THE GLASNER STUDIO | a graphic novel
Excerpts of Part I: Edgar Miller
The story starts with a man, Edgar, with a single minded desire to make things. He created nearly the entire Glasner Studio - cartouches, friezes, stained glass, carved beams, intricate doors - nearly everything he personally created. Edgar had a growing a vision of architecture as an embodiment of humanity’s potential - art that shelters, inspires, and contains life itself. And yet through the 20th century this vision is tested by the stark reality of humankind’s crossroads at the advent of the nuclear age. The book lives in the shadow of the Cold War, and details lives of people closely involved with the house and the strange interconnected nature of Chicago with the currents of history.
Edgar Miller - the artist who created the house and a multitude of beautiful artist studios throughout Chicago
Lucy Montgomery - a civil rights activist who housed members of the Black Panther Party
Karen Flowers - a folk-artist whose work in hospice led her to heartbreak during the AIDS crisis and the imperative to bring Edgar’s ashes back to his original home
Artist Residency
Edgar Miller Legacy
This book was created during my residency at the Edgar Miller Glasner Studio. I was able to look at their archive and watch video footage of the former residents & artists of the space
Sketches & Context
