Sound in 3 Forms

In collaboration with the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, the SAIC Arts Administration and Policy Graduate Team (Inés Arango, Erica Cheung, Sidney Mori Garrett, Sigrid Neptun, and Maya Ortiz Saucedo) presents Sound in 3 Forms, a trio of sound-based content including an elevator soundscape titled 30 Seconds, 3 Trumpets: Centering Black Women and Girls in Native Son; a three-part podcast titled Inside Hypocrisy of Justice: Sights and Sounds of the Black Metropolis; and a collaborative, open playlist. Each project offers a different moment of introduction into the significance of Richard Wright’s Native Son, the roots of the Hypocrisy of Justice symposium and performances, and perspectives on routes of agency in the current Chicago landscape.

SAIC Arts Administration and Policy Graduate Team

Maya Ortiz Saucedo is a curator, artist, writer and researcher from Chicago, IL. Born and raised within Humboldt Park and Pilsen, her work revolves around studying the effects of art, artists and arts institutions on housing, space and community. After receiving her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018, she worked and interned at various museum institutions, including the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, IL and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY. Her writing has been featured in The Latinx Project NYU's publication Intervenxions (Adopting Performance: A Conversation with Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez, Sept 1, 2020), and most recently in the publication Digimyths (Notes on Navigating the Colonial Universe, 2021). As a curator and researcher, she has focused on Latinx Art, specifically within the US. Her most recent work as a researcher has been Maelstrom: A Visual Essay with artist Teresita Fernández (Nov. 2020)  and recently curated the group exhibition HILOS at LatchKey Gallery, New York.

Erica Cheung is a Chicago-based arts professional, writer, and artist. Building on prior experience in the commercial art world, she is currently a first year student in the Dual Degree MA Arts Administration and Policy and MA Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her primary areas of interest include contemporary photography, immigrant and diasporic narratives, futurist modes of thinking, and the structure and function (or lack thereof) of arts institutions. Within her arts practice, Erica is interested in Asian American identities and the tensions that arise through these identities’ various intersections with popular culture and media, traditional immigrant family values, the environment, and race relations in America. Her personal work manifests itself in a range of media, including photography, text, collage, and experimental sound and video. Erica received a BA in English and Visual & Dramatic Arts with a concentration in Film/Photography from Rice University

Sigrid Neptun (she/her/hers) is an arts administrator, dancer, and visual artist from the Chicagoland area. Previously, she interned with various arts organizations, including the Boston Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Arts and Business Council of Chicago, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In these roles she supported volunteer management, development, marketing efforts, contracts and company management. Looking forward, she is interested in further developing her administrative practice and exploring systems of support and methods of resource development.  Currently, Sigrid is a graduate student studying Arts Administration and Policy at SAIC, the Development intern for the Chicago Dancemakers Forum, and the Graphic Designer for Companion Cooperative. She holds a B.A. in English from Boston University with a minor in Visual Arts

Sidney Mori Garrett is a Chicago, IL based curator, arts organizer, and artist. She is originally from Houston, TX. She graduated from the University of Houston in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Media. Garrett has created work that has exhibited nationally and internationally at Alabama Song Art Space, Blaffer Art Museum, Art Licks Weekend and Wedge Gallery, among others. Her written works have been published in Byline Houston, Gulf Coast Journal, and The Smartest Thing. In 2017, Garrett performed in Scales with Solange Knowles at the Chianti Foundation in Marfa, TX and later continued to work with Knowles in 2019 for When I Get Home. She has also curated exhibitions for Project Row Houses Community Gallery and ICOSA’s 2020 Open Space exhibition. Her practice acts through inclusivity, mindfulness, and challenging the traditional, hetero-normative, white-centered art spaces. Garrett has held previous positions at Lawndale Art Center, Barbara Davis Gallery and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, while also serving as an Artist Board member for Art League Houston from 2018-2019. She is currently Curatorial Assistant and Art Coordinator at Project Row Houses and a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago studying Art Administration and Policy.

Inés Arango-Guingue is a curator, artist and writer from Bogotá, Colombia. She has organized exhibitions in Bogotá, New York City, Barranquilla and Cali, and led residencies and art education programs in Colombia and Chicago. Believing in art’s potential to mobilize ideas and shift paradigms, Arango-Guingue is committed to radical and irrational femininity, engaging with contexts that explore non-rationality as a change-inducing practice. She most recently curated and facilitated Fantasmas Y Paratexto (Ghosts and Paratext) at Museo del Banco de La República in Bogotá, a five-month long residency and exhibition program financed with a grant awarded by the city of Bogotá. She is Assistant Curator of Athénée Press, a contemporary art publishing house working closely with contemporary artists to create research-driven books that explore the intersection between site, language, and cultural memory. As part of her work there, she is currently collaborating with The Calder Foundation and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s EMPAC in Athénée’s upcoming book “Tuning Calder’s Clouds”. As part of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Master of Arts Administration and Policy’s 2023 cohort, Inés is co-editor of the department’s journal, Emerge and a Graduate Fellow of SAIC’s Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice.