Sherry Thomas

SAY ANYTHING

Words are power, often used to persuade, motivate, and inspire. And that’s exactly what longtime Lake Bluff resident Joyce Foster had in mind when she began posting quotes about native gardening on an easel-style sandwich board in her lush, wildflower-laden front yard. Gems like this Chinese proverb—“The best time to plant an oak is 20

GREATEST SHOW ON MIDDLE-EARTH

Alina Taber had been acting professionally since she was a teenager, so she knew going into the audition that rejection is just part of the game. But something about the role of Arwen in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s (CST) U.S. premiere of The Lord of the Rings—A Musical Tale felt right, like it was meant to

GENERATION NEXT

A visionary artist, activist, and educator, Midori was born in Osaka in 1971 and began studying violin with her mother, Setsu Goto, at a very early age. She was a protégé unlike any other, making her debut at the New York Philharmonic at age 11 and going on to perform with such world-renowned luminaries as

HUMANITY VS. NATURE

She sees the invisible. Notices humans that most just walk by. Collaborates with a swarm of creatures many might deem a pest. It’s both a superpower and a call to action as artist Diane Feldpausch Tang brings those otherwise unseen beings to life in her paintings, sculpture, and other multimedia creations—including some that are done

INTUITIVE HEALER

Christie Jordan, a native of Seoul, South Korea, who has lived in the Chicago area for the last four decades, began meditating in the early ‘90s—a personal practice that would ultimately lead to a profession. “I started meditating to access a greater peace within myself when I was in inner turmoil. The process of going

NOT SO STILL LIFE

Time travelers don’t need maps. Intuition inevitably leads them through the portal, in and around those flashes of existing—of lives past, present, and contemporaneous. They intrepidly traverse the zigzagged line between perceived reality and dreams, peeling open parallel dimensions we don’t often see, revealing the multitudes contained both within the universe and themselves. Multimedia artist

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