Evanston Made Art for Earth Month: Ted Glasoe

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Lisa Degliantoni and Liz Cramer host a conversation with artist Ted Glasoe, ambassador for Alliance for the Great Lakes, to learn about the state of the Great Lakes.

What are the major issues facing the Lakes’ health? What can be done by government, business and individuals? With support from the Alliance for the Great Lakes, we’ll take a look at these and other Lakes-related topics.

Many of you know Ted’s photography, beautiful photos of the Lake Michigan, taken from the beaches in Evanston. See his work at tedglasoe.com

During April 2020, Evanston Made is collaborating with existing Earth Month initiatives to provide a platform for Evanston Artists to create a month of art, awareness and action, making Evanston come alive with Art for the Earth! Learn more at evanstonmade.org/art-for-the-earth/

Alliance for the Great Lakes (www.greatlakes.org) mission is to advocate, protect and defend the Great Lakes

Freshwater Future works to ensure the healthy future of our waters in the Great Lakes region. FF uses grants and consulting to help local groups in the region to work for fresh, clean, available water.

Up to something interesting? And a member of Evanston Made? Reach out to thelisadshow[at]gmail.com with an interview request!

Evanston Made is designed to connect Evanston artists and creatives with the public through programming, events, exhibits and more. Join as an artist, arts producer, arts patron, etc. at evanstonmade.org/membership/

The Lisa D Show podcast features interviews and conversations with Lisa Degliantoni and creatives living and working in Evanston, IL. Recordings typically happen in the 1100 Florence Gallery at 1100 Florence Ave in Evanston, IL.

LP Lundy Photographs Lake Michigan's Many Moods

LP Lundy wears many hats and in this podcast we focus on his work as a photographer. Lundy has been taking photos of Lake Michigan from the same location for a few years, at the waterfront facing East from the Northwestern Campus, capturing the moods, beauty and awesomeness of our lake neighbor.

This February Lundy’s Lake Michigan horizon portraits are on display at Backlot Coffee, 2006 Central Street. In this interview we talk about photography as a method to build relationships with your community and natural world.

Lake Michigan is blocks from Lundy’s house, a quick bike ride and an entity he is addicted (in a good way) to photographing it at the same day, every day...a source of inspiration.

Below is an example of the work on display at Backlot, all for sale with 100% going to the artist. Reach Lundy direct at lundy813[at]gmail.com. Lundy's work is on display this March at Creative Coworking, 922 Davis Street in Evanston.

LP Lundy Bio                                 

LP (Larry) Lundy has been a production designer for 35 years. Born in Queens, New York, he graduated from the State University College at Buffalo with a BFA in painting and sculpture. Lundy was a founding member of Hallwalls Art Center, along with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo and other artists in Buffalo in 1975, where he curated DADADAY (1976) and DADADAY 100 (2016), and the Buffalo Film Festival. Lundy produced a multi-media installation Urban Animal at ArtPark (1978). He developed Writeratio, to give writers an opportunity to read from their works. His art has been shown at The New Museum (NYC), A Space (Toronto), Art Institute of Chicago, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), and 33 Contemporary in Chicago among other venues.

Was a member of Randolph Street Gallery and curated the Loop Show (1981) at the historic Fisher Building in Chicago. Designed murals for the Mother’s of Perry Children’s Center in Buffalo through the CETA Program (1978). His art writing has appeared in The New Art Examiner, the Chicago Reader, the Journal of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lundy's set design work has been seen in film and TV productions such as High Fidelity, ER, The Babe, Flatliners, Chicago Hope, R Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet, Grand Piano, Shameless, Sense8 and Jupiter Ascending. He has twice won the Best of the Midwest Film Festival Best Art Direction Award, in 2002 and 2005.

He has taught production design at Columbia College from 2007 through 2012 and at Northwestern in 2011. He will be teaching at DePaul University beginning in March of 2018.

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The Lisa D Show is a podcast celebrating creatives, featuring 20-minute, unedited conversations that mimic the live-radio vibe, low tech on purpose. Reach out to host Lisa Degliantoni at thelisadshow[at]gmail.com

1100 Florence in West Evanston started as a Polish Meat Shop, then became Greenleaf Cabinets and now houses art and events, and sometimes podcast interviews. Learn more at 1100florence.com. Photograph of 1100 Florence taken by Joerg Metzner at the I Love Evanston Pop Up on February 9, 2018, after a magnificent snow storm

Clare Tallon Ruen founder of LakeDance

On this episode of The Lisa D Show podcast we talk with Clare Tallon Ruen, a dancer and Great Lakes enthusiast. Clare uses dance, performance art and peer-based learning to create a sense of awareness, respect and enthusiasm for the Great Lakes in Evanston. Working with District 65, area experts/scientists and youth, ClareTallon Ruen, founder of LakeDance, is cultivating a community of lake enthusiasts in Evanston.

Upcoming Events
Sept. 16  the public is invited to LakeFest at Greenwood Beach to celebrate and appreciate the lake, 9a.m. - 1 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, event details;
*Take action with an Adopt-a-Beach clean up with the Alliance for the Great Lakes at at 9:00am at Greenwood Beach
*At 10:00am enjoy a short program: Learn about pressing Great Lakes issues and listen to some performances
*Participate in a Freshwater Stories workshop at 11:30am hosted by University of Illinois Chicago. evite.me/sngaTtduqY

Bio: Clare, founder of LakeDance, is a dancer and Great Lakes enthusiast. Finding ways for movement to express processes and phenomena in our world is her passion. Partnering with engineers, researchers, artists and classroom teachers, Tallon Ruen seeks to create relevant and engaging educational experiences for all involved. Recently she launched Watershed Collective, an adult learning community, to gather knowledge and encourage passion for our watershed.
Evanston’s location on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes in the Great Lakes Watershed, means that we are some of the major beneficiaries and caretakers of the largest system of freshwater on the surface of Earth.

Learn more about LakeDance at lakedance.org

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 "The Lisa D Show" is a podcast celebrating creatives, featuring 20-minute, unedited conversations that mimic the live-radio vibe, very low tech on purpose. Reach out to host Lisa Degliantoni at thelisadshow[at]gmail.com

The Lisa D Show with Dick Peach

Today’s 20-minute unedited interview with Dick focuses on the Evanston Green Ball at The Levy Center Saturday on May 20, to support the Evanston Ecology Center, his early life as an artist and his current life as a columnist in the Evanston Roundtable, where he shares news and notes about fishing and Lake Michigan water conditions. You’ll be impressed with how many knowledge bombs a fisherman can drop in one conversation.

For those of you out of market Dick Peach is the Executive Secretary at Rotary Club of Evanston, Evanston Environmental Association, Evanston Chamber of Commerce, The Yellow Tractor Project, Evanston Community Foundation, proud owner of Dempster Auto Rebuilders.

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The Lisa D Show is a podcast celebrates creatives. Listen to 20 minute, unedited conversations with host Lisa D. and the creatives who make our world a more connected, interesting and beautiful place to live. Podcasts will be posted at thelisadshow.blogspot.com and on Sound Cloud at @lisa-degliantoni

This podcast is recorded at 1100 Florence, an art event space in West Evanston, IL, owned and operated by Lisa Degliantoni and Dave Ford. It is a former Polish Grocery store, probably not the BEST place to record a podcast (boomy to say the least) but we're new and it will get better. Reach out to thelisadshow[at]gmail.com