Rather than being about something in particular, the lecture gestures toward "aboutness." It touches on the specifics of the creative process and how to have it compliment the habits of your own mind.
Alex Chitty (b. 1979, Little Havana, Miami, FL) grew up between the United States and Britain. Chitty studied theater, literature, botany, marine biology, and fine art at Smith College (BFA, 2001) and earned her MFA (2008) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Through shifts in context, display and function, Chitty’s practice draws attention to how gender, emotion, politics, and culture are intrinsically embedded in the images, objects, fashions, and overall infrastructure of everyday life. She has exhibited nationally and internationally with conceptually layered works that combine multiple artistic disciplines, materials and techniques. Chitty is a professor in the Printmedia, Sculpture and Ceramic Departments at SAIC in Chicago.