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Crystal Neubauer is a Mixed Media Artist drawn to the broken, cast out, and overlooked items of the past. She sees beauty in the mundane, brings new life to forgotten objects, and finds the process of salvaging old materials and … Continue reading
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Lover of all dogs, mozzarella sticks and of course – sewing machines, Rachel first began seriously sewing after enrolling in the fashion design program at Columbia College Chicago in 2001. While there she found her passion for fabrics, patternmaking and … Continue reading
Help us save lives through art. With each purchase of a heart painting, 100% goes directly to the American Heart Association. Each of the canvases is $50 and we need your help to raise as much as possible for the #1 cause of death within the nation- heart disease. Local artist, Christine Olson was commissioned to create these heart paintings and they are darling. :] We can ship anywhere too! Give the gift of life and love all month long. Check out our events page for our heart healthy party at the end of the month too! Thanks!!
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Katie Bordignon, owner of Tuscanycreative lives in the ‘burbs of Chicago and loves to spend her days creating handmadegoodies – both whimsical and practical – for children of all ages. She’s oh so creative and always open tonew ideas – … Continue reading
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Miranda Rowe is an artist and graphic designer currently living in “Famously Hot” Columbia, South Carolina, A great departure from her small hometown in western New York State. With an excitement for art and design, she studied at the Art … Continue reading
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Lisa Chow is a Houston, Texas based artist, illustrator, make believer and story teller. Armed with an overly active imagination, a healthy dose of creativity and self-taught skills learned through trial and error, her work is whimsical, delicate, surreal and … Continue reading
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Paonia, Colorado: the place where Amie was introduced to a variety of artisans who’s creative passions were their life’s work. paeonia, the name that represents the creative part of Amie’s life. The artist has an background in Interior Design but … Continue reading
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Saturday morning was my favorite time of the week. I would wake up as early as I could, and have 8 hours of cartoons injected into my brain. But, if I wasn’t watching cartoons, I was definitely drawing them. My … Continue reading
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iamhome, is Chicago-based artists and designers (and married couple) Sarah Belknap and Joseph Belknap. The Belknaps are heavily influenced by color theory, home, children’s books, landscape, science and architecture. They love camping, cooking obnoxiously pretentious meals and their magic escaping … Continue reading
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Todd Hoffman, a Chicago artist, art director and illustrator of the children’s book Robots Everywhere, has always loved fish. Not to eat as much as what they represent. Fish symbolize a will against the odds, hope through perseverance, happiness despite … Continue reading
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Kevin Lucius is a graphic designer from Chicago. His work is done digitally using old textures, animal photos, and vintage design elements. All of the wood block prints are are mounted sealed and stained by the artist within the confines … Continue reading
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“Having always been fascinated with everything old, I am particularly in love with all of Chicago’s old brick buildings, fire escapes, neon signs, and block by block oddities that can be found in so many neighborhoods, especially away from downtown … Continue reading
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Mandy creates digital black and white photography collages which are sublimated onto canvas fabric. She is a self-taught digital artist and uses her own photographic images as a base before manipulating them into an abstract, layered design. Her pieces focus … Continue reading
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greenie bean recycle is for the wild at heart, the kindred spirits, wanderlusters, modern day hippies. together, we are radical, in our notions of practicality, reusability, and save the world-isms. change can happen.greenie bean is for you who is fascinated … Continue reading
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StudioChris creates art that connects people with popular Chicago neighborhoods. Chris was born and raised on Chicago’s southwest side, in the Clearing neighborhood. He studied graphic design and advertising at Columbia College in South Loop, and graduated in 1991. For … Continue reading
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Each piece of substance designs jewelry is designed and constructed by the hands of Carolyn Healy. Great consideration is given to the materials, textures, colors, the way light reflects or passes through each, and the source of the components. The … Continue reading
There’s something about Nikki Scheel’s photography that gets me everytime. It’s brilliantly created with fascinating imagery, infused colors and filters and made with interweaving layers of time and love too. For me, her work can take you to a place of nostalgia. childhood. happiness. She captures the moments of peace- of that brief second when you realize “wow. everything’s alright. i’m… fine.” It’s a beautiful moment to experience and one that comes when you least expect it- so just continue waiting if you haven’t had one yet. it’s worth it. :] The moment may not last long, but the memory of having that moment sticks and it says something about how life can be so transient and wonderful and evolving! I think back to this time two years ago, and my life was completely different and taking place in a whole different city too. Nikki’s photography reminds me that life needs to be experienced and that there’s so many good things out there that just need to be discovered, happened upon, sought after. Her work is gorgeous. At one point she told me about how she spends countless hours on each of her photographs, making them to be a perfectly delicate balance of light, color, filters and all the other layers that make up each image. This amazes me because it’s like you’re getting that time and love and effort that a painter would put into a painting, that a ceramic artist would put into the clay they are molding, that a printmaker puts into the design and inking of each print. With each image, you can be sure that it is uniquely beautiful- original in ideas and perfect in imagery. I hope that you’ll stop by the shop and look through her work- these should definitely be experienced in person! :] Check out some of her images below:
Check out her page on our site for more of her work. Oh and by the way, this website that you’re looking at- she designed it along with her partner, Joe: www.twodesigngurus.com.
Thanks! :]
L
I know every local business must say this, but we have some of the best customers!! Yesterday, a regular customer of ours came in to give me a mix CD to play for the store- how amazing is that? I’m listening to track 4 (Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues) and trying not to show too much excitement, but that’s really just not working! :]
Sometimes, another regular of ours comes in to talk about the artwork we have here and we’ll have conversations about specific artists, their style of creating, the colors they use and what the artist is all about. The other day he bought some artwork by an artist that we’ve been talking about for a while- it was awesome.
Other times, some of our regulars come in just to say hi, look around and have a good conversation. More often than not, they’ll leave with an awesome piece of artwork or a hand-painted robot bank, or a great new jewelry piece.
Sarah and I will say this everyday: We’re so lucky to have customers like you guys- people who are genuine and care about supporting artists and local businesses like Sacred Art. We can’t say it enough, but THANK YOU!!!
(and now I’m listening to Track 6 of Oasis’ “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and it’s oh so good.)
L :]
