Events

Sandra Holubow at Renaissance Court

Come out and show your support fellow SAN member Sandra Holubow. Join her for the opening of her one woman show "Urban Insights"

SAN Members Show 2012

The 2012 SAN Members Show will be held at the Old Town Triangle Gallery. The exhibit opens on Sunday, May 6 with a reception and award ceremony from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. and runs through May 31.

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News

Congratulations
to the winners of the SAN 2012 Members' Show

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A big thank you to all the participants and volunteers, especially Pat O'Malley, judges Judy Petaque and Pamela Feldman, and the Old Town Triangle Association.


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Grace Lai
Memorial Fund

Wrigley Building by Grace Lai

The Grace Lai Memorial Fund was established in 2010 after the passing of one of SAN's founding members, Grace Lai. Grace was a well know on site artists in the Chicago area. She was a SAN board member and strong supporter of the arts in the Chicago area. The Grace Lai Memorial Fund supports the SAN Annual Members Show. This exhibition offers each member an opportunity to exhibit one of their works and compete for show prizes. More importantly, this show allows the artists' works to be seen by a large audience. The exhibition demonstrates to the public that older artists are still creative and creating.

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Website Updates

Welcome to our temporary web page. It's been 5 years since the last website upgrade. The existing galleries will be temporarily unavailable to members, while we make uploading your artworks easier. We are also upgrading the online entry system for Later Impressions and adding online entries for the Members Show.

Feel free to contact board members with your comments or suggestions

Upcoming Later Impressions Exhibit

Later Impressions 2012 is tentatively scheduled for late October through November 2012. Details for these show and the prospectuses will be posted approximately 2 months before the exhibitions are scheduled to open, so check back.

Later Impressions

Later Impressions is SAN's annual juried art exhibit, usually held at the Chicago Cultural Center in the Renaissance Court Gallery. The show runs for about a month in the Fall, usually around October, and features works by 40-50 artists. This exhibition awards a "Best of Show" cash prize of $500 and several lesser cash prizes. Artists can enter on-line through the SAN Website and are asked to submit up to 3 works for consideration. In this show sculpture can be submitted. An additional fee is charged to enter, with a large discount for SAN members. Prominent member artists such as Curt Frankenstein, Grace Lai, Bill Neebe and Peggy Lipschultz have all exhibited in Later Impressions.

SAN Symposium

At mid-year SAN hosts an information seminar to keep the membership informed about topic of interest to artists. In the past we tackled how to get artwork on-line, how to photograph and frame your artwork, art opportunities such as the "Pop-Up" Galleries, the Chicago Artists Resource website, and public art initiatives. We also feature artists who share their work or demonstrate innovative art techniques, as well as save time for SAN members to network. The program is usually held in late June or early July at Renaissance Court in the Chicago Cultural Center and is cosponsored by the Chicago Department of Family & Support Services – Senior Services.

Gallery click on image to visit SAN Artists Galleries

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Artists (click on purple names to visit our artists personal websites)

tobi s abrams, clark bending, hyang sook cho, lars sponberg, margaret newman, dan siculan, fred lowenthal, janet poppe, alan friedlander, joseph m lorenz, mary n sass, lindsay brown, joanne epcke, holly r. cohn, shirley ann jorns, frances a cox, margaret roche, bonnie zak, peggy lipschutz, george m suyeoka, robert proce, dana stawski, selma lisit, evelyn e dekker, julia oehmke, doris gibson, m. giedre zumbakis, cassandra armstrong, ann goldsmith, edward dlugopolski, jack ardell, ann kleboe, anna yuan, dis already, inez abrahamson, ethel peterson, diane moore, liz bowman, yakov shames, marjorie derrah, jan flapan, gilda kolkey, janice hegarty, lance c brown, catherine keebler, mary r. kuric, sheldon landy, judith roth, klavdiya zabazko-rudminsky, ray j grzebielski, judith o'connor, paula l. weiner, eric h. steele, sanford bredine, sandra holubow, ruth aizuss migdal, joan miller, magda osterhuber, susan redeker, vivian j. jackson, wileyetta harris, olivia rose, melvin m king, mike barret kolasinski, patricia a stewart, meredith m. dytch, l. keith raub, lois raub, annette abajian, kathleen e deasy, doris monti, stanley wiertel sr, virginia mcgettrick,  elaine engelhardt, karlene mostek, donald mally, felicia m mazur, larry chait, richard poznar, sheila hori, carol schuberth, shirley j sullivan, yvonne j bernard, kathleen gibbons, barbara aubin, myrna knepler, nancy koop, doris levitz, mary mattfeld, james tansley, julius wineberg, jaquelyn zevin, catherine cajandig, myrna manners, patricia schnepf, bernard s shapiro, peter n gray, judith weiss, bridget a. cooney, laurie schirmer carpenter, dalia s kleinmuntz, christiane l bouret, delores de wilde bina, sharon b.k. wanner, susan m bennett, richard j maltz, frederica l scott, gwen jones, peter jones, mary krebs smyth, lorraine m ptacek, jordan lisit, robert f bina, ron rosenthal, ninion landy, fern samuels, pearlie taylor, maria y.h. moy, mary jo bower, karen h vierneisel, gloria rigoni, beverly nash, gail cotovsky, josephine borromeo

Board

annette abajian — president, kathi beste, willa bryer-douglas, catherine cajandig, iris chan — treasurer, Catherine keebler, Beverly Alice Nash, patricia e. o'malley — secretary, julia oehmke, david pauker, phillip j. turner, anna yuan — fundraising

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About

Senior Artists Network (SAN) is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization committed to promoting and fostering the talents of Chicago-area artists age 50 or older. SAN is operated by a volunteer board representing a diverse membership from all ethnic and racial backgrounds.

Questions? Send us an e-mail.


Membership

SAN Membership Benefits

Fill out our online form to get your name on our mailing list, become a member, or just request more information.

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The brochure is available by in Adobe Acrobat PDF format here. The brochure includes an enrollment form that may be printed, filled out, and mailed with your check payable to:

Thank You

SAN acknowledges the following for their generous contributions

Grants

  • City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
  • CityArts I and Community Arts Assistance Program
  • The Illinois Arts Council

Business and Corporation

  • Bishop/Bredine and Associates
  • Pauker & Rubin, Ltd.
  • DB2 Solutions
  • TLC88, Inc.
  • Terry Dowd, Inc.

Family of Individual Contributors

  • Annette Abajian
  • Timothy Benoit
  • Larry D. Chait
  • Iris Chan
  • Lee Gatewood
  • Catherine Keebler
  • Alexy Klimov
  • Nancy Koop
  • Grace Lai
  • Sheldon Landy
  • David Lee
  • John Maenpaa
  • Virginia Nepsha
  • Lorraine Nicksic
  • Patricia O'Malley
  • David Pauker
  • Mary Kate Paz
  • Richard Poznar
  • Robert & Joyce Proce
  • Margaret Roche
  • Gloria Shapiro
  • Helen Smith
  • Lars-Birger Sponberg
  • Anna Yuan
  • Bonnie Zak

Volunteers

  • Annette Abajian
  • Timothy Benoit
  • Larry D. Chait
  • Iris Chan
  • Lee Gatewood
  • Catherine Keebler
  • Alexy Klimov
  • Nancy Koop
  • Grace Lai
  • Sheldon Landy
  • David Lee
  • John Maenpaa
  • Virginia Nepsha
  • Lorraine Nicksic
  • Patricia O'Malley
  • David Pauker
  • Mary Kate Paz
  • Richard Poznar
  • Robert & Joyce Proce
  • Margaret Roche
  • Gloria Shapiro
  • Helen Smith
  • Lars-Birger Sponberg
  • Anna Yuan
  • Bonnie Zak
thank you to our funders, Illinois Arts Council and the City Arts Fund