Jan 10, 2022
In this episode, we talk to Jeffrey Michael Austin about taking things day by day, the importance of spending time with Mother Nature, their NFT work “Everything Must Go (Help Wanted),” the idea of ownership, and the possibility of "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society."
Jeffrey Michael Austin (b. 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Chicago. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions at Chicago Art Department, Heaven Gallery Chicago, Bert Green Fine Art (Chicago) and The Luminary (St. Louis, MO). Austin also composes, performs and produces all musical scores for Growing Concerns Poetry Collective, whose performance venues include The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Steppenwolf Theatre, NPR Tiny Desk Tour and the Smart Museum of Art. Austin studied at Columbia College Chicago and the Burren College of Art in Ireland before receiving their BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014.
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