Evan Fusco is a lecturer (that is lecturer, artist, writer, educator, publisher, host, bartender, etc.) based in Chicago, IL. They received a BFA in 2016 and an MFA in 2019 and have taken various classes since then taught in part or in whole by Sampada Aranke, Joseph Grigely, Romi Crawford, Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, Siddhartha Mitter, among others. They are a faculty and AICWU union member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Along with this, they run General Things Press and host the reading series General Readings. Pieces of theirs have been published, performed, contained, or shown in and/or at: Other Forms, MOCA Cleveland, Apparatus Projects, The Chicago Art Book Fair, Plates Journal, Carrol University, Prompt Press, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection. Currently they are building out the syllabus for an independent course they will be teaching outside of the institution, are working on a manuscript on “autistic thingliness,” and continuing to produce various publications for artists under their press. Amongst other things, ideas, and projects they have in the works.
 

photo: Leah Wendzinski