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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...
Alice George
Artist/Teacher/Consultant alice@alicegeorge.org 847-687-0099 (cell) www.alicegeorge.org
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 Woodbury
Working with acrylic or mixed media, I paint and draw a variety of things: fantasy figures within dense, detritus-laden terrains, abstract expanses of water or land, portraits of imagined women. What motivates me? Movement, intuition, line, color, randomness and restlessness. My work has been exhibited...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Bryana Bibbs
Bryana Bibbs is a textile artist, painter, and educator who earned her BFA with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently she teaches weaving workshops at the Evanston Art Center and the Art Institute of...
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)...
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...
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...
Cindy Dauer
Email: cindy@theslumberingherd.com Website: http://www.theslumberingherd.com/
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 Hinske
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Central Gardens Fair – Memphis, TN 2000 South Main Art Fair – Memphis, TN 2000 Cooper Young Artist Invitational – Memphis, TN 2000 Two Person Show, Cooper Young Gallery – Memphis, TN 2001 Memphis in May, Regional Art Show – Memphis, TN...
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...
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
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...
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...
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....
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...
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
thomepaper@yahoo.com
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?...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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
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...
Richard Grahn
Thanks for the welcome, Evanston. My creative juices emerge in a variety of media from silicon bronze to recycled Styrofoam and through various disciplines including, sculpture and painting, computer graphics, music, photography, and writing. I have a love for nature and enjoy landscape photography and...
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 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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...