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Illinois Arts Council
The Illinois Arts Council web site provides basic information regarding the programs and services of the Illinois Arts Council. Found on the site are program descriptions, newsletters, annual reports, the Illinois Art Fair Directory, news releases, meeting dates, program deadlines, links to related sites as well as agency program guidelines and application forms available for download.
Illinois Arts Alliance
The Illinois Arts Alliance (IAA), a 501(c)4 organization, is devoted to policy development, legislative advocacy and guiding collective political action statewide.
Arts & Business Council of Chicago
The Arts & Business Council of Chicago's (A&BC/Chicago) mission is to link the strengths of arts and business, promoting community growth and vitality through the arts. It builds partnerships that enhance the management capacity of arts organizations while strengthening the leadership capacities of business professionals through effective volunteerism.
Chicago Artists Coalition
The Chicago Artists' Coalition is a non-profit service organization, founded in 1974, open to all artists and non-artists.
Chicago Artists Resource
A program of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Artists Resource (CAR) is created by artists for artists. With hundreds of articles from several national partner organizations, especially the New York Foundation for the Arts, UIC Center for Health in the Arts and LA-based Side Street Projects, as well as extensive links to grants, funding, awards and other services for artists, CAR offers a rich platform for artist's interests. This national content is combined with a rich array of links to local organizations.
Chicago Dance and Music Alliance
Chicago Dance and Music Alliance provides direct services to members engaged in all genres of dance and music in the Chicago area, acts as an advocate on their behalf, and disseminates information about their activities to the general public.
The Donors Forum of Chicago
The Donors Forum of Chicago is the region's premier resource for leadership, education, research, and action on behalf of philanthropy and nonprofits. The Donors Forum enables the philanthropic and nonprofit sector to address community concerns with comprehensive information, skilled leadership, and the resources necessary to build institutions and affect change.
The Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation
The Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation (IAAF), a 501(c)3 organization, serves amateur and professional artists, students, audiences, and advocates, providing research, public education, programs, and information to enhance the health of nonprofit arts organizations, encourage support of the arts, and highlight the arts' impact on Illinois communities.
The Illinois Theatre Association
It is the Mission of the Illinois Theatre Association to Advocate Theatre In Illinois through: Encouragement and facilitation of closer and better communication among professional, community, and educational theatres in Illinois. Provision of public information about the extent and variety of theatre in Illinois. Cooperation with state and federal agencies, and with regional and national theatre organizations in promoting recognition of and development of theatre programs at all levels. Maintenance and improvement of theatre production, teaching, and research at all levels in Illinois. Affirmation of the value of theatre in the lives of individuals.
Buchanan Center for the Arts
The Buchanan Center for the Arts is housed in an historic building on "the square" in downtown Monmouth, Illinois. It features a 2,400 square foot exhibition space, Artisan Gift Shop, and a large studio for art classes, meetings and other art related community events.
Carbondale Community Arts
Carbondale Community Arts, a not for profit local arts agency, provides programming such as "Arts in Celebration"," September Night", MegaArts MiniCamps for kids, Summer Chautauquas, and The All Southern High School Musical Theatre Project. We also manage several exhibit sites in the Carbondale area and administer the Southern Arts Fund, a regranting project in conjunction with the Illinois Arts Council. Our newest initiative, ArtWorks in Schools, was launched in the spring of 2003 to place significant works of art in and around our area's public schools.
Centralia Cultural Society
The Centralia Cultural Society linking people with the arts and artists with the community through, Appreciation, Education, Exhibition, Performance.
Decatur Area Arts Council
The mission of the Decatur Area Arts Council is to enhance the quality of life of all citizens through the arts, assuring that the arts are a necessary component of life in our community.
Fox Valley Arts Council
The mission of the Fox Valley Arts Council is to take a leadership role in the support and encouragement of the arts in the Fox Valley.
McLean County Arts Center
We encourage and promote the appreciation, study, cultivation, development, and practice of the Arts in McLean County.
Near Northwest Area Arts Council
NNWAC was founded to share the power of creativity to build healthy, viable communities. Just as streets and sewers need infrastructure, so does the cultural life of a neighborhood.
Northwest Area Arts Council
The Northwest Area Arts Council is a volunteer agency dedicated to connecting artists of all ages with the community at large and to fostering creativity in all areas of life.
Oak Park Area Arts Council
The Oak Park Area Arts Council's mission is to promote, develop and support the performing, visual and literary arts in Oak Park and neighboring suburban communities.
Quad City Arts
QUAD CITY ARTS is a regional arts council serving the citizens of Henry, Mercer and Rock Island counties in Illinois and Clinton, Muscatine and Scott counties in Iowa and artists within a 150-mile radius.
Quincy Society of Fine Arts
The Quincy Society of Fine Arts, America's 1st Community Arts Council, was founded in 1947. QSFA works to foster, strengthen and expand the language, visual and performing arts in Adams County, Illinois.
Rockford Area Arts Council
The Rockford Area Arts Council supports, promotes, and develops the arts for everyone in our Northern Illinois region.
Springfield Area Arts Council
The Springfield Area Arts Council promotes the existence and visibility of all art forms; provides educational and financial support of artists and art organizations; promotes and underwrites arts in education; supports local, state and national policies which increase public appreciation for the arts; and advocates for participation in the arts by all citizens in our communities.
Americans for the Arts Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With a 40-year record of service, we are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
ArtJob A comprehensive listing of career and employment opportunities.
Arts Midwest
Arts Midwest connects the arts to audiences throughout the nine-state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Saltwater Dialect
Saltwater Dialect
Written by Caridad McRae
Eyes, Red Puffy Raw
Saltwater stings as they brim the lids and slide down these dry cracked rubbed away layers called skin on cheeks.
It seems the world is moving faster than me and I am getting lost in the blur
but I keep playing the role; I keep moving forward to seem
proactive
Really, all I want to do is stand still and Breathe
No more emotions that filter in lies
No more thoughts that lead to deception in my mind
Just be a thought that remains consistent
without all the questions
without all the why's
These thoughts move thru me,
they are my days and nights of complex ease
One day of breathing without the missteps - leads to a hope with indescribable letters
This hope is what keeps these jigsaws pieces in the same box
This hope is what keeps me intangibly whole
-CARIDAD
"I want days filled with words that rush me to paper and cause my fingers to grab a pen, Because the significance of them in this world is of the greatest importance.So spill this ink, create these shapes, making permanent reality to figments of what was once just imagination."
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Chantala Kommanivanh - Artist Statement In these series of paintings I am rediscovering my native Laotian culture by looking at elements such as dance, costume and language. These series of paintings came from questioning my individuality, visiting my past, rediscovering my family struggles as refugees and immigrants. I feel that I am an American, but “ America ” views me as the outsider, the immigrant, the opportunity thief; so what am I? I feel a need in recovering my Laotian/American identity as an individual, reminding our government and our society that America is made up of immigrants; therefore “ I AM and U ARE.” I also want these paintings to reflect on the struggles of relocation of my family and of people around the world. Refugees and immigrants are on the move due to war and natural disasters. I empathize with their struggles.I mix found/bought enamel and latex house paints, acrylics, oil, spray paint, oil sticks, crayon, charcoal, pencil, and yarn/strings onto canvas or denim.Using photo references, I overlay high contrast portraits on top of a dense abstract background made up of text and controlled/uncontrolled mixed medium marks. Yarn/strings and patches of fabric attached onto the canvas provide texture and linear construction. Ultimately, I would like to express the angst of those who don’t take the urbanization of the city for granted... For those who see beauty in reality. http://www.chantalism.com/
AllRise Gallery proudly presents
One Sole Journey
By
Chantala Kommanivanh
Friday July 11th (6-10pm)
Exhibits through August 17th
1370 W. Grand Ave
Chicago IL 60622
ARTIST OR IMPOSTER
by Wendell Etherly
Just a few days ago, some friends and I were walking through an art exhibition in support of a fellow artist whose work was being displayed. As I was observing the work I came across a piece of art that caused me to cogitate the effort, or lack there of, that was put into creating it. I thought to myself, “how in God’s name did this painting get on the wall, or in this show for that matter?” I was amazed by what I believed was poor judgment by the gallery to select such a piece to represent, especially when I know struggling artists whose works far supersede the quality of work I’ve seen hanging from the walls of some of Chicago’s most prestigious galleries. But who am I to determine what good art should look like, what good music should sound like, what good literature should read like? Does being an artist give me the authorization to judge the validity of someone’s work? Critics do it all the time with no true sense of the aesthetic. At least an artist can relate to the creative process in one way or another. Many would say that an artist should have the right to express cynicism when feeling as though the creative world in which he/she hold so sacred has been infiltrated by someone with less talent and creative cognizance. Or perhaps, in some twisted kind of way it is the need to defame the work of a less deserved artist in order to keep those unexposed artists encouraged. Legitimate enough? Well, truth is art has evolved as well as the vessels and mediums used to create it. No one, not even ourselves could possibly discern the creative integrity of another artist due to the simplicity of the content or what may appear to us as lack luster devotion to the craft. W.E.B. Du Bois once said, “The tools of the artist in times have gone by. First of all, he has the Truth – not for sake of Truth, not as a scientist seeking Truth, but as one upon whom Truth eternally thrusts itself as the highest hand maid of imagination, as the one great vehicle of universal understanding”. So no matter the form or genre, whether represented by a legitimate source or a fringe market, an artist is a creator. And it is the responsibility of the creator to espouse the truth through their works. So in the words of one great artist to many others, “To thine self be True”.
Just a few days ago, some friends and I were walking through an art exhibition in support of a fellow artist whose work was being displayed. As I was observing the work I came across a piece of art that caused me to cogitate the effort, or lack there of, that was put into creating it. I thought to myself, “how in God’s name did this painting get on the wall, or in this show for that matter?” I was amazed by what I believed was poor judgment by the gallery to select such a piece to represent, especially when I know struggling artists whose works far supersede the quality of work I’ve seen hanging from the walls of some of Chicago’s most prestigious galleries. But who am I to determine what good art should look like, what good music should sound like, what good literature should read like? Does being an artist give me the authorization to judge the validity of someone’s work? Critics do it all the time with no true sense of the aesthetic. At least an artist can relate to the creative process in one way or another. Many would say that an artist should have the right to express cynicism when feeling as though the creative world in which he/she hold so sacred has been infiltrated by someone with less talent and creative cognizance. Or perhaps, in some twisted kind of way it is the need to defame the work of a less deserved artist in order to keep those unexposed artists encouraged. Legitimate enough? Well, truth is art has evolved as well as the vessels and mediums used to create it. No one, not even ourselves could possibly discern the creative integrity of another artist due to the simplicity of the content or what may appear to us as lack luster devotion to the craft. W.E.B. Du Bois once said, “The tools of the artist in times have gone by. First of all, he has the Truth – not for sake of Truth, not as a scientist seeking Truth, but as one upon whom Truth eternally thrusts itself as the highest hand maid of imagination, as the one great vehicle of universal understanding”. So no matter the form or genre, whether represented by a legitimate source or a fringe market, an artist is a creator. And it is the responsibility of the creator to espouse the truth through their works. So in the words of one great artist to many others, “To thine self be True”.
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