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Margaret Hawkins is a Chicago-based writer, critic, curator and teacher whose weekly art column in the Chicago Sun-Times has run for 20 years. She is Chicago correspondent for ARTnews and her criticism and commentary have appeared On Chicago Public Radio and in a number of national and local publications including American Craft, Art and Auction, The New Art Examiner, Photograph, Dialog, Camerawork and Chicago Artists' News. Her essays in books include "Art Crimes, Context and the Problem of Graffiti" in [de]construction, edited by Christopher Hauck (United Writers Press, Atlanta, GA 2006), and "Newspaper Criticism, Context and the Huh/Wow Factor" in The State of Art Criticism, edited by James Elkins (Taylor and Francis, London, 2007). Hawkins teaches writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Lake Forest College. She has taught Workshops at Connecticut College, The Ragdale Foundation, The Milwaukee Art Museum and The Clearing, to name just a few venues, and recently judged the Ragdale Foundation 30th Anniversary show at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Art on Paper show at the Evanston Art Center. After years of writing about art, Hawkins began curating last Year. Her first exhibit, a select survey of Chicago area figure painting called Spirit and Psyche: the Figure Transformed, opened in October of 2006 at The Art Center in Highland Park, and she is now working on a mid-career retrospective of the Work of Chuck Walker for the Hyde Park Art Center. Hawkins is currently curating two exhibits for Joan Taxay Weinger: a retrospective at the North Shore Art League, scheduled for October 2007, and The Rose Diary, which will open at the Chicago Cultural Center in August of 2008. |