Meet the Greats: Fernwood Virtual Lecture Series
For more than a century, Chicago's leading painters, sculptors, writers, actors, dancers, and architects congregated together in close-knit artistic enclaves. Nationally renowned figures like Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Anderson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Sullivan became colleagues, confidants, and neighbors. In the 1920s, Carl Sandburg, Emma Goldman, Ernest Hemingway, Ben Hecht, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Clarence Darrow transformed the speakeasies and bohemian bistros of Towertown into Chicago's Greenwich Village. Fernwood member, Keith Stolte, and life partner of more than 20 years, Dr. Brian Ortiz, reside at the Carl Street Studios, the famous work of Edgar Miller and one of the famed artist colonies featured in Keith’s book, Chicago Artist Colonies. Keith has practiced law in Chicago for more than 20 years and began his academic career at the University of Chicago where he received a degree in history.