After living in the city for the last ten years with a nice little network of artist/friends, I am once again in awe by the fact that I don't know much about the great organizations that are out there for artists. This week we were asked to critique one of these organizations known as the Experimental Sound Studio (ESS), "a nonprofit organization founded in 1986, dedicated to the promotion, production, presentation, and preservation of innovative and diverse approaches to the sonic arts, and to the integration of these art forms into the public." This studio is located in the Ravenswood neighborhood in Chicago and is a great resource for us "teaching artists." I appreciate how it is fairly inexpensive to join the group and offers a great deal of sound equipment to work with for a reasonable hourly rate. Moreover, this group offers workshops and an artist in residency program.
In terms of the website's design, I like the less is more approach that it seems to have. For starters, I thought that their logo at the top of their site is nicely designed and catches your attention. Moreover, I appreciate the simple organization of this site's design. Everything was easy to find and navigate through which in my mind, makes it a really great site. It also offered a good amount of images placed throughout each of the pages for those of us who are more visual.
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something that many of us visual artists don't engage with often is sound, and ESS is a great place to start checking out the sound art community. lots of great projects, shows, and workshops. glad you enjoyed it!
i like to think that their residency program was inspired by ragdale's, where i used to work. ;) actually, the guy who runs ESS is a long-time artist-in-residence at ragdale. i get really excited when i see residency programs popping up in chicago organizations!
i loved their logo too - but i just wish it didn't take up the whole width of the page. it just seems to massive for a logo. the sound waves from the "i" though is pretty awesome.
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