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Image: The hands of artist Dorothy Burge can be seen holding a magenta-colored fabric flag with yellow lettering that reads, “My Humanity is Bound To Yours.” Behind the flag you can see glimpses of the bold patterns and bright colors of the outfit Burge is wearing. Photo by Joshua Clay Johnson.
Image: A collage of images featuring fallen yellow leaves on the ground, dense branches against a cloudy sky, and people gathered around a silver boom box sitting near a bright red barn. Image by Bri Robinson.
Image: A glossy collage of magazine cutouts including various women and text from Ebony magazine are presented against a vibrant orange background. Illustration by kee mabin.
Image: Abu and Anna, 2023, Jarod Lew. Archival pigment print. Two people sit on a deep green leather couch. One is sitting upright, wears a purple vest, and has pink curlers in their hair. The other person is slouching and wears a red tracksuit. A large gold vase filled with tall red flowers sits on a coffee table in front of them. Image courtesy of the artist.
Image: An illustration made up of large sections of purple, green, blue, pink, and red with wide, white lines running through the middle. Small stars and hearts of different colors are clustered in groups and scattered throughout the image. The top right corner has four different sized and colored rectangles; one has a black swirl drawn in the center, another a red flower, the third and fourth are abstract animals. In the center, five silhouettes are connected by their hands. The bottom right corner has a framed red square with text reading: "There is space within." Illustration by Alexis Stein.
Image: Don’t mind if I do installation view, 2025. An installation view of Don’t Mind if I do, featuring the conveyer belt table centered between a grey couch with colorful pillows and various style chairs placed loosely around the table in the space. The words “don’t mind if we do flowing we” hang on the white wall behind the table. Photo by Jonas Mikosch Müller-Ahlheim.
Image: A digital illustration of Grace Stinton, Penny Gardner, and Harriet Berg at the center of the image inside of a stitch quilt. They are posing and smiling. Behind them are examples of their works–including beaded and quilted objects. The image is framed with stitched white lines. Illustration created by Julia O'Brien.
Imagen: Porta(til) Performance, foto del vídeo de Ruby Que. Carlos Flores frente a una pared de ladrillos pintada de rojo, caminando con una carretilla construida por el mismo. Cortesía del curador. / Image: Porta(til) Performance, video still by Ruby Que. A person in front of a red-painted brick wall, walking with a self-constructed wheelbarrow. Courtesy of the curator.
Image: Jose A. Luis (left) and D. Hunter (right) pose while seated in front of the mirror in the dressing room of Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis. Image by Wordsworth Musinguzi.
Image: A black and white comic cover image features two illustrated characters. One is playing a sound bath and the other is sitting on a yoga mat. The title "Bonding in snuggle" is in a black font on the upper left corner and the lower right continues, "Jamila Woods & D-composed review by Carlos Matallana."
Image: Installation view of a corner of the gallery. On the left, the artwork Speech Assistance Machine (Leonard Cohen’s Democracy, 1992). Materials include a Fruit shipping box, 3.2-inch Raspberry Pi LCD screen, birch plywood frame, and video. On the right, is an artwork titled Self-portrait as a table. It includes eleven printed photographs on twenty layers of upcycled posters. Image courtesy of Letters to Nora.
Image: An analog paper collage that features a textured black-and-green background/ At the center is an image featuring imagery of leaves and foliage layered underneath torn image fragments of natural foliage, a violin orchestra. At the top left is an orchestra conductor’s hand pointing a conductor baton toward a mushroom that features music notes beneath it. Image created by Bri Robinson.
Image: transformación bentónica, 2024. Seabed stone on a white striped pedestal. Image courtesy of Prairie, Chicago.
Image: Four performers dance onstage as part of the 2025 Socialism Conference at Chicago's McCormick Place convention center. The four performers are bending at the knee while balancing with their backs resting in each other's lap with their arms raised into the air. Image credit: Sarah-Ji/Love + Struggle Photos.
Image: View of Platte Basin Timelapse River of Time, 2011-2025, single channel video (color); 1 minute, 48 seconds. Courtesy of Platte Basin Timelapse at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Image by Colin Conces.
Katz Tepper, Zipper From a Smaller Time Shirt (“monarch butterfly flew very close to me”; “You owe $400”), 2025. A white cotton t-shirt is suspended from the ceiling on a wooden dowel rod frame in front of a window. The t-shirt is interwoven with various materials, including a medical bill, gingko leaves, a dirty government document, newsprint, an alcohol swab with a blood stain, alcohol swab wrappers, seeds, fiberglass insulation, syringes and their wrappers, wood dust, fishing line, a kid’s jacket remnant with a metal zipper, thread, tape, quilting pins, etc. Image courtesy of Prairie Chicago.
Image: Installation view from We Built This: Making Through Migration. Pasaporte de Abelardo Montoya by Keny De La Peña is a large textile artwork resembling a Mexican passport. The left panel shows the gold emblem and text “MEXICO PASAPORTE,” while the right panels recreate passport pages one blank, the other featuring a Muppet-like character as the ID photo. Image courtesy of Zhou B Art Center.
Image: “You Belong Here” by Laura Gomel (foreground) and Brett Whitacre (background), photograph by Alan León. A black and white photograph of two billboard-sized signs that each say “YOU BELONG HERE”. Courtesy of Belt Publishing.
Image: Detail of Michael Coppage in his home studio handling his bronze sculpture, “Hands behind your back,” depicting a hyper-realistic human waist and legs in a kneeling position. Michael stands at the back of the sculpture dusting the bare feet of the sculpture. Photo by Asa Featherstone, IV.
Image: A drawing of a man seated and holding a flower. His face is downturned, and his shirt and pants are unbuttoned, revealing his hairy chest and abdomen. The image is rendered in deep blues and purples. Illustration by Sammi Crowley.
Image: Layered digital collage on a black background featuring backwards text around an ear with hands around it in a school hallway. Green colored tape and paper is laid on the top and bottom of the image. Image by Bri Robinson.
Image: On a white table with colored pencils, a black and white image of blues singer Nina Simone with a painted replica of the image underneath. A brown hand grazes the edge of the table. Photo by EdVetté Wilson Jones.
Image: View of a large painting positioned above a shelf full of board games over the top wood tables and chairs. The painting is from the Chicago Imagist tradition. It features a triptych of stylish women in various stages and experiences in their lives. Behind one of the woman is a smiling devil hanging on a fabric that started flowing out from one of the homes in the row of building behind the women. Photo by Tonal Simmons.
Imagen: Collage hecho para Sixty por Darien Hunter Golston, inspirado en Holy Fire de Haughvilles escrito por Nasreen Khan. // Image: Collage by Darien Hunter Golston, inspired by Haughvilles' Holy Fire written by Nasreen Khan.
Image: a close up on the openings of black tubes stacked in a hive-like rows. Inside each tube are small golden, bronzed, and silver stamps of various shapes. Some appear to be flowers, one is a castle tower, another is a skull and crossbones, others are abstract shapes. Image by Ian Carstens.
Image: Layered paper collage on green. The head of a figure wearing black headphones is framed in the center of the collage. Image by Bri Robinson.
Image: Wan Loo Soo playing a viola solo while referencing her sheet music on a music stand, with Brayan Enriquez’s photograph on the wall behind. Photo by Lilah Powlas.
Image: A photograph of two large textile looms side by side in a bright, sun-lit room. A person's arm can be seen working with materials on one loom, while the other loom displays a piece in progress. Photograph by Ian Carstens.
Image: Installation view of Seeds: Containers of a World to Come at the Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis (February 21–July 28, 2025). Photo by Joshua White / JWPictures.com. In the foreground is Juan William Chávez's installation, Seed Blanket (Decolonize the Garden: From Seeds to Bees).
Image: an illustration by summer mills of a pair of hands sewing a beaded eye onto a crocheted bird. To the left are several spools of colored thread and to the right is a bright red tomato-shaped pin cushion.
Image: Close-up of collaged pages in Jade T. Perry’s journal. Perry’s hands are placed on the colorful pages. One of her hands points to the lower half of the page. It is possible to make out text at the top of the page and it says, “Slow is Good.” Photo by Tonal Simmons, created for the Sixty article Disabled Sanctuary: Interview with Jade T. Perry by carrie sarah kaufman.