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The letters are in Spanish and in English, with a photograph of the immigrant families on the other side, many of whom she interviewed in person. She then sewed the letters into a hanging quilt, that can be read from both sides. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2790272498333756210281974274390/claire-before-and-after-jane-copy.jpg “Before and After Jane”, Claire Evelyn Jacobs, 2025 Inspired by the documentary, “Jane: An Abortion Service”, that we watched as a class, Claire is reflecting on the quality of care women received from the Jane Collective, and mourning the loss of that care in the current medical industry, even as we are grateful that abortion, at least in the state of Illinois, is legal. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2790610731210710626158676220246/sakura-creep-copy.jpg “Creep”, Sakura Melodie Acopian, 2025 Sakura flips the power dynamics in the relationship between a creepy record producer and the young girls of the popular group AKB48 in the recreation of popular merchandise associated with the Japanese Idol Groups. Her feminist twist shows the world who this man really is, complete with a tiny pair of handcuffs. “Yasushi Akimoto Japanese Record Producer and Lyricist Famous for creating and producing Japan’s top idol groups like AKB48..... Making underage girls sing songs about sex, saving their purity, and taking their school uniform off.... Creep” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2790614058542172921519048956246/IMG_9394.JPG “My Nudity is Not an Invitation”, Alannah Irmabel Ortiz Hernandez, 2025 “I am not just a body, exposed and vulnerable for your PLEASURE. My nudity is not an invitation- it is simply a form, an expression, a human shape. Why must my beauty imply desire? Why must I be reduced to a the parts you choose to see? I refuse to be carved down to your fantasies” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2790690499045709274697093814614/IMG_9382.JPG Final Critique, Chicago Legacies of Resistance and Resilience, Fall 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2800593801135009924912291191126/IMG_7346.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2800601780126585055389166278998/breathing-class-25.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2801674205943012337468970572118/virisbbfinal.mp4 Viris Olivarez, final installation performance for Breathing Bodies in Digital Worlds Spring 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2801675771794883034304259496278/Screenshot-2026-02-18-at-2.38.33-PM.png Viris Olivarez, final installation performance for Breathing Bodies in Digital Worlds Spring 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2801784333743002146440500156758/IMG_9416.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2801788046666755814551630322006/andybbfinal25_1.mp4 Andy Diane Brown, final installation performance for Breathing Bodies in Digital Worlds Spring 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2801791177153012099357377763670/Screenshot-2026-02-18-at-4.16.09-PM.png Andy Diane Brown, final installation performance for Breathing Bodies in Digital Worlds Spring 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2802335547838644433267129260374/breathing-bodies-poster-copy.jpg <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQT_A0cg_sSBtx0e13FC1DISgBbod9J9VoPeYE2_yY4if-kjiy-M_3rwJUnvEbRJalmfK7Yuu146m-e/pub" style="--font-scale: 1.51;" target="_blank">>>>>>>>>LINK TO SYLLABUS</a> Video installation, sound production, and 3-D world building with a lens of embodiment... How can we create portals into a desired reality that we can actually step into? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2802344055790605877365396937046/virtualworldstour25-copy.jpg A public event I organized to showcase the virtual worlds in New Art City made by my class and Joseph Belknap’s class, “Ancestral Simulations”, to whom I introduced the NAC platform as a means of showcasing the 3-D Blender work they were already making. This event took place as a final exhibition in May of 2025, and Joseph and I are planning another one for this spring. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2802377033514601793847269202262/chicago-legacies-poster-copy.jpg <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vST6AXTX8qGp_gu4pX4WGzBs602nv_8DuSVJdeXKHpv6pUOyocfHgmihpCAfwiyMcg_k4kP7bX76vzc/pub" style="--font-scale: 1.25;" target="_blank">>>>>>>> LINK TO SYLLABUS</a> Help students build a working knowledge of Chicago legacies of resistance and resilience through research, lectures, field trips, and exposure to media. Engage with local community organizations, learn methods of DIY organizing, production, and art making. Building on these experiences, find ways to incorporate their values and their community engagements into their art practice. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2802385778322757144376179628374/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-1.19.01-AM.png Chloe Chang, <a href="https://newart.city/show/chloes-world" target="_blank">New Art City virtual space</a>, Breathing Bodies in Digital Worlds 2025 I work with students in <a href="https://newart.city/" target="_blank">New Art City</a>, an online platform for building navigable 3-D virtual worlds. I love this platform because it is accessible, fun, and run by and for artists! Any image or video can be uploaded and turned into a drop-down menu of 3-D shapes that can than be arranged in space in an editing browser. Students can upload found or created 3-D objects, audio that can be spatialized, and links to PDFS. I have them each make their own space, and collaborate on a class space that contains “portals” to their worlds. I have done a lot of work at the school to share this tool with other teachers and secure a department wide liscense to support this work. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2811655668805414678720158308694/IMG_5037.JPG Cooper Heard Reed, final installation for Breathing Bodies in Digital Worlds, Spring 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2812840412234820759832364521814/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-6.16.41-PM.png The ARTS of the Music Video, trailer for Public Screening, Fall 2024 In this class students produced a 1-3 minute sound piece and created a music video for it utilizing skills from a series of workshops in stop motion animation, prosthetics and prop building, sewing and green screen. 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https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2812939876488570391375972342102/11_staples.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2812940107183551777187624851798/12_staples.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2812948613918028112421062121814/cfsnvcliveoak_012326.mp4 “the perfect girlfriend” Claire Fleming Staples and the New Vintage Chill (Zekarias Musele Thompson, Josh Wisman, Big Hongry, and Philip Laurent) Live in the Green Room, The Crown, Oakland, CA 2026 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2812950331457475327369993984342/cfsnvcliveoak_012326.00_00_09_01.Still001.jpg “the perfect girlfriend” Claire Fleming Staples and the New Vintage Chill (Zekarias Musele Thompson, Josh Wisman, Big Hongry, and Philip Laurent) Live in the Green Room, The Crown, Oakland, CA 2026 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2812959942949007492994767984982/pechakucha.jpeg “the perfect girlfriend”, Pechu Kucha, Martyrs, Chicago IL 2025 https://claireflemingstaples.com/the-burrow 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https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2755363347494081031619905788246/threshold-pamphlet-first-page-copy.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2755428135576767648022095403350/threshold-artist-bios-and-pics-pamphlet-01-copy.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2755428280402155370715785140566/threshold-artist-bios-and-pics-pamphelt-02-copy.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2755428767746687054048429283670/threshold-artist-bios-and-pics-pamphelt-03-copy-2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2764203698955494604740195981654/THRESHOLD-637.jpg <a href="https://www.ale-campos.com/" target="_blank">Ále Campos</a> & <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nextkatemoss/" target="_blank">Camila Arévalo</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2764204178238799127861766068566/THRESHOLD-370.jpg <a href="https://rubyque.net/" target="_blank">Ruby Que</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2764205204154470787218479192406/THRESHOLD-139.jpg <a 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target="_blank">Vince Phan</a>, 2023 https://claireflemingstaples.com/astrometrics-1 2026-02-25T23:04:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2534267298894155437610665187670/cfs-website-logo.png HOME https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2553295974415718120535259289942/astrometrics-murmuration-17.jpg “a shoulder to cry on”, Murmuration Gallery, Chicago, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2553298085055281546234736089430/astrometrics-murmuration-63.jpg “a shoulder to cry on”, Murmuration Gallery, Chicago, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2554318958918190908874340899158/edits-.00_06_46_11.Still003.jpg “the wolf in sheep’s clothing”, ASTROMETRICS, Elastic Arts, Chicago, 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2554319408908065842945143019862/Screenshot-2024-12-09-at-1.47.36-AM.png “the wolf in sheep’s clothing”, ASTROMETRICS, Elastic Arts, Chicago, 2024 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https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2764129982113720734777447225686/celeste-live-metro2.png Live interactive visuals for <a href="https://www.ale-campos.com/" target="_blank">Celeste</a> at Super Sapphic, Metro Club, Chicago, IL https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2813026904482421106077457652054/teaser-1080-Resilience_Apostolidis_Staples_2025-Copy-01.00_00_09_09.Still003.jpg Resilience, collaboration with Kyriakos Apostolodis, Open Signal:Video Art in Flux, San Antonio, TX 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2813349819810286012048622426454/Screenshot-2026-02-25-at-10.26.13-PM.png THRIVAL, live immersive projections for Carissa Pickney, with Kezia Waters, Avreeahyl Ra at High Concept Labs, Chicago 2024 https://claireflemingstaples.com/collaborations-with-brendan-fernandes 2026-02-25T23:04:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2534267298894155437610665187670/cfs-website-logo.png HOME 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https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2604367732124025344974265981270/turq-basket.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2604367964589894161862035446102/big-venus-fr-2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2604368031145746779806097676630/aliensexbong.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2604370654106733364640951507286/DSC_0113.JPG https://claireflemingstaples.com/application-portfolio 2026-03-01T01:54:20+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2534267298894155437610665187670/cfs-website-logo.png HOME https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2534284597088602885784468920662/05_witchhut4healing.jpg “time is a rubber band, “witch hut 4 healing” IMPACT Festival, SAIC Galleries, 2023 Haptic components installed in the furniture that vibrate with lower sound frequencies allow the viewers to stay somatically grounded while traveling through immersive digital space. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2534289299126773786201756735830/02_timeisarubberband.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2534348191537820724662702119254/DSC00939.jpg “time is a rubber band, 10 channel immersive multimedia installation, IMPACT Festival, SAIC Galleries, 2023 “time is a rubber band” is an ongoing work of multi channel video installation, interactive sculpture and online virtual worlds. Based on ethereal visions and transcendental experience, it is a mythic experience across time and into extradimensional locations, expanding our notions of what it means to be human: how we are now, how we have been in the past, and what we could be in the future. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2534408068783640270329189177686/time-is-a-rubber-band...-ocean-planet-cycle--video-still--2023.jpg time is a rubber band..., “the ocean planet cycle”, center channel still, 2023 I made these prosthetics to become my own ancestor, an aquatic creature on an ocean planet. In this three channel video cycle, I walk from one timeline into another to save her from a portentous demise. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2534408184315598403972110948694/time-is-a-rubber-band...-arcturus-New-Art-City-still--2023-.png “time is a rubber band”, still from Arcturus, New Art City, virtual world, 2023 I’ve been working on a large steel and ceramic sculpture, that you can stand inside and navigate a projection of this virtual world while the sound plays above your head. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2553298085055281546234736089430/astrometrics-murmuration-63.jpg “a shoulder to cry on”, ASTROMETRICS, Murmuration Gallery, Chicago 2025 ASTROMETRICS is the new media collaboration between <a href="https://hunterwm.art/" target="_blank">Hunter Whitaker-Morrow</a> and Fleming, exploring the utopian futurities and dystopian presents of science fiction through dual desktop projections, synthesizers, and spoken word. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2604352183142084686308694235478/Staples_Claire-2.jpg “Opening”, oil on canvas, 2021 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2604367250516431068565292390742/earvasefront.jpg “Ear Vase”, glazed ceramic, 2019 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2754113757210661715266878511446/movingthrough-still-01.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2754141348928109966328708143446/constant-innovation-elastic-still.png “constant innovation” collaboration with Odette Stout, live sound and performance, Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2809816389517282961391119440214/wrong-biennial-burrow-copy.jpg The Burrow is an online navigable world (explore it yourself at <a href="https://newart.city/show/the-burrow" target="_blank">https://newart.city/show/the-burrow</a> ) inspired by a tarot reading and discussion led by Claire Pentecost at the Wrong Farm Residency in 2025. This work is part of the Sorceror’s Grimoire Pavilion at the Wrong Biennale. Claire Pentecost, grace grace grace and I gave a talk on this work at Co-Prosperity Gallery in January of 2026. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2809822705165944965477725313366/staring-right-back-at-myself.00_07_55_14.Still007.jpg “staring right back at myself”, desktop performance, No Nation Art Gallery, Chicago IL 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2809934942480246811652449048918/time-to-relax-still-01w-laurels.jpg “time to relax” (excerpt), 2023, part of the SPACORE installation at MANA Contemporary in 2023 and Screened at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in 2024. A fifteen minute work break phone spiral into toxic wellness culture and whiteness. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2811754075267518891536947812694/Threshold-PRINT-tabloid-copy.jpg THRESHOLD, curator, ALMANAC Gallery, Chicago IL 2025 A night of ritual performance and dance on the Winter Solstice, a pivotal moment in the seasonal cycle as it is experienced in the Northern Hemisphere. Fifteen artists worked collaboratively to create interwoven performances, the final performance ending in a parade to my home for the sonic emissions of three more artists and dancing. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2811847395095285011166007859542/404liveCasaVitoWaveclip.mp4 404 Not Found, live at Casa Al-Fatiha, 2025 404 Not Found is a live hardware tekno project since 2014. I weave samples of esoteric and popular culture with textural field recordings and modular synthesizer into the beats and basslines made by wife and collaborator Lacey Alexis. In this excerpt of a live set I’m playing samples of the Wave Organ, a sound sculpture by <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&hs=CnPp&sca_esv=4b6fd4b69e4fa74a&sxsrf=ANbL-n6y_uPpCJQL1G0sJaqyAAdvCQd4RQ:1771997890754&q=Peter+Richards&si=AL3DRZGNtcdgKOqVhotcr-UG2kkYpwR2WO4qu3O00NmpwBmLnUIVYTLk4x01qvAd4c0hCyyVNJacMK_ixONGG4lLXtUSa7WQJQETtKL-Oz4GjYMJFKwX9npp-Mzv2SIX-4XTwEq-FPFtPeri8N4UhM7EGky1bAncUpD5CrB352aasMZc_-DEkdtyf3u9AoPDAQOgAsOz9Av_SDcS_RG-DethwgC17i7mSw%3D%3D&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1ysjG9vOSAxX3vokEHRLLJ3kQmxN6BAg3EAI">Peter Richards</a> in San Francisco, Vito Acconci’s “Seedbed” and 4 Non Blondes, “What’s Going On?” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2812948613918028112421062121814/cfsnvcliveoak_012326.mp4 <a href="the-perfect-girlfriend" rel="history">“the perfect girlfriend”</a> Claire Fleming Staples and the New Vintage Chill (Zekarias Musele Thompson, Josh Wisman, Big Hongry, and Philip Laurent) Live in the Green Room, The Crown, Oakland, CA 2026 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2812970845233009472371706763606/cfsnvcliveoak_012326.00_00_09_01.Still001.jpg <a href="the-perfect-girlfriend" rel="history">“the perfect girlfriend”</a> Claire Fleming Staples and the New Vintage Chill (Zekarias Musele Thompson, Josh Wisman, Big Hongry, and Philip Laurent) Live in the Green Room, The Crown, Oakland, CA 2026 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2813026904482421106077457652054/teaser-1080-Resilience_Apostolidis_Staples_2025-Copy-01.00_00_09_09.Still003.jpg Resilience, video performance collaboration with Kyriakos Apostolodis, Open Signal:Video Art in Flux, San Antonio, TX 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2813350169062491559591563172182/Screenshot-2026-02-25-at-10.26.13-PM.png THRIVAL, live immersive projections for Carissa Pickney, with Kezia Waters, Avreeahyl Ra at High Concept Labs, Chicago 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2813364441400615109040196229462/Staples_C_2009-_007.jpg Dinner for Stories, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, 2009