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Artists Nadine Nakanishi, left, and her husband Nick Butcher own Sonnenzimmer, a print shop\/studio in Chicago where they produce posters, books, catalogues, prints and other graphic art.<\/p><\/div>\n

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If You Go<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What:<\/strong> Caf\u00e9 Avatar exhibition by Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, part of the Diane Marek Visiting Artist Series<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> Cress Gallery in the UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine St.<\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> Through Nov. 3<\/p>\n

Gallery hours:<\/strong> 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; 1-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; closed holidays.<\/p>\n

Admission<\/strong>: Free and open to the public<\/p>\n

Information:<\/strong> www.cressgallery.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nick Butcher was deejaying, pumping out the jams. But strangely\u2014or probably not so strangely\u2014people weren\u2019t paying attention.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t all that surprised. Who would expect customers in a Whole Foods Market just outside Chicago to get down with their bad selves? \u00a0He figures customers paid attention to the music for \u201cat most, three seconds,\u201d had a moment of \u201cWhat the\u2026?\u201d, then went back shopping without a backward glance.<\/p>\n

Still, Butcher had no problem with the gig.<\/p>\n

A graphic artist by trade and musician by love, Butcher took the grocery job\u2014\u201ccheck your ego at the door,\u201d he says\u2014to make some cash. \u201cI was like, \u2018Great. I got $200,\u2019\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n

Taking any job that pays is what you sometimes must to do when you\u2019re making a living\u2014or trying to\u2014as an artist.<\/p>\n

Butcher and his wife, Nadine Nakanishi, offered such insights and advice this week during sessions in UTC\u2019s Cress Gallery. In front of a group of about 50 students on Wednesday afternoon, they discussed \u201cProfessionalism.\u201d Over about an hour, they basically laid open their lives as graphic designers in Chicago. As visiting artists in the Diane Marek series, they were here not only for their exhibition, titled Caf\u00e9 Avatar, but to expose art majors to the realities of being an artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s get dirty,\u201d Nakanishi says at the start of the discussion.<\/p>\n

The couple have been pursuing careers as fulltime artists for more than a decade, starting off making posters for bands, clubs and local concerts (music is the reason they moved to Chicago in the first place, they say). From there, they opened their own print shop\u2014named Sonnenzimmer, German for \u201csunroom\u201d\u2014and, while sticking posters, they expanded into catalogs, books, exhibitions, artwork and prints, textiles and, yes, live performances mixing music and art.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are the people that have a business plan and are very thoughtful and thorough and can make that happen,\u201d Nakanishi says. \u201cFor us, it\u2019s been a really good measure to be totally na\u00efve and stupid and just figure it out as you\u2019re drowning or swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe swam a lot. We still swim quite a bit,\u201d Butcher adds.<\/p>\n

Even after years in the business, there are times when money is tight, they say, something you must accept if you\u2019re going to be an artist out in the real world. That means not only taking any art job that comes your way when you\u2019re just starting out, but keeping part-time jobs such as house painting or bartending or teaching\u2014or gigging at Whole Foods\u2014to pay the bills until you can concentrate only on the art.<\/p>\n

To make ends meet, they lived in a 950-square-foot studio basement apartment with $950 monthly rent for 12 years, Nakanishi says, only moving out about 18 months ago. So face it, she tells the students, at the first of every month you\u2019ll have to pay rent and utilities and buy food\u2014all the things that life demands. And if you have a studio, its rent will have to be squeezed in, too. In the end, you\u2019ll have to fit your art into those realities, she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s kind of where you\u2019re going to have to integrate your art practice in,\u201d she explains. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not just being fiscally responsible, that\u2019s being an artist if you say failure is not an option.\u201d<\/p>\n

One student asks whether the couple ever did work for free just to get the exposure, a common situation in the graphic-art world, but one that \u201cis a point of contention with a lot of professionals,\u201d Butcher says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have worked for free many times,\u201d he says, mostly by printing posters for local bands to promote their shows. But for the couple, it worked out because they forged relationships with the bands, the promoters and the venues and those connections brought back paying work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s speculative more than free,\u201d Nakanishi adds.<\/p>\n

But even when paying work became more reliable, more stable, they didn\u2019t quit taking small jobs, seeing them as a continuous marketing campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just make a lot of stuff and that becomes its own sort of business card,\u201d Butcher says. \u201cWe churned out a lot of work, didn\u2019t say \u2018No\u2019 to anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the hour-long discussion, Butcher says he and his wife often talk to university students about the realities of being a fulltime artist. Diving into that life is \u201cscary for everybody,\u201d he acknowledges.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels very opaque from the outside and it remains opaque once you get on the other side,\u201d he says. \u201cI think what we try to instill is: You just have to do it. There\u2019s no secret knowledge. We say all the time: There\u2019s no model that you can to follow. You\u2019ve got to establish it for yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

But if art is your passion and the career you feel you must pursue, keep plugging along and don\u2019t give up hope, Nakanishi says<\/p>\n

\u201cThe beauty of a graphic art studio or a print studio or any of the other workshops is you can piece together an income and that\u2019s really important as an artist \u2026 between teaching, part-time jobs, bartending, typesetting, illustrations. It\u2019s all fair game if you can keep finding that path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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