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For centuries, wedding fashion followed everyday fashion. Only recently have brides chosen to eschew contemporary formal wear for styles that directly reference the past. Today, hoop skirts, corsets, sinewy fishtails, long trains, and leg-o-mutton sleeves can all be seen on the aisle, but each style echoes decades past. The Chicago History Museum’s vast costume collection includes a stunning array of wedding attire—for brides, grooms, bridesmaids, and more—that reveals 150 years of fashion favored by Chicago couples. I Do! presents forty-five dresses, plus accessories, corsets, and men’s attire.

In addition to distributing materials throughout the city, we’ll also be passing out handbills at Chicago Bridal Expo events. Be sure to check out the exhibit this summer!

I Do! Chicago Ties the Knot opens at the Chicago History Museum on May 22nd.  Please visit www.chicagohs.org for more information.

Rahael’s La Donna Velata (The Woman with the Veil) makes it’s way to Milwaukee for a very rare appearance. Responding to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Raphael developed in this portrait his own idea of female beauty and deportment. Art historians have variously identified this beautiful woman as a patron’s bride and as the artist’s lover and muse; she appears as a model in many of Raphael’s most important works.

It’s been a while since we have worked with our friends at the Milwaukee Art Museum, so needless to say, we are very excited to be part of this project. We’ll be distributing promotional materials in Chicago in support of the exhibit. Be sure to take advantage, and check out Raphael’s masterpiece while you can.

Raphael: The Woman with the Veil is at the Milwaukee Art Museum through June 6th. Please visit www.mam.org for more information.

As the year comes to a close, so does the celebration of Lincoln’s Bicentennial.  This past year we have been working closely with The Newberry Library to promote their Lincoln exhibitions, and currently, we are gearing up for another round of brochure distributions.  Last time around, we blanketed the city with Lincoln brochures detailing all of the upcoming events, and we will be repeating this process one more time.

In honor of one our nation’s greatest presidents, The Newberry Library is offering several informative events and exhibits including Abraham Lincoln and the Visual Arts, Honest Abe of the West, and With Malice Towards None.  Be sure to check out Newberry Library’s website for more information, and podcasts as well.

Lincoln Bicenntennial events are taking place at The Newberry Library through February 2010.  Please visit www.newberry.org for more information.

In honor of the two hundredth anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, Newberry Library offers a brand new and exiting exhibit to Chicago. With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition, offers a glimpse of who our nation’s greatest president was through different artifacts including pictures, books, and letters.  We jumped at the chance to work on this project with the Newberry, and have been distributing brochures for the exhibition to libraries in the city and northshore suburbs.  Be sure to take advantage and check it out while it’s here.

With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition is at the Newberry Library through December 19th.

As part of the exhibition Benito Juarez and the Making of Modern Mexico, the Chicago History Museum commissioned us to distribute brochures advertising this and the new Abraham Lincoln exhibition to Hispanic and Latino communities throughout the city. The new exhibition was co-curated by the National Museum of Mexican Art, and is a fascinating exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s contemporary, Benito Juarez.  Last week we visited many different neighborhoods and locations distributing the bi-lingual flyers.  Keep an eye out for the materials, and pick one up today!