Victoria Lautman
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Victoria Lautman is a commentator in Chicago’s world of arts, culture, and the humanities. As founder, host, and executive-producer of Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman, Victoria created a popular author-interview series, which is also a three-pronged, multi-media brand unique to Chicago, comprising a monthly column in Chicago magazine, a free, audience-attended interview at the Lookingglass Theatre, and a simultaneous broadcast on 98.7WFMT Radio. The series was inaugurated in September 2004, and has drawn major national and international authors to Chicago, including Edward P. Jones, Louise Erdrich, Frank McCourt, Michael Cunningham, and Susan Orlean, among many others.
Prior to conceiving and founding this free, public series, Victoria was a featured host and contributor on Chicago Public Radio for two decades, beginning as a free-lance arts reviewer while in her twenties. These accessible, humorous, and insightful reviews proved popular and eventually led to Victoria’s own arts and culture magazine program, "Artistic License", which aired for eight years. When a new daily magazine, "848", started up, Victoria signed on as a regular interviewer and contributor on a wide variety of subjects, including not only arts and culture but also medicine, education, and other complex issues. Her personal essays on day-to-day life were a regular feature of the program.
Victoria has been Chicago Editor for Metropolitan Home Magazine, Art & Auction, Architectural Record, and HG. She’s also been a frequent contributor to the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, and has written for Interview, Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, USA Today, The Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Reader. Her best-selling art book, "The New Tattoo," from Abbeville Press, was first published in 1994.
Victoria has also been a regular contributor to Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW-Ch. 11's Emmy award-winning programs "Artbeat Chicago" and "Chicago Tonight"; a segment host and producer on WBBM-Ch. 2’s award-winning magazine show, "Eye On Chicago"; and, a regular culture correspondent for WMAQ-Ch. 5’s afternoon news report.
Victoria has an M.A. in Art History from George Washington University, and a B.A. in Anthropology and Art History from the University of New Mexico. She also attended Merton College at Oxford University for archeological field training, and spent one summer digging through Bronze Age garbage in the Scottish Hebrides.
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