<p>Tempestt Hazel is co-director of Sixty Inches From Center: Chicago Arts Archive and Collective Project. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Visual Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago. Attending Columbia College and being immersed in the buzzing Chicago art scene has allowed Hazel to be very active in many different areas of the arts. During her time at Columbia College, Hazel has interned for Murphy-Rabb Art Consultants, Inc., acted as counselor for Columbia College’s Summer Arts Camp, independently curated shows and events with her grassroots arts organization RedeFINE Arts and the South Side Community Art Center, and worked as Assistant Gallery Manager and Curator at Gallery Guichard. She was also the Promotions Manager and a board member of Columbia College’s Art History Council. Recently, she helped German artist Achim Zeman install his site-specific installation at the 2010 Art Chicago International Fair of Contemporary and Modern Art and guest curated the inaugural exhibition at Phoenix Gallery in Chicago’s Pilsen Art District.</p> <p>She’s spent most of 2010 with the development department at the Museum of Contemporary Art, working as the curatorial intern at G.R. N’Namdi Gallery and as program coordinator for Studio Chicago and Chicago Artists Resource with Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs.</p>