February 2012
Flip Flops in the Windy City: The Red Line!
Everyone that takes the subway regularly will swear that their line is the best. They’re all wrong. Unless they’re talking about the..
Picnic Magazine – Mexico
I am always happy when my work gets into a publication. Getting work published in magazines is probably the number one way that I..
Balancing Teacher and Student
I recently wrote about my first steps as a teacher. I was fresh off having a great class, excited, and feeling like I could take on th..
Robots, Socialites, and Realists: The Secret Friends of the Book and Paper Grad Student
I have often found, being a book arts/paper student for a while now, that ideas are quick and production takes a really long time (see..
Hall Chat: AWP
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP) is less than a month away. As my friend Hafizah Geter (Poetry MFA alum..
Student Teaching – Elementary Week 1
I am in the first stretch of my Student Teaching experience at the Elementary level (my art classroom for the student teaching experie..
Art in Chicago
I’ve written a lot about my experience at Columbia navigating the Creative Producing program, but today I’ve decided to lighten things..
Cereal in Serial in Parallel: InterArts Thesis Work
Last semester, I wrote about my performance research in cereal-making (…for a refresher in what I’m talking about, read about it her..
FAQs: How long does a Fiction Writing MFA take?
Here’s a not-so-scientific breakdown of just how much a grad degree from Columbia College Chicago will age you!
The MFA in Creative..
Elementary Education: Exploring the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
One of our upcoming assignments in Social Studies is to visit a museum with a student and observe how they interact with the space. I ..