ENVIRONMENTALLY THEMED SHOW

Curated by Diane Ponder of Living Room Gallery

Executive Team Member of MOE

Saturday, October 3rd and Sunday October 4th 11:00am-6:00pm

1754 W. Byron

MOE Executive Curator, Diane Ponder, is a featured artist and will be curating the Chicago Artist’s Month Show at Moss Design as part of the Ravenswood Art Walk. Each year, Ravenswood Art Walk encompasses more than 50 venues and the art work of over 150 working, professional and emerging artists and performance groups. Most artists sell their work at the event! For more information, visit www.ravenswoodartwalk.org

Diane Ponder is a painter and digital photographer. Her work has been displayed locally at Navy Pier, Grant Park, and Oak Park; nationally at The Rockford Gallery in Rockford, Maine, the Art Center in Orinda, California and the New York Art Expo, and internationally, at the first abstract art show in Jeddah Saudi Arabia where she was the only woman artist. Diane’s work has also been featured in the Oak Park Wednesday Journal and the Chicago Tribune. Diane owned the Living Room Gallery, a multidisciplinary art space, was featured in a PBS documentary of an art series benefiting Sarah’s Inn, a women’s shelter, and has been artist in residence with the Art House, an artist’s cooperative. Diane showed at the Lincoln Park Art Fair and at the Chicago Cultural center in the Mark di Suervo sculpture, “The Peace Tower”.

MOSS DESIGN is a LEED accredited sustainable architecture studio committed to establishing meaningful, long-term relationships based on communication, education, trust, and mutual respect. Mutual respect is all encompassing for the client, the community, and equally important – our natural surroundings. They believe that successful design provides a solid connectivity with nature while responding to client needs, desires, and their vision of a comfortable, livable, and functional environment. This allows them to create site specific and sustainable architecture that is innovative, aesthetically appealing and energy efficient.  For more information, visitwww.moss-design.com

MOE Executive Director, Mimi Clayton, has carried a camera and taken photos for as long as she can remember catching candid moments. She has been formally doing photography over 6 years.  Mimi discovered Richard Stromberg’s classes riding her bike down Lincoln Ave. and jumped head first into photography.   Mimi is drawn to photograph natural expressions, CARPE DIEM moments, as well as being able to capture the essence that others may fail to notice.  She has been diverse in taking photos for photography shows, headshots, high school senior photos, weddings, documenting art shows, outdoor activities  and special occasions.  The pure enjoyment of photography, lighting and seeing life in a different way, keeps Mimi’s creativity and fascination alive.  It is her way of journaling and embracing the visions. For more info, visit Mimi Clayton Photographywww.gallery.me.com/mimisorganicexchange or email mimisorganicexchange@gmail.com

Darrell Roberts moved to Chicago in 1997 after growing up in rural Iowa, and attending the University of Northern Iowa, where he received a BA in Art History. Mr. Roberts spent the summer of 1996 on the Leon Levy Expedition in Ashkelon, Israel on an archaeology dig. It was there he realized his interest in civilizations and desire to pursue painting. Darrell continued his education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received a BFA and MFA in studio art. Mr. Roberts had a solo show titled “Luscious” at the Hyde Park Art Center January 21st to March 27, 2007. A Robert Rauschenberg Grant was awarded to Darrell Roberts March 2007. He has been in numerous shows in the last decade and was awarded a full fellowship on behalf of the Dedalus Foundation to the Vermont Studio Center for December 2007. A grant from the George Sugarman Foundation was awarded to Darrell Roberts for the purchase of paint and the enrichment of his artistic career November 2007. A generous grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation was awarded to Darrell Roberts for the development of his artistic career December 2007. Darrell Roberts received an Illinois Arts Council Grant in January 2009, for the continuous development of his artwork. Mr. Roberts received a grant on behalf of the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs for the purchase of art supplies and to further the development of his artwork, March 2009. Also, Darrell is the Chicago Art Examiner for examiner.com, Chiguide.com and contributed artist interviews to Chicagoarts-lifestyle.com, A voice for Artist in Chicago. Darrell Roberts is represented by Thomas McCormick Gallery of Chicago. Mr. Roberts’ review is in ARTnews magazine, May 2009 from his solo exhibition “Surface Matters” at Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago. For more info, visitwww.darrell-roberts.com or email 

Cydney M. Lewis began working as an artist after a successful career in the film industry as an Art director.   She graduated from the University of Illinois with a BSAS in Architecture and studied at the L’ecoled’architecture des Versailles, France and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She draws her inspiration from her surroundings relying on the experiences in her daily life, relationships with friends, family and accomplices.  Cydney hopes to create an awareness of our life in progress and the obligation to find its brilliance and truthfulness through all the anxiety and uncertainties that encircle us. For more info, visit www.meartcy.com or emailcydney@meartcy.com