Selected Scrapbook Images - 2020

People, places, and events significant to my artistic process​.

2018 - 2019

Chicago Academy of Sciences - Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

All This Land exhibition
                                  With Kevin, Andy, and Rose Jansen, Scott Anderson, Rhonda Gates, and Therese Cushing.

          With Nora Claire Mann and her mom, Marie Angkuw.
            Jennifer and Jeff Mounce (right) with friends.

                                      Exhibiting artist Rhonda Gates, Deborah Lovely, and gallerist William Lieberman.
                                                                           Deborah Lovely and Marie Angkuw.

Beane and His Crinoids
Mr. Beane devoted many years of his life to the collection and preservation of the remarkable crinoid slabs that are on display in these cases. He collected the slabs over a period of several years (beginning in 1931) from a quarry near Le Grand, Iowa (about 80 kilometers northeast of Des Moines). The crinoids were found in three thin rock layers. When the quarry workers encountered a fossil-rich layer, they stopped work and called Mr. Beane. He would then split off the slabs of the layer using flattened nails driven into the rock every few centimeters. Once free, the slabs were transported to his farm on an old hay wagon pulled by a team of horses. Mr. Beane stored the slabs in an old chicken barn, which he had converted into a fossil workshop. There, he cleaned the crinoids free of their matrix using a small hammer and pick, old dental tools, a toothbrush, and a small broom. Some the scratches from the pick can still be seen on the slabs exhibited here. 
                                                     With Deborah Lovely at Rhonda Gates' Polychromiscape exhibition.

2019

Art and Fossil Friends 

 An autumn gathering for food and fossil show-and-tell, with Rhonda Gates, Keith Robitschek, Deborah Lovely, and Andy Jansen.

                                    Brunch with artist Rhonda Gates, Jann Bergsten, Deborah Lovely, and Marie Angkuw.
                                                 Artists Judith Geichman, Katherine Desjardins, and Karen Lebergott.
                                                                  Andrew Young, Steve Lanster, and Fred Colman.

                        The Lanster family celebrating friend and artist Carlos Betancourt's collaboration with Louis Vuitton.
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