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Erin Chan Ding, Katie Karam, and Steve Wang are Barrington District 220’s newest Board of Education members. They were sworn into office on April 6 for their terms that will last for four years. They recently sat down with Country Magazine to share why they ran for office and what they hope to achieve for

The Buzz: September 2021

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Best Dressed

Amy Fine Collins didn’t intend to become a muse to fashion designers, nor a journalist. Studying at Swarthmore College and Columbia University, she planned a career in formal art history teaching and academia. When a writing offer sidetracked her, Collins’ prose and poise quickly transitioned her to an authority and author on style. She held

Portrait of an Artist

North Shore-based artist and filmmaker Maggie Meiners just received her MFA from Maine Media College this spring, but she first fell in love with art back in 1996. She visited a Kodak photography retrospective at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London before marrying her husband and decided then and there to pursue her passion.

The Stripes That Teach Us

If you ask Therese Van Ryne, the head of global public relations, thought leadership, and advocacy for Zebra Technologies, to describe her last year in one word—“grateful” comes to mind. Van Ryne, a newly elected trustee for her current home Lake Barrington, had always thought she might one day write a book, but the demands

Ace Of Art

All it took for Barrington artist Matt Gabler to return to painting was the itch one day to alter one of his old pieces, the one he created at age 17. The best way to describe the hand painting? “A green blob,” Gabler, now 23, says. Gabler had taken a break from art, in part

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