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As part of Sixty Inches From Center's partnership with the Chicago Artists Archive at Harold Washington Library, artists from across the city are invited to bring images, ephemera, an artist biography and anything else that tells your artist story, to be documented and formally processed for submission to this important archive.

Chicago is a city where artists work and are of the working class. Join WBEZ and Young Chicago Authors for a rich discussion, where those gathered will be reading and sharing and working towards the building of a Chicago "cannon" to debate the Chicago aesthetic.

This Spring’s One Book, One Chicago selection, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, is a collection of short stories by Yiyun Li where the author examines the concept of kindness - a theme echoed throughout the book - but most deliberately in the short story entitled “Kindness.” In this

We have entered a strange and in some respects welcome cultural moment: people across Chicago and the nation are talking, writing, and even yelling about teachers and teaching. From the length of the school-day to the relative merits of teaching corps vs.

Join us for an intimate conversation with Carlos R. DeJesús, Assistant Principal and Director of the UrbanAgriculture initiative at Pedro Albizu Campos High School.Last March, the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School opened its first rooftop greenhouse.

Celebrate a decade of the award-winning One Book, One Chicago program by taking part in its tenth anniversary celebration this fall. Attend a discussion of The Adventures of Augie March by Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow at this WBEZ Community Bureau, facilitated by station staff.