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Ann Filmer Theater Director Ann Filmer is a theater director, producer and choreographer who has directed for Goodman, A Red Orchid, Shattered Globe, Circle, UIC, DePaul, 29th Street Rep in New York and Estrogen Fest (of which she is founder and artistic director). Former Producing Director of Chicago Dramatists, she edited the anthology, New Plays From Chicago. Ann is founder/Artistic Director of the new 16th Street Theater in Berwyn and on the board of Berwyn Arts Council. "My passion is in developing and directing new work. I am interested in reaching out to other professional artists in Berwyn." www.annfilmer.com |
Fran Gregory Painting, Portraiture, Murals, Illustration, and Graphic Design Fran Gregory is a local freelance illustrator and graphic designer with a client base that includes Motorola, Kraft Foods, Colgate, Cuervo, ABC, Ameritech, Land O' Lakes and Miller Brewing. She is a founding member of the Berwyn Arts Council and serves as the national representative for the Graphic Artist Guild. In addition to her freelance work, she paints portraits, teaches, and volunteers in the community. She currently works and lives in Berwyn. "I simply wish to create paintings of great beauty. To show others the incredible beauty that I witness in the world." www.frangregoryart.com mail@frangregoryart.com |
Tommaso Lesnick Photography, Sculpture, Graphic Design After completing a multidisciplinary major and a post-baccalaureate honors project at Knox College, Tommaso received his MFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he won the prestigious Bronze Roller Award. He has since gone on to become an award-winning Art Director for advertising agencies in Philadelphia and Chicago. He continues to work as an agency creative while pursuing his interests in photography, mixed-media sculpture, and design. He loves living in Berwyn. "My work explores the repetition of forms, ideas, and actions, often reaching across disciplinary boundaries and using the found, rather than the invented. Most recently I have been interested in a simultaneous avoidance of and desire for repetition in daily life." www.tommasolesnick.com tommaso@tommasolesnick.com |
Kara Kesselring Pianist/Vocalist/Educator/Composer/Advocate of the Arts Kara is a native of Iowa, is a graduate of the University of Iowa in vocal performance. She has been very active as a freelance musician and educator for the last twelve years in Chicago. She currently is an understudy in the Broadway production of Jersey Boys, and plays keys and sings in the Standing Room Only Orchestra. Kara teaches piano, voice, jazz combos, and wiggleworms at Old Town School of Folk Music, travels with the educational theater keynote Wavelength and is a new mother to her baby, Iris Mae. Kara is proficient in many styles of music and has recorded jazz, bossa nova, traditional country and children's CDs which can be heard on her website: www.karakesselring.com. When Kara isn't working on music projects, she's involved in the Berwyn Arts Council, volunteers a Lake View Presbyterian Church, and hangs out with her groovy husband, Patrick and their bad dog, Sammy. "As a musician, it's important to dream big and to follow through. When I was a kid, I saw Les Miserable's in Des Moines, Iowa and thought it was such a long stretch for a farm girl from the sticks to be a part of a Broadway production. After playing the Jersey Boys show, I'm so happy to say I can cross that life dream off my list. Now if Lyle Lovett were to call me to sing back up with his large band, I could die and go to heaven!!" www.karakesselring.com |
Member Artists of the Berwyn Arts Council We hope this will be a way for the BAC to promote its artists. This will be a place for local artists to find other local artists, and also a way for the broader community to find and get to know YOU. We hope this leads to collaboration, inspiration, cross promotion and support between artists and our community. To be listed here, join the BAC and then register on line at the Artist Registry On Line Form. For additional information contact Ann Filmer at info@BerwynArtsCouncil.org |
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Mike Helbing Wonderful sculptor, metal, thinker, inovative, bad speller, assemblage, welded work, forgot to see it, good , wonderful, metal, stainless steel, inovative, bad at spelling, thinker. Born been making art a long while, still working, married, 2 children, happy with them and moving forward, making sculpture and interested in about everything. "I had a conversation today with a writer about my art, the sculpture I make, and a few other things. Much of my sculpture involves found objects, primarily stainless steel. The ready-made object carries with it a social understanding that is used and modified to give new meaning. I find these ready-mades many places; junk yards, industrial factories, second hand shops, the side of the road, mostly anywhere. The hunter/gatherer instinct is satisfied by this search for materials. I then sort, pile and group these things. Much as writers form thoughts that grow into stories using words, my found objects are analogous to language, these objects are reassembled to create new meaning . The things I collect are rearranged and modified, cut and attached, grouped, bent, reduced, chipped, welded, ground, assembled and polished. This presents the familiar in a new light, causing the everyday to be looked at with new wonder. My influences and interests range from the naturalistic to the scientific, the art macrocosm to the world of the spirit. My art examines my place in my world and invites visitor to come along and share the journey of discovery." mkehelbing@gmail.com 1412 East Avenue Berwyn IL 60402 708 704 1088 |