Singletrack: ATOM-r
"The Operature" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
We discovered we could activate gallery spaces as if they were crime scenes or sites of cruising—of men interacting with men.
The Latest:
Granted: George Bajalia
Using free-writing, this theatre artist buys time to revise.
The most appealing thing to grantors is demonstrating an ability to develop a realistic and executable plan. Get specific.
Granted: Rachel Bunting
Writing grants like poetry, this dancer wins by wooing the funders.
Before I start dancing or hashing ideas out in the studio, I have already accumulated too many ideas. At first I don’t put any reins on these ideas. I have dreamed them up, and I give those dreams their full due.
Singletrack: Instrumentalist Joel Styzens
Soundtracking "Bicycle Notes," an animated digital short
Animator Fernanda Torres of Bogota, Colombia, approached me about composing a soundtrack for her digital short after hearing my instrumental album. We collaborated back and forth via the Internet for about one year.
A "Passing" Fancy
The IRS is scrutinizing pass-through businesses (like artists). Use these tips to avoid audits
According to IRS statistics, small business formation and tax filings increased by 15% percent between 2007 and 2011. As a result the IRS's largest increase of audits were of flow-through entities in fiscal year 2012.
Singletrack: Choreographer Nadia Oussenko
On directing the dance-film "Nothing to See/Hear"
Nothing to See/Hear is a love story about two women and their unraveling relationship. As the estranged couple poses in a portrait studio, each reflects on their former intimacy. The story is set to the bittersweet track A True Story of a Story of True Love by The Books.
Singletrack: Choreographer Raphaelle Ziemba
On the participatory series, "Dance: A Moving Canvas"
"Dance: A Moving Canvas" is program that seeks to expand dance audiences in Chicago by enabling participants to deepen their understanding of the choreographic process. Three choreographers were chosen by jury to develop work for the program.
So You Wanna Run an Art Festival.
Tips and tricks from the director of 2nd Floor Rear
Chicago’s art scene suffers from mid-career flight because Chicago lacks resources for financially sustaining professional artists… I wanted to find a way to re-frame these purported weaknesses as specific characteristics, and in so doing, celebrate Chicago’s DIY art scene.
Singletrack: Jonathan “Abseryd” Woods and Gira Dahnee
"Origins"
I wanted to remind people of the original definition of "humanity." This earth remembers what that was like, but we, as humans, are like aliens to the very earth we live on. Our humanity is dying every day.
Your Art Business ... Or is that Hobby?
Look at your arts practice like the IRS to know what you can deduct.
Due to the unconventional nature of the creative hobby business, it is often difficult to determine the best way to account for profits and losses on tax returns. When tax season comes around artists often discover they spent more money on materials and equipment than they made in income, so they show a loss for their creative venture to offset their normal employment income.
Career Moves: From teenaged entrepreneur to creative director
John J. Thompson talks to CAR about navigating the music industry
If a songwriter intends to be generating a significant income from his or her songs, I believe it is mandatory for them to possess a significant amount of cultural and professional awareness. I do not subscribe to the binary “art-versus-commerce” argument anymore. Once a songwriter exposes her song to an audience there is commerce involved.
Singletrack: Jacob Kart
"Tina's House on the Hill" from the album Life of Crime
It's pretty much a true story, based on a weird experience I had on a trip I took to Mexico....There's an old woman there who's a sort of hallucinogenic shaman. Traveling kids from all over the world congregate at her house. It's a pretty wild scene. It seemed like I should write a song about it.
Chicago Music Summit 2013
Recordings of Chicago's inaugural music gathering.
Chicago is a global music powerhouse activated by musicians working across multiple genres at the highest level of artistry.
Singletrack: Erica Mott
Rehearsal footage from the interdisciplinary "3 Singers Opera"
The interdisciplinary performance "3 Singers Opera" explores the female body’s relationship with machinery, particularly with the labor, production and policies of the textile industry.
The Edit: Understanding an Accepted Submission at Polyphony
A look at the editorial process of the international, student-run literary magazine
We're artists. We paint, dance, act, strum, perform and write. But are we (even you, authors) masters of writing about what we do? Not always.
The Edit: Understanding a Rejected Submission at Polyphony
A look at the editorial process of the international student-run literary magazine
We're artists. We paint, dance, act, strum, perform and write. But are we (even you, authors) masters of writing about what we do? Not always.
Your New Drinking Game: Hamlet
The Hamlet Project uses booze and ad hoc interpretation to rekindle your love for the Bard.
Hamlet holds a sacred place in the canon. It’s been done in both the literal and figurative sense by everyone from Laurence Olivier to Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Hamlet Project, however, may actually add something.
The Edit: Photographer Rosy Torres
Writing yourself out of your statement
The key to a good artist statement is to dig into what the work is about. Perhaps calling an essay an "artist statement" is misleading, as artists generally seem to think it should be about them. Your artist statement should be a statement by the artist and about the work.
Law for Artists: Fair Use
The use of protected works balances unevenly between the First Amendment and the Constitution's copyright clause
Copyright law can be confusing, especially with the abundance of misinformation circulated. In a perfect world, artists, art dealers, art lovers, and everyone else in the art community would live in harmony and there would never be any conflicts. Unfortunately disagreements do arise.
Portfolios, Pitches and Projections: Overcoming Those Grant Application Blues
An interview with Allyson Esposito, Director of the Cultural Grants Program, DCASE
Budgets, work samples and artist statements haunt our efforts to get the free grant money we so richly deserve. CAR sat down with Allyson Esposito, Director of the Cultural Grants Program at DCASE, and herself a dancer, to give us some straight answers on how to calculate a budget, prep a portfolio and write a statement.
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