Natasha Mijares
nmijares57@gmail.com / 305-332-2351
EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Master of Fine Arts, May 2017
Writing
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Bachelor of Arts, May 2015
Majors: Creative Writing and Studio Art
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI; “Animals in Space” (June 30-July 28)
2017 MECA International Art Fair, Recinto Serra, Incensarium, Santurce, Puerto Rico (June 1-4)
MFA Show, Sullvan Galleries, Chicago, IL (April 28-May 18)
Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University, University Park, IL: “Object Poetry” (February 20-May 20)
Page Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: “The First Animals in Space”
(February 23, 2017 – May 2, 2017)
TCC Chicago, Chicago, IL; “Her Environment #5: Public Pool” (January 25-February 8)
2016 HistoryMiami, Miami, FL; “Miami Zine Fair” (April 30)
Girls’ Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; “Small Press Fair” (November 12)
2015 Rainbow Building, Miami, FL; “10th Annual Salon de Refuses Exhibition” (April 10-25)
2011 Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL; “Poem Tree” (October 21-23)
Locust Projects, Miami, FL; “The Lab” (July 9-August 31)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 David L. Hoyt Education Foundation; “Word Play Way” (August 23)
2017 Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble & Poetry Center of Chicago; “Body Passages“ (August 19-20)
2016 Poetry Center of Chicago, Chicago IL; “Six Points Reading Series”
Page Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; “Square of Opposition” (May 2016-February 2017)
COLLECTIONS
2016 Watering the Bed, Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL (artists’ book)
2015 mister missus missus missed, Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL (artists’ book)
2014 Peter Pan, Otto G. Richter Library, Miami, FL (artists’ book)
COMMISSIONS
2017 HOW TO HOLD YOUR EARS, Container, http://acontainer.co/ (artists’ book)
INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS, AND CRITICISM
2018 Sixty Inches from the Center, Writing at The Club: A Look at the State of the Dance Circle, March 12
Poets & Writers, Reflex/Response: Kaveh Akbar at the Poetry Center of Chicago, Feb 20
2017 Sixty Inches from the Center, Inside & Outside of the Book: A Look at the Self-Reliance Library and School, October 19,2017
South Side Weekly, The Full Range of Beauty, April 11, 2017
2016 South Side Weekly, Producing Dialogue, October 19, 2016
F Newsmagazine, Intimate Complications: Aricka Foreman’s “Dream with a Glass Chamber,” August 21, 2016
F Newsmagazine, The Artist’s Toolkit and Cultural Reckoning: Iranian photography at MoCP, June 6, 2016
F Newsmagazine, Combing Through the Split, April 7, 2016
F Newsmagazine, The Dark Noise Collective: A Profile, April 28, 2016
JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
2019 Ginger, How to Find the Celia Cruz In Everything
Knell, Survival Sounds
Collective Terrain, Yellow Warbler
2018 Oyez Review, A day is rubbed between its knowing and its happening
Gravity of the Thing, the dead things on our back, Ghost Fields
Hypertext Review, Covey, For Every One or Multiple, Nerve Net
2017 Rye Toast Publishing, Watering the Bed
Collected, Observation of a Discrete Time Crystal: The Play
Animals in Space: A Memoir, Changekey
2016 Calamity, Merry-Go-Round
Vinyl Poetry, Solo
Vine Leaves Literary Magazine, Epistaxis
Vine Leaves Literary Magazine, 5,482 Drawings of Annie Albers “Untitled,” 1932
2014 Bear Review, Mirage
BAOBAB: Vol III, The Problem with “Yes”
2013 BAOBAB: Vol II, Holey
2011 Elysium Literary Magazine, Soundtrack to an Escape
Elysium Literary Magazine, Movement II: Sleeping Invader
Elysium Literary Magazine, Sweet Embers
READINGS / PERFORMANCES
2019 Volumes Bookstore, Chicago, IL; “Huynh, Alessi, & Mijares Reading,” October 27, 2019
The Nightingale, Chicago, IL; “Writers for Migrant Justice,” September 4, 2019
City Lit, Chicago, IL; “Oyez Review Launch,” May 8, 2019
2018 The Book Cellar, Chicago, IL: “Hypertext Review Spring Edition Launch,” May 4, 2018
2017 Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL; “No Assholes,” November 7, 2017
65GRAND, Chicago, IL; “HYDRA” performance of exhibition text for solo exhibition by Danielle Rosen,
February 25, 2017
2016 DePaul School of Music Reading Series, Chicago, IL; “Lyrical Tangents,” October 27, 2016
Uncanny Specimens Series organized by Aesthetics of Research at Columbia College of Chicago, Chicago, IL; “Animal, Vegetable, Monster,” September 28, 2016
2015 Comfort Station, Chicago, IL; “Her Environment,” December 9, 2015
Chicago Cultural Center for The Poetry Center of Chicago, Chicago, IL; “Poets Look at Paintings,” November 18, 2015
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Transitions,” October 11, 2015
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Rachel Perlmeter’s “The Dvorak Project,” October 5, 2015
2014 O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami, FL; “Lit Crawl,” April 25, 2014
The Found Poetry Review, Minneapolis, MN; “AWP JamPoree Reading,” February 9, 2014
TALKS/LECTURES
2018 Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL; “How to Find The Celia Cruz in Everything,” October 4, 2018
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; “Body Passages,” April 22, 2018
Visiting Artist Lecture at Marwen
2016 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; “Revisitations” an MFA Grad Lecture, November 19, 2017
ARTICLES, REVIEWS
2019
See the Poem Hidden in Mural at Chicago Park
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/word-play-way-chicago-512106642.html
There’s A Poem Hidden In This New 150-Foot-Long Word Search In Douglas Park https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/07/01/theres-a-poem-hidden-in-this-new-
150-foot-long-word-search-in-douglas-park/
2018
Meet Natasha Mijares
http://voyagechicago.com/interview/meet-natasha-mijares-artist-writer-curator-educator-chicago-il/
2017
Raw Talent Refined: A Preview of “Body Passages”
https://www.newcitystage.com/2017/08/15/raw-talent-refined-a-preview-of-body-passages/
‘Body Passages’: Embodying Poetry
http://fnewsmagazine.com/2017/08/body-passages-embodying-poetry/
Lit 50’s #23 The Poetry Center of Chicago
https://lit.newcity.com/2017/05/25/lit-50-2017/3/
New Media Art Makes New Art Worlds, review in New City
http://art.newcity.com/2017/02/09/new-media-art-makes-new-art-worlds/
HONORS & ACTIVITIES
2017 AICAD Teaching Fellowship, Nominated, SAIC
Lucille Wert Memorial Scholarship, SAIC
Edes Fellowship, Nominated, SAIC
MFAW Teaching Fellowship, Nominated, SAIC
2016 LeRoy Neiman Scholarship, SAIC
2016 Small Grant, SAIC
2015 Small Grant, SAIC
2011 National Society of Collegiate Scholars, UM
2011 National Silver Key Scholastic Writing Award, Honorable Mention
TEACHING
2019 Chicago Public Library “As It Is Written, So It Shall Be Done”
2018-2017 Teaching Artist, Chicago Poetry Center, January 2018-October 2018
Teaching Artist, 826 CHI, December 2017
Teaching Artist, Turning the Page, October 2017-October 2018
National Louis University, Writing Specialist, September 2017-June 2018
Saucedo Scholastic Writing Workshop, June 9, 2017
Ag47, Chicago, IL; Teaching Artist, February 19, 2016
2016-2017 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Teaching Assistant, Printmedia Practices (Fall/Spring)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Teaching Assistant, Thesis Seminar (Spring)
2016-2017 Open Books; Writing Coach
2015 Bethel Gibson Community Center; Teaching Artist
2011-2015 Sylvester Cancer Center; Teaching Artist
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2020 Swarm Residency, online
2018 Winter Tangerine Writing Workshop – Orchids Without Stems, online
Open Mouth Reading Series Writer’s Retreat, Fayetteville, AR
See Chicago Dance Residency, Chicago, IL
2017 Home School, Hudson, NY
2014 Everglades Wilderness Writing Expedition, Miami, FL
NYS Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
CONFERENCES
2019
Free Minds, Free People Conference “Rise Up For Your City”
Arts Education Conference “Stitching/Unstitching Messages
2018 &NOW Writing Festival, South Bend, IN; “Containing Obsession: Experimental Forms, Invasion, and What Consumes Us”
Popular Culture Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN; “The Spoon as Variable: Quotidian Measurements”