Slideluck

Back in October I participated in a Slideluck Potshow event in Chicago's Wicker Park. Photographers' created slide shows to be projected for an audience to view. The organization's website has recently been updated to include all of the slide shows from recent events. My show can be found at the Chicago III section. I recycled the title and one or two of the photos for my graduate thesis show.

Stacked

Yesterday's Rock the Stacks event was alright. Michael sold a few things. I sold a little less, but I did get to promote Feed's TTV workshop and a lot of people seemed really interested in coming. We also got to hear some good music and talk to both bands and vendors about coming to the Merchant Street Music Fest that we are helping to organize in August. Right now I'm heading up north to take down my thesis show and help with the next hanging.

Thanks Everybody

Here's a list of people that I want to thanks for coming to my reception tonight. This is off the top of my head, so if you aren't on the list I want to thank you too but it has been a long day and I may not remember all of it very clearly: Mike Chandler, Jon, Jaclyn, Barbara Hogu, Diana Lynch, Patty McWilliams, Becki Moffet-Moore and Dave, Sharon Burrink and her Mom, Tiffany Gholar, Sarah Ogren, Jeff Stevenson and Ross, and their friend that I never actually met, Mike Diggs, Don Rocker, Brenda Farris, Geoffry Bates, Diego and Josie who I love and wish I had talked to more, Cindy Van Swol, Jessica Van Swol who I also love and hope didn't feel ignored, Jen Van Swol and Ben, Rhiannon Sallas, Kristina Schmidt, Michael, Kelly and Emmet, Mike Smith and his son whose name I'm forgetting (sorry dude) and his wife (who didn't come to the show but who did very generously send cookies and whose name I forget too), Carrie and Spencer and Westley, Margie Glass-Sula, Pat Nadler, Chelise and Jerry Slowik and the boys, Matt and Wendy and Justin and Mary LeRoy, Mark Foltynewicz, my whole family including Jean Taylor, Mary and Bill Clark, Scott Clark, Dan Clark, Tracy Harwell and Taryn Harwell, plus my niece Lyndsay who came last weekend with sister Cassie and Ryan, Heather Page, Janet Engel, Dave Gribbons whose address I was able to look up thanks to the power of the internet, the two ladies who talked with me about Hopkins Park, and Matt Letasky who I ran into in the parking lot of Gracie's Lucky Burrito Number Two and who I just noticed signed my guestbook earlier in the week when I wasn't around. Thanks for coming and looking at my show dude. That means a lot to me.

I especially want to thank the people who've who've helped me the most over the last few years: Heather Page, Carrie Ohm, Jeff Stevenson, Javier Chavira, Bastien Defriches-Doria, Jessica Van Swol, and Michael Costanza.

A Whole New Brushroll

I haven't been producing a lot of new work lately since I'm wrapping up my big show. Tomorrow night is the reception so I hope to see you there. Today, besides cleaning up around the house, I got the promo cards for the View Finding workshop I'm doing in mid June. And Michael, with support from local hero Bill Yohnka, managed to secure the Library for a screening of This Is What Democracy Looks Like. Saturday, Micheal and I are going to be representing Feed at the second annual Rock the Stacks concert at the Kankakee Public Library.

Then on Sunday I'll be taking down my show, after which I'll probably help hang the big juried Brainstorm show that Jeff Stevenson organized for the GSU gallery. So far, the list of people that I know for sure were accepted into that show are: Jason Brammer, Roberto Castro, Michael Costanza, Liz Farnesi, Julian Gordon, Annie Hogan, Hugh Jones, Jeff Kolak, Debra LePage, Lorna Fillippini-Mulliken, Shea Naer, Paul Rinaldi, Richard Shipps, Michael E. Smith, Margie Glass-Sula, Erin Waser, and John Zilewicz. When I find out more of the exhibiting artists I'll add them to the list. The jurors for the show are Chicago gallerist and photographer, Susan Aurinko and MCA Associate Curator, Tricia Van Eck. After that show is over, as far as I know, I won't have any real reason to go back into that building ever again. Right now I'm going to get back to cleaning even though I broke my vacuum and had to order a whole new brushroll so I can fix it.

P.S. I'm posting another picture that I took last summer and never used for anything.