Have a burning desire to write about the works of art you love – and those you don't? Come and find out what some of Chicago’s most notable freelance art critics and reviewers have to say about breaking into the field.
Reviewing the Arts Panel Discussion
October 19th @ 6:30 p.m.
731 S Plymouth Court
Panelists:
Bill Dahl ’77, author of Motown: The Golden Years, is a music critic, reviewer, and regular contributor to countless record publications. Dahl is also a Motown historian and has written liner notes for hundreds of recordings. In 1998 Dahl was nominated for a Grammy in the Album Notes category for contributing to Rhino’s boxed set Ray Charles Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection. In 2000, he received a Keepin’ the Blues Alive award for journalism from the Blues Foundation in Memphis, and in 2004 Dahl received a Lifetime Achievement Award from B.L.U.E.S.
Margaret Hawkins is a Chicago-based writer, art critic, and teacher. She is a weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, a Chicago correspondent for ARTnews, and a regular contributor for National Public Radio, as well as a number of other national and local art publications. Hawkins also teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
J.R. Jones' fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the
Kenyon Review, the New Virginia Review, the San Diego Reader, New York Press, and other publications. Since 1996 his primary outlet has been the Chicago Reader, where he's written about books, movies, pop music, and people and places around town. Among his best-known Reader pieces are "Prove It All Night," about the recently closed Lakeview Lounge in Uptown.
Kerry Reid ’87, spent several years working as an actor, writer, and director with several small theater companies in Chicago after receiving her degree from Columbia. In 1993, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she wrote about theater for many publications, including the East Bay Express, Back Stage West, and the San Francisco Metropolitan. Upon her return to Chicago in 2000, Kerry began writing theater reviews for the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Tribune. Her work has also appeared in American Theatre and the Village Voice.
Donna Seaman is an associate editor and reviewer at Booklist, a review magazine published in Chicago by the American Library Association. Seaman selected and introduced the fiction anthology, In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness and is a regular contributor of reviews and essays to the Chicago Tribune, Ruminator Review, Speakeasy, and TriQuarterly. Seaman has also contributed articles to the Scribners' reference series, American Writers and the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Seaman hosts the radio show Open Books on WLUW, and Loyal University Chicago's community radio station. Seaman recently published a new book, Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books, which just received a favorable review by the Chicago Sun Times.
James Yood teaches contemporary art history and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Active as an art critic and essayist on contemporary art, he is the Chicago correspondent to Artforum and tema celeste, and also writes regularly for GLASS magazine, American Craft, Aperture, and Art and Auction. In addition to lecturing at many museums all over the country, Yood is a consultant to Encyclopaedia Britannica in modern and contemporary art and a regular correspondent to WBEZ National Public Radio in Chicago. A prolific author of many books, Yood has also served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
