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The Center for Mad Culture is dedicated to eliminating stigma by promoting the cultural importance and output of people living with madness.

05/05/2026

This Saturday - May 9th!
From 2-4pm - Free Art making extravaganza!
Link to register is below

Join us for an afternoon of mad community and art making—no skills or experience required!
In this two hour workshop, we’ll work together to create a multimedia art installation titled in search of lost stims. Stims and other forms of mad movement are often pathologized. In contrast, in search of lost stims frames these mad movements as expressions of embodied wisdom.��To celebrate this wisdom, we’ll engage in a series of reflective art exercises, each designed to connect us the mad wisdom of our bodily movements. We’ll look at art created by mad people. We’ll try some gentle movement. We’ll play with printmaking. Each activity is consent-based; participants are welcome to take part in some or all of these exercises.��By the end of our time together, we will each leave with a small poetry collection and (hopefully) a deeper connection to the way our own bodily movements operate beyond pathology, offering us grounding, affirmation, regulation, pleasure, connection, and wisdom.��While not required, participants will also have the option to be featured in the final multimedia installation opening at the Center for Mad Culture on February 12, 2027.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1987844092191?aff=oddtdtcreator��Questions? Interested but unsure? Email director Alexis Riley at [email protected] to ask questions or schedule a virtual conversation (camera on or off). We’d love to hear from you!

05/01/2026

Our first mad pride event is tomorrow!! Come by for art making and community building!! The fun starts at noon and runs until 4pm. Free and open to the public, so bring some friends!!!! See you then!!!

04/20/2026

This week!! Current 3Arts/Bodies of work residency artist AJ will share his works in progress as well as some older photography.

“Press Triangle to Get Put of Bed: 1234 ‘til infinity,” is an exploration of depression, isolation, and reintegration featuring virtual photography in the world of GTA Online, collage, digital art, poetry, and photography.
The one-night event will take place (6900 N Glenwood Ave) Friday the 24th at 6:30pm.

PO Box collective is wheelchair accessible and masks are REQUIRED for this event. Audio description will be made available and any further access needs can be requested by emailing [email protected]

This project is funded in part by grants from the Joyce Foundation. Special thanks to 3Arts and Bodies of Work for the residency which has given light to this work!

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11/28/2025

Just a note that this weekend The Center for Mad Culture will be closed. We hope everyone traveling is safe and that we find meaningful ways to empower those whom we are thankful for!

If you’d like to schedule a day or time to visit the Center, please feel free to email us [email protected]

11/14/2025

Today is the day! Come celebrate with artist and disability advocate Bri Beck!!!

Exhibition opening from 5-9pm
Light refreshments

The Center for Mad Culture
410 S Michigan Ave
suite 419

11/12/2025

✨ Today we are highlighting the MadMade Print Fair Artists ✨
See more this Saturday at Access Living (115 W Chicago Ave)
Nov 15 | 12–4:30 PM | Chicago, IL | Free & Open
Meet these incredible makers:

chana goldbloom
Crossing Raindrops
Cuatro Huevos ._.here
Darya Foroohar

Link in bio and https://www.spudnikpress.org/event/madmade-print-fair/

11/11/2025

Meet the artists shaping MadMade!!

You will see printmakers, zinesters, and culture builders whose work takes on madness, mental health, disability, and the many ways you move through the world differently. Each artist brings a practice rooted in lived experience. You will find sharp visual language, personal narrative, political clarity, and creative risk.

MadMade gathers makers who refuse silence. Some confront psychiatric systems. Others map daily survival. Many celebrate community care and the power of telling your own story. If you are curious how print and zine culture holds mad history, you will want to follow these highlights.

Ask yourself what feels familiar in their work. What challenges your expectations. What stories you have been waiting to see in print.

This is the first post in a series introducing the artists and community collaborators who make MadMade possible. Stay tuned for the next profile!!

Check out these artists, follow their work, support them at MadMade!!

The first image is from the MadMade organizer!! Dylan Sturdy!

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MadMade print fair will be held on Nov 15th from 12-4:30 at Access Living in Chicago - 115 W Chicago Ave. SEE YOU THERE!!

10/28/2025

ANNOUNCING OUR NEXT EXHIBITION!!

Opening November 14th - 5-9pm

“[From-Within]” is an interdisciplinary art exhibition by artist and art therapist Bri Beck, LCPC, ATR. Rooted in both personal and professional experience, the exhibition reflects Bri’s dual perspective as a therapist living with disability and as a practitioner supporting disabled clients. Through this lens, Bri considers both the potential and the limits of therapy to address not only individual pain but also the collective trauma and systemic inequities that shape disabled life.

Within the exhibition, a staged therapy room and a series of mixed media works are paired with interactive workbook pages, offering an early glimpse into Bri’s developing disability-affirming art therapy workbook. Together, these elements transform the traditional therapy space into one that centers disability identity, creativity, and belonging.

[From-Within] invites viewers to reimagine care as an act of solidarity, reflection, and resistance. Through this exhibition, Bri envisions spaces where disabled people can find connection, self-recognition, and healing on their own terms.

[From-Within] is funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Joyce Foundation. Additional support is provided by 3Arts, Bodies of Work, UIC: Applied Health Sciences - Department of Disability and Human Development, UIC: Disability Culture Center, the Disability Culture Activism Lab, and Access Living.

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10/27/2025

Change your Halloween plans, this one is for the crip community, we are joining to celebrate, and to top it all off…. (Cue thunder and lightning, with an evil laugh echoing in the distance) ableist horror stories!!!!!

There will be music, live painting, mask making, zine making, story telling, and a truly crippy Halloween!

see you Friday!!

4251 N Lincoln Ave
5-10pm
October 31st

10/22/2025

Mad Tea is a podcast about madness, culture, and power. Each episode invites mad voices to share their experiences, question psychiatric systems, and reimagine what madness means. We talk about art, history, and the ways mad identity shapes culture today.

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