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Alexandria Eregbu is a Chicago-based artist, curator and DJ whose hybrid practice spans across art, music, education, justice, and humanities to consider objects, stories, and experiences that dignify creativity and Black life. Her visual artwork employs a combination of symbols, folklore, and performance to make real the continuum of everyday practice in African-American existence. Often Alexandria utilizes materials like chalk, indigo, cowrie shells, wood, and feathers amongst processes like natural dye, drawing and quilting to make meaning with the unseen. As a DJ also known as IJEOMA, Alexandria works with music and other collected recordings to create dynamic sound experiences that uplifts poetry, diaspora, and resistance.

Receiving both her BFA and MA from the School of the Art Institute, Alexandria presently lectures at SAIC in Fiber and Material Studies. Alexandria’s work has appeared on screen in Candyman (2021) directed by Nia DaCosta, in print and on the internet. Her writing has been published by the University of Chicago Press, Sixty Inches From Center, Terremoto Magazine, Candor Arts, and Green Lantern Press. She has presented work in partnership with MacArthur Foundation, Independent Curators International, the College Art Association of America, EXPO Chicago, Soho House, Stony Island Arts Bank, Southside Community Art Center, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the University of Oregon’s Art + Design, Yale Union, the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Poets House, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, Casa Rosada in Salvador, Brazil, the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, among others.

https://www.alexandriaeregbu.com/

With a career spanning 30+ years, Carolyn has landed thousands of assignments for photographers as an artist representative and repped top commercial photographers and illustrators in the U.S. and Europe. Often working with the creative departments at major advertising agencies, design firms, and publishers, she has also created over 10,000 portfolio edits and created marketing plans resulting in professionally significant assignments. Since 2004, Carolyn has been a full-time creative consultant braiding together her interests in professional photography, design, technology, photo editing, and communication as a photography marketing consultant.

Carolyn has guided seasoned pros through the newer economies of digital marketing and assisted them in retooling businesses from film to digital workflow, but she has also worked with emerging photographers who possess deep digital tech and imaging skills, but need assistance in the realms of sales and marketing. In all cases, Carolyn represents creative artists who are interested in capitalizing on today’s communication tools to create meaningful and profitable careers.

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As a young child, Larry instinctively knew he was an artist. He began his long career in the field of art in high school, when he reimagined the format for his school’s literary magazine. Upon graduating from SUNY Buffalo State College, he moved to Chicago and worked as an illustrator, a copywriter, and backdrop mural painter, but it wasn’t until he completed a short film for Encyclopedia Britannica that the door was opened to the world of production design, art directing, set decoration and set design. Along with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo, Larry is a co-founder of Hallwalls Art Center in Buffalo, NY. He also developed projects like the LOOP Show, which aimed to elevate and recognize Chicago-centric art. His career in art direction and set design has produced notable work on the sets of Native Son, ER, Flatliners, High Fidelity, The Babe, Mind of the Married Man, Sense8, Shameless, and Batwoman. Larry teaches courses in Production Design at Northwestern University. A retrospective of his work, Wave After Wave, was recently exhibited at Noyes Cultural Art Center in Evanston.
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As the owner of Morlen Sinoway Atelier for over 30 years, founder of the Guerrilla Truck show, and early contributor to Round the Coyote, Morlen is also an interior designer, sax player, accomplished ceramicist and one of the most devoted promotors of local design in the city of Chicago. As a pioneer of the Fulton Market District, Sinoway’s Atelier has stood at Fulton and North Aberdeen for over 20 years. Starting as a custom furniture company, Morlen has created a destination for unique and curated design.

Morlen is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute receiving a BFA in Sculpture and Ceramics and a past Adjunct Faculty Member of Harrington College of Design. Sinoway is also a bon vivant who loves art, music, film, books and riding a motorcycle. His libation of choice is Beefeater and tonic with extra-extra lime for a pure, clear, simple, altered state without the pain of a hangover.

https://www.morlensinoway.com/

Lauren is a multidisciplinary artist, with a curiosity for combining botany with decorative forms. She is a BFA graduate of the School of the Art Institute Chicago with an emphasis in Printmedia. Lauren has gained experience as an Assistant Exhibition Preparator for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), AIC Specialist for Applied Arts of Europe – Painting and Sculpture of Europe and is currently the Senior Project Manager of AllKinds Studio.

When she's not slinging vessels or thinking of art + science, Lauren takes her love of large-scale installations to work at AllKinds Studio. 

Trained as an architect with a Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois Chicago, Helen combines 20+ years in the fields of architecture, interior design and project management with over a decade of experience running her own jewelry design studio. She received a diploma in architectural theory from LoPSiA and conducted post-graduate research in Paris and at the Le Corbusier Unite d'Habitation at Briey-en-Foret, France.

Helen has been working in architecture and architecture-adjacent practices for her entire career. She is proud to have been part of teams that created amazing spaces for live theaters, hotels and restaurants. She has a keen interest in social justice and reducing humans’ carbon footprint, and serves as a board member for both Chicago Creative Reuse Exchange (CCRx) and Territory Chicago. Her hobbies are making jewelry and playing with her dog #mydogdasher.

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Lora is a Chicago-based artist whose works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her focus is painting, printmaking, sculpture and recently ceramics and representing the now in whatever form that takes. She is currently represented by Zolla Lieberman in Chicago and Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco. In addition to her art practice, Lora is also a curator and is the past Director of Exhibitions at the Lubeznik Center for the arts in Michigan City, Indiana.

Lora received her BFA from the University of Illinois and MFA from SAIC. As a child, her parents operated a commercial lithographic print company and time spent there set Lora on her artistic path. Fosberg utilizes metaphor, iconography, and narrative in her work to express the complexities as well as the banalities of our existence. Her work succeeds in creating a universal language using symbols, iconography, and text. Appearing repeatedly throughout her practice are isolated, lonesome moments and epic disasters, alternated with quiet instances of bliss, and scenes of collective rebuilding and symbolic growth. She is interested in enlarging emotional possibility.

https://www.lorafosberg.com/

Chad Kouri is a Chicago-based working artist, musician, and cultural worker known for his intuitive, vibrant compositions that utilize the healing powers of improvisation, color, and abstraction. His multidisciplinary studio practice mirrors his mixed-race identity, focusing broadly on visual Art, music performance, and design while considering theories based on minimalism, color theory, semiotics, improvisation, radical joy, and community care. Utilizing a wide range of skills and strategies, Kouri reminds us to stay curious and make time for play, rest, and introspection, enabling us more bandwidth for personal and collective grounding, understanding, and empowerment.

His decade-long curatorial and collaborative efforts as a co-founder of The Post Family have played a significant role in creating a broader national and international dialog around Chicago and its world-class creative community. He previously held the title of Art Director for the award-winning contemporary art magazine Proximity. Notable upcoming and past exhibitions and performances include Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, New Hampshire; Purdue University; Mission Cultural Center of Latino Arts, San Francisco; Apexart, New York and the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival in Chaumont, France. Notable past appearances include visiting artist engagements at The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Glasgow School of Art, Portland State University, Otis College of Art and Design, Pratt University, and The Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. His projects range in diversity from one of a kind and editioned artwork to self-publishing, interactive displays, large-scale installations, design direction and consulting, book design and most recently, an exploration in music performance and composition.

https://chadkouri.com/

Ron was raised in Pittsburgh. As past Chief Design Officer of Tishman Hotels Corporation, Ron is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture and is a Registered Architect. He has over 35 years of experience in architecture and interior design and was directly responsible for ensuring the success of both aesthetic and operation goals.

Prior to joining Tishman, Ron was the Director of Planning for Hyatt Hotels, the Assistant Vice President of Planning and Design for Classic Residence. During his time in Chicago, Ron worked as a docent for the Chicago Architecture Foundation giving tours of architecturally significant buildings in The Loop, as well as Clark and Glessner House. Of all the cities he has lived throughout his career, Chicago has always been his favorite. Recently retired, Ron now splits time between Manhattan and his residence in the Hudson Valley where he is focusing on the renovation of his 1880’s home and converting the former ‘backyard of gravel’ into a lush four-season garden.