

 Jan 24, 2019, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
 Harper Theater

5238 S Harper Ave, Chicago

21

Feb

Cinema 53: Precious Knowledge with Eve L. Ewing and Ray Salazar

 Feb 21, 2019, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
 Harper Theater

5238 S Harper Ave, Chicago

7

Mar

Cinema 53: Tested with Eve L. Ewing and Curtis Chin

 Mar 07, 2019, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
 Harper Theater

5238 S Harper Ave, Chicago

Programs

Cinema 53

SIDEBAR

Sankofa City Summer School

Fellowships

Mellon Fellowships for Arts Practice & Scholarship

VoiceGrooveSong

Steven Rings (Department of Music) and composer / percussionist Glenn Kotche aim to rethink the three musical categories of voice, groove, and song, considering them at once as a fused, holistic group, and as parameters amenable to strategic separation and recombination.

Fellows

Glenn Kotche
Steven Rings

Projects

Brown People Are the Wrens in the Parking Lot

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Poetry and Classics Workshop

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Chicago Studies: The Workshop

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The Imaginary Funeral: Image, Artifact, and the Work of Mourning

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