Chicago Country Club to Host Art Exhibit with Music and Silent Auction to Benefit Arts Of Life.

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 7pm—11pm
Country Club Chicago
1100 N. Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL (Map)

Come join us for a gallery opening featuring the work of members of the Arts of Life community. The evening will include a silent auction, live music, and complimentary beer and wine. Admission is just $7. All proceeds from the sale of artwork go directly to The Arts of Life studio.

The Arts of Life Studio is proud to be part of The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art. The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art is an art fair sponsored by and benefiting Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. The Intuit Show features the sale of self-taught art, outsider art, art brut, ethnographic art, non-traditional folk art and visionary art. A distinct element of ARTroplis, a citywide celebration of arts, antiques and culture, The Intuit Show brings together leading dealers and galleries from around the world.

Admission
Tickets are $20 for one day pass and $25 for a multi-day pass, and may be purchased online at www.tix123.com/artropolis2008 or onsite during the show on the first floor of The Merchandise Mart

Show Hours:
Friday, April 25, 11 AM - 7 PM
Saturday, April 26, 11 AM - 7 PM
Sunday, April 27, 11 AM - 6 PM
Monday, April 28, 11 AM - 3 PM

We’d like to thank our friends in the community for supporting this exhibit

Richard Schutzenhofer

Charles Rizzo

Erickson Design

Marie Jordan

Bob and Betty Fisher

Julie Pradelski and CLUTCH, LLC

Arts of Life Awards Show
Saturday, February 9th, 2008

from 6pm - 9pm
Enjoy a Silent Auction, Raffle, Libations, Hors d’oeurves and our latest and greatest artwork along with performances by our artists.

MC: Lord of the Yum Yum

Mercury Café
1505 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622

Admission is $40
Tickets are available in advance or at the door.
Call for more info: (312) 829-2787

Last year we participated in this exhibition as a non-profit, informational booth and felt that we didn’t get the full benefit of the exhibition. Because we were an informational booth, we were in a small corner with other organizations that do similar work from around the country. This year we are seeking sponsorship to support participation at the dealer level, which would give us a larger space and put our work in with the other dealers. We feel that our artists deserve this level of representation and are asking support from friends like you, who have shown an extraordinary interest in our artists work.

This event hosts 35 dealers and entertains over 41,000 attendees during the four-day exhibition. Please download the sponsorship pdf form and review the sponsorship levels and let us know which level best fits your ability to support our participation in INTUIT’s 2008 Folk and Outsider Art fair. You may fax it back to us at (312) 829-0257.

http://www.artsoflife.org/documents/sponsor_sheet.pdf

An Exhibit of Art Groups in Chicago for Adults with Disabilities

Chicago-area artists with disabilities working in studios supported by:
Arts of Life
El Valor
Esperanza
The Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner Foundation
Project Onward

Westin Chicago North Shore
601 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Wheeling, IL
phone: (847)913-8584
www.progressiveservicesnetwork.org
tickets are $125 per person

Please join us for Progressive Services Network’s 4th Fall Gala fundraiser event this Saturday evening.

Enjoy lavish hors d’oeuvres, an open bar, dinner, live entertainment, silent and live auctions, raffle drawings, spectacular door prizes and much more! Arts of Life will be participating in the event with select art pieces up for auction.

World renowned autism expert Bennett L. Leventhal, MD, will be the special guest speaker.

Progressive Services Network is a Chicagoland non-profit organization dedicated to raising money and public awareness for adults with special needs. Through fund-raising activities, marketing programs and community outreach efforts, PSN creates opportunities that promote rich and fulfilling lives for those who can benefit from the organization’s objectives and network of volunteers.

Reversible Eye Arts presents Triangulation, a multicultural gallery exhibition, part of Chicago Artists Month. With this year’s theme being Creative Alliances, Reversible Eye Arts has invited three neighborhood arts organizations to display and celebrate art, diversity, and collaboration. The organizations featured are Arts of Life, Co-op Image and The Puerto Rican Institute of Art and Culture. Each agency has selected community youth and area artists to create multimedia installations, including live performances. Doors open at 7pm, with the event closing at 10pm. Libations and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Following the opening, Triangulation will be viewable at Reversible Eye on Saturdays from 1 to 5pm through November 16th.

The works displayed will explore three different perspectives on community, generating several dialogues related to the community of Humboldt Park, as well as to community in general.

Co-op Image will create an audio-visual installation featuring excerpts of oral histories collected through their Mobile Media Lab project. In both personal and artistic quests, the young artists have traveled throughout Humboldt Park and interviewed residents on their experiences and relationship to the community. Located in Humboldt Park, Co-op Image is a non-profit public arts education program for youth of communities in need. For more information visit www.coopimage.org.
Arts of Life, an arts studio for adults with developmental disabilities, will be taking a “photographic tour” of Humboldt Park. Accompanying the photographs will be an audio piece documenting the artists’ experience of their tour through the community. Arts of Life is an artistic community that provides adults with developmental disabilities an environment to experience personal growth. For more information visit www.artsoflife.org.

The Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture is a cultural and educational institution devoted to the promotion, integration and advancement of Puerto Rican arts and culture. The institute will be bringing together many examples of artwork from the local Puerto Rican community related to the theme of the exhibit. For more information visit www.iprac.org.

All three organizations will be working with community artists to create a narrative map of Humboldt Park, to be assembled out of square tiles on the floor of the gallery.

Great Wall of Chicago, presented by Arts of Life and Cooperative Image Group, showcases their recent mural art at this open studio through a mural walk along Bloomingdale Avenue. Arts of Life and Coop Image have taken two panels. Many other wonderful artists have also participated.
Coordinated by long-time Chicago graffiti artist Stef 1, this mural will combine graffiti and hip-hop imagery with work from other non-profit and art groups around the area. Spanning 24 blocks, this will be the longest continuous mural in Chicago.