arts & culture Archives - The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/arts-culture/ Investigating race and poverty since 1972 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:18:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/logo-1-reverse-1-150x150-1.png arts & culture Archives - The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/arts-culture/ 32 32 163009088 How a Black Community Theater Helped Transform an Artist and Her Art. https://www.chicagoreporter.com/how-a-black-community-theater-helped-transform-an-artist-and-her-art/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/how-a-black-community-theater-helped-transform-an-artist-and-her-art/#respond Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:18:06 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=7847339 “I’ve had many really beautiful experiences. But that doesn’t mean that my gas wasn’t cut off over the years, or that I didn’t get my car repoed once or twice,” Dorian Sylvain said, laughing. The Chicago-based multi-hyphenate—artist, curator, and educator—sat behind a desk in her light-soaked Kenwood gallery, surrounded by scattered canvases and paper collages […]

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