Thank you to Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center (CUARC) for invite us and participate in this great event.

Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center (CUARC) seeks to bring people together by offering socially impacting art, positive programs, creative workshops, women retreats and volunteer opportunities that can engage a community.

To accomplish this mission, CUARC offers a safe retreat center that encourages artists, young and old, with interests ranging from A-to-Z, individually and in groups, to come and get involved in activities that are healing, creative, and productive. CUARC believes that art can be utilized for positive change and artists themselves often inspire others.

The events, exhibits, workshops, and programs of CUARC are all-encompassing and meant to encourage a healthy lifestyle. These activities range from learning how to garden to practicing basic meditation techniques. At the same time, CUARC provides interactive exposure to art that is submitted by underrepresented cultures and community groups all over Chicago and the world. CUARC is here to encourage a diverse community to come together. We encourage our volunteers to educate themselves about social justice issues, and what we call the isms. We hope our volunteers will not leave it up to someone else to educate them about these important issues. Instead, we hope they will go out of their way to read multiple books on these issues, see many plays of the topics, attend seminars, participate in discussions, take classes, and more, in order to know as much as possible as these important issues. Furthermore, we want them to take the information and educate others so the world will be a better place! To help in this plan, we have attached a series of articles about various social justice issues in the pages below.