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within(Reason) is an experimental gallery space and website for contemporary art and photography launched in May 2008. Our goals: to provoke, inspire, delight, warn, educate, help. Much of our summer and fall programming for 2008 is raising awareness and funds for a few special causes. All proceeds from our first show, "Hope In a Hard Place," have gone to help folks in Nairobi's Kibera slum, via registration of a kids' club, the financing of youth arts programs, and the creation of a church library. Read more about that here. Wondering how you can help? Check out our fundraiser plan - offering a quick, unique holiday gift idea, too! Closer to home, our September 2008 show raised $2,000 to benefit arts programs at Pilsen schools in Chicago. The space has been created by photographer-designer-gallerist Ron Reason of Chicago, who has ... WORKED as a design and photo editor and as creative consultant to some of the world's best and largest newspapers TAUGHT typography and advanced graphic design studio courses at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla. LECTURED on graphic thinking and creativity worldwide, in such places as Moscow, Oslo, Reikjavik, New Delhi, Madrid, Dubai, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Lisbon (Ohio) and Venice (Florida) LIVED and worked in Buenos Aires, Nairobi, and Black Rock City, Nev. TRAVELED to 27 countries, including in recent months, Tel Aviv, India, United Arab Emirates, Great Britain, Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya LAUNCHED the adventure blog, Travel With Reason DIRECTED for five years the Visual Journalism Department (seminars and research on photography, graphics, design and editing) at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, where he remains a Visiting Faculty member Goals of the space: provoke. inspire. delight. warn. educate. help. Please note I am not currently seeking artists for representation. For more information on how you might exhibit my work or any shown here, contact Ron Reason, ron@artwithinreason.com or 773-562-7464