Meet and talk with EEE mentors, learn about the program and how to most effectively submit your application  — a must for all who are interes

Aaron Renier to work on YOUR independent project!

Chicago’s Aaron Renier is one of three mentors working this year with Homeroom Chicago and the Portfolio Center at Columbia College Chicago to help a student bring their creative work to a real-world audience as part of the Emerging and Established Artists’ Exchange Program (EEE). Renier was the recipient of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition in 2005, and was nominated for the best Children’s Album Eisner in both 2005 and 2011. He was one of four illustrators honored with the Maurice Sendak fellowship on its inaugural year in 2010.

Chicago’s Robbie Hamilton is a popular singer-songwriter, producer, owner of boutique record label Strange Weather, and music supervisor at Pieholden Suite Sound Studios, where he engineers and produces a wide range of projects, including pop, rock, country, folk, and experimental music. Hamilton is one of three mentors working this year with Homeroom Chicago and the Portfolio Center at Columbia College Chicago, to help a student bring their creative work to a real-world audience, as part of the Emerging and Established Artists’ Exchange Program (EEE).

Chicago’s Morgan Lord is a powerhouse writer, actor, improviser and filmmaker who studied at The Second City Conservatory and iO Chicago. She is one of three mentors working this year with Homeroom Chicago and the Portfolio Center at Columbia College Chicago to help a student bring their creative work to a real-world audience as part of the Emerging and Established Artists’ Exchange Program (EEE). Lord is a member of the iO Harold team Juneboy, performs long-form improv with Inkling and Velvet Rope, sketch and film with Sweathearts, is a part of the Kill All Comedy collective, and hosts a weird monthly variety show called The Sweater Kittens.

Please register: 
eee-info.eventbrite.com  or call 312-369-7280

With questions, contact Rob Funderburk at the Portfolio Center: rfunderburk@colum.edu, 312-369-7281.

ABOUT EEE:  Since 2011, the Portfolio Center at Columbia College Chicago has partnered annually with Homeroom Chicago, an independent, non-profit resource that helps creatives develop and produce innovative arts programming, to present the Emerging and Established Artists’ Exchange Program (EEE). Three dedicated students are awarded exclusive mentorships with one of three established working-artist mentors to develop, produce, and promote the students’ own independent creative project. In regular meetings over the course of several months, mentors will help students establish a strong project plan, engage professional communities, and present their final work off-campus with a “real world” audience.