Sunday, October 2, 2016 

1:00pm - 3:00pm

As part of her show at the Evanston Art Center, local artist (and Artist-in-Residence at the Field Museum) Peggy Macnamara will guide participants through close looking and sketching of natural specimens.

 

This event is free and open to the general public!

 

Naturally Drawn is a part of The Big Draw Evanston, a month-long, citywide festival that activates public spaces and brings people together through informal art-making.

More information about The Big Draw Evanston here.

RSVP by August 3, 2016

Limit: 40 people

EAC Members $30

 

Art After Five will make a return to visit Crab Tree Farm to view a wonderful collection of American and English decorative arts and furniture. Crab Tree Farm, an estate once owned by William McCormick Blair, is a working farm with a number of period and newly restored buildings. The owner’s collections of American and English Arts and Crafts era furnishings and decorative objects include an impressive collection of Gustav Stickley furniture.

In the mid 1980’s, an extensive restoration was undertaken of one of the farm buildings, known as Crab Tree Cottage. The interior was completely reconstructed, utilizing wood for the flooring and trim that was cut from trees on the farm. The wood was kiln dried and cut at a sawmill all on site, and finished as prescribed in Stickley’s turn of the century magazine, The Craftsman.

Join the Evanston Art Center and Art After Five coordinator Linda Kramer for a trip back to one of the most important periods of American art, a visit you won’t soon forget. There will be a docent-led tour. Please provide your own transportation. No refreshments are allowed at the farm.

 

Please RSVP by calling 847.475.5300. Open to EAC members and their guests only; the cost is $30 per person. Reservations are limited, and payment is required at the time of your reservation. Make checks payable to Evanston Art Center, and mail to: 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 6020

PHOTO VOICE

Dialogue and Presentation

Wednesday June 29, 5-7pm

Evanston Art Center

 

THE EVANSTON ART CENTER WANTS YOUR FEEDBACK!

Submit a snapshot of the community you represent or photos of community members participating in visual arts programs to the Evanston Art Center. These photos will serve as the lead topic during this group discussion about community arts efforts. Photo Voice aims to combine positive social change and visual arts to enhance and empower communities through documentary photography. 

This conversation about the role of arts programming in Evanston will feature multidisciplinary artist Pedro Velez, a member of the EAC’s Society! Artwork-In-Residence.  A survey distributed during the event will help the Evanston Art Center to improve our public programs and future outreach efforts. 

This event is open to all ages and levels of photography experience. 

Food and drink will be provided. 

Submissions can be emailed to [email protected] by June 29, 1pm.

ART AFTER FIVE
Millennium Park, Chicago Residence
Friday, June 17, 2016
6:00-8:00 pm
RSVP by June 16, 2016
Limit: 40 people
EAC Members $25

Join Art After Five Coordinator and celebrated artist Linda Kramer for a tour of an extensive collection of Asian art, which includes a fully restored Edo period Samurai outfit. The collection also includes numerous Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Maori, Oceanic and Native American antiquities.

The Evanston Art Center’s Art After Five program offers Art Center members and their guests the rare opportunity to visit artists’ studios and to view private art collections in the homes of the Chicago area’s most distinguished collectors. Please call the Art Center to reserve a space. Reservations are required and space is limited. 

 

Tuesday May 24th 6:30-7:30pm with time for Q&A

Free and open to the public

Join us as Northwestern University Art History professor Rebecca Zorach brings her class, “Art and Activism,” to the EAC to discuss contemporary art and activism. We'll be hearing from 4 artists and activists about how they produce creative political actions and make protest visible in the Chicago area. Building on a term spent investigating the past 50 years of intersections of art practice with political activism, especially in the Chicago area, the conversation will address how art and politics cross-pollinate in some of the most pressing issues facing Chicago and the US more broadly. The EAC kindly thanks Rebecca Zorach and the Art History Department at Northwestern for reaching out and bringing one of its classes to our space. We all feel that it is meaningful for people to enter local community spaces and engage in dialogue with the public on important topics like this.

Artists and activist speakers include:
Page May, Assata's Daughters
ZEB, Chicago graffiti writer, educator, and performance artist
Nicolas Lampert, artist, writer, and activist 
Sarah-Ji, photographer and social movement documentarian

Curated by Marilyn Propp

April 24 – May 29, 2016

SPRING ARTS & CRAFTS EXPO

April 7 - 10, 2016

 

Opening event:
Thursday, April 7, 6-9pm
Join us for an evening of wine and shopping!

 

Expo open Friday – Sunday, 9am – 4pm

Stop in and shop a selection of arts and crafts by 20 artists working in ceramics, fiber, jewelry, painting, and photography. With Mother's Day, weddings, graduations, and spring get-togethers fast approaching, come and find one-of-a-kind gifts for all of your upcoming occasions! 

Sat, 05/14/2016 - 6:00pm

Experience…The Lives We Touch and the Art We Create

Join us for a night of silent and live auctions, dinner, dancing, and wine!

Mark your calendar for our upcoming benefit – Saturday night, May 14 at 1717 Central Street! The Spring Benefit Art Party will consist of a live auction showcasing art donated by Chicago-area artists and an Experience Auction featuring special, one-of-a kind experiences. The Silent Auction will offer hotel stays, restaurant certificates, sporting game tickets, and more. Over 200 attendees will be able to bid on featured items or services while enjoying a sophisticated sit-down dinner.

 

Individual Tickets $200

Call the Evanston Art Center at (847) 475-5300 to preorder tickets to the Art Party.

 

Table Sponsorship available starting at $2500

To purchase Table Sponsorships, please contact the Art Center's Manger of External Affairs, Gabrielle Burrage, at (847) 475-5300 or [email protected].

 

The proceeds from the benefit will help the Evanston Art Center to make arts more accessible to our community by providing scholarships for students in need of financial support, and funding our exhibitions and outreach programs.

 

Benefit Table Sponsorships

Platinum Sponsor

For a donation of $10,000, you will enjoy:

· Table of 10 to the 2016 Spring Benefit at 1717 Central Street

· Invitation for 10 to attend 2016 Spring Benefit VIP Pre-Party

· Full-page ad in the Spring Benefit Program Book and mention from podium at Benefit

· One Art Party/Creative Meeting Retreat for 20 people

· Full-page ad (8.5” X 11”) in one quarterly catalog mailed to 20,000 residents in the Evanston, broader North Shore and Chicago areas

· Web ad on EAC website with 60,000 views per year

· Recognition on the street side windows at 1717 Central Street for the month  of May 2016

· Mention in the press releases, promotional and marketing materials

Gold Sponsor

For a donation of $5,000, you will enjoy: 

· Table of 10 to the 2016 Spring Benefit at 1717 Central Street

· Invitation for 10 to attend 2016 Spring Benefit VIP Pre-Party

· Full-page ad in the Spring Benefit Program Book and mention from podium at Benefit

· Full-page ad (8.5” X 11”) in one quarterly catalogue mailed to 20,000 residents in the Evanston, broader North Shore and Chicago areas

· Web ad on EAC website with 60,000 views per year

· Recognition on the street side windows at 1717 Central Street for the month of May 2016

· Mention in the press releases, promotional and marketing materials

Silver Sponsor

For a donation of $2,500, you will enjoy:

· Table of 10 to the 2016 Spring Benefit at 1717 Central Street

· Full-page ad in the Spring Benefit Program Book and mention from podium at Benefit

· Half-page ad (8.5” X 5.5”) in one quarterly catalogue mailed to 20,000 residents in the Evanston, broader North Shore and Chicago areas

· Web ad on EAC website with 60,000 views per year

· Recognition on the street side windows at 1717 Central Street for the month of May 2016

· Mention in the press releases, promotional and marketing materials.

Join us Thursday March 10th, 6:30-7:30pm for a dialogue with Professor, Art Historian, and Author Mechtild Widrich as she discusses her 2014 book Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art. Manchester University Press, series: "Rethinking Art's Histories, 2014

Performative Monuments: The Rematerialization of Public Art

http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719091636/

 

Widrich's BIO:

I work on the intersection of contemporary art and architecture, on performance art and its mediation, on art in public space and the question of the public sphere, on contemporary monuments, and on aesthetic theory. My current project deals with global art geographies in Washington, D.C., Bucharest, and Singapore—in particular the role of contemporary art in relationship to national or regional interests under global conditions. I am interested in the power and means of representation, in the broader institutional and political context of artistic production, in issues of "authentic" and "bodily" experience under mediated conditions, and in urban dynamics. Another interest is theory; I am currently (with Andrei Pop) translating the 1853 book Aesthetics of Ugliness by the German philosopher Karl Rosenkranz (forthcoming 2015).

For more information about Mechtild see her faculty page at SAIC.

http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/mechtildwidrich/

RSVP by Thursday, January 21, 2016

EAC Members $25

 

Join Art After Five Coordinator and celebrated artist Linda Kramer for a tour of an eclectic collection of contemporary art from 1960’s abstraction through Fluxus and today. The collection includes Marcel Duchamp, Victor Vaserely, Leon Polk Smith, Henryk Stażewski, Richard Hamilton, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Roger Brown, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Ray Johnson, Judy Ledgerwood, and Theaster Gates. The collection is showcased in a home designed by architect Robert Seyfarth, who spent the formative years of his professional career working for the noted Prairie School architect George Washington Maher.

 

The Evanston Art Center’s Art After Five program offers Art Center members and their guests the rare opportunity to visit artists’ studios and to view private art collections in the homes of the Chicago area’s most distinguished collectors. Please call the Art Center to reserve a space. Reservations are required and space is limited. 

Open to EAC members and their guests only; the cost is $25 per person. Reservations are limited, and payment is required at the time of your  reservation. Make checks payable to Evanston Art Center, and mail to:
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201.

Saturday January 16
1:30-2:30pm

RSVP by Wednesday, November 4 

Limit: 40 people

EAC Members $25

 

Join Art After Five Coordinator and celebrated artist Linda Kramer at the home in Highland Park for a tour of an extensive collection of Pre-Columbian art, with a specific focus on Mayan and Western Mexican art. The collection also includes African, Oceanic, Native American, and Southwest Asian art; a small collection of antiquities and Chinese pieces; and a number of old maps, some from the 16th and 17th centuries. The collection is showcased in a home designed by architect John S. Van Bergen, who worked as a constructional architect for Frank Lloyd Wright for many years.

 

The Evanston Art Center’s Art After Five program offers Art Center members and their guests the rare opportunity to visit artists’ studios and to view private art collections in the homes of the Chicago area’s most distinguished collectors. Please call the Art Center to reserve a space. Reservations are required and space is limited. Parking is available at the residence on the south side of the street.

 

Please RSVP by calling 

847.475.5300.

 

Open to EAC members and their guests only; the cost is $25 per person. Reservations are limited, and payment is required at the time of your  reservation. Make checks payable to Evanston Art Center, and mail to:
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201.

$20 per person

21+ / Bring valid ID

 

The Evanston Art Center will be hosting its premier evening event for art discussion, growth, and fun. The first Thursday of each month will feature an art-oriented event - artist talks, films and small exhibitions - geared towards young professionals. We invite artists, scientists, students, adventurers, creatives of all kinds to join us!

Drinks provided by Sketchbook Brewing Company 

LAKE GENEVA RESIDENCE
Saturday, August 15, 2015
2:00 - 4:00 pm
RSVP by Thursday, August 12
Limit: 40 people
EAC Members $25

 

Join Art After Five Coordinator and celebrated artist Linda Kramer for a tour of a home and collection, that is set on five and a half wooded acres in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Milwaukee architect Tom Ela designed this home to blend with its woodland surroundings.  The collection includes paintings, drawings and prints by artists such as Andy Warhol, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and Robert Arnason with a focus on Chicago Imagist works on paper by Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Roger Brown, Karl Wirsum, Ray Yoshida and Barbara Rossi.  A large group of works by American self-taught artists includes works by Felipe Archuleta, Thornton Dial, Rev. Josephus Farmer, Howard Finster, Lee Godie, Charles Steffen, Simon Sparrow, Edgar Tolson, Joseph Yoakum, Eugene von Bruenchenhein and others.

 

Note the house is a bit of a walk from the street, please let us know if you need assistance when you RSVP.

 

The Evanston Art Center’s Art After Five program offers Art Center members and their guests the rare opportunity to visit artists’ studios and to view private art collections in the homes of the Chicago area’s most distinguished collectors. Please call the Art Center to reserve a space. Reservations are required and space is limited.

 

Join us at our Grand Opening of our new building on July 19. Here are some fun festivities that will be celebrating with us!

 

DEMONSTRATIONS AND TOURS

Art Class Demos: Including Ceramics, Painting, Printmaking, Drawing,
Jewelry, Mosaics, New Media, 3D Printing and Figure Sculpture
Ikebana Demo - Japanese Flower Arrangements
Drone Flight Demonstrations
Pets from Evanston Animal Shelter

FOOD

Great Harvest Bread Company
Three Tarts

ART
Hybrid’s Paradise Exhibit
Student Art Sale

We encourage thoughtful public dialogue around contemporary art history, theory, and criticism and social justice. Dialogic Communities aspires to reinvigorate a spirit of community, open up explorations in contemporary visual art, and serve as an informal public art education model. Dialogic Communities is inspired by Paulo Freire, Free Schools, Joseph Beuys’ professorship, Jacques Ranciere and other more discursive art historical and education public cultures.

 

Past Discussions 2012-2014:

10/10-12/12 Joshua Decter, Art is a Problem

2/27-4/24 David Joselit, After Art

9/25-12/4 Arthur C. Danto, Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-historical Perspective. (1991 book).

2/28 Andy Beckett, A User's Guide to Art Speak, from Guardian UK. (July editorial)

3/28 Anton Vidokle, Art Without Markets, Art Without Education: Political Economy of Art, from e-flux online (March issue).

4/25 Randy Kennedy, Outside the Citadel: Social Practice Art is Intended to Nurture, from New York Times (March editorial).

4/25 Jerry Saltz, Tilda Switon in a Box and How Living Art has Become MoMA's Crystal Meth, from New York Magazine (March editorial)

8/30 Hal Foster, Post-Critical, from October. (April issue).

9/27 Alexander Alberro, Life Models, from Frieze (June issue).

10/25 Claire Bishop, Digital Divide, from Art Forum (October issue).

11/29 Ellen Feiss, What is Useful? The Paradox of Rights in Tania Bruguera's Useful Art, from Art & Education online (November issue).

 

Extended Reading on Dialogic Communities:

W. Keith Brown's essay in Sixty Inches From Center

http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/?p=20769