IPaintMyMind 2019 Annual Impact & Statistics Report: Infographic

2019 Was Our Most Impactful Year To Date! It’s been great to review 2019, think about the highlights, thank the people that made it amazing, and the direction the organization is headed in. We feel fantastic about the way we’re telling our story, activating folks around the mission, and...

Interview: Kate Lewis’ Architectural Prints and Colorful Murals Are On The Rise

The moment I saw Kate Lewis’ architectural art prints via All Star Press Gallery, I knew her work had to be part of the IPaintMyMind Permanent Collection. I even purchased one of her originals, of the Guggenheim Museum. Her odes to architectures greatest structures and stories lives in the...

$390,000 Spent On A Banana: Not Making Art More Accessible

Header Photo: courtesy of ArtNet I love what Duchamp gave the world of art. Readymades are an important artistic concept, decoupling technique from inspiring idea. His great thought is that art has no bounds, no technical requirement. It just needs to inspire, provide insight, activate, or express something that...

IPaintMyMind’s Impact in 2019: A Story

As we conduct our Annual Review, coalesce feedback and finalize numbers, it’s been truly remarkable to take a look at what IPaintMyMind accomplished in 2019. There are some great metrics for our mission that we’re happy to boast about, but as we reflect a little more on the artists,...

6 Arts Organizations Offering Fantastic Programs to Chicago Public Schools

As jobs become increasingly automated, it is a skillset in creativity, storytelling, language, and big ideas that will separate job candidates. These types of skills are developed through arts and humanities. Unfortunately, schools are still necessarily dependent on outside organizations for support when it comes to arts education. It...

IPaintMyMind featured on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight

After being featured in the Chicago Tribune as a result of our huge program push during the first two weeks of September, the good word found its way to Angel Idowu, the Arts Correspondent for WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. She reached out to us then came out with her crew...

7 Incredibly Free Resources for Art Teachers

As we head into the final days of October, the Chicago Public School strike continues. The Chicago Teachers Union is fighting for the addition of nurses and social workers and against overcrowded classrooms. We’d like to lend our support! Here are seven FREE resources for teachers to utilize now and...

7 Ways To Support Chicago Nonprofit Organizations

Many of us who wish to contribute to our communities have long-harbored notions that the road to inner happiness includes some sort of giving. And it’s hardly an accident that this belief is so natural. Why wouldn’t happiness be spread from goodness and in both directions? But it is...

5 Cultural Features Great Companies Don’t Go Without

Children dream about growing up to be athletes, astronauts, dancers, artists, veterinarians, and firefighters, but many will find work that our youth couldn’t have imagined. Flying in a spaceship, a daily dose of adorable animals and a big truck with sirens become things of the past.  Except they don’t....