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We’ve got a few spots left for our March edition of the Mending Club!! Sign up at the 🖇️ in @gallerywrightwood bio and plan to join us, this month’s demo is taught by Daliah of the @chicagotextilecenter 🤩 we’ll be learning darnin
The rumors are true 🤭- we want to help you to clean and maintain your sewing machine so YOU🫵🏻 can be the best sewist you can be! Taught by the incredible Henry Bangsberg who teaches these classes all over town, in this workshop we will show you ho
FEB MENDING CLUB from last night! 💕🧵💘🪡 we bumped the Bad Bunny and mended our hearts out! (And didnt have to see any AI ads, wahoo!) We made HUGE progress on The Parlor mending pile and even learned a needle turn appliqué technique from in
🌈💕🎨 the people’s art school is in session. We’ve got just three tickets left for our oil painting 101 class coming up, taught by @caseyvstelstudio ! It’ll be fun, hands on, informative, way better for learning than watching a You
Still grinnin’ from Sad Karaoke 🎤 ironic, I know. All you beautiful performers brought it, and it’s just so special to be our full selves together. Weird, dramatic, loud, silly, sad, creative, angry, hopeful, there’s so many ways t
Jan 2026 meeting of the Logan Square Mending Club was a success! 🪡🧵❤️‍🔥 we shared skills, learned from each other, and remembered that we all have the capacity to repair instead of dispose, both with clothing and in many other areas of life! T

Gallery Wrightwood is:

an anti-capitalist, artist-led community project inside a 100-year-old church building that hosts art shows, workshops, and gatherings.

We're focused on making art accessible and interesting to a diverse audience of non-typical art appreciators and to show human-made artworks that specifically speak to urgent social issues.

Though the gallery program is hosted through and in a progressive Christian church, Gallery Wrightwood hosts non-faith based events and does not explicitly center the Christian faith. We work to welcome all diverse voices and perspectives that amplify values of care and love.

We started from a series of questions: what does it tangibly mean to be an artist, in a world that pit artists against each other and gives less and less resources to support us? What does it means to be an artist, when most of us need to have a day job to financially support ourselves? What does it mean to be an artist, when our work is only fleetingly shared to the galleries of Instagram?AND WHAT IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT?

What if we gave ourselves permission to make work that was not just appealing to the internet algorithms, but was really saying something?

What if art could build community and power for social change?

What if we could connect artists across disciplines and educational experiences?

What if creativity has the power to heal and unlock potential in all of us, and we all deserve spaces to access it in community?

We are working on answering these questions and asking many new ones, together. Join us! Sign up below to get on our email list, follow our IG for updated event info, or fill out the volunteer interest form here to get involved!