March 2024 Issue: Supper Clubs (Digital Edition)

Life, Death and Redemption A conversation with Selva Aparicio"Chicago-based artist Selva Aparicio uses careful preservation of discarded or displaced things in her artworks to question and celebrate memories contained within them. Aparicio’s upcoming solo exhibition 'In Memory Of' at DePaul Art Museum will be the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date. Aparicio, like many contemporary artists, works with a broad range of different processes and materials. In one artwork she painstakingly sews cicada wings together; in another she cements thousands of dandelion seeds to the surface of discarded objects."  (Frank Geiser) Theo Theophany A storefront theater’s journey to inclusivity "Back in the early years of the non-Equity storefront theater company known as Theo—which began as Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre—it was pretty much founder and artistic director Fred Anzevino’s show. And done on a very short shoestring. 'I did it all, you know?' says Anzevino. 'I was