Melissa Kusek
Life hasn’t been the same since! I never imagined having a career that would leave me so inspired and fulfilled. I truly love what I do! Read more>>
Ted Siebert
I did not have any high school art leading up to the class and I distinctly remember the painting instructor urging me to drop the class because I was basically dreadful and he did not have the time to teach me basic art skills. Read more>>
Stacy Golden
My story began in high school, believe it or not. I fell in love with the darkroom and the process behind developing film and photos. Read more>>
Décima
Always finding any reason to explore it. I am horrible at commitments, but music is one big commitment I have stuck to since I was three. That is a 22-year-old commitment. This is not to say it has been easy; it hasn’t been easy. Read more>>
Oksana Kami (Fedoruk-Terleckyj)
I moved to the US and pursued photography. I presented my poetry and graphic art in a personal exhibition entitled “In Search of the Fifth Element” in Lviv, Ukraine in 2006. I took part in a number of other art exhibitions with my images and as an art critic from 2001 to 2010. Read more>>
Rachel Mandel
I first picked up a camera seriously in 2011, and my love for the art has grown from there! I have travelled all over the world, from Belize to Israel to London, all while documenting my experiences. Read more>>
Amanda Sacy
I was fortunate enough to be adopted into a family with mixed backgrounds; my father is from Damascus, Syria and my mother grew up in Orange County, California. Read more>>
Fiona Gill
All my life I’ve loved crafts and making ‘stuff’, it’s almost like breathing. I just have to do it, I have to be creating something. I’ve always had my fingers in way too many pies, embroidery, sewing, drawing, sculpture, pottery, knitting, crochet and more… Read more>>
Jaymes Josef
Spending time behind bars and violence wasn’t what I wanted from life. I eventually started drawing and at the age of 21, I started to turn my doodles into paintings. Read more>>
Katherine Broadway
I was adopted at birth in El Paso, Texas with my twin sister by my two British parents. With them I grew up in Austin, Texas till I was accepted into The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where I will be graduating by the end of July. Read more>>
Lisa Stefaniak
I grew up on the south side of Chicago into a creative family. I started drawing and painting at a very young age. When I was a teenager, I took an interest to my mother’s film camera, which she then gifted to me. Read more>>
Jennifer Hiser
I always felt more so inclined to pursue my own niche and individual style of art. Designing pieces of furniture for my daughter’s nursery, is what ultimately led me to discover the area of design I was looking for. Read more>>
Eloise d’Estienne-d’Orves
I was lucky enough to have been born with triple citizenship to three incredibly different and equally beautiful countries, which allowed me to travel and see the world from a very young age. Read more>>
Christy Ann Skuban
My sculptures were quite large and before I began construction I would make small models. Friends would ask me if they could purchase them to wear as brooches… Read more>>
steve linder
Program has 125 kids enrolled with another 200 on the waiting list to get in. Its run by all volunteer coaching staff mostly cops, fireman, first responders, with several of them being military veterans. Read more>>
