Advisers

  • Amy Beste

    Amy is director of public programming for the department of Film, Video & New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she organizes the visiting artist series “Conversations at the Edge” at the Gene Siskel Film Center. She has curated screenings for venues such as the Chicago Underground Film Festival (where she served as Director of Programming from 2000-2003), the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and the Chicago Cultural Center. She is currently working on a PhD at Northwestern University where she is writing a history of avant-garde/independent filmmaking in Chicago.

  • Alex Fuller

    Alex is a graphic designer/illustrator living in Chicago. He loves his letterpress, a nice cup-o-tea and sleepy acoustic music.

  • Paul Giallorenzo

    Paul Giallorenzo is a director of the Elastic Arts Foundation – a music and art gallery in the Logan Square neighborhood – and he plays piano/synthesizer throughout Chicago and beyond.

  • David Kelly

    David (aka cap D) is the Chief Executive Officer of the recording label All Natural, Inc., a hip-hop artist (both with the group All Natural and solo) and a corporate/sports attorney at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

  • Fred Sasaki

    Fred is an editor at Poetry and Stop Smiling, conspirator for the Dil Pickle Club, and writer living in Chicago. He also organizes the Printers’ Ball: An Annual Celebration of Print.

  • Amy Schroeder

    Amy is the founder of Venus Zine and venuszine.com, the publication about women in music and DIY culture. She also teaches journalism at Columbia College and consults creative types on starting businesses.

  • Seth Vanek

    Seth Vanek is a Chicago musician and sound engineer. He was a founder of the Ice Factory Space. He currently performs and records with the bands Roommate and Love Raid and helps run Glamour Studios in Logan Square. He is a 2008 CAAP grant recipient for music composition and sound design.

  • Thea Liberty Nichols

    Thea Liberty Nichols is a writer, independent curator and arts administrator. She works as Assistant Director of 65GRAND gallery and oversees the Roth Study Center at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art She also programs the 101 Lecture series.

  • Colin Palombi

    Colin Palombi is a print-maker and video artist. As a co-founder of the Ice Capades Film Series he has curated and toured with dozens of local independent films, as well as his own. Currently he is a member and contributor at Spudnik Press, and programs Homeroom’s YouTube Assembly series.