Fall 2021 Anthology: Your Favorite Anime
Fan art might be ubiquitous in the anime community, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t special. Especially the pieces our Art Circle regulars put together for our Your Favorite Anime Anthology.
Updates
2021 Annual Report: Old Favorites, New Norms
Last year was more of what we didn’t ask for: staying indoors, peeled to screens, creating whatever this “new normal” would be. Anime fandom landed firmly into the mainstream with this perfect storm! Hooray for streaming-on-demand, local movie screenings, and killer merch. Boo to the many large groups flooded with shouting matches, disinfo, and hate…
Summer 2021 Anthology: Wild Monsters
AnimeChicago proudly presents Summer 2021 Anthology: Wild Monsters published as a digital gallery for public viewing.
Spring 2021 Anthology: Summer Festival
AnimeChicago proudly presents Spring 2021 Anthology: Summer Festival, published as a digital gallery for public viewing. Each piece includes an artist’s statement that provides context into their creation.
Learn how your skills pay bills at “AMA: Passion to Profession”
Anime Central 2020 approved this panel and a pandemic thwarted it. So we’re bringing it online! Four AnimeChicago members will share how their respective fan labor projects created opportunities for career advancement and helped them level up their skills. Bring your questions, leave with solid career advice! ? Thursday, June 17 at 7:00pm CDTFree for…
Our Digital Future is Now – Recapping AnimeChicago’s First Online Symposium
On March 6th, 2021 – and nearly one year after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic – AnimeChicago hosted its fifth symposium entirely online, a first for AnimeChicago. Titled .future/now, the event fittingly looked at the intricacies of living in our modern always-online world as it is reflected in anime. Opening the session was the YouTube…
Winter 2021 Anthology: Cyberpunk
AnimeChicago’s Art Circle rebooted at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as a weekly online meetup for creatives to de-stress. These passionate artists met throughout 2020 and formed a small and mighty studio. As Art Circle built up steam, the desire to share…
2020 Annual Report: Sayonara, Dumpster-kun
We won’t sugarcoat this update – 2020 was challenging for Americans, nonprofits, and our community. The dumpster fire that was this year raged worldwide via global pandemic, systemic inequality, and rampant racism. Suddenly, meeting people and enjoying anime seemed trivial. Despite the hardships, we found a unique opportunity to serve our nonprofit mission within our…
Moving forward…
AnimeChicago is monitoring the COVID-19 situation daily and complying with the state-wide social distancing policy. But that doesn’t mean we can’t support each other in this difficult time. So please join us as we bring our programming online through Spring. Possibly longer. Immediate Changes 1. We’ve launched a Discord server!All AnimeChicago members can create an…
Announcing – Dream Worlds: The Works of Anime Director Mamoru Oshii + Celebration!
Join AnimeChicago at the Japanese Culture Center to celebrate the groundbreaking and cinematic storytelling of Mamoru Oshii. Known for his deeply philosophical and sweeping epics like Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, and Urusei Yatsura, Oshii’s work is focuses on visual-storytelling and breathtaking action sequences. His works are credited with influencing Western directors such as James…