Locked Achievements
February 22 – March 30, 2025
Take an emotionally powerful journey with Chicago’s incarcerated youth in this collaboration between The Beautiful Cat and Stomping Grounds Literary Arts Initiative, featuring visual art and poetry.
Locked Achievements Closing Reception & Artist Celebration
March 27, 2025
We celebrated the talented work of the Locked Achievements artists with a guided gallery tour, writing letters to the teens still incarcerated, and by learning more about the carceral system including how the Locked Achievements exhibition and exhibition catalog are serving as mitigating evidence. All with great music, pizza, and community.
Simple Pleasures
April – May, 2025
Get lost in the details of Indian artist and designer Bansri Thakkar’s drawings.
Color/Chill with Cat & Plant Portraits
May 24, 2025
We spent a chill afternoon enjoying free coloring sheets by Bansri Thakkar as folks lined up for custom cat and plant portraits.
My Toe is on the Trip Wire
June – July, 2025
Be pulled into a world of shining flora with Julia Paloma’s cozy, metal sculptures.
Plaster Casting
July 20, 2025
Art is for everyone! Which is why we hosted a plaster casting workshop where participants used play dough to make relief sculptures then learned how to cast them in plaster.
End of the Tail
August – September, 2025
How do we honor our grief in a world on fire? What role can art play in processing our emotions so we can hold fast to our humanity and not forget the version of ourself that our lost ones loved?
Sankofa / Backcast
September – October, 2025
Dream of better worlds and be inspired to make those worlds a reality with the work of Afrofuturist Alvin Schexnider.