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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

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.)

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” – 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 (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.

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.

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.”

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.

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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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