Good News Only

It’s the time of year when we are carefully thinking about how our generosity can make an impact on others. You can enhance the lives of inner city students with art by making a 100% tax deductible gift to Good News Only, Chicago’s newest youth arts organization. In our first year, we have accomplished so much - touching the lives of participants and viewers. Please consider making a gift to our annual fund, which is essential to sustaining our programming.

Your philanthropic contribution will be used to assist student curators with the opportunity to continue to organize exciting exhibitions of work by contemporary artists, such as our summer show Forgotten Ones with Project Onward.

And your donation will be used to fulfill our mission of bringing art to the community to encourage dialogue, for example our city-wide installation of Candy Chang’s Before I Die (http://beforeidie.cc/) . With over five strategic locations around the city, thousands of Chicagoans responded to Chang’s piece.

Please make a year end gift to support Good News Only so we can continue to teach career development in the arts while enhancing neighborhoods. Your support is important to us, and we hope you will be as generous as you can.

View a short video (http://vimeo.com/40347019)  about Good News Only.

This is an important time for Good News Only, and we hope you will become part of it.  To make a contribution online, click here (http://gnonly.com/donate.html) .

By mail, checks can be made out to Good News Only, and sent to: Development Office, 1275 W. Victoria Street, Chicago, IL 60660.

Good News Only is pleased to announce its current exhibition curated by high school students entitled ‘A lot of you care, but not enough’. Please join us at the opening reception on Friday, June 15th from 6-8pm. Teen curators Samuel Choi, Theo Covey, Kimberly Hernandez and Katherine Rumas will be available to answer questions. The exhibition runs through July 20, 2012.

Halfway through our spring session, Good News Only curators chose tragedy as the theme for their exhibition. In the remaining weeks during artist studio visits and gallery tours, they began selecting artwork for the show highlighting different types of war: political, societal, natural and familial. Describing the exhibition, Kimberly said: “Tragedies are all around us and everyone’s personal tragedies make up something larger although we might not notice it. Our exhibition is made up of different tragedies put together to tell the story of the world.” 

Artists included in the show are Daniel Beltra, Erin Chlaghmo, Deborah Luster, Wolfie Rawk, and Rodrigo Zendejas. Theo describes Beltra’s photograph: “The piece about the [BP] oil spill shows the beauty that is sometimes found in tragedy, the bright colors of the chemicals in the water reacting with the oil gives the entire thing an other worldly feel and it is just awesome.”