May 2025 Issue: Intuit (Digital Edition)
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Expanded and Expansive
How the Intuit Art Museum reinvented Itself
"In 1991, a group calling itself the Society for Outsider, Intuitive and Visionary Art declared its mission “to celebrate artists who, for one reason or another, seem motivated by a unique personal vision and demonstrate little influence from the mainstream art world,” and made its entrance into Chicago’s art scene with two exhibitions, featuring artists and perspectives now considered essential to the canon of outsider or self-taught art." (Alison Cuddy)
The Granola Couple
These college sweethearts say “no” to refined sugar—and recipes
"Sydney Verwilst shoots up mid-sentence—as if an internal alarm clock had sounded. The co-owner and founder of Ingrained, a boutique “snackery” in River North, darts to the only oven in the 400-square-foot space and pulls out a carrot cake. She says she had decided to bake it because she felt “in the mood” for it." (Kaitlyn Luckoff)
Illustrative Artist
Anthony Bartley's journey from science into the gallery
"Bartley, a twenty-seven-year-old artist, is displaying twenty acrylic paintings from 2023 through today in “Words I’ve Never Said: A Community Healing and Art Exhibition,” and these pieces unpack themes of love, grief and mental health—all of which have inspired the show." (Kelsei Brianna)
On the Tracht Team
Chicago's German clubs find new life in the Old World
"One Friday night on the Northwest Side of Chicago, in a tiny strip mall with a faux-limestone facade, I find myself eating venison sausage and drinking plum brandy, trading stories of long-ago war crimes with a group of suburban moms while the ceiling shakes to the rhythm of folk dances from a place that no longer exists." (Nick Rommel)
The Packer Fans of Theater
How American Players has kept Shakespeare—and more—thriving in Wisconsin
It was the summer of 1980—the first season for American Players Theatre in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin. The company was performing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the hilltop stage. William Borth, who hated Shakespeare, had been dragged to the show kicking and complaining. It had rained all day, but stopped before showtime. As Puck made his entrance, a mist rolled over the stage until the fairies were “knee-deep in a swirling, firefly-lit fog,” Borth remembers. His partner Bob Kuehlhorn whispered, “Special effects by God.” (Mary Wisniewski)
Arts & Culture
Art: History in the (re)making with Wrightwood 659’s “The First Homosexuals”
Dance: The singular Trinity Irish Dance Company at thirty-five
Design: Landmarks Illinois’ Bonnie McDonald talks preservationFilm: Ben Tanzer on Scorsese's "After Hours"
Lit: Guild Literary Complex celebrates thirty-five years
Stage: Chicago theaters build worlds outside prison
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Poetry
100 pages