we all live here

12/20/2021

Now that the kids are home from school what to do? How about making your own Dr. Suess Xmas Tree? Pick a tree, decide how many stars, sketch it out, paint your design, light the tree.

10/05/2020

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, before COVID, and had a series of portrait events for Edgewater residents to get their pictures taken by to be part of a mural on the side of . Special thanks to , Jake and his mom from Moody’s Pub, students for helping install, and .annex for the printing support, and for doing the printing and being good dudes, and for always having our back and especially all the residents of Edgewater who came out to participate in this crazy idea to make this a success. Don’t sleep on photography. He’s a genius of portraits. @ Moodys Pub

10/02/2020

Thank you Scripps National News for the Feature story about our work:

For the last five years, he’s been spreading his message of positivity and inclusiveness through interactive murals.

08/12/2020

Thank you Amy's Workshop for putting together this clip of the mural we did together in Uptown.

Sharing some footage I snapped while working on Chicago's BLM Street Mural in Uptown. It's amazing what can happen when you bring communities together. So pr...

06/02/2020

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05/28/2020

Start by caring and then start reading:

This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media. To take immediate action to fight for Breonna Taylor, please v...

04/29/2020

So excited to debut we all live here Wednesday’s with our friends at The Honeycomb Project.

Tune in live tonight at 5:30 CST:

Art is a tool to build and celebrate community. Rich Alapack, founder of We All Live Here joins The Honeycomb Project for the Premier of We All Live Here Wed...

04/14/2020

Here’s a wonderful little piece about the coloring book we did for Chicago’s youth with submissions by many of Chicago’s favorite artists.

This week the we all live here project released a free coloring book for kids with little to do during the coronavirus pandemic. “As artists we all know how important…

04/09/2020

We rallied a bunch of Chicago artists to create a free coloring book to give kids something to do under quarantine. Please share.

04/08/2020

Chicago artists rock. We put together a free coloring book to give kids something to do while under quarantine.

03/27/2020

Support your local Chicago Children's Choir. These kids are incredible.

03/26/2020

Free coloring page download. Bored kids want to do something? How about spreading an inclusive message to counteract the increased xenophobia:

https://wealllivehereproject.com/pages/know-no-hate-coloring-sheet

P.S. I made it hard enough to take some time.

Our Know No Hate design was recently included in the Chicago Design Archive. The design also had a starring role on our founder's hat when he visited Scott Kitun's Technori Podcast. We've decided to release a blank version as a free coloring sheet since many of Chicago's youth are bored while under....