January 2013
It’s STILL Winter Break…
Okay, by the time you read this, classes will have just started back up. But for now, I am still in the throes of the longest break of..
Candidacy: Re-presentation Time
Printing to Re-present
Well, a few months back—in November, to be precise—I wrote about the Candidacy process for Photography MFA stud..
J-Term Performance As Therapy
After having participated in my J-Term course this week, Performance as Therapy, I took away a stronger understanding of what performa..
What I’m Reading
Hey, Marginalians. It’s been a long break. Really long. And that’s awesome and wonderful and I don’t wish it had been shorter, but now..
More Winter Break & A Little More Snow
Recently, my friends from Bellingham, Matt & Chelsea (we studied in the MA program at Western Washington University), came through Chi..
It’s Freezing, but Museums are Free!
This week marked the coldest few days in Chicago this winter. Folks, it was 1 degree—no need for plural. That’s really frosty. I bro..
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago has a lot of great things to enjoy. I have been living up the break from classes in the Music Composition for the Screen MFA. ..
A Night at Gallery Provocateur
This last Saturday, I went to one of my favorite galleries, Gallery Provocateur. It was for the closing reception for their annua..
The South Loop and the Economics of Happiness
Last Tuesday, I went to go see a film screening at a local coffee shop in the South Loop called Overflow Coffee Bar.
Home Stretch
Nature’s Healing Balm
School begins again this week, and I have been working up my motivation to get back into the swing and sway of t..