Deadline to Apply: October 5, 2026
FREE: No Application Fee, No Tabling Fee
Event Date: Saturday, November 14, 2026 from 12-4:30PM
Location: Access Living, Chicago: 115 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
You are invited to apply to MadMade
MadMade is a one-day, community-centered event designed to celebrate, support, and showcase the creative work of artists living with psychiatric disabilities and mental health challenges. This is not just another craft fair—it’s a space built on inclusion, care, and cultural empowerment.
MadMade is open to printmakers, Illustrators, artists, designers, and zine makers working across a wide variety of print including prints, screenprinting, lino cut, risograph, etching, or other print techniques. MadMade is open to individuals and collectives with a focus on first person experience.
This fair is a mad-positive, disability-affirming event focusing on individuals themselves, rather than their involvement in diagnosis or treatment, highlighting first-person experience regardless of formal diagnosis. It offers a counter-narrative to both the clinical and romanticized depictions of mental illness. Instead, it centers real people making real work that is beautiful, messy, joyful, angry, thoughtful—that opens conversation and creates community experience.
Access statement: MadMade is dedicated to creating an accessible space. We will be thoughtful in how the space is set up for mobility devices. We will have a seperate room set up as a quiet space (one for the general public and a break room for tablers). Additionally we will have dedicated volunteers to allow individuals to leave their things to take body breaks, CART and ASL for presentation portions of the event, and access doulas for all making spaces.
MadMade is organized by Dylan Sturdy in conjunction with Spudnik Press, The Center for Mad Culture, and Access Living. Graphics designed by Iliana Haven.