Alum Colin Self Featured in Interview Magazine
In a recent Interview Magazine feature, School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Colin Self (BFA 2010) opens up about their new album, a moving and experimental sonic tribute to queer leaders and spiritual resilience. In conversation with longtime friend and fellow musician Eartheater, Self discusses everything from post-apocalyptic sound design to embracing vulnerability through unprocessed vocals. The interview offers insight into Self’s creative process—one that draws from early influences like puppetry and shadow archetypes, while challenging binaries between the sacred and profane. For Self, art is not about spectacle, but about radical softness, honesty, and transformation.
Alum Jennie C. Jones (BFA 1991) redefines sonic sculpture atop the Met in her new rooftop commission.
Photo Credits - Amir Hamja for The New York Times
Left to right: Ensemble includes three standing sculptures that are inspired by both musical instruments and the Minimalist tradition, plus a fourth flat work that demarcates a kind of stage. The artist Jennie C. Jones at the Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum. Details of Ensemble. Photo Credit: Amir Hamja