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Sergio Mayorais an artist, poet, singer-songwriter, and actor. The long-time bartender and host at Chicago's iconic Weeds Tavern, Sergio became well-known for creating his collage posters to promote the club. Commissioned by Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation to make a four-plate spirit box for Carlos Santana, his work has been shown at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the Citlalin Gallery Theater and the INTUIT (The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art) gallery in Chicago. Dave Hoekstrais a Chicago author-journalist. From 1985 through 2014, he was a columnist-critic at theChicago Sun-Times, where he won the 2013 Studs Terkel Community Media Award. He has contributed pieces totheChicago Reader,New City, andRaw Vision. He has written several books, includingBeacons in the Darkness: Hope and Transformation Among America's Community Newspapers,The Supper Club Book: A Celebration of a Midwest Tradition, andThe People's Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from The Civil Rights Era to Today. Dave wrote and co-produced the WTTW-Channel 11 PBS special, ""The Staple Singers and the Civil Rights Movement,"" nominated for a 200102 Chicago Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for a Documentary Program. He also wrote and co-produced the award-winning 2018 full-length documentary and companion bookThe Center of Nowhere: The Spirit and Sounds of Springfield, Missouri. Michael Shannon is an Academy Award-nominated actor. During his time performing on the stage in Chicago, he was a patron of Weeds Tavern.
“[Sergio's] posters were very interesting. It’s easy to make a collage but it’s hard to make a good collage. The posters are very vibrant. He creates this fantastical world that uses geometric shapes and primordial figures that are sometimes reminiscent of Chichen Itza. The shapes and compositions manage to meld the ancient world with the futuristic cosmic. His work captures my imagination.” -- Marla Donato, adjunct professor, Columbia College ""[The] book contains more than 40 posters that Mayora designed and created over the years. They are playful, striking, humorous and philosophical, forming a gallery of inventive, compelling and thought-provoking collages."" -- Chicago Tribune “That first time in Weeds, the thing that made the biggest impression on me besides the Mexican Sasquatch behind the bar was the posters.” -- Michael Shannon
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