Considering Audience While Reading at Quimby’s
Quimby’s is a fringe bookstore in Wicker Park, just a couple blocks away from the three-way intersection of North, Damen and Milwaukee..
Calm Before the Storm
You’ve got to take time to find the calm.
Elementary Education: On Halloween and “Local” Love
Halloween is taken very seriously in Chicago. I suspect this is because we all know that it’s our last chance to take to the streets i..
Back to Milwaukee to Talk
The opening of Generation NEXT went really well. MIAD wanted to do a small lecture series in conjunction with the show, so on Tuesday ..
Columbia College Poetry Dispatch: Doctor Time!!!!
So it turns out being in graduate school also means you have to do adult things like take care of your immunizations. This is a law in..
Coping with homesickness
The hardest part about attending graduate school is being away from my family (insert “aw” noise). As I have mentioned in previous po..
We put the “Spring” in Springfield
I’ve been trying to get a hold of a certain senator for about a month. I’ve left numerous messages, begging and pleading his assistant ..
Dafi Kuhne at Center for Book and Paper/The Challenge of Grad School
So, today I thought I would talk about two things, briefly. One, is that I missed the lecture of an amazing letterpress artist Dafi Ku..
Life as a Production Assistant
At this point in the semester, many of my fellow Creative Producing students have signed on to some project or other to produce. I’ve..
Creating Art & Sending Greetings: Handmade Cards
In the Art Education MAT program at Columbia College Chicago, there is the NAEA/IAEA Student Chapter, otherwise known as the National ..