Who are your patrons?

golden gate bridge, san francisco

I was reading the chapter, Late Bloomers, in the book What the Dog Saw: and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell last night and it got me thinking…The chapter speaks about creative types and the difference between those writers or artists who come to their best work immediately upon writing their first sentence or painting their […]

Artist Retreat…pick 3 of our 52 Adventures in Chicago

tree studios chicago

  Avery drew the Arts & Crafts card this week. At first I thought this was going to be some crafty outing but once I flipped the card over and read about Tree Studios I couldn’t have been more wrong. Tree Studios was built in 1894 by Judge Lambert Tree so Chicago artists had an […]