MadMade Print Fair
Join us for MadMade, a free, one-day event uplifting the creative work of artists living with psychiatric disabilities and mental health challenges. This community-centered fair brings together artists, organizers, and visitors to celebrate art that resists stigma, builds connection, and honors lived experience.
MadMade is more than a print fair—it’s a gathering built on inclusion, care, and cultural empowerment. Visitors are invited to explore and purchase artwork from printmakers, illustrators, designers, and zine makers working across screenprinting, linocut, risograph, etching, digital processes, and more.
This mad-positive, disability-affirming event centers the artists themselves rather than diagnoses or treatments. MadMade offers a counter-narrative to both clinical and romanticized depictions of mental illness, instead highlighting real people making real work—art that is beautiful, messy, joyful, angry, and thoughtful—work that sparks conversation and fosters community.
Access information at https://www.accessliving.org/event/madmade-print-fair-2/
Chronically Crafting Opening
Chronically Crafting is a group exhibition featuring Chicago-based chronically ill fiber artists.
Come join us at the exhibition opening on December 10, 4:30-6:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.
Featured Artists:
Eseosa Ekiawowo Edebiri
Libby Evan
Auden Granger
Tali Halpern
Lillian Heredia
Access Living of Metro Chicago
4th Floor Gallery
To visit the exhibition, sign in with the front desk
December 10, 2026-May 6, 2027
Special thank you to: 3Arts, Bodies of Work, Disability Cultural Center, UIC Department of Disability and Human Development, The Joyce Foundation, Disability Culture Activism Lab, and Access Living
Chronically Crafting exhibition
Chronically Crafting is a group exhibition exploring the connections between fiber art and chronic illness.
Featured artists:
Eseosa Ekiawowo Edebiri Libby Evan, Auden Granger, Tali Halpern, and Lillian Heredia.
Location: Access Living of Metro Chicago, 4th Floor Gallery, 115 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening: December 10 4:30-6:30pm
Dates: December 10, 2026-May 6, 2027
Support generously provided by: 3Arts, The Joyce Foundation, Bodies of Work, UIC Disability Cultural Center, UIC Department of Disability and Human Development, Access Living, Disability Culture Activism Lab