Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

07/30/2025

Portable Gray (PG), interdisciplinary in scope and dedicated to experimentation, offers a forum for artists and scholars to consider how collaboration can enrich their practices and foster new discoveries. Encouraging contributors to play with artistic and literary forms and modes in order to challe...

07/02/2024

Dear kind people of Facebook, Please take a moment to check out this interview on Colossal by Grace Ebert with artist vanessa german. It is GREAT!
The Gray Center Fellowship Exhibition | vanessa german: at the end of this reality there is a bridge—the bridge is inside of you but not inside of your body. Take this bridge to get to the next, all of your friends are there; death is not real and we are all dj’s, opens July 19th at The University of Chicago's Logan Center Exhibitions.
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vanessa german refers to love as an "infinite human technology" and discusses what it means to make work with honesty at the core.

12/19/2023

A writer and dancer reflects on some of the performances and events of 2023 that celebrated the vivid complexity of our lives.

12/19/2023

a href= https://www.logancenter.uchicago.edu/ target= _blank The Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry /a announced a long-term collaboration with self-t

11/07/2023

The Fall 2023 issue of Portable Gray: Borders, Edges, Language
is not available online!

This issue of Portable Gray looks at the interchanges of how borders are formed and transgressed by and through language, and stakes out the felt edges of both and even the edge of material edges. Contrarily, contributions in this edition demonstrate that if language is a vehicle for communication and agreement, it is necessarily the space where meaning gets confused and precipitates contestation.

Featuring contributions from Tom McDonough, Iman Issa, Leah Feldman, Slavs and Tatars, Susan Gzesh, Nazafarin Lotfi, Tiffany Chung, Mark Philip Bradley, Rande Cook, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, Kelly Richardson, Paul Walde, Nikki Sanchez, Stephanie Smith, Itamar Francez, Duncan MacKenzie, Christian Kuras, Stephanie Cristello, Tina Post, Nicky Ni, Ellen Wiese, Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil, Jessica Musselwhite.

Portable Gray is excited to announce the introduction of the Portable Gray Review (a.k.a. PGR)! This new section explores an unconventional and wide spectrum of arts and culture. PGR is free online!

***Did you know that you may already have online access to the entire catalog of Portable Gray? The journal is free online to students, staff, and faculty at any institution that subscribes to Portable Gray or the Complete Chicago Package (CCP) from the University of Chicago Press. Search your library's collection of online journals or ask your librarian if they subscribe to Portable Gray or the CCP. You can also support the work of the Gray Center with your very own subscription. You can find more info here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/subscribe/pog.html

On the Cover:
Tiffany Chung, reconstructing an exodus history: boat trajectories from Vietnam and flight routes from refugee camps and of ODP cases, 2020, embroidery on fabric, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment and through the American Women’s History Initiative, Photo by Lucia Martino.

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04/03/2023

Join us this Wednesday, 6pm for a conversation with artist Tiffany Chung and curator Zoe Butt, moderated by the Gray Center's Zachary Cahill and Mark Bradley, Faculty Director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

The event is free and open to the public | Food and drink will be served | Co-presented by the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/events/sidebar-empowering-method-with-zoe-butt-and-tiffany-chung

10/31/2022

Portable Gray issue 9: "Arts of Psychoanalysis"

10/11/2022

Please join us on October 20th, from 6-8pm as we welcome the Chicago Abortion Fund to our SIDEBAR conversation series to talk about their ground-breaking research project "Shaping Change."
The event is free and open to the public.
Food and drinks will be served.
Please note advanced registration is required.
For more information and how to register please visit: https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/events/sidebar-chicago-abortion-fund-shaping-change

SIDEBAR: Chicago Abortion Fund, Shaping Change // October 20, 2022, 6pm

03/10/2022

Last day to visit the ON DRAWING DRAWING ON exhibition is this Sunday, March 13. Join us to celebrate with a closing reception from 2-4pm in the Logan Center Gallery. All visitors to the reception will receive a complimentary issue of Portable Gray.

Join us for a celebration of the ON DRAWING DRAWING ON Exhibition. Visitors to the reception will receive a complimentary issue of Portable Gray.