Past Events and Programs

This VIRTUAL lecture will introduce students to the process, material, and history of painting with organic and inorganic pigments, shedding light on important sites of prehistoric cave painting from around the world and derivative schools of art such as Nihonga, Japanese Traditional paintings, Thangka, Tibetan Buddhist painting and Indian miniature paintings. Lecture will be followed by a Q & A.

February 7, 2025, 6-9 pm RSVP

Please join us for an evening of music, dance, and an artist talk with the talented Chicago muralist Dorian Sylvain, and a dance performance by Chicago perfo

Sunday, January 12, 2025, 3-4:30 pm RSVP

Join us for another Winter Arts and Craft Expo

The Evanston Art Center’s Annual Winter Arts + Crafts Expo features original, handmade arts and crafts by over 140 selected artisans. We feature original, handmade works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed media, and more. This month-long event attracts visitors all over the Midwest region.

Important Dates

Making a Movie that was seen in outer space with Filmmaker and Evanston native Sarah Moshman

Sunday, November 10, 3 - 4:30 pm Watch Lecture

The Evanston Art Center is turning 95!

Founders' Day Raffle - Sales close Sunday, October 27th

The Evanston Art Center is celebrating 95 years of inspiring art education, exhibitions, and expression for all. Join us in celebration with our Founders' Day Raffle for a chance to win a FREE class at the EAC! 

Click the link below with the amount of tickets you would like to purchase.

1 for $50

2 for $90

Duality Is Inherent within a Unified Whole with Julie Rotblatt Amrany

Sunday, October 20, 3 - 4:30 pm RSVP

For the ongoing EAC series, "In Focus," Rotblatt Amrany will present her talk, "Duality Is Inherent within a Unified Whole," discussing the scope of both her commercial and fine art practices.

Saturday, October 19, 10 am- 1 pm

The EAC is pround to offer another summer of Documention Workshops and Open studios. The dates for these will be:

June 22 Documentation Workshop, June 29 Open Studio

July 20 Documentation Workshop, July 27 Open Studio

August 17 Documentation Workshop, August 24 Open Studio

September 7 Documentation Workshop, September 14 Open Studio

October 12 Documentation Workshop, October 19 Open Studio

Voices Dance Performance | Identity Performing Arts

October 6, 3 pm

Join us Sunday, October 6th at 3 pm for the Voices dance performance from Identity Performing Arts.

This dance performance is 45 minutes long and includes a post performance Q&A. 50 seats first come first serve and unlimited standing capacity. This program is supported by the Evanston Arts Council Cultural Fund Grant.

Photography by Peter Hinsdale

For more information visit Voices

The Blurry Line Between Fact and Fiction with Deb Sokolow

Sunday, September 22, 3 - 4:30 pm RSVP

For the ongoing EAC series, "In Focus," Sokolow will give a lecture that recounts her experiences, including freedoms and problems, in making art that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Topics to be discussed, among others, include McDonald’s, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jim Jones, master illusionist David Copperfield, a former mayor of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune, and an unnamed starchitect.

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Come to the EAC to meet with art college admissions teams, get information, and/or have your art portfolio reviewed before applying to colleges and universities. 

Register here

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Portfolio Review Meetings are 10 minutes each. 

Saturday, August 3, 2024

Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene is a large-scale civic engagement art project comprised of over 10,000 bird replicas made by the citizens of Chicago and beyond. Through free public workshops, participants are given a blank bird body, assigned a specific bird that died in 2023 from window collisions along Chicago’s lakefront, and are led through the crafting process to create a replica.

Visual Literacy | EAC Workshops for Educators

Wednesday, July 31, 6:30- 8pm RSVP

This workshop, facilitated by artist/author and educator Marilyn Price, is to help teachers, homeschool providers, and educational administrators reach as many different learners as possible by utilizing visuals, books, and imagination to add your individual teaching style.

Central Street Side Walk Sale 

Applications are CLOSED

The Art Party Committee and the Board of Trustees are pleased to invite you to the Art Party, A Benefit for the Evanston Art Center.

WITH AWARD-WINNING EVANSTON PUPPETEER/STORYTELLER AND NEIGHBOR!

Saturday, April 27th, 2 pm RSVP

Poet DJ Savarese explains, “When I’m not confined to writing in response to language but am prompted instead by the expansiveness of visual art, I find a way into my thoughts and imagination that I’ve never accessed before.” In this reading, he turns his attention to the artwork of various artists with disabilities, poetically dancing and conversing with them and their chosen languages of drawing, painting, and sculptin

Eco Art Supply Sale.                

April 20 & 21, 2024, 9-4 pm

Celebrate Earth day at the EAC and shop gently used donated art supply materials. 

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Landscape in Light: The Art Institute's Tiffany Memorial Window

Sunday, April 14, 2024, 3- 4:30 pm RSVP