Writing

Published in MPLSART.com 

May 10, 2023

https://www.mplsart.com/written/2023/05/each-one-was-heard-a-personal-essay

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ArtDreamerBlog by Brenda Olson

June 2, 2023

https://www.brendaolsonart.com/artdreamer-blog/chriscinque

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Artist Talks

YouTube Chris Cinque

Form+Content Gallery

"Picnic in the Apocalypse"

September 1, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihF2_3kJDkY

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YouTube Chris Cinque 

Hopkins Center for the Arts

"Beyond the Reach of Words"

June 24, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgVC0forczQ

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Collections
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Private Collections:  Mexico City, Mexico, Fort Worth, TX, Bloomington, MN, Chicago, IL, Evanston, IL, Minneapolis, MN, St. Paul, MN, Chapel Hill, NC
 

Memberships
Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis; Walker Art Center, Artistry, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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Career History

When I was teaching ELL to adults in Chicago and then in Minneapolis, I started making collages. This solitary occupation balanced the very public work of teaching. Being alone with magazines, glue and a blank mind energized and engaged me in the same way that doing art as a child had. After many years, I left teaching to pursue art full time.

Before I was a teacher, I was a theater artist for 20 years: playwright, actor, and director. In addition to working with various companies, I toured my one-woman trilogy of plays, Growing Up Queer in America, throughout Minnesota and the United States, including NYC, Los Angeles and Seattle. I received a Bush Artist Fellowship, two Jerome Foundation grants, and two Minnesota State Arts Board grants for my theater work. I was a core writer at the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis.

The people I met as a teacher and theater artist and the work we did together has made me who I am as a visual artist: concerned, focused, and ebullient.

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Education

Mentored by artist/educator Elizabeth Erickson

2016 to 2019
 

Form + Content Gallery

Minneapolis, MN,

Intern 2018, 2019

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Grand Marais Art Colony

Grand Marais, MN 

Classes with Elizabeth Erickson, Lynn Speaker, and Hazel Belvo

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Women’s Art Institute

St Catherine University, St. Paul, MN

Teacher’s assistant, 2018; Student, 2016

 

Split Rock Arts Program

University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

2008, 2010 Workshops with artist Clive King

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University of Illinois

Chicago, IL 

MA in Linguistics with a specialty in TESL 2000

 

Winthrop College

Rock Hill, SC 

BA in English with a minor in Music