Biography
Guillermo Delgado is a professional visual artist. He has spent the last twelve years working in the Chicago creating his own artwork for local and national exhibitions. He also shares his passion for art with children and adults of his own community, as well as throughout the Chicagoland area, engaging them in the visual arts, as well as helping to construct curricula that incorporates and integrates the arts into the academic experience.
Guillermo's fine art has appeared in the 2003 special anniversary issue of Crain's Chicago Business and published by the Archdiocese of Chicago for three of its publications. Exhibition of his art include venues such as the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, the Museum of Science and Industry, The School of the Art Institute's Betty Ryder Gallery, the Evanston Art and Cultural Center, Garrett Evangelical School, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, The Mexican Museum in San Francisco, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Chicago Athenaeum, and several Chicago area restaurants.
His work in arts education has led him to collaborate with arts institutions such as Arts Resources in Teaching, Marwen, Gallery 37, Arts Excel, Oak Park School District Art Start Program, The Village of Addison, International Music Foundation, CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnership in Education), Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago Public Schools, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and North Suburban Library Association.
Recent artist residencies/workshops include Michigan State University ROIAL Program, Holy Trinity High School, the Village of Addison Public Schools, and The University of Chicago Smart Museum of Art. The artworks of his students and projects have been featured on the cover and in the book "Renaissance in the Classroom". Recent projects include Drawing and Painting Wildflowers in the Mojave Desert at the UC Beckley Granite Mountain Research Station, Visiting Artist at Columbus Junction High School in Iowa, the Chicago Transit Authority/Marwen Adopt-a-Train Station mural project, teaching Lane Credit professional development programs for Chicago Public School teachers, teaching nude figure art courses for 11th and 12th grade students, and teaching an "Art & Writing" course at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
More information can be obtained by calling him at 773/ 254 8551 or email at guillermo@gdelgado.com