“Nick Cave X Eli’s Cheesecake Limited Edition Cuties” are chocolate-covered cheesecake squares, each a different color and flavor, topped with symbolic messages: a peace sign, heart, equal sign, smiley face, and star.
Artist Nick Cave, center, works with Melissa Merino, left, and Diana Moles on the assembly line making cheesecakes he has designed for Eli's Cheescake Company on Oct. 26, 2022.
This was part of one of the most unusual but encouraging collaborations in the city’s history. It was hatched in April when the Schulmans, Cave and Faust were among the recipients at Mayor Lori Lightfoot’sceremony, which, according to the city, is an event for those “who have demonstrated a passionate commitment to public service, to uplifting residents of Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods, and to bettering the lives of all who reside in the city.
She actually did not expect much, knowing that Cave and Faust were very busy putting the finishing touches on anwhich was Cave’s first major career retrospective. It was to open in May at the Museum of Contemporary Art and was scheduled to run into early October. She wasn’t the only one. The show was a sensation, drawing huge crowds. It was sensational too. My Tribune colleague Christopher Borrelli spent some time with Cave and observed, in part, “Since coming to Chicago in the late 1980s and teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the latest Nick Cave wonder has been more likely experienced elsewhere — Austin, Sydney, Times Square, Harvard Business School. Yet Cave, a Missouri native, is firmly based in Chicago.
Eli was what is known as a “soft touch.” His son will often evoke a couple of his father’s adages — ”Charity will never bust you” and “Treat others as if you were the other” — as a way of explaining his and his company’s philanthropic ways. Cave and Faust designed colorful packaging. “And we made stencils to make it easier to adorn the Cuties. How much dry ice was needed for shipping? There were a lot of details but we figured it all out in time,” said Maureen.
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