Anne Cauley

Chicago Magazine: How Artists Helped Propel Chicago’s Disability Rights Movement

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Nonprofits like Access Living have stood as some of these artists’ greatest allies. The organization Arts of Life, established in 2000, serves as an incubator for disabled artists, providing them with studio space and a community gallery to exhibit their work. And Bodies of Work, headquartered at UIC, leads programs that give disabled artists a platform to […]

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WGN: Lighthouses on Mag Mile reflect artists’ personal journey with disabilities

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Summer crowds on Michigan Avenue have probably noticed the lighthouses dotting the sidewalks. Each of them was designed by an artist hoping to bring attention to people with disabilities. “I just want people to know that no matter what they’ve been through, or are going through, that you’re not alone,” artist Christine Metoyer said. It

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Disparate Minds: Mysterious Feelings at Circle Contemporary

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Circle Contemporary, the only Chicago space dedicated to integrated programming, has consistently offered ambitious and thoughtful group exhibitions since its founding early last year. Curated by Corrie Thompson, Mysterious Feelings brings together a highly varied selection of Chicago-based artists – SAIC alumni Diane Christiansen and Kelly Reaves, Arts Of Life artists Susan Pasowicz and Lee

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Press Release: Rep. Schakowsky meets artists from Arts of Life studio

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This week, Rep. Jan Schakowsky met with 4 artists from the Arts of Life Studio, a non-profit in Glenview, Illinois whose mission is to “advance the creative arts community by providing artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities a collective space to expand their practice and strengthen their leadership.”   Each of the four artists who met

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Third Coast Review: A is for Artist Brings “Outsider Art” Inside

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By: Tom Wawzenek A is for Artist  is a new exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art that challenges the idea of using the label “outsider art” when describing artists who not only lack academic training in art, but who also suffer from neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disabilities. On display are 100 works by 66 artists

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Chicago Tribune: The Arts of Life creates artistic community for people with, without disabilities

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By Alexandra Kukulka A studio worker and an artist sit side by side on the work bench, as the worker sketches out a dress on a scrap of paper. The artist, who has a visual impairment, then tries to incorporate the worker’s ideas into her painting of a woman. “Does that look good?” the artist asks.

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