By Audrey Michelle Mast (BA ’00) Photography by Julia Stotz (BFA ’08) and Maia Harms (BFA ’09) Imagine your favorite television or movie scene—then hit mute. No dialogue, no music, no sound effects for gunfights or slamming doors. Although perfect sound is integral to any screened production, the creatives behind the magic rarely take the…

“At the time, the word ‘country’ was a bad word,” says Nan Warshaw on the 1994 launch of her roots-inflected indie rock label Bloodshot Records, with co-founder Rob Miller, outside the company’s headquarters on Chicago’s North Side.

Interior architects mastermind the spaces in which we live, work and play

As students at Columbia College Chicago, Lena Waithe, Tony Merevick and Roma Shah all jump-started their careers with hands-on experience, prestigious internships and boundless ambition—and today, they continue to build on the creative momentum that originated in the South Loop. As the rising stars of television, journalism and fashion business, respectively, each of these young…

Artists Caitlin Strokosch (BA ’98), Rachael Albers (BA ’06) and Shawn Lent (MAM ’06) step out of the spotlight and find fulfillment through nonprofit pursuits. In the arts, timing is everything: the musician’s backbeat, the actor’s delivered line, the dancer’s choreographed leap. For many artists, knowing when to transition from center stage to a supporting…

Christopher Jobson (BA ’04) turned his humble passion project—an art and visual culture blog—into a full-time, professional career. On the morning of March 9, 2011,Christopher Jobson (BA ’04) posted Sagaki Keita’s surreal, intricately detailed ink drawings to his arts and visual culture blog, Colossal. By 5 p.m. that day, so many visitors flooded the site…