📰 💫 This week's cover story: Lessons learned from women unlocking an inaccessible art form. Chi_MagicLounge MagicinHeelsKD | ✍️ MJOberlander
"Contrary to what any statistics show, women and people of color are very interested in magic." Students and instructors at Chicago Magic Lounge's Magic College share ideas and tips.It’s nice to have at least one surprising hobby, so I read recently. It’s a core value I didn’t know I had, despite being a lifelong collector of offbeat and often impassioned pursuits.
As a white, cisgender male magician, Lampert couldn’t unsee the inequity after the first time Drescher was assumed to be his assistant. He does the work through honest self-examination and speaks up so Drescher and others don’t have to, whether it’s drawing attention to their ideas in meetings or calling out inappropriate moments in classes. He did this in our class with a conviction I seldom see from male allies and it felt unexpectedly meaningful.
There’s limited data on industry composition, with Drescher regularly compiling more information than anyone else with a platform. She pegs the total number of women practicing magic at 7 percent, a number that drops dramatically to 2 percent when we’re talking about people making money doing magic. Her ask is simply that professional spaces meet the industry where it is when it comes to representation, whether that’s a podcast, theater, or conference.
“We have to figure out how to make your already cool trick work in ways that you’ve never even thought of.”Level 1 student Carol Krochmal, 65, summarizes her career path as “jack of all trades, queen of nothing,” and is currently a fitness coordinator at a local retirement community. A pre-COVID visit to the Lounge with her son brought the college to her attention, and this year she went for it.
Krochmal felt reinvigorated by the group’s genuine kindness and is buzzing with possibility. What’s next? Improv.An isolating experience as a visual artist in San Francisco led another classmate, Gayle Walsworth, 33, into doing kids’ princess parties, where she first saw magic through their eyes. Her community of circus people proved “you can be creative and you can be a grown-up,” something Walsworth held close as she built her character, Miss Make-Believe.
As a lover of magic, mermaids, glitter, and Hermione Granger, Kaviar knew she’d enjoy the class but didn’t expect the emphasis on individuality in performance. For her, that spurred a rubber-band trick as a metaphor for political flip-flopping, which has been a wow-factor hit at networking events and may find its way into future stump speeches.
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