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To Look At You: Twenty Years of Self-Portraits

This year, I turn 36. It will be roughly two decades since the summer I saved up enough money from my job at the Dairy Crest (a local, sea..

Thankful for the Light That Never Goes Out

Amidst the chaos of preparing for the end of the semester comes the all-too-brief but definitely welcome break for Thanksgiving. This year..

Co-Creating & Producing Local Burlesque: An Arts Management Journey

After I became involved with burlesque and began earning my first Master’s in Arts Management at Columbia College Chicago, I started conce..

Theatre

The Perfect Ensemble

A new semester begins! Only three weeks in and I already feel like our group has discovered such a profound and wonderful new way of w..

Business and Entrepreneurship

A Semester in Review: Graduate School vs. Undergrad

Me! Right after my May 2021 graduation!

Has it been a few months or a few years since you completed your undergraduate degree? Are you..

Photography

Post-Covid Artist Communes: How to Survive an MFA Program

As a reformed freelancer of 15 years, one of the main reasons I attended graduate school was to gain access to and become connected with t..

Creative Writing – Nonfiction

This is my final blog as the Nonfiction Graduate Ambassador for CCC and it’s my time to reflect on the place that’s been my home, my community, and, most importantly, the well-spring of my creativity for the last three years. It’s hard to do; my wealth of thoughts and feelings are hard to summarize despite the writerly expertise I’ve accrued in these years.