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THE COLOR OF TOMORROW BY SAM KIRK & Michelle M. Collins

A NON Agency Production

Written & Directed by Michelle M. Collins Illustrated by Sam Kirk with assistance by Colorist & Illustrator, Jenny Q and Illustrator, Anne Heisler Animated by Vanessa Brown and Morning Wu Music Production by Mike Swells featuring Saxophonist Leah Gough-Cooper Promotion and Social Planning by Nic Gomez and Zaire Baptiste

KEEP YOUR CREATIVITY FLOWING!

While we are quarantined and spending lots of time at home, it's a good time to bring back a classic. COLORING!

Here are some coloring pages for anyone who wants to stay creative. Unleash your inner kid spirit or simply print a couple out for the kiddos to have fun indoors. If you love it, please share it! Post and tag me @iamsamkirk and anyone else you think may want to show off their coloring skills!

Stay Safe & Healthy!
Sam Kirk & Team

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Sam Kirk

creates artwork to celebrate people and to inspire pride and recognition for underrepresented communities. Her work walks the viewer through various moments, focusing on a celebration of culture, discovery of identity, and the politics that we have been fighting for generations.

Kirk was born and raised on the south side of Chicago and spent most of her childhood jumping from neighborhood to neighborhood with her family. She enjoyed exploring new communities and cultures with each move, providing great satisfaction for her fascination with the differences we all posses.

Working class communities continue to be her key ingredient of inspiration. Frequently exploring new destinations, her art is a continual study, sharing her experiences in the shifting landscapes of our neighborhoods. Part autobiographical, and part fairytale, her vibrant color palette reveals profound stories laced with optimism.

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CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Annual Holiday Group Show
Exhibition Dates: December 4 - December 15

The Elephant Room Gallery
(online and by private viewing appointments only)
704 S Wabash Ave. Chicago, Il 60605

This Holiday Group Show features 12x12 works by a bunch of Chicago-based artists. This year, 10% of sales will go to Earth Remedies and their West-Side Holiday Drive. Please consider giving the gift of art this year and supporting this holiday drive and our artists!

Contact kim@elephantroomgallery.com to book your viewing.

Holiday Group Show
Exhibition Dates: December 12 - January 2nd

The Vertical Gallery
Vertical Project Space @ 2006 W. Chicago Ave. #1R

The Simple Good is excited to partner with Vertical Gallery for a charitable holiday group show. Each artist created an original 12 X 12 artwork that aligns with the mission of The Simple Good. 50% of each sale will go to TSG and provide critical funding for their Social Emotional Learning based Youth Art Programming during this critical time.

The Simple Good is a Chicago based non-profit whose mission is to connect the meaning of 'good' from around the world to empower youth to become positive activists through art and discussion. Through Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness based youth art programming and public art projects, they transcend the message that no matter where you go in the world, good means the same to all of us – and that is what connects us as human beings.

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Sólo un poco aquí: Day of the Dead
Exhibition Dates: September 18 - December 13

National Museum of Mexican Art
Online Virtual Exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUUTVEehuiI

This year’s exhibition pays tribute to and remembers the numerous individuals from our community, Mexico, the U.S. and the entire world that have died from COVID-19. Join us to see new installations, paintings, and prints created by local artists for this, the 34th annual Day of the Dead exhibition. In addition there will be works of art in various media from the growing National Museum of Mexican Art Permanent Collection. These works created by Mexican artists from both sides of the border reveal their interest in preserving and participating in one of the most influential living celebrations from Mexico, which over time has transcended borders.

Well Behaved Women: Celebrating 100 Years of
Women’s Suffrage.
Exhibition Dates: July 3 – October 23, 2020

Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd street, Michigan City, IN 46360

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th
Amendment of the Constitution of the United States granting
women the equal right to vote, LCA is mounting an exhibit
celebrating the achievements across all boundaries and fields.
This exhibit features artists who identify as women and includes
varied media and voices that examine and discuss the roles of
women in science, history, healthcare and the arts.

LatinXAmerican
Exhibition Dates: January 2021 - August 2021

DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton, Chicago, IL 60614

Opening Reception: Pending further notice.

LatinXAmerican is an intergenerational group exhibition featuring more than 30 Latin American and Latinx artists from Chicago and beyond. The term Latinx is used here as a nonbinary gender-inclusive alternative to Latino or Latina for people of Latin American heritage living primarily in the United States. The exhibition assesses the presence and absence of Latin American and Latinx artists in DePaul Art Museum’s collection, and reflects efforts to build in this area as part of a multi-year Latinx Art Initiative to increase their visibility in museums. A 2018 study of 18 major U.S. art museums found that only 2.8% of artists in their collections are Latino/a/x/Hispanic. The initiative also takes into consideration that Latinx communities account for nearly one-third of Chicago’s population and 16% of DePaul University’s enrollment.

Occupying all of the museum’s galleries, LatinXAmerican is organized around themes of art historical critique, death and ritual, labor and community activism, rasquachismo—an aesthetic rooted in cultural pride and economic resourcefulness—and urbanism and everyday life. LatinXAmerican includes photographs, paintings, works on paper, sculptures, textiles, and installations spanning over one hundred years and primarily drawn from DPAM’s collection, including several recent acquisitions. The exhibition explores the intersections and fluidity of Latinx, Latin American, and American art as categories based on complicated histories of language, race, class, geographies, immigration, and aesthetics.

LatinXAmerican is organized by DePaul Art Museum and co-curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Director and Chief Curator; Laura-Caroline Johnson de Lara, Collection and Exhibition Manager; Mia Lopez, former Assistant Curator; Jade Ryerson, Arthur James Museum Studies Fellow; David Maruzzella, Curatorial Intern; and Elyse Bluestone, Collection and Exhibition Intern.