Arts & Creativity Resources
Creative Mash-Up!
Creative Health & Wholeness Covid-19 has made the concept of health top-of-mind for most of us this past year (or is it decade?) and more. Our mental, emotional and financial health are tested daily. Chicago Creative Coalition is providing information, tools, resources, and experiences to help creatives thrive in this trying time. Collaborative Design Across … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraProcessing Change Through Heart and Head
Creative Health & Wholeness COVID-19 has made the concept of health top-of-mind for most of us this past couple of years. Our mental, emotional, and financial health are tested daily. Chicago Creative Coalition is providing information, tools, resources, and experiences to help creatives thrive in this trying time. Processing Change Through Heart and Head The … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraShape-ology
Creative Health & Wholeness COVID-19 has made the concept of health top-of-mind for most of us this past couple of years. Our mental, emotional, and financial health are tested daily. Chicago Creative Coalition is providing information, tools, resources, and experiences to help creatives thrive in this trying time. Shape-ology: Is Your Physical Shape a Creative … Continue reading
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Micro Meetups
Welcome to C3 Micro Meetups: quick, informal, and fun weekly sessions to connect with the creative community and pick up a few tricks along the way. Mobile Magic: Create on the Fly! Thursday, January 27 at 6:30 p.m. “Work from home” is so last week… work- and PLAY- from anywhere. Draw in your Zoom meeting, … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimura
Introduction to Zen Meditation and Breath Work
Creative Health & Wholeness Covid-19 has certainly made the concept of health top-of-mind for most of us this past year (or is it decade?) and more. And the concept of health includes far more than merely the narrow medical aspect of surviving this particular virus. Our mental, emotional and financial health are tested daily. We … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraEverything Revolves Around Something…
Mary Wagner’s drawings are exercises in chaos and order. They are both complex mathematical networks and candy-colored psychedelic dreamscapes. At the quantum level they are mere curvilinear paths arching around some absent center. Through repetition the lines warm and complicate. Patterns pile on top of each other taking on form and depth. Value and texture … Continue reading
Posts by: MW
McCormick Place Art Walk
Since 1999, Chicago Creative Coalition members have gone on an art walk in the fall to view interesting work, “share and air our aesthetic opinions in friendly company, and re-inspire and rejuvenate our creative spirits.” (Took that right out of our 1999 program description!) One of Illinois’ largest public art collections is located where you … Continue reading
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Program Planning BBQ 2021
Live and In-Person! The best way to ensure you get something out of Chicago Creative Coalitions upcoming year of programming is to let us know what you want. And a great way to do that is to take part in our Annual Program Planning BBQ! There will be time to drink and chat and generally … Continue reading
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Passion and Purpose: Traci Asher & Warren Perlstein
Artist Speaker Series When artists create work about things that they care about, they make better art. This series aims to explore all the ways that “passion projects” emerge, evolve, develop, are supported, funded and deployed. Why do you make the work that you make, and how does it affect change? These are the key … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraPassion and Purpose: Anne Krause
Artist Speaker Series When artists create work about things that they care about, they make better art. This series aims to explore all the ways that “passion projects” emerge, evolve, develop, are supported, funded and deployed. Why do you make the work that you make, and how does it affect change? These are the key … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimura