Chicago Studio
2010 W Carroll
Chicago, IL 60612
T (312) 829-2787
North Shore Studio
1963 Johns Drive
Glenview, IL 60025
T (847) 486-0808
On Saturday, October 15 The Arts of Life will participate in Chicago Artists Month by presenting Fashion Forward. Fashion Forward will be an exciting art show exhibiting fashion and style-related art and wearable art created by local artists as well as artists that work at Arts of Life.
The term “fashion forward” means creating and wearing items that will soon become very fashionable, influencing others in the process. As Chicago’s most unique art studio – operated by a collaboration of artists with and without disabilities – The Arts of Life is honored to be a source of influence in the celebration of creativity, ability, and diversity among the Chicago artists community.
The Arts of Life will also have a closet sale of affordable used and new clothing. All proceeds benefit their art programming.
At 5 PM in the Kinzie Corridor gallery, along with the wonderful art exhibit, there will be a live skyped catwalk from Project Grow art studio in Portland, OR. Project Grow also has differently abled artists that make up their studio.
At 7 PM, The Arts of Life band will be rocking out in new uniforms designed by designer Audrey Lauck to finish off this celebration of style.
There will be a raffle, drinks, and pretzels from Kim and Scott’s Pretzels. Paper doll creative party favors provided by Art Enables.
Many of the creative collaborations happening in this community event were helped along by the Chicago Calling Arts Festival. Fashion Forward is proud to be part of their festival of collaborations!
This FREE event is open to the public and will take place at the Kinzie Corridor Gallery located at 2010 W. Carroll Ave., Chicago, IL 60612 on
Saturday, October 15th from 4-8pm.
This year, The Arts of Life is creating a 2012 wall calendar which will include artwork from both the Chicago and North Shore studios! The calendar will be sold for $15 to families, friends and the public at our Fall events. Right now, we are in the designing phase and we’re hoping to send them to the printers by Monday, October 3rd. It beautifully displays the incredible artwork of The Arts of Life artists and we couldn’t be more proud!
Since we are ordering a limited print run and we want to make sure that friends of the studio get as many copies as they need, we are now taking pre-orders! The calendars will be finished and ready to pick-up at the Chicago studio or the North Shore studio October 17th onwards. They can also be delivered to your home for an additional packaging & shipping fee. If you would like to buy any calendars for yourself, friends or to give as gifts, please click the buy now button below.
The proceeds from the calendar sales will help The Arts of Life continue to serve artists with developmental disabilities in Chicago and the North Shore.
If you have any questions please contact Emily at esmith@artsoflife.org
TWO EXHIBITS BRING THE OUTSIDERS IN – UPSTAIRS AND DOWNSTAIRS
Washington, DC – A colorfully raucous crowd of outsider, folk, visionary and self-taught artists join forces in two shows opening October 15, 2011, at Art Enables. One features artists of all stripes from in and around the Nation’s Capital. The second brings together artists from across the country, each representing one of twenty-six studios for emerging artists with developmental and mental disabilities, from New York to Hawaii.
Outsider Art Inside the Beltway 2011 is this year’s annual juried invitational for regional artists. The show features work by seven independent artists and more than 70 artists working in studios and programs around the region. Arts for the People, Arundel Lodge, Lens & Pens @ St. Elizabeth’s, Miriam’s Kitchen, United Cerebral Palsy, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Springdell Center, Studio In-Sight and host Art Enables nurture the work of artists who are homeless, artists who are socially or financiallly disenfranchised, artists who have developmental or mental disablities. OAIB 2011 can be found in the street-level Gallery at Art Enables; the show runs through October 28, 2011.
Downstairs in the Off Rhode Studio, A sampling from outside the Beltway brings together representative pieces from a diverse selection of studios for artists with developmental and mental disabilities across the country, studios like Spindleworks in Maine, Fountain Gallery in New York, Studio by the Tracks in Alabama, Creativity Explored in San Francisco. In all, twenty-six programs are joining this first national tribute to emerging artists outside the margins. The show runs through November 4, 2011.
Art Enables Studio & Gallery is a Washington, DC, arts-entrepreneurial program that nurtures the careers of emerging adult artists with developmental disabilities. The AE Studio offers selected artists a place to work, professional guidance and artist materials. The AE Gallery offers the business and marketing expertise that enables the artists to take their place in the arts market alongside their mainstream peers. Work created at Art Enables is exhibited and sold at the Art Enables Studio & Gallery, in shows around the region and via the program website: www.art-enables.org.
The Off Rhode Studio is an ancillary arts space on the garden level at Art Enables. Off Rhode is a recently opened space for exhibits, workshops and lectures addressing the nature and reach of outsider, self-taught and contemporary folk art.
Outsider Art Inside the Beltway 2011 and A sampling from outside the Beltway are free and open to the public. Opening reception Saturday October 15, 2011, 2 to 5 pm
Shows run through October 28 and November 4, respectively.
Open weekdays from 9 am to 4 pm.
For more information and links: http://www.art-enables.org/news/news-and-events.php
2204 Rhode Island, NE Tel. 202.554.9455
Washington, DC 20018 www.art-enables.org
