Meet Chris Cantele, president of the Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists. Chris has led CAVA from 70 Members in 2011 to over 240 today. CAVA is a volunteer not-for-profit organization founded to serve nationwide artists aged 50 and over. https://www.wearecava.org

About Chris Cantele

Chris Cantele spent over 25 years continuously challenging and expanding his expertise in the client communication, advertising and sales promotion arena. In 1996, he founded Cantele, Sedivy & Associates Advertising, Inc.. The agency was known for employing unique and targeted marketing strategies to help clients build sales, customer traffic and brand awareness.

Since selling the agency in 2011, Chris has been Volunteering within his passion areas over the past 11 years. He is President of the Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists, Project Onward Executive Board Member, as well as a Studio and Event Volunteer, a Professional Scuba Diver and Presenter in the Caribbean Reef and Shark Exhibits...

In this episode, Sergio Gomez chats with artist Sara Gallagher about her current online show Our Inner World with 33 Contemporary Gallery. 

View show: https://www.artsy.net/show/33-contemporary-our-inner-world

Sara Gallagher
Outside, 2020
Graphite on paper
24 × 22 in

About Sara Gallagher

Sara Gallagher (b.1990, Vallejo, CA) is passionate about breaking the taboos that surround mental health in the United States. She harnesses her experience of working with houseless youth and people with disabilities to bring about an empathetic lens into the complex experience of what it is to be human. 

Through her hyperrealistic graphite and mixed media works, Sara provokes dialogue around the inner landscape of the human experience. Shaped in collaboration, she engages with her models personally by allowing a vulnerable, authentic discussion to set the direction of each piece. Detailed, emotive imagery and subtle surreal qualities provide a brave and beautiful space for our...