In the artLab: Barbara Cooper
Chicago-based sculptor Barbara Cooper uses wood, books and glue to create elegantly structured artworks.
Chicago-based sculptor Barbara Cooper uses wood, books and glue to create elegantly structured artworks.
Influenced by the cultural richness of his Caribbean heritage and Pan-African studies, Dexter R. Jones removes the veil of self-conscious inhibition by eliminating preconceived notions of beauty. Encompassing a mixture of texture, hues, flesh and heavy contrast in his editorial photography, his expertise in justly capturing women of vast shades is indicative of his strong matriarchal upbringing.
When Alice transfers to a new middle school, she hears an urban legend about a student who disappeared the previous year and is suspected to have been killed by his fellow students. Even worse, Alice discovers that she lives next door to his former house, a supposedly haunted home now occupied by a reclusive classmate named Hana.