| My name is Rajean Gallagher. (Or, if you are from the olde country- Rajean Maurie O'Gallobhair.) If you are interested in a resume, it's here. By training I am an Artist. My current preferred mediums --though they are all equal in importance to me- are painting, drawing and sculpture. I also write a little bit of poetry now and again. It is at Chapbook. I graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts from University of Illinois at Springfield. Education in all of its forms is important to me. As an AmeriCorps member I was a GED instructor in South Chicago at the MLK Center on South Cottage Grove. I also home-schooled my two children for several years while attending college. Some of my other interests include ethnobiology, language, bioethics, genealogy, United States and Medieval European history. I enjoy music a lot- Blues, Metal, Bluegrass, Swing & Big Band are among my favorite styles. Organic gardening and any other aspect of the natural environment delights me endlessly. I enjoy camping, back-packing, biking and traveling. I administer genealogy boards through Rootsweb- Yoakum and Laurik, helping to contribute to the free sharing of genealogy information online, and I do other volunteer work wherever I am needed. My online papers include: Cats are Like Women , where I applied Aida Hurtado's reflexive theory to the John Gray series of self-help books. Additionally, I have a paper on the relationship of self/artists and women to American society as shown through the role of women in Jazz in the 1930's & 1940's. It's called Artists, Jazz and Gender. An interview I did for the Sleepy Weasel (the campus literary forum for Springfield College in Illinois) is online. Two of my poems were published in the University of Illinois literary publication the Alchemist Review in 2006 and can be read online. If you have any questions of just want to drop a line saying hello, please do! ~Rajean |
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