We won't always live in a divisive world - All around there is proof of grace

We won't always live in a divisive world - All around there is proof of grace
I’m sitting in the airport in Paris ready to board my flight home, enjoying the last minutes surrounded by multiple voices and languages, skin tones, and customs. I love international travel. It pulls me out of my comfort zone. It puts me inside of the experience of the perfect, beautiful diversity of humanity on this... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
July 9, 2016 at 3:32 am • 

Arles in Southern France - Fetes and Romans and Photographie!

Arles in Southern France - Fetes and Romans and Photographie!
Am very excited to be heading off for the start of the Arles Photo Festival today. Les Rencontres de la Photographie happens in Arles every summer. This is the first time I’ve been here for opening week and I’m looking forward to attending lectures, projections, receptions, etc. as well as the lineup of always interesting... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
July 4, 2016 at 5:14 pm • 

Being your best: finding clarity in a Blogapalooz-Hour moment

Welcome to Morning Blogapalooz-Hour Vol. 1, where we are challenged to “Write about a period or moment in your life when you were at your best”. And to post it within an hour. The prompt says to write about the “one of many times” when I was at the top of my game as a... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
June 15, 2016 at 11:01 am • 
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well i wish that i knew what i know now, when i was younger

Can I write a blog post in 10 minutes? maybe. This is part of Blogapalooz-Hour on Chicago Now, and I tuned in late because I’m taking an online class and I’m also tuned in late on that… don’t get me started… but I thought I’d give it a try. The topic tonight is : “Write... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
May 25, 2016 at 10:59 pm • 

Sophie Calle took the Road Less Traveled in Paris and it lead her to visions of beauty

Sophie Calle took the Road Less Traveled in Paris and it lead her to visions of beauty
Sophie Calle is one of my creative heroes, an artist of tremendous intelligence, charm, wit and drive. Calle not only chooses the road less traveled, she actually invents the road first, and then heads out on it. Intuition provides traffic signals and directions, and she carries her ideas until they reach their natural end. An... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
May 7, 2016 at 8:41 am • 

The Inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial: 10 highlights from this first-ever wonder

The Inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial: 10 highlights from this first-ever wonder
The first-ever Chicago Architecture Biennial ended last month, and I must say I was sad to see it go. By any stretch, the Biennial was a rocking success. Thousands of people came, hundreds of architects participated, millions of conversations, discussions, presentations, debates… This is the great success of the thing. People engaged. And in that... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
February 10, 2016 at 10:51 pm • 
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On Gratitude for the Commonplace

On Gratitude for the Commonplace
As I consider Thanksgiving this year, I find myself aware of, and grateful for, things that happen all the time; the commonplace. So I’m writing here with gratitude for the walk in the woods yesterday morning with my faithful dog companion. Sun glinting on the stream between the trees. Coco Wheats with my mom and... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
November 24, 2015 at 4:02 pm • 

Dreaming Place: Frank Lloyd Wright and China at the Chicago Architecture Biennial

Dreaming Place: Frank Lloyd Wright and China at the Chicago Architecture Biennial
On my way over to the Cultural Center for “Reading Mile High: Frank Lloyd Wright Takes on Chicago”, a talk given by Curator Barry Bergdoll at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, I stopped by a brilliant little photography show at the Columbia College’s C33 Gallery. “Architecture of Unborn Cities”, photographs by Kai Caemmerer is only up... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
November 14, 2015 at 4:45 pm • 

Gilded Age Glitter at The Glessner House Wins Landmarks Illinois’ Richard H. Driehaus President’s Award for Stewardship

Gilded Age Glitter at The Glessner House Wins Landmarks Illinois’ Richard H. Driehaus President’s Award for Stewardship
Swing open the massive door at 1800 Prairie Avenue, and step into the Gilded Age. This is the Glessner House. Designed by preeminent American architect H.H. Richardson just before his death in 1886, it is a masterpiece of urban residential design, and enormously influential in American architecture. Now, as a Museum, the Glessner House has... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
November 1, 2015 at 10:16 pm • 
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Reduce Reuse Recycle. The National Public Housing Museum gets some light from the Chicago Architecture Biennial

Reduce Reuse Recycle. The National Public Housing Museum gets some light from the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Part of what’s great about the Chicago Architecture Biennial is that on-going projects get fresh energy and new attention. An example of this is the project to create a National Public Housing Museum in the last remaining building of the former Jane Addams Public Housing project on Chicago’s west side. The Jane Addams Homes opened... Read more »
By Liz Chilsen,
October 13, 2015 at 5:15 pm •