Weeds Tavern

Poster Art by Sergio Mayora

Sergio Mayora, Dave Hoekstra, Michael Shannon

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Trope Publishing Co.
28 November 2023

Other graphic art forms; Poster art

Author Dave Hoekstra is a noted Chicago journalist and a personal friend of artist Sergio Mayora. He is uniquely positioned to tell this story. Foreword by award-winning actor Michael Shannon. A Chicago native, Shannon was a frequent visitor to Weeds Tavern and is a friend of Sergio Mayora. Weeds is a Chicago institution, serving a diverse crowd - people from the nearby Cabrini-Green projects as well as the tony Sandburg Village apartments, hillbillies and flight attendants. Actor John Cusack tended bar at Weeds and Jamie Lee Curtis once drank tequila there with Sergio.

By: Dave Hoekstra
Illustrated by: Sergio Mayora
Foreword by: Michael Shannon
Imprint: Trope Publishing Co.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 330mm, Width: 228mm,
ISBN: 9781951963194
ISBN 10: 1951963199
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 28 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Sergio Mayorais an artist, poet, singer-songwriter, and actor. The long-time bartender and host at Chicago's iconic Weeds Tavern, Sergio became well-known for creating his collage posters to promote the club. Commissioned by Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation to make a four-plate spirit box for Carlos Santana, his work has been shown at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the Citlalin Gallery Theater and the INTUIT (The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art) gallery in Chicago. Dave Hoekstrais a Chicago author-journalist. From 1985 through 2014, he was a columnist-critic at theChicago Sun-Times, where he won the 2013 Studs Terkel Community Media Award. He has contributed pieces totheChicago Reader,New City, andRaw Vision. He has written several books, includingBeacons in the Darkness: Hope and Transformation Among America's Community Newspapers,The Supper Club Book: A Celebration of a Midwest Tradition, andThe People's Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from The Civil Rights Era to Today. Dave wrote and co-produced the WTTW-Channel 11 PBS special, ""The Staple Singers and the Civil Rights Movement,"" nominated for a 200102 Chicago Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for a Documentary Program. He also wrote and co-produced the award-winning 2018 full-length documentary and companion bookThe Center of Nowhere: The Spirit and Sounds of Springfield, Missouri. Michael Shannon is an Academy Award-nominated actor. During his time performing on the stage in Chicago, he was a patron of Weeds Tavern."

Reviews for Weeds Tavern: Poster Art by Sergio Mayora

[Sergio's] posters were very interesting. It's easy to make a collage but it's hard to make a good collage. The posters are very vibrant. He creates this fantastical world that uses geometric shapes and primordial figures that are sometimes reminiscent of Chichen Itza. The shapes and compositions manage to meld the ancient world with the futuristic cosmic. His work captures my imagination. -- Marla Donato, adjunct professor, Columbia College