Artists
Willem De Kooning
Phillip Guston
Rose Wiley
Joan Mitchell
Amy Sillman
Jean Michel Basquiat
Pablo Picasso
Henri Matisse
Georg Baselitz
Leonardo Da Vinci
Musicians/Bands
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Neil Young
The Grateful Dead
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Rolling Stones
The Smiths
The Doors
Lovely the Band
Fleetwood Mac
Aretha Franklin
Chicago
Water Taxis
Half Shell for Alaskan King Crab Legs
McFetridge Ice Rink
The Gallery Cabaret
Phyllis’s Musical Inn
Chicago Athletic Association
Holstein Park Pool
Safe Humane Chicago
Canine Therapy Corps
MacLean Buidling 112 South Michigan Avenue
Books
De Kooning: An American Master, Mark Stevens
Phillip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures and Conversations
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Daybook, Ann Truitt
How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks,
Why Art Cannot Be Taught, James Elkins
Notes On, Magalie Guerin
Creativity, Mihaly, Csikszentmihalyi
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Movies
Rabbit Proof Fence
Frances Ha
Three Billboards
Wall-E
Blue
Red
Blade Runner
Man on Wire
The Breakfast Club (bc it was based on my high school)
Tommy Boy (bc my friend died much too soon)
Chicago Contemporary Art Seminar 