SAIC Community Members Shape a Pandemic-Inspired Artists’ Residency

*The Tenders* performance documentation. Image courtesy of the *Third Coast Review*

*The Tenders* performance documentation. Image courtesy of the *Third Coast Review*

Associate Professors Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey and alum Abraham Avnisan (MFA 2015) helped shape a new artists' residency at the Public Media Institute (PMI): the Buddy Research and Performance Residency. Inspired by the pandemic and their performance project The Tenders, in September 2020 they launched their first season, entitled Re:Place, which is described as a “yearlong excavation of BIPOC and QT+ histories and futures of the region now known as Chicago.” Its first cohort includes alum Santiago X (MFA 2018) and Assistant Professor, Adj. Josh Rios.