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Bid in the Hearth Virtual Auction ⬇️
Explore the first Chicago Arts Census Report and more ⬇️⬇️

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Very limited number of Hearth artist/alumni price tickets available and then we are sold out! Grab yours today at the link in bio or stories.

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Join us for Hearth, the ACRE Annual Benefit, on October 14, 2026 to raise vital funds for ACRE’s residency program and ongoing resources for artists.

The event features cocktails by Apologue, dinner by ACRE Kitchen, music by DJ Lele Buonerba, and a silent auction of artwork and experiences by ACRE alumni and friends.

Let’s gather for a special evening to celebrate the artists and community that power ACRE, while sustaining our programs and artist-driven mission. by @acreresidency

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🪻💖🪩HEARTH AFTER PARTY ✨🌱🫧 Join us Wednesday, October 14 from 9pm-2am @californiaclipper for an after party celebrating Hearth our annual benefit where we raise funds to support the work we do all year long.

Dance the night away with @allen_moore_127 @ladancynancy and @discjacqui

You can also enter our raffle to win a $500 gift card from @rosabeltattoos!! Enter by through the link in bio. Click donate and tickets to enter. by @acreresidency

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We’re launching the public reporting phase of the Chicago Arts Census!

Arts work depends on housing, healthcare, wages, caregiving, and access. These conditions determine who can sustain a life in the arts, and who is pushed out by instability and lack of support.

Arts workers need each other. This is part of our collective story. The Census data reflects what arts workers across Chicago shared about these conditions and how they affect their lives and work. On its own, data is not enough. But when it is shared in context, and taken up in community, it becomes knowledge we can act on together.

This is just the beginning. We are kicking off a year of programs and reporting.

This phase includes a written report, an interactive dashboard, and a series of public programs. Throughout the year, we will return the data to the community through presentations and conversations with arts workers across Chicago.

REPORT: Our Work Our Worth: The Lives and Labor of Chicago’s Arts Workers. The report shares the process and methodology, key insights and observations, and a series of recommendations generated from the stories and data arts workers shared with us.

DASHBOARD: Take A Deep Dive And Visit The Interactive Dashboard. Featuring over a hundred graphs and charts, along with a special filtering tool, users can drill deeper to gain more specific insights about the lives and working conditions of arts workers in Chicago.

TOWN HALLS: Join us for one of the initial presentations in a series where we will share the process of developing the Census, analyzing the data, and introducing some of the insights we gathered throughout. Each Town Hall session will end with an opportunity to connect with fellow arts workers on issue areas that matter to you most.

Upcoming Sessions:
April 30: 5:30-7:30PM | Walls Turned Sideways
May 1: 5:30-7:30PM | ACRE Projects
May 9: 2:00-4:00PM | Blackstone Branch Library
May 27: 5:30-7:30PM | Hyde Park Art Center
Would you like to host a Town Hall presentation? Send us an email we would love to bring this reporting to you!

You can find more information and a link to register for an event at the link in our bio. by @acreresidency

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Hearth Auction Artist: Roberta Ulrich-de Oliveira
Tomato Red and Turquoise Wood Ash Basket
Ceramic stoneware, 9.5 x 9.5 x 9.5”
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $250
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Online bidding is now open, via the link in bio.
Help us raise vital funds for ACRE’s residency program and ongoing resources for artists.
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Making objects from clay is an expression of my experience as a human; it connects me to the earth, her inhabitants, and my own physicality. Inspiration is from subconscious and intuitive triggers. Ephemeral memory, the complexity and context of light and time, and nuances of relationships are themes I visit time and again. Balancing design expectations with serendipitous outcomes is a juggling act that proves deeply fulfilling. by @acreresidency

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Hearth Auction Artist: Candida Alvarez
Mira
2024, 12-color screenprint on 290gsm Coventry Rag, edition 17/20, printed by Du-Good Press, 22 3/4 x 17 ½” (framed)
Courtesy of GRAY Gallery
Estimated value: $750
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Online bidding is now open, via the link in bio.
Help us raise vital funds for ACRE’s residency program and ongoing resources for artists.
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Candida Alvarez is widely regarded as one of her generation’s most highly innovative and experimental painters. Her work has been collected by the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Whitney Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, among others. She has been granted the Anonymous was a Woman Award, Trellis Art Fund Award, Arts and Letters Award in Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Mellon Foundation Latinx Artist Fellowship, Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painter and Sculptors Grant. Alvarez is an alum of Yale School of Art, and held the F.H. Sellers Professorship in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is now Professor Emerit. In Fall 2024 Alvarez was the Alex Katz Chair in Painting at The Cooper Union. Her career-spanning solo exhibition at El Museo del Barrio titled Circle, Point, Hoop was on view until August 2025, running concurrently with Real Monsters in Bold Colors: Bob Thompson and Candida Alvarez, GRAY New York. Alvarez is represented by GRAY New York and Monique Meloche Gallery. by @acreresidency

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Hearth Auction Artist: Bailey Hikawa
Time Tells Toilet Seat
2026, vintage watches embedded in urethane with UV clear hypoallergenic coating, 14 x 20”
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $1,200
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Online bidding is now open, via the link in bio.
Help us raise vital funds for ACRE’s residency program and ongoing resources for artists.
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Bailey Hikawa is a Los Angeles based artist and industrial designer whose practice spans conceptual sculpture, painting, set design, and immersive installation. Driven by a curiosity of the intersections of art and utility, Hikawa’s work transforms overlooked and unexpected spaces into sites of aesthetic, functional and surreal innovation.

Toilet Size: Elongated (Please check toilet size before bidding via 2nd image/graphic)

Toilet Fit: Standard Elongated Universal USA toilets only
Hinges: Brushed chrome custom fitted hinges. Non slow close for high volume long lasting use.

Cleaning: Use any cleaning materials on your Hikawa Toilet Seat. It is made to withstand most chemicals. by @acreresidency

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Hearth Auction Artist: Carrie Schneider
Untitled Pines
2006-2007, c-print, edition 1/9, 36 x 30” (framed)
Courtesy of Patti Gilford
Estimated value: $4,500
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Online bidding is now open, via the link in bio.
Help us raise vital funds for ACRE’s residency program and ongoing resources for artists.
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Carrie Schneider (b. 1979, Chicago IL; lives and works between Brooklyn and Hudson, New York) has had solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA, North Adams (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2009); and Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland (2009). Selected group exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2019); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2018); Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China (2017); and The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2015). Her works are held in collections including The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; amongst others. She was awarded the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2024. Carrie’s monumental one-kilometer photographic work, First Living Woman, is currently included in the 61st La Biennale di Venezia– In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh. by @acreresidency

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Hearth Auction Artist: Noah Singer
Urn (blue, green, orange)
2024, stoneware, glaze, 11.5 x 8 x 8”
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $2,400
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Online bidding is now open, via the link in bio.
Help us raise vital funds for ACRE’s residency program and ongoing resources for artists.
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Noah Singer (b. 1963, Chicago/Nashville) constructs ceramic sculptures that gesture towards balance and belonging, explored through color, texture, and construction. Sculptures often appear to achieve harmony by being lopsided and off-kilter, assert movement though static, and question our certainties about use, functionality, and beauty. Using a combination of wheel thrown and hand-built ceramics, the constructed work is modular, speaking to the duality and fragility of identity and personhood. Handles, arms, spouts often appear where they shouldn’t or multiply, knocking meaning and assumptions off-balance, yet also seem perfectly placed and thoughtful.

Exploring and expanding the technical aspect of ceramics, Singer develops his own evolving palette of glazes, and utilizes clay and form in playful, non-traditional (often nonsensical) methods and techniques. Singer speaks to many clay traditions and histories while creating an individual and singular vocabulary that weaves humor and a curious enquiry into his sculptures. by @acreresidency

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2Nite! Getting into some deep nrg grooves back at the @californiaclipper red light district for @acreresidency annual benefit w/ DJs @ladancynancy & @allen_moore_127 + raffle for @rosabeltattoos 🎨🎭💰 as a proud alumna artist & return ACRE party DJ, I can't wait to get fall fancy and free with ya'll on the dance floor, no cover 9pm-close 🪩💅🏽🌆🔊🚨

📸 @moll_jean_nye 🙏🏽 by @acreresidency

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Hearth Auction Experience: Vinyl Pilates
A private class for up to 8 attendees on a Saturday or Sunday at 1pm
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Online bidding is now open, via the link in bio.
Help us raise vital funds for ACRE’s residency program and ongoing resources for artists.
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Vinyl Pilates is an independently owned and female-founded boutique reformer Pilates studio where movement meets music and community. With locations in Logan Square and Lakeview, Vinyl offers candlelit reformer classes set to vinyl records in a cozy, welcoming space designed to make your workout feel a little more like a hangout.
Our classes blend classical Pilates principles with contemporary movement for a challenging, feel-good workout that builds strength, balance, and confidence. With small class sizes and an approachable atmosphere, Vinyl is designed for both Pilates regulars and those stepping onto a reformer for the first time.
Winning bidder will receive a private class booking for up to 8 attendees to take place on a Saturday or Sunday at 1pm. Package expires January 15, 2027. by @acreresidency

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Hearth Auction Artist: Jova Lynne
unless I give me
2025, archival digital print, edition 1/3, 15 x 13” (framed)
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $5,000
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Online bidding is now open, via the link in bio.
Help us raise vital funds for ACRE’s residency program and ongoing resources for artists.
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Jova Lynne is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist and curator based out of Detroit, MI of Jamaican and Colombian heritage, born and raised in New York City. Lynne graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA in 2010 with a Bachelors of Arts in Video Art and Education, and moved to Detroit in 2015 to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art, which she completed in May of 2017.
Jova Lynne is interested in the parallels between fictional, historical and personal archive in identity development. In her practice Lynne seeks to subvert anthropological practice in utilizing the lens and performance. She is interested in the cognitive dissonance one experiences when navigating material, text and media-based archive. Lynne’s work has been presented at galleries and museums across the globe including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Torrance Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum and Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw Poland. by @acreresidency

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Hearth Auction Artist: Jova Lynne
unless I give me
2025, archival digital print, edition 1/3, 15 x 13” (framed)
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $5,000
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Online bidding is now open, via the link in bio.
Help us raise vital funds for ACRE’s residency program and ongoing resources for artists.
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Jova Lynne is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist and curator based out of Detroit, MI of Jamaican and Colombian heritage, born and raised in New York City. Lynne graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA in 2010 with a Bachelors of Arts in Video Art and Education, and moved to Detroit in 2015 to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art, which she completed in May of 2017.
Jova Lynne is interested in the parallels between fictional, historical and personal archive in identity development. In her practice Lynne seeks to subvert anthropological practice in utilizing the lens and performance. She is interested in the cognitive dissonance one experiences when navigating material, text and media-based archive. Lynne’s work has been presented at galleries and museums across the globe including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Torrance Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum and Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw Poland. by @acreresidency

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