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I
am a/an
American atheist
artist
business
owner
Chicagoan
cook
crafter
daughter
dice
collector
feminist
film
fanatic
freelancer
friend
girlfriend/partner/whatever
graphic
facilitator
Grinnell
alum
illustrator
information
designer
know-it-all
knowledge
worker
left-hander
Midwesterner
niece
omnivore
optimist
photographer
problem
solver
project
manager
public
library patron
public
transit rider
quilter
Rail
Barons player
rubber
stamp designer
scribe
seamstress
secret
biologist
sister
slob
teacher
teetotaler
twitterer
woman
Interests
20th-century art
abstract
expressionism
architecture
the
bean
bodies
of water
bright
colors
Charles
& Ray Eames
Chicago
Chicago
flag
cities
city
planning
collage
community
supported agriculture
cotton
critical
thinking
Daniel
Burnham's plan for Chicago
drawing
DVD
commentaries
Ed
Emberley
Ethiopian
food
exhibition
design
facebook
felt
Filmspotting
flickr
Fluxus
genmaicha
glittery
things
going
to the library
graphic
facilitation
green
livin'
Gunther,
meine Lieblingskatze
heist
movies
how
people move around buildings, cities, spaces
index
cards
information
design
integral theory
James
Bond movies
Johnnie
Ray
Joseph
Cornell
making
lists
making
new stuff out of old stuff
Mark
Kermode's film reviews
maps
mass transit
mint
iced tea
museums
octopuses
old
movies that are new to me
open-mindedness
organic
shapes
organizational
systems
pattern
printmaking
(print gocco, printing on fabric, stamping)
quilting
recycling
and reusing
semiotics
sewing
signage
simplicity
strange
little museums
succulents
sushi
symmetry
Tai
Chi
taking
baths
taxonomies
Thai
food
tin
things (muffin tins, recipe card boxes)
traveling
wandering
around new cities
water
aerobics
what
is post postmodernism?
world's
fairs
yoga
YouTube
favorites
Oh,
and things I don't like...
100
things about me
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Graphic
Facilitator and artist Brandy
Agerbeck thinks and draws for a living.
As a graphic
facilitator, Brandy creates conceptual maps of conversations.
Her images help clients navigate the complex territory of their
meetings, workshops, and conferences. She works in a large scale
format and in real time, visually synthesizing the discussions.
She loves getting
clients' ideas out of their heads and onto paper so they
can see what the heck they are saying. Spatial superstar, her
strength is seeing connections between thoughts and organizing
them into the bigger picture. Since 1996, she has facilitated
groups from two to one thousand in the biotechnology, consulting,
education, finance, food, medical, technology, transportation
and utilities industries.

Discussing
her graphic facilitation, Newark
Green Summit, 2008.
Brandy volunteers
within her professional community, the International
Forum of Visual Practitioners since 2000. She is a past
board member and currently coordinating speakers for the 2009
conference in Montreal. She developed training in the skills
of listening, organizing, synthesizing and drawing for those
entering the field. Her work has been published internationally
and can be seen at GraphicFacilitator.com.
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an artist, Brandy mixes drawing,
collage and silkscreening. In 1996, she earned her BA in
Studio Art from Grinnell
College with a focus on intaglio printmaking. Now she
creates small editions of silkscreens
with Print Gocco. In
collage, she loves making connections between scraps of
paper and composing them into the bigger picture. |
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She favors bright
colors and bold lines in both work and wardrobe.
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As
a crafter, Brandy used to make everything under the sun.
Now she tends to stick to sewing. In quilting,
she loves sewing together scraps of fabric and composing
them into the bigger picture. She also loves making various
soft characters.
She's a member of the Chicago
Craft Mafia.
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In the spring of
1999, Brandy launched Loosetooth.com
to document all of her work: art, craft, graphic facilitation,
digital photography and blogging. Since 2003, she has tracked
over two million visitors to her website.
Brandy loves living
in Chicago with a very handsome cat named Gunther.
She's very fond of an ethics professor who lives too far away.
She's watches many, many movies, especially enjoying spy and
heist flicks. She enjoys singing torchsongs loudly. Brandy hopes
you're enjoying her site.
Please contact
Brandy with comments or questions.
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