Looking at Women’s Fashion from the 1940s to the 1950s.
Laura Loveday, designer unknown. Utility Fashions, 1942.
In the early 1940s women’s fashion was greatly impacted due to World War II as France had been overtaken by the Germans in 1940. Due to the German occupation, France had no influence on the worlds fashion industry. As a result, women’s fashion took ...
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Paula Scher – From Pentagram to Paintings
Paula Scher, born in 1948, is a talented artist and designer. She went to Tyler School of Art and left with a BA in illustration. Her career started after she graduated and worked at Random House in the children’s book division. After working there a couple of years she ...
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Paul Rand – Next to NeXT
Born in Brooklyn New York in 1914 was Peretz Rosenbaum. Changing his name to Paul Rand in his early design career to disassociate from his Jewish culture, he would soon become one of the most well-known names in graphic design history. Paul began his journey as an artist at the early age of 3. His father owning a grocery store, Paul would adventure around ...
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Jim Terry – Wrestling Demons: Imaginative & Real
Cartoonist Jim Terry is drawn to demons, imaginative and real life. You know, the ones that get their fangs in you and drain you of your life force beyond repair. He's battled demons head-on for decades. He's prevailed. Now in middle age, he has found balance and carved out ...
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Kelly Reaves: Pushing a Slug up a Mudslide
Kelly Reaves: Pushing a Slug up a MudslideON EXHIBIT: FEBRUARY 8 - MARCH 19, 2024ARTIST TALK: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 @ 1PM
Kelly Reaves, Slug Princes, ink, gouache, acrylic, pastel, colored pencil and collage on paper, 2024
Kelly Reaves is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago. She received her BFA ...
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2024 High School Art & Design Scholarship Exhibition
2024 High School Art & Design Scholarship ExhibitionUniversity of St. Francis Art Gallery25 E. Van Buren StreetJoliet, IL 60432
Dates: January 5, 2024, through January 26, 2024.Public Reception and Portfolio Reviews: Saturday, January 13, 2024, noon to 3 p.m.
2024 High School Art & Design Scholarship Exhibition, University of St. Francis ...
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Sold Out Crowd Gathers for HARDY in Peoria
HARDY, Lainey Wilson and Dylan MarlowPeoria Civic Center201 SW Jefferson Ave, Peoria, Illinois 61602Friday, December 1st, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
With the sun setting on the horizon, fans gathered at the Peoria Civic Center awaiting the start of HARDY’s sold-out performance. The crowds made their way to their seats in ...
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Glenn Wexler – An Enduring Studio Practice Above & Below
On view now through December 23, 2023 at Zolla Lieberman Gallery is Glenn Wexler's Above & Beyond. This dynamic and sleek installation couples works from Wexler's Urban Sky series with images made in depopulated train stations in Seoul, South Korea, and Bangkok, Thailand. Wexler, a long practicing artist and ...
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Zachary Weber – Porcelain to Spray Paint Concoctions
The transition from traditional art studies to establishing a career as a young artist is piled high with obstacles. There is need to establish a rhythm for advancing one's investigations, the managing of connections to a growing art world network, and many unforeseen occurrences. At inception, Zachary Weber appears ...
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Matt Davis – Perfectly Acceptable Printing & Publishing
Publishing books can be a complex, difficult, and lofty task. Beyond creation of interesting and timely work, there is the need to understand the process and tools for execution. There is also the need to locate a publisher who understands one's vision and wants to support this effort. Matt ...
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