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in Friends, Inspiration, Interview on December 7th, 2009
We sat down last week with one of America’s preeminent artists, David Garrison. Considered a master of pastel and oils, Mr. Garrison has exhibited in major galleries and museums across the United States and in Europe. He currently lives and works in Normandy, France during the winter months and otherwise lives in Iowa where he teaches pastel and oil workshops and pursues his own projects. We asked him what makes him tick, and how technology has played a part in his career and art over the last decade.
Q: Once you knew you were going to be a visual artist or…
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in Friends, Inspiration, Interview on November 11th, 2009
Many will tell you that when you boil it down, the stand-up comedy scene belongs to men; an underground world in the dingy basement of some bar festering with beer and fart jokes. The ratio of men to women performing stand-up may be a bit heavily weighted to one side, but that doesn’t give one gender full reign over the funny world. Take, for example, (drum roll please!) Cameron Esposito. She’s a Chicago favorite, and she proves that it doesn’t really matter what sex she is. She’s funny. And without the fart jokes. Plus, she prefers whiskey.
Although Cameron got her…
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in Friends, Inspiration, Interview on October 31st, 2009
Sick of that hand-me-down coffee table wilting in the corner of your living room? Dump it in your alley, and hopefully Bladon Conner will find it, bring it to his studio and give it a second chance. And by second chance I mean make it into the hipper, urban-chic version of itself it only dreamed of being back in the day…
As a corporate architect, Bladon Conner never quite felt truly grounded. He worked 70 to 80 hours a week, traveled too much and found himself spending more time on Excel and email than actually designing and drawing. Today, though, it…
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in Friends on September 28th, 2009
If there’s one thing that makes Chicago a wonderful place to live in and move through, it is its dedication to public art. (Of course, the city has a darker tradition of censoring public art, as well) Public art makes us feel like a community. It showers us with messages of belonging, history and purpose. It inspires us to think big and colorful. It transforms sprawl into tapestries of the human experience. It tells a story.
This is why we appreciate the Chicago Public Art Group, a non-profit organization that has for over 2 decades assisted in the creation of hundreds…
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