Homeroom supports and instigates new multidisciplinary collaborations, performances, and projects featuring Chicago artists.
Current Programs
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: THE ROBOT IS PRESENT by GoldGrrl on 6/13/25 at Theatre Y, Photo by Lola Selby
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 4/10/25 featuring Owen Lowery (projections) and Kim Nucci (electronic sound), Photo by Lola Selby
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.
Work In Context: The Cliff Dwellers Sessions
Work In Context is a new interview podcast series celebrating Chicago creatives — their histories, work, methodologies, principles, ambitions, and more. Hosted by Chicago author Richard Reeder, each episode features a different Chicago-based creative ready to share the lessons they've learned and the ideas they've cultivated. Conversations take place by the fireplace at The Cliff Dwellers, a club for members engaged in or supportive of the arts, located in downtown Chicago.