Nancy is a narrative/figurative painter who graduated from the SAIC post-bacc program in 1994, joined the group of visionary women at ARC nearly 2 years ago. When she isn’t scratching her head in her studio, or trying to balance the ARC checkbook, she works as a pediatrician at the University of Chicago, specializing in adolescent medicine and chronic disease.

Stacey Lee Gee was resurrected from the dust of bones, raised by wolves and came into her power one night in a dark alley when she tripped, fell and was bitten 9 times by a den of snakes.

Iris Goldstein makes plaster-relief sculptures, using materials found in hardware stores to create presences which explore the connections between surface form and an emotive impact of color. Her primary interest is abstraction, and the repeated patterns of the forms, which are often geometric but also sensual, playing against the subtle shiftings of the color.

Cait Hardie works in water based media on paper, with an approach that could be described as an intersection of drawing and painting. Her work was exhibited at Morpho Gallery in Chicago in 2018 and 2019.

I am a painter exploring both the physical act of painting and how meaning is created on canvas. Process is essential part of my painting practice. I work primarily with oil paint for its physical richness and manipulative quality. I make a lot of changes to a painting over an extended period of time by layering, scratching, drawing on and rubbing out the paint until I feel the work is finished.

Born in Japan, raised in Ohio in a modernist house with an artistic family, Beth LeFauve has been surrounded by and making art all of her life. She is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist working in her Logan Square studio.

Elyse Martin was born in Chicago and has lived there most of her life. With breaks for chasing down celebrities and enjoying disco, Elyse was immersed in art all her life, including a 7th grade Saturday Scholarship class at the Art Institute. Elyse thrived, and fueled her artistic expression with a love for art supplies, and spend hours at art stores with her father.

I love people. I love feasting my eyes on them with abandon..

Freezing their features and expressions on my canvas brings me great satisfaction. I am amazed how different we all look, yet we are all the same: human. Our experiences are similar and our reactions as well. It shows in our facial expressions.

Cheri is a conceptual artist, educator and lecturer. Her work spans a broad range from drawings, paintings and sculpture to installations and sound work, often sculpting the space through the use of sound and language. She received her BFA form Ohio University and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Randi Shepard is a photographer and printmaking artist from Chicago. After receiving her B.F.A in Visual Communications from The Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1983, she immediately broke into the commercial photography scene in Chicago, working with people photographers, such as her long-time mentor Jean Moss (as well as Steve Ewert, Joann Carney and Marc Hauser). 

Lee Stanton is an artist and art history instructor currently living in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. Lee holds a Master of Fine Art in Studio Art from Northern Illinois University, a Master of Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Master of Education in Human Resource Education: e-Learning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelor degree from Illinois State University.

Michele Stutts is a nationally and internationally exhibited artist. She specializes in watercolor, 2D and 3D mixed media, and her current work is in video and mixed media installations. She teaches Fundamentals of Art at the American Academy of Art.

My work reflects an ongoing inner dialogue with myself and my materials. I am attracted to the reflective qualities of the glass beads, the interaction of materials and the historical implications of the materials. Due to the nature and slow process of beading there is much time during the art making process to reflect and let feelings surface. As a result of my process I am interested in the layers that compose each of us. Thus there are many layers within my sculptures.Each sculpture is thickly encrusted with beads.