Jennifer Randall:
CLASS OF 1995
Bolingbrook High SchoolClass of 1995
Bolingbrook, IL
American Academy of ArtClass of 1999
Chicago, IL
Ward Middle SchoolClass of 1991
Bolingbrook, IL
North View SchoolClass of 1988
Bolingbrook, IL
Jennifer's Story
Life
Well, I am an artist. I create every day. I
currently work at the Micheal's Arts and Crafts
store in Willowbrook as a Senior Certified Custom Framer. I recently moved to the area (Willowbrook).I got promoted last year, and transfered, AND got a new place all in one week!
I'm also working on illustrating a children's
book that my second cousin penned and I am working on several outside art projects. One of my paintings has sold for $900.00!
I am in great demand at work and outside of work
as teacher of the visual arts.
Life takes you through so many things, you think that your head will explode! I have met the man of my dreams! Yes ladies, he is out there. I didn't know it, but someone was looking for the same things I was, and somehow we found eachother. We haven't been apart since we met, and that was some time ago!!
Your twenties are a time to travel and meet new people and try new things. And your thirties are for soaking it all in. I have been to England, Scotland, and Wales. And I have traveled all over the USA. I have been to places such as Reno, Billings, Yellowstone N.P., Knoxville, the Smokey Mountains,the Ozarks, Badlands of S.D., Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe,... In the summer of 2005 I was at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky! Just this past two years I have been all over the Midwest for camping and caving! Its a hobby that Jason and I picked up early in 2007. Just resently we were down in Missouri for a caving convention in October of 07.
And I have lost a great deal of my full figure that I had in high school! All on my own too. No classes or programs, just self disipline and a want to be better than I have ever been. I am in the best shape of my life. I'm into a size 12 now!
I hope all of you guys in the class of '95 are having as much fun as I am!
School
Well, to be honest, high school wasn't "that" bad. After I discovered my talent for artistic expression, I fell away into the shadows. I had my little group of loyal friends in school. But most of my real friends didn't even go to BHS. I have to thank Mr. Schulien, my mentor and art teacher. Without him I would have never had the drive to see what I could really do with my art.
I have a few interesting memories of high school, but for the most part, I have left all of that in the past. I know that I was not popular (whoopdidido), but I really didn't care. If some of the poeple who put me down saw me today, they would't know who this funny, smiling, joyful, loving, and loved girl was. I am nothing like I was in high school, thank the God and the Goddess!
College
College was one strange and lovely trip. I highly recomend it to everyone. I went to a private a...Expand for more
rt school and was embraced by instructors and students alike. I had so many friends. I did my fair share of growing up too. I had to learn how to deal with the life that came with going to school in downtown Chicago. All the "interesting"
people that walk the street. I guess you could say that I reinvented myself on the first day. And since then, over ten years later, I remember completely my first day at a new school in a new town. I fell in love with two things: the city, and a man who would change my life. I won't say his name here, and I know that he is very happy now, as am I, but he taught me that there was good in the world, and that all people should have a chance to shine. We were friends from the first year all the way to this day, where ever he may be. I also began to explore my spirtituality thanks to a teacher who basicaly told me to look inside myself and find it. And boy did I ever, I am still on that journey.
I left college with a 3.4 GPA and BFA in fine art with a major in illustration.
I return to Chicago all the time, and I became a member of the Art Institute in 2002. That is where you can find me most of the time in the summer. Some poeple go to church or what have you...I go see art. and I bow my head before the greatest artist who have ever lived.
Workplace
My first "real" job was during my 3rd year at college. I had to make some money for art supplies and such, I had a friend that worked for a little flower farm in Naperville called "The Growing Place" off of old plank road. During two spring seasons I got to know all the annual and perenial flowers and shrubs that nature had made. I got a tan (farmer's tan...ha ha) and a good workout from lifting dirt bags and moving flower trays here and there. I liked it there. I even ran into my old 8th grade math teacher!!
After collage I really needed a job, and my chosen field was not being kind to newcomers, so I took what I could get. Thats when they had a hiring frenzy at the Mejer on Boughton and Weber Roads back in 1999. I worked there for a year and three months...And that was long enough, never in my life have I seen such bad managment, and a disregaurd for workers. Anyway, I was able to save enough money to go to England! I quit just before leaving the country and came back and applied to where I am now. I have been working as a Lead Sales Associate for the Art and Framing Department at the Micheal's Arts and Crafts Store in Downer's Grove for the past six and a half years.(Now as a framer in Willowbrook, wroking on year number nine(9) with the company). It doen't pay me the a whole lot, but I don't know of anyone who can say that they love what they do for a living.
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