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We were founded with the idea that the studio belongs to its artists. The guiding principle behind our studio is to give people an opportunity to shape and be a member of an artistic community; a community that changes with the growing needs of the artists and one that is a contributing member of the larger society.
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Arts of Life offers artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities an alternative career path designed to help enrich their lives as working artists.
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#FBF Take a look back at past Van Go Go performances and come join the crowd today at 7pm for the opening reception of sounds better with you!
#artsoflife #flashbackfriday #concerts #vangogo #chicagomusic
🎵🎹Tomorrow is the opening reception of sounds better with you, curated by Iris Colburn and Gabriel Garza, and we’re excited to announce two new special treats!🎸🎶
"Gods on Safari" 1977 by Sun Ra is included in the exhibition, AND we have a special performance by the North Shore studio’s band Van Go Go at 7pm!
Doors open at 5pm. Click through for a little preview of the installation.
Featured Artists: Chris Austin – Joey Center – Raven Chacon – Marcus Imani Kennedy – Bill Lilly – Isabelle Frances McGuire – Dave Muller – Sun Ra - Micah Schippa-Wildfong – Lucy Walsh
When:
Friday, May 23 5-8pm
Van Go Go performance 7pm
Where:
Circle Contemporary Chicago
2010 W Carroll Ave
Chicago, IL 60612
Special Thanks to John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis for helping make this exhibition possible.
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Did you know that our programming staff members are also artists with established practices of their own? It’s true!
As you’ll hear in this clip of artist Marcus Kennedy checking out some of our art facilitators’ work - not only do our artists inspire our staff, our staff wow and inspire our artists!
We’re very lucky to have such talented creators on our team - thank you facilitators!!
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It’s always exciting to see our artists live out our community values in new ways! At the West Town studio, long-tenured artist Bill Lilly saw that his housemate Maurice was unhappy with his current program, so he encouraged him to try Arts of Life. We asked them about this budding relationship:
Maurice (M): Bill was telling me it was a good place to be at. People are nice and cool with us.
Bill (B): And you told me you really really like it here.
M: Yeah the first day I got here I really liked it, people weren’t being in people’s business and stuff.
B: When you came here for a while you fell in love with it.
M: Yeah I fell in love with it. Now I like to do different art too. My first one was the Sears Tower.
M: They treat me good here.
B: Very very good!
M: People here is really nice.
B: I was saying to Maurice, being here is like being in Heaven.
With multiple funding cuts, we need to raise at least $60,000 to continue operations through this fiscal quarter. Thanks to more than 25 donors, we are 30% of the way there!
New and increased gifts are being matched, doubling your impact! Will you give today to ensure this community of care and creativity can support more than 75 artists?
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