Elyse Martin ‘s art will be part of Constantly.Consuming.Culture—The Art Show.  Martin is from Chicago and has been a teacher in the city since 1973. Her students have won the premiere student cover art competition sponsored by the Chicago Bulls Development Foundation for seven consecutive years. She attended Pratt Institute and Washington University (St. Louis).

The work is personal and inspired by those close to her—using paint, encaustic and photo transfer.

She teaches at the Jordan Community School in Chicago (named after the Jordan family, not Michael specifically). Martin has even done an encaustic piece for Michael’s mother, Deloris.

“Mrs. Jordan was involved in the school since its inception 20 years ago so I have known her that long.  Last year I had a student art show at the Black Cloud Gallery,” says Martin. “All donation names were put in a hat.  The one that got picked received an encaustic painting made from their photo.  Mrs. Jordan wanted one as well. I did a painting for her from an old photo. “

Martin as graciously agreed to do the same for mapanare.us.  As a new reward for our Kickstarter Martin will create a 12"x 12", 9" x 12" or 12"x 16" encaustic painting of a photo provided by YOU (just like she did for Michael’s mom).  Usually this would cost $500.

To see Martin’s encaustic pieces go HERE.

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago has a limited edition photo porfolio sale to benefit the museum's exhibitions and programming. The pieces, curated by Susanne Ghez, are 30 + 3AP, with all images matted on 24 x 28 inch archival board.

For more information, visit our the society's website,

The portfolio includes images by:

-Darren Almond
-Lothar Baumgarten
-Jean-Marc Bustamante
-Willie Doherty
-Stan Douglas
-Fischli/Weiss
-Rodney Graham
-Arturo Herrera
-Zoe Leonard
-Laura Letinsky
-Thomas Struth
-Jeff Wall

Mikey Peterson is a visual artist, writer, musician and art-educator based in Chicago. He will also be part of Constantly.Consuming.Culture-The Art Show in Chicago this fall.  Remember to go check out the KICKSTARTER TO FUND THIS SHOW!

Peterson's work has been shown at the StreeTVideoart exhibition in Paris, the Video Art And Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca in NYC, the Lucca Film Festival in Italy, the Performance Intermedia and DokumentART Fest in Poland, at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum and at the Chicago Cultural Center and at many other venues.

To see some of Peterson's work head HERE or HERE.

Or find out more about his videos, music and more at mikeypeterson.com

Live in Madison, Wisconsin? Going to be there Saturday, April 27, 2013? Take advantage of Tandem Press moving to a temporary location. To help make the move less painful the fine folks at Tandem are having a sale.

We have written about them at numerous fairs and they always have great prints. If you are in the area and in the market for some art? Checkk the above flyer out.

Mr Imagination (Gregory Warmack) was an artist known for his creative use of bottle caps and other "junk" is his art. And that art was fun, it was exuberant and it was a huge loss when Mr Warmack passed away in Atlanta in May 2012.

His work is in collections all over the world and he was featured in books on self taught artists. He was 64.