Welcome Book by Adeeba Arastu

Session #

Mon ## Mon ##, 2019

WELCOME TO RAGDALE

SESSION # RESIDENTS NAME NAME Discipline City, ST Room Date Arrive - Date Leave

NAME NAME Discipline City, ST Room Date Arrive - Date Leave

[Mon Date], 2019 Dear [NAME NAME], Welcome to Ragdale! We are delighted to have you in residence during Session [#] and hope you will have a productive stay. This booklet contains important information you may need, including emergency contacts and a current resident roster. Please review this booklet as well as the Resident Handbook located in your room or studio. You have been assigned Aliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Room, which is located on the second floor of the Ragdale House. Please refer to the map in this folder if you are not familiar or new to the campus. At 5:00 p.m., the staff will gather in the living room and dining room of the Ragdale House for introductions with the new residents. Afterwards, we will move to the living room of the Barnhouse building for an orientation and brief tour. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. If there is anything we can do to help you settle into your space and begin your work, please let us know. We wish you a meaningful residency! Regards, The Ragdale Staff

Resident FAQ Get to Ragdale 1230 N. Green Bay Rd, Lake Forest, IL 60045 Fly: O’Hare is recommended over Midway airport. Drive: Taxi/ Ride-Sharing: American Taxi (847.509.7900), 303 Taxi (847.454.4697), LF Taxi (847.505.0301) recommended. Lyft and Uber are available in our area. Train: Union-Pacific North line to/from downtown Chicago and downtown Lake Forest. What to Bring Bring: weather appropriate clothing, shoes appropriate for walking in the prairie, toiletries. Please don’t bring: candles or incense, electric tea kettles, or space heaters. Ragdale provides: linens and towels, laundry machines and detergent, flashlights, first aid kit, bar soap, toilet paper, lightbulbs, yoga mats, and a limited number of bicycles, locks, and helmets. Connect to WiFi: Ragdale House Barnhouse Conference Room Friends Studio

artist Ragdale_Guest Ragdale_CRoom FriendsHouse

PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD

Settle In Basic food supplies are available in both kitchens, open 24/7. Dinner is served weekdays at 6:30 pm. Print: stations are available in the Barnhouse & Ragdale House 24/7. Do laundry: laundry after 4pm on weekdays, any time on weekends. Cozy up: please use fireplaces located on the first floor. Fireplaces in resident rooms do not function. Go to Town Downtown Lake Forest: grocery stores, pharmacies, post office, cafes, and restaurants. Lake Forest Library: 360 E. Deerpath Rd. Tell a librarian you are a resident at Ragdale and they will provide a temporary card. Metra Train Station: on Western between Deerpath and Westminster. Thrift shops: resident favorites include Forest & Found and Lake Forest Resale Shop. Go Outside Garden: explore the flower and vegetable gardens. Ask Chef Linda what is available to pick and eat. Walk the Prairie: stick to the paths of the 50 acres of prairie, and please don’t pick the plants. Be mindful of happy dogs off their leash. Wear long sleeves and closed footwear. Check yourself for ticks when you return. Exercise At the gym: Lake Forest College Sports and Recreation Center - Maplewood and Sheridan. Find free passes in the Barnhouse kitchen. Ride a bike: equipment located in the Ragdale House basement. Please ride on the sidewalk! At the lake: passes to park at the Lake Forest lakefront located in the Barnhouse kitchen. Do yoga: yoga mats can be found in each room. 4

Snail Mail Incoming: 1260 N. Green Bay Rd, Lake Forest, IL 60045 Please…No Smoking Smoking is not permitted at Ragdale, inside or out, excepting the bench by the parking lot. Your Health Hospital: Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital CVS Minute Clinic Urgent Care: Lake Forest Acute Care

660 N. Westmoreland Rd 520 N. Western Avenue 1025 W. Everett Rd #101

847.234.5600 847.810.5991 847.234.7950

Share Your Work You may choose to share your work with your fellow residents, and attend their open studios and readings. Typically, this is organized by your fellow residents, are short and sweet, and take place during the final week of your stay. The staff enjoys attending, so please let us know! Keep in Touch Facebook: /Ragdale Foundation & join our alumni FB group: “Ragdale Artists” Instagram: @ragdalefoundation Twitter: @Ragdale

Code of Conduct Ragdale works thoughtfully to provide residents an atmosphere that emboldens creative exploration and achievement. This is only possible when the culture is supportive, generous, and inclusive. These are the essential qualities of our 120-year legacy as a generative home of artistic production. We expect that in turn, all residents agree to respect residents, staff, grounds, buildings, prairie, Lake Forest, and surrounding communities. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to staff if a conflict arises or if you experience difficulties with another member of the community. Ragdale grows with the evolving needs of artists. Please refer to our Equity and Inclusion statement.

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY: DIAL 911 for Police and Fire. In case of a fire, please meet at the Lambs sculpture in front of the Ragdale House. Contact Contact (123) 456-7890 Contact Contact (123) 456-7890 Contact Contact (123) 456-7890 Contact Contact (123) 456-7890 Contact Contact (123) 456-7890 5

RAGDALE CAMPUS MAP VISIT LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS The Midwestern prairies owe their existence to the formation of the Rocky Mountains millions of years ago. The impact of the new mountains on wind patterns created a “rain shadow,” on the eastern side of the mountains. The community of species held by the prairie today is the culmination of nature’s work over thousands of years. Today, the Illinois prairie has 300 unique species, only 10 of which are widespread grasses. Of the forbs (non-grass species of herbaceous flowering plants) 36 are found regularly, 50 with less frequency, and the remaining are found in scattered areas. Some of the forbs found in the Illinois prairie are even classified as “rare.” Here are just a few of the plant species you might spot on a walk in the prairie: - Nodding Ladies Tresses - Golden Alexander - Wild Geranium - Blazing Star - Milkweed

MEADOW STUDIO

Spiranthes cernua Zizia aurea Geranium maculatum Liatris spicata Asclepius ssp.

GARDEN

BARNHOUSE

Chandler Studio Yellow Room Sewing Room Hayloft Room Playroom Beach Room

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Dorothy’s Sylvia’s

1260 N GREEN BAY

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FRIENDS’ STUDIO

1230 N GREEN BAY

RAGDALE HOUSE Top of the Stairs Sarah’s Room Blue Room Albert’s Room Alice’s Room

PARKING LOT

Trail to Lake County and Lake Bluff Preserves

Skokie River

Bennett Meadow Dixon Wetlands

Simpson Bridge Swinging Bridge

Gus Hart Trail

AB Dick River Trail Shaw Woods

Shaw Prairie

McLaughlin Depree Bridge Meadow

Rt 41/Skokie Valley Highway

West Laurel Ave Deerpath Municipal Golf Course

Skokie River ENTRY & PARKING

Derwyn Mawr ENTRY

Skokie

Rosenfield Meadow

River

Railway Major street

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Derwyn Mawr

Skinner Meadow

LEGEND

Green

Haffner Meadow

Veterans Park

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pa Deer Golf Ln.

Bike path Waterway Trail Parking

PRAIRIE MAP

MAP OF LAKE FOREST

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Food + Drink Recreation Shopping Hospital

Lake Forest Ragdale Foundation

Lake Forest Fort Sheridan

Ravinia Park Glencoe

Metra UP-N Line

Evanston Evanston

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hare International Airport

Oak Park

Ravenswood

Clybourn Downtown Chicago Ogilvie Transportation Center

Midway International Airport

Tickets available for purchase at station or on Ventra Mobile App.

Chicago LAKE MICHIGAN

POINTS OF INTEREST LAKE FOREST Food + Drink

SUBURBS Lake Bluff

181 E. Laurel Ave

Hansa Coffee Inovasi Prairie Espresso and Wine Bar Lake Bluff Brewing Company North Shore Distillery

Starbucks Reserve

Glencoe

Lantern of the Lake 768 N. Western Ave

MLG

672 N. Western Ave

Caputo’s Food Market 231 E. Wisconsin Ave

Chicago Botanic Gardens 1000 Lake Cook Rd

Ravinia

The Gallery

Summer music festivals

Egg Harbor Cafe

Wilmette

Sweets

Evanston

202 E. Wisconsin Ave 512 N. Western Ave

260 E. Deerpath Rd

Recreation

Skokie River Nature Preserve Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve Green Bay Trail Lake Forest Beach

Bahai’i Temple Block Museum Blick Art Materials Northwestern University

CHICAGO Newberry Library 60 W. Walton St

Chicago River Walk The “Bean”/ Millennium Park E. Randolph St

The Art Institute of Chicago 111 S. Michigan Ave

Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E. Chicago Ave

American Writers Museum 180 N. Michigan Ave

Theater district

Oak Park

Frank Loyd Wright home and studio 951 Chicago Ave

Ernest Hemingway birthplace 339 N. Oak Park Ave

LF College Gym

Unity Temple

Joy Foot Spa

Oak Park Conservatory

Maplewood Rd/Sheridan Rd 950 N. Western Ave

875 Lake St

615 Garfield St

Forever Om Yoga 828 N. Western Ave

Shopping

Forest & Found Thrift Store 1363 N. Western Ave

Lake Forest Resale

222 E. Westminster Ave

Lake Forest Bookstore (10% off for Ragdale Residents) 662 N. Western Ave

Lake Forest Metra Station Lake Forest Library

History 1897 Chicago Architect Howard Van Doren Shaw designed and built the American Arts and Crafts style Ragdale House as a summer retreat for his family. 1912 Shaw built the Ragdale Ring, the outdoor theater where the family and their friends staged plays for the Lake Forest community through the 1930s. Carl Sandburg and Vachel Lindsay were friends of the Shaws and are said to have attended plays at the Ragdale Ring. 1943 The Meadow Studio was built on the prairie as a sculpture studio for Shaw’s daughter Sylvia Shaw Judson. Her most famous sculpture is the Bird Girl, which was feature on the cover of the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. 1976 Shaw’s granddaughter, poet Alice Judson Hayes, founded the Ragdale Foundation, a nonprofit artists’ community, providing a peaceful place for artists to work. 1980 The Foundation acquired the Ragdale Barnhouse from the Preston family, who had remodeled it in the 1950s. The addition of the Barnhouse made it possible for Ragdale to house twelve artists and writers at a time. Both the Barnhouse and the Ragdale House were added to the National Register of Historic Places. 1986 Alice Judson Hayes donated the buildings and the five-acre grounds to the City of Lake Forest, preserving the Ragdale property. 1991 The Friends Studio was constructed, providing live/work spaces for visual artists, dancers and composers. This large, well-lit space also functions as a place for performances and exhibitions. 2001 The Ragdale Foundation Board and Executive Director Susan Tillett secure a 99-year lease with the City of Lake Forest, ensuring Ragdale’s long-term future as a thriving artists’ community and asset of Lake Forest. 2005 Ragdale completed a $4.5 million capital campaign, which funded the renovation of the Barnhouse, upgrade of artist facilities, the restoration of Shaw’s landscape, and built a $2.5 million endowment. 2006 The Ragdale Foundation celebrates its 30th Anniversary. Highlights include a spring Ragdale Preview Day with free tours and open studios, a fall Family Day, and a 30th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, opening in November 2006. 2007-08 Meadow studio designed and built by IIT Architecture Students. 2011 Renovation of the Ragdale House.

Ragdale Family Tree Theodore A. Shaw

Sarah van Doren | painter (1845-1918)

(1836-1906)

Howard Van Doren Shaw | architect m.

Frances Wells | poet/playwright

(1869-1926)

Evelyn Shaw (1893-1977) m. John T. McCutcheon | cartoonist (1870-1949)

(1872-1937)

Sylvia Shaw | sculptor

Theodora Shaw | weaver

(1897-1978)

(1912-1996)

m. m. John Lord King | architect (1) Clay Judson (1892-1960) (1909-1966) (2) Sidney Haskins (1893-1998)

John T. McCutcheon Jr. (1918-2008) Shaw McCutcheon (1921-)

Pamela King (1936-) John Lord King Jr. (1938-) David King (1941-)

George Barr McCutcheon (1927-2007)

m. Alice Clay Judson | writer (1922-2006) poet (1918-1992) (2) Albert McHarg Hayes activist (1) Edward Ryerson

Clay Judson Jr. (1926-1975)

(1909-2004)

Susan Moon | writer Francie Shaw | artist Nora Ryerson Mitch Ryerson | furniture designer, woodworker 13

Staff OFFICE: 847-234-1063 1260 GREEN BAY RD

JEFF MEEUWSEN EXT: 22 Executive Director jeff@ragdale.org

MARITA SEABERG EXT: 21 Executive Assistant marita@ragdale.org

AMY SINCLAIR EXT: 28 Grants & Admissions Manager amy@ragdale.org

EXT: 27 SHAWN WARD Finance Manager shawn@ragdale.org

REGIN IGLORIA EXT: 26 Ragdale in Schools Manager regin@ragdale.org

LINDA WILLIAMS Chef linda@ragdale.org

EXT: 23 JACK DANCH Director of Property jack@ragdale.org

MARTHA QUINTANILLA Housekeeping Assistant martha@ragdale.org

STEPHANIE KASHETA Resident Liaison stephaniepkutner@gmail.com

Office Services

PRINTING OFFICE (10am-5pm) 1. Wifi connect (any file type) NETWORK: DIRECTPFKM4AAC41 PASSWORD: drGPwNOk LAURA KRAMER EXT: 24 Donor Relations Manager laura@ragdale.org

2. Flashdrive (pdf only) 3. Email document to staff member

HOUSE & BARNHOUSE: Printers are available 24/7 in the computer closets. Print from flash drive or log into your email. (b&w, A4 only)

BORROW EQUIPMENT We have a variety of equipment available to residents to borrow. If you are interested in any of the equipment on this list, please see stop by the office to see a staff member for assistance. If tools are needed for studio work, residents may obtain special permission to use tools in the Ragdale garage. If you require this, please see Jack, the Ragdale Property Manager. DAVID RODRIGUEZ Maintenance Assistant david@ragdale.org

Office Supplies

A/V Equipment

Stamps Packing tape Sticky notes Stapler/paper clips + other standard office supplies

Projector Tripod Speaker

Recreation Yoga mats Bikes Bike locks Helmets Lanterns Croquet set

EQUITY AND INCLUSION STATEMENT We believe: • Everyone deserves equal access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society. • Cultural equity is critical to the long-term viability of the arts sector. • Inequity and injustice occur when individuals have unequal access to resources. • We must all continually hold ourselves accountable, because acknowledging and challenging our inequities is how we can effect change. • Artists, their art, their process, and the organizations they create and support play an essential role in witnessing, demonstrating, and providing inspiration to resolve societal inequity and injustice.

We strive: • To create a culture of equity by ensuring that all people—including but not limited to those who have been historically underrepresented based on race/ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography, citizenship status, or religion—are represented in the development of Ragdale’s policies; its support of artists; the nurturing of accessible, thriving venues for expression; and the fair distribution of programmatic, financial, and informational resources. • To pursue cultural consciousness throughout our organization through substantive learning, transparent policies, and consistent evaluation. • To commit time and resources to expand more diverse leadership within our board, staff, and advisory bodies. • To acknowledge and dismantle inequities and barriers to entry within our policies, systems, programs, and services. • To establish and nurture programs and policies that engage the full breadth of society.

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