Alice George
Alice George is a Chicago-area visual artist, poet and teacher. Her work appears in eight anthologies and her first collection of poetry was published in 2008 (This Must Be The Place Mayapple Press). She was an editor of Rhino magazine for ten years.
Alice began exploring text and image while pursuing her MFA in Writing from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2001). She has been making artist books and painting ardently since 2008.
As a teaching artist, Alice has translated her interests into work with Columbia College Chicago’s Project AIM, working in long-term text-image residencies in middle-school classrooms. She published an article about this work in Teaching Artist Journal in 2012 and co-presented a paper at the Midwest Educational Research Association Conference.
Alice teaches creative writing, journal publishing and grant writing. She also teaches poetry workshops out of her Evanston studio.
Works: Falling Into the Sky (1996)
Jean Howard
Jean Howard is a poet currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Burning World, Spoon River Review, Chicago Tribune, among a hundred other literary publications.
A participant in the original development of the internationally acclaimed “Poetry Slam”, she has been awarded two grants for the publication of her book, Dancing In Your Mother’s Skin (Tia Chucha Press), a collaborative work with photographer, Alice Hargrave.
Howard has performed her poetry at hundreds of venues nationwide, with such diversity as Chicago’s Big Goddess Powwow, the Guggenheim’s “Art of the Motorcycle Exhibit” at the Field Museum, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, The Harold Washington Cultural Center, the Salt Lake Arts Festival, Utah Humanities Book Festival, as well as churches, coffee shops, mortuaries, art galleries, pet shops, festivals, biker bars and of course the infamous Green Mill where the “Slam” began.
Currently, Jean serves on the Board of Brolly Arts and the Advisory Board of Utah Arts Alliance. She organized the annual National Poetry Video Festival in Chicago for eight years, with her own award-winning video poems airing on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around the nation.
Works: Dancing in Your Mother’s Skin, 2001
Patricia Pelletier
Patricia Pelletier is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Art Education and Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her bachelors degree from DePaul University and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a professional artist, Patricia has performed at the Athenaeum Theater, The Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis, Ft. Wayne Dance Collective in Indiana and at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. She has received various awards for her accomplishments such as the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the Ragdale Foundation Residency, and from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
Works: Flight Distance (1986); Lacings (1982)
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