Tempestt Hazel
Tempestt
Hazel
Tempestt Hazel is a curator, writer, artist advocate, and director of Sixty Inches From Center, a Chicago-based online arts publication and archiving initiative. She is also the Arts Program Officer for the Field Foundation of Illinois. Focusing primarily on reframing cultural archives and institutional collections, her exhibitions and projects have been produced with the University of North Texas, South Side Community Art Center, Terrain Exhibitions, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, the Smart Museum of Art, and the University of Chicago. Her writing has been published with Candor Arts, UChicago Press, Tremaine Foundation, Prospect.4, Alphawood Exhibitions, and Duke University, as well as various exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She is also the 2019 recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award from the Society of American Archivists.
Tempestt was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois then spent several years drifting through the San Francisco Bay area before moving to Chicago.
Projects with Candor Arts:
