MISSION STATEMENT:
Vidyarthi and Valle is a Chicago based pop-up gallery curated by artists Anandita Vidyarthi and Savastiana Valle. This project began in January of 2020 and intends to support local artists through gallery exhibitions, networking, and art-making opportunities. The pop-up creates space for artists to engage with the community, build new cliential, and showcase their current works. Anandita and Savastiana hope to introduce a diverse group of creatives, ranging in skill levels and media, into a formal gallery and auction space. Along with supporting artists, Vidyarthi and Valle encourage a new generation of independent curators and art collectors who view art collecting as a mechanism of cultural preservation and growth.
Our most recent art show was on Saturday July 2nd, 2022 and looked at multi-media art works created during the time of and in response to the effects of the pandemic spanning from 2020 to 2022.
Anandita Vidyarthi
@throwlikeanandita
Anandita Vidyarthi (she/her) is a multimedia artist and poet who was raised in India, Belgium, and the Chicagoland area. She is currently an Undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) studying Interdisciplinary Education in the Arts. In the past, Anandita has mentored youth in the creative arts at District 27 in Oak Park, IL and worked with the Global Asian Studies department at UIC as a visual artist for their Dis/Placements project analyzing the shifting demographic and history of Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. She also worked at Gallery 400, a contemporary non-profit art gallery, as an exhibitions and programming intern and continues to content create for their social media. Her love for community organizing led her to co-found Asian Ink in 2019, a Chicago based creative collective for AAPI individuals.
Savastiana Valle
Savastiana “Savi” Valle (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist and K-12 art educator. She has taken a step away from her work in metalworking to begin focusing more on her paintings. Valle creates work focused on interior spaces filled with implicit memories. She uses color, space, and objects to ground her work in important people and memories to fill a room into a snapshot of decades of memories. Turning physical space into the idea of a souvenir. As an artist she is very passionate about color and has started experimenting blending realism and abstraction together. “For a long time art was something that physically got me out of bed and was something that challenged my fine and gross motor skills, I am now at a point where I use my pieces to connect to times of weakness and strength and challenge myself to create.”
Past Shows
January 2020
July 2022
