Maze of the Week #85 - Chicago Theatre Sign Maze

Maze of the Week #85 is a sign maze of the Chicago Theatre. Built in 1921, this famous theatre continues to operate and hosts all types of performing arts performances. It is located in the Loop area of Chicago and is a part of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. And of course it has a famous, great looking sign which interested me.

If you plan on visiting here is their website !

YouTube: You just need 40 seconds to watch this one!

Photo: flickr, jphilipg

flickr, jphilipg

The Maze: I went with a full color sign while adding the details of surrounding buildings in black and white. I put the maze in the gold colored border around the sign with the Start and Goal at the bottom. I really like the structure and hope you do too ! And I left out the corporate branding on top.

Chicago Theatre Sign Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Maze download is available on the homepage. Check out my YouTube channel where you can watch this maze be made and solved !!!

Coming next week:

A totem maze.

Relax4life, a Holistic Education Center

I make maze art and draw labyrinths and write about all things related to both. Today I want to tell you about Relax 4 Life, a holistic education center started in 1998 and located in Barrington, Illinois that features multiple walking labyrinths on site for healing and meditation. I stumbled upon it during a search and I am very impressed with their website and suggest you check it out if any of these topics interest you. Hopefully I can visit someday for a workshop !

• Finger Labyrinths - they sell plastic finger labyrinths including their unique double labyrinth design ! They also sell a variety of other labyrinth themed products like a table, blanket and some books.

• Labyrinth Resources - my favorite part of the site, it features over a dozen pdf downloads about labyrinths that anyone could enjoy. Here are the titles to some of my favorites to give you an idea:

  • Information, Ideas & Activities with Labyrinths booklet (25 pages of great information!)

  • Labyrinth Activities For Individuals

  • Labyrinth Activities For Groups

  • Download Paper Finger Labyrinth designs (8 different)

• Workshops - all fit the theme of the holistic center and they change often with a lot of variety. If you are near Illinois check this out - there may be something for you !

• Reiki Training - they offer 4 different styles of workshops

• Pickleball Coaching - Because we could all play a bit better, am I right ?

Maze of the Week #84 - Riverside Museum Maze

Maze of the Week #84 is of the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, our first maze from Scotland. Would you believe that this museum is located on a riverside ? It is, the River Clyde. It is a transport museum designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. It is also not the first maze I have made from these architects:

Maze of the Week #54 - Heydar Aliyev Center

The building opened in 2011 and in 2013 it won the prestigious European Museum of the Year Award. You can learn more about the museum here.

YouTube: From the video and everything I have learned about the museum, personally, this is a place that I want to visit !

Photo: flickr, Ian Dick

flickr, Ian Dick - Riverside Museum

The Maze: In color. Very easy and I made it quickly because of the simple, minimalistic design.

Kresge Auditorium Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Maze download is available on the homepage. Please check out my YouTube channel where you can watch this maze being made and solved!!

Coming next week:

A sign maze

10 Places Where you can Buy Spectacular Maze Art

I am always looking for interesting maze art. Someday I hope to open a museum dedicated to mazes and this feels like research for me. Below you will find 1o different sites where you can find all types of maze and labyrinth art from around the world. I have highlighted some particular artists and pieces that caught my eye, but because some of these are originals I needed to be more general in my linking. Nothing worse than praising a piece of artwork and then having a broken link !

Here are 10 sites I recommend for buying maze art :

In alphabetical order:

• Art.com - they own the keyword for buying art. But, how do they do on maze and labyrinth art ? A miss. I did not find anything interesting on the site with those searches.

• Artfinder - has over 100,000 artists and 1 million pieces of art on its platform.

  • Seguto - Has lots of pop culture pieces, but delves into colorful mazes a few times like here, here, and here.

• ArtPal - the site advertises that it has over 244K artists on the site. Does it have maze art ? It does ! Here are my 4 favorite. You can find a few other pieces here and there with a search.

  • HandDrawnMazes has some wonderful scenes that include either boats/shore or classic cars like the VW beetle.

  • Jenna Marotta plays around with mazes drawn over colorful backgrounds

  • The Artist MSG has some wonderful mazes of animals.

  • Doug (Doug091478) has 2 hand drawn doodle mazes

• Artsy - they are the world’s largest online seller of fine art with over 1 million pieces of artwork from 100K artists. Because it is fine art the prices are higher than normal (for me). A simple search for “maze” on the site gave me a lot of results (800+ at the time) but after going through 10 pages I gave up looking for interesting pieces. “Labyrinth”, however gave some interesting results ! Fine art means the inventory changes as things are sold/listed for sale since these are often one of a kind pieces !

  • Michael Voss - has a few labyrinth titled pieces for sale.

  • Ted Lawson - currently has 2 large “white labyrinth’” pieces for sale that I love. If I had a maze art museum I would want one for it !

• Etsy - I assume you know the site. The best part about it is you can buy all types of products like jewelry, prints, games, and clothing. Because these items change very often here are my 3 favorite searches:

  • Maze Jewelry - Lots of Native American items.

  • Wooden Labyrinths - For playing games or spiritual meditation.

  • Maze Games - Puzzles, paper mazes, marble mazes and so much more.

• Fine Art America - What i really like about this site is the search engine. Typing in mazes gets you many results that I found interesting

  • The New Yorker Covers (4 different)

  • 1x Maze Images - a collection of artwork from many different artists, all maze themed

  • Conde Nast - this collection includes The New Yorker covers but also a couple dozen maze themed cartoons that are fun !

• Saatchi Art - Features over 47K original artworks from artists from all over the world. I found a lot of 1 off maze and labyrinth pieces but no dedicated artist during my searches.

  • Marcia Raff - Specifically her excellent bronze sculpture of a labyrinth made out of a guitar !

• society6 - 450K+ artists from 170+ countries.

  • Sean C Jackson - This is where you can buy prints of his work

  • Mini Marshmallow Print - Big fan of this simple but fun print !

• Twobraids - features the maze art of K Lars Lohn. I suggest reading his story and artist statement, and then buy one of his many beautiful prints !

• UGallery - As of today there is no maze or labyrinth art…but I included it because items change on these sites often and a search here tomorrow will be different than today.

Good luck in your search ! I hope you find what you are looking for !

While you are here, check out some of my maze art !