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X-WR-CALNAME:CalDiscovery - chicago-il BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Voices Embodied: Prognostication DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260626 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260627 DTSTAMP:20260729T003528Z UID:63837-1782432000-1800316799@artsoflife.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Alex Stark – Baiq Enggardianti – Celwin Plamenco – Chant al Danyluk – Charlotte Saylor – Chloe Pascal Crawford – Daisy(Chang) Ye – Deborah Awwad – Delta poetica – Echo(Qinyu) Huan – Eia Rados avljevic – Elliot Harold – Franco Kwachelanji Mbilizi – H Marsh Sche nck – Irwin Freeman – James Hosking – Jemsy Pradun – Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen – Juan G – Katherine Sherwood – Kelly Coleman – Leonard Wenk – Lucy Walsh – Lynn Walsh – MAGNETIC SPACE BUBBLE – Millicent Villacastin – Moth Clements – Myles Hunt – Quentin Kai lun Yang – Rachel Ungerer – Renata Berdes – Robert Andy Coombs – S ally Booth – Seo Hye Lee – Tiffany Marie Miller – Tim Stone – Todd Edward Herman – verovcha\n  \nCurated by: Alex Stark \nCentered around the idea of a disability-forward future\, Voices Embodied: Prognosticatio n features the varying perspectives of 38 local\, national\, and internati onal artists\, accompanied by a series of films and performances. Artists were asked to push the boundaries of what a typical museum show looks like . They were encouraged to reimagine what is possible by reassessing the re lationship between design and accessibility\, and through the exploration of how art and design can be access points to culture and discourse. In Ou tlaw Culture: Resisting Representations\, Bell Hooks states\, “The futur e of art is to do more than what it is\; it is to imagine what is possible .” \nThis exhibition invites audience members into a reimagined space wi th purple and silver walls indicative of the creative and collaborative vi sion of a future designed by the artists. The artworks touch upon themes o f strength\, tenderness\, creativity\, and community\, and speak to ways o f loving one another while moving forward together and impacting change\, suggesting that we are all involved in redesigning and imagining what is p ossible. \nOpening reception:\nFriday June 26\, 2026\n5:00 – 8:00 pm\n\n Ongoing through January 18\, 2027. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T003528Z LOCATION:Design Museum of Chicago\, 72 E Randolph St Floor 1\, Chicago\, 6 0601\, United States URL:https://artsoflife.org/event/voices-embodied-prognostication/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Arts of Life X-SOURCE-URL:https://artsoflife.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Honeybun DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260805 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260910 DTSTAMP:20260729T003528Z UID:63861-1785888000-1788998399@artsoflife.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Ariée – Chris Austin – Isamu Guy Conners – Katrina Jack son\nHoneybun brings together a selection of recent works by artists from all three of Arts of Life’s studio programs.  Arts of Life advances the creative arts community by providing artists with intellectual and develo pmental disabilities a collective space to expand their practice and stren gthen their leadership. Composed of three studios located in the neighborh oods of West Town\, Hyde Park\, and Glenview\; Arts of Life currently supp orts 80 artists by providing space\, materials\, professional development\ , and exhibition opportunities. \nPublic Opening Reception:\nWednesday Aug ust 5\, 2026\n5:30 – 6:30 pm \nPlease note the Union League Club’s Dre ss Code Policy  \n******Special Thanks to the Union League Club of Chicag o for hosting this exhibition. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T003528Z LOCATION:Union League Club of Chicago\, 65 W Jackson Blvd\, Chicago\, IL\, 60604\, United States URL:https://artsoflife.org/event/honeybun/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Arts of Life X-SOURCE-URL:https://artsoflife.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DEATH MAGIC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260807 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260926 DTSTAMP:20260826T181641Z UID:63854-1786060800-1790380799@artsoflife.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Ron Athey – Marquis Von Bayros – Rachael Bos – Jamie Fle tcher – Danny Frownfelter – Norbert Kox – Bill Lilly – Monika Plio plyte – Sun Ra – Philipp Schopke – Jon Serl – Bronislaw “Bruno ” Sowa – Maria Vanik – Jean Wilson – Albert Zahn\n  \nPray\, carv e\, bleed\, sing. Insist that to look death in the face\, ritually and rep eatedly\, is how one kisses life on the lips. This is magic understood pla inly: not sleight of hand\, but the discipline of transformation\, and rel igion in its most degraded form. \nThe sacred\, in this view\, is not piet y but rupture: sacrifice\, ecstasy\, laughter\, daemonic entities\, and th e corpse. Death here is not simply a subject but a method. Art becomes the site where the restricted economy of production and survival is deliberat ely breached\, where a sovereign act of wasting oneself – bleeding\, pra ying\, dancing\, carving toward no useful end – recovers a continuity be tween beings that ordinary\, bounded selfhood forecloses. The works gather ed here stage exactly this breach: each refuses the discreteness the self is supposed to maintain\, offering itself instead as a willful expenditure \, a controlled burn of the prairie’s boundary – on the border where t he living meet the dead. \nBeneath that scorched wound runs a river. Death is not an event waiting at the end of a life but a force already coursing through it. A pure differentiation\, the self already a multiplicity bein g continuously undone and reassembled beneath its own name. This current t reats the human not as a form to be preserved but as a threshold to be lau ghed at\, dissolved\, desire and death fused into a single accelerant burn ing through identity toward what is on the other side. This exhibition’s icons are not meditations on mortality\, they are remnants of mortality ’s discharge\, operations and apparatuses built by hand\, and by body\, to run the current of death through the self on purpose – not to master it\, but to see\, however briefly\, who or what rears its head from beneat h the surface. \n  \nOpening reception:\nAugust 7\, 2026\n5-8pm \n  \nCX W hours with the guest curator:\nSeptember 17\, 2026\n5:00 – 8:00 pm \nT his exhibition runs through September 25\, 2026. \n******Guest curated by Ryan M. Pfeiffer \nRyan M. Pfeiffer is an interdisciplinary artist\, write r and curator based in Chicago\, IL. His artworks have been exhibited at t he Institute of Contemporary Art (Singapore)\, Breese Little (London)\, Ab baye Saint–Magloire (France)\, Come Again (Berlin)\, The International M useum of Surgical Science (Chicago)\, Western Exhibitions (Chicago)\, Andr ew Rafacz (Chicago)\, LAXART (Los Angeles)\, 80 WSE Gallery (New York)\, I ndiana University (Indiana)\, among others. His works and exhibitions have been published in The New York Times\, Artforum\, Art in America\, The Br ooklyn Rail\, Fulgur Press\, The New City\, the Journal for Extreme Anthro pologie\, and the Religious Studies Review Journal. In 2022\, he co-curate d the first Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) exhibition in the United Stat es at Iceberg Projects (Chicago)\, celebrating the centennial anniversary of a rare folio of drawings from the Kinsey Institute’s collection. His current curatorial project is ORGANGRINDER at M. LeBlanc Gallery (Chicago) . \n  \n******Special thanks to the Intuit Art Museum\, John Corbett and The Kinsey Institute\, Indiana University\, without whose generous support this exhibition would not be made possible. LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T181641Z LOCATION:Circle Contemporary- West Town\, 2010 W. Carroll Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60612\, United States URL:https://artsoflife.org/event/death-magic/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Arts of Life X-SOURCE-URL:https://artsoflife.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CXW DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921 DTSTAMP:20260821T181809Z UID:64255-1789344000-1789948799@artsoflife.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:The fourth annual Chicago Exhibition Week features over 50 par ticipating galleries and creative spaces across the city from September 14 –20\, spotlighting Chicago’s vibrant cultural landscape and artistic s pirit for locals and visitors alike. Building off the success of last year ’s edition\, which attracted 10\,000 attendees over three days\, CXW26 w ill expand its footprint with over 50 participating galleries\, demonstrat ing the vitality and diversity of the city’s growing commercial art scen e. \n  \nGallery hours for DEATH MAGIC with guest curator Ryan Michael Pf eiffer.\nSeptember 17\, 2026\n5:00 – 8:00 pm \n  \nRyan M. Pfeiffer \nR yan M. Pfeiffer is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer and curator based in Chicago\, IL. His artworks have been exhibited at the Institute of Cont emporary Art (Singapore)\, Breese Little (London)\, Abbaye Saint–Magloir e (France)\, Come Again (Berlin)\, The International Museum of Surgical Sc ience (Chicago)\, Western Exhibitions (Chicago)\, Andrew Rafacz (Chicago)\ , LAXART (Los Angeles)\, 80 WSE Gallery (New York)\, Indiana University (I ndiana)\, among others. His works and exhibitions have been published in  The New York Times\, Artforum\, Art in America\, The Brooklyn Rail\, F ulgur Press\, The New City\, the Journal for Extreme Anthropologie\, and the Religious Studies Review Journal. In 2022\, he co-curated the first Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) exhibition in the United States at Iceber g Projects (Chicago)\, celebrating the centennial anniversary of a rare fo lio of drawings from the Kinsey Institute’s collection. His current cura torial project is ORGANGRINDER at M. LeBlanc Gallery (Chicago). LAST-MODIFIED:20260821T181809Z URL:https://artsoflife.org/event/cxw/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Arts of Life X-SOURCE-URL:https://artsoflife.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:People Who Do Wrong to Other People Burn in Hell DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261209 DTSTAMP:20260829T001757Z UID:64064-1789430400-1796774399@artsoflife.org CATEGORIES:arts,music DESCRIPTION:Candace Turner – Deaudre Steele – Tim Stone – Isamu Guy Conners – Marvin Young – Richard Auth \nGuest curated @fabulous.chica go and Zander Raymond \nOpening reception:\nOctober 6th\, 2026\n6:00 – 9 :00 pm. \nZander Raymond is an interdisciplinary artist\, musician\, and c urator living and working in Chicago\, IL. In his visual work\, he improvi ses with found materials from his day to day to make collages and sculptur es that serve as an autobiographical record of experience while pointing t oward the unseen. His music is similarly rooted in improvisation\, utilizi ng synthesizers\, field recorders\, and open-source sound computers to sam ple\, warp\, and build sonic images that embrace serendipity and highlight the musicality of the ordinary. In early 2026 he started a curatorial pro ject called fabulous\, which primarily is operated out of his apartment. P ast Projects have been hosted by Regards (Chicago\, IL)\, Devening Project s (Chicago\, IL)\, Weatherproof (Chicago\, IL)\, Switch Hook Projects (Chi cago\, IL)\, and Agatha’s (Buffalo\, NY). He’s released music on Love All Day\, Moon Glyph\, Florabelle\, Cached.media\, among others. He holds a BFA in studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. LAST-MODIFIED:20260829T001757Z LOCATION:Lula Cafe\, 2537 N. Kedzie\, Chicago\, IL\, 60647\, United States URL:https://artsoflife.org/event/people-who-do-wrong-to-other-people-burn- in-hell/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Arts of Life X-SOURCE-URL:https://artsoflife.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmic Rodeo 2026 Benefit Auction DTSTART:20260919T220000Z DTEND:20260920T030000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T003528Z UID:63807-1789837200-1789855200@artsoflife.org CATEGORIES:community LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T003528Z LOCATION:Venue West\, 221 N Pauline St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60612\, United Sta tes URL:https://artsoflife.org/event/cosmicrodeo/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Arts of Life X-SOURCE-URL:https://artsoflife.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Walking on an Airy Road DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261002 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261107 DTSTAMP:20260902T000151Z UID:64323-1790899200-1794009599@artsoflife.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Marcelo Aguilar – Melina Ausikaitis – Rick Briggs – Rosa nna Bruno – Robert Burnier – Abraham Cone – Veronica Cuculich – Sa m Filicky – Erol Scott Harris – Holly Holmes – Julia Klein – Alysh a Kostelny – Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu – Laura McManus – Aya Nakamura – Hu bert Posey – Brian Reed – Lucy Walsh – Chris Viau \n  \n******Guest curated by Anna Kunz and Carie Lassman \n  \nThe show brings together ar tists whose practices share a common thread – an engagement with materia l exploration and a free\, gerund\, process-oriented approach to finding a nd making simultaneously. The exhibition frames this through the lens of “flow state” as described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: the absorbed\, g enerative condition that emerges when a practice is fully inhabited. \nOpe ning Reception:\nOctober 2\, 2026\n5:00 – 8:00 pm \n  \nAnna Kunz Anna Kunz received an MFA from Northwestern University\, Evanston\, IL and a BF A from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, Chicago\, IL.  Kunz p articipated as an artist-in-residence in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Pro gram\, Brooklyn\, NY\; The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, Sk owhegan\, ME\, and the Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary\, New Jersey . He work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in the public collections. Recent nominations include The Joan Mitchell Foun dation and Anonymous was a Woman.  Kunz lives and works in Buchanan\, Mic higan. \nCarie Lassman is a Chicago-based painter consumed by color relati onships\, line\, and surface history. Her work hovers somewhere between ab straction and representation—suggestions of landscapes\, architecture\, plaid—exploring how physical and emotional structures can both support a nd constrain\, where messy personal histories are caught within structural systems. Each painting is a physical record of its own making. LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T000151Z LOCATION:Circle Contemporary- West Town\, 2010 W. Carroll Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60612\, United States URL:https://artsoflife.org/event/walking-on-an-airy-road/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Arts of Life X-SOURCE-URL:https://artsoflife.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Awards Show celebrating Arts of Life Artists! DTSTART:20261016T220000Z DTEND:20261017T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260829T001757Z UID:64265-1792170000-1792180800@artsoflife.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:The Awards Show is one of our very favorite traditions. It’s our annual opportunity to recognize the many achievements of our artists and celebrate the growth of our community. It’s been an exceptional year \, and we can’t wait to show you why! \nDETAILS: \nFriday\, October 16\ nDoors open at 5 pm – Ceremony begins at 5:30 pm\nWest Town Studio – 2 010 W Carroll Ave. \nThursday\, October 22\nDoors open at 5 pm – Ceremon y begins at 5:30 pm\nGlenview Studio – 1963 Johns Ave. LAST-MODIFIED:20260829T001757Z LOCATION:Arts of Life – Chicago\, 2010 W Carroll Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, Un ited States URL:https://artsoflife.org/event/awards-show-celebrating-arts-of-life-arti sts/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Arts of Life X-SOURCE-URL:https://artsoflife.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR