Business Briefs - Batavia Sun
Jim Sikich, CEO of Sikich LLP, recently announced that Sikich has entered into a merger agreement with the marketing and design firm Icon Digital Design & Illustration in Naperville. The merger was effective Dec. 1. Icon is operating under the Sikich

Art Institute show is a history lesson on the school's mark on art - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh is as much a part of the fabric of this city as is any of its other academic institutions, yet its impact is international. The Art Institutes' 46 schools in the United States and Canada have become one of the largest

Hotstar Flashback: Cut Copy - POLLSTAR
Aussie electro-pop band Cut Copy hadn't played a single show before signing with Modular in 2001. And frontman Dan Whitford thinks it's probably best the label didn't see the guys perform early on. “We were actually signed before we were playing

Hometown calendar - Green Bay Press-Gazette
Antique Study Club: Monday, Grace Lutheran Church, 321 S. Madison St., Green Bay. 12:30 p.m. social, 1 p.m. meeting. Program: Mary Jane Herber, "Doers and Dreamers." Prospective members welcome. Karen Daniels, (920) 434-1438 or Gloria Shea, (920) 494

Artist creates portraits in salt and earth - Greensboro News & Record
GREENSBORO - Don't look for Young Kim's artwork in museum collections or galleries. It doesn't hang on walls or perch on pedestals. It can't be purchased, taken home and displayed. It's designed to disappear with the brush of a hand, a breeze, or a

Locally raised artist on path to surreal success - Signal
She was barely a preschooler at St. Stephen’s when Tiffany Trenda’s calling began to reveal itself. “In playtime I always got out finger paints or pencils,” she said. “Even at 3 (years-old), I was always painting or drawing.” Twenty seven