Marguerite Horberg

a brief biograpghy

Marguerite Horberg is an artist, entrepreneur and social justice activist who has successfully married these tendencies in successive iconic businesses she created, most notably: Studio V, The Salon of Modalisque and HotHouse.

Marguerite has been at the forefront of cultivating recognition and amplification for artists and other non-commercial or otherwise disenfranchised voices and has established numerous platforms for international cultural exchange: including the debut Chicago World Music Festival, The Chicago Flamenco Festival, Jazz en Clave and Jazz without Borders.

Throughout her thirty-year career, she has organized over 7,000 community- based programs including concerts with Hugh Masekela, Gil Scott Heron, and the US debuts of Cuban legends, Los Van Van and Los Munequitos de Matanzas. Her work as an impresario has been widely chronicled; including reviews in Art in America and the New York Times.

Locally, she has been awarded the Chicago Tribune’s Chicagoan of the Year Award and the Arts and Business Council’s Excellence in Arts Management Award, the Abbey. Elsewhere, Ms. Horberg was a fellow of the Stanford School of Business Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders.

Marguerite Horberg is currently developing sustainable venues for progressive culture via her new enterprise portoluz.

She is currently serving as an Advisory Board member of Links Hall Studios, The Public Square and In These Times and was a former member of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Music at the University of Chicago.

portrait by Robert Guinan