Wills Glasspiegel

Wills Glasspiegel is an artist, scholar, dance filmmaker, and community organizer from Chicago. He holds a PhD from Yale University’s African American Studies and American Studies (2024). He is also a musician and an active VJ (video DJ), performing in improvisational multi-channel settings. In 2021, Wills’s projection film, Footnotes, was featured in the New York Times and dubbed “public art of the year” in Time Out magazine. Currently co-directing Body of the City, an experimental documentary dance film focused on Chicago footwork, supported by an award from the MacArthur Foundation.