Chicago Arts District- Galleries around the Chicago and Pilsen Area

Pablo Picasso cubism history  How and why Pablo Picasso created cubism. Comprehensive study of the art of Pablo Picasso.

Online Art Contests, Galleries & Art Portfolios : Art Face Off
ArfFaceOff.com. We are an
online art community empowering individuals to inspire the art world.

Unicoi Art Studio -Art Classes and more for Children
*** highly recommended by artsupply.com***
Located in Lakeview/Roscoe Village, Unicoi Art Studio provides premium
quality art classes, mom and me classes, summer camp and birthday party events
for children ages 3-14. Our projects are designed to inspire art loving kids in our creative environment.

www.chicagoimpressionism.com
Chicago Impressionism is a new genre that is influenced and inspired by the impressionist paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Painters who study the Impressionist paintings themselves, studying the actual paintings housed in the museum in Chicago, as opposed to formal Art School training, have been inspired to create Art with an Impressionistic influence. As a locally emerging genre, Chicago Impressionism is of interest to all artists and art lovers alike who want to explore the ways in which established genres of art affect and inspire new artists and to native Chicagoans who are interested in the ways in which the city's rich and varied cultural environment continues to influence a new generation of art and the people who create it.

David Leonardis Gallery- Chicago Favorite Son
Chemically Imbalanced Comedy Chicago Comedy Troupe

Around the Coyote supports, promotes and makes accessible Chicago’s multidisciplinary arts community. Our activities enhance public discourse and provide creative outlets for emerging artists. Year-round programming includes multi-media arts festivals featuring visual art, theater, dance, video and poetry in the winter and fall; art exhibitions in the Around the Coyote Gallery; an artist-in-residence program; membership opportunities for artists and art aficionados; Educational Outreach for youth through multi-media art workshops, collaborations with local schools and agencies, and career development workshops for artists."

Abstract Art for Sale
Description: Artisan’s Market is an artists professional platform to
show and sell their handmade crafts, clay pots, handmade silver jewelry
or other handmade items competitively.

Hyde Park Art Center-The Hyde Park Art Center’s mission is to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago. It is the oldest alternative exhibition space in the City and boasts a long record of education outreach in the community.

Evanston Art Center

Blue Surf Art - Canvas Art GalleryCult pop paintings of your favourite films, music, models, cars, sport, and much more. Paintings include Scarface, Pulp Fiction, Ali, and the Beetles. Other services include original contemporary works of art, oil painting reproductions, and art commissions on canvas.

Old Town Triangle-The Old Town Triangle Association is a community-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for residents who live in an area of the City of Chicago bounded by North Avenue, Clark Street, Lincoln Avenue, Mohawk Street, and the former Ogden Avenue right of way.

TechnoBaba.Com Chicago Artist and Filmmaker Robert Fredericks' site devoted to Meher Baba

WESLEYWILLISART.COM  Art and Forum on the Chicago Street Artist   Wesley Willis

Genesis Art Supplies : Our Mirror Site....

Lets not forget The Onion

China Oil Paintings, wholesale oil paintings reproduction of old masterpiece

PENCIL REVOLUTION      A  site devoted to THE  PENCIL-what could be better????

Gallery WorldWide.Com     Some giant link exhange site for art galleries that we did a link exhange with.

Oil Painting of Landscape, Photo Portrait Reproductions from America's Wholesale Oil Painting

Tamsquare Art Oil Painting Gallery

Artviewsums

Drop shippers and drop shipping uk wholesale directory

The Near North West Arts Council
Founded in 1986, the Near North West Arts Council (NNWAC) is a non-profit, artist - directed organization committed to building sustainable creative communities. NNWAC has developed affordable housing for artists at Acme Artists Community (2418 W. Bloomingdale), as well as exhibit, studio and performance space at Acme Art Works (1741 N. Western). NNWAC is supported by its members, board and volunteers, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the Department of Cultural Affairs City Arts Program, the MacArthur Foundation Fund for Art and Culture at the Driehaus Foundation, Commonwealth Edison and the City of Chicago Department of Housing.

NNWAC -Artists sharing the power of creativity Acme Art Works 
1741 N Western Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647 
Tel 773.278.7677 ~ Fax 773.278.8451

The Arts of Life

In 1989 I recorded Wesley on a cheap hand held cassete recorder that I brought into Genesis Art Supplies to tape industrial sounds for a mix i was making.....just for the heck of it, I asked Wesley a question on tape. (Wesley spent alot of his days at Genesis back then, drawing)....anyway, he started rambling on and on, in a creative, interesting manner into the tape recorder....recognizing the value of it, i took his talking/speech/ramble and mixed it into some music for the enjoyment of a few friends working at the store. And of course for the amusement of Wesley himself

It has been credited with inspiring Wesley to start writing his songs, start his musical carerer and become known...it may have..- I don't know- it may served as a catalyst... anyway, I have uploaded the tracks here for download. They are not well recorded...i had very cheap equipment then...but they present Wesley in a way that still has value.......enjoy...and visit the above link wesleywillisart.com to see Wesley's drawings.....Robert Fredericks -July 2005

Wesley Willis  "Yappin and a'Yakkin" 
Words:Wesley Willis, Music :Robert Fredericks     copyright 1989 Robert Fredericks

Wesley Willis  "Runnin' My Ink Pen and Runnin' My Mouth" 
Words: Wesley Willis, Music: Robert Fredericks     copyright 1989 Robert Fredericks

The downloads above are copyright  by Robert Fredericks   1989. They are for the general public, all distribution in any manner is prohibited without written consent of Robert Fredericks.
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