Salem Collo-Julin is one of the members of the art group Temporary Services. By “art group”, we mean “a collaborative entity that spews out projects at an alarming rate, considering the amount of life and work commitments each member continues to take on”. She also co-runs Half Letter Press, a small webstore and publishing concern that is hopefully in 2010 printing a book by Mary Patten, radical artist and total Adventure Lady. She is a native Chicago-an, and prefers the White Sox. (Class of 2009.)

Through art and comics, Tyler Cohen explores sex, gender, and parenting with humor, everyday realism, and surrealism. (Class of 2012.)

Krystal DiFronzo is a recent (pending) graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and co-editor of Xerox Candy Bar. Her publications include EchoLocation and Suck It Up. When she’s not drawing comics, she’s weaving, making gross quilts and felt sculptures. Wants to live in a Fleischer Brothers cartoon and to be your valentine. (Class of 2012.)

Bonnie Fortune is an artist, writer, and educator. She currently lives in Champaign-Urbana, Il, also known as the ChUrb. More information about her practice can be found at the following websites: bonniefortune.info and letsremake.info. (Class of 2009.)

Julia Gootzeit is a comics enthusiast from Saint Louis Missouri. She is currently a MFA candidate at UNC Chapel Hill and enjoys bikes, tea, and reading about different kinds of animals. (Class of 2012.)

Franny Howes is a PhD student in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech, and is the creator of Oh Shit, I’m in Grad School!. (Class of 2012.)

Sarah Kavage is exceptionally proud of those qualities which are her birthright, namely the place (Ohio) and time (sun sign Scorpio) of her actual birth.  Fellow participants wishing to befriend Ms. Kavage would be well-advised to profess a love for cats, second-hand fashion, humid heat, and talking inappropriately loudly while in Europe.  They should also be warned that conversations related to urban transportation systems will quickly cause her to geek out.  She is in Chicago for the month of December as a resident at InCUBATE, working on the development of the project “Industrial Harvest,” which will commence with the purchase of 1000 bushels of wheat on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. (Class of 2009.)

Amy Partridge: I am delighted at the prospect of participating in the Adventure School for Ladies!  & feel that I have not adventured enough as of late. (Class of 2009.)

Liz Rush is a recently returned expat and radical feminist who refuses to sing anything other than Styx’s “Mr. Roboto” at karaoke bars. (Class of 2012.)

Katari Sporrong graduated last year from Bennington College where she took a wide variety of classes in writing, drawing, film, the internet, etc in order to indirectly study comics. She lives and works in New York City. (Class of 2012.)

Abigail Satinsky and Shannon Stratton also taught and learned at the Adventure School for Ladies. (Class of 2009.)

Fereshteh Toosi once lived in many cities including Sagamihara and Syracuse, Frostburg and Pittsburgh, before finally settling in a house with a lot of birdfeeders and too much shade in Avondale, Chicago. She likes to make and record sounds, cut up videos, and take live actions to the street. In her spare time, she teaches at Columbia College, where her students make rap songs about God and chivalry to the ladies. (Class of 2009.)

Elizabeth (Liz) White is an artist/teacher/learner based in New York. Her projects sometimes involve photography, video, and installation. Among other things, she enjoys researching,planning, writing, making and discussing. She teaches creative and technical communications courses and spends an inordinate amount of time on her computer, often in the company of her tailless transgender cat. Her public calendar of art events can be found at hotartaction.com and past projects are online at whitespaceprojects.com.(Class of 2009.)

Mara Williams is a zinester, illustrator, cat owner, former radio host, and PhD student in Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she studies feminism, the internet, and how to make the world a slightly better place. She is also the 2012 recipient of the Ladies Utilizing Graphic Nuance and Unleashing Trouble Scholarship, from the Queer Zine Archive Project. LUGNUTS Scholars display a tenacious dedication to the queering of self-publishing and are chosen annually by the scholarship funders. (Class of 2012.)