Past Events and Programs

Winter Arts and Craft Expo 2024

Winter Expo 2024
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Join us for another Winter Arts and Craft Expo

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.

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EAC Founders' Day Raffle

Founders' Day Raffle
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The Evanston Art Center is turning 95!

Founders' Day Raffle - Sales close Sunday, October 27th

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! 

Click the link below with the amount of tickets you would like to purchase.

1 for $50

2 for $90

EAC Portfolio Day and Documentation Workshops and Open Studios

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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

Voices | Identity Performing Arts

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Voices Dance Performance | Identity Performing Arts

October 6, 3 pm

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 more information visit Voices

InFocus Lecture with Deb Sokolow

Deb Sokolow Headshot
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The Blurry Line Between Fact and Fiction with Deb Sokolow

Sunday, September 22, 3 - 4:30 pm RSVP

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.

EAC Portfolio Day 2024

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Saturday, September 21, 2024

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. 

Register here

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Portfolio Review Meetings are 10 minutes each. 

Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene: Workshop with Holly Greenberg

This workshop is a large-scale civic art project comprised of over 10,000 bird replicas made by the citizens of Chicago and beyond.
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Saturday, August 3, 2024

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.

EAC Visual Literacy | EAC Workshops for Educators

Visual Literacy | EAC Workshops for Educators
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Visual Literacy | EAC Workshops for Educators

Wednesday, July 31, 6:30- 8pm RSVP

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.

Swoon: An Ekphrastic Poetry Reading by DJ Savarese

DJ SAVARESE by PamelaHarveyPhotography
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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

EAC Eco Art Sale

Eco Art Sale
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Eco Art Supply Sale.                

April 20 & 21, 2024, 9-4 pm

Celebrate Earth day at the EAC and shop gently used donated art supply materials. 

Find items like: 

You're not Really Seeing This | Artist Encounter and Interactive Workshop

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Saturday, March 16, 2024,12pm - 4 pm RSVP

Artists Bryan Northup and Kelsey Merreck Wagner will facilitate a free, hands-on community art installation, free and open to the public, (pre-registration encouraged). All ages are welcome (youth 12 and under accompanied by parent or caregiver)