Sweet Home Chicago
We're in our apartment, unpacking, working with only one computer because of a
screw-up with our new internet service provider, adjusting to our new life in our new city, and finally posting again! It's all still very disorienting (click here for the definition) and exhausting.
We did take a break Saturday and visited the 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago's Hyde Park
neighborhood. (The Fair is held around the Ray Elementary School, one of those great public school buildings built by the Board of Education 100 years ago.) Over 250 artists exhibited their work and a few of our favorites were photographers Audrey Heller, Xavier Nuez, Carl Vogtmann and Janet Woodcock. We also discovered some wonderful printmakers including Danielle Desplan with amazing mixed media works on paper, beautiful screen prints by Hiroshi Ariyama and etchings by Judy Zeddies.
Not surprisingly some of the most interesting art was found in the corridors of the
Ray School. I found this piece in a hallway display about Spring and plants. I'm not sure of the artists age, but I think it may have been from a second grader. I love children's art. It's so uninhibited and alive.
It was nice to take a break from the moving mania and wander among the art and
architecture of Hyde Park, but we did have to come home and confront all the boxes still to be unpacked.
Everything seems to be a blur right now. But, it's time to let go of our moving to Chicago frame-of-mind and start adjusting to posting about Chicago and all the wonderful things the city has to offer for the two visual nut cases that we are. I'm not sure where we'll take designslinger from this point on, but stick with us as we experiment with some ideas we haven't tried before. We just have to remember to pause every now and then, sit back with a glass of wine, and enjoy the gorgeous sunsets from our apartment windows.
Posted by designslinger at 6/8/2009 1:30 AM 
Categories: Events and Premieres, Photography, Art
Tags: art fairs 57th Street Art Fair photographers Chicago's Hyde Park printmakers
Categories: Events and Premieres, Photography, Art
Tags: art fairs 57th Street Art Fair photographers Chicago's Hyde Park printmakers
Best of luck in Chicago. I'm interested to see how it will inspire you!
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Don't worry take your time. Moving out is always traumatic. Chicago is great for architecture pictures.
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Love the site; it's so great to see the world through other's eyes. I found you through Mike Doyle's blog. I also work from home (near Nashville, TN). I have started a ning network for those of us alternative-worker types. Would love to have you stop by and join up. As a design firm, you would certainly add a different view. We're a small group right now, but we're growing daily. Hope to eventually become a place for homebasers to meet, share, and support each other (as well as helping to give cube-dwellers a peek into our worlds). Again, love the blog and the different view of Chicago!
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