ArtSpeaks: Finding My Way Home
Presented by Woman Made Gallery & VibrantCast
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025 | 2–4 p.m.
Location: Woman Made Gallery, 1332 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607
ArtSpeaks is an ongoing series by VibrantCast that brings writers and artists together through creative dialogue. Writers are invited to engage directly with visual artworks and craft original written pieces inspired by what they see. During each live event, these works are performed aloud, allowing audiences to experience art through the fusion of image and language.
For this special collaboration, ArtSpeaks comes to Woman Made Gallery. Writers from across Chicagoland will share new works inspired by the exhibition Finding My Way, responding to its themes and featured student artwork.
The concept of “home”—whether seen as presence or absence, comfort or challenge, memory or imagination—serves as the guiding thread for the poets’ interpretations. Each writer offers a distinct perspective on what “finding home” means within the broader artistic conversation.
Join us for an afternoon of poetry, art, and connection—where creative voices meet across mediums and new insights emerge.
Featured Contributors: Le’Trice Buckingham, Lydia Burris, Lor Clincy, Devon Foster, KRO, Iris Orprecio-Price, and Myron L. Stokes
About VibrantCast: VibrantCast is a Chicago-based ArtTech company and platform that connects artists, galleries, and collectors. It offers tools for building portfolios, discovering events, and selling artwork. Through initiatives like the ArtSpeaks series, VibrantCast fosters community by pairing writers and artists in live creative experiences. The platform also provides an app to help users find nearby art and cultural events.
Admission: Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Recent Event: Monica Ong and Visual Poets in Conversation
Event Date: Sunday, September 21, 2025 | 2–4 p.m.
Location: 1332 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607
WMG’s Literary Events Curator
Jae Green – WMG Literary Events Curator Jae Green has been connected to Woman Made Gallery since its earliest years at the Ravenswood Manor location on Chicago’s northwest side. She is a visual artist, writer, and published poet who joined the WMG Board of Directors in 2020 and also serves on the Program Committee. In 2022, Jae co-juried Generations, Woman Made Gallery’s 30th Anniversary exhibition, in collaboration with Marisa Miles, WMG’s current Board President. 
WMG’s Former Literary Team
Nina Corwin Much gratitude goes to Nina Corwin and her years of service as WMG’s Literary Events Curator until Covid prevented us from planning any public events. Nina is a published poet, Founding Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and psychotherapist/advocate for victims of sexual assault. She is the author of two books of poetry, The Uncertainty of Maps and Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints. Her work has appeared in ACM, Forklift OH, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Review, Verse and has been nominated for the Pushcart prize. Corwin is an Advisory Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and co-edited Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art By Women. She has read and performed her work across the country, at times set with musical or choreographic compositions.
Thank you Angela Narciso Torres, for your wonderful work and support for WMG and our past Literary Program! 
Jennifer Steele Thank you Jennifer Steele for your service as WMG Literary Events Outreach Coordinator for several years. She is a published poet and educator and serves as Partnerships Coordinator for Teen Services at Chicago Public Library. She served as co-founder and co-curator of the Revolving Door Reading Series. Her work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Callaloo Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Warpland Journal, So To Speak, and others, and is a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop fellow. She has taught creative writing and digital media arts across Chicago since 2008 and has collaborated with numerous youth organizations and cultural institutions, designing innovative arts programming.
Kurt Eric Heintz We are grateful to Kurt Eric Heintz who served as WMG’s Literary Events Audio Recordist through 2019. Kurt once taught computer graphics programming at Columbia College, and worked as an independent web developer. He’s since become the lead video director at Britannica. Kurt is known for his poetry videos, begun in the early 1990’s. He also video-conferenced his colleagues’ poetry in the late 1990’s — years before Skype and the iPhone. He was a technical advisor to the Electronic Literature Organization in its earliest years, and is the video content editor for Another Chicago Magazine.
Woman Made Gallery is supported in part by grants from The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Illinois Arts Council Agency; the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Illinois Arts Council Agency; the Puffin Foundation; a major anonymous donor; and the generosity of its members and contributors.