Press & Engagements

2024: Deem Journal Presentation: Interdisciplinarity & Community Building with Ciera Alyse McKissick, Designing For Dignity Symposium, MCA Chicago

2024  Meet Ciera McKissick’s latest enterprise: cam.contemporarie,  Chicago Reader
2024 This Year, a Revamped EXPO CHICAGO Goes Back to the Ethos of Its Early Days. And That’s Its Best Selling Point, Cultured Mag
2024 Canvas Rebel: Meet Ciera Alyse McKissick, Canvas Rebel (Los Angeles)

2023 Black Women Gallerists on Growth and Going Global, Artsy

2022 Art 50: Chicago’s Visual Vanguard, NewCity Art 

2022 Vestigial Trends and Anticipated Futures: Chicago and the Return of the Expo Art Fair, Flash Art 

2022 Relic Review, Ruckus Journal 

2022 Deeper Research and The Politics of Care, Chicago Reader 

2022 Closing the Gap: How Black-Owned Art Galleries Are Shifting the Market Through a Focus on Equity and Identity, NewCity Art 

2022 Interview: The Other Art Fair’ Showcases Emerging Artists in Fulton Market, WTTW

2021 Intimate Excerpts: A Review of A Composition of Memory at Flxst Contemporary, NewCity Art 

2021 Review: Just Above My Wall, To The Right, Sixty Inches From Center
2021 Around Town: The Other Art Fair, WGN 

2020 Ciera McKissick blurs the art world lines because she ‘wants to do it all’, Chicago Tribune 

2020 Caroline Liu & Moises Salazar present "Forget Me Not, Forgive Me Not" at Roots & Culture, Terremoto MX 

2020 Introducing AMFM x The Other Art Fair, Saatchi Art 

2019 Ciera Mckissick and the Ten Year Journey of AMFM, Sick Muse Magazine
2019 AMFM fights food deserts with the Feast festival, Chicago Reader 

2018 Creative Control, Southside Weekly

2018 Feast aims to improve Chicago's food deserts through community-focused music and arts, Chicago Tribune 

2018 The Feast festival offers a chance to binge on sounds, and help the city's food deserts, Chicago Tribune 

2018 Meet Ciera Mckissick Founder of AMFM, Voyage Chicago 

2018 Chi Sounds Like: Ciera McKissick is a Champion for Chicago Creativity, Vocalo/WBEZ 

2017 Curator Drawn To Pilsen’s Art Scene, Interactive Pilsen Curator Interview, WTTW 2017 Fox 32 Television Interview on Gallery Opening
2017 AMFM Founder Launches New Pilsen Home For Emerging Artists, DNAInfo 

2016 Gathering Force, Neighbor Profile, Southside Weekly 

2015 Ciera McKissick: Editor of AMFM Magazine, Millennial Magazine
2014 Photo show celebrates the faces of Milwaukee neighborhoods, Urban Milwaukee