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A foodie’s tour of ArtPrize: Eat your way through coffeehouses, restaurants featuring art, by Sue Dow, The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, MI, September 22, 2010.
http://www.mlive.com/artprize/index.ssf/2010/09/a_foodies_tour_of_artprize_eat_your_way_through_coffeehouses_restaurants_featuring_art.html

SAIC Metal Casting
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SAIC Iron Pouring Community, by Roxanne Samer, Chicago Art Magazine, June 7, 2010.
http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/06/saic-iron-pouring-community/

 

Morton Arboretum Workshop and Bronze Pour

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Steel sculptures mimic nature’s roots, by Sandy Illian Bosch, Pioneer Press PioneerLocal.com, Member of Sun-Times Media, April 22, 2010.
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/westernsprings/entertainment/2164776,doings-disteelroots-042210-s1.article

 

Butler Street Foundry Collaboration

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Forging Forward: Artist pours heart, hope into reviving 119-year-old family foundry, Story by Rick Kogan and Photos by Charles Osgood, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL, February 7, 2010.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/style/ct-sun-0207-foundry-20100205,0,34495.story

 

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The re-invention of Butler Street Foundry:iron workers and art students share a vision, Story and Photos by Layton Ehmke, Medill Reports, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, December 2, 2009.
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=150865

 

Student Iron Pour

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the Year of Iron: Forging a community, Story and Photos by Jen Mosier, F Newsmagazine, Chicago, IL, October 26, 2009.
http://fnewsmagazine.com/wp/2009/10/the-year-of-iron/

 

Chicago Aritsts Month

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October, 2008
View Chicago Artists Month Publication

 

Columbia College Faketure article

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Waste displaced, later embraced, by Steven Schnarr, The Columbia Chronicle, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, October 13, 2008.
http://columbiachronicle.com/waste-displaced-later-embraced/

 

Chicago Artists Resource

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“My Art, My Family,” by Gabriel Akagawa, Chicago Artists Resource Artist Story, Chicago, IL, September, 2008.
http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/16755

 

NIU Art Museum Unpacked/Offset

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Four press articles and one video interview.
Unpacked/Offset Exhibition Press 2008

 

Teaching/Industry Partnership

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Internship leads to partnership in foundry industry, by Sonja Schneider, Journal News, Chicago IL, February 28, 2007.

Artist-in-Residence

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Demonstrating global impact, by Poria Priegert, Kelowna Daily Courier, Kelowna, BC, June 26, 2006.

 

Gallery press release

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Street Stories: Group Exhibition, Walsh Gallery, 2005.

Curatorial

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Visiting exhibition explores nature and artifice, by Charles Campbell, The Mac Weekly, St. Paul, MN, November 11, 2005.

 

In-School Artist-in-Residence

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Young artists work in color, community, by Kathy Routliffe, Evanston Review, Evanston, IL, December 4, 2003.