Michael Workman
email Mworkman@bridgeartfair.com
c/o Bridge Magazine
119 N. Peoria, #3D
Chicago IL  60607
Phone 312-421-2227

Michael Workman is Director of Bridge, NFP, a Chicago-based 501 (c) (3) arts publishing and programming organization. Bridge, NFP, publishes the Pushcart-prize winning bimonthly Bridge Magazine, for which he serves as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief. Bridge, NFP also organizes the annual Artboat exhibition on the first Saturday in May at Navy Pier and pioneered a multi-use facility that provides incubation space at 119 N. Peoria for developing arts organizations, currently occupied by 1R and Bucket Rider galleries. He received his Bachelor's from Northwestern University in 2001. Workman writes a column on visual art, Eye Exam, for the Chicago alternative weekly newspaper, NewCity. He is also Chicago correspondent for the bi-monthly Italian art publication, Flash Art and works as an arts critic and commentator for Chicago's NPR affiliate, WBEZ-FM.

His writing has appeared in catalog essays for the Chicago Cultural Center and elsewhere, and his fiction, journalism and critical writing has appeared in New Art Examiner, the Chicago Reader, zingmagazine, TenbyTen and Contemporary magazine.