Oh No! Doom gallery actually very pleasant, non-terrifying

Last week I checked out Oh No! Doom, an artists' collective/gallery in Bucktown.  It's at 1800 North Milwaukee, and if you get there before the artists, you can just go down the street to the Wormhole cafe for a quick mug of cider and a game of Tetris.

I've posted a slideshow feature I created about the gallery below, but because of time constraints, I didn't give Lana Crooks a chance to describe what she does.  She was at the gallery first and so I ended up asking her a lot of questions about the gallery itself.  The mounted plush moose in the slideshow is hers, but in the interest of fairness, here's something else she did.  She took this rocket ship:

And then turned it into this plushy squid rocket ship:

Oh No! Doom both sells and showcases art and if you want to check out the gallery, you can head over there Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.  The Petit Monstres show mentioned in the slideshow is going to be up until November 12th, and then their next show will open on November 19th.  Without further ado, here are the artists of Oh No! Doom describing what they do: