Empowering Artists and Community Through Art

Empowering Artists and Community Together

New Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and studio committed to supporting the artists’ community in Chicago. We sell original art, teach art classes, and host group and solo exhibitions.

CFAS is Joining NEW Gallery!

We are still CFAS, but running better! We have transitioned our business model to a non-profit and have been slowly moving our services at CFAS here to serve our community better.

What We Offer

Explore our nonprofit art gallery and engaging art classes for artists and the community.

Art Exhibitions

Showcasing diverse artworks from local Chicago artists and beyond, fostering creativity and community engagement through exhibitions.

Artist Opportunity

Through our monthly membership program, we create curated, specific lists for upcoming artists of Calls for Art that are relevant and cover all the global bases.

Education

Join our group of students and explore a variety of techniques and exercises to transform your approach to drawing from life! We offer Figure Drawing lessons as well as $20 un-instructed drawing sessions on the weekends.

Community

Meet other artists in the Chicago area and beyond at our opening receptions! CFAS has hosted a loyal group of exhibiting artists since 2023, showing their work at Art fairs around Chicago and beyond. Join them by submitting your work!

Coming Soon by Prisma Andrade: PRISMA, Color Coding

Combining painting and textile practice, PRISMA creates vibrant moments of intimacy and reflects on identity with fabric, dye, and plush. Anna Maria Andrade, who goes by the artist name PRISMA, was born and raised in Dallas, Texas to a Honduran-Spanish father and an American mother. Andrade discovered fiber arts in high school and then moved to Chicago to further study fiber and material studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Color Coding calls into the history of color signaling in queer communities and other historically marginalized groups, where color signals identity, intimacy, and resistance. PRISMA pulls from this color language to create her own color code and vocabulary of bodies, recalling moments of intimacy. The work in this show documents PRISMA’s transition from painting to textiles. Limited by traditional paint, she turned to synthetic fabric dye, which when combined with sodium alginate turns into a paint-like substance that bonds directly with natural fibers. By playing with fabrics by cutting, resewing, adding plush, and stitching to abstract the human figure, PRISMA transcends her paintings into textiles.