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With a career spanning 30+ years, Carolyn has landed thousands of assignments for photographers as an artist representative and repped top commercial photographers and illustrators in the U.S. and Europe. Often working with the creative departments at major advertising agencies, design firms, and publishers, she has also created over 10,000 portfolio edits and created marketing plans resulting in professionally significant assignments. Since 2004, Carolyn has been a full-time creative consultant braiding together her interests in professional photography, design, technology, photo editing, and communication as a photography marketing consultant.

Carolyn has guided seasoned pros through the newer economies of digital marketing and assisted them in retooling businesses from film to digital workflow, but she has also worked with emerging photographers who possess deep digital tech and imaging skills, but need assistance in the realms of sales and marketing. In all cases, Carolyn represents creative artists who are interested in capitalizing on today’s communication tools to create meaningful and profitable careers.

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"I have been a professional commercial, advertising and fine art photographer for over 30 years. Originally from Indianapolis, I relocated to Evanston in 2022.
My photography mostly includes people, however I also photograph landscapes and other conceptual images. I especially like conceptual portraits of people, among my favorite subjects are artists in their environment or with their art." Instagram: @drewendicott

Margot studied graphic design, printmaking, and fine art and works as a designer offering branding and digital design. Their client work merges design, art, and technology and is dedicated to the advancement of nonprofits and mission-driven businesses. Margot’s artwork is a mix of design, painting, printmaking, and collage in traditional 2D formats as well as installation and spatial exploration. This work is fueled by activism, dismantling systems of oppression, queerness, gender, color theory, poetry, and calligraphy.

Originally from Minneapolis, Margot lives in Chicago, and is white, queer, trans non-binary, and uses they/them pronouns. margotharrington.com

Originating from an evangelical community and contradictory motorcycle culture in Indiana, Samuel Schwindt left religion on the drive of highway 65 north to Chicago. Through his young-life he honed skills in wood and metal, and used his craft-history to receive a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from University of Illinois at Chicago. Now, he works as commission-based leather-gear crafter, archivist, sculptor, curator, freelance writer, and teacher.

Recent exhibitions and project-sites include Gallery 400, the Gender and Sexuality Center at University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago Art Department, Evanston Art Center, Boccarra Art Brooklyn, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago Sculpture International Project Space, Side Street Studio Arts, the Leather Archives and Museum, Epiphany Center for the Arts, and Parlour and Ramp. His written work portfolio ranges from exhibition catalogues and artist statements for local artists, and news stories, reviews, and essays for publications such as Another Chicago Magazine, Sixty Inches from Center, F Newsmagazine, and Chicago Reader. www.samuelschwindt.xyz

Andy Hall is a studio artist and educator trained in ceramics, music, and mixed media. His practice is informed by historical craft, material research, and contemporary art discourse. He has held technical and creative roles at institutions such as Moravian Pottery and Tile Works (Moldmaker and Resident Artist), Peters Valley Crafts School, and Vermont Clay Studio (Ceramic Technician and Fellow). His work has been supported by residencies at the Catwalk Institute and Messhall, and recognized through exhibitions and commissions from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the American Craft Council, and the Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh. Hall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. You can find his work at www.andyhallstudio.com

Christine Forni is painter and sculptor examining links between human behavior and the natural world. Her work focuses on environmental compassion through poetic connections of habitat, alchemy, anthropology, and memory. She has exhibited at venues including Ueno Royal Japanese Art Museum and Awagami Paper Museum (Japan), DeCordova Sculpture Museum, (Massachusetts), Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico), Museo Internazionale Italia Arte and Museo di Scienze Naturali (Italy), the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Heaven Gallery at The Franklin and Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago). Forni created Drawing You Outside, an environmental community project collaborating with poets, environmentalists, botanists, historians, physicists, writers, performance and sound artists. She was invited to speak and exhibit her work at the Academia Romania in Bucharest, on the phenomena of design and evolution in nature.

In 2023 she was the guest speaker at Freedom, Design and Evolution, a physicist conference in Turin, Italy at the Energy Center giving an artist talk about her practice and environmental outdoor drawing project. Her botanical sculptural drawing installations evolved during the artist's residencies in Paris at École du Breuil and the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée where she drew enlarged microscopic details of specimens amassed by naturalists. Her new work simultaneously bridges both painting and sculpture evoking a visual echo of slide specimens enlarged to many times their normal size, and eloquently points to the observation and analysis play in the artist’s practice. www.christineforni.com

Chris Arnold is a Chicago based contemporary artist and illustrator. Currently, his work is focused on environmental expressionism with notable collections featuring animals, botanicals and landscapes. This includes recent projects with the Ron Finley Project, US National Park Service and the Department of the Interior as an Artist-in-Residence. He has earned a B.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an M.F.A. in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Additionally, he is a tenured member of the Art and Design Department at Columbia College Chicago as an Associate Professor of Illustration.

Chris has also served the academic community in Illinois teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Over the last two decades of Arnold’s professional art and illustration career, he has had work featured in more than a dozen one-man exhibitions, included in over fifty curated group shows worldwide and has been part of countless award-winning illustration and design campaigns. www.chrisarnoldart.com

Michael’s formal training began at the American Academy of Art, continuing on at the Palette & Chisel Academy. He is currently a faculty and board member at the Palette & Chisel. Michael’s work is already appreciated in many public and private collections, such as the United States District Court, University of Chicago, DePaul University School of Law, Chicago Theological Seminary and Delta Air lines. He has received awards from the Portrait Society of America, The Artists Guild, the Oil Painters of America and the 2014 recipient of the Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern Artists. www.michaelvanzeyl.com

I grew up in Minnesota in an artistic household, and when it came time to go to college, it made sense to go to art school. Initially drawn to my school’s animation program, I was quickly seduced to the dark side of tenebrism and chiaroscuro. I switched my major to oil painting as soon was studying under painters such as Lance Richlin, John Brosio, Joseph Todorovich, and Sean Cheetham.
After graduation, I returned to MN where I worked in manufacturing three days per week and painted in my studio the other four. I developed a love for simultaneous narrative, looking at Titian and Masaccio, and I ended up painting a large scale panorama. After exhibiting the panorama, I was offered the chance to move to Chicago. I began attending drawing sessions at places ike the Palette and Chisel. I eventually met a number of fellow artists with whom I tend to show my work. @matthewbraunart