Participants in this project "interrupted" the daily life of McHenry County's residents with activities designed to share a profound love of life and give new perspective on familiar things.

Student Artist
Anna Bolm, Crystal Lake
McHenry County College

Ashley Camper, Cary
Austin Emery, Wonder Lake
Brigit Hansen, McHenry
Taylor Levicki, Cary
Elyse Lucas, Woodstock
Ivan Ospina, Woodstock
Kazumi Polk, Crystal Lake
Jenessa Sobieszczyk, Woodstock

   

Project participants combined elements of photography, history, storytelling and theater to create photographs of imagined moments in McHenry County's past.

Student Artist
Terttu Uibopuu, Cary
McHenry County College

Ali Adame, Crystal Lake
Vincent Bertolami, Algonquin
Alyse Dionne, Cary
Haley Hlava, Spring Grove
Ali Sobieszczyk, Woodstock
Kristen Therens, Algonquin
Danny Volpe, McHenry
Lisa Walsh, Woodstock

   

Themes of culture and identity were explored through narrative paintings inspired by Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book"

Student Artist
Iga Puchalski, Crystal Lake
McHenry County College

Katherine Dabkowski , Crystal Lake
Marina de Paz Gomez, Hebron
Marcela Godinez, Woodstock
Casey Heuer, McHenry
Julie Larsen, Cary
Katie Sherman, Cary
Jennifer Sompolski, Crystal Lake

   

In this project, participants translated their ideas and life experiences into visual forms, words and symbols representing McHenry County. These elements were then assembled into wall-sized visual statements.

Student Artist
Selene Herrera, Spring Grove
McHenry County College

Devin Bellak, Cary
Kady Creager, Lake in the Hills
Michelle Goans, Marengo
Henry Krukowski, Wonder Lake
Garrett Smith, Hebron
Samuel Sotelo, Woodstock
Zach Stuckman, Cary
Scott Youngberg, Cary

 

The Northeast Herald, McHenry County's only daily newspaper provided the medium for this team exercise is public art. Following the same process as the group projects, the participants, working in teams of three, were free to develop their own visual concepts. The only stipulations were that the coin slot and viewing window must remain intact.

In the fall of 2005, the vending boxes went back in the field throughout McHenry County, hopefully providing creative inspiration as well as all the news that's fit to print!