IPaintMyMind Timed Release Series: Sam Kirk & Grae Rosa – On-Sale Friday, May 1st @ 6pm Link

IPaintMyMind Timed Release Series: Sam Kirk & Grae Rosa – On-Sale Friday, May 1st @ 6pm

Exclusively Available via IPaintMyMind, Sam Kirk & Grae Rosa prints are on-Sale Until May 15th @ 6pm CST! Buy yours before they’re gone. In an effort to further connect everyone we work with, we’ve revived the concept of a print series, which saw a few editions way back in...

Apr 20, 2020
How Small Nonprofits Must Adjust To Ensure Survival In The Age of The Coronavirus Link

How Small Nonprofits Must Adjust To Ensure Survival In The Age of The Coronavirus

In this new, weird time, IPaintMyMind like most smaller nonprofits is thinking critically about how to best navigate a year that has quickly gone pear-shaped. While all of us have had to adapt on every level as individuals and families, businesses and nonprofits are also feeling the squeeze of...

Apr 13, 2020
10 Tips for Artists Who Want & Need To Get Organized Link

10 Tips for Artists Who Want & Need To Get Organized

At IPaintMyMind, we’ve worked with hundreds of artists over the years from coast to coast, and it’s always interesting to see how folks work. Most of us want to get more organized in some aspect of our lives, but as artists and creators, it’s especially important that we work...

Apr 13, 2020
The Top 5 Reasons Why Nonprofits Struggle to Collaborate Link

The Top 5 Reasons Why Nonprofits Struggle to Collaborate

Nonprofits and community groups provide vital support in a range of important civic areas but as leaders of our respective organizations, we could be doing more to help one another. One major area in the nonprofit sector that is ripe for evolution is the issue of collaboration between fellow...

Apr 06, 2020
5 Evolutionary Black Chicago Artists Link

5 Evolutionary Black Chicago Artists

Contemporary art challenges traditional notions of art, but it also relies on what comes before it. In this way, there is always a conversation between the new and the old, and the groundwork artistic predecessors laid out has a great deal to do with today’s artistic creations. It is...

Mar 30, 2020
How Art Programs In Schools Provokes Creative Problem Solving Link

How Art Programs In Schools Provokes Creative Problem Solving

The fact of the matter is that the economy of the future requires art. It requires creative people developing new solutions for businesses, communities, and our world as a whole. In the past art was seen as superfluous, a fuzzy area in the humanities where practicality vanished. Just because...

Mar 23, 2020
Quick And Cool DIY Art Projects To Do At Home Link

Quick And Cool DIY Art Projects To Do At Home

For most of us, doing our part during this trying time simply means staying in our apartments or houses. But in a tremendous way, people are helping others, from inside their homes, endure inside of their homes. We’ve seen a fitness instructor leading a workout on a rooftop, Yo-Yo...

Mar 20, 2020
Interview: Russell Muits of Storm Print City Link

Interview: Russell Muits of Storm Print City

Storm Print City turns printmaking into a public act of art, at once preserving history, making art, and serving as a beacon of curiosity for any passerby. Once a dear-friend clued me in to the work of Russell Muits, it resonated with so clearly. Accessible, beautiful, simple, concise. His...

Mar 16, 2020
Should You Rent or Buy Art For Your Office? Link

Should You Rent or Buy Art For Your Office?

Over the past 5+ years, it’s been our pleasure to work with our corporate clients to rent, purchase, or commission art for their offices, retail spaces, or restaurants. It’s also been interesting to learn what clients want, how they’re using their spaces, and how IPaintMyMind’s various art services can...

Mar 09, 2020
16 Special Artists To Follow on Instagram in 2020 Link

16 Special Artists To Follow on Instagram in 2020

Instagram has clearly proven itself to be the best platform for visual artists due to its concise, image-laden format. As a curator, it’s my research tool of choice! Here’s a starter list of artists to follow on Instagram in 2020.  What used to be longtail keyword deep dives into...

Mar 02, 2020