Beautiful article by Robert Rowe. For artist Lisa Nelson Raabe, the process of making art is integral to how she experiences the world and navigates life’s rhythms.

Nice apiece which includes my MFA exhibition in this profiling of the arts on Bradley campus as we ease away from covid restrictions.

This week on ART ON THE AIR features Chicago based artist and illustrator Reina Marie Urban who reveals how her art aided her own struggles with depression. Next we have textile artist, art and yoga therapist, Lisa Nelson Raabe, whose work with repetitive forms is revealed stitch by stitch.

Lisa Nelson Raabe Offers Quietness And Reflection Through “Still Point” 2020

Peter Ahart, Lisa Nelson Raabe and Nichole Gronvold Roller all share an experience together in Bradley University’s Master’s program and the creative freedom to not reference reality while pushing the pure principles of composition.

Textile artist featured at downtown Decatur gallery
DONNETTE BECKETT Herald & Review Aug 10, 2017

OP-Ed - Yoga: Good for What Ails You

Two talented photographers from China, husband and wife Qingjun Huang and Liu Yang, arrived in Peoria in March 2022. Finding Peoria a very livable city, they are building their artistic connections in the U.S. from here. This fall their work is featured at the Peoria Art Guild and the Contemporary Art Center.

“Floating Garden,” an installation at Prairie Center of the Arts, is meant as an invitation to stillness and thought. 2011

Lisa discusses using tape in her artwork with Dana Baldwin at the Sheared Edge.