SAIC Partnership
(2020-2021)
With the Chicago Black Social Culture Map (CBSCM), we have the end goal of creating an online database that allows a wide range of audiences to access historical and cultural documents relating to Chicago House music. We approach the process of archiving as a social, community-driven practice with the aim of intersecting and interacting with a wide range of institutions, grassroots efforts, and practitioners. Through our collaboration with students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), we worked on exploring how the CBSCM could exist online in different forms and platforms. For the duration of two semesters, the students learned how to work with Omeka, transcribed primary materials for the archive, wrote short research articles to support the materials, assisted on creating social media content, and curated a digital exhibition that exists in this page.
Articles
Cultural Call and Legislative Response: Harold Washington in Harmony with Chicago House
by Haley Bergeson
By Gabriela M. Trinidad Pérez
Partying as Protection, Liberation, and Resistance
By Kathryn Cua
Where to Gather Together for the Queer Groups?
By Yi Chen
Exhibition Space
Curated House Playlist
Social Media Work
SAIC TEAM
Kathryn Rose Cua
Writer, editor, and cultural organizer based in Chicago. Kat graduated from the University of Missouri in 2018 with a BJ in journalism and a BA in art history. She is currently an MA candidate in the Dual Degree program for Modern and Contemporary Art History & Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Kat has dedicated her work in arts and culture to imagining and building new systems that support the expansive vision and lived experiences of emerging queer, trans, and BIPOC artists and arts workers. Through her curatorial, administrative and editorial practices, Kat is committed to creating experiences and producing scholarship that validate alternative modes of understanding and knowledge production. Kat’s professional experience in the arts spans curatorial work, development, arts administration, and communications. She has worked in galleries and museums such as Sager Braudis Gallery in Columbia, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She will be a Resident Fellow at the Residency Project in Pasadena, California, in the summer of 2021.
Haley Bergeson
Choreographer, writer, and arts and culture facilitator based in Colorado. Haley graduated cum laude from Chapman University in 2018 with a BFA in dance and a minor in art history. Additionally, Haley has trained at schools such as the San Francisco Conservatory for Dance, LINES Ballet, Colorado Conservatory of Dance and University of Southern California. She has worked with and been influenced by artists such as Ido Tadmor, Dwight Rohden, Bobbi Jean Smith, and Stephanie Zalatel. Currently, she is working towards a dual degree in Modern and Contemporary Art History and Arts Administration & Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Through a longstanding dissatisfaction with the sustainability and functioning of performing arts organizations, Haley has become ardent about advocating for sustainable and self generating artistic production and creative practices within these contexts. She believes dancing is good for your spiritual health.
Yi Chen
Photographer, arts & cultural practitioner based in China. He got his bachelor in psychology, BA. At the same time, he minnored with sociology & art (photography). Being a student who studies arts administration & policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since Stp. 2020. His photography project centered with the community who experiences depression disorder and his personal life worried.There is an important to build up a “space” for people to engage with the arts. Hoping to work with emerging artists who use art to self care, or therptic from the arts. Introducing the power of healing which art can do and using this function of art to take care of people. Yi’s practice among the human resource development & training, community building, artistic practice. He committed to facilitating an accessible space for people to engage with art and art therapy which provided more possibilities awaking people's inherent energy to heal themselves.
Gabriela Trinidad-Pérez
Caribbean arts professional, artist and student enrolled in the dual degree program in Modern and Contemporary Art History and Arts Administration & Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned a BA in Sociology and Art History from the University of Puerto Rico. Her academic practice engages an interdisciplinary approach in the sectors of queer and gender theory, visual culture, cultural identity, and contemporary art like photography and film. Through her work as a cultural administrator and educator, she focuses in contemporary artistic connections between the United States and Puerto Rico, while also working in spaces that foster, promote and cater to queer, BIPOC, Latinx and Caribbean communities.
Previously, Gabriela has held positions in the academic magazine Visión Doble, the production company Como Imágenes, and at the research center CRiiAS. Currently, she works as a Teaching Assistant in the Art History and Academic SPINE departments at SAIC, and she is a Graduate Peer Advisor for students seeking professional development. This upcoming summer, she will be participating in the Learning and Public Engagement program at the Art Institute of Chicago.
During her free time, Gabriela holds an artistic practice centered in mosaic, hoping to bridge the gaps between craft and contemporary art.
