Esther Charbit is a muralist, mixed media artist and teacher. She has taught art for over 40 years in both secondary schools and universities. She has exhibited widely in and around Chicago as well as in Phoenix, Santa Fe, Paris, NYC, and the Edinburgh Festival. She is a member of ARC Gallery in Chicago. Her painted and mosaic public murals can be seen in Chicago and in the following publications, “A Guide to Chicago Murals”, and “Urban Art Chicago”.
ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit gallery and foundation whose mission is to bring innovative, emerging and/or experimental visual art to a wide range of viewers, and to provide a nurturing atmosphere for the continued development of artistic potential and dialogue. As a non-profit cooperative operated by a collective of femInist artists since 1973, ARC works to empower women by providing professional and mentoring opportunities in the visual arts. ARC serves to raise public awareness on various community-based issues by presenting exhibits, workshops, discussion groups and programs by, and for, underserved populations.
