When developing her makeup line, Holly Mordini knew she was starting with a good foundation—both in product and people. Stroke of Beauty, with its tag line “Makeup for the Art…
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Creative Contentment
Growing up in Iowa, Susan Lawson Bouma often spent time at the local library. That’s where the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art’s collection was then housed, and where she was…
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Reawakened and Reimagined
Nancy Whitmore Smith established her career as a renaissance style painter by experiencing a semi-rebirth of her own. As her children grew and headed away to college, Smith recalls sitting…
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Cultivating Creativity
Shortly before Mike and Maggie Meiners’ wedding, the soon-to-be bride left for a trip to Europe. A visit to a photography exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London…
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City Boy Meets Country
For Manhattan transplant Derek Sherman, Lake Forest life is the perfect antidote to the hustle and bustle of his youth. With the best of downtown Chicago only a train ride…
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Girl Power
As a design and retail management major, Elizabeth Pattara was sure of one thing coming out of college: “I was never going to wear a basic black suit to work.”…
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