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ART EFFECT LAKE FOREST NATIVE CIARA CONNELL SHARES HER CREATIVE JOURNEY.

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Thanks to two parents who respect the arts, Ciara Connell considers herself a lifelong creative. She spent her childhood in Lake Forest as a dancer but pivoted to painting after a career-ending leg injury in high school.

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have since inspired her work.

“Dancing had filled up so much of my time and energy and when it was gone,

making.”

That said, her work today is influenced more so by artists like Gerhard Richter, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackie Saccoccio, and Elaine de Kooning. Connell often

Connell finds inspiration in the people the Pratt Institute. A client of art therapy she meets, the streets of New York City, herself, Connell says she struggled with where she currently resides, and the world mental health in her younger years and at large. Another source of inspiration? Connell currently interns at a middle school in Brooklyn, using art as a therapeutic tool for children.

“I can see how much easier it is for children to open up to me when they are occupied with drawing or sculpting,” says Connell. “Eye contact can be difficult for some people and can hinder honesty.

When a child gets into art, they feel less pressure and can explore their feelings and creativity. The art they make and their resilience is inspirational in itself.”

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there was a massive void in my life,” says Connell. “I felt so empty, like I had lost a vital part of my identity. It was in this dark time that I found my way back to art, and it has been a major part of my life ever since.”

Her paintings are large-scale and abstract, colorful and atmospheric, meant to evoke the feeling of longing to physically step into the work. In her earlier works, Connell explored the dichotomy between beauty and the grotesque, studying the processes of artists like Egon Schiele, Lucien Freud, and pieces like Guernica by Picasso.

“They have such allure but can also feel eerie and strange,” explains Connell. “But a good artist should always be evolving and that also goes for the art they are

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plays with color and layering, using squeeze bottles—or even sometimes hot sauce bottles, eye droppers, and turkey basters—and very wet paint in a way that the paint falls indiscriminately and travels across the canvas in unique pathways.

She uses various forms of leverage for her canvas to influence the shapes and directionality of the paint, propping it up on one side or the other, but generally, spontaneity rules over intention.

“I love the idea of intentionality and unpredictability,” says Connell. “It seems very human and reflective of life.

As much as I can go into working on a painting with a plan, that plan will never be. The art becomes as it is meant to be.

Sometimes I am simply a witness.”

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sought the support of an art therapist, who let Connell play with different materials, like clay, and work with her hands during their sessions. The process, she says, made it much easier to share and navigate her emotions.

“There is something to be said about mind and body working in tandem,” adds Connell. “The tactility let me work out my frustrations and helped me cope with negative feelings that I did not know how to handle as a young adult. Art therapy has saved my life in many ways, and I want to share that gift with others.

Language limits us, but art is universal. It can be the communication when we feel that we have no words.”

She still works with the same therapist, who also attended Pratt and has now become a mentor. Connell hopes to one

day see art therapy more heavily integrated into schools, hospitals, and private practices. She’s currently writing her thesis on the effect of art therapy for children who have witnessed domestic or intimate partner violence in their homes, hoping to spotlight the ability of art therapy to give a voice to those without.

“Working through a pandemic has been odd and serendipitous in many ways,” says Connell. “I myself had to adjust to a world I had never experienced. More than ever, we need each other and need accessible and affordable mental health services.”

She still plans to continue to use her personal art as an outlet post-graduation in May. Connell has sold her art to buyers across the globe, from London and Ireland to New York City and Buenos Aires, and even resided in London for a few years, hosting an exhibition in Peckham with

12 works she created in her London studio.

“Studio is a kind word for the small, closet-like storage container I found myself painting in while living in London,” laughs Connell.

“But I was blessed to have it and made some of my favorite paintings in that small space. It was an adventure in every sense, and I would do it again.”

Connell is now planning her next art show in New York City and finishing her thesis.

“I have a lot of work to do and am up for the task,” she says. “Pursuing the arts is a privilege. Art has always reminded me who I am.”

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TAKING FLIGHT WOODLANDS ACADEMY SOPHOMORE GIANNA KEUER IS HEADED TO THE INDOOR SKY DIVING WORLD CUP COMPETITION IN APRIL.

BY ROCHELLE NEWMAN RUBINOFF THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

Five years ago, when Barrington’s Gianna Keuer first encountered indoor sky diving at Naperville’s iFly, she had no idea that one day she would be competing in a World Cup Competition.

On November 13, the first-ever all-female 4-Way Dynamic Indoor Skydiving team, Volare, won the silver medal at the 2021 U.S. Indoor Skydiving Nationals at iFly in El Paso, Texas. This win qualified the team for the World Cup Competition in Belgium next month. Keuer and teammates Kiana Adamson of Colorado, Bella Capra of Oregon, and Jill Knutson of New York are the fliers making up the team.

Keuer is a sophomore at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls collegeprep day and boarding high school in Lake Forest. “One goal of my team is to inspire girls to work hard and follow their dreams, and I believe that my experience at Woodlands has helped me do just that,” she says.

Working hard and training weekly at iFly is preparing Keuer for the big competition.

Training consists of learning the physics of wind movement, which is the driving force of indoor skydiving. Participants wear flight suits and helmets while facing winds that can approach 160 miles per hour inside a vertical glass 14-foot-wide tunnel.

To be successful in this sport, Keuer says that several skills come into play. “First you have to be able to stay stable in the tunnel in different positions before you can start to carve and use more fluid movements. You

have to get a feel for how the wind works, and it’s hard to know how to do that at first because there is so much wind and it can be confusing. Staying stable requires mental focus, core strength, and agility.”

Keuer notes, “For speed, you can adjust how much surface area you use, like the wind in a sail. If you are on your stomach, you will go high, but if you’re straight up exposing less surface area, you will drop.

Using your body to catch the wind, pushes you where you want to go, but like anything, this takes practice.”

The sport is touted as one of the most exciting and fastest-growing sports worldwide. In 2014, indoor skydiving was recognized by the World Air Sports Federation (FAI) with competitions now being held around the world. The sport is also being promoted as a future Olympic event— something Keuer would love to see.

“Being a part of this amazing team and representing the United States at the World Cup is a dream come true,” Keuer says.

Another team Keuer is part of is the nonprofit organization Hope’s In, where she focuses on educating and empowering at-risk teenage girls who live in the Guatemala City Garbage Dump Community.

As a fluent Spanish speaker, she communicates easily with the girls she has met while volunteering for the past five summers and hopes to inspire them to follow their dreams.

The sky is the limit for this fierce flyer.

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HELP THE HOMELESS LAKE COUNTY HAVEN SEEKS VOLUNTEERS FOR ITS MEAL PROGRAM.

When Eric Peschke and Susan Milanek grocery shop, they fill up their carts with food they will use to make meals for families they don’t even know. Both regularly volunteer with their families to prepare meals for the residents of Lake County Haven, a homeless services agency serving women and children.

Lake County Haven is seeking vol-

shelter. Find more information at Lake County Haven’s website, lakecountyhaven.org. The agency also posts information about the meal program and other volunteer opportunities on Facebook.

Donors can prepare a homemade meal or bring a pizza or restaurant meal that they ordered. The agency also is seeking volunteers to grocery shop for the shelters’ residents.

“The residents think the food is wonderful, and there are so many heartwarming stories,” said Laura Sa-

“She always made it for us when we were kids as a special treat,” Peschke said. “The funny thing is that when I was in college, I never ate a boxed mac and cheese. I’ve made it so many times, I don’t have to measure out the flour, milk and cheese.”

Milanek and her daughter, Lauren, 17, of Lake Forest, have been preparing lunches or grocery shopping for shelter residents twice a month for four years.

“It’s fun for us to get together and decide what we are going to make,” Mi-

unteers to prepare meals for the women and children who reside in the agency’s two homeless shelters, Hope House and Renewal House, both located in Libertyville. The agency relies on volunteer donors to provide more than 2,100 meals annually for its two shelters.

Signing up is as simple as choosing a meal—breakfast, lunch or dinner— and a date to drop the meal off at the

bino, executive director of Lake County Haven. “We have had people donate meals in honor of a loved one. They share special family recipes. Sometimes families bring flowers, too.”

Peschke, his wife, Mary and stepdaughter, Avery, 12, all of Wauconda, prepare big buttery, cheesy trays of mac and cheese, using a family recipe handed down by Reschke’s mother.

lanek said. “We try to make different, fancy kinds of sandwiches. We have picked up lunch from Chick-fil-A, and the residents were always like ‘Chickfil-A!!! Lauren likes to make big salads.”

“This is something we all can do,” Peschke said. “It’s simple to sign up and not too time consuming.”

Peschke purposefully sought out a

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charity his family could support in a hands-on way. His family loves supporting Lake County Haven.

“You want to get involved with a good organization that is well run, and it supports mothers and children. You don’t realize how lucky you are. We feel fortunate and want to give back.”

Milanek tells a similar story. She already had been supporting Lake County Haven through a family foundation, and her church also supports the mission. However, Milanek was looking for a different way to give back and to do something with her daughter.

Milanek said it’s a simple and convenient way for high school students to do community service, which helps on college applications, because they can pick their own date and prepare the meal at home. The volunteer opportunity also opens students’ eyes that not everyone has the same good fortune.

Both the meal donors and the shelter residents and staff love the heartwarming feeling this volunteer opportunity produces.

“One couple brings in meals for family members’ birthdays (either ones that have passed or their children who are living in other states),” said Brooke Projansky, counselor/case manager at Lake County Haven. “They bring in a candle for the women to light and to sing ‘Happy Birthday,’ and it’s so sweet.

The residents really enjoy that.”

Projansky said it’s a volunteer opportunity that organizations can do together, such as civic or social groups, or Boy Scout or Girl Scout troops. High school clubs like National Honor Society also could volunteer to do it as a group, Milanek said. Sabino said some extended families like to do it together, each donating one part of the meal.

Local businesses and corporations also have donated meals, including Horizon Therapeutics, BCU, AbbVie, Sysmex, Kianzie Real Estate Services and Hollister Incorporated.

“We recently opened a second shelter, Renewal House, and we need meal donors more than ever,” Sabino said.

“With our new shelter, our meal needs have doubled.”

For questions about the meal donation and grocery shopping program, email volunteer@lakecountyhaven.org.

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NORTH SHORE FOODIE

EASY OVEN BEEF AND TOMATO STEW

BY MONICA KASS ROGERS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

I don’t know about you, but when I’m on deadline, food prep goes out the window (but my appetite stays). One way to stave off junk-food snacking temptations and give myself a warming reward at the end of the day, is to get this so-easy (but so-good!) meal into the oven first thing. The oven does all the work. Bonus? Because the price of oxtails and short ribs that I formerly used for such as dish has gone through the roof, I make this with still-very-affordable beef neck bones.

METHOD

INGREDIENTS

• 4 pounds meaty beef neck bones • Kosher salt and freshly cracked pepper • 3 onions, peeled, halved and cut into half-moon slices • 1 Tbsp. thyme leaves, crushed

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• 3 cloves garlic, minced • 1 bay leaf • 1, 32-ounce box beef stock OR chicken stock • 1 can Italian plum tomatoes, broken up • 1 to 2 cups dry red wine • ½ cup all-purpose flour

Preheat oven to 400 degrees with oven rack in center position. Rub the meat and bones with salt and pepper. Break up and scatter half of the onions in a Dutch oven or deep roasting pan. Arrange meat over onions.

Scatter the rest of the onions over the meat.

Roast meat for ½ hour. Remove pan from oven; reduce heat to 325 degrees. Scatter thyme, minced garlic, and bay leaf over meat.

Pour beef stock, tomatoes with their liquid,

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and red wine over all. Sprinkle everything with the ½ cup of flour. Place pan back in oven and roast for 2 hours until the flour has browned.

Whisk flour into the liquid; flip each meaty beef bone over. Roast stew for another hour or until the meat is falling off of the bones and the liquid has thickened into a beautiful gravy.

To serve, remove bones and bay leaf, spoon stew over rice or mashed potatoes, or serve with crusty bread for dipping.

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NO ONE-HIT WONDER MUSIC- AND SOFTBALL-LOVING GLEN ROBERTS HITS THE RIGHT NOTES—AND TOUCHES ’EM ALL—AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF BRAVO WAUKEGAN!

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Glen Roberts sits inside a Starbucks in his hometown of Barrington. It’s midafternoon.

Earlier, in Rosemont, the former AbbVie director of international distribution had practiced with members of his senior softball team.

The 65-year-old will play mostly centerfield this year.

The subject of injuries surfaces.

“It’s a good thing,” the easygoing, engaging Roberts says, “our league has a no-slide rule.”

The lifelong Chicago Cubs fan smiles.

He could’ve noted that the best way to avoid the temptation to hit the dirt near a base or the plate is to hit nothing but no-doubt-about-it home runs.

But Roberts isn’t here to talk about his baseball swing with a scribbler.

He’s here to go to bat for Bravo Waukegan! Roberts started his threeyear term as chairman of the board of directors for the Lake Forest-based organization in 2020. Founded 11 years ago by the selfless, delightful Pat Sikorovsky, Bravo Waukegan! began as a grassroots effort to help boost music programs within the 21 schools in the Waukegan School District.

Now? It supports students in the highly diverse and underserved district by partnering with the fine arts administration to find opportunities to grow through music.

Bravo’s snappy tag line: “Empowering children through music, one note at a time.”

“When people hear Bravo’s mission,” Roberts says, “they immediately think, ‘That’s phenomenal.’ I know that was my initial thought. I realized how powerful music can be when I traveled to many countries in my position at AbbVie. It’s true that music is the universal language; it enables you to connect with others, instantly. It’s also inspirational, motivational, soothing.

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prepare to perform on stage. The confidence they gain as musicians, especially after seeing and hearing reactions from audience members, often carries over into the classroom and into their jobs.”

Bravo Waukegan! and The Donna Curry Studio Violin Academy will co-host an in-person

It’s true that music is the universal language; it enables you to connect with others, instantly. It’s also inspirational, motivational, soothing.

Glen Roberts

fundraising concert, “Sounds: Bravo Bravo Music Festival,” at the Gorton Community Center on April 24, from 3 to 5 p.m.

The festival, billed as a “Comeback Concert,” is for families, music lovers, and the community at large.

The afternoon will showcase the talent of 90 students, representing dozens of schools. Waukegan students and Donna Curry’s students will share the stage. A variety of solo and small group performances will be featured, including Waukegan mariachi and small ensembles, ranging from the Beatles to classics.

Roberts’s all-time favorite band is the Beatles and is all-time favorite Beatles song is “And I Love Her.” “When I was young I had bangs because of the Beatles,” Roberts says. “I also really like music by The Who. But my love of music began when I was in middle school and I’d dance to Motown songs in the basement of one of my brother’s friends.

The Temptations, the Supremes, early Michael Jackson, the Four Tops … I enjoyed listening to all of them.”

A son of Arnie, a World War II veteran and avid outdoorsman, and Joan, who marched in Chicago with Martin Luther King Jr., Roberts attended Evanston Township High School. A “fairly quiet teen,” he played soccer for a year and wrestled for a year.

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Oxford, Ohio, where he also served the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in many leadership roles.

During his 40-year career in supply chain management, he worked with health care manufacturers Baxter Travenol (now Baxter International Inc.), Abbott, and AbbVie. Roberts met his future wife, Maureen, in New Jersey when Baxter bought out the company for which Maureen worked as a manager.

Maureen nudged Glen to get an MBA, and he earned it—at the age of 36— at Rider University in Lawrence Township, New Jersey.

The couple have two children, 32-year-old Patrick and 29-year-old Caitlin.

Roberts was working for DSC Logistics in Des Plaines when his family moved to Barrington 28 years ago.

In 2017, co-workers at AbbVie suggested Roberts attend an open house for nonprofits at Independence Grove in Libertyville, where he met Bravo Waukegan! Executive Director Karey Walker.

“I was able to check a lot of boxes as we spoke and as I learned about Bravo that day,” recalls Roberts, who retired in 2019. “I love music.

Check. As a volunteer for Bravo, I’d get to use some of my strategic planning skills. Check.

That certainly interested me. Bravo’s mission impressed me. Check.

“So did Karey’s magnetic personality,” he adds.

Ten days later, Roberts started serving as a Bravo volunteer and later spearheaded a Saturday-morning workshop—focusing on strategic planning for the next three to five years—for the Bravo Waukegan! Board. In 2019, at Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, he organized the bulk of “Music Connects Us to the World,” a benefit to support Bravo’s music programs.

Bravo Waukegan! impacts 7,000 students each year. Think about the number of those youngsters who’d be adrift without having had the outlet—the haven, in many cases—of learning music and them moving audiences via their performances.

“We want to expand the awareness of Brave Waukegan! beyond Waukegan and Lake Forest,” Roberts says. “We want more involvement from small businesses across the North Shore.

We’re helping children turn their lives around.

Our enrollment increases ever year.

“I’ve seen the joy of these young musicians when they perform on a stage. I’ve also seen parents as they listen to their children. Those parents’ faces, all of them … beaming with pride.”

Bravo Waukegan’s office is located at the Gorton Community Center, 400 East Illinois Road, in Lake Forest. For more information, call 847-722-5821 or visit bravowaukegan.org. Tickets for the Bravo Bravo Music Festival (April 24, 3-5 p.m.)— “A Comeback Concert”—are $10 and will be sold at the door or through Gorton’s event website, gortoncenter.org.

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