We’re on Summer Break!

Written By Michael Workman

Thanks for Tuning In!

Bridge Magazine is now on our regularly scheduled summer break—thank you for reading, commenting, and staying engaged with us throughout the year.

As we pause, we're excited to share updates on our forthcoming print magazine, set to launch in late fall 2025. This long-planned publication builds on the editorial work of our online magazine and expands our mission into print, with a focus on post-graduate and underrepresented arts communities in Chicago and beyond.

Throughout the past year, with support from the Poetry Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, NEA, and Hyde Park Art Center's Artist Run Chicago Fund, we’ve created and verified the foundation of a new custom distribution list to replace the now-defunct Small Press Distribution. This infrastructure allows us to circulate the print magazine by subscription and through targeted delivery to independent stockists, cultural spaces, museums, and libraries in Chicago, New York, and select cities nationwide and internationally.

The print magazine is a critical new component of our publishing model—and the foundation for a future distribution network dedicated not just to Bridge, but to other independent and DIY artist-run projects. After launch, we aim to open submission channels for new titles and collaborations.

Stay tuned by subscribing to Bridge Mag in print ahead of the launch here—and thank you for being a part of the Bridge community.

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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