NEWS: Bridge Welcomes New Poetry Section Editor Spencer Hutchinson

Written By Michael Workman

NEWS: Bridge Welcomes New Poetry Section Editor Spencer Hutchinson

Bridge welcomes new Poetry section Editor Spencer Hutchinson (@spencer.hutchinson.714). Spencer Hutchinson is a 2009 BFA Graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a 2020 MFA graduate from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he majored in New Media Art Studies and studied Art and Art History as a Continuing Studies Student through The Graham School at The University of Chicago. Hutchinson specializes in painting, drawing, poetry and sound based/new media works as well as critical writing on Art. Between earning his degrees, he has had his poetry published in the Crimson Umbrella Review at Indiana University, Bloomington and has acted as Chicago editor for the rebooted New Art Examiner.net beginning in 2018 writing reviews for several of Chicago’s top galleries including Rhona Hoffman, Kavi Gupta and Roots & Culture. Hutchinson has most recently had his drawings, sound work and poetry published in FENCE magazine based out of New York City after their first collaborative Residency with The Experimental Sound Studio based in Chicago.

Spencer Hutchinson lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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