What have you done for me lately? It’s a great question, actually. A very worthy one that should be asked by every person served by a nonprofit organization. It’s a question that assesses an organization’s focus on value. After all, that’s why nonprofits exist. To deliver service, value, solutions, support,...
Read MoreArt requires labor. It requires years of testing, trying, seeing, asking, peeking, being, and creating. It requires self-critique, global awareness, cultural exposure, daily action and consistent progress. Art requires seeds, tools, and visions. Art requires seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months, and years passed by. Art costs the artist their...
Oct 26, 2020FEATURED PHOTO: DAVON CLARK / CITY BUREAU – CHICAGOMAG.COM In times like these, we all need a little creative inspiration to get us through. What’s more, artists and musicians need our support more than ever. So go ahead and join us in putting those clothing expenditures on hold (who...
Oct 22, 2020At IPaintMyMind, one of our very favorite things is getting mural commissions! We love helping you execute your dreams and commission your own mural for your office or workspace – we even help schools with commissioning murals too. We also love how our beautiful murals give back to local...
Oct 19, 2020When Covid first picked up steam, a lot of us figured that any changes to our daily lives would be temporary. However, six months later, things are feeling a lot different. And in no realm is this more true than when it comes to work and the rise of...
Oct 12, 2020IPaintMyMind Fall 2020 T-Shirt Releases featuring Sam Kirk, Kat Sampson and More With many of us restricting our enjoyment of so many social outlets, it’s become increasingly important for IPaintMyMind to mobilize efficient and impactful ways of connecting the communities we work with through our Get Art, Give Back...
Oct 09, 2020The history of Mexican murals is intimately tied up in revolution, radical self-determination, and innovation. It is a long and storied history, overlapping with the use of murals as political tools elsewhere in Latin and South America. Murals are also a prominent avenue of anticolonial speech in the Latin...
Oct 05, 2020Tobe Nwigwe is a beacon. He wears his inner joy and sense of self proudly on his sleeves, naturally taking to the evolutionary bent of 2020, Covid-19, and the Black Lives Matter movement. He’s released his music without a record label, and in collaboration with his partner, Fat, and...
Oct 01, 2020What are the limits of a single piece of art? If you ask Tyree Guyton, there might not be any at all. His magnum opus, The Heidelberg Project is an installation piece — although not the kind of installation you would be familiar with. Instead of fitting comfortably in...
Sep 28, 2020Full Moon & Co is a celebration of the way awareness, discovery, art, and urbanism come together in synergistic parts, providing the viewer with an experience that’s entirely experiential and totally qualitative. A mix of joy & wonder is the goal and public art is the vehicle. Hayley Nickerson and...
Sep 21, 2020For those of us who curate, Instagram is a lot of fun. We recently took a deep dive to cull some of our favorite Chicago-based artists with a solid presence on Instagram, and who are dedicated to their craft. Illustrators, tattooers, designers, and more.
Apr 12, 2018The struggle of being an art teacher includes a unique blend of external doubt and internal friction. Art teachers share the same classroom and behavioral challenges that other elementary and secondary educators face while combating a similar stigma that troubles humanities departments across higher education–a skepticism about its value...
Feb 17, 2020There are so many driven people making huge contributions in the world today, but a lot of times it can all feel removed from real connection. The digital landscape has a lot to do with that, but so does the pace of life, and the rate at...
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