Evanston Art Center joins Y.O.U.s

CONNECT at ETHS

The Art Center will collaborate with the CONNECT program this summer at the Evanston Township High School. This program, which runs from 3:30 to 6:30 pm offers homework support and tutoring, as well as an opportunity to engage in creative projects. Working with Neville Brown from Y.O.U., EAC will create new arts projects, engage our teachers to assist with ongoing offerings such as their Fahsion Magazine and Video explorations, and plan more in-depth offerings for the fall of 2012. Mr. Brown will organzie groups of students to visit our galleries this sumer for an organized session on contemporary art exhibitions and careers in arts management.

Artist-in-Residence

Working with the PTA at Kingsley School, the Evanston Art Center helped initiate an artist-in-residence program. We assisted with the initial visioning of the project, identified an excellent teaching artist from Chicago, Cecil MacDonald, and worked through the initieal phase of planning. Kingsley School then took the lead and has nearly finiahsed an impressive video installation, which involved 5th graders in its creation. EAC plans to establish more of these valuable residencies in the near future.

Evanston Public Library Collaboration:

Visual Literacy + Summer Reading

This summer, art and the written word will come to gether at the Evanston Art Center. We will promote the library's popular Summer Reading Game to all of our art students during our classes and camps, encouraging them to become better readers as we hlep them improve their visual literacy in our art classes. Alternately, the library will exhibiti artworks from our summer programs in their children's area.

District 65 Scholarships

The EAC was awarded a matching grant from the Woman's Club of Evanston, which will enable EAC to award one scholarship for each of the 12 Evanston public District 65 schools.

"Ten Thousand Ripples" Project

Local artist, Indira Freitas Johanson, working with community partners such as the Evanston Community Foundation and Open Studios Project, was seeking help organizing this community-wide project for peace. The EAC and Open Studio Project have agreed to work together to involve Evanston communities in brainstorming sessions with the intent of bringing this innovative public art initiative to Evanston.

Loyola Academy Student Exhibition:

Over the weekend of February 11 to 13, the Art Center's Gallery walls were filled with artworks of Loyola Academy AP and Honors art students. This impressive exhibition was the result of a successful community partnership between the Evanston Art Center and Loyola Academy.