How did Sylvia Cartoonist Nicole Hollander become a BadGirlChats blogger with a bustling online community? Social Media Consultant & Writer Alicia Eler discuss Hollander’s entrance into the blogosphere on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. The original broadcast aired on Monday, December 20 at 7:00 Central Time. And here’s an additional shout-out from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Art Critic, [...]
Two weeks ago, when Nicole Hollander started a blog, she immediately notified the people who protested when the Chicago Tribune dropped her comic strip, “Sylvia.” She wanted her loyal readers to know that there was a new spot to find Sylvia’s feminist wisecracks and cranky deep thoughts, even though the strip had vanished from Chicago [...]
Alicia and Sylvia are two good friends of cartoonist Nicole Hollander, and together they have her back in the game. Sylvia is someone Hollander’s known and drawn for 35 years, and they’ve been through plenty together. In 1990 the Sun-Times dropped Sylvia. But Hollander and Sylvia are hometown gals with a lot of friends, and [...]
From ArtSlant Editor Abraham Ritchie: As animated birds flitter overhead and the man spins, the stereotypes and clichés of the players, their roles and their setting becomes apparent. It also reminded me of a recent article written by Alicia Eler and Patricia Herrmann on gender roles and nature. read the full post here: http://www.artslant.com/chi/articles/show/18827
ChicagoNow.com, the site that I helped launch in 2009, is in yet another Mashable article about monetizing the news. Congrats to Editorial Director, Tracy Samantha Schmidt.
@RedEyeNow added me to their list, redhot, and @HuffingtonPost put me on their list of Chicago People, which includes local celebrities, journalists and Twitterati.
ChicagoNow, the network of hyperlocal blogs owned by the Chicago Tribune Media Group that I helped launch in 2009—I was the Arts & Culture Community Manager up until February 2010—has just been recognized in the Mashable article “Five Innovative Websites That Could Reshape the News.” With the media in a state of flux, I’m proud [...]
One may be curious as to the product of a mid-western, culturally immersed, visual artist’s take on fashion — the industry, the clothes, the pretention and, of course, the art itself. Upon receiving the massive 5lb. “magazine” (more like an atlas-sized portable gallery), I was eager to see how linear the connections between the worlds [...]
Here’s the full write-up about our show on the Gallery 400 blog: http://gallery400.blogspot.com/2010/03/performance-anxiety.html Performance Anxiety Performance Anxiety: Video Program Curated by Alicia Eler and Jefferson Godard Wednesday, April 7, 8 pm Come for Gallery 400’s MFA Thesis Exhibition opening 5-8 pm, and stay for: Performance Anxiety, a program of short video works dealing with performances [...]
Where is art criticism headed? What role do social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook play in its growth? Is it the end of print media all together? This week I had the pleasure of discussing these questions with Newcity Art Editor Jason Foumberg for his article, The State of the (Visual) Art, which is [...]
St. Louis reminds me of Kansas City, Missouri, with its warehouse-filled downtown area, and its mix of the South and the Midwest. I took a giant … [Read More...]
