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Serving The Creative Communities From Chicago To Milwaukee

For more information on upcoming events, visit www.carthage.edu/art gallery

Gallery Hours:Tuesday - Friday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.Thursday Evening 6 - 8 p.m.Saturday 1 - 4 p.m.

Special Christmas Festival Reception: December 5th, 4:30- 7:30 pmFree and open to the public.

Exhibit Runs:November 6 to December 13, 2014(Closed Nov. 24 – Nov. 30 for Thanksgiving Break )

Opening Reception:November 6th, 4:30- 7:30 pm

For more information on upcoming events, visit www.carthage.edu/art gallery

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April 13- 25 and May 1- 16, 2015Opening Reception: April 18th Saturday 1-4 and May 9th Saturday 1-4

As part of their Senior Studio Art Thesis Seminar course, Carthage College Art Majors present a capstone exhibition of their work in the H.F.Johnson Gallery of Art. Works in a variety of media willbe featured by Emma Barclay, Mary England, Amber Ericksmoen, Amelia Gear, Meghan Johns, Cheryl Pelka, Jennifer Kuss, Meaghan Cusack, and Anne Rowell.

Studio Art Thesis Exhibits

Anne RothwellKiraOil on Canvas36’’ x 28’’2015

Studio Art Thesis Exhibits

4 A Message From The Publisher / Left of The Lake

Write Me a Letter

Who has time to sit down and handwrite a letter? It’s a fair question. Handwritten letters were addressed (see what I did there?) during a typical I remember when discussion last week. It was an irritating conversation slathered in nostalgia, bemoaning the loss of things such as pre-cable television, children who actually played outside and great hand-calculated feats of engineering like the Titanic.

In a world that champions change, it’s almost silly to argue the value of this lost art. So, in my mind, eulogizing the death of some guy unsheathing his Bic pen to scratch some barely coherent manifesto on a yellowing sheet of loose leaf paper was not terribly high on my priority list. But as the conversation progressed, a strange thing happened. Maybe a synapse fired; I don’t really know. But I reconsidered.

While I can compose a letter far more efficiently on my computer, perhaps there is some-thing to this hand-scrawled stuff. Today, receiving a letter in the mail is remarkable. It’s a little event.

Sure, the letters themselves are usually awkward, less refined, and they may or may not contain a creatively spelled word or two, but there is still an undeniable correctness, a right-ness that can only be attributed to one human being communicating directly with another. Marks made on paper, expressing ideas.

Whoa, hold on a minute! Although I work with images, that’s exactly what I purport to do!

I would like to claim a brilliant revelation, but in reality I just deserve a slap on the forehead. Direct human communication is the very definition of why I consider the arts to be so important and yet I dismissed an act that does exactly that. It makes me wonder how many other biases and disconnects are bouncing around inside my head.

Some of you may have seen my Facebook post asking people to send me a handwritten letter. Promising letters in return, I thought I’d receive a couple, but within a few days, I had over a dozen letters. It’s about connecting to other human beings, taking a breath from the craziness of everyday life and realizing that the things that were important a hundred years ago are the same things that are important today.

Write me a letter, and I’ll write back. Chet Griffith c/o ArtWorks 5002 7th Ave. Kenosha WI 53140

A Message From The PublisherBy Chet Griffith

Publisher: Chet GriffithGraphic Designer: Joshua FrazerEditor: Lisa Adamowicz KlessEditor: Peg Rousar-ThompsonManaging Editor: John Bloner, Jr.Contact Us At: editor@leftofthelake.com

08 Married To The Music: Danny & Aimee By Left of The Lake

12 The Message By Chet Griffith

16 In the Pipit Park By Griffin Urbaniak

18 Dreamscape By Carolyn Griffith

22 Untitled By Paul Weber

24 Pray For Peace By Mike Gordon

26 Funny Guy: Glen Kelly By John Bloner, Jr.

31 Pay Phone By Lisa Shannon Corbett

32 2FL: The Man Who Would Be King By Dave Gourdoux

34 Meet Beth Dary By Left of The Lake

36 The Dress Series - Tracy By William Zoback

38 Stripwax Flashback By Jeff Moody

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Left of The Lake / Danny and Aimee Crucianelli 9

Whether it’s picking up a strange book by an unfamiliar author from some dusty book shelf, or catching a glimpse of a painting on an unexpected wall, or stopping in out of the rain to an establishment that just happens to showcase live music, we’ve all had those moments when art has surprised and transformed us, when we’ve been taken to places we didn’t know existed. There’s nothing better than the feeling of wonder and awe when we discover art that moves and inspires us.

Well, there might be one thing better: be-ing the creator of such magical moments.

Danny and Aimee Crucianelli are a local couple that literally makes beautiful music together. Motivated by a pure love of play-ing, the Crucianellis are a fixture on the lo-cal music scene. On any given night, you can see Danny playing somewhere as one of his many musical identities, playing rock as part of the band Dropping Daisies, metal with the band Penguins With Shotguns, funky disco jam rock with Noone Soldier, or leading blues jams adopting the persona Old Brown Shoes. Danny not only loves playing these different styles, he’s studied them enough to write and record original compositions, a handful of which can be sampled on his web page, www.reverbna-tion.com/dannycrucianelli

At the same time, you will f ind Aimee leading a Kid’s Karaoke event, planning events with her fellow MAAM (Musicians Assisting Advancing Musicians) board members, volunteering at Kenosha’s Fusion

Performance Venue for any number of events, or playing drums for one of Danny’s projects.

I asked Danny what it is that interests him about the many different styles of music he plays. “The real question is, what doesn’t interest me about those styles. Music is emotion and moods; you’ve got to find the language that speaks to you when you’re feeling a certain way, something to relate to. When angry, I listen to Pantera, NIN or Megadeth. When happy, it’s Louis Prima, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald. When sad, it ’s Howlin’ Wolf, Billie Holiday, B.B. King. I think you know where I’m going

DANNY & AIMEEMarried To The Music:

10 Danny and Aimee Crucianelli / Left of The Lake

with this.” In other words, music as therapy.

When asked who he’s a fan of, Danny’s answer is revealing. Instead of reeling off the names of famous artists we’d all rec-ognize, he says, “I admire my family musi-cally. I admire all the musicians and friends I’ve played with who have pushed me and inspired me. That’s always what comes to mind first. Instead of legendary heroes, which of course I have too, the people that I’ve physically jammed with and or still jam with are the ones who always stand out in my mind.”

Danny approaches songwriting with the same drive and commitment. “My song-writing process changes to what the song needs. Usually it starts with a chord pro-gression and then a melody. After I’ve got that, I like to sit in silence and play the song in my head as if I’m hearing it on the radio. It helps me to ‘hear’ what direction I want to go in. I have written songs the other way around as well, where it starts with a poem and then I put a melody to it. The big-gest and most important thing I use in the whole process is a notebook with a bunch of scribbles in it. Not everything is gold; in fact, most of it isn’t. You have to learn to recognize the good from the bad and leave your ego out of it.”

Aimee shares Danny’s eclectic appetite for genres, listing among her favorites The Clash, Fiona Apple, The Doors, Tom Morello and…Meatloaf? When I press her on this, she offers no apologies for her tastes, listing Justin Timberlake and Michael Buble as her ultimate guilty pleasures. “However,” she adds, ”my abso-lute favorite genre is mob-style jazz. I love Sinatra and Prima; anything with a swing-ing horn and a crooner.”

On playing together, Aimee says, “Danny is the creative one; he does the writing. I just go with the f low and hope that I can keep up. I love being able to work with him, even if I want to throw things at him from time to time. Being in a band with your husband has its own set of chal-lenges… as well as its own rewards.”

Danny explains, “Sometimes I feel like music is the only thing that makes sense to me. I can’t shake it. I’m not a natural. I had to learn to sit and obsess and suck and learn everything that I play. I still do that. I’m hoping that one day I can put out that really great album that travels through time and through the masses and people are like, ‘What the hell is this? This is really good.’ I don’t care about the money, although it would be nice, but to leave something be-hind that goes on and on, something to be remembered by when the inevitable comes. Who knows? Robert Johnson wasn’t fa-mous until twenty years after his death. It could happen. Until then, I’ll just keep sucking, and learning, and trying.”

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12 The Message / Chet Griffith

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“Most poetry is read to a quiet room with an audience poised to listen. Nick Ramsey’s is boomed out into the street, a beat and a rhythm you move to, sing to, and take home with you.”

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This is absolutely secret. You mustn’t tell. When the wind blows up from the river you can almost hear it on the street. Erase your ears from the noise of the cars and the naughty bridge, deliberately take a wrong turn and, where the thistles weave their buds through barbed wire, you may enter. The tired water stirs for a small wake, peeplings and pipits chirp and call from the burdocks and evergreens. You must go on your own and not be afraid.

This is essential. You mustn’t let the bray of city saws and scrap, the siren bell droning no, no, no, invade the space where the pine trees shade and the lone bench says yes, please. You will rest there with a shopping bag near your knees containing one ceramic kitchen witch and three 78 rpm records to play. The records say Around the world I’ve searched for you. Whatever will be will be. After the ball is over you will perhaps cry real tears or watch the border closing ceremony or begin to become whatever you will be and not be afraid.

This is the best. I’m letting you in on a trick I play on myself daily. Absorb only the essentials in the pipit park. Discard the factory parking lot with its idiot fence and cars. Discard the shopping bag for now. It will wait at home for you. It will be useful there. Walk the path with me. Now here is a yellow finch and a red wing blackbird, chasing up a branch of scrub maple. Here is a rustling of mirth from the greenery. Here is an overlook (note the sign, Overlook.) with a rose garden and a view of the city that is now far away.

In the Pipit Park

Take the city and filter it out through birdsong

and leaves. Take the broken ceramic of your worst pain and run it along a mullein head

and a sweet pea vine. Take everything you have loved the most and tell it that it’s okay to sing again.

Take yourself, unencumbered, and tell your awareness to build that song a nest.

Take an egg and listen to what it says, and then take yourself home and go to bed. I guarantee

good dreams and hollandaise later. The pipits and the peeplings will go on their own

as they have done from the start and will not be afraid.

Take the city and filter it out through birdsong

and leaves. Take the broken ceramic of your worst pain and run it along a mullein head

and a sweet pea vine. Take everything you have loved the most and tell it that it’s okay to sing again.

Take yourself, unencumbered, and tell your awareness to build that song a nest.

Take an egg and listen to what it says, and then take yourself home and go to bed. I guarantee

good dreams and hollandaise later. The pipits and the peeplings will go on their own

as they have done from the start and will not be afraid.

Griffin Urbaniak

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26 Funny Guy: Glen Kelly / Left of The Lake

You’ve heard the expression, “If these walls could talk,” but what if you’re Kenosha art-ist, puppeteer and comedian Glen Kelly and need to take a leak after your first im-prov class at Chicago’s famed Second City venue? You might instead ask yourself, “What if these stalls could talk?”, while you contemplate the comics--Belushi, Ackroyd and Bill Murray, to name a few--who’d nested in these same steel squares in the 1970s.

Glen Kelly stands out in Kenosha, not just because of his mop of black curls or his easy laugh, but because being funny is as natural

as breathing to him. Like Alan Arkin, Gilda Radner and other Second City al-ums, he loves to make people laugh.

“Belushi said that ‘improv is better than sex,’” Glen told me. “I’m not sure about that. I guess it depends on your partner, or maybe I’m just not doing it right.” He paused, before adding, “The improv, that is!”

He produces the cable access TV series, “Funny Guise,” seen on Friday nights in Kenosha on Time Warner 14, home to Polly the Foul-Mouthed Duck and The

By John Bloner, Jr.

Funny guy:

Glen Kelly

Most Horniest Man In The World. “Stay horny, my friends,” this character says in a Spanish accent. “Funny Guise” is a show where Jack-In-the-Box can’t keep a lid on it, as he tries to pick up the Morton Salt Girl, and where Glen buries those weenies - The Famous Racing Sausages TM - in a foot race.

He not only produces, he acts, directs, writes sketches, and creates some cool animation. Along with his buddy, Mick Ramsdell, they’ve been cracking up TV audiences and each other, for a long time.

A few years ago, he tried his hand (ha, ha) at puppetry. Along with some fellow fans of the art form, he formed The Puppet Underground, which started, as its name implies, in a basement, i.e., the lower level of ArtWorks in Kenosha. They soon took their act above ground and on the road, performing at Kenosha’s HarborMarket, Kenosha Public Museum, a gET bEHIND

the aRTS preview party, and most re-cently at Fusion, 5014 7th Avenue. They’ll perform there this summer, along with Chicago’s puppet improv troupe, FELT.

In preparation for a show, Glen and his fel-low puppeteers build and paint sets, con-struct new puppets from clay and foam, sew clothing and also shop for puppet out-fits in the children’s section of Goodwill. Glen loves to play music while the team works, frequently selecting recordings that feature his musical hero, Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd.

Funny guy:

Glen Kelly

Hey, hey! I’m the FOCKING

funny guy. He’s just a really cold

hand.

28 Funny Guy: Glen Kelly / Left of The Lake

Music plays an important part in his life. He started playing piano at the age of nine and also took up the guitar. In past years, he performed with Chicago area band Medicine Hat. For The Puppet Underground production of “The Sounds of Music” - a parody of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical - he wrote lyrics and music that goose the classic tunes from the film and enlisted the aid of Kenosha-based band Rude Rooster to perform them.

Glen’s creative life mixes well with his family life. “My wife Christy, my sons Cameron and Brandon, and my daughter Mackenzie are my best friends,” he says. “It’s pretty cool when you’re putting on a show and your whole family is involved.

Whether it’s performing, running sound, operating lights or handing out programs, I am blessed with a great family.”

Beyond being an artist, Glen’s known for his humble charm, his quick wit and his in-terest in serving others, such as coaching at the Boys & Girls Club or leading a Scout troop.

Want to learn more about or get involved in The Puppet Underground? Join their group on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/thepuppetunderground/

Left of The Lake / Restoring a Lost Art: Dean Tawwater 29

HARBORPARKWALKSCULPTURE

ExperienceKenosha’s HarborPark

Sculpture Walk14 world-class sculptures along

Kenosha’s beautiful lakefront.

�is larger than life exhibit will run through September 2015.New sculptures will be exhibited for 2015-2017.

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30 Myth / Prince Parise

and publication in Left of the Lake Magazine

www.leftofthelake.comLeft of the Lake, LLC shall require First North American Serial Rights and First Electronic Rights, including perpetual archiving, for storiesselected as winners of this contest.

Deadline: June 1, 2015 at 11:59 pm

You may also mail or drop off your submissions toArtWorks, 5002 7th Ave, Kenosha, WI 53140

In the subject line of your email, write “FlashFiction Contest.”

Use only Times New Roman, 12 point font.

In the body of your email, include the title(s) ofyour work, your name and address (no PO Boxes),including city, state and zip code. Provide a 2-3 sentence, third-person bio.

Submit up to three stories of your own work asattachments to editor@leftofthelake.com.Acceptable formats: PDF, Word or RTF text.Stories must be 400 words or less. Any genre isallowed; however, no novel excerpts, poetry orworks of non--ction.

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You must be at least age 18 to qualify.

Applications and information available at

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Facebook page of the Kenosha/Racine Poets Laureate Program.

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32 2FL: The Man Who Would Be King / Dave Gourdoux

By Dave Gourdoux

The Man Who Would be King is a 1975 film directed by John Huston and starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling, it is the last of Huston’s trilogy about hu-man greed (the other two being 1941’s The Maltese Falcon and 1948’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre). It’s a funny and epic adventure f ilm, with award-nominated writing, great direction, exotic locales, and brilliant acting.

Sean Connery and Michael Caine play Daniel and Peachy, rogue British soldiers in India in the late 1880’s, who go look-ing for fortune in the distant Himalayas beyond the Khyber Pass. After an arduous and difficult journey, they stumble upon an idyllic village, home to endless treasures of incalculable value. Scheming to loot the riches, they ingratiate themselves with the villagers, acting as military advisors against a rival tribe. Things escalate until they are convinced that Connery is a god and make him their king.

While Peachy is the brains and is eager to steal the treasure and get back to India, Connery’s Daniel becomes enthralled with the idea of being king and starts to be-lieve that he really is a god. He selects the most beautiful of all the villagers, Roxanne (played by Shakira Caine, Caine’s real-life wife since 1973), to be his bride. Roxanne,

fearful of marrying a god, is convinced that she will burst into flames if she comes in contact with Daniel. During the wedding ceremony, she bites Daniel, drawing blood and exposing him as a mortal and a fraud.

The adventure is framed by a prologue where the two meet Kipling (played by Christopher Plummer), and a short epi-logue where Kipling learns the fate of the two men. The scenes with Kipling are very effective and funny, and set the tone of the film. Caine and Connery are both in top form, making their relationship one of the most endearing and deepest friendships on film. It has profound things to say about the bonds of close friendship and how ego and greed can destroy even the strongest of those bonds. More than anything else, it is great entertainment.

Director, John Huston was sixty-nine years old when this film was released, and The Man Who Would Be King holds its own with his other masterpieces. A master sto-ryteller, his f ilms are perfect for repeat-ed viewing – always guaranteed to stop my endless channel surfing.

34 Meet Beth Dary / Left of The Lake

In this issue, we interview Beth Dary, newly appointed director of Lemon Street Gallery in Kenosha. Hi, Beth. Please tell us a little bit about yourself, your art work, and how you discovered Lemon Street Gallery.

I am a visual artist with a concentration in fiber arts. I have been exhibiting at Lemon Street Gallery since 2007, after having participated in Kenosha HarborMarket for a couple years as a vendor and then in Artistree. Franco Tarsitano was instru-mental in nudging me to apply for mem-bership and after my work was accepted, the rest is history.

You have taken over the day-to-day opera-tions from long-time Lemon Street direc-tor Melanie Hovey. How did you arrive at that decision?

I am happiest when I am busy! I had be-come increasingly involved with the gallery over the years, starting as a member artist, a committee member on the Management Council, a board member, Clay Studio steward and part-time staff associate. It was apparent that my little love-affair with the gallery wasn’t ending any time soon. Melanie had been threatening to retire for three years and we all knew that there would be a day when her foot would really, really come down and she would be creat-ing new dreams for herself. Melanie has laid the foundation for our collective, and combined with the growing arts movement in Kenosha, I knew I wanted to be a part of that.

The gallery is undergoing a fairly extensive make-over. Tell us a little about that.

Yes, timing is everything! For the past couple years, our board of directors has been drafting a plan to propel the gallery forward aesthetically. We have taken small

Beth DaryMeet

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steps, and recently a large step, in taking care of the environment in which our art-work is viewed and stored. Repainting the outdoor sign was a big project, we installed solar shades in the west-facing main gal-lery, the Clay Studio has undergone some face-lifting and we have done some much-needed renovating in the Brick Gallery, which showcases three featured artists on a monthly basis. Next is a phased renova-tion project for our upstairs classroom. Fundraising efforts through our upcoming event, Kenosha on Canvas – A Celebrity Art Auction, will help fund this endeavor.

It is important for any gallery to evolve. How do you envision the future at Lemon Street? What changes still have to be made to accommodate the needs of area artists?

I believe col laboration is the key ele-ment that will move our gallery forward. Collaboration with our board of directors, our community and each other. I am the first to admit I don’t have all the answers, but I see a welcoming environment for art-ists and visitors alike; a space where artists will be proud to display their work and a place in which visitors will want to visit again and again.

Using our mission statement as a driv-ing force, I hope to maintain the gallery as equally diverse and inclusive. I intend to explore artists’ strengths and fully ex-ploit those talents for the benefit of their gallery. Of course, we’ll continue to of-fer quality visual arts education, support cultural events, and provide our regional artists with a supportive environment.

Tell us about your pet projects.

Oh, I have so many! First, I’d like to estab-lish a development series that could help an

artist process critique and help define their work. I want to explore non-traditional memberships for our community members (students, seniors or veterans).

Another goal is to expand our reach. We are developing a Wikipedia page and have a Trip Advisor site. Melanie and I will col-laborate on further arts development in our Union Park neighborhood. I’d like to see Union Park be the place for performing and visual arts, even as a desired wedding location.

Melanie has left her indelible mark on Lemon Street Gallery. What stamp would you like to leave?

My big, hairy dream is that Lemon Street Gallery will be the reason people will want to live in Kenosha. I want visitors to come away changed by the experience. We are an amazing creative space, and more than anything, I want artists to feel that they just have to be a part of it.

For more information about Lemon Street Gallery, the artists, events and classes, visit www.lemonstreetgallery.com or 4601 Sheridan Road in Kenosha.

Kenosha on Canvas – A Celebrity Art Auction – May 29th, 2015

36 The Dress Series - Tracy / William Zoback

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Submit Your Work To Left Of The Lake

Left of the Lake Magazine is published quarterly and accepts work continuously. We welcome submissions from both new and established artists and writers, nationally and internationally, but first consideration is offered to the creative people in our region of Southeast Wisconsin and Northeast Illinois.

General Guidelines:• All work must be original and not previously published• No simultaneous submissions

Submissions Welcome:• Poetry (maximum of three pieces)• Fiction or Non-Fiction (400 words or less)• Visual Art, Photography, or Comics (maximum of two pieces)

How-To Submit:• We prefer electronic submissions, either as an attachment or in the body of an email. Send work to editor@leftofthelake.com and please include your name, address, and a short bio of 30 words or less.

Questions? Contact us!editor@leftofthelake.com

40 Behind The Scenes / Left of The Lake