Opening Reception Friday, March 8, 2019 6:00 p.m. Everybody's Coffee 935 W. Wilson Ave. Uptown, Chicago At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point— there the dance is T.S. Eliot, "The Four Quartets" The world feels a bit crazy (as well as the [...]
Were there any particular artists that inspired you or that you wanted to emulate when you were younger? Michelangelo, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Ernie Barnes, Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas, John Biggers, John Scott, and Rembrandt. And the list goes on . . . How did you come to find yourself a printmaker? I chose the [...]
"Indigo | the color of whiteness", a series of paintings by artist Maggie Hubbard, presents icons of the white middle class. These objects and scenes take on new meaning when solely depicted with indigo dye, an ancient pigment fraught with power, colonization, and slavery. Hubbard’s work asks two critical questions of our time: who is [...]
The buzz in the room, a mix of over-caffeinated observers and excited competitors, was impossible to ignore. The third annual Great Lakes Coffee Showcase was a hit! With talented roasters, baristas, and coffee-lovers from all over the Midwest, and an incredible space—the Wilson Abbey in Chicago—how could it not be? The Wilson Abbey is an [...]
Everybody’s Coffee is thrilled to exhibit Winter Dreams: Watercolors by Bill Bartelt. Twilight comes early to the alleys of Chicago in November and December. Often we fall into a state of ennui, somewhere between sleep and wakefulness, caught up in Winter Dreams. Bill Bartelt’s watercolors embodies this mood, the shadows cast by streetlights, a rainy afternoon on Michigan Avenue, [...]
Everybody’s Coffee 935 W. Wilson, Chicago, IL 60640 July 28 – August 31 Opening Reception: Friday, July 28, 6 – 8 p.m. Free Despite the harsh conditions of the desert and hardscrabble ground, the succulent perseveres, finding water and nourishment. Everybody’s Coffee located at 939 W. Wilson, Chicago is proud to present its latest art exhibit, [...]
On June 30 we lost one of our Everybody's Coffee artists, Candace Casey. Candace's spring 2016 show, Ethereal Abandonment, explored that space between holding on and letting go—a place she knew well as she walked the tightrope between life and death in her fight against cancer. She threw herself into her artwork—a unique process of [...]
AeroPressing with Metropolis at the Aeropress Championship On Saturday, June 24, 18 competitors from as far away as Kentucky came out to press their way to the top in the US Midwest Regional AeroPress Championship at the Metropolis roasting facility in Chicago. Competitors stirred, flipped, plunged and brewed their competition coffee (Ethiopia Worka Sakaro [...]
2017 Midwest Regional AeroPress Championship On June 24, Everybody's Coffee will be partnering with Metropolis Coffee to throw a legendary coffee bash at the new Metropolis Roasting Facility. So mark your calendars and get ready for a high pressure rumble that will send one worthy champ all the way to Seattle for the US AeroPress [...]
Love Letters: Digital Illustration By Sade Edwards June 9 – July 10 Opening Reception: Friday, June 9, 6–8 pm Love Letters is the latest art exhibit at Everybody’s Coffee, 935 W. Wilson, Chicago in the Uptown neighborhood. This highly autobiographical show features the work of Sade Edwards, a digital artist. Working in the vein of [...]