COVID-19 Update
The EAC is currently closed until April 12. Please find more information below about this temporary closure. We are updating this page regularly to keep everyone informed.
Update: March 25, 2020
All Recent News
If you want to stay up-to-date on the Evanston Art Center news, you're in the right place. We hope you'll visit every other week to stay tuned in. Evanston Art Center Press Releases are also available.
Register for Spring Classes
Registration for all of our spring session (April 13 through June 7) classes are open. You'll find new classes and workshops worth investigating in all of our departments.
CLICK HERE to register for classes.
CLICK HERE to view a PDF version of our Spring Catalog.
Art Parties at the Evanston Art Center
Art Parties
at the Evanston Art Center
Make your next special event an art-filled party! EAC offers unique, art-themed parties and events for children and adults.
For Children
Plan your child's next birthday party or special event party at EAC!
SUMMER YOUTH ART CAMPS
REGISTRATION OPEN!
Summer Youth Art Camps are happening at Evanston Art Center!
Ensure your child has an exciting art-filled summer at the Evanston Art Center by signing them up for an art camp today! Your kids will have a lot of fun doing great art projects, making new friends, and viewing art in the galleries! They will be exposed to new ways to explore and cultivate creativity, new techniques and skills that enhance existing interests, access to new technologies, and much more!
Hybrid’s Paradise
NOW THROUGH AUGUST 9
Our New Location: 1717 Central Street, Evanston
Curated by Sergio Gomez, Curator | Gallery Director, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Zhou B Art Center
Hybrid’s Paradise is comprised primarily of works by Chicago based artists and explores dualities, sequences, pairings, and other hybrid structures of organic, mechanical, social, political, spiritual and psychological natures.
ARTiculate
August 6, 2015
7-9 p.m.
$20 per person
21+ / Bring valid ID
The Evanston Art Center will be hosting its premier evening event for art discussion, growth, and fun. The first Thursday of each month will feature an art-oriented event - artist talks, films and small exhibitions - geared towards young professionals. We invite artists, scientists, students, adventurers, creatives of all kinds to join us!
TIME AND TIFFANY
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO TIME AND TIFFANY
WHEN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2017
6:30PM-8:30PM
COCKTAILS AND HORS D’OEUVRES
TOUR THE MUSEUM FOR A SPECIAL FIRST VIEW
WHERE
HALIM TIME & GLASS MUSEUM
1560 OAK AVENUE
EVANSTON, IL 60201
RSVP BY
TUESDAY, AUGUST 29
SPACE IS LIMITED, PLEASE CALL 847-475-5300 TO PURCHASE TICKETS
TICKETS
$125
Student Gallery Shop
Come visit our EAC Student Gallery Shop located in the lobby of the Art Center!
The Student Gallery Shop gives EAC students the opportunity to display and sell their work. It is located in the First Floor Gallery and includes works from all media displayed in a variety of ways. Six artists are featured in the shop each month with up to 10 pieces per student. This is a great opportunity for students to promote and present their work in a professional setting!
Old Friends Make ‘New Work’ at the Evanston Art Center
Annette Turow and Linda Robinson Gordon have known each other for years and are even in the same Torah study group. But they are now connecting in a new way: through their art.
The exhibition “New Work,” featuring pieces by both Turow and Robinson Gordon, opens Sunday at the Evanston Art Center. It is the first ever joint exhibition between the two Chicago-area artists, whose collaboration, Turow said, was partly inspired by the fact that their recent works express similar attitudes toward the world.
SPRING ARTS & CRAFTS EXPO 2017
April 12 - 16, 2017
Opening event:
WEDNESDAY, April 12, 6-8pm
Join us for an evening of wine and shopping!
Expo open THURSDAY – Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Stop in and shop a selection of arts and crafts by 20 artists working in ceramics, fiber, jewelry, painting, and photography. Come celebrate Spring and find one-of-a-kind gifts for all of your upcoming occasions!
EAC 90th Anniversary Celebration Brunch
The Evanston Art Center is celebrating 90 years of bringing the arts to our community. From championing our local creative talents to inspiring with world famous artists, we have made it our mission to inspire, provoke, and support. And we’re just getting started! Join us in this quintessential year in our history as we celebrate the past and envision the future.
EAC 90th Anniversary Celebration Brunch
October 27, 2019, 11:00 am
1717 Central Street, Evanston
EVANSTON MADE
Evanston Made is an annual celebration in June that focuses on showcasing Evanston creatives. Throughout the month of June, studios, galleries, museums, workshops and businesses open their doors to showcase works (artistic, artisanal, etc.) and host events by Evanston creatives.
Registration is open for Evanston Made 2017, sign up here.
EAC Studio Exhibition
January 8 - 29, 2017
Opening Reception: January 8, 1-4pm
Evanston Art Center students are invited to participate in an exhibition to showcase their artwork. Students from all departments are encouraged to apply and present work in the wide ranges of media and processes created at the Evanston Art Center.
Shout Out: Judith Brotman, artist in residence at EAC
Sculptor and School of the Art Institute of Chicago instructor Judith Brotman, 58, will be in residence at the Evanston Art Center this month. While sculpting is her love, she also developed a passion for another art form she calls public projects. With her latest work as part of the residency, Brotman will incorporate language and text to help create meditations on the power of words and conversations. Her participation in residency is a revival of a program called a reading project that she founded when she injured her hand three years ago and couldn't sculpt.
Fall 2016 Exhibitions at EAC
The EAC is pleased to present works from Yoonshin Park and Chunbo Zhang for our Fall 2016 exhibition season.
Read on for more info about each of these unqiue artists.
CAVA: LATER IMPRESSIONS
On View: October 16 – November 9, 2016
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 16, 1-4pm
Evanston Art Center "Museum Perspectives": Peek at Peggy Macnamara Exhibition
Evanston Art Center "Museum Perspectives": Peek at Peggy Macnamara Exhibition
SOCIETY! ARTWORK-IN-RESIDENCE | KIRSTEN LEENAARS
October 2 - 30, 2016
Closing Reception: October 28, 6-8pm
PEGGY MACNAMARA: MUSEUM PERSPECTIVES
On view: September 11 – October 9, 2016
Opening Reception: Sunday September 11, 1-4pm
EAC IN EVANSTON MAGAZINE
28th Annual Spring Benefit & Auction
http://jwcdaily.com/evanstonmagazine/2016/08/18/evanston-art-center/
Evanston Made Opening Reception
Artwork talks at Evanston + Vicinity Biennial exhibit
Stunning. Startling. Thought-provoking. Evanston Art Center's 23rd Evanston + Vicinity Biennial exhibit is all that and more.
More than 400 entries were judged by Lela Hersh, president of Museum and Fine Arts Consulting; Monique Meloche, owner of Monique Meloche Gallery; and Lorelei Stewart, director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"There was no particular criteria," Hersh said. "Certainly, innovation is always important. Is it something we've seen a lot? Does it seem like they're taking chances?"
Sixty-four pieces were selected.
Society! Artwork-In-Residence Program
JOSEPH G. CRUZ
August 2 – September 11, 2016
EAC’s artwork-in-residence program, curated by Jessica Cochran and featuring 6 artists in rotating residencies, will continue with research-based artist Joseph G. Cruz from August 2 – September 11, 2016. Cruz’s work focuses on the production and reception of information and how romanticized notions about the world come into fruition. Cruz experiments with vernaculars of representations to form visual vocabularies that comment on the relationship between science and history.
EVANSTON MADE
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 – THURSDAY, JUNE 30
OPENING RECEPTION June 3, 5-8 p.m
OPENING RECEPTION June 3, 5-8 p.m
Evanston Made is a month-long celebration of the arts in Evanston designed to create opportunities for artists to engage with the community. (and vice versa) CLICK HERE for more details and the latest event calendar for Evanston Made.
WINTER ARTS & CRAFTS EXPO
NOVEMBER 19 - DECEMBER 21, 2016
The Evanston Art Center’s Winter Arts & Crafts Expo is one of the largest and most celebrated craft shows in the Chicago area. The 14th annual Expo features original arts and crafts by over 100 selected artisans, featuring works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed-media, and more.
For more information, CLICK HERE
SUMMER ART CAMP
JUNE 6 - AUGUST 19, 2016
Evanston Art Center showcases work of local artist collective
Jennifer Hepp/The Daily Northwestern
“Dimethylamine” by Melody Saraniti is one of the paintings on display as part of Evanston Art Center’s exhibit “Dialogue Chicago: 12.” The exhibit was organized as a celebration of the fifteenth year of Dialogue Chicago, a supportive community for local artists to practice.
April 7, 2016 •
Dialogue Chicago will celebrate 15 years as a community for local artists to practice and grow their crafts with an exhibit at the Evanston Art Center that will run through April 17. The community began in 2002 as artist Sarah Krepp’s post-grad seminar out of her home studio for artists in the Chicago area.
The exhibit features 12 Dialogue Chicago alumni who present art from a variety of disciplines, including photography, painting, sculpture and mixed media. The exhibit is titled “Dialogue Chicago: 12.”
PANERA FUNDRAISING NIGHT
HELP SUPPORT THE EVANSTON ART CENTER AT PANERA
Thursday April 14, 2016, 4-8 pm
Panera Bread
1700 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
CLICK HERE to print out a flyer. Bring the flyer in when you dine at Panera and they'll donate a portion of the proceeds from your purchase to the Evanston Art Center. It's a handcrafted delicious meal, all for a great cause!
CLICK HERE to Learn more about Fundraising Nights at Panera Bread.
Evanston + Vicinity Biennial Call for Artists
DEADLINE EXTENDED to MAY 20! Our Biennial is one of the Midwest's largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions, offering artists an opportunity to have their work viewed by three talented curators; Lela Hersh, President of Museum and Fine Arts Consulting and Lecturer in the Graduate Department of Arts Administration and Policy at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Monique Meloche, Owner, Monique Meloche Gallery and Lorelei Stewart, Director, Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago. Our Biennial will be promoted and viewed by hundreds of visitors, including gallerists, curators and collectors.
All mediums accepted. A non-refundable $30 entry fee is required from each artist. The fee must accompany your online form or CD submission. A complete entry includes: completed entry form, labeled CD, and fee. Make checks payable to the Evanston Art Center.
IMPORTANT DATES
Online and Mail-in Artist Submission Deadline: all entries by midnight on May 20, 2016
By June 10 Notification of acceptance
July 5-10 Accepted artworks delivered to Evanston Art Center
July 11-14 Installation
July 15, 6-8pm Opening and Artists’ Reception
August 28 Biennial Exhibition closes
August 29-September 4 Deinstall and pick up artworks
AWARDS
Cash awards and gift cards will be awarded at the artists’ reception on Friday, July 15, 6-8pm. Jurors will award five artists from the 2016 E+V Biennial to have an exhibit in EAC's galleries in 2017.
ELIGIBILITY
The 23rd Evanston + Vicinity Biennial is open to artists 18 years of age and older living in Illinois. All work must be original and completed within the last two years.
ACCEPTANCE
Notification of acceptance will be emailed by June 10. A valid email address is required.
SUMMER ART CAMP
JUNE 6 - AUGUST 19, 2016
CAMPS FOR AGES 4-14
The Evanston Art Center is very excited to offer another great line-up of summer youth art camps. Registration is now open.
CLICK HERE for a full list of classes and to sign up!
Financial aid/scholarships and Payment Plans
The Evanson Art Center is dedicated to making visual art accessible to everyone. Learn more about how to apply for need-based financial aidand payment plans. You also may pick up a form from the front desk, or call us at 847-475-5300.
SPRING BENEFIT ART PARTY & LIVE ART AUCTION 2016
A huge THANK YOU for everyone that came, bought tickets, donated, bid on the auctions, and celebrated with us this weekend. We had a great time, see you next year!
To view photos from The Art Party 2016, CLICK HERE.
Date:
Sat, 05/14/2016 - 6:00pm
Experience…The Lives We Touch and the Art We Create
Join us for a night of silent and live auctions, dinner, dancing, and wine!
Mark your calendar for our upcoming benefit – Saturday night, May 14 at 1717 Central Street! The Spring Benefit Art Party will consist of a live auction showcasing art donated by Chicago-area artists and an Experience Auction featuring special, one-of-a kind experiences. The Silent Auction will offer hotel stays, restaurant certificates, sporting game tickets, and more. Attendees will be able to bid on featured items or services while enjoying a sophisticated sit-down dinner.
Individual Tickets $200
CLICK HERE to purchase individual tickets to the Art Party.
Table Sponsorship available starting at $2500
To purchase Table Sponsorships, please contact the Art Center's Manger of External Affairs, Gabrielle Burrage, at (847) 475-5300 or gburrage@evanstonartcenter.org.
The proceeds from the benefit will help the Evanston Art Center to make arts more accessible to our community by providing scholarships for students in need of financial support, and funding our exhibitions and outreach programs.
Contribute to a Bigger Picture of Arts Engagement
The Evanston Art Center's new facility located at 1717 Central Street is currently being transformed into a hub for arts and culture.
Our Capital Campaign, SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE, which was launched in July has collected $1,811,596 in generous contributuions. With the addition of future pledges, we are now less than $500,000 shy of our overall goal of $2,500,000. Your tax-deductible constributions will enable us to complete the renovation, purchase studio equipment, and move to the new site in May 2015.
We're planning a dynamic mash-up of discipline-specific visual arts studios and mixed-use spaces in which digital fabrication, craft, design, music, movement, film, language, storytelling, social practice, song, and even the culinary arts will be offered. This new community of makers of all ages and backgrounds will be encouraged to take an active role in the life of the center.
WE NEED YOUR CAMPAIGN SUPPORT TODAY!
Please consider being part of this important community arts effort which will benefit many. Send a tax-deductible contribution today.
FOR A LIST OF OUR CURRENT CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS Click Here.
Register Now for Youth Summer Camps!
The Evanston Art Center is very excited to announce that it will be hosting its summer 2015 classes and Summer Youth Art Camps in its new location at 1717 Central Street. Children will enjoy a tidy new building, art classes in 3 beautifully designed youth studios, a new digital lab, and snack breaks out to nearby McCulloch Park. In addition to the camps seen here please check our website in May for more summer youth offerings that meet one-day a week for 5 and 10 weeks.
Thank You to our Faculty for a Wonderful Exhibition
The faculty of the Evanston Art Center comprises over 50 talented teaching artists working in a variety of disciplines. Every other year, the Art Center invites each of our faculty members to submit one work to our all-faculty exhibition.
This eclectic, well-attended exhibition gives our teaching artists an opportunity to invite curators, collectors, press, and friends to view their artworks. Many of the pieces will be for sale and proceeds benefit both the artists and the Art Center.
Capital Campaign & Renovation Progress Report
Thanks to the generosity of many contributors, including indivdiuals, businesses and foundtions, the Evanston Art Center’s capital campaign, SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE, has received $1,932,826 in campaign pledges and collected $1,664,435 in campaign contributions. We’re confident we will not only reach our campaign fundraising goal of $2,500,000, but will exceed it.
Support EAC at Koi Restaurant in November!
Thank you Koi Restaurant for selecting the Evanston Art Center as the nonprofit beneficiary of Table 23 for the month of November. We were thrilled to be part of this generous community outreach program!
All proceeds from Table 23 will contribute to the Art Center's educational programming that provides contemporary art activities for people of all ages, backgrounds and experience levels.
Anyone interested in becoming involved in Art Center activities is encouraged to search our web site and discover the many ways you can become engaged.
Evanston Art Center calls on public to raise $150K of $2.5 million for new space
The Evanston Art Center is asking the public to contribute $150,000 to fund the center's move to a new building through an online campaign launched earlier this month.
EAC's Dialogic Communities Art Discussion Group Convenes at The Smart Museum
Join us at the Smart Museum of Art beginning second Fridays October-December, 2014. We will read and discuss Joshua Decter's new book Art is a Problem. The group will begin by discussing the
preface, introduction, and first 3 chapters of Decter's book. The Smart is located at the University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago, IL. 60637
Meeting 1: Friday October 10, 1-3pm Discussing Preface, Introduction, and Chapter 1 "Institutional Critique and its Discontents"
Fall 2014 Classes Now Ready for Registration
Back to 'art' school time is right around the corner. If you are a current student of the Evanston Art Center you will be receiving your class catalog in the mail in a week. However, you can look through the PDF of the fall class and workshop offerings by clicking here!
The Art Center offers classes in many different disciplines for all ages and experience levels. Please ask us about financial aid and scholarships.
It's simple, find the class or classes you want and then go to our EDUCATION tab on our web site, find your class, and register through our web site. You can also call us at (847) 475-5300 or stop in and register in person at 2603 Sheridan Road. There will be several copies of the catalog at our front desk.
Upcoming art exhibition looks to focus on re-telling daily life
A new art exhibit featuring pieces from three different Chicago artists commenting on daily life will open August 10 at the Evanston Art Center.
Evanston Art Center identifies building as new home
The Evanston Art Center has identified a new building in Evanston to serve as the center’s next home, its executive director announced Monday night.
Evanston Arts Community to Host Open Studios Evanston
On June 7 the large and thriving Evanston arts community will open its studios to the general public to showcase works in progress. Arts organizations, including the Evanston Arts Center and Music Institute of Chicago, are also participating.
Dispatches from Urban Acrobatics Chicago: Day One, Panel Discussion
Our panel discussion session took place at the Evanston Art Center, and was chaired by the EAC Director of Education W. Keith Brown.
Fountain Square Arts Festival
Features more than 150 artists, food and musical entertainment, plus FamilyFest, an interactive activity area for kids and families overseen by the Evanston Art Center.
Jun 8th 2014 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial
Our Biennial is one of the Midwest’s largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions, offering artists an opportunity to have their work viewed by two talented curators
ECF awards $258,330 to twenty-eight organizations
On May 29, 2014 ECF and community members celebrated the missions and accomplishments of Evanston's non-profit community. The many organizations who will receive ECF competitive and strategic grants of nearly $800,000 in 2014 were honored at the celebration. (EAC listed as one of the grant recipients.)
EVANSTON ART CENTER “PERMEATED SURFACES” EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION AUGUST 10, 2014
The Evanston Art Center’s “Permeated Surfaces” exhibition is a highly anticipated event of artistic musicality and fluidity. Alison Svoboda’s raw edges of torn paper, Cydney Lewis’s twisted bits of discarded plastic, and Sandra Perlow’s layering of printed and painted paper, creates movement permeated with notes of dissonance.
AA&A’s Howard Sandroff presents “The Obsessive Image”, Thursday, May 8th, 7:00 PM, Evanston Art Center
AA&A’s Howard Sandroff presents “The Obsessive Image” – a presentation and reflection on the relationship between his sculptures and musical compositions - his obsession to freeze the time and motion of music into static spatial constructions, which are now his welded steel sculptures.
The Evanston Community Foundation Awards Over $250,000 at 2014 Grant Awards Celebration on May 29
The Evanston Community Foundation (ECF) awarded $258,330 tonight, Thursday, May 29, in response to community needs and opportunities at the 2014 Grant Awards Celebration. Including Erika's Lighthouse: A Beacon of Hope For Adolescent Depression--Evanston Art Center.
On June 7 the Evanston Arts Community Opens its Studios
Evanston is home to a thriving arts community of practicing artists and thriving arts organizations. “There is tremendous excitement for the first Open Studios Evanston, with more 50 artists and arts organizations participating,” says event producer Lisa Degliantoni.
Evanston Art Center introduces new Board Member: John Jacobs
The Evanston Art Center’s newest Board member, who is an Evanston resident, will bring the Art Center valuable expertise in the architectural realm
“We’re thrilled to have John R. Jacobs as part of our dedicated team of Trustees, staff, donors, faculty, and volunteers as we look forward to identifying a new, state-of-the art facility for the Art Center’s future home.”
Taking up painting not just for ex-presidents
Liberal Evanston is not a place where George W. Bush might expect to hear a kind word.
But among the paint-spattered easels in a painting studio at the Evanston Art Center, the former president got a few.
The Evanston Art Center Launches Living Studio Residency with Artist Ben Whitehouse.
The Evanston Art Center is pleased to announce an energetic new program called the Living Studio Residency. The Living Studio Residency is a community-based artist-in-residence program that provides a meaningful platform for local and national artists to transparently make and share work. The residency focuses on artistic visibility and public engagement around contemporary artistic practices and processes.
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New Artist-In-Residence Program
The Evanston Art Center is pleased to announce an energetic new program called The Living Studio. The Living Studio is a community-based artist-in-residence program that provides a meaningful platform for local and national artists to transparently make and share work. The residency focuses on artistic visibility and public engagement around contemporary artistic practices and processes. Click here for more information.
Dialogic Communities: Informal Art Education Discussion Group and Research Project
Dialogic Communities: Informal Art Education Discussion Group and Research Project
Evanston Art Center’s Director of Education Keith Brown discusses how his public art program Dialogic Communities inspires new ways of learning through engaging and thoughtful dialogue.
Evanston Art Center Continues Dialogic Communities Reading Group
Evanston Art Center’s discussion-based art group continues its exploration of contemporary art issues this fall, this time centering its conversations on the book Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective by Arthur C. Danto.
