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CAVA is a volunteer not-for-profit organization founded in 1988 to serve artists aged 50+. We're dedicated to giving our over 375 members throughout the greater Chicago area the opportunity to exhibit artwork in at least four exhibits annually in such notable venues as the Chicago Cultural Center,
MANA Contemporary, Evanston Art Center, Bridgeport Art Center, Art Center Highland Park, and Leslie Wolfe Gallery in Old Town.
Creating art can be a solitary occupation—CAVA organizes and presents events for older artists to come together through its exhibitions, salons, member luncheons, workshops, annual Symposium, and special events. For more information, visit our CONTACT page, and sign up for our e-newsletter.
CAVA MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS:
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Exhibit in the Annual Members Show;
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Enter our juried exhibitions, including the annual Later Impressions exhibition;
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Engage in various group and media-focused exhibitions
we organize throughout the Chicago area; -
Participate in membership social and educational programs, including our Critique Events; Artists' Studio Visits; and the annual CAVA Symposium.
FEATURED CAVA ARTIST
TIM FLYNN has been working in wire sculpture for nearly fifty years, developing his own distinct voice over decades of practice. For Tim, art making is not just a creative pursuit and pastime, but a way to understand the world, and the force that gives him wings to explore, teach, and create. “My work draws on the influence of both Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp,” says Tim. “Their innovations opened the door to incorporating everyday materials and playful forms into fine art.” He works primarily in wire, found-object assemblage, and public sculpture, as well as watercolor painting.
A Waukegan native, Tim spent nearly thirty years building his career in Colorado, teaching at the Art Students League of Denver, the Museum of Outdoor Arts, and Denver Public Schools, and showing at the Denver Art Museum, Edge Gallery, Core New Art Space, and other venues. In 2015 he came back home to Waukegan, where he continues as a teaching artist with an active studio practice. This past summer he returned to Auvillar, France, where he had held summer residencies in 1999, 2000, and 2001.
Medal of the town of Auvillar, France, presented to Tim in 1999, when he created a sculpture for the yard of the town's community house.
Tim currently has three major projects underway:
City of Progress: A large-scale public sculpture for Bowen Park in Waukegan, developed with the Waukegan Park District. It is now in design, engineering, and fabrication stages.
City of Progress, Bowen Park Memorial, Waukegan,IL. AI-assisted rendering of the
proposed sculpture.
Timmy Flynn's Wire Circus:
A children's picture book and a miniature circus built to be performed live: a tabletop big top with wire, felt, and cloth performers, a ringmaster, live music, and an audience that becomes part of the show.
Timmy Flynn's Wire Circus, a children's
picture book in progress.
The circus is staged as theater. Each character has its own instrument and theme sound. Musicians and sound-effects players perform live, and a ringmaster's whistle cues each act. Audience members are handed instruments so they can join in. The show runs from a written script, so it can be staged again by others, like a play.
The same figures and scenes illustrate the picture book, set against hand-painted watercolor backdrops, so the book and the live show grow together.
Shadow Play: A solo exhibition at ShadowBoxx Gallery in Waukegan in October 2027. It features copper and steel sculpture and a new print series on shadows.
Copper wire sculpture from Shadow Play
Tim is also active in local arts organizations and civic life, serving on the Waukegan Historic Preservation Architecture Commission and the board of Three Brothers Theatre. A CAVA member for three years, he has enjoyed being part of its exhibitions and its community of artists.
For more information about Tim, and to see more of his artwork, CLICK HERE