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Adriana Poterash
People, nature, daily common objects are fused into a surreal world of uncommon alliances using interdisciplinary techniques – abstractions, figurative approaches, digital, and sometimes 3-D materials. They are carefully chosen to deliver a visual impulse of thought and emotion. My early academic training in painting...
Alexandra Kitchen
Prints by Kitchen (PBK) was born out of a love for intricate Chinese export porcelain, refined English Staffordshire, and antiques of all shapes & sizes! Alexandra Kitchen is the owner and designer for PBK. Alexandra hopes to bring antique collectibles to life through her vibrant...
Alice George
Artist/Teacher/Consultant alice@alicegeorge.org 847-687-0099 (cell) www.alicegeorge.org
Amy Amoroso
Amy Amoroso is an artist working under the business name of AnoMalY by Amy. She creates unique pieces of Jewelry and Wall Art working with copper, silver and semi precious stones. Her work is earthy and spiritual. She is happy to work with you to...
Amy Harms
About the artist: 18 years ago Amy was asked to be the director of an art gallery in St. Louis, thus beginning her career into the arts, and also initiating a passion to begin creating her own artwork. Over the last 15 years she has...
Amy Spitzer
As a child, I was rather shy and solitary and lived in my imagination. I fantasized about the world in rain puddles and beyond the reflection in my bedroom mirror. As I grew up and moved into the real world, my artwork developed from my...
Amy O. Woodbury
Working with acrylic or mixed media, I paint and draw a variety of things: fantasy figures, abstract expanses of water or land, imagined portraits. What motivates me? Movement, intuition, color, shape, randomness and restlessness. My work has been exhibited at the Evanston Art Center, Judy...
Andryea Natkin
My work illustrates the intersection between consciousness and unconsciousness. I deliberately tune into my inner voice allowing it to guide and direct me. I don’t study or plan. Instead, I quiet my mind and hands. I wait for inspiration. Invariably, one thing leads to another...
Angela Lyonsmith
Angela Lyonsmith is a mother, artist, art therapist and educator. She is an experienced practitioner who provides clinical supervision for innovative art therapy practice throughout the Midwest, has taught in the graduate art therapy departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and...
Angela Williams
My work explores the beauty and relationships to African art, culture, fragments, symbols, and markings. I always knew I wanted to be an artist. My creative journey began very early. My mother was a highly creative person and supported my interest in the arts. Dance...
Anna Hershinow
Anna Hershinow (she/her) is an Evanston-based multidisciplinary artist, although she really considers herself more of a painter. Anna makes work dabbling across many mediums, but works mainly in acrylics. Pulling inspiration from pop culture, social media, vintage fashion, surrealism, and her deep love for color,...
Anna Marie Crovetti
Anna Marie Crovetti is an Evanston based artist and after decades in alternate creative fields as a gallerist, art consultant, instructor, and independent film producer, she is back in the studio. Determined, like many artists to meet the challenging task of staying out of the...
Anna Wooden
Anna Wooden‘s work has its foundation in storytelling, grown from her work as a costume designer for theater and film. Under the name Found and Fauna, Anna works in multiple mediums to create pieces that give life to the characters that populate her imagination. Raised on a steady...
Annette O’Donnell
Annette M. O’Donnell is an artist and art educator. She is a mixed media artist who is interested in expressing intuited forms through her abstract expressionist paintings. She also is pursuing the idea of preserving historical images though her oil pastel transfer pieces. She is...
Annie Zirin
I am a fiber artist: weaver, spinner, painter. I make woven wall hangings and functional textiles for the home. I received my MFA in Fiber from the School of the Art Institute Of Chicago and now I am a full time art teacher in Chicago...
Anthony Iacuzzi
Anthony Iacuzzi is a photographer, author and graphic designer who is a long-time resident of Evanston where his work is regularly exhibited at Perspective Gallery.. Iacuzzi enjoys the challenge of working with available light and often stylizes his photographs to give them a distinctive, enhaced...
Aydin Dincer
Aydin Dincer, owner of Prairie Joe’s restaurant in Evanston, uses his space both for cooking, feeding his clientele in addition to displaying his art, also for consumption, visually. Both his restaurant and his gallery open at 6:30 am. He uses olive oil to cook and uses...
Baz Cumberbatch
Baz is a self-taught eco and botanical artist creating unique pieces inspired by nature. Originally from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, his grandfather who made sailboats, and his father, a skilled carpenter and guitar maker, influenced his path to creating beautiful things. In 1989, Baz...
Ben Blount
I am designer and letterpress printer interested in notions of American identity, race, and culture. My work draws on a common cultural language of objects, stories, stereotypes, and experiences as a starting point to draw attention to the disparities between what we see, and how...
Beth Adler
Taking inspiration from the natural world and my travels, I incorporate visual material from what I observe and what I can gather. Using contemporary monoprinting techniques along with painting and drawing, I continue to explore new ways to express the mystery and beauty that I...
Bob Tanner
Originally from Detroit, Bob Tanner studied with Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer and received his B.S. in Photography from the Institute of Design, Chicago. He went on to direct and produce business and educational films and videos for over thirty years. Tanner later...
Bonnie Katz
Bonnie Katz is an artist and teacher within the Chicago arts community. Her current collection of work is a personal rediscovery into drawing and painting. The work explores the forms and spaces that make up her life at home. Modern furniture, books and art objects...
Boruch Lev
I love clay. I do not know if I was born with this love. But from the time I can remember, I remember myself playing with clay. As a kid I worked in modeling clay of different colors. 50 books of the encyclopedia were marked...
Brian Petrone
I employ the processes that go into making a building – forming mass, sculpting space, manipulating light – to create art. The pieces shown here deal with the intersection of architecture, painting, and sculpture. The areas of overlap between these disciplines become ripe for exploration....
Bryana Bibbs
Bryana Bibbs is a Chicago-based textile artist, painter, and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work comes from her personal life, struggles with daily...
Candice Johnson
Email: Candicewithaneye@gmail.com Website: candicewithaneye.com
Carol Hammerman
The inspiration for my sculpture & jewelry design has always been personal, manifested in a journey of learning, engagement, challenges, frustration et al. Presently my sculpture showcases the female figure. Her gesture is mine – yet ambiguous in nature -presented in the form of a trophy,...
Carolyn Hinske
I am a fiber artist who has worked in Memphis, Tennessee; Taos, New Mexico; and now Evanston, Illinois. My work is hand knitted with mostly natural fibers focusing on scarves and wraps. I love using my own designs to create one of a kind pieces....
Cécile Trentini
Curriculum Born 1962 in The Hague Grew up in the French speaking part of Switzerland (La Neuveville / BE) Lives in Zurich (Switzerland) and Evanston IL (USA) Diploma as a translator from Dolmetscherschule Zürich 1988/89: Vorkurs (preliminary studies) at Schule für Gestaltung Zürich (Art School)...
Chelsea Lytle
Watercolor illustrator. Bird, bug and nature enthusiast. Take a look at my latest creations on instagram @chelsealytledesigns. Have something special in mind or a question about any of my work? Shoot me an email! Email: chelsealytledesigns@gmail.com Website: ChelseaLytleDesigns Instagram: @chelsealytledesigns
Cherie Lockett
I am a ceramic artist who sculpts, draws, and paints images onto functional pottery. My designs resonate with the mysteries of the cave painters, the power of animals, and other artifacts of our early ancestors. Pottery and art making have been a lifelong journey: beginning...
Chiara “Kiki” Mangiameli
I never imagined that after twenty years as a performer I would trade in my dancing shoes for yarn. But embracing change can forge a pathway to one’s own authenticity; a reminder that the very act of creating provides a space where one’s truth and...
Chris Chaudruc
My drawings reference diagrams, flowcharts, blueprints, schematics and other visual language used to bring order to the chaotic systems in this world. I prefer black and white for these drawings – the source material I am referencing is usually printed this way. The work...
Chris Froeter
Chris Froeter has established a nearly 30-year career dedicated to design leadership, business and brand consulting. In his role as Principal and Executive Creative Director of Conjure, Chris leads in the creation of brand programs, marketing solutions, emotional engagement, digital and interactive programs. Chris’ work...
Chris Heisinger
I have traveled to various wild forests and woods and I am amazed by the beauty and high energy of all of those magnificient places. It is these places in which I stop and become one with the environment. The colors, sounds and smells are...
Christie Russert
Evanston based designer Christie Russert is the artist behind the illustration/lifestyle brand, Sunshine Canteen®. Her work is a blend of vibrant, abstract patterns and landscapes that have 70’s, west coast influences. Christie created Sunshine Canteen® as a way to meld her interests (travel, skateboarding, photography...
Cie Bond
Cie Bond grew up in a family of artists in Ann Arbor MI. She is a life-long maker who loves gardening, cooking, painting, collage, sewing and everything textiles. She weaves all these into resolutely happy mixed-media pieces for herself and others enjoy. Email: ciebond@sbcglobal.net
Cindy Dauer
Email: cindy@theslumberingherd.com Website: http://www.theslumberingherd.com/
Claire Tarnacki
I have lived in Evanston for 35 years. For most of that time I hopped on the train to Chicago where I worked as an art/ creative director at various ad agencies. My career exposed me to an inspiring variety of talented artists, illustrators and photographers — ...
Connie Gillock
Email: gillockgallery@gmail.com Instagram accounts: @Gillockgallery @Connie_gillock
Darren Oberto
I make art in order to process the outside world, to make sense of our surroundings, to make comparisons, and to circumscribe aspects of society. These observations give meaning and bring enjoyment to life. My work practice is multidisciplinary, although painting is the nucleus from...
David D’Arcy
My paintings and drawings are motivated by my experiences in nature. The images come from my walks in the woods and travels I have taken and begin with quick studies or photos. My work immerses the viewer in nature, often focusing on the quiet or...
David Niari
David Niari makes drawings, paintings and mixed media artworks. By referencing romanticism, grand-guignolesque black humour and symbolism, his drawings references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the...
David Roberts
Born and raised in Evanston Dawes, Chute, ETHS 72 University of Illinois Bachelor Architecture 1978 Email: david@robertsarchitectsltd.com Website: http://www.robertsarchitectsltd.com Instagram: @d.roberts.sketchbook
David Sutton
As a very young animal lover, David Sutton wanted to be a veterinarian. By age nine, he had set his sights on becoming a photographer instead. Little did he know then, that his ultimate calling would be a mash-up of these two great, early loves....
Deborah Eppstein
Using acrylics and inks on paper, I turn love into art. I create original and unique “ketubahs”. While I’m inspired by ancient Aramaic Ketubot (marriage documents), my motivation also comes from the uniting couple; from nature, and from myriad symbols of love, both historical and...
Deborah Newmark
I’m fascinated how everyday things like grocery lists and memos can take on surprising significance. I love how these details are both universal and personal. How many elements repeat and converge in a condensed version of time. I’m also drawn to irregular, random, relationships. Things...
Destinee Adams
Art has always been apart of my life, and now I want to share my art with the world. I make jewelry, crafts out of resin (the possibilities are endless) and I do photography. I do dabble in painting as well. email: djj.adams1999@gmail.com phone number: 224.241.5024...
Destiny Wesley
Exposing injustice with love through fashion, The Ready Generation creates a message that challenges future leaders to move in integrity, boldness and justice. TRG was inspired by a generation who cried out for guidance when responding to the countless generational acts of hate crime on...
Donna Wesley Spencer
Donna Wesley Spencer is a founding member of Perspective Gallery in Evanston. For the past few years, she has been working on “A Southern Diary”, making photographs that speak to the particular nature of the region and its people. Images in the project have been...
Dorit Jordan Dotan
Dorit Jordan Dotan is an Israeli – German multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Evanston. Her work often expresses her social/political views, and calls attention to cultural issues. She is a long-time participant in movements for social change, and is active in the areas...
Doug Haight
For more than 20 years Doug Haight has traveled the USA and much of the world as a photographer and video producer. His photography has been featured in numerous festivals, shows and publications, including the New York Times, but not yet in National Geographic. Doug’s...
Elena Kaiser
I am a painter and for the past 10 years love painting with encaustics. Im always integrating nature and the natural unfolding of my narrative through colors texture and symbols. Website: http://www.elenakaiser.com Email: Elenakaiser25@gmail.com
Elizabeth O’Connor-Bolich
Most of my paintings are influenced by the interplay of the natural world and man-made. I am attracted to random and microscopic patterns in both. I take photographs and then manipulate the digital captures. This allows me to crop the image, play with the color...
Ellen Greene
Ellen Greene was born in 1975 and raised in the small college town of Lawrence, Kansas. The local art scene as well as her creative parents supported her artistic pursuits from an early age. She graduated from the Kansas City Art institute with a degree...
Ellen Schwarzbach
Most of my jewelry designs incorporate recycled glass beads, many of which are from Ghana. The recycled glass reminds me of the sea glass I collected as a kid. I love playing with different combinations of colors, textures and shapes. While I am focusing on...
Ellie Hazlett
Ellie Hazlett is a multimedia artist based in Chicago. She experiments with textures and materials to transform environments and perspectives. Most of her fine art examines and reflects sociopolitical issues regarding gender, privilege, and positionality. Ellie’s work has been shown in galleries and shows throughout...
Erika Anderson
Chasing the light, noticing the details, contemplating the unexpected. With my camera, I capture what I see and how it makes me feel. I am drawn to light’s play across surfaces and the emotions evoked. In 2020, I began taking sunrise walks with my camera....
Erin Drewitz
My name is Erin, I’m an Evanston based fine art and portrait photographer. www.erindrewitz.com www.instagram.com/erindrewitz www.behance.net/erindrewitz Company Description: Erin Drewitz Photography. Evanston based fine art and portrait photographer. The series of fine art prints attached are printed on Kodak Professional Supra Endura VC Digital Paper. I’d...
Evan Burns
My goal is to take photographs that inspire a feeling of wanderlust in my viewer. I primarily shoot landscapes and cityscapes because these images inspire me. When I was 15, I got my first camera and I have been shooting away ever since. During my...
Gillian Muller-Greyz
I have always loved storytelling. My early work as an artist was almost always narrative. I love creating characters through costume and writing fun back-stories to go along with them. Ever since leaving college and going off to do my own work, I have been...
Ginny Roeder
Virginia O. Roeder MFA My paintings are about color and geometry. As a child I was intrigued by the subtle colors of the feathers of birds and the leaves of the trees. Later, when I was in graduate school, I recognized that I was thinking...
Gwyn Jennings
I am a maker, crafter, artist, upcycler using fabric, yarn, paint, beads, wood, ceramics, paper and found objects to create a variety of unique one-of-a-kind treasures that include boxes, toys, jewelry, hats and bags. I think all things have the potential for an alternate form....
Hannah Levine-Drizin
My name is Hannah Levine-Drizin and I’m an artist and illustrator. I’m a recent graduate of University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art and Design and will continue my education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to receive a MAT (masters in...
Heather Hancock
STATEMENT I use the ancient medium of glass as a conceptual tool to explore contemporary ideas about mind, place and information. I came to my art practice via a career in healthcare. Working for more than a decade in Chicago area hospitals gave me a...
Hippie Baby Co.
“I grew up with a father who was an artist that inspired me to always help others + make beautiful things. I create unique, gender-neutral, boho & yoga designs. Each of my designs has a name and is inspired by a meaningful quote. I use...
Ila Allen
Ila Allen of Ila Allen Designs is new to the Artist Handmade venue. She creates different styles of handbags in various fabrics such as vegan leather and cork, with various textures. The fabrics are combined in an array of color and physical textures, with no...
Ingrid Grace
As a classical musician and music educator, I believe visual art, like music, has the power to transform both mood and mindset. Many of my images I capture on my daily walks, which I relish even more during these difficult times. By slowing down, I...
Jadon Brammer
Finding beauty in the little things. Website: jdbramm.com Email: jdbramm1@gmail.com Instagram: @jdbramm
Jaimie Brunet
I’ve always had the desire to recreate with paint what I see in the world. I am an oil painter, mixed media artist with a particular passion for encaustic paint.* Most of my work is inspired by nature; landscapes, rivers and lakes, and the animals who live...
James Deeb
Expressive faces populate my work, but they are not representations of particular people. I spend a lot of time riding public transportation in and around Chicago and looking at my fellow passengers. If I see a unique feature, like a nose or mouth, I try...
Jamie Thome
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Janis Post
I work intuitively, expressively, and abstractly, rarely starting with an end product in mind. Abstractions of water, earth, rock, sand and sky are recurring elements in my work. I love the process of putting down paint, literally watching it dry, and then letting the painting...
Jason O’Grady
I learned about the process of screenprinting from my brothers at BC Print Media. After years of painting with acrylics, I decided to give screenprinting a shot and registered for a class at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. Needless to say, I fell in love with...
Jeanne LaCasse
Places I’ve been – Places I’ve never been Spanning several mediums, my work encapsulates places I’ve been, places I’ve never been, places that I long to go to. Because I rarely paint from reference material, I often step back & wonder….”where did you come from?...
Jeannette Diaz
Chicago native Jeanette Diaz studied Fine Art Photography and design at Columbia College Chicago. She is a full time artist and maintains a studio at the Greenleaf Art Center. Her portrait paintings stem from a passion for personal interpretation of beauty itself. She translates her...
Jennifer Presant
My paintings address the complexity of memory, by blurring and questioning the lines between recollection, projection, and reality. Each painting becomes a psychological landscape or waking dream, examining the notion what’s real. The shifting environments become a metaphor for the transience of our experience and...
Jessica Kaplan
Vision. Anticipation. Patience. My curiosity enables me to capture authentic moments in time, in which the pieces of the puzzle converge, fleeting elements coalesce and a photograph is made. I find inspiration on the street, in a new city, in the water, in patterns in...
Jessica Malatia
My name is Jessica Malatia, and I am a visual artist living in Evanston. I make charcoal drawings and acrylic gouache paintings. While I used to be an avid oil painter, I started painting with acrylic gouache in April of 2020 and have been hooked...
Jill Birschbach
Statement: Ideas of home and the house form are loaded with meaning. I began using this universal symbol to explore conflicted feelings about my working class upbringing. The house forms are imperfect and sometimes crude- using industrial textures and dripping glazes to amplify these ideas....
Jill King
My current sculptures inhabit and confront challenging themes such as memory and loss, darkness and light, intimacy and seduction. For inspiration, I look at forces of nature: topographical images of hurricanes and Hubble Space telescope images. Capturing emotional states or the energy of now, I...
Jim Parks
There is a force — a creative urge — that overtakes some artists when they work. I am one of those artists. When I sit down to work, I feel a sense of extreme focus coming on. “Trance” might be a more descriptive word. I’ve...
Joan Muller
My style of quilted illustrations arose from my interest in historic pictorial quilts. I had attempted, over the years, to recreate various styles of antique quilting from redwork embroidery to appliqué. But my true inspiration came when I stumbled on a photograph of a Storybook...
Joanna Pinsky
Joanna Pinsky is a painter residing in Evanston, Illinois. Working with acrylics, she has creates two-dimensional shaped paintings on canvas and gator board as well as rectangular works on paper. She enjoys creating shaped pieces because they have a dynamic presence that gives a greater sense of...
JOERG METZNER
Born and raised in the Harz Mountains of Germany, Joerg was trained and worked as dental technician before moving to Ireland where he herded goats and photographed and painted. After traveling across Europe he ended up in Los Angeles where he attended Santa Monica College...
John Wangendo
I’m a local artist based in Skokie. Originally from Kenya, I immigrated to the US 2 decades ago. I specialize in portraits of famous figures and most of my art is done in charcoal. I have no background training in art and most of my...
Jordan Scott
Jordan Scott is an award winning Chicago based artist and photographer. Represented by art galleries nationwide, he also teaches photography at several prestigious art centers in the Chicago area. His mixed-media artwork pays homage to his beliefs in the interconnectedness of the universe and is...
Jordan Scott Photography
Jordan Scott is an award winning Chicago based artist and photographer. As well as teaching photography for prestigious art centers and organizations in the Chicago area, he also offers private and small group instruction on camera usage and fundamentals, including his popular, “Getting Off Auto”...
Joseph Kayne
Wet Plate Collodion Tintype and Fine Large Format Landscape Photography Joe is one of a rare number of artists using the Wet Plate Collodion Tintype Process. The Wet Plate Collodion process is one of the earliest forms of photography, starting in the 1850’s. The process...
Judith Lewin
Website: millcreekminiatures.com Phone: 847-525-4227
Juliane von Kunhardt
My body of work wanders between the personal and the global context, and it feeds from what I see in both through media (mainly books) and what surrounds me. I address a variety of subjects which range from classical children’s portraits and conceptual work with...
Julianne Litzkow
Hand painted one of a kind or specialty series silks to move on the body are what I create. The intention of the utility of art and beauty or thought inspiring ideas in daily life is my goal. A scarf for instance , can fit...
Julie Cowan
I have two main interests: portraiture and architecture. I investigate the idea of place and how spaces make us feel either embraced or alienated. Using architectural themes, I select photographic imagery and then digitally alter the photos to create greater contrasts and stronger line. Often...
Julie Rivera
I love design; graphic or surface! I incorporate the problem solving techniques as a graphic designer to my fiber work. More and more I am driven to get off the computer and work with my hands, dyeing and hand stitching my fabric. My work draws...
Karen Bermann-Mazibuko
I founded Order By Nature in 2017 to assist people in creating spaces that are organized and clear of clutter. In my work, I have discovered that nature is my inspiration. The inherent calm and order found in nature, I believe, can be replicated in...
Katherine Orr
I believe that art can create special moments in everyday life. Why save art for a special occasion? Art isn’t just for Sunday afternoon trips to museums or formal events. Art has the power to transform and nurture our spirits during difficult times, as well...
Kate Roth
Kate Roth is an Evanston based photographer. Her passion for photography has led her to study nineteenth century photo techniques and full-frame composition She studied at the Royal Academy of Art in London for two years and graduated from Columbia College with a BFA. Kate...
Kathe Stoepel
Kathe is a retired graphic designer. She worked at several non profits throughout her career including the Chicago Botanic Garden and the Evanston Art Center. She is now creating lino cut notecards and prints. Email: kstoepel@gmail.com Website: zinnianotecards Instagram: @kstoepel
Kathy Halper
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” – William Shakespeare Folk art with its voice rooted in simplicity and honesty feels like the little candle I need in my life right now. My new series of...
Ken Avick
BFA, Painting, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1969. MFA, Painting, 1970, University of Chicago . Taught at the Hyde Park Art Center. Member of artist collective gallery, Space 900 Gallery, Evanston, Il. Numerous shows in the Chicago area, including : The Hyde Park Art Center, Bridgeport Art Center,...
Kim Romain
Everyone is on a journey. Sometimes along our paths we get to experience the light. Sometimes, the dark. Although we may desire to always experience the lightness (because it feels really good), we need both. Without both, we are unbalanced. Without both, we are not...
Kristen Neveu
A life-long artist and music lover, Kristen Neveu paints to clear her head and calm anxiety. She was born in West Point, NY, while her father was in the U.S. Army’s Military Academy Band. Growing up in the Midwest, she took many years of piano,...
Lauren Marquez-Viso
Explorer. Environmentalist. Photographer. Travel, immersing myself in different cultures, and communing with nature are my inspiration. I feel most alive when I am mindfully exploring this amazing and beautiful world. I seek to capture the essence of a place through its culture, historical places, and...
Laurie Kwo
In my own words… My paintings are an extension of who I am, the places I’ve been and the things I love. I’m inspired by the beauty around me and strive to capture a moment in time as a way to share my world with...
Lawrence Manuel
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I got back into making collages. And then did some coloring books. Then bought an acrylic painting set from Blick’s. So, when I’m not doing my 50+ hour day job, I find time getting lost in art. There’s...
Lea Basile Lazarus
Statement: I have spent the last few years creating a body of work that reflects the awareness and power of strength within our community. People have gathered together to express concern for issues that conflict with our communities’ beliefs and rights. As reflections of these...
Leopold Segedin
BIOGRAPHY Leopold Segedin was born in Chicago in 1927. He received his BFA (1948) and MFA (1950) from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He has taught at the University of Illinois (assistantship, 1948-50), U.S. Army Engineers (drafting, 1952-54), and at Northeastern Illinois University...
Linda Goad
Linda Goad is a lifelong resident of Evanston. She taught preschool locally for 25 years. One of her main intentions while spending time with the children was to encourage a love of nature. This was done through books, walks in nature and even her own...
Linda Summerfield
I find beauty and usefulness in discarded items and ephemera. I layer and reconstruct these found items to take a critical view of social, political and cultural issue. My greatest influences come from the collages of Ray Johnson, the assemblages of Joseph Cornell, and the...
Lisa Haskin
Lisa Plefka Haskin knew at a very young age that she loved everything about art. Her parents were instrumental in nurturing that passion and God-given talent. And over the years she has had the opportunity to explore many different avenues of visual art. She graduated...
Lisa Zschunke
Painting for me is a discipline, a practice, another way for me to be a student in life. Physically, it is at times a way for me to get lost in pure joy. Color, light, psychology, character – my subject matter varies according to what...
Liz Brent
My art is usually more about technique than concept. I like to experiment with high contrast work, and push it as much as I possibly can. I create representational work focusing on textures, creases, highlights, and shadows. I’m always challenging myself to go one step...
Liz Cramer
I’ve always been drawn to artistic endeavors, taking painting classes instead of calculus, squeezing in drawing classes, jewelry and mosaic workshops after work, spreading beads, yarn, paints and pastels all over the house with a project always in some state of it’s process. Many years...
Liz Martino
Most of my paintings are acrylics and PanPastels on canvas. Works have ranged from scraped, minimal textured abstracts to graffiti and word streams to calligraphic expressions. Constructed pieces are various treatments to wood boxes with paint or charring featuring found or intentional objects. The current...
Luke Nowak
I am a self taught woodworker who enjoys using the natural beauty of wood grain to create functional art. All of my works are handmade in my Evanston workshop using a variety of woods including butternut, cherry, maple, and walnut. I find it gratifying to...
Lynn Floriano
Email: floriboer@aol.com Website
Lynne Miller Jones
In my paintings, I explore the boundaries between realism and abstraction in images of the natural world. From afar, my work appears realistic, sometimes photographic, but close up, there is an awareness of paint, gesture and process. I build up a complex layered surface in...
Maike’s Marvels
Maike van Wijk creates one-of-a-kind handmade jewelry and home adornments as Maike’s Marvels. Her Wax and Wire Jewelry has been featured in various art fairs around Chicagoland, and her angels tend to photobomb Evanston Made and Main-Dempster Mile events. Steel wire is hand-bent into organic...
Mardy Sears
The main thrust of my work focuses on a combination of current events, including contemporary moral views, with more personal and intimate imagery. I particularly like combining modern concepts with nostalgic forms. This is a constant thread running through a variety of ideas and images...
Margarete de Soleil
BIO: Margarete de Soleil is an artist and illustrator who has exhibited nationwide, including at The Smithsonian Institution of Natural History and the Missoula Art Museum in Montana. A graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, de Soleil has also studied at The Maine College of Art and The New York Studio...
Marilyn Crocker
Marilyn Crocker first became aware of photography as a child viewing family photos taken by her father in slideshows in a darkened living room and while exploring the photographs in Life Magazine. She began creating her own photographic images by taking snapshots on a Kodak...
Marilyn Greenfield
Passionate about the beauty of the world around me, I have been expressing myself in clay for 35 years. The goal of my work is to create utilitarian and decorative pots that will enhance your home and enrich your experiences in eating, drinking, and entertaining....
Marjorie Davidson
Marjorie Davidson is a classically trained pianist and accomplished teacher and performer. She has studied at both Carnegie Mellon and DePaul Universities and is a graduate of the Northwestern School of Music. A mostly self taught painter of still life and landscapes, her work is...
Mark Cleveland
Mark Cleveland is a contemporary visual artist working in oil, pen & ink and stained glass. Inspired by the work of the American masters of the early 1900’s, landscapes and portraits combine a saturated pallet and sensitive treatment of light rendered in Oil following Plein...
Mark Hurwich
Mark Hurwich is anything but a “serious” photographer and potter. Rather, his work reflects a life-long interest in illuminating the whimsical, playful and quirky wonderfulness ever-present within and around us. That works aims to open our ability to see and engage hidden delights, including those...
Marti De Boer
A passion for creating contemporary jewelry allows me to express my personal artistic vision. About 10 years ago I began making jewelry constructed from materials I love such as ethnic beads, semi-precious stones, wood, and leather. I have added variety and sophistication with new skills...
Matt Braun
Matthew Braun aka Know Love is an artist and educator currently living in Evanston, IL. Braun holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art focussing on Painting and Printmaking as well as a Master of Arts in Teaching focusing on Art Education. He has...
Matthew LaFleur
I was born with a crayon in my hand and a goofiness in my soul. As a boy, I was inclined to draw battle zones between the minions of Pac-Man and the spiritual armies of Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde. That evolved into sketching intricate underground mazes with...
Maya Kalabic
Maya Kalabic was born in Yugoslavia. Maya’s family immigrated to the United States in 1996 in hope of finding a new life of possibility in America. After landing in Chicago, Maya immersed herself and took full advantage of the possibilities she found—after graduating High School...
Melanie Deal
Remember when you were a child, creating artworks by cutting and pasting? Well, that’s what I do as an adult, and it’s just as fun and satisfying as it was when I was in kindergarten. I’m fascinated by grids, tessellations, and repeated shapes. I reinforce...
Melissa Raman Molitor
Melissa Raman Molitor, ATR-BC, LCPC Melissa is an artist, educator and art therapist living and working in the Chicago-Evanston area. She is an associate professor, adj. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the Graduate Art Therapy Department, and the founder...
Mike Berns
I will never forget the first time that I watched an image developing in the darkroom as if it was some magical apparition-taking place before my eyes. I was immediately hooked. While I was studying architectural design at the time, photography became a major influence...
Mimi Kravitz
I’m inspired by the natural world.~.Its translucency and layered shapes and colors never cease to amaze and dazzle me. I feel that the layers that we see in nature correspond to the layers of personality and mood that are inherent in our bodies and minds....
Nancy Sickbert-Wheeler
Nancy Sickbert-Wheeler works as a metalsmith with the specialty in enameling. Glass enamel is fired and fused to copper and silver. Creating contemporary jewelry and objects using a combination of metalsmithing and enameling techniques. 35 years of designing and producing in her own studio in...
Neal Stamell
Bits of clay, some spinning, hands, tooling, glaze– yielding ceramic ware to enhance the home. Email: nstamell@gmail.com
Nicholas Turner
British born with a passion for travel and photography. I’ve been fortunate enough to live and work in many different countries and moved to Evanston 2 years ago. My images are reflection of the local environment through my eyes – be that our wonderful lake,...
Nina Weiss
Bio – Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years. Her work is represented in private and corporate collections including United Airlines, Aetna Insurance, McDonalds, Eli Lilly, and Avon. She has a lengthy resume of solo and group exhibitions including...
Paul Brourman
*Click here for article about Paul’s RBG portrait in the Penn State news. Born in Boise, Idaho as the son of a symphony conductor and a concert pianist (father and mother, respectively), Paul Brourman opted for the visual arts instead. At the young age of...
Paul Segedin
URBAN PRAIRIE DESIGN Paul Segedin creates distinctive, handmade furniture out of his workshop in Evanston, Illinois. Most of his furniture combines locally harvested, sustainable woods (catalpa, ash, hickory, white oak, red oak, maple, walnut, and more) with copper pipe, for a unique, modern look. Most...
Paul Whittaker
My art is shaped by my past life as a research biologist: I look closely at the natural world around me, explore the common ancestry of Humanity with other living things, and seek non-theistic paths to spiritual awareness and enlightenment. I was born in 1955...
Paula Inocencia Cofresi-Silverstein
Paula Cofresi-Silverstein is an Artist, Educator, Psychotherapist in Private Practice: BA degree in Fine Arts//Art Education//Elementary&Secondary Ed. from Inter-American University in San German, Puerto Rico. 1968-Studied Ceramics at the Hyde Park Art Center, 1970-1973-Study Ceramics and Etching-School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995-2013-Studied Ceramics...
Peter Kime
I am currently making works that are part of my engagement with Tarthung Tulku’s inquiry into time, space, and knowledge. I work primarily with acrylic paint, and occasionally blend in bits of glass, sand, slag, or ground pumice. I stand and wait, until suddenly I...
Peter Mudd
Though I double majored in English Literature and Studio Fine Art, I consider myself mostly self taught as my “art life” began long before college. Besides sheer creative “impulse,” my work is also influenced by my “day job” as a psychotherapist, which has been steeped...
Ramin Takloo-Bighash
Ramin’s artistic background is in Persian calligraphy which he learned from his father and Mr Reza Beyt-Anab in southern Iran in the 80s. Recently he’s been exploring calligraphy as abstract art, producing paintings that blur the boundaries between abstraction and conventional representation of text in Persian....
Ray Maseman
In sleep, our unconscious minds create dreams by assembling the leftover, unassimilated bits and pieces of our daily experience and weaving them into a narrative. I imitate this process semi-consciously by gathering the visual ephemera I have happened upon–maps, animals, plants, stories, landscapes, implements and...
Ren Picco-Freeman
For many years, I focused on three mediums – hair, makeup and photography. I made the life-changing decision to concentrate on photography, mainly of dancers. I’m obsessed with capturing dancers’ and movement artists’ beautiful feats of athleticism. No other discipline I’ve worked in has moved...
Richard Grahn
Richard creates art, composes music, and writes poetry full-time from his apartment near downtown Evanston. His career as an artist spans nearly four decades and began in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California and then the San Francisco Bay Area. His...
Rita Shimelfarb
The glass’ raw brilliance and color are primary inspirations in my work. The deeper I explore the technical side of working with glass, the more it leaves me in awe at the range of possibilities for something new and beautiful to emerge. Building upon millennia-long...
Rob Lancaster
Rob Lancaster is a photographer originally from central Indiana. He studied photography in high school and college. After a lengthy hiatus he has found his passion for photography reignited. Drawn to its timeless feel and to the appeal of all things analog, Rob utilizes film for his photography. His...
Rob Larson
“I use a loaded brush, geometry and color to explore our world. I work until each painting becomes an authentic expression of beauty.” The vibrant and bold paintings of Rob Larson will spark joy and beauty in the places where you live and work. Larson’s...
Robert Magrisso
Carvings, Constructions & Collages ARTIST STATEMENT The art that I do can be classified as constructions, woodcarvings and collages. They have been motivated by the desire to express an ever-changing inner vision, a vision that is both psychological and spiritual, personal and universal. The collages...
Robin Carlson
Thank you for checking out my page! Please email with questions, purchase inquiries, or just to say, Hi. Email: robin.carlson@gmail.com Keep in touch with Instagram: @robincarlsondong @robincarlsondongphoto @theanalogmillennial
Robin Ryan
Robin Ryan is a fiber artist best known for her weavings using mostly natural fibers, with a focus on tapestries and fiber sculpture. Website: www.henandjay.com Instagram: @henandjay Email: robin@henandjay.com
Robyn McMurray Hurtig
I happily join a matrilineal line of art creators, beginning with my grandmother, Selma. My art celebrates nature both in its beauty and decay. I work mostly in abstract, using oil, acrylic and collage. Email: robynm2@yahoo.com IG: @robynm222
Ron Cramer
I’m a guy with a passion for creating handmade, one of a kind artistic pieces. I love the challenge of creative problem solving. My artistic talent enables me to come up with unique design solutions. Then my craftsmanship expertise takes over to make these ideas...
Roslyn Broder
RedAvaDesigns is an eclectic line of jewelry, objects, and art designed and created in Chicago, Illinois, using traditional and non-traditional metalsmithing and enameling techniques. My work includes vintage and contemporary beads and components, natural stones, hand-forged enamel, sterling silver, copper, brass, and bronze. Many pieces...
Ross Martens
Juxtaposing miniatures, photography, found objects and toys, I explore humor & pathos with ambiguities of scale & proportions. I’m interested in unfathomably large and minutely small objects and how relative size can create a powerful confrontation. Titles of images: “Wanderer at the Crystal Cave” “The...
Sahaara Clark
My work aspires to communicate the possibility found in unexpected places. Myth and nature are woven into my designs, nurtured by my love of mythology and storytelling. While I am compelled by the realm of the fantastic, I am interested in the space where the...
Sarah Kaiser-Amaral
My paintings are a response to the elemental forces of nature that flow through me. Fire, wind, and waves symbolize the energy within that compels me to paint. By blurring the boundaries between the figure and the ground, elements begin to break down and dissolve...
Sarita Kamat
Born and brought up in the beautiful city of Belgaum in India, I moved to Chicago 18 years ago and now live in Skokie, IL with my husband Salil, my kids Varun and Riya and my kitty babies – Cloud and Lightning. I am a...
Scott Greenberg
Scott Greenberg is an artist who primarily works with acrylics. While his styles range from abstract to surrealist, he strives to evoke emotions for each viewer to interpret. He uses art to ask questions, rather than give a set answer. His works often deal with...
Shelley Gilchrist
In her abstract sculptural paintings, Shelley Gilchrist explores line, form and color. At present she creates constructions inspired by the perennial struggle of many artists (herself included) to write the often-requested artist statement about their work for an exhibit or proposal. Seemingly random color combinations...
Shellie Argeanton
Shellie Argeanton is a mixed media artist who strongly believes in the healing power of art therapy. She has struggled with anxiety throughout her life and finds it restorative and calming to make art for self-care, inner peace and emotional reflection. For 15 years, Shellie...
Socorro Mucino
“I love that printmaking is done by hand; rolling, wiping ink on plates and cranking them through the press. There is something very exciting about pulling a first proof of an image created from photos, digital manipulation, processing the plate and seeing the image on...
Sophie Carlisle
I use very long coils of clay to create vessel forms that reference a body in its environment. Long coils allow me to find moments of balance between opposing energies – external/internal, open/closed, loose/tight- while wrapping the coils to build up the form. The feeling...
Stephan Collins
I grew up in a talented family of African-American artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs in the Jim Crow 1950s. At an early age I knew I wanted to be an artist. My first encounter with Western “museum art” was at the John Herron Art Institute and...
Stephanie Riger
I love glass. Its beauty, brilliance, and color variety mesmerize me. I spend hours playing with different shapes and colors, placing pieces one way and another til I discover the perfect composition. Wood holds the same attraction for me, and I especially love to combine...
Stephen Guenther
My first camera came at a very young age, just noting that is was a Mickey Mouse camera says it all. One day I borrowed my older brother’s 35mm Pentax, now I experienced the ability to see through the lens which was both a discovery...
Stephen Murphy
Stephen Murphy is a visual artist & storyteller. He is a graduate of the Pratt Institute and the University of Chicago, and is ABT from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Advanced Visual Studies. Murphy is the former chair of the art department of New...
Susan Cua
I love to paint and I paint to live. It is my strongest passion. I also love to travel and play the piano. For the past several years, I have been visiting Paris in the fall, spending a week and then visiting other places. I...
Susan Lane
I am a Chicago based artist and jeweler. My work reflects the deep connection I feel to the forms and colors of the natural world. I use natural specimens I’ve gathered, as well as shapes and textures I create as my building blocks. I combine...
Suzanne Metzel
I am a lifelong resident of Evanston (3rd generation). At the Evanston Art Center I studied drawing, watercolor and eventually settled on printmaking until I became pregnant and was evicted from the acid bath closet. A full time career in law and small children left little...
Ted Glasoe
I am inspired to photograph Lake Michigan in every way I can — from sweeping seascapes to macro shots of its shoreline. I hope to capture as many of the lake’s moods and as much of its personality as I can. I want each image...
Terri Michaels
My art combines my passion for exploring thrift stores in search of small and unusual objects, saving discarded scraps of paper and assembling all of these materials to create surprising collections in individual boxes. Stacking these boxes allows for plenty of visual interest. This project...
Todd Anderson
Photographer, film maker. For as long as I can remember I have been a visual storyteller. When I was 7 I was allowed to use the family’s slide projector to craft narratives of family vacations, mostly around the imaginatings of a young boy exploring the...
Tom Albrecht
I use a wood lathe to hand turn functional and decorative objects such as bowls, platters, round boxes, vases, and weed pots. I primarily use wood that is locally harvested, either from fallen trees, or logs acquired from local foresters. I am also available for...
Ty Phillips
A lifelong admirer of the visual arts, I became passionately interested in photography in 2006. I shoot almost exclusively in black and white, which reflects the visual aesthetic that best aligns with my own artistic sensibilities. I work with available light and concentrate primarily on...
Visibility Arts
Visibility Arts at Search offers opportunities for self-expression, creativity and achievement for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Visibility Arts is a comprehensive visual arts program that offers a combination of group learning experiences and hands-on studio time. Visibility Arts classes are offered in Search’s...
Warren Fellingham
Auto mechanic breaks out into jewelry making- I have been in the auto repair business for over 25 years in Evanston. One day several years ago I bought a jewelry making class for my wife. Since then, she has been making and selling her creations...
Wendy Scofield
I am a mom (always), ceramic artist (mostly), gatherer (forever), but have also been know as a creative director, designer, and photo stylist. My work explores the intersection of clean functional shapes that illuminate the natural texture and characteristics of the clay body. My background...
Will Van Dyke
I have an abiding interest and delight in the visual, and find inspiration everywhere.My eye may be attracted to a rusted piece of metal on the street, or a cloud formation reflected in the glazed surface of a Chicago office building. Much of my work...
Will Van Dyke
I have an abiding interest and delight in the visual, and find inspiration everywhere.My eye may be attracted to a rusted piece of metal on the street, or a cloud formation reflected in the glazed surface of a Chicago office building. Much of my work...
Yancey Hughes
If the desire is to create it could be as simple as a sheet of paper, a flashlight or a pencil. Email: yh6000@me.com Website: https://yanceyhughesphotography.com/
Yvette Meltzer
Yvette Meltzer enjoyed a variety of art media–drawing, painting, copper enamel work and photography–while growing up in Chicago where she was born and educated. She holds a B.A. in Sociology, an M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education and advanced certificates in Peace Education and Mediation. Her...