Support Midwest Artists: Purple Window Gallery Fundraiser

About The Project: Purple Window Gallery x STNDRD Exhibitions

To engage the Midwest Art community in an intimate and meaningful way, Purple Window Gallery , Chicago, IL and STNDRD Exhibitions , Granite City IL are facilitating a gallery exchange. Purple Window Gallery will be exhibiting three installations during their curatorial residency at STNDRD Exhibitions between April and September 2025. We are asking for financial support to offer honoraria to our project collaborators and cover travel expenses for these three public art exhibitions.

Video by Rebecca Griffith and Lauren Iacoponi with support from PWG.

STNDRD Exhibitions is an artist-run initiative that presents a program of exhibitions, interventions, and projects that are conceptually inspired and physically determined by alternative sites and the cultural, historical, and architectural significance of the communities and landscapes that surround them.

Purple Window Gallery is an artist-led, community-supported project space and gallery located inside Mana Contemporary Chicago. As an artist cooperative, Purple Window Gallery is jointly owned and democratically controlled by its members. These members form a panel of Chicago-based artists devoted to cultivating a sense of community and empowerment for artists both within and outside of city limits. We believe artists and makers need community to thrive and communities need creators to flourish.

April Exhibition:

Devils, Demons, and Deuteronomy by Allen Moore

Allen Moore presents an exhibition using his collection of glow-in-the-dark artifacts and the process of making as a way of coping with grief, anxiety, depression, and confronting Racism. Devils, Demons, and Deuteronomy takes ownership of Blackness and the power of resistance.

Devils Demons and Deuteronomy, Allen Moore

April 5 - June 13, 2025

Reception April 5, 6 - 8:30 pm

Performance 7:30 - 8 pm

June Exhibition:

Art Outposts: STNDRD Community Platform

Collaborators:

8 midwestern, artist-run spaces collaborate to create a structure that celebrates community connections across five state lines. Each artist-run space will curate a portion of this installation from their community or develop a project from within their organization. Workshop for Independent Publishing will contribute a catalog in the form of a zine to achieve the collaboration and serve as ephemera for exhibitors and visitors to takeaway.

Art Outposts: STNDRD Community Platform

June 14 - September 5, 2025

Reception June 14, 6 - 8:30 pm

September Exhibition:

Community Project led by Millicent Kennedy

Kennedy's “Between Boundary and Communion” uses hand-quilted fences to question the boundary spaces of public and private property and foster conversations about the spaces we occupy and what aspects of safety may be illusionary.

Millicent Kennedy is assisted by Rebecca Griffith, Lauren Iacoponi, Amy Shelton, Naomi Elson, Natalie Pivoney, Angelina Diana, Madison Manning, and Antoinette Viola.

Between Boundary and Communion

Community Project led by Millicent Kennedy

September 6 - November 1, 2025

Reception September 6, 5:30 - 8 pm

(Dates and details to be confirmed).

Financial Breakdown:

Some of the costs exceed our means so we've created this GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to buy the necessary materials and supplies to ensure successful programming during our curatorial residency with STNDRD Exhibitions. Your support of our GoFundMe will in turn support artists and makers throughout Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas City, Minnesota and the greater Midwest. We greatly appreciate any level of support you're able to offer.

We will use the funds from this GoFundMe campaign to distribute honoraria among community partners ($150 each); for housing accommodations ($300 x 4 trips); gas and travel between Chicago and Granite City, IL ($70 x 4 round trips); and additional support for materials ($220). Total = $2,750

It is important now, more than ever to support artist-run projects as Federal funding has become limited the the wake of anti-DEI measures. We appreciate your support. Please share this campaign for optimal visibility.

With Love and Gratitude,

Purple Window Gallery + Our Community Partners