Community Highlight - Arts of Life

Arts of Life will be hosting, “Wake Me Up” on March 25th - May 9th, 2022 at Circle Contemporary Chicago. The artists involved in “Wake Me Up” will be focusing on how patterns can be liberating, and constraining simultaneously. Viewers will be able to experience grids, rosettes, stripes, and polka dots like never before. For more info on viewing times, please head to artsoflife.org today.

The Arts of Life nonprofit organization is found near the west side of Chicago. Their mission is to provide artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities a space to create freely, and strengthen their leadership skills. The Arts of Life organization’s core values are as follows:

• Inspire Artistic Expression

• Build Community

• Promote Self-Respect

• Develop Independence

They accomplish the above by supporting creative decision-making, and creating a safe place to take risks while helping others build self-confidence and problem-solving skills. Within this community, the artists are accepted and encouraged to have a deeper understanding of who they are, trust their own judgment and take personal and artistic risks. Arts of Life has two professional art studios in the Chicagoland area and currently represent over 60 artists with different levels of physical and intellectual disabilities.

To help support the Arts of Life mission of putting inclusivity and creativity first go to artsoflife.org to donate today.