April 2012
Interview With Second Year Students Liz Chereskin and Sara Peck
I met Liz and Sara at New Wave Coffee in Logan Square. We talked about the manuscript process, the joys of being a second year MFA st..
Hall Chat: April is the Cruellest Month
I’ve been thinking about the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.”
“April is the cruellest month.”
And I’ve been thinkin..
The 13th Annual Edible Books and Tea
Every spring, students from the Book and Paper program participate in a celebration of reading and books, the annual Edible Books and Te..
Reboot
If you had the opportunity to reboot your favorite show or series, how would you go about it?
That’s the question that we were rece..
Next Big Thing
As artists we can never be satisfied with the “now.” We need to appreciate the work but we cannot grow stagnant.
That little thing called a Master’s Thesis, revisited
As I have mentioned before in an earlier blog post, one requirement of the Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling program is completing a..
Secondary Student Teaching- Week 3
I happen to be student teaching two Photo One classes that pretty much have the assignments planned in advanced. This last assignment ..
On Middle School Social Studies
If you would have asked me what subject and grade I was interested in teaching at the beginning of the year, I would have answered “4t..
Industry-in-Residence: The Simple Steps for A Simple Cereal
A timer goes off in the living room. I leave the kitchen, and the endless whir of a food processor, putting on a turquoise oven mitt a..
Advice for Future Grad Students: Finances
Besides the fact that I saw my face plastered all over the hallways, gently directing visitors where they needed to go and when, Admit..