Welcome to Art in Chicago. Pages of Art and Culture.
Our new focus is on promoting the importance and necessity of the HISTORICAL ARCHIVE in the artist’s work.
When we started around 1998 there weren’t many websites dedicated to Latino culture in Chicago and then I saw the need to open our own media outlet. It has changed over time and it will continue to change over and over again. With the creation of the Arte y Vida online calendar compiled by Amor Montes de Oca, the need to offer a calendar of events became secondary, time for new directions to define the final search for what is really needed in the field of Latino art information in Chicago.
I strongly believe that an independent, commercial free voice is an important asset forart communication.
Now, when at the beginning of the internet there was almost no cultural information, this site fulfilled an important function; Now with the new era in information and social media, having a site dedicated to events has become obsolete.
I think that the Latino culture in Chicago is not something isolated, nor can it be considered independent from the culture of the other ethnic groups, since these have been merging and in the new generation there are mixtures of young people who belong to more than one linguistic, cultural and etnic group, and right in front of us what used to be isolated groups begin to mix.
Therefore the focus should be THE CULTURE, in general, without ethnic labels that separate and isolate artists and limit their participation in cultural life in Chicago.
Miguel