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Cunningham, an alum of President Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign and subsequent White House, reimmerses us in the full swing of that first race to November. Great Expectations’s topline narrative is focused on the landmark campaign of an unnamed Black senator from Illinois, as experienced by a young Black staffer working the campaign, coming to the job with curious eyes, new to electoral politics.

Victoria Chang’s multiple-award-winning literary work is diverse in form and focus, but there are some beautiful constancies, such as a deeply sensitive ear and eye for the many flavors of human emotions, especially the ones that are so difficult to express eloquently: loss, depression, the soul weariness that affects us all, especially now.

In this imaginatively orchestrated show, Zurich-based curator and author Dieter Schwarz has creatively assembled a huge wall of Robert Moskowitz’s drawings, reproducing verbatim the arrangement that had been posted on the artist’s studio wall. It’s an enlightening and moving tribute to Moskowitz, who died just days after the opening of the show.

Isabel Boutiette lives in South Bend, Indiana where she is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Notre Dame. She hosts a weekly study hall and monthly creative writing club for incarcerated students at the Westville Correctional Facility. Before moving to South Bend, she lived in Madrid, San Francisco, and Seattle, where for a few years she worked at the poetry press Wave Books.

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