Naima

Univ Of Chicago Lab Sch, Attended 1985 - 1997, Class of 1997

University of Chicago Lab Schools, Oberlin College, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Attended 2005 - 2006, Class of 2006, Other, Paining, fools
Oberlin College, Attended 1997 - 2002, Class of 2002, Bachelor's Degree, Studo Art

Artist/Teaching Assistant/ Art Teacher

me on Myspace: myspace.com/79neems or something like that... Bubba's best buddy was bingo the bear. Bubba was Bingo's best friend. They both live together on Blueberry Lane, picking Blueberries in sun and in rain (i am forever singing kids song...)

I'm into creating a place where ideas can hang out and do WHATEVER! Also, painting/collaging/splattering/drawing/sewing, The welfare of the African Diaspora, Animals, Sci-Fi /fantasy/Elves and Faeries: nerdy crap, Social/Political issues, Hatin' on the government, legos, kittens, tall girl jeans (i'm 6'1"), FOOD

(i piss myself over) Roald Dahl, Harry Potter, e.e. cummings, Kurt Vonnegut, Eragon/Eldest, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hunter S. Thompson, Faeries By Brian Froud and Alen Lee, ANYTHING Alice Walker (the color purple....) elfquest, some x-men comics, A Rasin In The Sun, A Series of Unfortunate events (GREAT art in this book, too) To Kill a Mockingbird (still makes me get all emotional), Patricia Polaco (an amazing childre's book writer and illustrator) Ramona Quimby Books, Calvin and Hobbes, Jamica Kinkaid, Kindred, J.D. Salinger, Richard Wright, BELOVED!! PHLLIP PULLMAN, '? n bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb (there is a cat on the keyboard!!!)

City of God, Wayne's World, David Lynch, Dancer in the Dark (though i have never, EVER cried like that at a movie...AND i felt nauseous...) Kirasawa, Blue Planet, All Jim Jarmusch movies (Did i spell that right?) One Flew Over the Kuckoo's Nest, Antwone Fisher, 28 Days Later, ALL JOHNNY DEPP MOVIES! Being John Malcovich, Adaptation, The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Hamlet (Mel Gibson and Ethan Hawke), Zoolander, Harry Potter, LOTR, VELVET GOLDMINE, X-men, Amele, ANY Tom Tykwer movie (Run Lola Run), Do the Right Thing, X, TEEN WOLF (ill be Styles for halloween if you be TW), This Is Spinal Tap, Beloved (minus Oprah), 80s teen movies/Brat pack movies/ movies starring a "Corey"

BJORK, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastian, Shudder to Think, Tortise, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs!!!, Le Tigre, The Kinks, The Coup, Missy Elliot, David Bowie, P*E*A*C*H*E*S!!!! (she is so DIRTAY and FABULOUS!), Veruca Salt, Nirvana, BECK, Elliot Smith, Air, Morcheeba, THE SHINS, Blackalicious, Echo and the Bunnymen, Brian Eno, Jurassic 5, Old Non-Queballa pre-sellout Madonna (though her new album is pretty ok...), Liz Phair (again presellout style)...i always feel like my music list reads like a top 40 list...i am lame. someone make me a mix!!!!!

i watch too much tv...PLANET EARTH may well be the best nature show so far, Queer as Folk, Dr. Who (the new one) Nature, Animal Cops, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Da Ali G Show, Tavis Smiley, AquaTeen Hunger Force ("I Am the Wisdom Cube!") Law and Order, Blossom, In Living Color, Project Runway, The Cosby Show, A Different World, Seinfeld, Pee-Wee's Playhouse!!! the Simpsons, America's Next Top Model (I Won!), THE OFFICE, both brit and u.s.and a.) Will and Grace, Family Guy, Coupling

Virgo

things i like:
african anteaters, bread, cadmium red medium, deep sea creatures, egrets, frida ,"Goodnight Gorilla" (children's book), hidden treasures, internal workings, "jumanji (children's book), kittens, lefty politics, my mommy, nutella!, "outside over there" (children's book), "Pinduli" (book), quarries, rose goauche, stegosaurus, tidepools, underwear, vintage stores, wayne's world, x-men comics, "yertle the turtle", the zoo!

I am looking for a dude who has intelligent thoughts. a noticing things (rabbits in millenium park, constellations, magic on the el, etc.) kind of dude. want to go eat on a date?