IPaintMyMind featured on WTTW Chicago Tonight

As the article says, “The nonprofit purchases collections from local artists to lease to those clients or hang in schools. They’ve developed a large collection that currently totals 1,300 prints. One of those collections hang in Fulton Galley, a food hall in the West Loop.

Together, the food hall and the nonprofit curated the walls with sneakers by local artist All Star Press. About 80% of the artist are local, including visual artist Grae Galindo Rosa. Rosa’s latest collection for the nonprofit can be seen hanging in the halls of Northwest Middle School. It’s a Chicago version of the Mexican game, Lotería.

Like the nonprofit, Rosa also wants to make all types of art accessible to students.

“Knowing that the youth can see my art in their school and then also feel a tie to it … I feel like it makes sense to me. That is really important,” Rosa said.

“Having the artwork here, I’ll be able to bring my students down to see it in their school instead of going to a gallery,” said Roxanne Piersanti, an art teacher at Northwest Middle School. “We’ll create art based on the work they’ve seen here. Use this as inspiration to paint their piece.””

Our model is really all about mutual benefit and we’re proud of how the work was showcased on Chicago Tonight.

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