Events and Programs
In addition to our ongoing exhibitions and art classes, we offer special fund-raising events, public programs and an artist-in-residence program designed to engage audiences and offer new insights into contemporary art and practice. You will find a listing of these happenings on the agenda below, or you can link to our calendar. For information on other issues and developments regarding the Evanston Art Center, please read our news articles.
Swoon: An Ekphrastic Poetry Reading by DJ Savarese
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