Fly'n Gypsy Arts & Graphics

Hello everyone! Hope your holiday season is filled with joy and reconnections to friends and family. Just a little note about my writings on fine art in the city of Chicago and surrounding suburbs. As of November 2010, I will no longer be publishing to examiner.com. The company has changed their policies regarding payment and copyright. In the future, those detailed articles on our Chicago artists, galleries, and events as well as visitors to the Chicago land area will be available here on my blog. For anyone wanting copies of previous articles now unavailable at examiner, please contact me directly at artist@flyngypsyarts.com . I will need the article title, artist or exhibit name. Articles will continue to be promoted via social networks. Projected release for the new content is early 2011. Thank you for your readership and for supporting the arts! Sincerely, Jessica Kronika aka The Fly'n Gypsy

Fly'n Gypsy Arts will be at the Elk Grove Village Park District Pavillion this Sunday, October 17th, from 8am to 5pm. Come out to see art, have your child's or your own face painted, or sit for a custom portrait in black and white or color!

This Saturday, August 14th come out to Mills Park and Pleasant Home in Oak Park to the Chicago Pagan Pride Fest! The event opens with a blessing at Noon and runs until about 5pm. I will have a selection of my mythology and symbolism based works on display. See paintings, traditional lithographs, lino- and woodcuts, and relief etchings, and browse my mixed media works! If you want a one of a kind portrait, visit my booth! I will be creating Spirit Portraits in color pastel or black and white charcoal for $25 each! Bringing the kids? Stop by for a face painting ($3-$5), or full face Animal Totem painting ($10)! I look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely, Jessica aka the Fly'n Gypsy www.flyngypsyarts.com See the fest online: www.chicagopaganpride.org www.paganpride.org

email: gjohnson_96-pix@yahoo.com for details

Now up on my Examiner page: East Gate Café: the spot for food, music and art Val’s Halla Music celebrates 37 years in Oak Park Working with molten glass: Prodigy Glass Works http://www.examiner.com/x-15510-Chicago_Fine_Art_Examiner All of these fine Oak Park establishments have upcoming events... musicians, art on the wall, anniversary parties, and classes. Want to know more about art events in the Chicago area? Subscribe to my articles at the examiner.com Jessica Kronika, aka The Fly'n Gypsy

So this blog will be taking the place of the RSS feed on myspace that previously functioned as my primary blogspot. Recent news! I am now writing an average of three articles a week on Chicago and suburban area art events... some of my recent postings include the Oak Park Arts District, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and The Prairie Arts Center of Schaumburg. To see my articles, visit my page at www.examiner.com/x-15510-Chicago_Fine_Art_Examiner . Our current exhibit at the studio in Oak Park continues until August 16th. This month's exhibit, "Shaping Space" features the found frame paintings and ceramic sculptures of Eve Chulee Choowong-In and the hand-crafted blacksmith work in steel and other recycled metals of Will Slagel of Metal Meanders. To see more of these artists work, visit the press release at: http://www.flyngypsyarts.com/doc/news/press-release/2009-07-17_shaping-space-open-studio.pdf In addition, my work in costume, wands, and etched metal is on disp...