Photo: Anders Nilsen, Anatomy of a Vacant Lot, 2010-11. Ink and white-out on board; 23 × 35 inches/Image courtesy of the artist
Chicago Comics: 1960s To Now (Museum of Contemporary Art) An exhibition celebrating Chicago’s decades-long cartooning history, the creative community’s thinkers and makers, as well as the medium at large. Chicago Comics: 1960s To Now also highlights the work of underrecognized BIPOC and women comic artists—an invaluable contribution to the evolution of cartooning beyond the city’s limits. Opens June 19
Greek-born Vasia Rigou is a journalist, editor and multimedia content producer largely on the subjects of visual art, culture, architecture and design. She currently serves as an Editor at Newcity, Chicago’s leading culture publication, as Writer and Copy Editor at the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) HQ, and regularly contributes to international architecture and design magazines OnOffice and ICON. She has experience creating content for brands and building conference speeches and influential TEDx talks. Simply put: she’s fascinated by finding out the great stories behind the people, places and objects that surround us, and by sharing those stories with the world. When she’s not writing about art or looking at art—wine in hand—she makes lists for pretty much everything, drinks immense amounts of coffee and takes cross-country road trips every chance she gets.
