TransActions Publication

TransActions Publication TransActions is a socially engaged arts newspaper and dialogue. Artists and Educators Jim Duignan (Chicago) and Fiona Whelan (NCAD Dublin) present a series of perspectives on ethics, the city, aesthetics, labor, education and art through the questions around socially engaged arts between their communities within Chicago and Dublin. Through the form of generated […]

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Forward, Together Forward Memorial

Forward, Together Forward Memorial Approx. 8’x12’ Projected Stories on Sheer Sheets, 2013 On February 14, 2008 at Northern Illinois University, a former student opened gunfire on a lecture hall, killing five, injuring over thirty, and rocking an entire community. As a student on campus that day, I have my story, as do others. Yet, our […]

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Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords

Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords Exhibition at Art In These Times, 2012 Regarded by some as innovative grassroots organizers and others as violent criminals, the history of the Chicago gang, the Conservative Vice Lords Inc. provides a lens for understanding the potential of grassroots organizing in urban communities.This […]

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