Your Writing Sample: What is expository writing?
Creative writing MFA programs always ask for a writing sample as part of the application. Usually, they want 20-25 pages of fiction. C..
Critical Encounters Potluck (Part 1): Stone Soup
Last week, the arrival of international art duo motiroti set the long-awaited Critical Encounters: Rights, Radicals, and Revolutions i..
From the Studio
For me, my studio is one of the best places in the world. I have found it so important and productive to have my own space away from h..
IAEA Conference 2011
At Columbia College Chicago, students in the Art Education MAT program get the chance to go to the Illinois Art Education Association ..
John Berryman Doesn’t Suck
You’ll never believe this, but people in poetry programs are passionate about the poets they have loved. I know, I know. Go pick your ..
Close Up
This past week, our assignment for International Reporting was to take three photos of anything you want and then bring them into clas..
Workshop & Wells
This week we celebrated Aviya Kushner’s birthday. My classmate, Toni Nealie, made a heart-shaped cake complete with fresh raspberry ic..
Rattling the Brain Cage
…if I were a superhero which one would I be? …simple. Blue Falcon.
Dance/Movement Therapy vs. Artist in Healthcare: What’s the difference?
In the dance and dance/movement therapy worlds (they are each their own, respectively) there is an ongoing discussion about what the d..
Flip Flops in the Windy City: Why Owning a Microphone is Awesome
If it isn’t obvious from the title, I will spend this post talking about why it’s totally awesome owning a microphone.