Connected aims to explore the artist’s origins, the method to their talent… and madness. Recorded live at Side Street Studio Arts, Connected will archive the current local music, art, and performing arts scene in Elgin and the surrounding areas. #stayconnected
In Episode 4 of Connected we meet up with mild-mannered local painter, Bobby Rowland. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Bobby and discussing his influences, both past and present, as well as gaining insight into what art has meant to him growing up in the Fox Valley area.
In our third episode of Connected., master printmaker and fellow Elginite Jim Lloyd discusses his inspirations and aspirations in the world of printmaking, his life in, and eventual exodus from, the big city to the suburban mecca of art that is Elgin, Il.