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We will be closed starting Tuesday night at 6:30 pm and all day Wednesday. We will reopen for adult classes on Thursday, January 31. No Youth classes on Thursday.

Party space is available from 1:30-3:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays for a maximum of 15 children. If a party goes beyond 15 children, we charge an additional $15 per child. Parties take place in one room only. To use additional rooms at the Art Center you must pay a $100 room rental fee.

The Art Center provides space, art supplies, a teahcer, and a teaching assistant. 

Time is divided between art making and celebrating a birthday. Parents supply cake, refreshments, forks, plates, and decorations. A table for these things is in the same room.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

On View: October 16 – November 9, 2016

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 16, 1-4pm

October 2 - 30, 2016

Closing Reception: October 28, 6-8pm

28th Annual Spring Benefit & Auction

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JOSEPH G. CRUZ
August 2 – September 11, 2016 

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

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 23^rd 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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

A new art exhibit featuring pieces from three different Chicago artists commenting on daily life will open August 10 at the Evanston Art Center.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/columnists/ct-painting-in-retirement-brotman-talk-0414-20140414,0,1267665.column

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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.

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