Our deepest thanks go to The Mitchell Group for supporting Arts of Life as Fine Silver sponsor at our 25th Birthday Party and Book Launch event. But our thanks extend far beyond the celebration. The Mitchell Group has invested in Arts of Life artists for 15 years. What a pleasure, then, to mark this milestone […]
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Arts of Life has been approved for a $25,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the Artist Enterprise Program. This project advances the professional development of artists with developmental and intellectual disabilities in Chicago-land. Arts of Life’s project is among 1,127 organizations receiving a total of nearly $31.8 million in funding. “The NEA is
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As we approach the end of 2024, we pause briefly to reflect. Once again, there were so many achievements large and small for our collective. Our artists reached new career milestones. Our Partners joined us in dreaming big, making major investments in our artists’ careers. We continued to explore how we can best support our
Arts of Life is delighted to have been selected for a $50,000 general operating grant from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts. This grant is a part of the Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts)’s Core Grant Program. Now in its third year, the application-based program is open to organizations that previously received an Artist Choice
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Arts of Life is proud to receive a $30,000 grant through the City of Chicago’s 2024 CityArts Program. The general operating grant invests in all Arts of Life’s programs in Chicago, including the Chicago Studio and South Side Satellite Studio. This longstanding grant program through the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) will
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It is with grave sadness that I share that a beloved member of our Chicago studio, Joey Center, passed away on Thursday, August 15, 2024, of complications from being hit by a car while riding his bike home from his job at Jewel-Osco. There’s never an easy way to share the loss of an Arts
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BY ZARA YOST | APRIL 29, 2024 “Upon reading this you must choose whether or not to become part of the play” is just one of the eight directives from curators, Megan Foy, institutional relations and strategic partnerships coordinator at Expo Chicago, and Julian Van Der Moere, co-founder of Apparatus Projects, at the Arts of Life headquarters and
As Arts of Life continues to innovate and expand, I wanted to share how our mission is working in the broader community. Four years ago, our forced pandemic closure made us realize that our community could work in settings outside of our brick and mortar studios. We also saw a large number of artists not
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We are saddened by the news that a former North Shore Artist, Quinn Zenner, passed away on April 3, 2024. Having been in our community from 2011 – 2020, he was instrumental in developing the North Shore studio. Quinn was a lifelong artist and was constantly making work both at Arts of Life and at
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Arts of Life is the proud recipient of a $240,000 grant to support Chicago programming from the MacArthur Foundation. This annual investment of $80,000 for three years will directly support our work to use art to create a more equitable future across Chicago. “We are beyond thrilled to be partnering with such a major philanthropic
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This program is partially funded by support from the following organizations (Full Community Partners list here):
