Mark your calendar for our upcoming benefit – Saturday Night, May 16 at 1717 Central Street, the Evanston Art Center`s new location! This will be your opportunity to see the new space before it opens to the public in June. It promises to be the best Spring Benefit ever!
The 2015 ART PARTY will be the first event to take place in our new venue at 1717 Central Street. The fun begins at 6pm and lasts for hours. Party goers will be the first to experience the Art Center's new facility. There will be silent and live auctions, dinner, dancing, and wine! All proceeds benefit the Art Center's expanded arts programming, scholarships and more.
Thursday May 14, 7pm-9pm with a Q&A to follow
$5 at the door
The Evanston Art Center and Insight Arts are pleased to collaborate once again in conjunction with the Evanston PublicLibrary's Martin Luther King Jr. Day program. This year we are so honored to have with us Monica Trinidad and Todd St. Hill from the Chicago organization We Charge Genocide (the grassroots organization that recently made headlines when they addressed the United Nations in November 2014).
The Evanston Art Center's 12th Annual Winter Arts & Crafts EXPO features original, handmade works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed-media and more. All proceeds from the EXPO sale will benefit EAC's ongoing exhibition, scholarship, and outreach programs. Based on enthusiastic community support, our 12th year will run for 30 days and represent approximately 100 artists.
Experience Hair and Makeup for the Holidays and Support the Evanston Art Center!
The Evanston Art Center is partnering with the Robert Gold Salon to offer an evening of Hair, Makeup, Shopping and Refreshments.
Gather your girlfriends and stop by the Salon, located at 2942 Central Street in Evanston, for an evening of fun!
Proceeds of the event benefit the Evanston Art Center
Thursday, November 13th
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $50 for a Shampoo, Blowout Style and Holiday Makeup look
This was a Friday evening of song and period music beatifully performed by the Early Music Ensemble! Black Tulip.If you missed this live concert you will be able to listen to Black Tulip when they perform live on WFMT this Spring. Friday's music was by Handel, Purcell, Telemann, Hacquart, Bartolomeo da Selva and Bononcini.
You’re invited to visit the Art Center galleries during the month of October to view an exhibition of materials, including letters, posters, drawings, and other memorabilia from EAC's archives that illustrate the Art Center’s rich history.
In October of 1929 over 20 of Evanston's civic and cultural leaders established the Evanston Art Center. This forward-thinking group recognized the many benefits of providing a rich cultural life to an entire community. For over eight decades the Art Center has contributed to the vibrancy and creativity of this community.
In 2015, the Art Center will begin to write the next chapter in is history from its new facility at 1717 Central Street in Evanston. Architect's renderings, floor plan designs, and other inspirational photos will be on display in the gallery.
The Evanston Art Center is pleased to present a special musical program featuring our artist-in-residence, Josefien Stoppelenburg. New Voices: A Songfest will feature performances by Stephen Alltop-piano, Jean Hatmaker-cello, Danika Paskvan -violin and Dan Qiao-viola, will showcase the music of Stacy Garrop, Lita Grier, Harold Bauer and composers like Handel, Tchaikovsky and Rossini.
Willem Stoppelenburg, who is coming over from the Netherlands, will premiere his new piece ' Kavafis Songs,' for Cello and Soprano.
You will also hear two e.e. cummings sonnets for Soprano and String Trio by Harold Bauer.
This program is included in the Chicago Artists Month 2014 highlighted programs.
$15 General Admission, $5 Students, under 18 Free
All performances will be held at the Evanston Art Center, 2603 Sheridan Road in Evanston
On Wednesday, September 17, EAC hosts a special 1-day program for artists led by artist, coach and agent, Gwenda Joyce. This intensive session runs from 10am to 5pm and is designed for those artists who aspire to build their art career with gallery representation. This day-long intensive will
Join Art After Five coordinator and celebrated artist Linda Kramer on the evening of September 10 for a visit to a private art collection. Focused on American art of the past forty years, the collection includes works on paper by Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, Joel Shapiro, Elizabeth Murray, David Salle and others. A concentration of Chicago Imagist works includes paintings by Roger Brown and Barbara Rossi, works on paper by Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Karl Wirsum and Ray Yoshida, and prints by Ed Paschke and Christina Ramberg.
an original performance by Craig Harshaw
Sept 4 – 7
Show Times:
9/4 Thursday 7-9pm
9/5 Friday 7-9pm (Meet up in the EAC parking lot at 7pm)
9/6 Saturday 1-4pm
9/7 Sunday 1-4pm
How Can We Use Art to Build Community Inside and Outside of the Art Center?
Design for America (DFA)
Monday, August 11, 10:30am – 12:30pm
How Can We Use Art to Build Community Inside and Outside of the Art Center?
Free Design-Thinking Workshop
Design for America (DFA)
Monday, August 11, 10:30am – 12:30pm
The Evanston Art Center interns are hosting “Beats N’ Eats” on the back lawn Sunday, July 13, from 6-8. The event will feature musical performances from student bands, showcasing a variety of talented artists from the Northwestern Mariachi Band to local rock groups. The lawn will also be host to several of the area’s unique food vendors, including two food trucks and treats from Dulce Caramel and Crave Bar.
Saturday, June 21 & Sunday, June 22 from 1 – 4pm.
This special teacher development program, organized by Rachel Harper and co-taught with Nick Hostert and W. Keith Brown, offers Illinois State-Certified teachers the opportunity to explore the practice and implications of teaching as a contemporary art form through immersion in imaginative play, creative challenge, and reflective discussion. Teachers will also earn CPDU credits.
Program participants will also be given access to the Art Center’s gallery the weekend of September 27 and 28 with the intention of animating the space with art work, curriculum, responses to the June program, or other activities of their choice.
Please consider joining us on Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22 from 1 – 4pm. This workshop is limited to 15 teachers and has a $25 per person fee, which includes lunch and a free sketchbook.
Once again the front lawn of the Evanston Art Center has come alive with intriguing and beautiful site-specific works by local artists. Each artist was asked to reference the history, geography or architecture of this special place through concept or material.
It's not too late to buy tickets.
Saturday Night, May 17 at the Evanston Art Center.
We enjoyed a wonderful evening of auctions, dinner, and dancing in the galleries and under our tent on the evening of May 17. The weather even cooperated! We raised money to fund our arts programming, scholarships, and community engagement initiatives.
Design your own posters and promote your band, event, or fund drive! Nicolette Ross of Spudnick Press will be at the Art Center on Saturday, May 17 from 1 to 4pm. This is your chance to work with one of the most talented printmakers in the Chicago area as you explore two elements of relief printing (letterpress and linoleum block printing) through creating your own edition of broadside posters.
Text will be laid out using wood type and printed on the Line-O-Scribe cylinder press. Imagery will be incorporated through a hand-carved linoleum block. Explore the interplay between image and text while learning technical carving and printing skills.
You'll take home your own edition of posters, and we encourage a group share so you can also take home a poster from each of your classmates.
