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Sixty is a worker-led collective and publishing platform dedicated to supporting and promoting the art, archives, and writing of Indigenous, diasporic, queer, trans, and disability communities in Chicago and the Midwest. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
From November 26 to January 4th, we will not be reviewing new pitches, collaboration proposals, or other requests, in order to truly rest and nourish ourselves, our loves, and our communities. Publishing on our website and social media will slow. We wish you rest, warmth and joy this winter. ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Work with us! Sixty is hiring up to ten Regional Resource Editors and one Critic-in-Residence Program Editor. These positions are remote and open to anyone based in the Midwest. Learn more and apply: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/about/join-o...
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“Aanin. Boozhoo. Gimaadaadizimin noon gom.” (Hello. Greetings. We are starting now.) This is the opening invocation of the Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak, a Minnesota radio station that broadcasts bilingually in English and the Ojibwemowin language. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tuning-away-...
TUNING AWAY FROM MECHANIZED LISTENING: Gimaadaadizimin: Ojibwe Radio Elders Broadcasting Language, Sound, and Ancestral Memory - Sixty Inches From Center
Meet the Ojibwe community behind Minnesota's WTIP Community Radio.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"and what they won’t tell you is that half of it is yours..." Chicago’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate E'mon Lauren explores femme rage, racialized beauty standards, class, lineage, and hustling to make ends meet in three new poems. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/finessing-is...
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Light dazzles. It tricks, it confounds. A turn of the light. Katy Kim reviews Jarod Lew's "Strange You Never Knew" at University of Michigan Museum of Art: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/strange-you-...
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Amalia Tenuta interviews Zante Moore about their debut solo show IJBOL Fields at Chicago's Happy Gallery, and about growing up online, race, loss, and the emotional weight of digital culture. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/memes-as-mou...
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"Why would you even be a poet if you weren’t willing to bare yourself to yourself?" Two poets connect on shared experiences of living with disability, and dive into the background that drove the poems which blossomed into a debut book: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/hardly-creat...
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Outfitted at UIC's Gallery 400, "Don’t mind if I do" adventurously models accessibility and accommodation. Read the review by by Lucas Gòmez-Doyle: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/in-access-we...
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Sixty's Art Picks is a monthly calendar of art exhibitions and events all over the Midwest, curated by Sixty editors in collaboration with our friends at The Visualist. Explore what's happening near you: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/november-art...
November Art Picks - Sixty Inches From Center
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for November 2025.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Veronica Kirin interviews Harriet Berg, Penny Gardner, and Grace Stinton— three Michigan women whose art, teaching, and advocacy has had lasting impacts across the Midwest and beyond: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/your-impact-...
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Una activación de Marquette Park a través de la Residencia Curatorial Anchor inspira esta reflexión ecfrástica por Carlos Flores: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/lo-que-la-ti...
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Emily Gastineau, a writer embedded in the latest dance work of Minneapolis-based artist José A. Luis, examines the process of transforming writing to choreography to performance. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/work-rest-lo...
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In this animated comic by Carlos Matallana, an immersive sound healing experience by Jamila Woods and chamber music collective D-Composed combines music and movement. Read the comic: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/bonding-in-s...
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Megan Bickel spoke with Simon S. Belleau about the wires, seams, and scripts of the spectacle that change the way we experience time and politics on screen that the artist interrogates in their recent exhibition, Thousand Telephones at Letters to Nora. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/dialogue-wit...
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In Indianapolis, new classical classical music collective Sound Ecologies is cultivating a thriving new music scene. Read the interview by Camille Arnett: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tuning-into-...
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In scent artist agustine zegers’ latest exhibition at UIC's Gallery 400, the smell of petroleum summons memory and emotion to explore our paradoxical tenderness for man-made toxins. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-toxin-thre...
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Last July, Mrittika Ghosh attended the 2025 Social Conference at Chicago's McCormick Center. While she arrived wondering how the wider left sees art, she left with the question: how can artists make revolution irresistible? sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/in-service-o...
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
2025 Bemis Center Critic-in-Residence Pia Singh reflects on inter-connectedness and upheaval in the struggle to save the planet's water from capitalism in the exhibition “Great Lakes, Great Plains” sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/at-waters-ed... @bemiscenter.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Pharmacy receipts become a paper trail and paraphernalia of a personal medical record, testifying to the body as a fragile, relational archive of evolving needs in Katz Tepper’s exhibition at Prairie Chicago.

Read the review by Noa Micaela Fields: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/patient-xero...
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Sixty Inches From Center
Looking at a map of northern Illinois, you’ll find Rockford halfway between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River; this post-industrial city also represents a midpoint in my coming of age.

My review of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY, @sixtyinchesfromcenter.org:

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Midway to Home: A Review of The Rockford Anthology - Sixty Inches From Center
A look at Belt Publishing's new book "The Rockford Anthology" through the eyes of a writer reconsidering their relationship to their hometown.
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August 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Let’em cook.” “Stop it. You can’t say that. It’s not you,” Mateo chides. “What’chu mean? That’s what our generation says, don’t they?” Read Chenoa Baker's conversation with her brother about "We Built This: Making Through Migration" at Zhou B Art Center: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/art-in-sibli...
October 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A look at “The Rockford Anthology” from @beltpublishing.bsky.social through the eyes of Emily McClanathan, who reconsiders her own relationship to the town she spent much of her teens in. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/midway-to-ho... @emilymcclanathan.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Cincinnati-based artist Michael Coppage’s sculptures embody the tension, vulnerability, and physiological violence of Black life interrupted by police encounters. Asa Featherstone IV documents Coppage's studio and labor in a new photo essay: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/inside-micha...
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
While contemplatig Olivier Assayas’ 1994 coming-of-age film “Cold Water” and the writing of David Wojnarowicz, Riley Yaxley tries to make sense of the transformative — and risky — potential of friendship with men: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-risky-se...
October 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"The group disperses around the space to explore every creak, bang, ding, bell, tick, and hum...." Livy Snyder reflects on a sound walk through Chicago’s pedways with Allen Moore: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tuning-away-...
October 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM