ArtStyle will be presenting a weekly art series throughout the summer on the participating Cool Globe Exhibit artists. In this third series, we feature: Ken Klopack’s Intelligent Earth, Aesop Rhim’s Peace on a Cool Globe, Beth Shadur’s For the Seventh Generation, and Joi Leo Wagenberg’s Mighty Methane.

Ken Klopack

Background: Graduate degree, Gifted Education, Northeastern Illinois University. Retired Art Teacher, Chicago Public Schools. Faculty at Penninsula Art School in Fish Creek, WI, Art Institute.

Theme and Description: This globe shows the earth as a representation of the brain. The land areas are covered with concepts, ideas, and programs deemed as solutions to the environmental problems of our earth.

We must cherish and respect our planet by inhabiting it intelligently. Human intelligence is the most powerful tool we have to create a world we can all live in. We must use our brain, our intelligence, as a worldwide problem-solving force without self-interest, ego, political, ethnic, class, or economic issues.

The Intelligent Earth. Located at Navy Pier. Globe #106.
Sponsor: Lucy R. Waletzky, M.D.

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ArtStyle will be presenting a weekly art series throughout the summer on the participating Cool Globe Exhibit artists. In this second series, we feature: Joe Compean’s One Earth; Deirdre A. Fox’s Tapping Geothermal Resources; Alessandra Kelley’s Spiral Chance; and Nancy L. Steinmeyer’s First We Scream, Then We Act. All images are provided courtesy of the artists unless otherwise noted.

Joe Compean

Peep Hole View

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ArtStyle will be presenting a weekly art series throughout the summer on the participating Cool Globe Exhibit artists. In this first series, we feature Ingrid Albrecht’s Green Roof Connection, Jonathan Franklin’s Garden Variety, and Jill King’s Electrified Earth. All images are provided courtesy of the artists unless otherwise noted.

Ingrid Albrecht

Background: Teacher at Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, Chicago (12 years) and at Northwestern University Norris Center (3 years). Workshop and exhibition producer. Graduate degrees in Remedial Reading/Teaching; Fine Art degree. Website: www.ingridsoriginals.com

The Green Roof Connection. Located just south of Balboa and Lake Shore Drive along the lakefront walkway. Globe #94. Sponsor: Kirkland & Ellis.

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