Innovation 80 Lounge & Gallery
at Impact House
Featuring intergenerational artwork
by Innovation 80 grantees
Innovation 80 Lounge & Gallery at Impact House
In July 2025, through a connection from the Field Foundation, Innovation 80 entered a partnership with Impact House to designate one of its community rooms as The Innovation 80 Lounge & Gallery.
Located in a building at Madison and Wells in Chicago, Impact House is a coworking community founded by Israel Idonije to support Chicago’s mission-driven funders and changemakers. The Innovation 80 Gallery will showcase CoGen work by I 80 grantees. In addition to rotating exhibits, the Gallery will feature, as a permanent installation, a tapestry produced collaboratively by participants in Art on Sedgwick's CoGen program, supervised by artist Teri Carson.
Teri Carson - Supervisor of Legacy Tapestry
The Innovation 80 Lounge & Gallery will serve as a reflective and inspiring space for Impact House members and visitors. Jonathan Kelley, co-founder of the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, another Innovation 80 grantee, will curate the gallery to spotlight work that amplifies the voices and visions of CoGen participants driving social impact across Chicago.
Jonathan Kelley - Curator of the I 80 Lounge & Gallery
Beginning in late October, check out this webpage for photos from the Gallery exhibits.
Gallery of current and past installations
The tapestry that will be featured in the Innovation 80 Lounge and Gallery is inspired by Chilean arpilleras, brightly-colored patchwork pictures stitched onto cloth which chronicle the life of the poor and oppressed in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s. To the women, making arpilleras was a way to share their sorrow and concerns with each other, and eventually the world. Stitching together is a quiet, but very powerful act of resistance and community-building.