Patricia Barber, Blue Note recording artist, jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, producer
http://www.patriciabarber.com/

CONTEMPO, the Contemporary Chamber Players, a new music collective
Shulamit Ran, Artistic Director; Cliff Colnot, Conductor
http://contempo.uchicago.edu/

W. J. T. Mitchell, Executive Editor Critical Inquiry, art historian and critic,
The University of Chicago; author of
Picture Theory, What Do Pictures Want? and other
prize-winning books
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mitchell/home.htm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
http://www.pafa.org/splashHtml.jsp
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.saic.edu/
http://www.artic.edu/saic/art/projects/index.html
Jane Fisher, painter, colleague from SAIC
http://janefisher.net/
Art in Context: Center for Communications, an online library of artists
http://www.artincontext.com/artist/