James Hosking
& Senn High School
James Hosking & Senn High School

James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art

Project Overview

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  • Artist — James Hosking

  • School — Nicholas Senn High School

  • Neighborhood — Edgewater

My CPS Lives 2022 – 2023 project focuses on LGBTQ+ youth at Senn High School. I will also be photographing a LGBTQ+ Senn faculty member, Meagan Zeman. They are the teacher who organizes Pride Club. Amid continued LGBTQ+ discrimination and fearmongering in American politics, this project is a way to convey and support the resilience and self-possession of today’s LGBTQ+ youth. 

During portrait sessions, I asked the students to handwrite answers to a few short questions: their first name, pronouns, where they feel their most authentic self, and their hopes for the future. I photographed in black and white on medium format film in a variety of locations that show Senn’s historic interior and exterior. I also captured empty landscape shots of the school’s vine covered walls and long interior corridors. 

Meet the Artist

James Hosking

James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art

I am a Chicago-based photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. My work has screened internationally and appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, and many other publications.

I developed a multimedia project examining identity, aging, and labor among veteran drag performers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. It included a documentary that I directed, produced, and edited entitled Beautiful By Night. I had a multi-year collaboration with the Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco that included screenings, public programming, and a solo photo exhibit of this work. The project was included in the 2020 group show Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It was the focus of a solo exhibition at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities gallery during January and February of 2022.

I am currently a 2022-2023 HATCH resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition. HATCH is a juried program for emerging and mid-career artists that offers the opportunity to develop new work and produce collaborative exhibitions.

http://jameshosking.com/

Visit their Website

I am a Chicago-based photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. My work has screened internationally and appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, and many other publications.

I developed a multimedia project examining identity, aging, and labor among veteran drag performers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. It included a documentary that I directed, produced, and edited entitled Beautiful By Night. I had a multi-year collaboration with the Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco that included screenings, public programming, and a solo photo exhibit of this work. The project was included in the 2020 group show Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It was the focus of a solo exhibition at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities gallery during January and February of 2022.

I am currently a 2022-2023 HATCH resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition. HATCH is a juried program for emerging and mid-career artists that offers the opportunity to develop new work and produce collaborative exhibitions.

http://jameshosking.com/

Visit their Website
James Hosking, CPS Lives, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Art

Previous Residency

Kathryn Rodrigues & Sullivan High School

Next Residency

Ludvig Peres & Mozart Elementary School

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