Saints & Sinners: Gallery Tour

This month you have to chance to dive deeper into the world of Saints & Sinners! Join us for Golden Hour music, grab a signature “Saints & Sinners” cocktail, and embark on a guided tour of artwork that explores the margins of humanity, from the virtuous to the profane.

What makes a saint today? Whether we possess a soul or are just an unruly bundle of synapses, how do we measure virtue and corruption? In a pluralistic society, clear-cut moral and spiritual signposts can get lost in the thickets. Do we look for guidance in age-old traditions? In contemporary culture? In our own imaginations?

In Saints & Sinners, the artists of Project Onward, a Chicago studio for artists with disabilities and mental illnesses, offer their own thoughts. Many of the works pull deep from the well of Christian iconography, though the interpretations are highly personal. Catherine Butterfly (b. 1952) makes…