Adele Kurtz:
CLASS OF 1974
Academy of Our LadyClass of 1974
Chicago, IL
Adele's Story
Adele is from the southside of Chicago, Illinois, where most of her family still lives. She graduated with high honors from Illinois Institute of Technology with a degree in English, Technical Communications, and minors in education and design. She worked for Levenson & Levenson, in Dallas TX, as an account manager handling public relations for accounts like Mary Kay Cosmetics, First Texas Bank and Wynne/Jackson Real Estate. At 25 years old she started her own marketing and design firm, Creative Connection, in Chicago and Highland Park, IL, which specialized in educational (Shimer College), medical (American College of Surgeons, ACAI, Nat'l Easter Seals), real estate (Kritt, Carroll) and government (Highland Park). During her professional career, she was featured in Photo District News as one of "the nation's top digital designers." She was also associate editor and designer for Medical Insights magazine for 2 1/2 years and taught briefly at the International Academy of Merchandising and Design. She married the architect Todd Kingan a year after they both graduated from IIT and had three children, Stephen, Jessica and Michael. Todd died of heart failure in 2002. They had been married for 18 years.
She moved her family to Bayfield Colorado in 200...Expand for more
2, to enjoy more of nature and pursue her artistic passions.She is now married to Rich Kurtz, aka Kaibab, a poet and musician. They own and ride trail horses-- Raven's Girl a Pinto Arabian and Buddy, a Tennessee Walker, and are both avid skiers and golfers. Adele's current artwork is eclectic mixed media, and photography. She is certified as a Natural Healer from Catholic Charities Mercy Hospital, and as a Master Gardener from Colorado State.
Adele and her husband purchased another home on the Spring River in Arkansas in 2013 where they hope to devote more time to playing golf, watersports, rockhounding and entertaining family and friends.
One of Adele's favorite quotes is:""Our deepest fear is NOT that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. IT IS OUR LIGHT, not our darkness that frightens most of us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to? You are a child of God and playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
-- Nelson Mandela quoting Marianne Williamson.
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