Arts & Creativity Resources
Holiday Party 2017
Ho, Ho, Ho! Warm up the oven, stretch your throttle fingers and grab those unwanted gifts and join Chicago Creative Coalition members for our annual Holiday Party! This year’s event, at Fieldhouse Jones, features a festive pot-luck dinner, and in a flashback to the 1960s, slot car racing! Since we will all be driving and will … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraDesign & Create in VR
Join Chicago Creative Coalition and make paintings with strokes that twirl and dance around you in 3D or create virtual sculptures that you can build from all angles! See where this cutting-edge art form is headed in an exciting hands-on exploration of artists leading the way in illustration, sculpture, 3D modeling and printing, and animation. . … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraGallery Walk 2017
Join Chicago Creative Coalition in our annual Gallery Walk on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, as we explore the leading edge of commercial fine art at four River North galleries. It has been a C3 tradition since 1999 to begin our programming year with the opportunity to delve into some of Chicago’s finest galleries (something all of … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraProgram Planning BBQ
Come out on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 6 p.m. and enjoy a relaxed evening BBQing after work. When we are fully sated, we’ll put our minds to the task of planning the programming and special events calendar for Chicago Creative Coalition’s 2017-18 calendar year. Have your say in what you’d like to see happen … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraAnnual Meeting 2017
Paint, Wax and Tacos C3 Annual Meeting Encaustic Mixed Media with Jenny Learner Saturday, June 24, 2017 Join C3 for a hands-on look into encaustic art at our Annual Meeting. Jenny Learner, Chicago encaustic artist, will show us the ins and outs of the ancient medium of painting with molten beeswax and pure pigment. Imagine … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraC3 Spring Show
Celebrate Spring with Chicago Creative Coalition! Join C3 and Photography Wine & Critique members showcasing arts and crafts in beautiful Avondale at Arts on Elston, 3446 N. Albany Avenue, Chicago, June 7, 9, 10 & 11, 2017. The exhibition and sale features: Opening Reception Friday, June 9, 2017, 5 to 10 p.m. Showing Wednesday, June … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraWeb Design and Neuromarketing
Andy Crestodina, co-founder and Strategic Director of Orbit Media, an award-winning 38-person web design company in Chicago, will take us into a journey of the Mind. Web Design and Neuromarketing will cover Better Mousetraps: A Content-Driven Approach to Conversion Optimization 15 Things To Remove From Your Website Immediately Brain Science and Websites: 6 Ways to … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraArts on Elston 2017 Artists
The Avondale Restaurant Crawl‘s mission is to help people know, appreciate, & support culinary artists working at Avondale restaurants along Elston Avenue from Prop Theater south to Belmont Avenue. The event is also designed to help people know, appreciate, and support Northwest Side performing artists whose talent enhances the overall experience for guests. This popular … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraWhole New World: Virtual Reality
Enjoy a product demo without a product; take a building tour before it’s even built. Escape to virtual worlds for games, communication, learning, or even design and painting in 3D! We’ll be taking an (actual) trip over to the interactive studios of Leviathan to explore VR for ourselves with headsets, whole-room tracking you can walk … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraLife Interactive: Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR) is taking the world by storm. Pokemon Go set the record for most app store downloads in a week. We’ll head over to Next/Now – an amazing interactive studio – to check out how they use AR, mixed-reality, body-tracking and other cool tech for trade shows, public art installations like the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park, product … Continue reading
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