1 CHF at Home: Spring Festival Online The Chicago Humanities Festival goes digital and you can attend inspiring and empowering conversations, panels and consult reading lists and round-ups from the comfort of home. Ongoing
2 Design Museum of Chicago: Virtual Conversation Series Virtual events, online exhibitions and conversations kick off with “Raising Products,” a behind-the-scenes look at the design process and its relation to fabrication, branding and artisanship. Ongoing
3 Chicago Architecture Center: CAC@Home With sixteen events offered remotely, CAC@Home connects you with designers, authors, historians and special guests who talk art, architecture and design. Ongoing
4 IIDA: Collective D(esign) Weekly Webinar Series Since their first episode, “Responding to Change,” a discussion on how the design community adjusts to the new normal, the IIDA keeps design-focused dialogue alive and well. Ongoing
5 Digital Tour: Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Your chance to check out some of the most iconic sites throughout the city and surrounding suburbs through virtual tours, online resources and family activities, courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. Ongoing
Greek-born Vasia Rigou is a Chicago-based art critic and pop culture journalist, largely on the subjects of contemporary art, design, and fashion. She moved to Chicago in 2013 to study Arts Journalism at the School of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC,) where she was awarded the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship. She grew up to appreciate art after years of carefully planned, culture-filled travel itineraries and museum-hopping around Europe with her family. During this time, she received a bachelor’s in English Literature, in her native Athens; a master’s in Media, in Nottingham, UK; and studied foreign languages—English, German, and Spanish at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her writing—reviewing museum exhibitions, gallery shows, art fairs, fashion shows, and music festivals among others—has been published nationally and internationally both in print and online. In 2017, she founded and now serves as editor-in-chief of Rainbowed.—an independently published website focused on the visual and performing arts, digital media, and popular culture. When she’s not writing about art or looking at art—wine in hand, she keeps up with Chicago’s creative entrepreneurial and startup community, makes lists for pretty much everything, drinks immense amounts of coffee and takes cross-country road trips every chance she gets.
