A memorial service will be held on Thursday, October 18 at 11 am at the Episcopal Church of the Atonement. 5749 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago. Internment at Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers donations would be welcomed for The Glessner House Museum or the Treehouse Animal Shelter.
Jessica was born into a family of artists and teachers. Father taught Social Studies at Harrison High School, and later in High Scholl district 214 for 38 years. Mother Jane taught English at West Leyden and Westinghouse High Schools as well as Oakton Community College
Parents were both docents at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. (CAF) Bill researched and organized tours of Rosehill Cemetery and Oakwoods Cemeteries.
Her childhood birthdays were celebrated at the John Glessner house at a birthday party for Architect Henry Hobson Richardson (His birthday was Sept 29)
Another birthday party inaugurated the CAF Children’s Tour “Put Your Arms Around a Building” with birthday cake on the First National Bank plaza by the Chagall Wall.
Jessica attended Walt Disney Magnet School, Roycemore High School where she painted a mural as one of her art class project. She attended Hartford College of Art in Hartford, CT, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northeastern University in Chicago.
Her first job was Sunday tour center manager at the John Glessner House in Chicago. She also worked as receptionist and documents clerk at the American Institute of Architects Chicago and as an in home assistant for the Jewish Council for the Elderly.
Jessica was an artist working primarily in woodcuts, but she also did sculpture as well as painting on furniture, and household items. She spent much of her life organizing exhibitions to feature new artists in Chicago. • First project was recruiting more than 25 artists to do paintings on the floor of the new High Risk Art Gallery on Belmont. This catering facility hosted weddings and other gatherings as well as a neighborhood Christmas Event which was attended by the then Senatorial Candidate Barak Obama and his family. Mr. Obama was on the program reading Christmas stories to the children. • She organized a gallery in the ground level of the Lake Point Tower building which featured the work of more than 50 local artists . • She worked with the Edgewater neighborhood Artists to put paintings in empty store fronts and to participate in the Annual Edgewater Artists in Motion art fair, with a special section for Children’s art. • She helped to recruit artists for a show in a baseball practice facility in Evanston. • With artists Rob Mc Quillen and Marcie Kennedy Anderson she formed a not for profit corporation called Random Acts of Gallery whose mission was to allow artists to exhibit their work in low cost spaces and to highlight the possibilities of vacant storefronts in the Edgewater area. • Jessica created all of the flower arrangements for her sister Becky’s wedding to Rob Ryder. • She formed a small company to organize art shows with various themes. The first was “Working Cats” which was held at the Empirical Brewery on Foster Avenue with proceeds donated to Treehouse. • Jessica organized, and exhibit called Domicile at the Glessner House on Prairie Avenue which contained works representing interior and exterior home spaces. A portion of sales was donated to the Glessner House.
Jessica had many. Interests including art, architecture, Shaker history and architecture, Day of the Dead art, movies, dolls. She was an avid supporter of Barak Obama She was also a great reader of science fiction and fantasy. Star Wars was another great interest but most of all she loved her nephew Matthew Ryder and played with him since his birth in 2013. Jessica is survived by her parents Jane and Bill Lucas, her sister Rebecca Lucas Ryder, brother in law Robert G. Ryder and nephew Matthew Ryder and her three cats, Kermit, Kukla and Sadie. Jessica was an organ donor.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, October 18 at 11 am at the Episcopal Church of the Atonement. 5749 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago. Internment at Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum.
Jessica was born into a family of artists and teachers. Father taught Social Studies at Harrison High School, and later in High Scholl district 214 for 38 years. Mother Jane taught English at West Leyden and Westinghouse High Schools as well as Oakton Community College
Parents were both docents at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. (CAF) Bill researched and organized tours of Rosehill Cemetery and Oakwoods Cemeteries.
Her childhood birthdays were celebrated at the John Glessner house at a birthday party for Architect Henry Hobson Richardson (His birthday was Sept 29)
Another birthday party inaugurated the CAF Children’s Tour “Put Your Arms Around a Building” with birthday cake on the First National Bank plaza by the Chagall Wall.
Jessica attended Walt Disney Magnet School, Roycemore High School where she painted a mural as one of her art class project. She attended Hartford College of Art in Hartford, CT, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northeastern University in Chicago.
Her first job was Sunday tour center manager at the John Glessner House in Chicago. She also worked as receptionist and documents clerk at the American Institute of Architects Chicago and as an in home assistant for the Jewish Council for the Elderly.
Jessica was an artist working primarily in woodcuts, but she also did sculpture as well as painting on furniture, and household items. She spent much of her life organizing exhibitions to feature new artists in Chicago. • First project was recruiting more than 25 artists to do paintings on the floor of the new High Risk Art Gallery on Belmont. This catering facility hosted weddings and other gatherings as well as a neighborhood Christmas Event which was attended by the then Senatorial Candidate Barak Obama and his family. Mr. Obama was on the program reading Christmas stories to the children. • She organized a gallery in the ground level of the Lake Point Tower building which featured the work of more than 50 local artists . • She worked with the Edgewater neighborhood Artists to put paintings in empty store fronts and to participate in the Annual Edgewater Artists in Motion art fair, with a special section for Children’s art. • She helped to recruit artists for a show in a baseball practice facility in Evanston. • With artists Rob Mc Quillen and Marcie Kennedy Anderson she formed a not for profit corporation called Random Acts of Gallery whose mission was to allow artists to exhibit their work in low cost spaces and to highlight the possibilities of vacant storefronts in the Edgewater area. • Jessica created all of the flower arrangements for her sister Becky’s wedding to Rob Ryder. • She formed a small company to organize art shows with various themes. The first was “Working Cats” which was held at the Empirical Brewery on Foster Avenue with proceeds donated to Treehouse. • Jessica organized, and exhibit called Domicile at the Glessner House on Prairie Avenue which contained works representing interior and exterior home spaces. A portion of sales was donated to the Glessner House.
Jessica had many. Interests including art, architecture, Shaker history and architecture, Day of the Dead art, movies, dolls. She was an avid supporter of Barak Obama She was also a great reader of science fiction and fantasy. Star Wars was another great interest but most of all she loved her nephew Matthew Ryder and played with him since his birth in 2013. Jessica is survived by her parents Jane and Bill Lucas, her sister Rebecca Lucas Ryder, brother in law Robert G. Ryder and nephew Matthew Ryder and her three cats, Kermit, Kukla and Sadie. Jessica was an organ donor.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, October 18 at 11 am at the Episcopal Church of the Atonement. 5749 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago. Internment at Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, October 18 at 11 am at the Episcopal Church of the Atonement. 5749 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago. Internment at Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers donations would be welcomed for The Glessner House Museum or the Treehouse Animal Shelter.
Jessica was born into a family of artists and teachers. Father taught Social Studies at Harrison High School, and later in High Scholl district 214 for 38 years. Mother Jane taught English at West Leyden and Westinghouse High Schools as well as Oakton Community College
Parents were both docents at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. (CAF) Bill researched and organized tours of Rosehill Cemetery and Oakwoods Cemeteries.
Her childhood birthdays were celebrated at the John Glessner house at a birthday party for Architect Henry Hobson Richardson (His birthday was Sept 29)
Another birthday party inaugurated the CAF Children’s Tour “Put Your Arms Around a Building” with birthday cake on the First National Bank plaza by the Chagall Wall.
Jessica attended Walt Disney Magnet School, Roycemore High School where she painted a mural as one of her art class project. She attended Hartford College of Art in Hartford, CT, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northeastern University in Chicago.
Her first job was Sunday tour center manager at the John Glessner House in Chicago. She also worked as receptionist and documents clerk at the American Institute of Architects Chicago and as an in home assistant for the Jewish Council for the Elderly.
Jessica was an artist working primarily in woodcuts, but she also did sculpture as well as painting on furniture, and household items. She spent much of her life organizing exhibitions to feature new artists in Chicago. • First project was recruiting more than 25 artists to do paintings on the floor of the new High Risk Art Gallery on Belmont. This catering facility hosted weddings and other gatherings as well as a neighborhood Christmas Event which was attended by the then Senatorial Candidate Barak Obama and his family. Mr. Obama was on the program reading Christmas stories to the children. • She organized a gallery in the ground level of the Lake Point Tower building which featured the work of more than 50 local artists . • She worked with the Edgewater neighborhood Artists to put paintings in empty store fronts and to participate in the Annual Edgewater Artists in Motion art fair, with a special section for Children’s art. • She helped to recruit artists for a show in a baseball practice facility in Evanston. • With artists Rob Mc Quillen and Marcie Kennedy Anderson she formed a not for profit corporation called Random Acts of Gallery whose mission was to allow artists to exhibit their work in low cost spaces and to highlight the possibilities of vacant storefronts in the Edgewater area. • Jessica created all of the flower arrangements for her sister Becky’s wedding to Rob Ryder. • She formed a small company to organize art shows with various themes. The first was “Working Cats” which was held at the Empirical Brewery on Foster Avenue with proceeds donated to Treehouse. • Jessica organized, and exhibit called Domicile at the Glessner House on Prairie Avenue which contained works representing interior and exterior home spaces. A portion of sales was donated to the Glessner House.
Jessica had many. Interests including art, architecture, Shaker history and architecture, Day of the Dead art, movies, dolls. She was an avid supporter of Barak Obama She was also a great reader of science fiction and fantasy. Star Wars was another great interest but most of all she loved her nephew Matthew Ryder and played with him since his birth in 2013. Jessica is survived by her parents Jane and Bill Lucas, her sister Rebecca Lucas Ryder, brother in law Robert G. Ryder and nephew Matthew Ryder and her three cats, Kermit, Kukla and Sadie. Jessica was an organ donor.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, October 18 at 11 am at the Episcopal Church of the Atonement. 5749 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago. Internment at Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum.
Jessica was born into a family of artists and teachers. Father taught Social Studies at Harrison High School, and later in High Scholl district 214 for 38 years. Mother Jane taught English at West Leyden and Westinghouse High Schools as well as Oakton Community College
Parents were both docents at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. (CAF) Bill researched and organized tours of Rosehill Cemetery and Oakwoods Cemeteries.
Her childhood birthdays were celebrated at the John Glessner house at a birthday party for Architect Henry Hobson Richardson (His birthday was Sept 29)
Another birthday party inaugurated the CAF Children’s Tour “Put Your Arms Around a Building” with birthday cake on the First National Bank plaza by the Chagall Wall.
Jessica attended Walt Disney Magnet School, Roycemore High School where she painted a mural as one of her art class project. She attended Hartford College of Art in Hartford, CT, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northeastern University in Chicago.
Her first job was Sunday tour center manager at the John Glessner House in Chicago. She also worked as receptionist and documents clerk at the American Institute of Architects Chicago and as an in home assistant for the Jewish Council for the Elderly.
Jessica was an artist working primarily in woodcuts, but she also did sculpture as well as painting on furniture, and household items. She spent much of her life organizing exhibitions to feature new artists in Chicago. • First project was recruiting more than 25 artists to do paintings on the floor of the new High Risk Art Gallery on Belmont. This catering facility hosted weddings and other gatherings as well as a neighborhood Christmas Event which was attended by the then Senatorial Candidate Barak Obama and his family. Mr. Obama was on the program reading Christmas stories to the children. • She organized a gallery in the ground level of the Lake Point Tower building which featured the work of more than 50 local artists . • She worked with the Edgewater neighborhood Artists to put paintings in empty store fronts and to participate in the Annual Edgewater Artists in Motion art fair, with a special section for Children’s art. • She helped to recruit artists for a show in a baseball practice facility in Evanston. • With artists Rob Mc Quillen and Marcie Kennedy Anderson she formed a not for profit corporation called Random Acts of Gallery whose mission was to allow artists to exhibit their work in low cost spaces and to highlight the possibilities of vacant storefronts in the Edgewater area. • Jessica created all of the flower arrangements for her sister Becky’s wedding to Rob Ryder. • She formed a small company to organize art shows with various themes. The first was “Working Cats” which was held at the Empirical Brewery on Foster Avenue with proceeds donated to Treehouse. • Jessica organized, and exhibit called Domicile at the Glessner House on Prairie Avenue which contained works representing interior and exterior home spaces. A portion of sales was donated to the Glessner House.
Jessica had many. Interests including art, architecture, Shaker history and architecture, Day of the Dead art, movies, dolls. She was an avid supporter of Barak Obama She was also a great reader of science fiction and fantasy. Star Wars was another great interest but most of all she loved her nephew Matthew Ryder and played with him since his birth in 2013. Jessica is survived by her parents Jane and Bill Lucas, her sister Rebecca Lucas Ryder, brother in law Robert G. Ryder and nephew Matthew Ryder and her three cats, Kermit, Kukla and Sadie. Jessica was an organ donor.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, October 18 at 11 am at the Episcopal Church of the Atonement. 5749 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago. Internment at Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum.
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