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

D.N. Rodowick
Omar Khouri
Steven Rings
George Lewis
Sidney Nagel
Catherine Sullivan
Robert Bird
Antoni Miralda
Glenn Kotche
Anastasia Giannakidou
Sha Xin Wei
W. J. T. Mitchell
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Events

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Programs

Cinema 53

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Sankofa City Summer School

Fellowships

Mellon Fellowships for Arts Practice & Scholarship

Foodcultura

This Gray Center Mellon Collaborative Fellowship brings together artist Antonio Miralda and University of Chicago Anthropologist Stephan Palmié as they explore the intersection between food, art, and other forms of cultural exchange. This project also includes “Foodcultura: The Art and Anthropology of Cuisine,” a team-taught course with a particular focus on "Chicago's diverse and complex alimentary and gustatory worlds" being offered in Fall 2019.

Fellows

Antoni Miralda
Stephan Palmié

Common Place

Illustrator Julia Kuo joins two University of Chicago physicians and researchers, Monica E. Peek and Elizabeth L. Tung of the Department of Medicine, for Common Place, a Gray Center Mellon Collaborative Fellowship that considers how illustration might play a role in examining the barriers that difference and distrust can form between patients and their doctors. 

Fellows

Julia Kuo
Monica E. Peek
Elizabeth L. Tung

Thinking Through Sound

Artist and audio investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan, writer and art historian Hannah B. Higgins, and UChicago professor and theorist W.J.T. Mitchell (Departments of English and Art History) come together to explore the ways in which what we hear and how we hear it impacts our ability to perceive and understand things visually.

Fellows

Lawerence Abu Hamden
Hannah B Higgins
W. J. T. Mitchell

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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