By signcraft
Posted on Saturday, June 20th, 2026
Kelsey and Andrew McClellan are a Chicago-based sign painting team with a penchant for gold leaf window signs—yet are equally comfortable painting 30-foot-tall letters ten floors up. Originally from Denver, Colorado, they moved to Chicago in 2012 to attend a graduate painting program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From there, things took a hard turn into hand lettering and gold leaf. In “Heart and Bone Signs: Gold leaf, hand lettering and supergraphics” Andrew told his story about the journey they took.
