ARC Gallery is an internationally recognized exhibition space that has been an integral part of the Chicago art scene since its inception in 1973. Founded during the women’s movement as an alternative to the mainstream gallery system, ARC is one of the longest running art spaces of its kind in the country. As a non-profit, woman artist-run cooperative, ARC continues its feminist tradition by providing exhibition opportunities for professional and emerging artists working in all media based on excellence of artwork, without discrimination toward ethnicity, race, gender, age, class, religious, sexual or political orientation.
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Newcity Art
Women Working with Women: ARC Gallery Celebrates Fifty Years of Art and Feminism. When ARC was created, “pretty much anything made by a woman was seen as craft, not serious art. ARC was created for the founders to be able to show their own work, in the context and in the way they wanted it to be seen.”
Chicago Art Galleries Project
The Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago, hold the records of the ARC, Artemisia, Young, and Hoffman galleries. Like the archival collections held at the Flaxman Library, the gallery archives … offer a look at a remarkably fertile period in Chicago’s visual arts landscape from 1973 to the present.
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Sponsorship
ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation is sponsored in part by grants from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, Chicago Community Trust’s Athena Fund, the West Town Chamber of Commerce, State of Illinois Back to Business Grant, our members, our ARCangels and other donors.
