Art

After eating homemade pancakes, Big Draw Chicago participants joined a panel of comix artists and zinesters who guided them to create original works on paper. Double issue (back-to-back) focused on drawings of owls and of a ravenous rainbow monster.

Reflection Passed is a book of drawings of car crashes accompanied by short poems.

This comic takes the real life story of Joseph Beuys' performance art piece "I Like America and American Likes Me" and creates an alternate account of what really happened during his time with the coyote.

"The Read/Write Library and Big Draw Chicago are partnering for a one day program on October 6, 2013. Artists Sara Drake, Brook Golden, and Caroline Picard will talk about their style and process. After the discussion youth and artists will have the opportunity to draw together and create a short comic of their own."

This Zine has no information on the cover, and appears to be composed primarily of photocopies of copyrighted material. The first page contains an essay titled "Dumb Materiality."

This issue of Chicago Gallery News includes topics focusing on antiques and ranging from the 2014 winter art season, Edward Gorey, Chicago collectors, and William J. O'Brien.

A collection of photography and video stills by the artist Jeanne Dunning

A monthly journal dealing with contemporary art, literature, and cinema.

A bimonthly magazine pertaining to art published in July/August 2014

Try Less Hard is the story of a king and his owltopus. Try Less Hard is about leaving home, remembering the places that you have left, imagining the places you haven't been yet, and acquiring experience along the way. It's both funny and poignant, and there's a lot of meat in it. Try Less Hard is a philosophy for artistic collaboration. Definition #1: Try less hard is relying less on inspiration and more on process and collaboration. Try less hard is listening, being patient, being tolerant, being still. It is hard to try less hard. We sometimes fail when we try to try less hard. Try less hard is a work in progress. Definition #2: Try less hard is letting work direct itself, allowing the process to take its course. Try les hard is near the owltopi, fish coats and shores made of bread. It can be cultivated as a houseplant with the requisite constraints, collaboration, fertilization and many hours of work. It takes more time than trying hard.