Tempestt Hazel is a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, a publishing platform and archiving project that has prioritized and nurtured arts writing, archival practice, and culture in the Midwest since 2010. Across her practices and through Sixty, Tempestt has worked alongside artists, organizers, grantmakers, and cultural workers to explore solidarity economies, cooperative models, legacy preservation, future canon creation, and systems change in and through the arts. In addition to writing for Sixty, her words have been published with the Archives of American Art Journal, DePaul Art Museum, Haymarket Books, Joan Mitchell Foundation, University of Chicago Press, Tremaine Foundation, Prospect.4, Candor Arts, Alphawood Exhibitions, and in various exhibition catalogs and artist monographs. She is a facilitator for the Chicago Critic's Table at the University of Chicago, an eight-month incubator program designed to cultivate emerging voices in cultural criticism, supported by the Mellon Foundation and Critical Minded. An especially cherished moment for Tempestt was when she received the 2019 J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award from the Society of American Archivists. 

Tempestt was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, and has called Chicago her second home for over 17 years.

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