Friday, February 22, 2013


We set up my display of handmade books at the Blackstone library in Chicago's Hyde Park today. I managed to fit ten books in each case. Sorry it's a bit difficult to see much detail in these photos. Everyone is welcome to go see the exhibit! Also come to my free bookmaking class on March 9, 2013. 

Tuesday, February 19, 2013


Here are some postcards for you to send. Hopefully they will print out for you.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

"Peace, War and More War" is going to be an evocative as well as an aesthetically superb show with a mélange of genres and modalities.
Opening event: 3/9/13. About the event:
Besides visual art, the show will include poetry, music and vocal addressing War, violence and their effects on the human condition. Chicago writer Kathleen Lombardo, will read her War Ballad. George Flynn (piano) and Leila Bowie (soprano), will perform Flynn's anti-Vietnam war song "Land of Blood" and his Iraq war- song "Lament for Cindy" (i.e. Cindy Sheehan ). Twelve artists will display art that speaks loud.
"Peace, War, and more War" is about art that will stun you, may make you look back, hopefully look forward as well.
Reception, poetry reading, Music and vocal, meet the artists: Saturday 3/9/13 6 - 9 p.m at Out of Line Gallery
2812 W Chicago ave. Chicago 60622. If nothing else gained, you get free street parking and a bus stop outside the door...
The show will include a benefit for the Veterans for Peace, in support of Peace, Common sense and social Justice.
Veterans for Peace work for universal Peace, social justice, LGBTI and all other human rights. They endorse common sense causes such as ending the War on Drugs with a deep understanding of the socio-political factors underlying them.
A percentage of artists' sales will go to Veterans for Peace."



Lindia Platt, here showing her collages, has had her artworks exhibited at Metal Works Gallery, the Fine Arts building, North Lakeside Cultural Center, Woman Made Gallery, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, and a one-woman show at Daley College in Chicago. She has also shown in New Orleans, Santa Clara California, Canada, and as a participant in the Art Money movement in Denmark.