Editing Scott Mutter (section)

==Early life==
Mutter was the second of three children of Charles and Lucille Mutter, who lived in the [[Woodlawn, Chicago|Woodlawn]] area of [[South Side, Chicago]].  The family moved to suburban [[Park Ridge, Illinois|Park Ridge]], Illinois, where he graduated from [[Maine East High School]] in Park Ridge in 1961. Mutter received a B.A. in history from the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] in 1966 and two master's degrees, in fine arts and Chinese studies. While at university he was part of the [[counterculture|counter culture]], or [[hippie]] culture. He protested against the Vietnam War at the [[1968 Democratic Convention]] in Chicago. He lived in Champaign into the early 1980s where he ran an antiques shop and showed classic and foreign movies in rented halls such as the McKinley Foundation or the [[Unitarian Church of Urbana|Red Herring]].<ref name=tribobit/>

He had no formal art training.