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Layered Work

Fine artist and Glencoe native Caryn Constantinides first considered painting as a career path while a student at New Trier High School. It was while immersed in their in-house art program, she says, that art school became a viable post-grad option, and she later enrolled at the Maryland Institute College of Art to pursue a

Portraits, Plants, And Peace

Scholarship, style, and solace are some of the many apt descriptions for Dr. Carrie Rebora Barratt. Until just the past few years, she had made a life-long career exclusively at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, starting as a graduate student intern, rising to Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and ultimately Deputy Director of Collections.

Comics Central

Big Shoulders. Al Capone, Michael Jordan, and the 1985 Bears. The ‘L’ train system. Lincoln Park Zoo’s cubs and Wrigley Field’s Cubs. Navy Pier. You think of Chicago, you think of all of the above. It’s time to add comics— the art forms of entertainment and commentary, not the club performers behind microphones—to the mix.

Clean & Green

Winnetka’s Laura White looks for ways to connect with nature and be eco-responsible with her company, Arch. Her belief in the healing power of plants was the basis for launching her botanical skincare line, Arch Glow. Over the past five years, her company has expanded its clean/green products and included her passion for vintage, which

Shine Bright

North Shore fine artist Nancy Kaplan Kuppersmith specializes in creating one-of-a-kind artwork enhanced with thousands of Austrian-imported Swarovski crystals that she meticulously hand-applies to bring the work to life. Think of a vintage Chicago travel poster that features 4,500 crystals in just the red beach umbrella alone and a personal wedding photograph in which the

Putting Her Best Foot Forward

In the mid-1960s, North Shore-based artist Mary Seyfarth spent a post-graduate year at The American School in Lugano, Switzerland, a formative period she says changed the trajectory of her life. “It opened the world to me,” explains Seyfarth. “I was away from the crushing news of the Vietnam War and I traveled extensively gaining exposure

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