
VGS is run by me, Jason Sikes. I live to be creative and make things, especially strategically creative things…for artists! I love working with and helping other artists. I taught myself to use the tools of design and web design, mixed in a healthy dose of the marketing experience I garnered (see below) and in what feels like an instant, Village Green Studios is moving in on its 25 year anniversary with four full-time employees.
I graduated Northwestern University in 1986 with a BS degree in Radio, TV & Film with a minor in Fine Art. Following graduation, I worked in the arts: performance art planner for the Chicago Office of Fine Arts, Artistic Director for the M.A.R.S Artspace and a gallery represented fine artist and neon bender.
I later talked my way into a junior marketing exec position at the just launched E! Entertainment Television where I worked a block up from the famous Hollywood & Vine. Lots of bums and heroin addicts hung out down there back then. None of which were famous.