Homeroom supports and instigates new multidisciplinary collaborations, performances, and projects featuring Chicago artists.

Blank Box is a new and ongoing program by Homeroom to commission original multimedia work that is collaborative and performative, encouraging artists of multiple platforms and media to think, work, and create using structured improvisation.

Blank Box presents work by artists working in contemporary experimental time-based arts, including sound/music, video/projections, dance/movement, theater/lighting/scenery, puppetry/sculpture, and other performance-based and installation arts.

Image: Blank Box: water%holding by Ro(b)//ert Lundberg, Nov 16, 2023 at Constellation Chicago, Photo by Ricardo E. Adame

Comfort Music + is a weekly performance series curated by Homeroom every Thursday in April at Comfort Station.

Comfort Music + presents music acts combined with another performative medium, including video, dance, spoken word, and puppetry!

Image: Comfort Music + on 4/25/24: “Pax in the Frozen Time” featuring Gordon Fung, Sam Anthem, Lorenzo Osterheim, and Omnia Sol. Photos by Ricardo E. Adame

Homeroom Residency is a new initiative to provide reliable, paid performance work to Chicago artists. The residency gives artists space to develop existing collaborations and explore new ideas. Residency is directly supported by individual donors.

Image: 2024 artist-in-residence Spectralina, photo by Scott Teresi

Started in 2009, Ten x Ten is a collaboration between visual artists and musicians exploring visual and auditory interaction. By challenging artists to conceptualize their work across media, Ten x Ten asks participants to stretch and expand their creative process.

The project results in an album featuring new musical works and a book of corresponding screen prints.