Making a Lasting Impact on North Lawndale in the city of Chicago and Beyond
How We Engage the Community
Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center (CUARC) urges its volunteers, program participants, and people in general, to examine social justice issues, learn from them, and apply that knowledge to decreasing sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, ableism, ageism, and other oppressions. Some of the topics CUARC is passionate about are Animal Welfare, Artists’ Liberation, the walking wounded, Youth Issues Youth Solutions, Peace Parks of North Lawndale, and North Lawndale Improvement Projects.
Animal Welfare
Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center seeks to end violence toward animals through activism and education and by improving animal welfare laws as well as creating and advocating for the implementation of new animal welfare laws. Join us and support our work in animal welfare and help us make a difference!
Artists’ Liberation
Read the draft policy statement about Artists’ Liberation by Barbara Breckenfeld. She proposes that the liberation of artists will lead to more art and that competition between artists or any other people will become a thing of the past.
Sacred Heart Home
Our organization provides programming for outside organizations such as the Sacred Heart Home. We assist the adults who live there to have a better quality of life. We provide art-making and discussion programming for the adults with addiction and mental health issues who live there.. We accept donations to help us with our programming at the Sacred Heart Home.
Youth Issues Youth Solutions
Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center hopes to empower youth to serve their community for change. Art can be a vehicle for and the catalyst of change toward the elimination of oppression. In addition to our own programming for youth, we often provide opportunities for youth groups to come here for service learning hours and/or to learn more about art, social justice issues, and more.
Peace Parks of North Lawndale
Join us in creating and/or maintaining a Peace Park in North Lawndale from a vacant lot a few blocks from the Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center. Check out the Peace Parks of North Lawndale page and feel free to contact us if you are interested in helping out! What we can do with a vacant un-used lot!
Tubman/Kahlo Center
The idea for a center to provide a place for programming, activities, performance space, vegan cafe, art gallery, florist shop, used furniture store/workshop, resources office, art studio, conference center, spaces for entrepreneurs to house their businesses, a rooftop garden, training programs for youth jobs, and more! Sign up for the monthly newsletter to get informed when the planning meetings will take place. With this center, our neighborhood will have a great place for everyone! When people get off the pink line at Kedzie thy will have a great place to go to. We feel it will be an inspiration to encourage entrepreneurial growth. We are looking for volunteers to join our committee to make this happen.
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