Chicago Alliance
of Visual Artists
Click here to download a PDF listing of all our 2025 events.
Use the ticket order form below to purchase advance discount tickets!
Call for Volunteers!
There are still a few spots left for volunteers at our CAVA Booth at the West Loop Art Expo. Volunteers who sign up get free entry to help in our booth for 3–4 hour shifts over the three days. Join us and meet Fair visitors and fellow CAVA members; provide the public with information about CAVA and it's exhibitions and events; and help out CAVA by selling CAVA's Mini-Masters!
Click the link below to jump to CAVA's Sign-Up Genius page.
2025 MEMBERS' SHOW
January 17–March 7, 2025
at Bridgeport Art Center
4th floor Gallery
1200 West 35th St. Chicago
NEXT 3rd Fridays Open Studios Reception: Feb. 21, 2025, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
The Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists (CAVA) presents its 2025 Members' Show at the Bridgeport Art Center's exclusive 4th floor Gallery. A wide array of styles, themes, and media will be on display, from drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, collage, photography, fiber art, sculpture, and ceramics.
Jurors: Helen Dannelly (Curator of Forshey Gallery) and Monica J. Brown (Curator at 4th Presbyterian Church Gallery
).
Congratulations to the award winners!
Best in Show
Jack Nixon, Generation Of Leadership
Award of Excellence
Susan Bennett, Spacial Disruption
Dorothy Straughter, Piece of Peace
Meredith Dytch, Broken
Honorable Mention
Didi Grimm, Gorée Island
Dawn Liddicoatt, Curves Chorus
JohnTerdich, Homage to Dante;
La Comedia Divina Postmoderna
Spring Artists' Studios Visit
Saturday, March 22, 2025, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
at Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 South Throop Street, Chicago, IL 60608
312.850.0555 | hellochicago@manacontemporary.com
Join us for the 2025 Artists' Studios Visit at Mana Contemporary. This spring's expanded edition will visit the studios of five prominent Chicago artists using diverse methods and materials to express their artistic lines of inquiry.
Miao Wang
Wang is a painter seeking knowledge through material exploration and rigorous conceptual thought. She is a recipient of the Chicago Artists' Coalition Spark Grant and participated in a fellowship at Oxbow's "Conversation in Practice."
Rory Monaghan
Monaghan is a self-taught mixed media artist who creates large 3D paintings. His work is inspired by "unruly rivers that sweep up surrounding materials," and his work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, and Charleston, SC.
Yoonshin Park
Park is a curator, educator, and book and paper artist who exhibits nationally and internationally. She was a 2023-24 HATCH resident at Chicago Artists' Coalition, and is an alumna of the Center Program at Hyde Park Art Center. She is represented by Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago.
Cesar Conde
Conde is an activist artist creating large stunning portraits, including his series In the Hood, and his current series AmeriKKKa. His aim is to create art that is a uniting force in these difficult and divisive times.
Shawn Lucas
Shawn Michael Lucas Studio specializes in the design and creation of modern, high-end stained glass lamps, combining wood and glass.
Sign up to reserve your spot today for this exciting event!
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2025 Later Impressions
April 19–May 25, 2025
Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60201 | www.evanstonartcenter.org
The CALL FOR ENTRY is now open for CAVA Members!
Click here to jump to the LI 2025 page,
where you will find detailed information
and the Entrythingy application.
2025 Annual Learning Symposium
May 25, 2025 | 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60201 | www.evanstonartcenter.org
This year's Symposium speakers include:
• Sienna Lind from the Moody Institute Media Lab, who will talk about the Effects of Artificial Intelligence in Visual Arts & Culture
• Lynne Kornacki, publisher of ArtBEAT Buzz, will lead a workshop on Marketing Ideas and Inspiration.
FREE for members; $10 for nonmembers.
MEMBERS: Email info@wearecava.org to reserve your spot.
Non-members can register using the Pay Pal button here:
CAVA's
Mini Masters
Project
CAVA's Mini Masters debuted at last week's Members' Show opening reception. We invited members to harness their creativity to create small masterworks—6" x 8" or smaller, usjng collage, watercolor, encaustic, oil, acrylic… whatever inspires! And new pieces are being added to the collection each week!
The Mini Masters are included as part of the Members' Exhibition at Bridgeport Art Center. Any work is only $25, and proceeds from sales will benefit CAVA.
The next stop for CAVA's Mini-Masters will be at the CAVA booth #2 at the West Loop Contemporary Fine Art EXPO, February 22–23, Plumbers' Hall, 1350 West Washington Ave. in Chicago. Use the order form above to get your discount EXPO tickets today!