See the Bigger Picture: a Capital Campaign for the Evanston Art Center

                    OUR NEW HOME - 1717 Central Street (a rendering by The Dobbins Group)

The interior renovation of the Art Center's new facility is well underway. A relocation date of May 2015 is right around the corner.

Our Capital Campaign, SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE, which was launched in July has raised $2,080,107 in campaign pledges. Our immediate goal is $2,500,000 to complete the renovation, purchase studio equipment, and move to the new site.

HELP US REACH OUR GOAL IN TIME. Please consider being part of this important campaign that will benefit many communities. Send a tax-deductible contribution today.

FOR A LIST OF OUR CURRENT CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS Click Here.

Please continue reading to learn more about the Art Center's capital campaign.

SEE BIGGER

Our longstanding committment to providing quality visual arts programming, including art classes, exhibitions, public programs, and community outreach, has earned the Art Center a national reputation as a leading provider of quality arts education and enrichment. However, our vision for the future is much bigger. We want to serve more people in more ways.

While the visual arts will remain our core focus, we will add complementary programming in culinary and language arts, design, digital fabrication, film, movement, music, performance, and more. Larger gallery spaces ideal for exhibiting installation and mixed media works, as well as special event rentals, are welcome additions. We will even have a comfortable place to sit and 'talk art,' a coffee bar named the Art Bar. Outreach efforts such as our mobile art education van, Art VanGo, will continue to provide arts and cultural programming to even wider audiences.

IMPACT

With a new facility and cross-disciplinary program agenda, we will be able to deepen our impact in four overall areas: Creative Youth Development, Lifelong Learning, Arts Professional Development, and Community Engagement and Partnerships. More people from more places will benefit from Art Center activities.

CONTRIBUTE

All gifts to our Capital Campaign are fully tax-deductible and payable over a five-year period.

Please click here for more information on ways of giving and a donation link.

NOW

The time is now! We have to move in by May 2015 and need your help to make it happen.

100% of our Trustees and Staff have given to the effort. A renewed Evanston Art Center housed in an inspiring space is within reach. If we work together, we will co-create and sustain a new center of arts and culture in Evanston - a place where creativity meets community for all of us.

Plan for first floor and second floor:

CAMPAIGN FACTS

  • All gifts to the EAC Capital Campaign are fully tax-deductible
  • Campaign Pledges are payable over a five-year period
  • Cash, appreciated securities, matching gifts are accepted as methods of payment on a pledge
  • Planned gifts are an excellent way to enhance your campaign commitment
  • Studio, gallery and other naming rights are available at certain contribution levels
  • Every gift to the EAC Capital Campaign is an important endorsement of the Evanston Art Center's New Vision and can be individually structured to meet the philanthropic goals of the donor
  • The $2,500,000 goal will be fulfilled through a combination of individual, corporate, foundation contributions, as well as a crowdfunding campaign

CONTACT

For additional information on the Evanston Art Center's SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE campaign and to make a gift, please contact:

Paula Danoff, President & CEO, [email protected], 847-475-5300, ext. 109