My tempera painting, "Olympia" is featured on the cover of the current issue of the fantasy literature magazine, "Black Gate". It's a terrific magazine, packed with well-written stories, informed reviews, and interesting essays. Please check it out; it's good stuff.

For a closer look at "Olympia", click here.

I'd like to put in a plug for the blog of my favorite bookstore ever. O'Gara and Wilson, Booksellers is an amazing, venerable secondhand bookstore in Chicago, a great place to look for cool old books.

I recently participated in Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet, a public art project in Chicago from 2 June through September 2007. I painted a ginormous fiberglass globe with "Renewable Energy for Illinois" (which is largely wind power), in my own inimitable way. My globe was number 104 by Navy Pier, and my sponsor is Invenergy LLC, a wind farm and renewable energy company. An article about my globe can be seen here.

I have an Illustration Gallery on the site, primarily for art directors who want to see my work. It's not as chatty as my regular site has been, but it has more images to see, and samples of my non-egg tempera work. The newest new work in my new Illustration Gallery is black and white drawings. Yay, monochrome.

I curated a show, "Otherworldly Chicago" at the University of Illinois at Chicago, featuring the paintings of Kathleen Eaton, James Mesplé, and myself, from April 11th to May 6th 2006. Click here to see some photos of the show.

Like philosophy? Greek mythology? Science fiction? See the site of my husband, Richard Garfinkle, science and science fiction author.

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And since it's been brought to my attention, pastel artists who deal with dusts should also be aware of these hazards.