Simone Athena Scigousky (She/They) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Scigousky seeks to empower young people through art activist and social justice centered curriculum. Collaboration, communication, and community are the cornerstones of their pedagogy.  Learn more about their work as an educator here.

In her artistic practice, Scigousky offers an ecological lens through which to view her personal memories, experiences, and perspective. With a technicolor palette, she explores the relationship between her queerness, femininity, Greek-American culture, and childhood. Their practice allows them to authentically represent  themself through a campy, sparkly, and highly exaggerated aesthetic. It’s with the playful and intuitive experimentation of color, mark, and form that Scigousky embraces both tradition and modernity. Her work documents the ebbs and flow of growing out of an oppressive, religious, and gendered hierarchy and into an ever-changing, challenging, and better self.