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An arts and cultural preservation project aimed at creating restorative space to advance racial equity and economic opportunity.

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We are excited to announce our partner's, LVL3, opening of Tangere, a two-person exhibition featuring the works of HP Denham (Los Angeles, CA) and Jade Yumang (Chicago, IL) on Saturday, October 17th, 2026.⁠
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Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17th, 6-9 PM. Tangere will be on view until December 6th, 2026.⁠
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Check out our partner, The Silver Room's most recent open mic!⁠ They're hosting another one on October 11th!⁠
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Photos by @chicity_monstar 📸 by @equityarts

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2 days ago

Please join our partner, Heaven Gallery on Saturday, October 17th, from 12–1pm for an artist talk with the artists featured in their current exhibition, Kind of Representational: Bonnie Collura (@bonniecollura)⁠, Arjan Zazueta (@arjanzazueta), ⁠Jason Dunda (@jasondunda), Andreas Fischer (@ankeny13).⁠
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Attend the artist talk in person at for an opportunity to hear directly from the artists about their work, practices, and the ideas behind Kind of Representational. If you can’t make it to the talk, it will also be livestreamed on their Instagram!⁠
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Relative to the sense of truth iconic signification still seems to produce, abstraction can be seen as a kind of fiction rooted in a diversion of material, process, touch, and indexing of thinking and psycho-social positioning, among other things. When mixed with likeness, abstraction, in this sense, can push away from the attentiveness to the points of referential origin that likeness demands. Abstraction adds other energies, motivations, thoughts, calculations, and impulses that extend, challenge, and complicate what likeness does. It’s like making stuff up, while re-telling a story, in order to add interesting new possibilities (humorous or shocking exaggeration, for example), which often needs to come at the expense of the integrity of the original event.⁠
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The artists deliberately position their work in the middle of a similar tension between likeness and facture. Each of their practices relies on a mixture of either ruins of likeness, suggesting a catabolic and critical process; or building blocks of likeness, suggesting an anabolic and exploratory process; or combinations of both. They all mix these elements with, or disrupt with, large doses of abstraction. The resulting works are often uncanny, but pull us into important new experiences. ⁠
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Each of the artists featured in this exhibition, relate to the tension between material and process versus representation in a different way, and part of our interest in organizing this exhibition is to examine how the basic operational mechanics in this description can branch out into diverse content implications.⁠
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Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 1pm-6pm⁠ taken in Heaven Gallery by @equityarts

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4 days ago

Meet the artist, Jason Dunda, who is part of our partner, Heaven Gallery's NEW exhibition, Kind of Representational. Stop by during gallery hours to see Jason's work and the rest of the exhibition! ⁠
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"My drawings and paintings are abstractions of a personal archive of family photos and other ephemera dating back a century, as well as a vast collection of film stills and news photos of obscured, veiled, or contorted faces. I use this source material to create abstractions that lean towards portraiture – I describe figure and ground, light and form, but I sabotage these illusions with gestural mark-making and chance operations. I am interested in giving the viewer slightly less than what they need to confidently know what they see."⁠
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Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 1pm-6pm ☁️ by @equityarts

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4 days ago

Join @vlonelyandfriends s, for the youth & syndic8te for their second annual Halloween Scream — CODE RED EDITION!⁠
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@vlonelyandfriends + @ftychicago + @syndicatemusicgroupllc present:⁠
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Halloween Scream: Code Red Edition⁠
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Featuring⁠
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@xellared⁠
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@zackteriomusic⁠
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@tinoszn⁠
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@stc.steph⁠
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@retrowave00⁠
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@ka1ight⁠
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@malachiessex_⁠
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+ more!⁠
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OCT 30 @heavengallerychicago⁠
(1550 N Milwaukee Ave)⁠
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ALL AGES⁠
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FREE⁠
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SNACKS, DRINKS & SWEETS WILL BE AVAILABLE! 🍬⁠
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UNVEILING @zackteriomusic ANTICIPATED ALBUM “CODE RED” ft @xellared @cartier2times + @vlonely.mp4 + MORE !⁠
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Dress code : MUST wear costume or RED for entry⁠
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Best Costume or Red Fit wins $100 so come FLY 🪽!⁠
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RSVP ON @posh.vip ⁠
Link in Bio⁠
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DOORS AT 7 SHARP⁠
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🖼️ @prdbyleo by @equityarts

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7 days ago

We are excited to announce An Investment in Imagination, a combined benefit celebrating the 26th anniversary of Heaven Gallery and Equity Arts' 7-year journey to buy a historical arts building to launch The Center for the Creative Economy!⁠
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✨ Saturday, November 7th⁠ @7-11PM⁠
✨ Heaven Gallery 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Floor ⁠
🎟️ TICKETS are available now through the Linktree in our bio!⁠
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Rooted in preserving Heaven Gallery’s legacy as a vital community third space in Wicker Park, the Equity Arts project will become the energetic architecture that utilizes Cultural Futurism to establish a new economy based on personal identity and gifts. The project shifts consciousness from scarcity to abundance for the arts by securing a revenue-generating real estate asset that reinvests its wealth into a resilient arts ecosystem for generations to come.⁠
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The evening's fashion theme, Cultural Futurism, pairs minimal silhouettes with personal cultural detail. This intimate evening will include craft cocktails/mocktails and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a sit-down community dinner featuring a curated three-course meal by artist Sarah Belknap. Part of the event is a silent art auction with work by Chicago artists and a raffle featuring unique items and gift cards from local businesses. Come celebrate Heaven Gallery's legacy and Equity Arts' future of shared economic power through this intentional investment in imagination. ⁠
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Artists featured in the silent auction include: Gwendolyn Zabicki, Michelle Chun, Monica Rezman, Tess Mickalik, James Schenck, Michelle Stone, Edra Soto, Tish Noel, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Nico Gardner, Vesna Jovanovic, Megan Williamson, and Cydney M. Lewis. ⁠
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The silent art auction is also available virtually at heavengallery.com⁠
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Please DM us with any benefit questions! We can't wait to celebrate together ✨ ⁠
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Artwork by Vesna Jovanovic and Rosalynn Gingerich by @equityarts

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9 days ago

Our Partner @lvl3 just posted their artist of the week, Max Li (@omaxgzlo).⁠
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"There are extraordinary artists everywhere who are making work, organizing exhibitions, cooking for people, maintaining spaces, teaching, documenting communities, and sustaining practices without necessarily entering the channels through which cultural attention gets concentrated. Working in Chicago, and especially through artist-run and community spaces, has made that very visible to me.⁠"⁠
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So maybe my answer is: pay more attention to the person who is already doing something interesting around you. Go to the small show. Visit someone’s studio. Ask who made the flyer. Talk to the person running the strange little space. Stay after the performance. There is probably somebody within a few miles of you whose work could completely rearrange how you see something."⁠
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Meet our Spotlight artist of the week, Max Li. Check out our interview to learn more about his curatorial work at @chicagofirstchurch as well as his interdisciplinary studio practice!⁠
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#MaxLi #LVL3Spotlight by @equityarts

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Our partner @treehaus.jpg is excited to announce they will be hosting a Haunted Haus, a Halloween day party!⁠
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"This Halloween , ALLOW IT x TREEHAUS are opening the doors to HAUNTED HAUS 🎃⁠
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a halloween day party, the perfect way to start your fright night off right 👻"⁠
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october 31 | 3-9PM⁠
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📍 chez, 247 e ontario⁠
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hip-hop, afrobeats, dance mixes, and more 💃🏿⁠
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costumes are highly encouraged. there WILL be a costume contest and we WILL be giving a prize to the best dressed 👀🎁⁠
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sounds by: @adoniabree @acedspade @kicknkenny @solitocarlito @bbmiloo @ivvyadelaide⁠
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Dont ghost us 😶‍🌫️ grab your tickets and enter the house if you dare…⁠
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🎟️ link in bio.⁠
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Flyer by: @dig1talw0r1d by @equityarts

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10 days ago

Check out this piece by Vesna Jovanovic, which is part of our partner @heavengallerychicago 's current exhibition, Taffy Pull! Come see Vesna's work and the rest of the stunning exhibition during gallery hours ⁠
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🍬Taffy Pull is part of a double exhibition, sharing the space with another show, Kind of Representational.⁠ 🍬⁠
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We can't wait to see you at Heaven ☁️⁠
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Hosed ⁠
Vesna Jovanovic, 2025⁠
Ink and acrylic pen on polypropylene ⁠
14" x 11" ⁠ by @equityarts

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We are excited to announce our partner’s @thesilverroom 's exhibition, Melanated in America! Here are a few up close ups from the show. ⁠
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"Up close and personal with a few of our favorites from the Melanated in America Exhibition."⁠
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13 days ago

Our Partner @lvl3 just posted their artist of the week Bereket Adamu (@berek3t).⁠
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Go ahead and find out more on their page. ⁠
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"I'm interested in how people, places, and events are remembered, transformed, and sometimes mythologized. I'm super into myth. There's a quote I once encountered that suggested the same capacity that allows us to believe in myth is also what allows us to pursue enlightenment."⁠ by @equityarts

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16 days ago

Our partner @heavengallerychicago is excited to be vending at the Wicker Park Committee Vintage Market Sendoff Sundays on September 27th and October 25th!⁠
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Come shop vintage apparel, records, furniture, art, memorabilia, and more from local vendors. They will be bringing some Heaven Shop favorites to the market, so come say hi and check them out!⁠
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Schiller & Damen⁠
September 27th + October 25th⁠ by @equityarts

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