by Alicia | Feb 19, 2013 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
Collective, Communal Production Project Ends After 10 Years By Alicia Eler, CAR Visual Art Researcher After ten years the artist-run, experimental cultural center Mess Hall, located at 6932 N. Glenwood in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, closes up shop....
by Alicia | Feb 9, 2013 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
On How Arts PR Shapes an Organization’s Message Elizabeth Burke Dain is no stranger to the Chicago art world. Since 1985, she has been crafting the messages of arts organizations around the city. She started her professional career at the Art Institute of...
by Alicia | Jan 16, 2013 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
Two Chicagoans Win the 2012 Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant By Alicia Eler, CAR Visual Arts Researcher It’s almost Christmas in Chicago, and for members of the visual art community this means only two things: More-hipster-than-thou ugly Christmas sweater parties,...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
How An Artist Transitioned from Textual to Visual Language Lauren Levato draws bugs. Lots and lots of bugs. Sometimes they stand on their own, quiet in their stillness and repose. Other times they appear inside a woman’s belly; we peer inside of her, privy to...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
On the Importance of a Studio, and How to Afford It Chicago artist Gwen Zabicki is interested in the ways people in urban environments live alone together. In her most recent body of work she explores the idea of a shared urban melancholy. Her work is deeply invested...
by Alicia | Nov 6, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
On Balancing Studio Time and Part-Time Teaching Chicago-based, Virginia-located artist Kate Hampel uses sculptural objects to investigate unvoiced traumas implicit in our social constructs. Through her material-based practice, she seeks to unravel the underlying...
