Established 2022 in Oak Park, IL
Slowfire Arts Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit arts education service, anchored in Oak Park, Illinois.
We are currently providing scholarships to senior citizens in need so they can access our education services. We are also running free weekly classes at the Oak Park and River Forest Township. Please click on Seniors for more information.
Our team of artists and teachers educate in the following disciplines: painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, fibers, and digital arts. Our curriculum focuses on student-led and student-choice centered art making, with guidance from qualified individuals. We are dedicated to our mission of fostering a creative, functional, and inclusive education model that teaches art foundations. Our goal is to lower barriers to art making and provide accessible arts education.
To provide comprehensive arts education to scholarship students and underfunded communities.
Our immediate goals:
*provide free art classes to senior citizens
*provide more scholarships to art classes
Innovation & Creativity
We strive for excellence in artistic programming with a team of dedicated professionals. We encourage conceptual thinking, creativity, originality, self-reflection, and unique perspectives. Creativity, innovation and problem solving are cultivated in a healthy artistic environment.
Community & Collaboration
We are respectful of others and believe art should be available to all, regardless of race, gender, color, religion, socio-economic background, national origin, sexuality, and disability. We teach art to build community; flexibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of our community.
We believe creating art can be a healing and therapeutic practice.
We are passionate about helping others create art at any stage of their life. We strive to provide the best experience to our students. We love to foster imagination and creativity.
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