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My time at Goldsholl Design and Film Notes for an interview on the Goldsholls by Byron Grush My Background I had studied Graphic Design at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and went onto graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where I became the first graduate with a degree that read “Photography/Filmmaking.” I studied there under the famous avant-garde filmmaker, Gregory Markopolous. How that led to my joining Goldsholl & Associates I was studying art at a time (the sixties) when Pop Art was very big. In graphic design the big names were Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Charles and Ray Eames(who also did films), and basically anyone from the post-Bau Haus era who, like Mort and Millie, had studied with Lazlo Maholy-Nagy. So it was a transition from the 1930s Bau Haus and Russian Constructivism sensibilities into the psychedelic, experimental, new media-is-the-message attitudes. Film was a big part of this. So when I got my
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Designers in Film: Films by the Goldsholls and Company Friday, October 12, 2018 7:00 PM  FREE In their advertising and personal films like  Night Driving  (1957), Morton and Millie Goldsholl devised exciting and adventurous forms of image-making—as did their employees and collaborators. This program surveys some of the Goldsholls’ most dazzling shorts, along with underseen works by Goldsholl Studio members like Wayne Boyer, Larry Janiak, and Byron Grush . Exhibition curator Amy Beste will join Boyer, Grush, Paul Jessel and Marie Cenkner to talk about their films, their experiences with the Goldsholls, and their place at the cutting edge of experimental screen culture in Chicago. Northwestern University Block Museum of Art  |  40 Arts Circle Drive  |  Evanston, IL  |  60208-2140 Phone: 847.491.4000  |  Fax: 847.491.2261  |  Email:  block-museum@northwestern.edu