Lisa Barcy is an independent filmmaker and artist whose films have been screened internationally at film and animation festivals. She's also created large puppets for several Chicago-based theater companies. When not animating or teaching she creates artist books, collages, puppets, and participates in the occasional odd performance art piece.
Read moreEp. 37: Lisa Barcy, Part One
Lisa Barcy is an independent filmmaker and artist whose films have been screened internationally at film and animation festivals. She's also created large puppets for several Chicago-based theater companies. When not animating or teaching she creates artist books, collages, puppets, and participates in the occasional odd performance art piece.
Read moreSpecial Edition Ep. 03: Pam Smy
For this Special Edition, Jamie Thome spoke with writer and illustrator Pam Smy. Ms. Smy has illustrated folktales, chapter books, nursery rhyme collections, picture books and novels.
Read moreEp. 28: Landis Blair
Mr. Blair is the author and illustrator of The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes, as well as the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity and the graphic novel The Hunting Accident, which won Best in Adult Books at the Excellence in Graphic Literature awards.
Read moreEp. 22: Liese Ricketts
On September 10th, we talked with visual artist Liese Ricketts. Liese Ricketts is an artistic Jackie-of-Many-Trades. After earning an MFA from SAIC, she pursued her own photographic work as she taught photo at the Lab Schools at the University of Chicago for 26 years.
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