In four new poems, Diego Báez writes about ICE raids in Chicago, biracial identity and masculinity, US intervention in Venezuela, and breaking intergenerational cycles.

Sixty is currently hiring for two positions, Administrative Projects Coordinator and Audience Development Coordinator! Learn more and apply at sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/about/join-o...

How is sculpture mimetic to the infinite scroll? Is there overlap to how we read the two? Mallory Shotwell considers how Amay Kataria examines the gap between technology and our capacity to understand it.

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Humboldt Park's biggest Puerto Rican celebration and parade is back this week, featuring new artwork, music shows and family festivities. blockclubchi.co/442d1zm

NEW — Chicago teens will have free access to select YMCA locations across the city this summer through a new partnership announced by Mayor Brandon Johnson and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. thetriibe.com/2026/06/chic...

Find a material way to support Black people this Juneteenth. https://bit.ly/4vB9kMV

there's one for the twin cities, as well as chicago, detroit, southwest michigan, and indianapolis! i contributed to the MSP list and made the image for it.

Join us TOMORROW at Elastic Arts as Vera Blossom, e'mon lauren, Diego Báez, Temperance Aghamohammadi, and Riley Yaxley share poetry and prose live on stage! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/sixty-on-s...

Our Detroit Resource List was edited in collaboration with Rukiya Colvin, a Detroit-bred queer abolitionist, organizer, activist, writer, and caregiver of land, their child, and their community. Explore the list: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/resources-to...

Browse and share our new list of resources for community self-defense, basic needs, solidarity, creative caretaking, and organizing in Berrien, Cass, and Van Buren Counties of SW Michigan: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/resources-to...

Join us on June 3, 2026 at Elastic Arts to hear from poets and creative writers published by Sixty Lit this past year, including Vera Blossom, e'mon lauren, Diego Báez, Temperance Aghamohammadi, and Riley Yaxley! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/sixty-on-s...

Writer Shivani Gupta and her mother share an intimate multi-generational conversation about the bonds of motherhood and the possibility of poetics: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/my-mother-is...

Explore and share our curated list of resources for community self-defense, basic needs, solidarity, creative caretaking, and organizing in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/resources-to...

Jen Everett shares the nostalgia, archives, and family history that lead to the heart of her artistic practice: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/opening-up-t...

Sixty is collaborating with local artists and organizers to expand our Regional Resource Lists to communities across the Midwest. Explore resources in Michigan, Minnesota, and Indiana: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/resources-to...

Jessica Zi Chen and artist Xingyu Huang on the convergence of living archives, ecology, and community: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/an-underwate...

Minimalism often reproduces systemic violence instead of critiquing it. Joseph Josué Mora’s work avoids this common pitfall. Read the review by Matthew Cortez in English y español: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/las-interven...

Check out this month's Art Picks, our calendar of art and community events across the Midwest: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/may-art-pick...

"At first, it’s funny, until discomfort sets in." Jen Torwudzo-Stroh reviews "Emancipation Park" by Magicfeifei at SkyART: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/unsettling-s...

Livy Snyder speaks to Virginia Shipp of The Vinyl Collectiv, a new organization in Chicago bringing together communities around records and the art of record collecting: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tuning-away-...

Want to know the essential elements of getting your work published by Sixty? Join Sixty next Wednesday, April 29th at 6:30 PM Central to learn the ins and outs of how to get published! RSVP and learn more at www.eventbrite.com/e/pitch-to-s...

Six decades after 32 men were arrested by police and publicly outed by the Chicago Tribune, artist and writer Samuel Schwindt went in search of one of these men, a sculptor, and discovered a specter in the archives: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-gay-sculpt...

Fennville, MI-based artist Rachel Meyers Hefferan reflects on caring for animals and materials through their whole life cycle, and the connections between fermenting and weaving: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/shepherding-...

In the first North American production of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek’s “Charges (The Supplicants)” at Theatre Y in Chicago, audience members witness a chorus of refugees in need. Annette LePique reviews: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/what-do-we-o...

At the ten year mark of Surf by The Social Experiment, member Nico Segal reflects on how the album represents the collective’s musical journey in Chicago: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-long-overd...

Exploring why we do what we do at Sixty in a new series of interviews inspired by Dr. MLK’s concept of “creative maladjustments:” sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/creative-ada...

Check out April Art Picks: Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest, curated by Sixty editors in collaboration with our friends at the The Visualist: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/april-art-pi...

In "Blue," féi iká shumarí dreams about her naturalization as a US citizen and the birdlike goddess Cihuateteo from Aztec mythology. Read more: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/blue/

Archivist Siobhan McKissic discusses the power of literally holding our histories in our hands and how she is working within the achives of Honey Pot Perforance with this mindset. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/chicago-arch...

Meida Teresa McNeal, Aisha Josina Jean-Baptiste, and Kimeco Roberson discuss the origins and evolution of Honey Pot Performance, a collective chronicling Afro-feminist and Black diasporic subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/chicago-arch...

In excerpts from her forthcoming chapbook “Behnt,” Temperance Aghamohammadi honors the relentless, transformative powers of grief while working against the orthodox tropes: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/skinning-the...

In portraits of four BIPOC Chicago photographers, Genesis Falls offers an invitation to witness what often goes unseen in photography—the emotional risk, the quiet discipline, and the deep care behind choosing to capture: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/to-create-is...

Our Resources Towards Solidarity, Care, and Community Defense is a continually growing list of resources for community across Chicagoland. Share with your loved ones, your neighbors, and your networks: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/resources-to...

Charlie Farrell interviews artist Allena Marie Brazier on the Mississippi river’s power and Influence on her practice in the context of a recent show at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-mississi...

In three poems, spoken word artist Lakota Kikyo explores a range of themes like financial hardship, white-supremacist colonialism, and spiritual rebirth: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/martyrs-thre...

Personal and collective histories lay at the center of "Shifting Tongues" curated by Danqi Cai at Kansas City's Charlotte Street Foundation: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/codifying-re...

Hakka artists Ivan David Ng and Hai-Wen Lin discuss the origins of their friendship and artistic collaboration and reflect on cultural mythologies of the sky and the folk art practices that inspire their work: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/mountain-cal...

Artists from a variety of backgrounds convene to tell their stories in the service to the community of St. Louis, Missouri. Read the photo essay by Tonal Mondae: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/bearing-witn...

In a “Close to the Clouds” curated by Curator-in-Residence Kathy Cho at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, nine artists explore the unfamiliar terrain of new technologies: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/encountering...

Check out Sixty's March Art Picks calendar for exhibitions, events, festivals and artist talks are happening in your corner of the Midwest! Arts Picks are curated by Sixty editors in collaboration with our friends at The Visualist. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/march-art-pi...

Ruby Que and Kat Bawden speak to Alicja Seledec about their joint exhibition "Kin," memory, collaboration, mothering, and vulnerability: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/remembering-...

In a sequel to her 2019 zine “The Wagons Ain’t Here Yet…”, Joss Barton confronts ongoing genocide, authoritarianism, and cultural violence and resists the necropolitical state through an epic, apoplectic transsexual liturgy: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wagons-wagon...

Chenoa Baker sees opportunities for the Sixth Architectural Biennial to be more radical in a moment shaped by the planning of the CTA Red Line Extension, ongoing debates around public housing, and continued displacement: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/through-the-...

Vera Blossom asks: does paying men for their time, insight, or bodies allow you to be truly unfiltered and selfish? sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/patronage/

Juanjosé Rivas speaks about leading a workshop during Co-Prosperity's Subversion Camp in Chicago last summer where participants were invited to build hybrid instruments from recycled and obsolete technology. Read more in english y español: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/sintonizando...

What can exorcism teach us about writing, gendered power, and agency? Christina Nafziger explores the question: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/arts-writing...

On October 9th, 2025, 150+ people attended Signal Overload, an evening of live video art, electronic music, film, and poetry at the Starlite Drive-In Theatre in Bloomington, Indiana. Ian Carstens reflects on the experimental gathering: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/reflecting-o...

En la última exposición del artista agustine zegers en la Galería 400, el olor a petróleo evoca recuerdos y emociones para explorar nuestra paradójica ternura hacia las toxinas creadas por el hombre. Lee más en español y ingles: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/una-toxina-a...

Wondering what exhibitions, events, and artist talks are happening in your corner of the Midwest? We've got your covered! Check out our Art Picks calendar for February: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/february-art...