Thanks so much to Newcity for including me in their “Chicago’s Visual Vanguard 2019”, and for featuring me on the cover as this year’s Art Leader of the Moment!
As executive director of the Comfort Station, the community-focused multidisciplinary art space in Logan Square, Jordan Martins is a master of weaving sometimes disparate parts into a vibrant panoply. Thanks to support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Comfort Station hosted ten artists from Brazil this August in a cultural exchange program, with the intention of encouraging creative discourse around ideas such as the African diaspora and contemporary Latinx/Latin American identities.
Jordan Martins sees the administration of Comfort Station like he sees his art practice: as collage-making, a deft layering of a multiplicity of pieces which work together to create ambitious art programming.