10/01/2026
The Fall Exhibition at Lula features 6 artists from Arts of Life, guest curated Fabulous and Zander Raymond.
Arts of Life is a a 501(c)3 non-profit that advances the creative arts community by providing artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities a collective space to expand their practice and strengthen their leadership.
Today, they support over 80 artists across three professional art studios. Each artist has their own studio space and works independently from individualized project plans or receives 1:1 visual arts facilitation to increase their artistic skill set. Artists earn a monthly stipend for participation in the program with eligibility to receive bonuses based on personal annual art sales.
Zander Raymond is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In his visual work, he improvises with found materials from his day to day to make collages and sculptures that serve as an autobiographical record of experience while pointing toward the unseen. His music is similarly rooted in improvisation, utilizing synthesizers, field recorders, and open-source sound computers to sample, warp, and build sonic images that embrace serendipity and highlight the musicality of the ordinary. In early 2026 he started a curatorial project called fabulous, which primarily is operated out of his apartment.
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“People Who Do Wrong to Other People Burn in Hell”
OPENING RECEPTION
TUESDAY, OCT 5TH | 6-9PM
2537 N KEDZIE BLVD
We hope to see you there.
Born in 1961, Marvin Young is a lifelong resident of Chicago’s South Side. Young has been dedicated to art-making since childhood and joined Arts of Life’s South Side studio in 2024. Intensely observant and drawing constantly, his works exist as an expression and record of both his community and personal experience over the decades.
These quick yet detailed representations of figures and urban landscapes, both imagined and remembered, capture his hometown in a singular voice. His subjects range from checkered taxis to female police officers to the since-demolished public housing project he lived in on Cottage Grove. Endearing portraits are defi
