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02/09/2026

Marvin Young becomes Arts of Life’s FIRST artist to exhibit a solo show in a museum - congrats Marvin!!

Impressions of a City, curated by Christina Stavros, will be on view starting April 9th at the Intuit Art Museum.

About the exhibition:
The City of Chicago and its people are celebrated in this exhibition of works by Chicago-based artist Marvin Young. A lifelong resident of Chicago’s South Side, Young joined Arts of Life (https://artsoflife.org/) ’s progressive studio for artists with intellectual and physical disabilities in 2024. Using graphite, colored pencil, crayon, pen and marker, Young creates vivid drawings that reflect his community and personal history, capturing imagined and remembered urban scenes alongside large-scale portraits. Young’s architectural landscapes feature vintage Chicago walk-ups, brownstones and high rises framed by bright skies and classic cars, taxi cabs, police officers and bustling city life. The exhibition showcases Young’s vision and prolific practice.

When:
Apr 9 – Aug 23, 2026

Where:
Intuit Art Museum
Douglas O. Robson Gallery
756 N Milwaukee Ave,
Chicago, IL 60642

02/05/2026

We’re all set up for tomorrow’s Opening Reception for 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, guest curated by Danny Floyd! The opening is from 5-8pm - we hope to see you there!!! *Click through to get a quick preview of the exhibit.

ABOUT THE GUEST CURATOR:
Danny Floyd is an artist, researcher, curator, and educator based in Chicago. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor, Adjunct of Visual & Critical Studies, and the Undergraduate Division at SAIC. He also served as the Exhibitions Director for ACRE. He has been an active part of Chicago’s artist-run space community through two programs, Ballroom Projects and Adler & Floyd. He has held curatorial residencies with ACRE and Chicago Artists Coalition.

This exhibition is a thought experiment: is visual art doomed to visual space? Can visual artists escape the vanishing point and capture the multicentered and reverberating, non-hierarchical aspects of acoustic space?

FEATURED ARTISTS:
Sonya Bogdanova – Kacie Lees – Melissa McClung – Susan Pasowicz – John Phelan – Carol Peyes – Tim Stone – Kevin Stuart – Amy Vogel  Where:
Circle Contemporary – West Town 2010 W. Carroll Chicago, IL 60612  When: Friday, Feb 6, 5–8pm  . . . 

02/04/2026

We are excited to be participating in this year’s Valentine’s Day Pop-up Art Market at Intuit, featuring a host of one-of-a-kind art and handmade items, including jewelry, prints, ceramics and more, available only during the market. After you shop, take time to After you shop, be sure to check out Catalyst, featuring work by Arts of Life artists Guy Conners, Stefan Harhaj, and Aaron Kleeblatt .

VENDERS INCLUDE:

Amy Huske
Amy Marks
Arts of Life
J‑Bird Clay
Mary Sundstrom
Project Onward
Takara Design
WIRED Jewelry

WHEN:
Feb 14, 2026 12–5 PM

WHERE:
Intuit Art Museum
756 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, 60642

02/03/2026

🎤WE CAN”T WAIT!!!!

The best deals of the year are back at our multi-day, multi-venue Studio Sale this May!  A wide range of artwork from 70+ Arts of Life artists will be available at steeply discounted prices. Be sure to mark your calendars for May 21-24!  ⭐️Thursday, May 21 | FIRST DIBS @ Arts of Life West Town Studio (Ticket Required)
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Get first dibs on the best deals of the year – with prices starting at just $40! More details coming soon!
 💫Friday, May 22 | Arts of Life West Town Studio (FREE)
Browse a selection of discounted studio works before we head over to the Salt Shed.
 ✨Saturday, May 23- Sunday, May 24 | Warm Love Cool Dreams Music & Arts Festival @ The Salt Shed (Tickets on sale through this Friday)

Thank you for including us, !!!!!!!

01/29/2026

Arts of Life is proud to partner once again with the visionary Smith Tieken Foundation to expand our programming for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their nondisabled peers in Highland Park, IL! With a remarkable investment of $250,000, Arts of Life will open a new, dynamic, and specialized communal art studio in 2026 to support the local creative community.

Read Full Story Below

https://artsoflife.org/arts-of-life-awarded-250000-grant-from-the-smith-tieken-foundation/

01/22/2026

Hi folks,

Due to extreme temperatures forecast for tomorrow we have decided to postpone the opening reception for our next exhibition. 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 will now open Friday February 6th from 5-8 pm. Stay warm out there folks!

The show features works by:

Sonya Bogdanova – Kacie Lees – Melissa McClung – Susan Pasowicz – John Phelan – Carol Peyes – Tim Stone – Kevin Stuart – Amy Vogel
 
GUEST CURATOR: Danny Floyd is an artist, researcher, curator, and educator based in Chicago. He holds a BFA in Photography from RISD, an MA in Visual & Critical Studies, and an MFA in Sculpture, both from SAIC. He is an Assistant Professor, Adjunct of Visual & Critical Studies, and the Undergraduate Division at SAIC. He also served as the Exhibitions Director for ACRE. Since 2013, he has been an active part of Chicago’s artist-run space community through two programs, Ballroom Projects and Adler & Floyd. He has held curatorial residencies with ACRE and Chicago Artists Coalition. He was also awarded the Ga***rd and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Curatorial Fellowship in 2017. He has attended studio residencies at ACRE; AS220 in Providence, RI; Earthbound Moon in Eugene, OR; The Residency Project in Pasadena, CA; and The Roger Brown House in New Buffalo, MI. He began his teaching career in 2010 at a self-proclaimed “postmodern art camp” in Western Massachusetts for children aged 11 to 16 whose freewheeling ethos of interdisciplinary experimentation still informs his teaching and art-making.

01/20/2026

Join us in congratulating Ariée (Aria Carter) for being our latest Artist Spotlight recipient!!!

About Ariée :
Ariée has a singular vision for fashion and passion! Her artwork is rife with haute couture references interspersed with youthful, pop culture iconography. Her compositions construct narratives around this unexpected juxtaposition of high and low-brow cultural fixtures.

“My goal is to save money to have opening my own studio. I will start to collecting wearable art for fashion shows. I’m using a recycle and the ‘trashions’. I want to use a fashion that’s silk leaves, flower silks, hoop cage, woods, plastic pearls, plastic colors, tinsel garland, glitters.”

Recent career achievements include: leading a workshop at the Design Museum of Chicago, participating in several public art projects in Chicago, exhibiting work with Sho + 1 gallery at Art Fair Tokyo and Art Collaboration Kyoto, and inspiring wearables at the Unity Charity Fashion Show.

Check her work https://www.circlecontemporary.org/artists/70-ariee/works/

01/16/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out last week to the opening of Spaces for People, Systems for Spaces featuring Arts of Life Artist Marvin Young. We had a great time!

The exhibition is on view through March 21st at Western Exhibitions - so you still have plenty of time to check it out.

All Featured Artists:
Kim Beck - John Behnke - Marshall Brown - Courttney Cooper - Jazmine Harris - Shir Ende - Edie Fake - Brian Petrone - Deb Sokolow - Marvin Young - Joe Zaldivar

Where:
Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, 60622 United States

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Image Description: Marvin Young in front of his art at Western Exhibitions gallery.

01/13/2026

We have been honored once again as a 2025 Top-Rated Nonprofit from GreatNonprofits! A big thank you to everyone who submitted a review last year and helped us secure this recognition! Check them all out at this link https://greatnonprofits.org/org/the-arts-of-life-inc

While you are there, help us get a jump start on 2026 with your own review!

01/12/2026

Arts of Life is delighted to have been selected as a 2025-2028 grantee by the and will receive $50,000 a year for three years in unrestricted funds.

Through their Core Grants program, The Ruth Foundation is awarding $25.35 million over three years to 169 emergent to longstanding arts and cultural organizations across the country. This marks a shift from one-year grants to three year and nearly doubles their annual commitment from the $4.5 million awarded to organizations in 2024 to $8.45 million awarded annually through this program.

Core Grants were introduced in 2022 as an application-based program open to previous recipients of an Artist Choice award. During each cycle, a relevant theme frames the grant questions meant to invite collaboration and reflection within the applicant organization. Learn more on our website’s news page -> https://artsoflife.org/arts-of-life-to-receive-a-multi-year-150000-grant-from-ruth-foundation-for-the-arts/

Thank you to the Ruth Arts for investing in our artists’ future and congratulations to all Ruth Arts Grant Recipients! Image Description:Bill Lilly in front of his art work in a gallery.

01/08/2026

Join us tomorrow from 5-8pm for the opening reception of Spaces for People, Systems for Spaces at Western Exhibitions featuring the work of AOL artist Marvin Young. 🏙️ This group exhibition explores architecture, cities, and the built environments that shape our daily lives. Come support Marvins work! We’d love to see you there!

About Marvin Young:
Marvin is a lifelong resident of Chicago’s South Side who joined Arts of Life’s South Side studio in 2024. Intensely observant and drawing constantly, his works exist as an expression and record of both his community and personal experience over the decades.

All Featured Artists:
Kim Beck – John Behnke – Marshall Brown – Courttney Cooper – Jazmine Harris – Shir Ende – Edie Fake – Brian Petrone – Deb Sokolow – Marvin Young – Joe Zaldivar

Public reception: January 9th, 5–8pm
On view through March 21

Where:
Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, 60622 United States

01/07/2026

Thanks to more than 135 generous donors, we are almost 85% of the way to our winter campaign goal with gifts still coming in! We are so blown away by our community’s generosity–THANK YOU! If you didn’t give, it’s not too late to help us cross the finish line this week. Https://www.artsoflife.org/donate

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