Looking Backwards With a Smile by Catherine Jozwik

Looking Backwards With a Smile by Catherine Jozwik

Artist Tyanna Buie [MFA ’10] had an upbringing that sounds tough: she was placed in foster care at an early age, growing up on Chicago’s South Side. She recalls living in a household with her aunt and eight other children. Yet there is a cheeriness to her work...
Creating Mural Alley by Catherine Capellaro

Creating Mural Alley by Catherine Capellaro

It’s going to be tough to remember what the back of the East Side Shopping Center looked like before its transformation. Thank goodness someone thought to post “before” pictures at the grand opening of Mural Alley on Aug. 13. The photos — propped up on easels near a...