Saturday, May 17, 2025
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street
6:00 p.m.
Join us for a night of Art, Dinner, Drinks, and Music in support of the Evanston Art Center!
You do not have to attend to bid on the Silent Auction.
Experience a one-of-a-kind artistic battle on May 4th as oil and acrylic mediums go head-to-head in a fast-paced, lively showdown filled with humor, storytelling, and playful creative rivalry. Watch as Joe Bednarski and Phil Gayter bring their unique styles to life in an unforgettable event!
$85 per couple
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$85 per couple
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Zoom Link to Watch Lecture
In this virtual lecture offered through Zoom, Grossinger will discuss photographing the invisible, using documents and ephemera in long-form visual projects, and mixing family lore with historical memory. Grossinger explores Guatemalan history through the lenses of power, identity and memory in her new book, Serpent Tongue, which weaves together personal memoirs, archival imagery, and portraits. Lecture will be followed by a Q&A.
This VIRTUAL lecture will introduce students to the process, material, and history of painting with organic and inorganic pigments, shedding light on important sites of prehistoric cave painting from around the world and derivative schools of art such as Nihonga, Japanese Traditional paintings, Thangka, Tibetan Buddhist painting and Indian miniature paintings. Lecture will be followed by a Q & A.
Please join us for an evening of music, dance, and an artist talk with the talented Chicago muralist Dorian Sylvain, and a dance performance by Chicago perfo
The Evanston Art Center’s Annual Winter Arts + Crafts Expo features original, handmade arts and crafts by over 140 selected artisans. We feature original, handmade works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed media, and more. This month-long event attracts visitors all over the Midwest region.
Important Dates
The Evanston Art Center is celebrating 95 years of inspiring art education, exhibitions, and expression for all. Join us in celebration with our Founders' Day Raffle for a chance to win a FREE class at the EAC!
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For the ongoing EAC series, "In Focus," Rotblatt Amrany will present her talk, "Duality Is Inherent within a Unified Whole," discussing the scope of both her commercial and fine art practices.
The EAC is pround to offer another summer of Documention Workshops and Open studios. The dates for these will be:
June 22 Documentation Workshop, June 29 Open Studio
July 20 Documentation Workshop, July 27 Open Studio
August 17 Documentation Workshop, August 24 Open Studio
September 7 Documentation Workshop, September 14 Open Studio
October 12 Documentation Workshop, October 19 Open Studio
Join us Sunday, October 6th at 3 pm for the Voices dance performance from Identity Performing Arts.
This dance performance is 45 minutes long and includes a post performance Q&A. 50 seats first come first serve and unlimited standing capacity. This program is supported by the Evanston Arts Council Cultural Fund Grant.
Photography by Peter Hinsdale
For the ongoing EAC series, "In Focus," Sokolow will give a lecture that recounts her experiences, including freedoms and problems, in making art that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Topics to be discussed, among others, include McDonald’s, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jim Jones, master illusionist David Copperfield, a former mayor of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune, and an unnamed starchitect.
Come to the EAC to meet with art college admissions teams, get information, and/or have your art portfolio reviewed before applying to colleges and universities.
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Portfolio Review Meetings are 10 minutes each.
Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene is a large-scale civic engagement art project comprised of over 10,000 bird replicas made by the citizens of Chicago and beyond. Through free public workshops, participants are given a blank bird body, assigned a specific bird that died in 2023 from window collisions along Chicago’s lakefront, and are led through the crafting process to create a replica.
This workshop, facilitated by artist/author and educator Marilyn Price, is to help teachers, homeschool providers, and educational administrators reach as many different learners as possible by utilizing visuals, books, and imagination to add your individual teaching style.
Applications are CLOSED
