Culture Manager
CC Carter
 Email CC Carter
(773) 433-8002
C.C. Carter is a nationally known spoken word performance artist who has toured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Her poetry has landed her critical acclaim and several national nominations and awards including – The 5th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, A Lambda Literary nomination for Best Lesbian Poetry, and was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame for her work in cultural outreach and development within the Gay and Lesbian community. Along with her own successes she is respected as a promoter who can bridge communities within the LGBT community – having a database of international and national artists who include Chicago as a necessary and eventful city to book on their tour stops - making Chicago the premier Midwest city for LGBT artists.
Arts Team
Tracy Baim
Tracy Baim is Publisher/Managing Editor at Windy City Media Group (Windy City Times, Nightspots, Identity and Windy City Radio). Tracy is founding Co-Chair of the Chicago Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, was recognized as one of Crain's Chicago Business 40-Under-40 leaders, and is an inductee to Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. She is chair of the Fundraising, Government Relations and Technology Committees. She has also been a soccer and softball player for more than 25 years, having toured in Germany in 1980 with one of the first U.S. women's soccer teams to travel abroad, Schwaben.
Arts Team
David Woody
David Woody is the Director of Design and Development for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. He received a B.F.A. from the University of Kansas in 1989 and has spent 15 years designing and art directing for companies such as Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Disney, MTV Networks and Nickelodeon. His recent work has focused on master planning and design for international theme park projects in Spain, Holland, Japan and India. Woody participated in the New York and Amsterdam Gay Games, and was involved in the preliminary planning for the Los Angeles bid for the Gay Games in 2006.
Arts Team
Aldo Castillo
Aldo Castillo has a 20 years experience managing, marketing and developing the arts. From 1982-85 In Guatemala City, Aldo Castillo was a curator and graphic designer at the Popol Vuh Museum, which specializes in Mayan Art, Colonial Art and the Folklore of Guatemala. While there, he organized many of the most important exhibitions of the museum gallery to date. Aldo Castillo arrived in the United States in 1985 and was granted a scholarship to study at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After being granted political asylum from war-torn Central America in 1986, and within a few years, Aldo was working for renowned publishing company Scott Foresman, and later would work for Harper-Collins. As an art dealer and curator, Aldo Castillo has curated more than 150 art exhibitions, and has worked with the corporate art programs for companies such as Fort James Co., AMOCO Co, the CORE center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital among others. In 1993 he founded the well-known Aldo Castillo Gallery. Located alongside some of the country’s most important galleries in Chicago’s main gallery district, River North, the Aldo Castillo Gallery is today an established presence in the international art scene.
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