Blair Thomas has been a practicing puppeteer in Chicago for over 20 years. The summer of 2010 he performed a 5-week run of his award winning solo shows entitled Hard Headed Heart. In the fall of 2008 he conceived, designed and directed The Ox-Herder’s Tale, a Buddhist parable at the Museum of Contemporary Art as Read more…
Candace Jordan does a nice write up in Candid Candace of her webisode on FearNoARTChicago.com and episode 3 of Fear No ART Chicago on WTTW airing March 31 @ 10 PM. It also airs on WTTW on April 3 @ Noon, April 6 @ 10:30 PM and April 23 @ 11:30 PM, and on WTTWPrime Read more…
Click the below link the hear the podcast on WGN’s The Sunday Papers with the legendary ( I call him Chicago’s Emcee) Rick Kogan. It was a real treat to be on this show. Rick and I discuss episode 3 of Fear No ART Chicago airing on WTTW11 on March 31 @ 10 PM, April Read more…
http://www.tcwmag.com/tcws-top-50-singles-2011#21 Nominated by one of Chicago’s Top Singles by Today’s Chicago Women on the February 2011 issue is such an honor. Share This!
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/candid-candace/2011/03/my-interview-on-fear-no-art-chicago-behind-the-scenes-with-art-collectorblogger-candace-jordan.html Check out the great write up by Candace Jordan in her ChicagoNow blog. Share This!
40 Over 40: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Artists Working with Trash By Chicago Art Magazine on Feb 21, 2011 in Chicago Art News, Featured This article is part of Chicago Art Magazine’s “40 over 40″ series. In this day and age, we are looking at an environment that is undergoing massive man-made and natural changes. Read more…
Famous for a piece known as The Styx Boat, street artist 800 makes our artists over 40 list. The Styx Boat, covered in images of hands symbolizing the souls guiding the boat over the Styx river, was placed in a cave-like tunnel location. As the story goes, 800 was fed up with finding a home Read more…
Candace Jordan is on the May 6th Dinner Party! A completely new and different kind of show, host Elysabeth Alfano invites three Chicago and/or national Celebs and a known chef to a dinner party. Over food, wine, chocolate, Twitter and a few impromptu performances, the conversations flow! Filmed live and streaming live on-line, buy your Read more…
William Pope L – William Pope.L’s (b.1955) oeuvre exists as a complex contemplation of contemporary issues around race, class, and gender, kaleidoscoped through intense durational performances, installations, and nomadic projects. From his early work on the eRacism series, through the Black Factory Twice Sold project, and to his text and sculptural pieces in Black Is, Read more…
Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger – The imagery of partners and collaborators Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger has been near ubiquitous over the past few years in Chicago. Either you’ve seen them performing, knitting a link between them, or discovered their quaint Victorian profiles with beards intertwined, or stumbled across documentation of their far flung Read more…
