Studio Conversations: Inviting Comments & Drawing Conclusions

Bookwalter, Meister & Weber: Studio Conversations July 21 – August 28, 2015 Closing Reception: Wednesday, August 26, 2015, 5 pm. to 7 p.m. University of St. Francis Gallery 25 East Van Buren Street, Joliet, Illinois, 60432 An Artist's Conversation and Interview: Studio Conversations: Inviting Comments & Drawing Conclusions: A collaboration between Mary Bookwalter, Janice Meister ...
August 5, 2015
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Roxane Legenstein – From Chicago to Wienerwald

Roxane Legenstein is the quintessential itinerant artist. Having traveled, worked and lived in a variety of cities, Legenstein has created opportunities to produce specific artwork for exhibitions in Austria, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. In addition, as an educator, Legenstein has utilized this journey to introduce her students ...
July 29, 2015
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Tame Impala – Currents

Featured artist of the week for 7/27/15: Tame Impala - Currents (LP) Released : July 15, 2015 Label: Interscope Records All Songs written and recorded at Kevin Parker's home studio. Continuing the heavy wordy introspection, Tame Impala's recent release Currents, delves further into serious personal insight as Kevin Parker refines his skill-set as ...
July 27, 2015
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2015 – Pitchfork Music Festival Review

Pitchfork Music Festival Review Union Park, Chicago, Illinois July 17-19, 2015 Pitchfork's 10th Anniversary!!! In the 10th installment of Pitchfork, one experienced an extremely hot and humid Day 1, torrential rain that evacuated the grounds (briefly) on Day 2, and a pleasant, yet warm, setting for Day 3. Once again, the festival ...
July 21, 2015
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Chance the Rapper to Close Out Pitchfork 2015

Featured Artist: Chance the Rapper Pitchfork Music Festival Union Park, Chicago, Illinois Sunday, July 19, 2015 With the recent release of his 1st studio album, Surf, Chance the Rapper will be calling closure to festivities in Chicago's near west side festival. Since the May 28th release, Surf (with Donnie Trumpet & The Social ...
July 10, 2015
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Corey Postiglione – The Minimalist’s Tango

Chicago has a curious, almost smug, attitude toward abstract art. Simply put, the city is totted as a bastion for narrative driven fine art. For some, the aesthetic practices of the Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists (dating back to the late 1960s) still rule the roost. Nevertheless, there have ...
July 9, 2015
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Sleater-Kinney @ Pitchfork 7-18-15

Featured Artist: Sleater-Kinney Pitchfork (Green Stage) @ 8:30 p.m., 7/18/15 Union Park, Chicago, Illinois After a long hiatus dating back to 2006, Sleater-Kinney has reunited and released their 8th studio album, No Cities to Love. Now touring their punk inspired effort Carrie Brownstein, vocalist/guitarist Corin Tucker, and drummer Janet Weiss will be ...
July 8, 2015
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Wilco – Headlining Pitchfork 2015

Featured Artist 7/6/15: Wilco Wilco is set for 8:30 p.m. on the Green Stage at Pitchfork, Friday, July, 17, 2015. Based in Chicago, Wilco will top off the 1st day of festivities. Pitchfork, the user-friendly festival offers a diverse look at up-and-coming musicians in their zone. One can catch this ...
July 6, 2015
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Revisiting: The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS AND MADNESS Mami Sunada, Director Studio Ghibli, Tokyo, Japan 118 min. 2013 There is, without doubt, one production house in the the anime universe that all familiar with the medium are securely aware of. Studio Ghibli, located in the Kognei district in Tokyo has been producing iconic universal ...
July 5, 2015
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Le Butcherettes – Sin Sin Sin

Featured artist of the week for 6/28/15: Le Butcherettes - Sin Sin Sin (LP) Released : May 12, 2011 Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions All Songs written by Teri Gender Bender. Produced by Omar Rodriguez Lopez. Mixed by Lars Stalfors. Originally hailing from Guadalajara, Mexico, the LA-based Mexican/American Garage band Le Butcherettes (Teri ...
June 28, 2015
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