Eve Ewing

Eve Ewing is a writer and visual artist from Chicago. She is a sociologist of education at the University of Chicago and an editor at Seven Scribes.[1] Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,[2] Poetry Magazine,[3] The Nation,[4] and The New Republic.[5]

Writing

Ewing is a poet, journalist, and academic. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the Pamet River Prize for a first or second full-length book of poetry or prose by a female-identified or genderqueer author. ProPublica named her Seven Scribes article on the fight to save Chicago State University to its list of "The Best MuckReads on America’s Troubled History With Race"[6] and at NPR, Gene Demby praised her "moving essay...about the fight over the future of Dyett High in Chicago."[7] She's also drawn notice for her commentary on subjects like colorism,[8] school choice,[9] race in publishing[10] and in visual culture.[11]

Ewing's first book is forthcoming from Haymarket Press in 2017, entitled Electric Arches.

Scholarship

Ewing earned a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, writing a dissertation on school closures in Chicago entitled "Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago’s South Side." Currently she is a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago.[12] Her appointment as assistant professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago begins in 2018.

Visual art

In addition to her writing and research, Ewing is a visual artist and in 2016 became the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Boston Children's Museum.[13] Her installation, "A Map Home," explored place and childhood exploration.[14] The project became the subject of a short film by Rene Dongo[15] and an episode of Coorain Lee's webseries, Coloring Coorain![16]

Ewing has also served as program and community manager at the Urbano Project, a youth arts and activism project in Boston.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Giorgis, Hannah (24 August 2015). "Stock Photos of Black People Are Finally Moving Beyond Racist Stereotypes". New Republic. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Ewing, Eve (21 September 2015). "The Housing History Behind Chicago's Public School Closings". The New Yorker. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  3. ↑ Ewing, Eve (April 2015). "to the notebook kid". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Ewing, Eve (February 16, 2016). "Visible and Invisible Women: 'Pairing Picasso' at the MFA". The Nation. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  5. ↑ Ewing, Eve (4 December 2015). "Rahm Emanuel's Next Scandal? Chicago's Public Housing". New Republic. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  6. ↑ Harris, Adam (24 February 2016). "The Best MuckReads on America's Troubled History With Race". ProPublica. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  7. ↑ Demby, Gene (September 14, 2015). "What We Lose When A Neighborhood School Goes Away". Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  8. ↑ McGirt, Ellen (28 June 2016). "Some Black Americans Found Jesse Williams' Speech Painful. Here's Why.". Fortune. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  9. ↑ Perez Jr., Juan; Richards, Jennifer Smith (January 8, 2016). "Chicago's neighborhood schools hurting as choice abounds". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  10. ↑ Kaplan, Sarah (September 8, 2015). "A white guy named Michael couldn't get his poem published. Then he became Yi-Fen Chou.". Washington Post. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  11. ↑ Giorgis, Hannah (24 August 2015). "Stock Photos of Black People Are Finally Moving Beyond Racist Stereotypes". New Republic. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  12. ↑ "2016 Provost's Postdoctoral Scholars | Provost's Postdoctoral Scholarships | The University of Chicago". provostpostdoc.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  13. ↑ "Artist in Residence Program | Boston Children's Museum". www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  14. ↑ Khvan, Olga (December 15, 2015). "Boston Children's Museum Launches Artist-in-Residence Program". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  15. ↑ Dongo, Rene (13 April 2016). "A Map Home with Eve Ewing". YouTube. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  16. ↑ Lee, Coorain (7 January 2016). "CURRENT Artist-in-Residence Eve Ewing Interview on Coloring Coorain!". YouTube. Coloring Coorain!. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  17. ↑ "The Urbano Project". urbanoproject.org. Retrieved 8 July 2016.

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