Jenna Blazevich runs an independent and collaborative, multi-disciplinary studio called Vichcraft. Combining hand craft processes and tactile mediums with a digital design skill set, she strives to work right around the line between art and design to build a collection of activist-driven products. Her background in textiles and pattern-making continues to inform her approach as a graphic designer and feminist artist.
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Hilary Bovay is the production, fulfillment and admin associate at Yellowcake Shop. She is behind the efficiency, warmth, and personal touch of customer service, as well as maintaining everyday organization within Yellowcake. She’s also a freelance photographer and assists with creating visual content for Yellowcake.
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Geneva Boyett is a wedding photographer in Chicago. She and her husband live in a sun-filled apartment with their two cats where they spend their free time cooking yummy food and trying to spend as much time outside as possible. When she’s not shooting wedding work, she loves collaborating with small businesses and telling stories of how powerful community can be.
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Chelsea Chandler is a designer and the owner of Lady January, a studio helping passionate people build honest brands. She co-founded the Twice Nourished series as a way to share what she loves — design, food, and creating space for genuine conversation — with more women. Originally from Michigan, she spent the second half of her twenties in our nation's capital, but returned to the Midwest and now happily calls Chicago home.
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Sarah Crowley is an interiors, travel, and lifestyle photographer living in Chicago. Montreal-born, but with a soft spot for her Midwest upbringing, Sarah gravitates towards aspects of both small town and city life, documenting the moments in-between.
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Sara Gardner is a documentary and wedding photographer in central Illinois. She aims to tell the everyday stories of those around her who are wading through the waters of life — those who aim to leave this world just a bit better than when they entered it.
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Kylie Gotzfried is a creative director and photographer living in southeast Michigan. Kylie has run her lifestyle photography business for seven years and is now pursuing a career in creative and commercial photography. She loves northern Michigan farmers’ markets, her two dogs, and hammocking on Belle Isle.
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John Hanson is a photographer based in Detroit, Michigan. He is currently in production and finishing his first photography book Grandmothers of America in 2020 with fellow photographer Joseph Schultz. His work centers around nature, texture, and the analog process.
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Perry Haselden was born and raised in Michigan and moved to Chicago in 2012 after graduating from Central Michigan University with a journalism/advertising degree. She’s a photographer, writer, and music lover with a passion for everything creative.
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Bailey Jean is an herbalist who founded Wax and Wane Herbals while working as a barista in Chicago and foraging for chamomile under the train tracks in Logan Square.  She works intimately with taboo subjects like trauma, depression, and anxiety through her work with healing plants that much of the holistic health world has shunned. Her work is inspired by the healing capacity of weeds, community, and the depths of emotions.
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Kristin Joynt is the KJ of KJMade. As a former educator, hand-weaver, and now shoemaker; she believes that the product or result of her work should reflect her enjoyment of the process. Her shoes reflect her commitment to the idea that functional things should be simple, beautiful, and reflect the energy of the maker.
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Jill Koskelin is a documentary and lifestyle family photographer and graphic designer in Madison, Wisconsin. Her approach to providing authentic family photography is through storytelling with emotion and connection. She lives with her husband and three children in a 1930s home and deeply enjoys designing, music, poetry, and thrifting.
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Mandy Lancia is a lover of small business and connector of women. As the founder of The Glossary and co-founder of Twice Nourished, she spends her time connecting and collaborating with female entrepreneurs around the world.
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Tiffany Lucas is a Cleveland-based photographer specializing in wedding, portrait, commercial, and lifestyle photography. She enjoys working closely with local makers to create visual content that best tells their story.
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Valerie Mayén is the CEO, lead designer, fearless leader, and chief of awesome behind Yellowcake Shop. She is an award-winning, multi-talented artist, and one of the kindest souls you’ll ever meet. As a sustainable designer, she values that the clothing she creates is not only beautiful, but also purposefully functional.
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Amanda McLemore is a chef and sustainable food activist who cooks intentionally using sustainable ingredients sourced from her garden and from local farmers. She hosts clarifiedTV on YouTube, teaches online cooking courses, and creates nourishing notes in the journal to inspire others to eat, cook, and live minimally, mindfully, and sustainably.
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Suzanne Price is one half of Suzuran Photography — Cleveland based photographers focused on human connection. She lives on the shores of Lake Erie in a little black house with her husband, son, and two pups. Suzanne loves long, slow road trips, painting, and dog adoption stories.
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Ayaka Sano is a portrait and fashion photographer based in Chicago. Her style can be described as having a dreamy quality with creamy tones, with a focus on movement and textures.
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Joseph Schultz is a multifaceted artist based in Michigan, but recently located in LA. Working with others to tell stories and raising awareness, Joey has been using his photography as an instrument for social change. His portraits with strangers reveal delicate and rare moments that can only be captured in a space of trust between photographer and subject. His boldness and conversational skills are essential tools in his creative workflow.
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Jaclyn Simpson was born and raised in central Illinois. After living in Colorado for a stint she found her way back to the Midwest and is now living in Chicago. She is a lifestyle, editorial, and portrait photographer who is mildly obsessed with mid century design and finding the world's best tacos.
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Kassidy Sopko is a photographer and graphic designer born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She has a love for the fleeting moments captured within natural light and hopes to share her love for this talent with everyone offering affordable and beautiful content.
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Kaya Speagle is the owner and pastry chef at Hopscotch Bakery. She is a mother and small business owner making from-scratch a priority in a small, women-run bakery and market in Champaign, Illinois.
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Emily Stokes is an artist and professor living in northwest Iowa. She holds an MFA in printmaking from Arizona State University and a BA from Wellesley College.  Raised in Ohio and Michigan, she is a strong advocate for all things Midwest.
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Bekah Wriedt is a fashion, lifestyle, and editorial photographer based in Chicago. She loves empowering the small business owner, creating the stunning editorial for your newest campaign idea, or documenting the fashionable life you live.
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