Sara.B.Heymann

~artist, set designer, and one of the curator's for The Egg in Chicago, IL~ [email protected]

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I painted the backdrop for a rendition of the “Cotton Club” at a CPS elementary school. 

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I helped the kids of Clark Elementary from grades 4-8 to come up with a concept for the background visuals during their performance of the raps they wrote and produced, and then I edited and put those ideas together.  You can see all of the videos at:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7O8jS0uys_sdJygNNLTw8y3sOEXD6Ngh

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I painted the backdrop for Music House’s production of the Lion King.

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Bird book for Douglas Park, chicago in the spring.

Words and pictures by Eric Gyllenhaal

layout and design by me.

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Earth Day flyer I designed for earth day event I put together with Eric Gyllenhaal and Audrey Dunford.

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I taught a winter camp at the Union League Club Chicago to some kids ages 7-12.  We had one week before the new year so we made a calendar, and focused on one month per day.  The kids put a lot of Trump imagery in their work.

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Postin Bond and I did a collaboration on some tattoo flash.

You can get tatted by him in Willow Springs (just outside of Chicago) at Dead Serious Tattoos

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Blanket I designed for my cuz for x-mas

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Bresha Meadows is a14 yr old who killed her abusive father.

She’s being held and charged with murder.

more info:

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/31/hero_or_murderer_15_year_old

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A Serbian Film 2016

acrylic and oil on canvas

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some student work from McClellen Elementary in Chicago.

I was teaching pre-k thru 8th grade there.

In this particular assignment, we used secondary colors to create “monsters”.  Pictured is the 1st, 2nd, and 5th graders work.

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A video posted by Sara Heymann (@sara_heymann) on Oct 31, 2016 at 11:14pm PDT

photos and video from the fortune teller booth in A Memory Palace of Fear: a haunted house about housing at Silent Funny.  Curated by Martha Bayne.  Haunted House built by Andrea Jablonski

The haunted house was about foreclosures, infestations, fire, bank owned properties, and other housing issues that plague and eventually lead to empty homes all over Chicago. 

I was asked to do an installation that reflected this, and also gleaned information from the audience to possibly use in future incarnations of this project.  I decided to build a fortune teller booth, to tell peoples housing futures.  When the patron would enter the tent, Mistress Tangerine would tell them to sit down, and ask what their housing situation was like right now.  After peering into the blood, she would get a strange sensation, reach inside her stomach and pull out their fortune.  With the fortunes, i tried to reflect many different types of housing- be it living on water, homeless, an expensive micro-apartment, or being a refugee.  I posted a few examples of the fortunes above.

Here is more information about the event:

http://theateroobleck.com/plays/a-memory-palace-of-fear

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New painting that was displayed at Yolanda.  It’s one that you have to see in person though....

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Kids playing with kites they made.

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More kids projects @ Music House

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Set and props for Now.Here.This at the Rivendell with Brown Paper Box Co.

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A few things:

I’ll be showing a site specific work at The East Room tmrw for the group show “ENEMIES”

I’m going to be in a group show at Yolanda in October

and I’m working on an installation/haunted house about the foreclosure crisis at Silent Funny. We’ll be collecting housing stories from ppl this weekend- come out and have your story recorded. Here are some podcasts I’ve been listening to while painting to get me in the ‘foreclosure’ mood:

The $9 Billion Witness - ALAYNE FLEISCHMANN, and MATT TAIBBI talk about JP Morgan Chase’s role in the financial meltdown

The Giant Pool of Money on this american life

Scenes from a recession on this american life