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Featured images
Selected page from the mock test booklet. Designed by Kanyinsola Anifowoshe and Bao Nguyen.
Courtesy of the artists.Participate in an interactive performance in the form of a Fluxus-inspired standardized test, hosted by B<span class="character-match">ảspano Nguy<span class="character-match">ễspann and Kanyinsola Anifowoshe. The artists, current high school seniors, will facilitate a conversation about the emotions and politics involved in testing following the performance.
In Progress is a series designed to give patrons a look into the process of artists, thinkers, and curators. Youth-led events are organized by Grace Needlman, Manager of Youth and Family Programs, and Ellen Chu, Coordinator of Family, Youth, School, and Teacher Programs.
About the Artists
Kanyinsola Anifowoshe is a seventeen-year-old Nigerian American artist who is usually thinking and writing about the architecture of justice, radical hope, and building new art histories. She is editor-in-chief of Wahala Zine, a platform for the creative work of young people in the Nigerian diaspora, and host of The Now podcast where she interviews young creatives. She is also a co-organizer with two organizations intended to amplify the power of young people within activism: Fempowerment Chicago and Youth for Black Lives.
B<span class="character-match">ảspano Nguy<span class="character-match">ễspann grew up in Vietnam and currently lives in Skokie, Illinois. Through performance art and sound, they explore limitation and miscommunication in language.
Anifowoshe and Nguy<span class="character-match">ễspann are members of the Teen Creative Agency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where they design public programs with other artists.