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Meet Brian Reed, the longest tenured artist at our North Shore studio! Brian joined our studio in June of 2010 and has grown from maker to professional artist and educator over the past ten years. Take a peek at an insider conversation between Brian and North Shore staffer, Megan Harrigan, about his experience here. Megan: […]
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Several artists at the North Shore studio joined me for a special Walk and Talk! this week. Please enjoy our Thanksgiving feast fantasy! Question proposed: “If we were to host an amazing Thanksgiving dinner-totally fictional- but amazing nonetheless-who would you invite? One guest per person but no limits on who it could be; this person
A few North Shore artists braved the cold, packed into the car and headed to the Art Institute of Chicago. Dan entertained us with a hand puppet sketch while stuck in morning traffic. Our group was fortunate to be gifted tickets to visit the Art Institute and to the Andy Warhol exhibit. We spent time
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North Shore artist, Daniel Frownfelter, took a break from his practice to join me for this month’s Walk and Talk! Please enjoy our conversation covering: Halloween, Alice Cooper, and more. Diane Florian (DF): Dan! Welcome to Walk and Talk! Daniel Frownfelter (Frownfelter): Hello! DF: What have you got there? What are you drinking? Frownfelter: A
North Shore Studio Artist, Ed Rawski sat down to talk with Michelle Kim this week. Michelle started volunteering at Arts of Life in March of 2017. Her kind presence has been a constant on Monday afternoons, immediately connecting with the community. Recently Michelle began working 1:1 with artist Laura Greenberg. She balances a busy schedule
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North Shore artist, Quinn Zenner, took a break from his practice to join me for Walk and Talk! this week. Please enjoy our conversation covering: dreams, creative energy, and more. DF: Hey, Quinn! Welcome to Walk and Talk-I guess it’s more of a Sit and Talk today! QZ: Haha, yeah. My legs are tired today.
We’re so excited to share our new partnership with Metric Coffee, a coffee roasterie that’s just around the block from our Chicago studio. Metric’s headquarters and cafe are located at 2021 W. Fulton, and for the past two months we have been featuring a small selection of work by our artist of the month. Stop
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North Shore studio artist, David Jonaitis took a break from art making to join me for a Walk and Talk this week. Please enjoy our conversation covering: sports, art, fashion, and more. Diane Florian (DF): How are you!? David Jonaitis (DJ): I’m doing good. DF: Welcome to Walk and Talk! DJ: Yeah, I haven’t done
Heavily driven by an ongoing fascination with pop culture, Dave Krueger’s maximalist aesthetic is defined by dense systems of geometric shapes and asymmetrical grids. Between fantastical narrative passages, the surface is populated with symbols, numbers, occasional text fragments, and numerous decorative patterns comprised of diamonds, asterisks, zigzags, circles, crosses, and X’s. Drawing upon influences that
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This Saturday Chicago will host its 16th Annual Disability Pride Parade, where hundreds of people with and without disabilities will gather downtown to march, mingle, and show their many colors. The Mission of the Disability Pride Parade is “to change the way people think about and define ‘disability’; to break down and end the internalized
Voices from Inside the Studio: What is Disability Pride? Read More »
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