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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...
Jan 09, 2020
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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 might connect. His innovation helped...
Jan 07, 2020
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- Nonprofits
As we conduct our Annual Review, coalesce feedback and finalize numbers, it’s been truly remarkable to take a look at IPaintMyMind’s impact 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, the...
Dec 30, 2019
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- Art Resources for Teachers
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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...
Nov 27, 2019
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- Shared Walls by IPaintMyMind™
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 Chicago Tonight. She reached out to us then came out with her crew...
Nov 01, 2019
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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...
Oct 21, 2019
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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....
Oct 14, 2019
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With office space design moving to new levels, it’s incumbent upon any business to make a bold statement in its facilities and workplaces. From green walls, to rotating art, to lounges and cold brew, the coolest offices have Instagrammable design elements including interior and exterior murals. If you have been...
Aug 12, 2019
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- Nonprofits
In 2013, our leadership participated in a program with the Arts & Business Council of Chicago entitled, Business Volunteers for the Arts. The program matches an emerging arts organization with local pro-bono consultants who help co-create strategic plans and processes for the nonprofits they are paired with. As a...
Aug 05, 2019- Art
- Workplace Solutions
Workspaces have changed a lot in the last decade. Until then, offices were largely a sea of cubicles, poor lighting, and cost-cutting at every opportunity. Hardly the type of setting that inspired or energized. Interior design for offices has evolved a lot since then, moving toward open and collaborative...
Jul 29, 2019
