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This summer the Rogers Park Business Alliance and SSA #24 Clark/Morse/Glenwood are continuing their Mile of Murals project with a new installment on Glenwood Avenue from Greenleaf to Lunt.

Coordinating this wall are local artists Dustin Harris and Lea Pinsky, who led last year’s block-long wall from Estes to Greenleaf with the Howard Area Community Center youth. For this project, about a dozen LOCAL professional artists will be selected to contribute individual sections of the wall, each about 25’ long x 7’ high. Artists will be expected to work collaboratively with their peers adjacent to them on the wall as they create their designs, to ensure fluid transitions from one artist to the next. Each artist will receive a basic package of materials including paint (Nova for acrylics, Montana for aerosol), some brushes, and paint trays; plus there will be a few step stools to share. Artists will need to supply any other materials as needed. Stipend for each artist is $1400.

To apply, please complete this application and submit by April 30. If you cannot download the application, email lea@leapinsky.com or call 773-761-8699. Leave your name, email address, and phone number and we will send you the form.

The 2010 Neighborhood Arts Program (NAP) application is now available. This grant program is designed to encourage and support the presentation of high-quality instructional arts programs benefiting youth-at-risk, seniors, or persons with disabilities in Chicago’s low to moderate income neighborhoods. Individual artists with demonstrated teaching and/or performing experience in these communities may request up to $4,000 for workshops or touring performances suitable for Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Park District, community centers, schools, or facilities serving senior citizens or persons with disabilities.

Date: Saturday April 10, 2010
Time: 10 am – 4 pm
Location: Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington St.

The Creative Chicago Expo is a free, day-long event that connects Chicago’s arts community – individual artists, businesses and organizations working in dance, music, film, fashion, theater, visual arts, literary and design – with the services, spaces, information and networks that they need. It is a premier event to connect with Chicago’s top creative artists.

The Expo is held at the Chicago Cultural Center. It has three main components: Vendors, Workshops and Consultants. Last year, 5,500 people attended the Expo. They met 130 Vendors; participated in 23 workshops and made 200 appointments with 40 consultants.

The 2010 Expo will be better than ever.

The Expo is an amazing opportunity for businesses, lenders, arts services, community organizations, schools and arts ed organizations, space and housing providers, health care and financial consultants and any business that wants to connect with Chicago’s most creative people.

WORKSHOPS
Presented by top local and national service providers.
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• Affordable Housing in Chicago
• Art Festival How-tos
• Benchmarking 101: Outcomes & Measurements
• Building a Board of Directors
• Business Licensing Basics
• Cultivating Individual Donors
• Finding Live/Work Space
• Fiscal Sponsorship
• Forming a Non-Profit
• Health Insurance Advice for Artists
• Marketing For the Cash Strapped and Time Poor
• Meet your Arts Service Agencies
• Obtaining Capital for your Creative Industry
• Reaching New Audiences
• Space Development Starter Kit for Non-profits
• Starting an Arts-Based Business
• Strategic Planning for Non-Profits
• Time Management for Artists
• Tips for “Successful Grant Applications
• Winning Public Art Commissions
• Your Credit Score: Re-Building Your Financial Health

The Chicago Artists Resource (CAR) is a program of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs which describes the landscape of opportunity in the arts for artists.

CAR also is a great resource, and has assembled the tools needed for Chicago artists working in Dance, Music, Theater and Visual Arts through a unique combination of:

• artist-curated resource directory
• links to local and national organizations
• articles from the New York Foundation for the Arts; UIC Center for Health in the Arts; GYST, Ink, and Ann Daley Consulting;
• the voices, artwork and experiences of Chicago artists.
• resources for  managing, finances, insurance, legal, marketing, media outlets, professional organizations, health, suppliers, advocacy and education in specifically tailored for each art discipline.

Use CAR to strengthen your own artistic practice, and share your experience by submitting your own Artist Story or Arts Professional Story. To learn more about CAR, check out their website at http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org