Project Onward and Chicago native artists Kareem Davis and Richard Willis’s architecturally based drawings and models focus on Chicago Housing Development, government buildings, and Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall on the campus of IIT building. Both Willis and Davis aim to demonstrate care and dedication to accuracy in their renderings of these structures. 

Project Onward exists to give artists with disabilities a visual voice to tell their stories and change the perceptions of the world. Project Onward is a studio and gallery dedicated to the creative growth of adult artists whose lives are impacted by mental illness and developmental disabilities. Our non-profit studio is inclusive and we embrace artists with a wide range of life experiences. Some are self-taught artists who have Autism, while some are formally-trained artists who have bipolar disorder. There are other artists with challenges that are equally complex. However, all of them willingly explore the innermost recesses of their minds to create powerful works of art.