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As a regional art museum that opened its doors in 1997, the Elmhurst Art Museum is committed to showing emerging and established contemporary artists, with a focus on the Chicagoland area and featuring local architects in major exhibits and programming in the McCormick House gallery. The development of their projects, public talks, involvement with our education center, and participation in public and school projects, along with the Museum’s growing collection of over 1,000 artworks, have been key foundations of the organization’s public offering.
Image: Elmhurst Art Museum with Sentrock’s Bird City Saint. Image courtesy of Elmhurst Art Museum. Photo by Liz Chilsen.
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Featuring small-scale bronzes, carved stone, and welded brass works, the exhibition highlights his signature organic geometries and cubist influences. The selected works anchored by his expressive tactile surfaces, evoke human lyricism. This focused display provides a rare, powerful look at a skilled sculptor who seamlessly bridged the gap between traditional form and avant-garde midcentury expression.
Elmhurst Art Museum kicks off the 2026 Veteran Art Triennial and Summit, RESISTING THE LONG WAR, with the opening of the group exhibition, A REVOLUTION OF VALUES. Organized by the Chicago-based Emerging Veteran Art Movement, A REVOLUTION OF VALUES builds on the legacy of Vietnam Veterans Against the War through the work of cutting-edge contemporary veteran artists who are turning from militarism toward solidarity. Bringing together nearly a dozen local, national, and international artists, the exhibition celebrates the range of ways veteran artists examine their military experiences and critique militarism.
Elmhurst Art Museum kicks off the Veteran Art Summit with poetry readings and presentations inaugurating the 2026 Veteran Art Triennial RESISTING THE LONG WAR. Other participating venues include the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and Walls Turned Sideways with additional exhibitions and related programming. Each exhibition offers a distinct curatorial frame on artists’ creative defiance to war and militarism, and each location will host programming during the Veteran Art Summit, November 5–8, 2026.
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The Museum is proud to present a solo exhibition of contemporary Chicago artist and educator Matthew Girson in the Elmhurst Art Museum’s Mies van der Roe-designed McCormick House. Titled Still Lives at 4:00 AM and curated by Liz Chilsen, Manager of Exhibitions and Collections, the exhibition features a series of still life paintings of empty vessels and floral prints, captured in restrained color and diminished light, as a way of reflecting on loss, absence, and lack. Using “4:00 AM colors” that dissolve into grey, visitors’ eyes struggle to discern detail and form, as brushstrokes and subtle shifts in color slowly reveal themselves upon longer looking. For Girson, the subjects he paints are not as important as the things Girson chooses not to include: absent are the flowers themselves, as well as their color--but their beauty is gleaned in the duration of time taken with them.
Peters Quinn says, “We are thrilled to present two concurrent solo exhibitions featuring the extraordinary work of Chicago-based painters Matthew Girson and Pooja Pittie. Through focused engagement with color, dynamic patterning, and nuanced texture, both artists invite viewers to slow down and enter into a quiet dialogue with the traditional medium. Their contributions to contemporary painting represent the high standard of artistic practice coming out of the Midwest, and we are honored to bring their significant work to the Museum to be seen and celebrated.”
The exhibitions will be on view at the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst, from January 23 to April 25, 2027.
ABOUT POOJA PITTIE
Pooja Pittie is a visual artist based in Chicago, whose work explores the complex interplay between body and mind, movement and stillness. Raised in Mumbai, India, Pittie trained as an accountant and earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago before transitioning to a full-time art practice in 2016. Living with a progressive form of muscular dystrophy, Pittie’s work draws on the dynamics between a slowing body and an active, curious mind. Through painting and fiber art, she weaves together personal memories, cultural heritage, motherhood, and her experiences of disability, creating intricate compositions that speak to resilience and identity. Pittie has completed the Center Program at Hyde Park Art Center, the HATCH residency at Chicago Artists' Coalition, and the 3Arts Bodies of Work Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was the recipient of the 2022 3Arts Next Level/Spare Room Award. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Chicago; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (Delhi, India). She is represented by McCormick Gallery in Chicago.
ABOUT MATTHEW GIRSON
Matthew Girson makes paintings that explore the depth and range of the discipline as a physical medium, historical subject, and poetic opportunity. Specific themes in his paintings over the past 30 years include the relationship between abstraction and representation and how they operate within modern democracies. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and will be an Artist In Residence at the Lost and Found Lab in Connecticut in March 2027. His work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. He is a Professor in the Art School at DePaul University where he teaches painting, drawing, and seminars on contemporary art.
ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regular admission prices are $18 for adults (ages 18+), $15 for seniors, $10 for students, and $5 for children. For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visitelmhurstartmuseum.org.
The Elmhurst Art Museum is proud to present a solo exhibition of contemporary Chicago artist and educator Matthew Girson in the Elmhurst Art Museum’s Mies van der Roe-designed McCormick House. Titled Still Lives at 4:00 AM and curated by Liz Chilsen, Manager of Exhibitions and Collections, the exhibition features a series of still life paintings of empty vessels and floral prints, captured in restrained color and diminished light, as a way of reflecting on loss, absence, and lack. Using “4:00 AM colors” that dissolve into grey, visitors’ eyes struggle to discern detail and form, as brushstrokes and subtle shifts in color slowly reveal themselves upon longer looking. For Girson, the subjects he paints are not as important as the things Girson chooses not to include: absent are the flowers themselves, as well as their color--but their beauty is gleaned in the duration of time taken with them.
Matthew Girson makes paintings that explore the depth and range of the discipline as a physical medium, historical subject, and poetic opportunity. Specific themes in his paintings over the past 30 years include the relationship between abstraction and representation and how they operate within modern democracies. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and will be an Artist In Residence at the Lost and Found Lab in Connecticut in March 2027. His work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. He is a Professor in the Art School at DePaul University where he teaches painting, drawing, and seminars on contemporary art.
The exhibition will be on view at the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst, from January 23 to April 25, 2027.
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\r\n\r\nIn 1982, Ed Paschke, a leading imagist, curated Flip Flash! Pinball Art, at the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center. Paschke’s painting, Black Out, based on the pinball game, was prominently displayed, and the artist himself selected scores of games, most from the city, to make good on his debt to the otherwise anonymous art form. Flip Flash! was the only exhibition Paschke curated, and one of just a handful of pinball shows ever mounted at a cultural institution.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition will display a dozen pinball machines from the 1960s and 1970s, all designed and built in Chicago, along side paintings, sculptures and prints by Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Ed Flood, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Barbara Rossi and Karl Wirsum. It will also contain photographs of Chicago in those years, as recorded by some of these same artists.
\r\n\r\nKings and Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago will reveal a new view of both the city and some of its finest exports with major works on loan courtesy of the Illinois State Museum, Elmhurst College and the Roger Brown Study Collection.
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\r\n\r\nGertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) was a painter based in Chicago who created surreal and dream-like imagery. She developed her own unique style and color palette, and explained the images of her work with “It is always myself that I paint.” The exhibition will include 40 of the artist’s enigmatic paintings of spare interiors and illusionary landscapes—which have been referred to as “psychic self-portraits.”
\r\n\r\nIdiosyncratic, charming and irascible, Gertrude was presciently contemporary. Referred to as “the queen of the bohemian artists,” Abercrombie entertained many jazz musicians at her home at parties on Saturday evenings and jam sessions on Sunday afternoons, including friends Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins.
\r\n\r\nLike the jazz musicians with whom she was friends, she established a repertoire of themes upon which she riffed for decades. Cats, clouds, ostrich eggs, doors, lightning bolts, rocks and sea shells set in airless landscapes and spare interiors became a shorthand with which she chronicled her recurring dreams, fears and obsessions. Her works are spare and syncopated —“off the beam” as Gertrude would say—and always self-consciously performative.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition includes works from the collections of Laura and Gary Maurer, the Illinois State Museum and Elmhurst College.
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*Photo Courtesy of Lithub.com
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\r\n\r\nSaturday, January 27 at 1:30 p.m. Join us for an in-depth look at the exhibition Gertrude Abercrombie. Free with museum admission or current membership.
\r\n\r\n"Elmhurst Art Museum proudly announces its upcoming exhibition Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape organized by Jenny Gibbs and coordinated at the museum by Lal Bahcecioglu. Featuring works from Chicago painter Abercrombie, who frequently hosted and played with acclaimed jazz musicians in her home, the show will be on view January 20 - March 4, 2018. Additional information is available at www.elmhurstartmuseum.org."
\r\n\r\n*Photo Courtesy of Lithub.com
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\r\n\r\nSaturday, February 3 from 1-4 p.m. Free with museum admission or current membership.
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\r\n\r\nSaturday, February 17 at 1:30 p.m. Donna Seaman, the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists, will give an exhibition tour focusing on Gertrude Abercrombie’s biography. The painter Abercrombie surrounded herself with fascinating people including jazz musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, held regular jam sessions at her home, and was referred to as "the queen of the bohemian artists." After the tour, Seaman will be available to sign copies of her book. Free with museum admission or current membership.
\r\n\r\n"Elmhurst Art Museum proudly announces its upcoming exhibition Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape organized by Jenny Gibbs and coordinated at the museum by Lal Bahcecioglu. Featuring works from Chicago painter Abercrombie, who frequently hosted and played with acclaimed jazz musicians in her home, the show will be on view January 20 - March 4, 2018. Additional information is available at www.elmhurstartmuseum.org. "
\r\n\r\n*Photo Courtesy of Lithub.com
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\r\n\r\nSaturday, March 3 from 1-4 p.m. Free with museum admission or current membership.
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\r\nMany of the exhibition materials were sourced from estate sales and thrift stores. Reusing these castoff items, Castellanos incorporates them into a variety of mixed media from painting, sculpture, installation, wearable jewelry, and clothing. She then invites gallery visitors to reconsider items that can be easily discarded, especially when viewers are encouraged to become active participants by playing, creating, and performing. Castellanos gives these “once loved things” a second life by inventing a new outlet for a visitor’s engagement and an exploration of their own creativity.
\r\nDonna Castellanos has been in the Elmhurst community since she was born, and now gives back to the community as an artist, curator, and educator. As the Elmhurst Art Museum’s Education Program Coordinator, she teaches a variety of classes and designs interactive interpretive displays for each of the major exhibitions. Since 2013 she has been the art director and curator for Flight 112, a local bar, restaurant and gallery in Elmhurst. Castellanos received a degree in graphic design from the American Academy of Art in Chicago.
The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild (“EAG”) presents MoDa: Mother and Daughter Exhibit Together, solo and collaborative original artwork by Terri Shimkus and her daughter, Danielle Hepko. For Shimkis, EAG Board Member and Communications Chair, collaborating on this exhibition with her 27-year-old daughter is a dream come true as they have created artwork together since Hepko was a child. Cassie Swierenga, EAG President, said the show “provides a rare opportunity to view the artistic influences a mother has passed onto a child.”
\r\n\r\nPhoto: Terri Shimkus, Dream Catchers, 2018
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\r\n\r\n2pm: Talk by curatorial advisor Renato Anelli, Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning - University of São Paulo
\r\n\r\n4pm: Talk by curator Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University Professor of Art History and Archaeology
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\r\n\r\nImage: Luisa Lambri, Untitled (Farnsworth House, #07), 2016, Fine art pigment print, 27 ¾ x 23 ½ in., Ed. 1 of 5 +1AP. Courtesy Thomas Dane Gallery, London
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\r\n\r\nNew Views’ first gallery will contain models of the prototype house and the potential prefab houses that were to be made after it, in addition to reproductions of historical photographs and advertisements for the houses.
\r\n\r\nNew Views will also serve as the only U.S. venue for an international traveling exhibition curated by Renato Anelli, Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning - University of São Paulo and curatorial advisor for New Views. Models and photographs of homes built and proposed by other architects will provide background for Mies’s ‘dream home of tomorrow.’ These materials come from the exhibition Glass Houses, which was originally held in Brazilian Lina Bo Bardi’s Glass House.
\r\n\r\nFinally, the third gallery of New Views will display photographs by contemporary artists responding to reflections and transparency on the iconic glass walls designed by Mies, including works by Scott Fortino, Veronika Kellndorfer, and Luisa Lambri. Described by a prefab advertisement used by McCormick, “The glass wall doesn’t merely disclose a section of the outdoors but reveals to the expansive eye and spirit a constant weather-changing spectacle from the earth up, of plant and creature.”
\r\n\r\nNew Views is curated by Barry Bergdoll, Professor of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University, with curatorial advisors Renato Anelli, Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning - University of São Paulo; Sol Camacho, Cultural Director of Instituto Bardi/Casa de Vidro; and Ana Lúcia Ceravolo, Post-PhD researcher on Architectural Heritage at IAU USP.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
\r\n\r\nImage: Carport (McCormick House), Courtesy of Hendrich Blessing Archive, Chicago Historical Society.
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\r\n\r\nImage: Carport (McCormick House), Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing Archive, Chicago Historical Society.
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Elmhurst Architecture Walking Tours: Sundays, June 24 & July 29 @ 2pm
\r\n\r\nDeparting from the Museum, visitors are invited on a one-hour walking tour that explores modern architecture in Elmhurst including the Henderson House by Frank Lloyd Wright and McCormick House by Mies. Ticketed event; registration required.
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\r\n\r\nNew York Times bestseller and short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2009, "The Glass Room" tells the story of the Landauers who commission German architect, Rainer von Abt, to build a modern house in Czechoslovakia. The Landauer House, based on the Villa Tugendhat (built by Mies), becomes a minimalist masterpiece with a transparent glass room as its center. The home passes through several new owners--each new inhabitant falling under the spell of the glass room.
\r\n\r\nPlease register in advance by calling 630.834.0202.
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The architects will soon add more warmth to the historic home through seasonal holiday decor with a minimal, Mid-century focus.
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Haskins believes small shifts in our perception can create meaningful consequences in everyday lives. His insightful projects continue traditions of the Light and Space movement through highly considered and polished works that isolate viewers’ experiences with phenomena of light, space, time, and sound. Each conceptually-driven piece invites visitors to reorient themselves to the world around them.
The Elmhurst Art Museum has supported Haskins’ artistic career with multiple projects, including Skycube (2015), which recently reopened at the Museum.
The series of contemporary artwork in the McCormick House celebrates the historic structure by Mies, especially as the recent restorations allow audiences to discover and reconsider its unique story. The installation by Haskins will put the one-story glass house designed by the famed architect in conversation with the tall skyscrapers that made him a modern icon.
Two off-site extensions of this exhibition will presented in September: the premiere of Time Mirror II at 150 Media Stream (150 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago) in which Haskins continues his work with perception and time by transforming an immersive media wall into a 150-foot digital mirror; and a Haskins virtual reality piece Time Spheres presented at EXPO Chicago, the international exposition of contemporary & modern art, at Navy Pier (600 E. Grand Avenue, Chicago) September 27-30, 2018.
The architectural intervention Ascension / Descension was generously sponsored by Linda Usher, Malcolm Lambe, Kristin Lambe, and Lauren Lambe.
One wing of the McCormick House will be curated by the architects Robert Kleinschmidt and Ryan Monteleagre, complete with mid-century furnishings. Click here for more details.
Click here to read the exhibition catalogue.
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This exhibition features the Elmhurst College Art Collection, focused on artists working in Chicago between about 1950 and the present. The exhibition is curated by Suellen Rocca, one of the original members of the Hairy Who and Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Elmhurst College.
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\r\n\r\nFree with museum admission or current membership.
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\r\n\r\nThe FrankenToyMobile is a pedal-powered maker space that encourages imagination and curiosity by providing opportunities for youth and adults to reuse toys as raw material for original creations.
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\r\n\r\nFree with museum admission or current membership
\r\n\r\nImage: ED PASCHKE, "COBMASTER," 1975, OIL ON CANVAS, 74 X 50 IN. ELMHURST COLLEGE ART COLLECTION
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Free with museum admission or current membership
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We invite you and your family to participate in hands-on art activities inspired by our current exhibition.
Free with museum admission or current membership
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Free with admission or current membership.
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Architect Robert Kleinschmidt will give a tour about his exhibition \"McCormick House: 1952-59\", his designs for the domestic interior, and his history with other projects by Mies van der Rohe. Showcased will be seasonal holiday decor, adding warmth to the historic home.
Free with museum admission or current membership.
Celebrate the holidays with us. Enjoy hot cocoa, cookies and hands-on art activities along with a surprise visit from Santa at 2 pm.
Free with museum admission
Symposium: The Figure, Humor, and the Chicago Imagists
\r\n\r\nIn partnership with Art Design Chicago and Elmhurst College, this full-day symposium explores works by the Chicago Imagists with specific emphasis on the ways in which they used humor in their depictions of the figure. The symposium features presentations on the topic and the opportunity to view the extraordinary Elmhurst College Imagist Art Collection on view at the Elmhurst Art Museum.
\r\n\r\nSymposium begins at Illinois Hall at Elmhurst College and later continues at the Elmhurst Art Museum.
\r\n\r\nFull schedule to be announced.
\r\n\r\nThe program is free with registration required.
\r\n\r\nArt Design Chicago is a spirited celebration of the unique and vital role Chicago plays as America’s crossroads of creativity and commerce. Led by the Terra Foundation for American Art, this citywide partnership of cultural organizations explores Chicago’s art and design legacy with more than 30 exhibitions and hundreds of events throughout 2018.
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With this site-specific sculpture and engineering marvel, David Wallace Haskins brings the sky down to ground level in real time. A direct vantage point presents a living painting on the face of the cube: blue sky and white clouds seem physically present as they move through the picture plane. These views transform over time, most dramatically after sunset, as shifting hues of blue become a deep black square of moving stars. Haskins’ artwork allows for us to reflect on the presence of light, space, and time in quiet and ever-changing ways.
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Stall, a member of the National Audubon Society, has always had a love for the natural world, especially birds. Thus, it is no surprise that wildlife and birds feature prominently in Stall’s work. “Through my art, I enjoy showing the public the importance of the natural resource of the world's wildlife,” he explained.
In addition to birds and fish, other artworks displayed feature mammals, such as bunnies, chipmunks and a Canadian lynx. Stall chose to paint the lynx “because it is a majestic predator with very few enemies. I encourage the public to hunt wildlife with a camera and not a firearm.”
“With approximately 50 artworks ranging in price from $100 - $300, Greg’s show provides a wonderful opportunity to acquire original artworks,” commented EAG President, Charlene Lee-Freislinger. Proceeds benefit three ways, supporting the artist, the EAG and the Elmhurst Art Museum.
The public is invited to a family friendly reception on Friday, Jan 11, 2019 from 7:00 to 9:00pm where they can meet the artist.
The EAG gallery is not-for-profit, operated by the Elmhurst Artists’ Guild. It features contemporary artworks in a variety of styles and media. In addition to four member shows each year, the guild hosts exhibitions of individual members’ artwork and invitational shows for significant local artists.
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This exhibition is part of the Year of German-American Friendship initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
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Many of the influential figures and others involved at the Bauhaus left Germany and spread the school's lessons internationally, including Mies and other figures who emigrated to the U.S. Mies became the director of the Department of Architecture at the Armour Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) and went on to create glass and steel structures that are now a hallmark of Chicago’s skyline. He influenced generations of students and is now considered one of the 20thCentury’s greatest architects. His prefab prototype, the Museum’s McCormick House, has been revitalized via recent restorations and will be the site for site-specific projects by two Chicago-based artists.
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The project will continue with small community events throughout the year until all pages are filled. The finished creations will be featured either at the Fall or Winter member show.
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Learn about the history and unique design of the McCormick House. This docent-led tour will introduce concepts in the historical exhibitionThe Whole World a Bauhausand end in the two contemporary site-specific exhibitions in the McCormick House.
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Virtual Bauhaus is developed by the Goethe-Institut Boston in cooperation with Cologne Game Lab (CGL) at TH Köln and a team of Bauhaus advisors.
This exhibition is part of the Year of German-American Friendship initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
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Evron and Weber reflect on their artistic intent and interests in Mies’s legacy, the Bauhaus, and unique features of the McCormick House—the site of their site-specific installations.
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Please enter through museum's Education Center doors located off the parking lot.
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Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and later winning the VCU First Novelist Award,The Turner Houseby Angela Flournoy tells the story of a Detroit family with 13 children as it responds to the economic woes of the city, in both the 1940s, and then in 2008. Co-organized with the Elmhurst Public Library. Please register in advance by calling (630) 834-0202.
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Free with museum admission.
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Dr. Regina Bittner, Head of the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and responsible for the conception and teaching of the postgraduate programs for design, Bauhaus and architectural research, will give a talk on the global impact of the Bauhaus. Bittner has curated numerous exhibitions on the Bauhaus and the cultural history of modernism. Co-organized with Northwestern University and Elmhurst College.
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The evening will continue the museum's anniversary celebrations of the legendary German school with a special unveiling of Parallel Perspectives, a light and color installation in the McCormick House by the artist duo Luftwerk. The evening will also include work by the museum's Teen Art Council based on Oskar Schlemmer's geometric ballet costumes.
Proceeds will be used to help the Elmhurst Art Museum enrich people’s lives by deepening their knowledge of art, architecture and design, increasing their understanding of the relevance of visual art in our society and sparking the development of individual creativity.
Tickets and Tables on Sale Now
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Free admission to Elmhurst Art Museum in celebration of the D205 show and Art in Wilder Park
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This pop-up exhibition will feature artwork by local students from District 205, and will take place Saturday, May 4th - Sunday, May 5th. Artists from both the elementary and middle schools will showcase their work from the 2018-2019 school year. Admission is free this weekend, so come enjoy the exhibition and visit the museum's booth at Art in Wilder Park for an art activity.
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With a Capital P Artists/Curators
Image: Leslie Baum, The Shape of the Day: L.B.L.B, 2019.
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Luftwerk: Parallel Perspectives is a site-specific exhibition that uses color and light interventions to activate and interpret the McCormick House, designed by Mies van der Rohe. The installation by Luftwerk—the Chicago-based artistic collaborative of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero—heightens the senses and alters perception while celebrating the use of geometry in the mid-Century prefab prototype.
Color is central to the visual transformation of the home’s architectural nuances, and largely inspired by an idea of the original developers Robert Hall McCormick and Herbert S. Greenwald, who offered to tint windows of their proposed prefab housing “almost any shade of the rainbow.”
The installation will include several light and color works with static and dynamic changing color relationships, including an immersive light piece that transforms a bedroom in the home, neon pieces with mirrored effects, pulsing lightboxes, and colorful glass panes. The visual effects of color impact viewers’ experiences throughout the McCormick House’s domestic environment and shifts traditional spatial perceptions of the home while celebrating Mies’ signs of the modular prototype for prefab housing.
Parallel Perspectives is part of Bauhaus100, the global anniversary celebrations of the legendary German art school. It continues the artists’ year-long exploration of architecture by Mies, which began with the Barcelona Pavilion and will end with the Farnsworth House.
Sponsored by contributors to EAM’s Sustaining Fellows Soiree 2018.
Image: Luftwerk, Parallel Perspectives, 2019.
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Artists Leslie Baum, Magalie Guerin, Jose Lerma, Nancy Mladenoff, and Suellen Rocca will give a presentation and discussion on the exhibition
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Learn about the history and unique design of the McCormick House (1952) by Mies van der Rohe on this docent-led tour. Last summer, new restorations revealed the facade and carport entrance for the first time in over 25 years.
Free with museum admission or current membership.
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Tickets can either be purchased at the museum or online.
Join us for a walking tour that explores modern architecture in Elmhurst including the Henderson House by Frank Lloyd Wright and McCormick House by Mies van der Rohe.
Learn about the history and unique design of the McCormick House (1952) by Mies van der Rohe on this docent-led tour. Last summer, new restorations revealed the facade and carport entrance for the first time in over 25 years.
Free with admission or current membership.
For Brewer, painting is a form of storytelling. Her ideas often start with a personal connection to a person or object. “It is a spark used for developing a composition that reflects the essence of the memory but becomes more abstract and universal,” she states. She notes that the story may be hers, “but hopefully the viewer interprets the image from his or her own perspective.” Much of Brewer’s formal art training centered on the graphic arts and she enjoys paying homage to the typographers and designers that so greatly influence our society’s view of the world.
Brewer is a local artist who has served on the Elmhurst Artists’ Guild Board and is currently the Director of the Illinois Watercolor Society and Membership Chair for the Transparent Watercolor Society of America. She teaches watercolor painting at the DuPage Art League and is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society. Brewer earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Indiana University and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Cincinnati. After several years of working as a graphic and web designer, she became an Assistant Professor at Indiana-University Purdue-University Fort Wayne (IPFW) teaching visual and multi-media design until 2010. Since that time, Brewer has devoted herself to painting full-time.
The public is invited to the opening reception on Friday, July 19th from 7-9pm.
The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild is a not-for-profit organization that runs the EAG Gallery which features contemporary works of art in a variety of styles and media. In addition to four member shows each year, the guild hosts exhibitions of individual member’s artwork and invitational shows for significant local artists. EAG welcomes new members.
Image: Benita Brewer, Dreams Demand Work, 2019
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Join us for an in-depth conversation about the exhibition Parallel Perspectives and the perceptions of color by the collaborative duo Luftwerk and color specialist Michael Rossi.
Free with museum admission or current membership.
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Co-organized with the Elmhurst Public Library.
Please register in advance by calling (630) 834-0202.
Join us for an in-depth look at the current exhibitions With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters and Parallel Perspectives.
Free with museum admission or current membership.
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In addition to Bramson, artists represented in What Came After include Nicholas Africano, Susanne Doremus, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Richard Hull, Michiko Itatani, Paul Lamantia, Robert Lostutter, Jim Lutes, Tony Phillips, David Sharpe, Hollis Sigler, Ken Warneke, Margaret Wharton, and Mary Lou Zelazny. The show of 30 paintings will serve as an introduction to these artists for a broad audience, while also examining a specific time and place in Chicago’s recent history.
The exhibition is dedicated to the late art critic James Yood, initially involved in early planning of this exhibition, and advocate of Midwest artists from this particular time period.
What Came After is organized in conjunction with a new installation across Elmhurst’s museum campus at Elmhurst College’s A.C. Buehler Library. This new display was organized by Suellen Rocca, one of the original members of the Hairy Who collective and current Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Elmhurst College.
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Image: Hollis Sigler, Comes the Day of Reckoning, 1985
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Several critical voices examine artwork made by the generation that built on ideas of the Chicago Imagists, or sought to break free from expectations of that legacy. Presenters include artist Phyllis Bramson, curator Lynne Warren, curator/critic Deven Golden, and artists Richard Hull, Susanne Doremus, and Jim Lutes.
This program is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Free with museum admission or current membership.
Image: Tony Phillips, The Space Between, 1993.
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Architect Robert Kleinschmidt will guide a tour, sharing his designs for the domestic interior and his history with other projects by Mies van der Rohe.
Image: Installation view of McCormick House: 1952 – 1959 curated by Robert Kleinschmidt and Ryan Monteleagre. Photo by The Adamkovi
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Children and parents are invited to participate in this hands-on workshop inspired by the work of Margaret Wharton. Participants will create their own assemblage self-portraits using salvaged technology parts. Available to all ages.
This program is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Free with museum admission or current membership.
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Scheduled for May 9 - Sept 13, 2020 at the Elmhurst Art Museum and two additional venues afterward.
In a unique collision of recreation and art, the Elmhurst Art Museum will commission an 18-hole artist-designed golf course in homage to the wildly popular 1988 exhibition Par Excellence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The fully playable course will be conceived and fabricated by a new group of contemporary artists, designers, and architects selected through an open call process. Designed to fill the entirety of the museum’s interior galleries, the course will be comprised of a surprisingly varied collection of themes and forms, promising an unusual twist on a familiar pastime.
To bridge the 32-year gap between exhibitions, Par Excellence Redux will feature a resurrected golf hole designed by Chicago artist Annalee Koehn, an organizer of the original show. Another green will be set aside for the museum’s Teen Art Council. The remaining 16 mini golf holes will be commissioned through this open call.
The golf course will culminate in an exhibition archive dedicated to the original Par Excellence, containing artifacts, press, and photos. The original show heartily embraced quirkiness and local lore, exploring assorted Chicago themes like a “pot-holed” Dan Ryan Expressway with various obstacles that eject your ball from the game. Par Excellence was the brainchild of artist Mike O’Brien alongside several collaborators from the School of the Art Institute.
The extraordinarily popular exhibition opened to lines down the block and sold out daily before finding its way to the pages of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, CNN, and the Chicago Tribune among many others. Though artist-designed golf courses are now a popular addition to many Midwest museums such as the Walker Art Center, Sheldon Art Galleries, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Par Excellence is widely believed to be the first.
Par Excellence Redux is curated by Christopher Jobson, the founder and editor-in-chief of Colossal, a leading online platform that explores and celebrates contemporary art, design, modern craft, and other aspects of visual culture. In an effort to support and amplify the exhibition, Colossal will also act as a dedicated press partner.
Colossal: http://colossal.art
Christopher Jobson: http://christopher.jobs/on
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Proposals must be submitted through the online forms on Submittable and include the following:
· A visual explanation (mockup) of the concept, including a list of proposed materials. Scanned drawings and digital mockups are both accepted. Four images maximum.
· Demonstrated experience to create artwork via a resume, CV, or information about representative work.
· A written statement explaining the concept, not to exceed 300 words. Please also include a title.
· An (optional) list of 2-3 links to your portfolio, Instagram, or other online resource related to your work.
· The proposal must include 6-8 images of previous work related to your concept.
THOUGHTS ON SUCCESSFUL DESIGNS
· Par Excellence Redux is not simply a collection of miniature golf holes with accompanied “objects” as you might see in a traditional mini golf course. Please think broadly about how a unique or unexpected idea/theme can be fully articulated throughout the design.
· The hole must truly be playable within 1-6 strokes.
· Please design for durability, stability, and ease of maintenance. Anticipate for the work to be utilized by hundreds of patrons.
· Please seek to minimize, secure, or otherwise protect possible failure points.
· Think practically about the playing surface. We encourage the use of standard green synthetic turf, but other materials are acceptable.
· Kinetic elements and lights are OK as long as replacements or repairs can be done quickly.
· Depending on location, some holes may have the option to further utilize a wall as a backdrop. Do not propose this backdrop as a critical design element, but feel free to suggest how your concept might extend to this space, if you like.
· No sound elements. No water features.
· Suggested dimensions should fit into three templates: a rectangle 72 x 108 inches, or two L shapes with the largest sides 84 x 132 and 72 x 132 inches. These guidelines are suggested in order to fit varying formats within the gallery, however, more unique greens will also be accepted and reviewed.
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· Successful submissions will be displayed at the Elmhurst Art Museum and two additional venues. Please keep this in mind when designing for durability.
· Please understand that working with 18 interactive sculptures is a complicated puzzle. The original proposal dimensions may have to change slightly once your artwork is accepted to accommodate the totality of the course.
· The golf course will rest on the museum floor and thus holes will need to be slightly “elevated”.
· Additional standards and construction suggestions will be provided after acceptance.
· Selected artist(s) will each receive an honorarium of $1000 and a budget of $300 for materials. 50% will be paid 30 days after a signed contract, and the other 50% upon completion.
· Selected artist(s) are expected to deliver their designs (assembled/disassembled) and install them at the Elmhurst Art Museum - artists will not be responsible for this at the other two venues. The museum will provide installation help, however the artist(s) are responsible for the fabrication and delivery of their design. The museum may provide consultation on a case-by-case basis. Continued technical advice may be asked of the artists throughout the duration of the exhibition, and its travel to other venues.
· After selections have been made, the museum will require a signed exhibition contract with each artist(s). The museum will also provide a list of recommended materials, such as plastic putting green golf cups. (Size: 3.9 inch Height, 4.3 inch Diameter)
· Deadline for submissions October 31. Submissions will only be accepted via Submittable.
· Questions about submissions can be directed to lal@elmhurstartmuseum.org
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Architectural historian Susan Benjamin utilizes stunning historic images to highlight notable modern houses in and around Chicago and the efforts of their passionate owners to preserve them. Benjamin is head of Benjamin Historic Certifications and co-author ofGreat Houses of Chicago: 1871-1921(Acanthus Press, 2008) andModern in the Middle: Chicago Houses, 1929-1975(Monacelli Press, early 2020).
Image: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, McCormick House, interior view of hall and kitchen, 1950s, Hedrich Blessing Archive, HB17555B, Chicago Historical Society
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Children and parents are invited to participate in hands-on activities inspired by the current exhibition. Available to all ages.
Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Part of Arts DuPage Month.
Free with museum admission or current membership.
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See the newly reinstalled, internationally recognized Chicago Imagist collection at Elmhurst College with these exclusive tours by Suellen Rocca, one of the original members of the Hairy Who and current Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the College. Rocca will offer first-person accounts of Chicago’s cultural history, while also providing context and furthering the dialogue about art from Chicago during the 70s-90s.
Part of Arts DuPage Month.
Free with admission or current membership.
Image: Phyllis Bramson, Decoys, 1989
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Dennis Rodkin,Crain’s Chicago Businesscolumnist and “What’s that Building?” contributor toWBEZ Radio, leads a panel discussion about Chicago’s progressive architectural developments, including numerous steel and glass houses in the greater metro area such as Farnsworth House, McCormick House, Ben Rose House, Rockwell House, and others. Co-organized with The Farnsworth House, attendees will learn more about these unique residential designs, the visionary architects, and the preservation challenges the homes present.
Image: Installation view of McCormick House: 1952 – 1959 curated by Robert Kleinschmidt and Ryan Monteleagre. Photo by James Prinz
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Join us for a talk about Chicago Imagism and its legacy by art critic, curator, and essayist Deven Golden. Fifty years after they began showing, Chicago artists of the 1960s are attracting renewed interest, but they did not emerge in a vacuum. This talk will look at the artist dialogue that led up to this period, what followed, and how things irrevocably changed as the 20th century came to an end. Before moving to New York in 1991, Deven Golden was an exhibiting artist and curated numerous exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Hyde Park Art Center, Randolph Street Gallery and other former Chicago alternative galleries.
This program is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art and it is free with museum admission.
Image: Hollis Sigler, Comes the Day of Reckoning, 1985
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See the newly reinstalled, internationally recognized Chicago Imagist collection at Elmhurst College with these exclusive tours by Suellen Rocca, one of the original members of the Hairy Who and current Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the College. Rocca will offer first-person accounts of Chicago’s cultural history, while also providing context and furthering the dialogue about art from Chicago during the 70s-90s.
This program is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art and it is free with museum admission.
Image: Tony Phillips, The Space Between, 1993
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Families are invited to participate in an afternoon of art activities inspired by the museum’s current exhibition in Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House.
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Join us for a lecture by curator Robert Cozzolino, where he addresses questions such as: Where did the Imagist term come from? What has it done? Let's look at art in Chicago another way -- without the labels that have weighed it down and put it at the margins. What if we purged \"imagist\" and \"imagism\" from how we organize and think about Chicago art? What might be gained by looking at relationships anew?
Robert Cozzolino is the Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
This program is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art and it is free with museum admission.
Image: Phyllis Bramson, Decoys, 1989
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The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild (EAG) will host their Winter Members’ Show, featuring a variety of original artwork created by EAG members. The exhibit will be on view in the Elmhurst Artists’ Guild Gallery.
“The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild is proud to feature a selection of the latest work by our members in the Winter Members’ Show,” says James Negley, EAG President. “We welcome everyone from the community to join us as we celebrate the holiday season.”
Of the many artists that will be displaying work in the Winter Members’ Show, EAG member, Charlene Lee-Freislinger will be showing a pencil portrait of her granddaughter entitled, “Samantha.” She notes she is currently working on portraits of her grandchildren and prefers the tender touch of pencil on paper for portraits. Jola Soares’ work, “Secret Rendezvous,” is a mixed media work representing the artist’s intuitive mark makings and expressions. Jola believes that art-making is powerful therapy and has the gift of healing.
The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild is a not-for-profit organization that runs the EAG Gallery which features contemporary works of art in a variety of styles and media. In addition to four member shows each year, the guild hosts exhibitions of individual member’s artwork and invitational shows for significant local artists. EAG welcomes new members.
Image: Fred Moss, Hidden Garden, detail.
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In tandem with special holiday décor in the McCormick House, celebrate the time of year at this new pop-up shop featuring designer goods by local businesses and artisans.
Image: Installation view of McCormick House: 1952 – 1959 curated by Robert Kleinschmidt and Ryan Monteleagre. Photo by The Adamkovi
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Free with museum admission. Advanced registration recommended. Register
New weekly house tours will invite visitors to explore the unique design and history of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House. Tours by museum docents and occasionally with special guides, including a former resident.
Image: The McCormick House: 1952-59, curated by Rob Kleinschmidt and Ryan Monteleagre
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Free with museum admission. Advanced registration recommended. Register
Learn about the unique design and history of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House at this “open house” with a former resident of the home.
From 1961-63 Mary (Sladek) Dreiser lived in the home with a family of eight: six kids and two adults. See Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House fully furnished for the first time in the museum’s history and listen to her unique stories about living in this prefab prototype.
Image: Jim Sladek and Marilyn Sladek O’Neill (siblings), ca. 1962
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This program is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art and it is free with museum admission.
Image: Phyllis Bramson, Decoys, 1989
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Free with admission.
On the final weekend of “What Came After”, artist and exhibit organizer Phyllis Bramson will give a special tour. The show, including work by her and her peers, defines and celebrates an under-recognized period of Chicago’s cultural history. It was through her leadership and vision that this project came to be. Her tour will include background about organizing the show, and unique first-person insight into the work of the artists.
Image: Phyllis Bramson. Photo: Tom Van Eynde
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Free with museum admission. Advanced registration recommended.Register
New weekly house tours will invite visitors to explore the unique design and history of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House. Tours by museum docents and occasionally with special guides, including a former resident.
Image: The McCormick House: 1952-59, curated by Rob Kleinschmidt and Ryan Monteleagre
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Free with museum admission. Advanced registration recommended.Register
New weekly house tours will invite visitors to explore the unique design and history of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House. Tours by museum docents and occasionally with special guides, including a former resident.
Image: The McCormick House: 1952-59, curated by Rob Kleinschmidt and Ryan Monteleagre
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Could Be Architecture, a collaborative duo of Joseph Altshuler and Zack Morrison (Elmhurst), designs “seriously playful spaces, things and happenings that celebrate what your world could be”. Their clever wordplay sets the tone for the show; “parti” refers to the basic diagrammatic concept layout for an architectural design.
Visitors to the exhibition are invited to explore the home in its original 1952 floor plan by ducking through rounded portholes into various rooms, relaxing on pull-out seating in the living room, enjoying culinary delights on shapely kitchen cabinets during exhibition-related events, while younger visitors play with architectural blocks in the house’s dedicated playroom space.
During the exhibition, the house will be the site of numerous events and audience interactions, highlighting the space as one of continual inspiration, while also having open discussions about past/future preservation efforts. Much like a home, it is not a corded off space, but rather filled with movement, light, activity, conversation, and much more.
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MUSEUM FROM HOME Online Guide, Activity and more HERE
The artist-curator Sandra Jorgensen (1934 - 1999) held positions as professor and chair at Elmhurst College, and curator of the Elmhurst College Art Collection, for many years. As a figure outside of Chicago, her work and influence have largely been overlooked, but her efforts, including curating and promoting the work of the Chicago Imagists, continue to have a major impact nationally and internationally. This survey exhibition of Jorgensen’s work–including a never-before-printed photo series of Chicago Imagists in their homes and the recreation of a mural commissioned for a Chicago Public Library–will recognize Jorgensen’s accomplishments, and will place her work amongst the larger stories of Chicago and Midwestern artists.
As curator, Jorgensen was the major driving force behind maintaining and growing the Elmhurst College art collection. In doing so, she became a major caretaker of Chicago’s cultural history, and amassed an internationally-known collection now considered “the finest of its kind”. Her connoisseurship and vision were critical to the College’s art collection, as well as the formation of the Elmhurst Art Museum. She served on the board of the Elmhurst Fine Arts and Civic Center Foundation, the entity that helped start the Elmhurst Art Museum.
Sponsored by Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Marcia and Robert Goltermann, and Elmhurst College.
Image: Sandra Jorgensen, Herb’s Texaco, 1978, pastel on paper, 31 x 38 ¼ in., Elmhurst Art Museum Collection
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Image: Sandra Jorgensen, Garden Pool with Steps I, 1982, pastel on Mi-Tientes paper 19 ½ x 25 ½ in. Elmhurst Art Museum Collection
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Led by architects and educators Joseph Altshuler and Zack Morrison of Could Be Architecture, this tour will give an in-depth look at the design duo’s site-specific installation in the historic McCormick House.
Image: Studio Portrait, 2019. Courtesy of Could Be Architecture.
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Learn about the history and unique design of the McCormick House (1952) by Mies van der Rohe on this docent-led tour, incorporating the current interactive installation.
Image: McCormick House, exterior image.
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At this special President’s Day workshop, children and families are invited to create their own landscapes inspired by the work of Sandra Jorgensen. Using screen printed bands of color, participants are encouraged to create a scene that tells a story of personal significance
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At this culinary activation event, Could Be Architecture teams up with local brewery Twisted Hippo and local restaurant One Fifty One, offering a specialty beer and bite-sized appetizers in their installation in the McCormick House, inspired by elemental geometry, colors, and flavors of modernist architecture.
This is a ticketed event
$65.00 members
$75.00 non-members
Image: “Small Bites are More”, Could Be Architecture: McCormick AfterParti, concept design
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Suellen Rocca, Hairy Who member and current Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Elmhurst College, leads a tour through the Elmhurst College Chicago Imagist collection highlighting purchases made by Sandra Jorgensen during her tenure as curator.
Image: Sandra Jorgensen, Buggy Drawing, 1987, pastel on paper, Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum, Gift of Kent Smith, 2009.181. Photo credit: Illinois State Museum
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Families participate in art activities inspired by the museum’s current exhibition Could Be Architecture: McCormick AfterParti including an exploration of storytelling and character design via the creation of their own puppets.
Free with museum admission. Kids are always free.
Image: Family Day Image. Courtesy of the Elmhurst Art Museum.
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The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild Summer Members Show will feature 40 members’ original artwork in a variety of styles and media, ranging from paintings to sculptural works in fabric, ceramic, mixed media, and other materials. Both two and three-dimensional contemporary artworks will be featured, including several timely paintings that invite viewers to enjoy warm weather pleasures or reflect on current events.
Due to Restore Illinois guidelines there will not be an opening reception.
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One half of the historic home will feature mid-century furnishings along with works by local artists and architects. Designer David Salkin organized the exhibit as a home with a range of paintings, patterned rugs, ceramics, photo collages, and design objects. Featured artists include: Marshall Brown, Jennefer Hoffmann, Sterling Lawrence, David Salkin, and Geoffrey Todd Smith. This combination of new and vintage works is organized in conjunction with a full wing dedicated to models, historical photographs, and stories about the McCormick House’s uniqueness as a prefab prototype by the famed modernist Mies van der Rohe.
Special thank you to David Salkin, Volume Gallery, Western Exhibitions, and DOCUMENT for lending to this exhibition.
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OPEN CALL
Anonymously contribute to our mail art project by sharing something about your life. Originally created for responses to COVID, our mail art project also allows for your reflection on racial injustice and other current events. Share something on a postcard (or index card) and it will be exhibited at the museum in September.
Submissions will be accepted until August 30, 2020. All ages welcome and encouraged.
Below are some suggestions and postcard format instructions.
Instructions:
1. Use either a postcard you have, or make your own!
a. Please make sure it is formatted correctly so it can make its way through postage to us!
b. If you use an index card, make sure that it is at least 4 x 6 inches
2. Design the front, or use it to tell your message.
3. If you are mailing back your postcard, make sure you use a stamp, and send it to:
Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S. Cottage Hill Road
Elmhurst, IL 60126
OR If you are local, feel free to drop off your postcard into our dropbox located outside of our Education Center doors.
Update: Note: All in-person visits have been suspended at EAM due to the new Department of Public Health stay-at-home advisory. Go to our Museum From Home resource page for various hands-on activities, online guides, and videos.
Wright Before the “Lloyd” is curated by Chicago’s cultural historian Tim Samuelson, who has been called a Chicago treasure in his own right. Exploring early work by the young architect “Frank L. Wright,” Wright Before the “Lloyd” is a journey via images and artifacts that portray the myriad of ways Wright flirted with styles including modernism, classicism, Tudor, Colonial and Japanese. What followed these eclectic, youthful explorations was the career of one of the world’s greatest architects, which continued to evolve over seventy years until his death at age of 92. In cases where fire and decay left only fragments and shards, cutting-edge technologies have been deployed to make Wright’s home designs whole again.
This show complements Elmhurst History Museum’s upcoming exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture of the Interior, which opens October 23, 2020 and will explore the interior spaces and objects found inside Wright’s homes.
The exhibit is a journey via images and artifacts highlighting exploratory work by the young architect “Frank L. Wright”. Many original materials were damaged and lost due to demolition, fire, and decay, but fragments were saved and reassembled by Chicago’s cultural historian Tim Samuelson. Cutting-edge technologies have made the designs whole again to tell this story of Wright’s youthful work of melding eclectic influences into a vital architecture of his own.
Image: Roloson Window, Roloson House (1894). On loan from Tim Samuelson.
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This virtual book discussion reveals the fun, lively history of the revolution in American cooking that took place in the 1950s. The book Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America traces the innovations, cookbooks, products, techniques, and marketing campaigns that changed the way Americans prepared food. This book discussion, led by the museum and library, is organized in conjunction with the museum’s exhibit A Space Problem, featuring mid-century modern furniture in Mies van der Rohe’s 1952 McCormick House.
Co-presented with Elmhurst Public Library. Free but advance Zoom registration required via Museum website.
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This socially-distanced community chalk event takes place in the parking lot shared by Elmhurst Art Museum and Elmhurst Public Library. Local artists will bring the lot to life with chalk art inspired by the architectural drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright. Guests of all ages are welcome to create their own works of art, or use Wright patterns as inspiration.
Co-presented with Elmhurst Public Library. Free to the public. Parking space reservations begin September 1 via Museum website. Limit one parking spot per group, no more than six people per group.
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Saturday, October 3, 2020
7:00 PM – 8:30 PMRegister by Sept. 21
Join us for a S.I.P. (Shelter In Place) virtual fundraiser featuring a wine tasting, online auction, raffle, and telethon to raise critical funds for the Elmhurst Art Museum. Non-profits have been hit hard by COVID-19. In an effort to raise critical funds for the museum, let’s enjoy the best that Napa Valley has to offer, have fun and SIP with Todd Newman, Founder of Dakota Shy winery.
The wine tasting kit order deadline has passed, but we hope you’ll still attend the free virtual fundraiser. Our online auction is now available including a fabulous selection of artwork, wine packages, and vacation experiences.
Register to bid and join our online program on Oct. 3rd (video link available one day in advance) to help raise funds for our critical operating costs. See artwork images and more details on our Auction Preview Guide
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Free, no registration required.
Video will be available to view on November 11, 2020, at 7 pm on our Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/user104866958
A virtual tour through Wright Before the “Lloyd” as well as the Museum’s historic McCormick House reveals how famed architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe butted heads over design and aesthetics. At the stage where Mies was appointed director of architecture at the Armour Institute of Technology, Wright said “But for me there would have been no Mies-certainly none here tonight” and walked out of the room. After this each of their followers dismissed the other: Mies disciples echoing his quote of “less is more”, while Wrights’ discredited steel and glass skyscrapers as “flat-chested architecture”.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020
12:00 PM – 5:00 PMFree with admission ticket during Wright Before the \"Lloyd\" exhibition.Free, $10 suggested donation
Whether by car or on foot, learn about Elmhurst’s modern architecture on this socially distanced self-guided outdoor tour. See the Wright Before the “Lloyd” exhibit and then tour our surprisingly architecturally rich city —the only with houses by Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. Pre-recorded audio insights by architect Robert Bunda provide historic context and fun facts about architectural gems by Wright, Mies, Walter Burley Griffin, R. Harold Zook, Dirk Lohan, and more.
Link to guided audio tour expires 5 days after activating custom code. Advanced purchase recommended. Free to members.
This tour is also available by car
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There is Black Housing in the Future: Equitable Public Housing as Memorial
For a 360 degree virtual tour, related interviews, activities, and more visit our Museum From Home page
The Museum’s Mies van der Rohe McCormick House will feature Pittsburgh-based interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer Alisha Wormsley and conceptual artist Ayanah Moor, professor of print-media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wormsley and Moor will create an installation in the McCormick House as a means of activism and education to support mothers fighting for the future of Black housing. The exhibition references national, community, and grassroots organizations—like Moms 4 Housing—that advocate for affordable, dignified housing for all. There is Black Housing in the Future is inspired by Afro-Futurist artists and writers who affirm the visibility and well-being of Black communities across notions of space and time. An artist activity video for youth will complement Wormsley and Moor’s artwork. Using everyday household items, the artists will guide viewers in the production of message-based posters, yard signs, and even kites to support communities’ voices.
This installation is in conjunction with and inspired by, the museum’s upcoming March 2021 exhibit In Focus: The Chicago Freedom Movement and the Fight for Fair Housing.
Alisha B. Wormsley runs a new arts residency project in Pittsburgh, PA, for Black Mothers called Sibyl’s Shrine. She is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Her work is about collective memory and the synchronicity of time, specifically through the stories of women of color. Wormsley’s work has been honored and supported by a number of awards and grants. Wormsley has an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College and was awarded the Postdoctoral Research fellowship in art at Carnegie Mellon University.
Ayanah Moor is a conceptual artist whose work explores blackness, gender, desire, and language. She works across various media to create paintings, prints, drawings, and performances. Ayanah Moor earned a BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and MFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia. She is a tenured Associate Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This exhibition is part of the Shaping the Past program in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, Monument Lab, and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education).
Supported by the Goethe-Institut and Wunderbar Together.
Image: There is Black Housing in the Future: Equitable Public Housing as Memorial, Alisha Wormsley and Ayanah Moor, 2020
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Saturday, December 12, 2020
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Free to members, $10 non-members
Registration required.
From the comfort and warmth of their own homes, families will make hot cocoa and cookies inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s interest in shapes, patterns and nature for a memorable holiday-themed activity. All materials can be picked up at the museum on December 10 and 11 from our Visitor Services desk, along with a link to the fun instructional video. A surprise guest will take a break from his busy North Pole headquarters to send a special message to our Family Weekend participants.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Free to members, $10 to non-members
Join Tim Samuelson, exhibit curator, and Chicago’s Cultural Historian, for a Q & A session with the Elmhurst Art Museum staff. Many of the pieces on display have harrowing stories of on-site rescues, such as when a friend gripped Samuelson’s ankles so he could hang nearly upside-down to rescue a decorative panel four stories above the street. It was all routine in his efforts to save elements documenting the work of Wright and other influential Chicago architects as buildings disappeared due to demolition and fire. We’ll also discuss Samuelson’s process of recovering lost patterns obscured by decay and multiple layers of paint and returning the artifacts to their original colors. In some instances, surviving small shards have been made whole through modern computer and laser technologies.
Advanced registration required
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The National Public Housing Museum and Elmhurst Art Museum invite you to dedicate an hour on Martin Luther King Day, to hear about the “radical King.” Learn from enthralling activists and scholars, who share their stories and work that remind and challenge us to grapple with the lessons of MLK and beyond, including Nate Marshall, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Rev. Dr. Marshall Elijah Hatch Sr., Bernardine Dohrn, and Mary Lou Finley. The program also includes a special sneak peek of two riveting new exhibits about the Chicago Freedom Movement with John McKinnon and Lisa Yun Lee.
This free video will be available to view on EAM's website anytime after 9am on January 18th.
Presented with the National Public Housing Museum. Sponsored by the JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of the DuPage Foundation
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As the U.S. faces a historic moment of social justice reawakening, the Elmhurst Art Museum announces a new exhibition that reflects on historical and contemporary responses to fair housing in the Chicagoland area, In Focus: The Chicago Freedom Movement and The Fight for Fair Housing, on view at the Museum March 4 through June 20, 2021 Related programming will begin in December 2020 and continue through spring of 2021, including the opening of the complementary new exhibition, There is Black Housing in the Future: Equitable Public Housing as Memorial, in the historic McCormick House, adjacent to the Museum, December 3, 2020 through May 8, 2021, and a virtual discussion about the Chicago Freedom Movement to be held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 18, 2021.
In Focus features some of the first-ever color documentary photographs taken of Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as other Chicago civil rights leadership and organized public marches. All thirty-two photos were taken by 85-year-old photographer, activist and Wheaton resident Bernard Kleina, and provide context for the 1965-67 movement led by King, James Bevel, and Al Raby, who fought against systemic racism and segregation of the Chicagoland area, and inspired the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
In Focus is sponsored by the David C. & Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation.
“We believe that art is a powerful tool for change, and our mission as an art museum is always to inspire people to see and think differently through art,” said John McKinnon, Executive Director of Elmhurst Art Museum. “We are proud to launch a number of events and exhibitions that further important conversations about inequities of the past leading up to today.”
A complementary exhibition and related programming will expand on the work of the Chicago Freedom Movement, continued fights for fair housing and racial equity:
There is Black Housing in the Future: Equitable Public Housing as Memorial
December 3, 2020-May 8, 2021
The Museum’s Mies van der Rohe McCormick House will feature Pittsburgh-based interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer Alisha Wormsley and conceptual artist Ayanah Moor, professor of print-media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wormsley and Moor will create an installation in the McCormick House as a means of activism and education to support mothers fighting for the future of Black housing. The exhibition references national, community, and grassroots organizations—like Moms 4 Housing—that advocate for affordable, dignified housing for all. There is Black Housing in the Future is inspired by Afro-Futurist artists and writers who affirm the visibility and well-being of Black communities across notions of space and time. An artist activity video for youth will compliment Wormsley and Moor’s artwork. Using everyday household items, the artists will guide viewers in the production of message-based posters, yard signs, and even kites to support communities' voices.
There is Black Housing in the Future is supported by the Goethe-Institut and Wunderbar Together.
Virtual MLK Day Discussion: Chicago Freedom Movement
January 18, 2021, Time TBD
Martin Luther King Day will be celebrated with pause, reflection, and opportunities to learn more about the Chicago Freedom Movement and continued fights for fair housing in the Chicagoland area. The group discussion will include participants from the 1966 marches and other experts in the field. The virtual event is free and can be accessed on www.elmhurstartmuseum.org
Additional public programming will be announced after the first of the year.
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Alisha Wormsley, Pittsburgh-based interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer, and Ayanah Moor, Chicago-based conceptual artist working in print, video, mixed media, and performance, provide insight into their individual practices and highlight their collaboration at the Elmhurst Art Museum, There is Black Housing in the Future, as a means of activism and education to support mothers fighting for the future of Black housing. Attend via Elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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Chicago artist and activist Tonika Johnson will join Michal Raz-Russo, Programs Director at The Gordon Parks Foundation, to discuss upcoming projects that address the lasting impact housing discrimination practices have had in shaping Chicago neighborhoods. This conversation will provide insight into Johnson’s Folded Map Project, which addresses urban segregation by connecting individuals from across the city. Attend via Elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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Experts on the development of the suburbs, including scholars Elaine Lewinnekand Amanda Seligman, joined by local history museum heads, will discuss the ways and reasons Chicago’s suburbs were created, including an examination of their demographics through firsthand experiences. Attend via Elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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Self-Guided Outdoor Architecture Tour
Thursday, June 10, 2021
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Whether by car or on foot, learn about Elmhurst’s modern architecture on this socially distanced self-guided outdoor tour. This tour is free with your admission ticket or can be purchased separately with $10 suggested donation. Visit the museum and then tour our surprisingly architecturally rich city—the only with houses by Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. Pre-recorded audio insights by architect Robert Bunda provide historic context and fun facts about architectural gems by Wright, Mies, Walter Burley Griffin, R. Harold Zook, Dirk Lohan, and more.
Link to guided audio tour expires 5 days after activating custom code. Advanced purchase recommended. Free to members.
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Full video available starting Friday, June 11 at 9 am. Click here.
Join us for a special program with Members of Congress and housing leaders from the State of Illinois. Expanding on the exhibit “In Focus: The Chicago Freedom Movement and the Fight for Fair Housing,” this pre-recorded conversation expands on the national issue of housing discrimination and how it affects communities in Illinois.
Watch to gain insights from State lawmakers about current governmental policies and programs that create an equitable infrastructure and help families build wealth. And hear from leaders of HOPE Fair Housing Center, DuPage/Kendall County Housing Authority, and South Suburban Housing Center about actively fighting against decades-long issues of racial and economic segregation.
Moderated by Natalie Y. Moore, WBEZ reporter and author of “The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation”
Members of Congress:
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois
Representative Mike Quigley (5th District of IL)
Representative Bill Foster (11th District of IL)
Representative Sean Casten (6th District of IL)
Featuring housing leaders:
Kenneth Coles, Executive Director of DuPage/Kendall County Housing Authority
Bernard Kleina, Photographer, Activist, and retired Director of HOPE Fair Housing Center
John Petruszak, Executive Director of South Suburban Housing Center
Saturday, June 19, 2021
11:00 AM – 2:00 PMNo registration required. Free to the public
We are proud to partner with Chicago Mobile Makers to co-host four pop-up workshops throughout Chicago and the suburbs. Mobile Makers and EAM staff will be located at:
Overton Elementary
221 E 49th Street
Chicago, IL 60615
This Spring and Summer, the Mobile Makers truck will feature images from our current exhibition In Focus: The Chicago Freedom Movement & the Fight for Fair Housing. While outside the truck, we will feature a hands-on activity from our Activist Art Kits, generously provided by the Goethe-Institut. Participants will design kites with messages of activism and positivity to fly in their neighborhoods.
Chicago Mobile Makers creates programming that encourages Chicago youth to become advocates and change-makers in their own communities through design-focused skill-building workshops.
This event is part of our Art is for Everyone education program. It is generously supported in part by McDonald’s and a grant from the League of Chicago Theatres and ComEd.
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Par Excellence Redux promises an unusual twist on a familiar pastime throughout the Museum’s galleries as players explore a surprisingly varied collection of themes—from social justice to the occult. The exhibition includes a fortune-telling hole that has the power to dramatically change scores as well as a hole that challenges players with an optical illusion. The exhibition was originally slated to open May 9, 2020, but was postponed due to COVID-19 and has since been reimagined to abide by current city and state safety mandates.
Front 9, on display throughout the Museum’s main galleries, includes:
Hole #1, “Cross-Section Castle” by A Couple of Putts design duo Robin Schwartzman and Tom Loftus (Minneapolis, Minnesota), features an alternative take on a mini-golf castle by providing players a glimpse at the ball’s journey through ramps and around custom-made figures inside.
Hole #2, “Participation Trophy” by Jesse Meredith (Chicago, Illinois), features numerous golf holes on a rounded turf, providing multiple routes for a winning shot.
Hole #3, “Straight Shot,” created by design collective Current Projects (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) sends players through a small room constructed to skew perspective and create an optical illusion of greater depth.
Hole #4, “Razzle Dazzle” by Andrea Jablonski & Stolatis Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) utilizes ramps, a loop, and intersecting geometric shapes to provide fun and difficulty through contrasting camouflage patterns.
Hole #5, “Greens of Cabrini,” by Julie Cowan (Evanston, Illinois) allows the player to putt through time, starting with the aspiration opening of The Cabrini Green Homes, through the rise of the Old Town Square retail development.
Hole #6, “Just Desserts” by Latent Design (Chicago, Illinois) is a spiraling colorful cone that a golfer must use to bridge from the heights of the putting green and the lows of the hole.
Hole #7, “Chairy Who?” by Gautum Rao (Indianapolis, Indiana) features obstacles of iconic mid-Century furniture in homage to the Museum’s McCormick House.
Hole #8, by Elmhurst Art Museum's Teen Art Council, a putter-free hole, sends golf balls through maze-like tubes with their own set of rules.
Hole #9, “Determine Your Fate” by Annalee Koehn (Chicago, Illinois) is equal parts skills-challenge, game of chance and fortune cookie.
The original 1988 Par Excellence exhibition at the School of the Art Institute was the brainchild of Chicago sculptor Michael O'Brien and opened to queues down the block. The exhibition in Elmhurst will pay homage to the original course through ephemera, newspaper clippings, and photos. The designer Annalee Koehn, who was one of the organizers of the original 1988 exhibit, will recreate her fortune-telling hole Determine Your Fate. Par Excellence was likely the first artist-designed mini-golf course ever created and paved the way for future artistic golf courses that would follow.
Photo: Mikko Lemola
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In a unique collision of recreation and art, the Elmhurst Art Museum joins forces with Colossal founder Christopher Jobson to curate two 9-hole golf courses made by artists.
Par Excellence Redux. The Front 9 ends September 16, 2021
The Back 9 will continue the fun October 13 – January 2, 2022.
The fully playable course, designed by artists and architects from the Midwest and beyond, pays homage to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s wildly popular 1988 exhibition, Par Excellence. Tee time reservations are made online and available at elmhurstartmuseum.org/golf.
“When we opened The Front 9 this summer, we were thrilled with the response from art enthusiasts and families alike,” said Executive Director John McKinnon. “Our mission is to enrich our community through art, and what better way to introduce the general public to artists of different disciplines than through this unusual twist on a familiar pastime?”
The Back 9 holes of Par Excellence Redux are located throughout the Museum’s galleries and feature unusual rules, surprising outcomes and a varied collection of themes—from social justice to the occult. The exhibition includes holes with optical illusions, commentary on social and environmental issues, an exploration of the cosmos and more.
The Back 9, on display throughout the Museum’s main galleries, includes:
● “Pinball Golf: An American Life” by Wes Baker (Valparaiso, Indiana)
● “The Idol” by KT Duffy (Nichols Hill, Oklahoma) is intended as a feminist futurist idol of the mini golf universe, rendered in neon patterns and slick acrylic surfaces.
● “Infinity Putt,” by Eve Fineman (Chicago, Illinois) takes a straightforward green and adds complexity through suspended golf balls and the use of reflection to create a unique spatial experience where the only obstacle is visual illusion.
● “Mission: Mars” by Vincent Lotesto (Chicago, Illinois) is inspired by the topography of Mars. To achieve a hole-in-one, the player must aim the golf ball up a ramp located on the southern side of Olympus Mons, the highest volcano in our solar system. The ball eventually falls into the collapsed crater on the summit and exits on the eastern side of the mountain.
● “A Level Playing Field,” by Joshua Lowe (Bloomington, Illinois) is a kinetic sculpture that demands a response to a question that local, national and global citizens are increasingly faced with, “Will we work together towards a common goal, or will we sabotage each other?”
● “Timing is Everything” by James Merz (Fort Wayne, Indiana) uses several moving elements to illustrate that timing is everything, in life and in sports. The player must navigate through the slowly rotating second hand of the clock and avoid the swinging pendulum to arrive at the hole.
● “Toad Tunnel” by David Quednau (Chicago, Illinois) illustrates the true-life difficulties faced by the American toad, an animal currently at risk of extinction. This hole illustrates the toad’s struggle to get back to its breeding pond, facing obstacles like gas stations, drainage ditches and farms.
● “A Place to Play Fairly” by Liam Wilson and Anna Gershoni (Columbia City, Indiana), is an explicit environment to express moral integrity, even during a game so often cheated as mini golf. The course is a large oval with starting and ending points placed back-to-back. The player can play completely around the circle or decide to cheat and putt the ball directly backward for a hole-in-one.
● Hole #9 is yet to be determined.
The original 1988 Par Excellence exhibition at the School of the Art Institute was the brainchild of Chicago sculptor Michael O'Brien and opened to queues down the block. The exhibition in Elmhurst will pay homage to the original course through ephemera, newspaper clippings, and photos. The designer Annalee Koehn, who was one of the organizers of the original 1988 exhibit, recreated her fortune-telling hole Determine Your Fate, which will serve as the practice hole for The Back 9. Par Excellence was likely the first artist-designed mini golf course ever created and paved the way for future artistic golf courses that would follow.
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Christopher Jobson, Colossal editor-in-chief and curator for Par Excellence Redux, leads a conversation about the inspiration and history behind the exhibition. This conversation will include participating artists of Par Excellence’s original run at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1988.
Free program. Mini golf not included.
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This golf-themed fundraiser features a cocktail reception, multi-course dinner, auctions with fabulous prizes, and evening miniature golf. Limited tickets will be available. Funds raised during this event will support an expansion of education programs during the museum’s 25th anniversary in 2022.
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For related interviews, activities, and more visit our Museum from Home page
Explore the Mies van der Rohe-designed McCormick House through a permanent collection display in the Children’s Wing. Works by Midwestern artists are highlighted along with classic mid-century furnishings and historic photographs of the house’s interior.
Artists currently featured: Keith Achepohl, Cat Clausen, Sonia Delaunay, John Dempsey, Michelle Grabner, Michiko Itatani, Richard Koppe, Judith Raphael, Carolyn Swiszcz, Frank Trankina, and Serena Wise.
Learn more about Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House and its history.
Image: Model of McCormick House. Photography by Steven Koch.
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The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild is excited to present their Winter Member Show. Members’ works, in many mediums, will be on view from October 31, 2021 to January 2, 2022 during regular museum hours. The EAG Gallery is free to the public.
All works are available for purchase.
Participating artists: Joe Abboreno, Tony Abboreno, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Judie Anderson, Paul Callahan, Maggie Capettini, Patricia Cheffer, Mary Beth Divine, Judy Druschitz, Regina Durlak, Ashley Ehrhardt, Anne Farley Gaines, Cherylyn Gnadt, Fletcher Hayes, Jeanie Hill-Soldner, Nancy Hlavacek, Randi Holt, Lynette Hoy, Donald Johnson, Terrance Johnson, Lindsay Johnson, Robert Koch, Joan Ladendorf, Kim Laurel, Charlene Lee-Freislinger, Annette Perone Leiber, Linda Lindstrom, Julie Mars, Jeane Kat McGrail, John Nester, Susan Nester, Geoffrey Novelli, Sharon Peters, Rhonda Popko, Rebecca J Russow, Gary Schirmer, Jennifer Starchvill, Peter Steeves, Bret Steinhaus, Peter Stradt, Cassandra Swierenga, Debra Vaccaro, Marlene Vitek, and Charles Williams Jr.
Image: Wheels of Fortunes, Tony Abboreno, 2020, 48” x 36”
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As a gesture of thanks and giving, the Elmhurst Art Museum will hold its first annual non-perishable food drive to benefit the Elmhurst-Yorkfield Food Pantry, an organization dedicated to providing food, compassion, and hope to its neighbors and children in need. All individuals who bring two or more pantry items will receive a coupon for a discounted tee time valid for a Tee-rific Thank You Night on Friday, November 12.
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Visitors are encouraged to wear their ugliest holiday sweater for a festive night at the Museum featuring holiday décor, music, dimmed lighting and glow-in-the-dark golf balls.
Fall/Winter Hours include late nights on the 2nd Friday of each month with special glowing golf balls.
Grab that ugly sweater for the night of Friday, December 10th for a festive evening of Par Excellence Redux: The Back 9. Don your worst holiday sweater for this unique twist on the artist-designed mini golf course.
Book a reservation now for the night of Dec 10th. Tee times every 15 minutes, with a maximum of up to 10 people:
5:00, 5:15, 5:30, 5:45, 6:00, 6:15, 6:30, 6:45, 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, 7:45, 8:00, 8:15
Tee times for mini golf must be purchased and reserved in advance.
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Free to the public
The Elmhurst Art Museum invites families to celebrate the holidays with a “ho-ho-hole in one.” In addition to playing mini golf, families can visit the special holiday display in the Museum’s historic McCormick House, enjoy hot cocoa, cookies, and hands-on art activities along with a visit from Santa at 2 pm. Special holiday activities in partnership with Kelly Stetler|Compass.
Free program. Mini golf not included.
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Throughout the Elmhurst Art Museum’s 25th year of inspiring its community, the Museum will host a year-long celebration, with a focus on the three major hallmarks of its mission: architecture (Spring), education (Summer), and art (Fall). Central to the Spring season is the new multimedia exhibition, Houses of Tomorrow: Solar Homes from Keck to Today, open February 5 through May 29, 2022 within the Museum’s galleries, plus an accompanying light-based installation by Chicago-based artist Jan Tichy within the Museum’s historic McCormick House. The Museum has also announced a wealth of exhibition-relatedprogramming including an artist talk led by Tichy, a panel exploring today’s sustainable practices, docent-led tours curated in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Mies van der Rohe McCormick House, hands-on STEAM activities for children, and more. Tickets available at elmhurstartmuseum.org.
Houses of Tomorrow follows the evolution of Chicago architecture firm Keck & Keck – created by brothers George Fred Keck and William Keck – who designed modern, award-winning, affordable homes throughout the Midwest from 1935-1979. For Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair in 1933, George Fred Keck designed the “House of Tomorrow,” the first glass house in America with groundbreaking domestic amenities. The “House of Tomorrow” showed millions of World’s Fair attendees a technology-driven vision of what domestic life could be in the future as it featured many new ideas from the first GE dishwasher to a personal airplane hangar. It was through this house that the Kecks found a new way to harness solar energy, leading them to make energy efficiency breakthroughs throughout their career.
After the creation of this home, the Keck architecture firm built mid-century homes that now stand as early precursors to today’s sustainable building practices. This exhibition explores how the Keck brothers became the first “solar architects” with historic photos, architectural artifacts, design diagrams, and a commissioned artist interpretation by Jan Tichy centered on glass and light.
Houses of Tomorrow includes:
· An introduction to the groundbreaking “House of Tomorrow” with 1933 World’s Fair materials, documentary photographs, a look at the modern amenities it offered, and blueprints of current restoration plans
· A dedicated gallery illustrating Keck & Keck as the first “solar architects” with narratives, videos, and historic photos of their resulting solar adaptations and designs
· Installation no. 38 (Keck & Keck), a commissioned artist interpretation project by Jan Tichy centered on glass and light incorporating original artifacts from the 1933 House of Tomorrow
· Images of a 2021 passive solar design architecture competition using today’s groundbreaking solar and energy-efficient building technologies
Accompanying the main exhibition is Jan Tichy’s immersive installation Reflectance, which will invite visitors into Mies van der Rohe’s historic 1952 McCormick House, located on Elmhurst Art Museum’s property, to explore its domestic space as an environment of movement, light, activity, and wonder. With an emphasis on solar explorations, Tichy’s work will respond to the house’s south facing windows and other architectural elements along with additions of various architectural fragments, found objects, mechanical and electronic components, and photographic materials. His site-specific installation will show the McCormick House as a living, breathing, and interactive architectural structure.
Registration is required for exhibition-related winter and spring programming, which is free with museum admission unless otherwise noted:
·Exhibition Opening: Houses of Tomorrow
25th Anniversary Kickoff
Friday, February 4
4:00-6:00 PM Open House;
6:30-8:30 PM Members-Only Reception
Visitors and members will get a first glimpse at the Museum’s recent Education Center renovations, the new Houses of Tomorrow: Solar Homes from Keck to Today prior to its public opening, and a multimedia installation by Jan Tichy in the McCormick House.
Elmhurst Art Museum has inspired its community through art, education, and architecture since 1997. The Members-only reception will showcase all three program areas with something for everyone, including a Valentine’s Day activity, a special discount for Summer Camp enrollment, and more.
Sponsored by Lakeside Bank
·Houses of Tomorrow Exhibition Introduction
Monday, February 7, 7:00-8:00 pm at Elmhurst Public Library and virtual
During this sneak peek presentation, participants will hear a survey introduction to the exhibition including how the original glass-walled “House of Tomorrow” at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair led to breakthroughs in architecture and solar power, and consider the possibilities and limitations of “green” buildings.
Co-organized with the Elmhurst Public Library
·Lecture: The House of Tomorrow, Today
Saturday, February 19, 1:30 pm
Todd Zeiger, Director of Northern Regional Office of Indiana Landmarks, explores future restoration plans for the “House of Tomorrow.”
·70th Anniversary McCormick House Tour
Saturday, February 26, 1:30 pm
This docent-led tour invites visitors to explore the unique design and history of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House, and celebrate the House’s 70th anniversary
·Family Day
Saturday, March 12, 1:00-4:00 pm
Families are invited to participate in this hands-on, STEAM-friendly workshop inspired by the current exhibition. Participants will explore the use of the sun to create their own unique works of art. Available to all ages.
·Panel Discussion: Sustainable Architecture
Saturday, March 19, 1:30 pm
In this moderated conversation, architects Nathan Kipnis, Tom Bassett-Dilley, and Doug Farr will introduce how key technologies have transformed their practice and will share how their current work has contributed to a more efficient and sustainable design.
·70th Anniversary McCormick House Tour: Mies van der Rohe Birthday
Sunday, March 27, 1:30 PM
In honor of Mies van der Rohe’s birthday, this docent-led tour invites visitors to explore the unique design and history of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House, and celebrate the House’s 70th anniversary.
·Online Lecture: Keck’s House of Tomorrow
Thursday, April 7, 1:30 pm
This pre-recorded video, led by industry experts and historians Robert Boyce and Tony Denzer, will provide an in-depth look at the innovations of George Fred Keck’s House of Tomorrow. Online only.
·25th Annual Art in Wilder Park
Saturday, April 30 – Sunday, May 1, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Art in Wilder Park, a free-to-the-public event presented with RGL Marketing for the Arts, features more than 100 Midwest artists along with events and exhibitions at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Both days are presented festival style with one-of-a-kind art, food vendors, entertainment, and kid’s activities including hands-on activities for families hosted by various community organizations.
·Online Artist Talk: Jan Tichy
Thursday, May 5, 1:30 pm
Artist and educator Jan Tichy reveals the inspiration behind his immersive installation Reflectancewhich shows the McCormick House as a living, breathing, and interactive architectural structure. This pre-recorded video is online only.
·Museum Day
Sunday, May 15, 1:00-5:00 pm
The 25th Annual Museum Day in Elmhurst commemorates the important cultural value of museums to communities. Visit Elmhurst museums for free admission, family-friendly activities, exhibit tours, refreshments, and more.
·70th Anniversary McCormick House Tour
Saturday, May 21, 1:30 pm
This docent-led tour invites visitors to explore the unique design and history of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House, and celebrate the House’s 70th anniversary.
Houses of Tomorrow: Solar Homes from Keck to Today is sponsored by the DuPage Foundation, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Artis, Room & Board, and Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond.
About Elmhurst Art Museum
The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
As a unique arts complex, the Elmhurst Art Museum is deeply committed to three distinct areas of focus to inspire and enrich our community: art, education, and architecture. The Museum is one block from theElmhurst Metra station and is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and every second Friday of the month from 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Golf prices are $10 for Adults (ages 16+), $8 for Seniors, $5 for Children (ages 5-15), and Free for Kiddies (under 5). For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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At Elmhurst Public Library and virtual
During this sneak peek presentation, participants will hear a survey introduction to the exhibition including how the original glass-walled “House of Tomorrow” at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair led to breakthroughs in architecture and solar power, and consider the possibilities and limitations of “green” buildings.
Co-organized with the Elmhurst Public Library
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Todd Zeiger, Director of Northern Regional Office of Indiana Landmarks, explores future restoration plans for the “House of Tomorrow.”
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This docent-led tour invites visitors to explore the unique design and history of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House, and celebrate the House’s 70th anniversary.
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Free with museum admission. Kids are always free.
Families are invited to participate in this hands-on, STEAM-friendly workshop inspired by the current exhibition. Participants will explore the use of the sun to create their own unique works of art. Available to all ages.
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In this moderated conversation, architects Nathan Kipnis, Tom Bassett-Dilley, and Doug Farr will introduce how key technologies have transformed their practice and will share how their current work has contributed to a more efficient and sustainable design.
Free with museum admission
Image: (left to right) Nathan Kipnis, Tom Bassett-Dilley, and Doug Farr
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Free with museum admission. Advanced registration recommended.
Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the McCormick House!
In honor of Mies van der Rohe’s birthday, this docent-led tour invites visitors to explore the unique design and history of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House, and celebrate the House’s 70th anniversary.
Learn about the history and unique design of the McCormick House (1952) by the legendary architect Mies van der Rohe on this docent-led tour, incorporating the current interactive installation recently featured on WGN News.
The McCormick House is a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. It is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public. The current playful installation by the duo Could Be Architecture recreates the house’s original 1952 floor plan and invites interactions such as by hanging your coat, trying out the furniture, playing chess, tasting a treat in the kitchen, and more.
Image: Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing Archive, Chicago Historical Society
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This pre-recorded video, led by industry experts and historians Robert Boyce and Tony Denzer, will provide an in-depth look at the innovations of George Fred Keck’s House of Tomorrow. Online only.
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25th Annual Art in Wilder Park
Artist applications now accepted . Download the application form.
Elmhurst Art Museum and RGL Marketing for the Arts, Inc. announce their partnership and joint 25th anniversary celebrations for the 2022 edition of Art in Wilder Park. Art in Wilder Park will feature over 100 Midwest artists, along with events and exhibitions at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Both days (April 30 & May 1) are presented in festival style with one of a kind Art, Food Vendors, and Kid’s Court activities including hands-on activities for families hosted by various community organizations
Art in Wilder Park, located in the heart of Elmhurst, attracts 8,000 - 10,000 visitors annually who not only attend the festival, but a high percentage of the art festival attendees support the restaurants, coffee shops and other local businesses.
Artists and other vendors: Apply to have a vendor booth by February 15, 2022.
Download the application form.
Local businesses and individuals: Become an event sponsor to support this cultural destination for DuPage County and the western suburbs. Download our sponsor packet.
Presenting Sponsor:
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Artist and educator Jan Tichy reveals the inspiration behind his immersive installation Reflectance which shows the McCormick House as a living, breathing, and interactive architectural structure. This pre-recorded video is online only.
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The 25th Annual Museum Day in Elmhurst commemorates the important cultural value of museums to communities. Visit Elmhurst museums for free admission, family-friendly activities, exhibit tours, refreshments, and more.
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Register ($15) Free with museum admission. Advanced registration recommended.
Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the McCormick House!
Learn about the history and unique design of the McCormick House (1952) by the legendary architect Mies van der Rohe on this docent-led tour, incorporating the current interactive installation recently featured on WGN News.
The McCormick House is a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. It is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public. The current playful installation by the duo Could Be Architecture recreates the house’s original 1952 floor plan and invites interactions such as by hanging your coat, trying out the furniture, playing chess, tasting a treat in the kitchen, and more.
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Throughout the Elmhurst Art Museum’s 25th year of inspiring its community, the Museum will host a year-long celebration, with a focus on the three major hallmarks of its mission: architecture (Spring), education (Summer), and art (Fall). Central to the Summer season is the interactive, family-friendly exhibition, Nature’s Blueprints: Biomimicry in Art and Design, open June 17 – August 14, 2022. Tickets available at elmhurstartmuseum.org.
Nature’s Blueprints features interactive learning stations that explore ways one can be inspired by nature’s incredibly resourceful designs. Families will enjoy hands-on stations about natural emulation in art and design such as: how burrs from a forest informed velcro, the shape of a beetle’s teeth helped an inventor create a more efficient chainsaw, bird and bat wing shapes aided the early flight tests, spiderwebs have inspired suspension bridges, and more.
Several STEAM workshops scheduled in conjunction with this exhibition invite the public to discover how art, design, and environmental science can lead to extraordinary inventions that improve lives.
Curated especially for Elmhurst Art Museum is a special section that includes work by local architect Alicia Ponce, Founder and Principal of APMonarch, and author of Latinas in Architecture: Stories of raising the 1% one Latina at a time. Ponce is an architect who uses sustainable building practices and often utilizes techniques of biomimicry in her designs.
Nature’s Blueprints is a program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition first debuted in September 2021 at Putnam Museum and Science Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate.
The Museum is open Wednesdays through Thursdays from 12 – 5 pm and Friday through Sundays from 11 am – 5 pm. Free admission takes place the first Friday of every month.
Location: Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 Cottage Hill Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois
Tickets: Free for students/kids; Seniors $12; Adults $15
About Elmhurst Art Museum
Throughout the Elmhurst Art Museum’s 25th year of inspiring its community, the Museum will host a year-long celebration, with a focus on the three major hallmarks of its mission: architecture (Spring), education (Summer), and art (Fall). The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
For more information, call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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Throughout the Elmhurst Art Museum’s 25th year of inspiring its community, the Museum hosts a year-long celebration with a focus on the three major hallmarks of its mission: architecture (Spring), education (Summer), and art (Fall), culminating in the Fall season with the first solo museum show of Pilsen-based street artist Sentrock, who seeks to uplift and empower youth through his murals and educational projects. The exhibition will feature new work by the rising artist that reveals for the first time the origin story of his distinctive Bird City Saint character, which appears in prominent murals in Chicago and other cities. Elmhurst Art Museum presents Sentrock is open September 9, 2022, to February 12, 2023 (the show has been extended).
Tickets are available at elmhurstartmuseum.org.
Joseph Perez, best known as “Sentrock,” is a self-taught street artist who creates large-scale, colorful public mural works. He views street art as a gesture of compassion for his community and a powerful form of expression that encapsulates his Mexican American background, upbringing, and history. With spray can in hand, he developed his work from graffiti writing to his now highly stylized and recognized street art featuring the Bird City Saint character that wears a bird mask. He describes this signature mask as a means of an individual’s personal expression, strength, and hope.
For this exhibition, Sentrock presents a new mural in the galleries as well as animations, cut-out wood figures, paintings, and drawings that tell the narrative of the Bird City Saint character, and its origins in the artist’s biography, across numerous galleries. The exhibition will explore the importance of the Mexican American community and educational background to his ongoing practice.
Sentrock gives back to the Latinx community through various educational and mentor projects with local youth, food, and clothing drives in his neighborhood, and more. His recent projects include collaborations such as a summer youth workshop with Apple, a custom shoe design for Converse, a collaboration with the Chicago Bulls, an activation of Chicago’s Water Tower for JBL Audio, a commission for Mountain Dew NBA All-star Weekend, plus brand ambassadorships with Chicago Fire, Footlocker, and more. His murals appear throughout several neighborhoods in Chicago, and in other cities such as Detroit, Miami, New York, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.
Executive Director John McKinnon says, “On the occasion of our 25th Anniversary, we are thrilled to host the first solo museum show by Sentrock and continue our commitment to supporting exceptional artists from Chicagoland. We are excited for audiences familiar with Sentrock and his Bird City Saint character to learn of their compelling origin stories throughout our galleries, and for others not familiar to get a wonderful introduction to the rising young artist as he translates his work to museum galleries for the first time.”
Elmhurst Art Museum is committed to expanding and strengthening its relationship with Chicago’s broader western suburban community and introducing them to the most exciting regional and national artists of our time. Dedicated programming will accompany the Sentrock exhibition, including opportunities for local teens to work with the artist to create a special display at the museum. This will be the culmination of lessons designed to encourage conversations about public art, the impact murals can make on communities, collaboration, and message building. The teens’ creative and curious voices will be amplified through an examination of street art projects facilitated by museum educators. A full schedule will be announced on elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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The museum celebrates Hispanic Heritage month with an artist reception for the opening of Pilsen-based street artist Sentrock’s first solo museum exhibition The Boy Who Wanted to Fly, with works inspired by the artist’s Mexican-American background and community and food trucks, music, wine, and desserts selected by the artist and his studio.
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Families are invited to create artwork inspired by Hispanic culture led by exhibiting artist Sentrock and his studio. The artist, who uses a bird mask in his work, will help participants design their own masks and learn about traditional masks made in Mexico. For thousands of years masks have been used in Mexico as a well-established part of ritual life in a form of folk art used in dances and ceremonies. No registration required. Free for kids.
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The museum hosts a conversation about the local art scene with Chicago-based artist Sentrock and Sara Phalen, Co-Founder of the Mexican Cultural Center DuPage, moderated by host Zach Grand.
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“Be Bold. Be Elmhurst” reads the large-scale mural in Elmhurst by Rafael Blanco, originally from Spain, and current Assistant Professor at Elmhurst University. In tandem with the museum’s exhibition of street artist Sentrock, Blanco discusses his public artworks, including the mural in Elmhurst, and themes of identity, human expression, and diversity and inclusion.
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The museum invites families to celebrate the holidays with hot cocoa, cookies, a visit from Santa and hands-on art activities inspired by Sentrock: The Boy Who Wanted to Fly. Families will make piñatas and papel picados inspired by Hispanic customs for the holiday season. The Family Holiday Party also includes a special holiday display at the McCormick House.
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May 6 & 7, 2023
In 2022, we helped relaunch Art in Wilder Park with a widely successful festival that attracted over 7,500 visitors. As lead producer in 2023, we’ve set our sights on an even larger, more inclusive, and accessible event for the whole family. Programming will feature over 125 booths of one-of-a-kind art, food vendors, and hands-on kid’s activities.
In 2022 the event was voted one of the Best in the West, featured in numerous press outlets, and attracted nearly half of its visitors from outside Elmhurst.
Click here or scroll below to learn more about what to expect in 2023.
Artist applications and sponsorship information are now available. Click here or scroll below for details.
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ARTIST APPLICATIONS DUE FEB. 15
Booth fees $400/$500, Jury fee $25
Be a part of this annual tradition in Elmhurst. As the first outdoor festival in the region each year, Art in Wilder Park is a highly anticipated Spring event in the western suburbs. Jurors this year will be Roz Long, Debbie Venezia, Krista Renfrew. See the artist application for more details.
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SUPERHEROES IN WILDER PARK
On the weekend of the 26th Annual Art in Wilder Park, we will unveil a newly commissioned public art installation of life-sized superhero sculptures by area artists and youth groups. This installation will be a bold preview of our summer show Marvelocity, featuring the iconic work of comics legend Alex Ross.
Sponsored by the DuPage Foundation, presented in partnership with the Elmhurst Park District
Image: Alex Ross, Captain America, 2018, Gouche.
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Tickets: $20
Museum staff and exhibiting artists lead a walking tour through Wilder Park to learn more about the current public art installation with insights into the artists’ inspiration, process, and bodies of work.
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The Elmhurst Art Museum announces the summer blockbuster exhibition Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross, celebrating one of the most renowned artists in the field of comic books. From his home in the Chicago area, Ross has revitalized classic superheroes into works of fine art for 30-plus years, illustrating characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Storm from the X-Men, the Avengers, Black Panther, and many more. Appealing to families and fans alike, the dynamic and richly engaging Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross will be on view at Elmhurst Art Museum from
One of the must-see events of the summer, the exhibition features over 50 pieces of original artwork by Alex Ross, including gouache paintings, sketches, life-sized head busts, and more from his artistic and professional career. The exhibition presents artwork from his retrospective book, Marvelocity, showing how Ross developed into a renowned illustrator, from his childhood drawings to preliminary sketches, sophisticated paintings and three-dimensional head busts of characters across the Marvel Universe.
In tandem with the exhibition, the Elmhurst Art Museum commissioned the outdoor public art installation Superheroes in Wilder Park that will be on view in the adjacent Wilder Park from May 6 – July 31, 2023.
Superheroes in Wilder Park is currently in creation by area artists (Rafael Blanco, Nez Garza, Dave Pryor, and Charles Williams Jr.) and youth groups working at multiple workshops to create their own custom superheroes. Led by Elmhurst Art Museum teaching instructors, the workshops explore the history and evolution of superhero comics, character study, drawing and coloring techniques, and superhero character development with final work painted on life-sized, stand-alone, wooden cutouts. In addition, Superheroes in Wilder Park features works created by Robert Apolinar with Elmhurst University students, Esmeralda Bolivar with the Elmhurst Pride Collective, John Nester with Glenbard North High School students, and Gloria Rivera with B. Unity mentees.
Throughout the run of Marvelocity, the museum will host public programs for the entire community including comic book workshops, designated Family Days with hands-on activities for student and family groups, a screening at Movies in the Park with the Elmhurst Park District and Elmhurst Public Library, a costumed figure drawing class, a “dress-up like a superhero” day, and more.
Due to popular demand, Marvelocity has toured to venues around the country appearing at museums in Ohio, Florida, Montana, and Wisconsin. The Elmhurst Art Museum will carry a variety of Marvel merchandise, including posters hand-signed by Alex Ross, as well as the expanded edition of Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics of Alex Ross, which includes an original 10-page story featuring Spider-Man vs. the Sinister Six, plus contributions by Chip Kidd, Geoff Spear, and J.J. Abrams.
Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross is sponsored by Explore Elmhurst with additional support from Discover DuPage, the Illinois Office of Tourism, and Classic Cinemas. The exhibition was developed by the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, Illinois.
Superheroes in Wilder Park is sponsored by the DuPage Foundation, presented in partnership with the Elmhurst Park District with additional support from Discover DuPage, Kilwins, Lakeside Bank, Maxine, Phase Three Brewing, Reconciled Solutions, Kelly Stetler | Compass, and Total Window Treatments. Production support by DIT Workshops.
ABOUT ALEX ROSS
Once upon a time, there was a little boy who decided that drawing superheroes was his only realistic option, if he couldn’t actually become one. - Alex Ross
Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Lubbock, Texas, Alex Ross made his artistic debut at three when, according to his mother, he grabbed a piece of paper and drew the contents of a television commercial he had seen moments before. By age 13 he was scripting and drawing original comic books. Ten years later, he was hired by Marvel Comics to illustrate Marvel's central characters in the comic book event, Marvels (1994).
Ross's work has celebrated the 60th anniversaries of Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, and Wonder Woman with fully painted, tabloid-sized books, depicting each of these characters using their powers to inspire humanity as well as help them.Ross’s hugely successful comic book series Kingdom Come (1996) is considered to have ushered the close of the “Dark Age” of comic books, in which pessimism, violence, and gritty stories ruled, into the birth of the “Modern Age” of optimism and strong superheroes. In addition to superhero projects, Ross created Uncle Sam, a 96-page story that took a hard look at the dark side of American history.
In recent years, Ross has applied his artistic skills to outside projects with comic book roots, including a limited-edition promotional poster for the Academy Awards. In 2015, Alex was chosen by Apple Corps LTD to be commissioned as the first artist in over 30 years to paint the Fab Four. Ross is a multi-year winner of the Comic Buyer's Guide Award for Favorite Painter.
ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regular admission prices are $18 for Adults (ages 18+), $15 for Seniors, $10 for Students, and $5 for Children. For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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The museum invites families to get creative through superhero-themed hands-on art activities inspired by the works inMarvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross. Visitors can explore their own personal superpowers, create custom power cuffs and masks, learn figure drawing with costumed superheroes, and more.
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Saturdays, July 8, 15, 22, 29, 12:00 - 3:00pm
Workshop fee $90 per session
Every Saturday in July, the museum hosts superhero-themed life drawing workshops for teens (13+) and adults. Inspired byMarvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross, instructor Robert Apolinar will lead various drawing techniques, capturing the complexity of the human form and dynamic superhero costumes.
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Families are invited to design a personal superhero inspired by the works found in Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross.
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Kids can discover the power of storytelling through storyboard character design and illustration. Artists lead families through drawing and writing exercises that allow participants to discover their own unique voices through comic book creations.
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Part of the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration
The Elmhurst Art Museum is proud to announce Picasso: Fifty Years Later, an exhibition exploring the Modern master’s work, lasting influence, and legacy. Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973, the three-part exhibition features works by Picasso and his contemporaries such as Alexander Archipenko, Wifredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró; a gallery dedicated to the demanding process of Picasso’s printmaking; and a presentation of contemporary figurative artists today. Offering the opportunity to reflect on both lasting impressions and new interpretations of the famed artist, Picasso: Fifty Years Later takes place at the Elmhurst Art Museum from September 9, 2023 to January 7, 2024.
With Picasso: Fifty Years Later, the Elmhurst Art Museum is participating in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, with exhibitions taking place across the US and around the globe. The museum will host this extraordinary exhibition after undergoing a $1.1 million facility improvement project this past Spring. John McKinnon, Executive Director of the Elmhurst Art Museum, says, “We’re honored that the Elmhurst Art Museum can bring the global salute of Pablo Picasso to Chicagoland. This is an incredible opportunity to present an artist that continues to captivate artists and the general public alike.”
The three-part tribute begins with Modern works from the Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen Collection, including an introduction to Picasso’s work, life, and peers. The gallery will feature several Cubist works that show how Picasso and the other artists of his time responded to the technologically driven Modern age, with works by Picasso, Alexander Archipenko, Wifredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró, among others.
The exhibition continues with the debut of a nationally touring show Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection. It includes seventeen progressive proofs that show the detailed steps and demanding linoleum block printmaking processes that allowed the artist to experiment with recurring themes throughout his career, such as subjects by the Old Masters, the Spanish tradition of bullfighting, and classical mythology.
Following its debut at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 2024) and Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (February 2025), with other locations to be announced. The exhibition is accompanied by an 88 page, full-color, hardcover catalogue by Richard P. Townsend, the curator of Picasso and the Progressive Proof, and published by Skira Editore, Milan.
Townsend says, “I am pleased that the national tour of Picasso and the Progressive Proof opens at the Elmhurst Art Museum, known for its adventurous programming. This will, it is hoped, broaden the public’s understanding of the creative process of one of the 20th century’s most influential artists, Pablo Picasso.”
The final gallery of Picasso: Fifty Years Later will include a curated selection of works in conversation with Picasso by area painters Laura Berger, Liz Flores, Richard Hull, Leasho Johnson, and José Lerma. Titled 50 Years After Picasso, the gallery explores how contemporary artists have challenged, furthered, and broken from Picasso’s experiments in representation since his passing fifty years ago, inviting new interpretations and perspectives of his wider legacy.
Picasso: Fifty Years Later is co-curated by John McKinnon and Richard P. Townsend. Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection is organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC.
With thanks to Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank and additional sponsorship by Anonymous, Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Gigi and James Owens, Marcia Goltermann, Discover DuPage, and the Illinois Office of Tourism. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regular admission prices are $18 for Adults (ages 18+), $15 for Seniors, $10 for Students, and $5 for Children. For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
Image: Pablo Picasso, Bacchanal with Kid Goat and Onlooker, 1959, linocut proof © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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She will share processes and concepts guiding her work, as well as how she sees Picasso’s experiments challenged, furthered, and broken since his passing fifty years ago.
Through Picasso: Fifty Years Later, the Elmhurst Art Museum is participating in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973. One of numerous exhibitions taking place across the US and around the globe,Picasso: Fifty Years Later reflects on the artist in three parts: a section dedicated to introducing Picasso in the context of his contemporaries such as Alexander Archipenko, Wilfredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró; a gallery exploring the demanding process of Picasso’s printmaking; and a presentation of contemporary figurative artists including Laura Berger, Liz Flores, Richard Hull, Leasho Johnson, and José Lerma.
A highlight of Picasso: Fifty Years Later is the debut of Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection, a gallery-sized exhibition within the exhibition curated by Richard P. Townsend. Picasso and the Progressive Proof features seventeen progressive proofs showing the detailed steps--and demanding printmaking processes--that allowed Picasso to experiment with recurring themes throughout his career.
Following its presentation at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection exhibition will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 2024), Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (February 2025), and Vero Beach Museum of Art (October 2025), accompanied by a full color exhibition catalogue.
Co-curated by John McKinnon and Richard P. Townsend
Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection is organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC.
With thanks to Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank and additional sponsorship by Anonymous, Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Marcia Goltermann, Gigi and James Owens, Tony & Mary Ann Pasquinelli Foundation, Gary Metzner & Scott Johnson, Discover DuPage, the Illinois Office of Tourism, and Lakeside Bank. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Through Picasso: Fifty Years Later, the Elmhurst Art Museum is participating in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973. One of numerous exhibitions taking place across the US and around the globe,Picasso: Fifty Years Later reflects on the artist in three parts: a section dedicated to introducing Picasso in the context of his contemporaries such as Alexander Archipenko, Wilfredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró; a gallery exploring the demanding process of Picasso’s printmaking; and a presentation of contemporary figurative artists including Laura Berger, Liz Flores, Richard Hull, Leasho Johnson, and José Lerma.
A highlight of Picasso: Fifty Years Later is the debut of Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection, a gallery-sized exhibition within the exhibition curated by Richard P. Townsend. Picasso and the Progressive Proof features seventeen progressive proofs showing the detailed steps--and demanding printmaking processes--that allowed Picasso to experiment with recurring themes throughout his career.
Following its presentation at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection exhibition will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 2024), Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (February 2025), and Vero Beach Museum of Art (October 2025), accompanied by a full color exhibition catalogue.
Co-curated by John McKinnon and Richard P. Townsend
Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection is organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC.
With thanks to Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank and additional sponsorship by Anonymous, Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Marcia Goltermann, Gigi and James Owens, Tony & Mary Ann Pasquinelli Foundation, Gary Metzner & Scott Johnson, Discover DuPage, the Illinois Office of Tourism, and Lakeside Bank. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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The Elmhurst Art Museum celebrates an extraordinary year—including two blockbuster exhibitions and a $1.1 million renovation—with a special evening including cocktails, a multi-course dinner, entertainment, and an art auction. This year's Soirée décor will be inspired by the work of Liz Flores, a painter and muralist originally from Berwyn, IL, whose work is on view in Picasso: Fifty Years Later.
Through Picasso: Fifty Years Later, the Elmhurst Art Museum is participating in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973. One of numerous exhibitions taking place across the US and around the globe,Picasso: Fifty Years Later reflects on the artist in three parts: a section dedicated to introducing Picasso in the context of his contemporaries such as Alexander Archipenko, Wilfredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró; a gallery exploring the demanding process of Picasso’s printmaking; and a presentation of contemporary figurative artists including Laura Berger, Liz Flores, Richard Hull, Leasho Johnson, and José Lerma.
A highlight of Picasso: Fifty Years Later is the debut of Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection, a gallery-sized exhibition within the exhibition curated by Richard P. Townsend. Picasso and the Progressive Proof features seventeen progressive proofs showing the detailed steps--and demanding printmaking processes--that allowed Picasso to experiment with recurring themes throughout his career.
Following its presentation at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection exhibition will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 2024), Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (February 2025), and Vero Beach Museum of Art (October 2025), accompanied by a full color exhibition catalogue.
Co-curated by John McKinnon and Richard P. Townsend
Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection is organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC.
With thanks to Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank and additional sponsorship by Anonymous, Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Marcia Goltermann, Gigi and James Owens, Tony & Mary Ann Pasquinelli Foundation, Gary Metzner & Scott Johnson, Discover DuPage, the Illinois Office of Tourism, and Lakeside Bank. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Through Picasso: Fifty Years Later, the Elmhurst Art Museum is participating in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973. One of numerous exhibitions taking place across the US and around the globe,Picasso: Fifty Years Later reflects on the artist in three parts: a section dedicated to introducing Picasso in the context of his contemporaries such as Alexander Archipenko, Wilfredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró; a gallery exploring the demanding process of Picasso’s printmaking; and a presentation of contemporary figurative artists including Laura Berger, Liz Flores, Richard Hull, Leasho Johnson, and José Lerma.
A highlight of Picasso: Fifty Years Later is the debut of Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection, a gallery-sized exhibition within the exhibition curated by Richard P. Townsend. Picasso and the Progressive Proof features seventeen progressive proofs showing the detailed steps--and demanding printmaking processes--that allowed Picasso to experiment with recurring themes throughout his career.
Following its presentation at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection exhibition will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 2024), Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (February 2025), and Vero Beach Museum of Art (October 2025), accompanied by a full color exhibition catalogue.
Co-curated by John McKinnon and Richard P. Townsend
Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection is organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC.
With thanks to Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank and additional sponsorship by Anonymous, Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Marcia Goltermann, Gigi and James Owens, Tony & Mary Ann Pasquinelli Foundation, Gary Metzner & Scott Johnson, Discover DuPage, the Illinois Office of Tourism, and Lakeside Bank. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Jay A. Clarke, Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, gives a lecture on the many ways Picasso’s life and art intersected with others, specifically his printers, art dealers, and lovers. Clarke connects themes between Picasso: Fifty Years Later and the Art Institute’s Picasso: Drawing from Life, the two Chicagoland exhibitions taking part in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration.
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Through Picasso: Fifty Years Later, the Elmhurst Art Museum is participating in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973. One of numerous exhibitions taking place across the US and around the globe,Picasso: Fifty Years Later reflects on the artist in three parts: a section dedicated to introducing Picasso in the context of his contemporaries such as Alexander Archipenko, Wilfredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró; a gallery exploring the demanding process of Picasso’s printmaking; and a presentation of contemporary figurative artists including Laura Berger, Liz Flores, Richard Hull, Leasho Johnson, and José Lerma.
A highlight of Picasso: Fifty Years Later is the debut of Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection, a gallery-sized exhibition within the exhibition curated by Richard P. Townsend. Picasso and the Progressive Proof features seventeen progressive proofs showing the detailed steps--and demanding printmaking processes--that allowed Picasso to experiment with recurring themes throughout his career.
Following its presentation at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection exhibition will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 2024), Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (February 2025), and Vero Beach Museum of Art (October 2025), accompanied by a full color exhibition catalogue.
Co-curated by John McKinnon and Richard P. Townsend
Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection is organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC.
With thanks to Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank and additional sponsorship by Anonymous, Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Marcia Goltermann, Gigi and James Owens, Tony & Mary Ann Pasquinelli Foundation, Gary Metzner & Scott Johnson, Discover DuPage, the Illinois Office of Tourism, and Lakeside Bank. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Through Picasso: Fifty Years Later, the Elmhurst Art Museum is participating in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973. One of numerous exhibitions taking place across the US and around the globe,Picasso: Fifty Years Later reflects on the artist in three parts: a section dedicated to introducing Picasso in the context of his contemporaries such as Alexander Archipenko, Wilfredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró; a gallery exploring the demanding process of Picasso’s printmaking; and a presentation of contemporary figurative artists including Laura Berger, Liz Flores, Richard Hull, Leasho Johnson, and José Lerma.
A highlight of Picasso: Fifty Years Later is the debut of Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection, a gallery-sized exhibition within the exhibition curated by Richard P. Townsend. Picasso and the Progressive Proof features seventeen progressive proofs showing the detailed steps--and demanding printmaking processes--that allowed Picasso to experiment with recurring themes throughout his career.
Following its presentation at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection exhibition will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 2024), Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (February 2025), and Vero Beach Museum of Art (October 2025), accompanied by a full color exhibition catalogue.
Co-curated by John McKinnon and Richard P. Townsend
Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection is organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC.
With thanks to Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank and additional sponsorship by Anonymous, Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Marcia Goltermann, Gigi and James Owens, Tony & Mary Ann Pasquinelli Foundation, Gary Metzner & Scott Johnson, Discover DuPage, the Illinois Office of Tourism, and Lakeside Bank. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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In partnership with Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Art Historian and Professor of Fine Arts at New York University Christine Poggi (Ph.D.) discusses Picasso and her book, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage.
Through Picasso: Fifty Years Later, the Elmhurst Art Museum is participating in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973. One of numerous exhibitions taking place across the US and around the globe,Picasso: Fifty Years Later reflects on the artist in three parts: a section dedicated to introducing Picasso in the context of his contemporaries such as Alexander Archipenko, Wilfredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró; a gallery exploring the demanding process of Picasso’s printmaking; and a presentation of contemporary figurative artists including Laura Berger, Liz Flores, Richard Hull, Leasho Johnson, and José Lerma.
A highlight of Picasso: Fifty Years Later is the debut of Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection, a gallery-sized exhibition within the exhibition curated by Richard P. Townsend. Picasso and the Progressive Proof features seventeen progressive proofs showing the detailed steps--and demanding printmaking processes--that allowed Picasso to experiment with recurring themes throughout his career.
Following its presentation at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection exhibition will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 2024), Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (February 2025), and Vero Beach Museum of Art (October 2025), accompanied by a full color exhibition catalogue.
Co-curated by John McKinnon and Richard P. Townsend
Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection is organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC.
With thanks to Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank and additional sponsorship by Anonymous, Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Marcia Goltermann, Gigi and James Owens, Tony & Mary Ann Pasquinelli Foundation, Gary Metzner & Scott Johnson, Discover DuPage, the Illinois Office of Tourism, and Lakeside Bank. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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The Elmhurst Art Museum’s annual Family Day: Holiday Party kicks off this year with hands-on art activities inspired by Picasso: Fifty Years Later, hot cocoa, cookies, and a visit from Santa. Families are invited to visit the exhibition and make holiday cards inspired by Picasso’s cubist techniques and colorful paintings.
Through Picasso: Fifty Years Later, the Elmhurst Art Museum is participating in the worldwide Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973. One of numerous exhibitions taking place across the US and around the globe,Picasso: Fifty Years Later reflects on the artist in three parts: a section dedicated to introducing Picasso in the context of his contemporaries such as Alexander Archipenko, Wilfredo Lam, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró; a gallery exploring the demanding process of Picasso’s printmaking; and a presentation of contemporary figurative artists including Laura Berger, Liz Flores, Richard Hull, Leasho Johnson, and José Lerma.
A highlight of Picasso: Fifty Years Later is the debut of Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection, a gallery-sized exhibition within the exhibition curated by Richard P. Townsend. Picasso and the Progressive Proof features seventeen progressive proofs showing the detailed steps--and demanding printmaking processes--that allowed Picasso to experiment with recurring themes throughout his career.
Following its presentation at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection exhibition will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 2024), Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (February 2025), and Vero Beach Museum of Art (October 2025), accompanied by a full color exhibition catalogue.
Co-curated by John McKinnon and Richard P. Townsend
Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection is organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC.
With thanks to Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank and additional sponsorship by Anonymous, Sally J. and Raymond J. Allen, Marcia Goltermann, Gigi and James Owens, Tony & Mary Ann Pasquinelli Foundation, Gary Metzner & Scott Johnson, Discover DuPage, the Illinois Office of Tourism, and Lakeside Bank. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Image: Pablo Picasso, Bacchanal with Kid Goat and Onlooker, 1959, linocut proof © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Free to members. Non-member tickets $9-$23, online registration encouraged
The Elmhurst Art Museum celebrates the opening of A Love Supreme, a solo exhibition by Norman Teague inspired by legendary jazz musician John Coltrane, and the adjoining installation in Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House by Chicago-based BIPOC designers, A Love Supreme: McCormick House Reimagined. The opening celebration features a meet and greet with the artists, plus light bites, live music, signature jazz cocktails, and special performances by Elmhurst University Jazz Combo and Chicago House music pioneer DJ Celeste Alexander.
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Learn more about upcoming special programs including curator tours, a panel discussion, family days, and an evening of jazz.
The Elmhurst Art Museum is proud to announce A Love Supreme, a solo exhibition by Norman Teague inspired by legendary jazz musician John Coltrane, with an adjoining intervention in Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House by Chicago-based BIPOC designers. Teague uses Coltrane’s album “A Love Supreme” as a personal, cultural, and spiritual touchstone to consider design influences from his life-long home in Chicago, exploring how the power of bold improvisational jazz and unapologetic Black aesthetics have expanded the minds and inspired creative communities of color. Celebrating BIPOC designers and a variety of cultural influences in Chicago at a time when the country is reckoning with racial inequities in representation across industries and disciplines, A Love Supreme takes place at the Elmhurst Art Museum from January 20 to April 28, 2024.
In A Love Supreme, the main galleries will feature new works with African-influenced objects. The solo exhibition culminates in Teague’s version of a large-scale African round house containing multiple organically designed objects that nod to his Midwest influences, like the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the Wall of Respect, and sculptor Martin Puryear.
In the McCormick House, Teague asks, “What is your Coltrane story? Who awakened you personally and artistically?” Work in the McCormick House will include furniture, blown glass, and custom leather pieces that transform the house from the picture of upper-class, white suburban living to a space celebrating alternative aesthetics, including acknowledgments of overlooked historical figures from Chicago reimagined through an alternative lens by BIPOC architects, designers, and artists.
“I believe there is a quest for craft from the imaginations of Black America that needs to be heard, seen, and felt as safe, desired, and beautiful. And it can only come from us. This turning point of awareness in American history will only get greater as time goes on—and design history will follow,” says Teague .
Teague and his collaborators will draw on their own history and cultural inspirations, including designers such as Chuck Harrison, sculptor Martin Puryear, and Emory Douglas. Throughout the exhibit, Teague mines the empowering musical legacy of the Civil Rights Era, acknowledges overlooked historical BIPOC figures, and creates opportunity for today’s generation to acknowledge and reclaim the historical absence of Black design history in America. A Love Supreme seeks to provide a new narrative about the bold, bright, and vast number of designers who are the future of American design.
In line with his highly collaborative practice, Teague in A Love Supreme will uplift other creatives while expressing joy through design, musical performances, public talks, and other creative expressions by designers and artists. Jazz and jazz-influenced performances throughout the run of the exhibition will further underline the influence of avant-garde music on Chicago design.
A Love Supreme is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities. It is sponsored by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. A Love Supreme is supported in part by a grant from the League of Chicago Theatres and ComEd.
A Love Supreme: McCormick House Reimagined is co-curated by Norman Teague and Rose Camara. This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Chipstone Foundation.
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The Elmhurst Art Museum presents a panel discussion that digs deeper into music, culture, and design influences of exhibiting artists inA Love Supreme moderated by Ayana Contreras, cultural historian and host of the Reclaimed Soul program on WBEZ and at Vocalo Radio. The panel discussion is followed by a dynamic performance by the Elmhurst University Jazz Combo.
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Free with museum admission
Visitors are invited to create Valentine’s Day cards inspired by the sights and sounds found in the Elmhurst Art Museum’s current exhibition A Love Supreme. With drawing and painting, visitors are asked, “Which of your muses will you send your Valentine to?”
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On select Sundays throughout the run of A Love Supreme, the museum hosts a series of a docent-led tour to learn more about the unique history and design of Mies van der Rohe's McCormick House including the current installation.
A Love Supreme is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities. It is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and in part by a grant from the League of Chicago Theatres and ComEd. With programming in partnership with Elmhurst University Department of Music.
A Love Supreme: McCormick House Reimagined is co-curated by Norman Teague and Rose Camara. This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Chipstone Foundation.
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Visitors are invited to discover the art of interior design inspired by the works found in A Love Supreme. Visitors can explore sculpture as personal expression and design and construct a domestic interior that tells their own unique story.
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The Elmhurst Art Museum presents an evening of jazz-inspired performances, beverages, hors d’oeuvres, and A Love Supreme exhibition viewing.
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Art in Wilder Park, the Chicago suburb’s family-favorite juried art festival now in its 27th year, drew over 11,500 visitors in 2023 and features a variety of artisans selling one-of-a-kind jewelry, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, fiber arts, and mouthwatering treats from local food vendors. In tandem with Designing Donkey Hodie, Art in Wilder Park 2024 will feature newly commissioned public art installation Monsters in Wilder Park: A Kid-Powered Art Show by artist and illustrator Dave Pryor, who designed puppets for Donkey Hodie in addition to working on a variety of popular licenses including \"The Wizard of Oz\", \"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\", and \"The Simpsons”. Monsters in Wilder Park will feature six large-scale cut-out sculptures inspired by select monster drawings created by over 300 local children.
Presenting an even larger, more inclusive, and accessible event for the whole family this year, Art in Wilder Park will host a variety of activities from the public art installation to a scavenger hunt and hands-on activities in the Kids Court. Art in Wilder Park features 130 exhibitors including local artists, food vendors, a designated Kids Court for family activities, and more. Art in Wilder Park features booths by over 80 Midwest artists, 10 nonprofits, 10 food vendors, 10 Kids Court participants, and 20 other local business partners.
“The Elmhurst Art Museum is excited to expand Art in Wilder Park with more exhibiting artists from across the Midwest and attract new audiences with a new public art installation this year created by more than 300 local children,” said John McKinnon, Executive Director of the Elmhurst Art Museum.
“We are excited for the 27th annual Art in Wilder Park and the sense of community it creates each year with activities for the entire family to enjoy,” said The Honorable Scott Levin, Mayor of Elmhurst. “Each year in growing numbers, Art in Wilder Park welcomes thousands of visitors from Chicagoland and beyond to support their local restaurants, artisans, and businesses, and celebrate the return of the summer season and all it has to offer.”
Further details and a full Art in Wilder Park exhibitor list is available at elmhurstartmuseum.org/events
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For the opening of Designing Donkey Hodie: From Make Believe to Someplace Else, the Elmhurst Art Museum hosts an evening of fun for all ages. Family activities from 5-7pm will include a life-sized costumed Donkey Hodie as well as themed food, drink, décor, and entertainment to celebrate the exhibition opening and kids show made by local creatives. After 7pm, the reception features light bites, music, and members of Donkey Hodie’s creative team.
Sponsored by WTTW.
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Designing Donkey Hodie: From Make-Believe to Someplace Else draws audiences into the unique and creative visual world of the Emmy®-nominated, live-action puppet series. The exhibit will introduce the origins of Donkey Hodie, a character that debuted on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in the 1960s and has been reimagined for the puppet series today. Attendees can experience the visual development of the series through storyboards, drawings, models, puppets, set pieces, and other props from the show.
Displays, including original concept artwork and props from the series, and hands-on activities offer multiple ways to explore the practical magic behind the imaginative puppet series, from puppet design and building to the art of set and prop design. The exhibit follows efforts by the award-winning production team from Chicago-based Spiffy Pictures and Pittsburgh-based Fred Rogers Productions to create the adventures of Donkey Hodie and her pals.
Inspired by characters from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Donkey Hodie is an imaginative puppet series that follows the adventures of Donkey Hodie, an enthusiastic and charming go-getter who takes on each day with curiosity and resilience, and her pals Purple Panda, Duck Duck, and Bob Dog. Set in the whimsical land of Someplace Else, the series is designed to empower children ages 3-5 to dream big and overcome obstacles in their own lives, work hard and persevere in the face of failure, be resourceful, and discover they can solve problems on their own—and laugh themselves silly along the way.
Donkey Hodie is produced by Fred Rogers Productions and Spiffy Pictures. The series is created by Adam Rudman and David Rudman of Spiffy Pictures and developed by Ellen Doherty, chief creative officer of Fred Rogers Productions. Executive producers are Doherty, Adam Rudman, and David Rudman.
About Fred Rogers Productions
Fred Rogers Productions was founded by Fred Rogers in 1971 as the non-profit producer of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood for PBS. In the years that followed, it created hundreds of episodes of this much-loved program and extended Fred’s values and approach to other efforts in promoting children’s social, emotional, and behavioral health while supporting parents, caregivers, teachers, and other professionals in their work with children. Fred Rogers Productions continues to build on Fred’s legacy in innovative ways through a wide variety of media and engages new generations of children and families with his timeless wisdom. The company’s highly rated children’s series, including Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Peg + Cat, Odd Squad, and Through the Woods, have earned 30 Emmy® Awards among other important honors. The company’s latest series are Donkey Hodie, the innovative puppet series inspired by characters from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Alma’s Way, an animated series created by Sonia Manzano. Fred Rogers Productions strives to inspire a lifelong enthusiasm for learning through its series as well as efforts beyond broadcast including games and interactive offerings, community engagement activities, and much more.
About Spiffy Pictures
Founded by brothers, David Rudman and Adam Rudman, Spiffy Pictures is a creative development and production company specializing in both animated and live-action puppet-based entertainment for kids and families. Known for whimsical humor and music filled shows, the inventive award-winning Chicago-based company has created, produced, written, and directed series for PBS KIDS, Nickelodeon, Disney, MTV, Comedy Central, Sesame Street and Warner Brothers. Spiffy’s current series include PBS KIDS’ Emmy® Award-nominated live-action puppet series Donkey Hodie, a co-production with Fred Rogers Productions, and the long-running Environmental Media Award-winning animated series Nature Cat, as well as the upcoming Carl the Collector with creator and best-selling illustrator and author Zachariah Ohora. Past series include Nick Jr.'s Emmy® Award and Prix Jeunesse-nominated Jack’s Big Music Show; Disney's Emmy® Award-nominated Bunnytown; and Nick Jr.’s Curious Buddies. The company's additional credits include Warner Brothers' Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map and Nick Worldwide's Frankie and Frank.
Art in Wilder Park is produced by the Elmhurst Art Museum in partnership with Elmhurst Park District and RGL Marketing for the Arts, Inc. Presented sponsor Kelly Stetler | Compass. Festival sponsors: Chiro One Wellness Centers, Discover DuPage, Explore Elmhurst, Great American Exteriors, The Home Improvement Network, Mosaic Counseling & Wellness, John Noldan / Guaranteed Rate. Special Event Sponsors: Unlimited Heating & Cooling.
Monsters in Wilder Park is made possible in partnership with Elmhurst Park District and generously supported by the JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation with additional support from Elmhurst Bank/Wintrust, Total Window Treatments, and Production support by DIT Workshops.
Designing Donkey Hodie is sponsored by DuPage Foundation.
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Donkey Hodie and her pals Purple Panda and Bob Dog visit the museum to present a behind-the-scenes puppet demonstration. Following this live-action puppet demonstration will be a meet-and-greet for families and hands-on activities to guide them to make their own unique puppets. This imaginative process will be explored through character creation, sketching a puppet's likeness, and bringing it to life with mixed media supplies.
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The Elmhurst Art Museum invites visitors to dive into the art of make-believe worlds and creative characters. Works in Designing Donkey Hodie: From Make-Believe to Someplace Else serve as inspiration to dream up another land and create a world that tells a unique story using the creative processes found within the exhibition.
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Interim Director of the Elmhurst Art Museum Ann Quinn Kelly says, “The Elmhurst Art Museum is overjoyed to feature Rafael Blanco in our fall exhibition. The new large-scale works that Rafael has created for this exhibition are engaging in subject and gorgeous in execution. The exhibition also shares Rafael's journey, as he pivoted from studio to public art and concentrated on that practice. Here, Rafael inspires us with his focus on identity, culture, community engagement, and the resilience of his artistic vision.”
Born in Spain and based in Aurora, Illinois, Blanco’s work is deeply influenced by his immigrant experience and the beauty of embracing a new country while maintaining one’s own identity. In collaboration with local youth, Blanco extends this pride in the galleries by incorporating over one hundred self-portraits painted by area students into the shape of the US flag. The collaboration is intended to encourage youth to embrace and be inspired by their own identities and cultures.
The exhibition will feature a map showcasing the locations of Blanco’s works across the US. Near the museum, Blanco’s 32’ x 190’ -foot mural declaring “Be Bold” is on the wall of Elmhurst University’s R.A. Fagnel Hall, facing north on Park Avenue west of Prospect Avenue. The first mural in the city of Elmhurst, Be Bold serves as both inspiration and call to action.
While Blanco’s colorful works are celebrated across the country, the exhibition also features new realizations of projects that had previously been rejected. A series of programs for families, creatives, and the general public will explore more in-depth themes of the exhibition, including how Blanco uses adversity to empower his work as an artist and to imagine new visions for his work.
Rafael Blanco says, “For the past ten years I have been ditching the studio, transforming walls, and creating site specific murals all over the country. The exhibition’s new ‘canvas/murals’ commemorate the designs that, at some point, were rejected during my trajectory as a muralist, and therefore never painted. My purpose is to visually impact, confront, and surprise the museum visitors by creating art that blends the nuances of street art with classical studio techniques.”
In Spanish, “Por los últimos diez años he estado dejando el estudio, transformando muros, y creando murales a gran escala por todo el país Estos nuevos trabajos, lienzos/murales conmemoran los diseños que, en algún punto de mi trayectoria como muralista, fueron rechazados, y como resultado, nunca fueron pintados. Mi objetivo es visualmente impactar, confrontar, y sorprender al visitante a través de una obra que mezcla los ultimos estilos del arte urbano y las técnicas clásicas de estudio.”
With gratitude to exhibition Presenting Sponsor: Wintrust Bank, with support from Tom Watson and Mary Cunningham Family Charitable Fund, Illinois Arts Council, Discover DuPage, and Enjoy Illinois.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Rafael Blanco Opening Reception
Friday, September 6, 2024
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Tickets $23
Visitors are invited to celebrate the opening of Rafael Blanco: Reflecting on a Decade of Public Art, a solo exhibition by renowned muralist Rafael Blanco. Blanco reimagines previously unapproved mural projects from his decade-long career as a public artist. The exhibition includes new mural-sized paintings created specifically for this exhibition and a major community collaboration between Elmhurst Art Museum, Rafael Blanco, and over 100 student artists from Elmhurst and surrounding areas reflecting on their identity. The artist joins guests for celebratory drinks, light bites, and entertainment including a performance by the Conrad Fisher Elementary Singers Dual Language Program.
Soirée 2024: Dream in COLOR!
Saturday, September 21, 2024
6:00 - 11:00 pm
Tickets $375
Elmhurst Art Museum’s annual fundraiser will dare guests to Dream in COLOR! This year’s event is inspired by the vibrant work of Rafael Blanco, a public artist best known locally for co-creating the “Be Bold” mural at Elmhurst University and highlighted in the museum’s fall exhibition. Proceeds of this year’s Soirée support the museum’s operations and help the museum provide free programming and transportation to children from underserved schools. Soirée 2024: Dream in COLOR! is presented by the museum’s Board of Directors, Sustaining Fellows, and Host Committee. The evening will include cocktails, a multi-course dinner, entertainment, and live and silent auctions for fabulous artworks, vacations, and experiences.
Artist Talk: Rafael Blanco
Saturday, October 12, 2024
1:00 pm
Included with museum admission
Rafael Blanco reflects on the murals he has reimagined for this exhibition, and his experiences as an artist creating public murals across the United States. Blanco sees rejection as integral to life’s experiences, especially the life of an artist. He will share insights into how he transforms rejection into success that empowers him as an artist to imagine new visions for his work.
Family Day: Monochrome Portraits
Saturday, October 26, 2024
1:00 - 4:00 pm
Included with museum admission
Inspired by the technicolor of Rafael Blanco, families are invited for an afternoon exploring color and portraiture. Using different shades or one’s favorite hue, visitors can create pictures of themselves or loved ones in this artist-led activity.
Family Day: Mini Murals
Saturday, November 16, 2024
1:00 - 4:00pm
Included with museum admission
In celebration of Rafael Blanco’s works as a public artist, families are invited to fabricate a mural with various media on their own mini paper “wall.” Participants can adapt large-scale techniques to a smaller scale.
Artist-led Exhibition Tour: Rafael Blanco
Saturday, December 7, 2024
1:00 pm
Included with museum admission
Mural artist Rafael Blanco leads a tour of his solo exhibition to explore how he reimagined rejected mural designs from cities across the country to create new works for this exhibition. Blanco offers insights into his personal journey turning refusal into renewal by using rejection as a motivation.
Family Day: Holiday Party
Saturday, December 14, 2024
1:00 - 4:00 pm
Included with museum admission
Elmhurst Art Museum celebrates the winter holidays with a visit from Santa and art activities such as card-making and creating festive decor in honor of the season.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
A native of Alicante, Spain, Rafael Blanco is a visual artist fascinated with identity, human expression, and diversity and inclusion. Trained as a classical studio painter for more than fifteen years, Blanco had his first encounter with public art in 2014. Since then, he broke away from the studio and transitioned to the creation of site-specific, large-scale mural installations. Blanco has painted murals across the US from California to Maryland, and from Texas to Illinois – including in Elmhurst. He has participated in numerous street art festivals and mural competitions, and has produced commissioned work for cities like Roseville, California, Denver, Colorado, Rockford, Illinois, and Corpus Christi, Texas, among many others. Blanco attended Florida Southern College (2000-02) and graduated with a BA in Studio Arts from Saint Mary's College of California (2002-04). After receiving his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada, Reno (2010-2013), he worked as a full-time university professor at Feather River College (2014-19) and Elmhurst University (2019-23), where he taught Drawing, Painting, and Art History.
Lately, Blanco has expanded his work to public speaking, where he has been advocating for the potential of public art while engaging younger audiences, including local high school and university students, as well as participating as a guest speaker at TEDx Elmhurst University. Blanco currently lives in Aurora, Illinois with his family.
ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regular admission prices are $18 for adults (ages 18+), $15 for seniors, $10 for students, and $5 for children. For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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Elmhurst Art Museum’s annual fundraiser will dare guests to Dream in COLOR! This year’s event is inspired by the vibrant work of Rafael Blanco, a public artist best known locally for co-creating the “Be Bold” mural at Elmhurst University and highlighted in the museum’s fall exhibition. Proceeds of this year’s Soirée support the museum’s operations and help the museum provide free programming and transportation to children from underserved schools. Soirée 2024: Dream in COLOR! is presented by the museum’s Board of Directors, Sustaining Fellows, and Host Committee. The evening will include cocktails, a multi-course dinner, entertainment, and live and silent auctions for fabulous artworks, vacations, and experiences.
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Rafael Blanco reflects on the murals he has reimagined for this exhibition, and his experiences as an artist creating public murals across the United States. Blanco sees rejection as integral to life’s experiences, especially the life of an artist. He will share insights into how he transforms rejection into success that empowers him as an artist to imagine new visions for his work.
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Magic & Imaginary Realms presents selections from the Elmhurst Art Museum’s Collection with works by artists who share uniquely inventive perceptions of the world around us - or who invent worlds we are invited to inhabit.
This peek into the collection draws inspiration from the whimsical worlds of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and Someplace Else, created by Fred Rogers and continued into today's PBS KIDS show Donkey Hodie, showcased in the Museum's main galleries.
Here, we present visions of the strange and magical by artists working in a variety of media and representing a broad range of dates and approaches. Included are the completely made-up beings in works by Peter Max and Sonia Delaunay, mystical interior spaces created by Phillip Hansen, oddly revealing juxtapositions framed by photographer Caroline Allison, or the bizarre collision of worlds experienced by Rebecca Keller whilst standing at a photocopy machine, presented to us on a shoe.
The small selection of artworks presented here is indicative of the range and depth of the EAM Collection which includes works by local and regional artists together with those of international acclaim.
Artists:
Anonymous Japanese artist, Caroline Allison, Nikki Renee Anderson, Tarrant Clements, Sonia Delaunay, Philip Hansen, Sophia Harmon, Rebecca Keller, Kimberly Kopp, Aleš Lamr, Miles Lowry, Peter Max, Hollis Sigler, Nicholas Sistler, Buzz Spector, and Junsuke Watarai
Curated by Liz Chilsen, assistance from Holly Goodwin, Ana Rosaslanda, Karen Lecker & Stefania Camaci.
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In celebration of Rafael Blanco’s works as a public artist, families are invited to fabricate a mural with various media on their own mini paper “wall.” Participants can adapt large-scale techniques to a smaller scale.
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Mural artist Rafael Blanco leads a tour of his solo exhibition to explore how he reimagined rejected mural designs from cities across the country to create new works for this exhibition. Blanco offers insights into his personal journey turning refusal into renewal by using rejection as a motivation.
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Elmhurst Art Museum celebrates the winter holidays with a visit from Santa and art activities such as card-making and creating festive decor in honor of the season.
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Curated by Liz Chilsen.
Image credit: Michael Tropea, Railroad Yard, Chicago. From Landscape Portfolio, 1979-1981.
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Interim Director of the Elmhurst Art Museum Ann Quinn Kelly says, “It will be an honor for the Elmhurst Art Museum to host this extraordinary group of artists. Their work is diverse in focus and technique. Together, the exhibition will raise meaningful considerations about our multifaceted relationship with land and how it sustains us.”
Highlights of the exhibition include Ciurej and Lochman’s Processed Views: Surveying the Industrial Landscape, a series which interprets the frontier of industrial food production and the alarming intersection of nature and technology. Also featured is Ciurej and Lochman’s Recipes for Disaster, a 68-page book of recipes that address the dangers of the climate crisis.
Chinese-born, Chicago-based artist Chunbo Zhang explores cultural influences and differences between Chinese and American cultures by looking at food presentation. Her seductive watercolors of American staples, such as Chicago deep dish pizza and burgers, critically examine American consumption.
Osage artist Lydia Cheshewalla presents intricate collages constructed of seeds. Her multifaceted, land-based practice shows a gentle care for the landscape, inspiring viewers to approach nature with curiosity and to take restorative actions for the earth.
Claire Pentecost interrogates the imaginative and institutional structures that organize divisions of knowledge, focusing on nature, artificiality, and food systems. In Our Bodies Our Soils, Penatecost collects soil samples from a wide variety of farms and presents them in jars reminiscent of apothecary inventories or pharmaceutical processes, addressing the state of our soils and its intersection with health.
Tomiko Jones presents These Grand Places, multimedia collages that incorporate archival pigment prints, platinotypes, tri-color gum prints, cyanotypes, handwritten text, video, artifacts and performance. This series looks at public land as sites of trauma instigated by the immeasurable, but palpable, effects of human activity and climate crisis.
Finally, a tandem exhibition in Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House on the museum campus presents photographs from the Elmhurst Art Museum collection, including black and white photographs by Chicago photographers Joe Jachna (American, 1935-2016) and Michael Tropea selected from a gift to the Museum from the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation. Jachna's photographs depict the landscape in abstract compositions which impart a mysterious or otherworldly sense, while photographs by Michael Tropea capture industrial views of sites along the Mississippi River.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Liz Chilsen leads the Exhibitions and Collections programs at the Elmhurst Art Museum. She has organized over 50 exhibitions, including at the Chicago City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, Chicago Transit Authority’s InTransit Gallery, and at Columbia College Chicago among others. She is founder of “Lessons of Place,” a long-term photography project that explores human relationship to place. For over two decades she taught in the Departments of Photography, Humanities, and Journalism at Columbia College Chicago. She holds an MFA in Photography, and a BS-Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Image: Tomiko Jones, These Grand Places. Digital Image collage: BW photograph with cyanotype overlay. 2020. Dimensions variable
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Exhibiting artists Lydia Cheshewalla, Barbara Ciurej, Claire Pentecost, and Chunbo Zhangwill share insights into their work in an informal conversation and exhibition walk-through. Audiences can take a deep dive into the artists’ perspectives on their relationship with the earth with brief presentations followed by a Q&A.
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The Seldoms, a contemporary Chicago-based dance troupe, perform excerpts from three celebrated works: Floe (2020), GRASS (2021), and Superbloom (2023). Inspired by themes of the museum’s current exhibition Sustenance & Land, such as climate, nature, and transformation, these innovative works are followed by a lively discussion with the dancers. The program includes light bites, beverages, and exhibition viewing.
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In this hands-on, sensory workshop with soil scientist and ecologist Nance Klehm of Social Ecologies, participants can touch, smell, examine, and learn to ‘read’ many different soils, sands, and clays gathered from many places in the Midwest. This collective reading will dig into themes from the museum’s current exhibition Sustenance & Land and offer expanded appreciation and insight into the soil beneath our feet.
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Inspired by works on view in Sustenance & Land, this collage-making workshop will recycle images of food to create whimsical landscapes. From 1:00 - 1:30 pm, exhibiting artists Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman will give a short introduction to their process and share works by other artists who have used art and food to express myriad views of the world, followed by drop-in, hands-on making from 1:30 - 4:00 pm.
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In celebration of National Poetry Month, the museum presents an evening of poetry reading and making that explores the themes of its current exhibition Sustenance & Land. Participants will first listen to poems exploring the intersection of who we are and the food that sustains us, then be guided by Elmhurst University professor Dr. Ann Frank Wake to write poems about foods that are meaningful to them.
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Saturdays, April 12 & 19, 1-4pm
Adults & Teens (Ages 15+)
Fee: $108
Explore composition style and learn to edit your work to create stunning artwork based on natural patterns. This class will entail drawing from nature, and will explore ways to abstract these compositions into multiple studies.
Known for his graphic compositions utilizing silhouettes and organic patterning, artist Jason Watts will instruct on processes including ways to begin a painting and how to deconstruct and rearrange one’s thoughts to make a painting dynamic and contemporary. The final artwork will be suitable for display as a multiple-panel composition.
Painting experience is helpful but not necessary.
Members receive 15% off art classes! Want to become a member? Visit our website to learn more and register!
Contact membership@elmhurstartmuseum.org or call 630-834-0202 for your Member discount code to receive 15% off at checkout.
For questions call 630-834-0202 or email education@elmhurstartmuseum.org
Refunds will not be accepted within 48 hrs of the start of this program. $12 administration fee is charged for all refunds requests before 48 hrs of the start of this program. No refund or credit will be provided for time that a student may miss.
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The Chicago-based artist has been making public murals and sculptures for over thirty years. Bold thick lines and generalized, flat shapes common in graphic illustration define his unique and playful sculptural style. Williams often researches and highlights little known or forgotten narratives in history to make his sculptures, paintings and murals, which offer new perspectives on the engineering innovations of the past and how they impact contemporary culture. The works are also a tribute to Black achievement in transportation and agriculture throughout American history. Pilot Bessie Coleman, NASCAR driver Wendell Scott, and the recent Black Farmers’ Settlement are some of the histories being honored in this exhibition. For Elmhurst, Williams also recognizes the lifetime achievements of the local NASCAR winner, Fred Lorenzen (1934-2024).
CROSSINGS runs concurrently with the exhibition Legacies: New Views of the Elmhurst Art Collection, which features Williams’ small sculptures from the collection of Cleve Carney, along with dozens of other artists in the Museum’s collection.
Curated by Allison Peters Quinn.
Image: Bernard Williams, Route 27, painted plywood, aluminum, 6 x 6 x 20 feet. Photography by Michelle W.C. Anderson
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Patterns in Nature: Painting a Multi Panel Composition
Saturdays, April 12 & 19, 1-4pm
Adults & Teens (Ages 15+)
Fee: $108
Explore composition style and learn to edit your work to create stunning artwork based on natural patterns. This class will entail drawing from nature, and will explore ways to abstract these compositions into multiple studies.
Known for his graphic compositions utilizing silhouettes and organic patterning, artist Jason Watts will instruct on processes including ways to begin a painting and how to deconstruct and rearrange one’s thoughts to make a painting dynamic and contemporary. The final artwork will be suitable for display as a multiple-panel composition.
Painting experience is helpful but not necessary.
Members receive 15% off art classes! Want to become a member? Visit our website to learn more and register!
Contact membership@elmhurstartmuseum.org or call 630-834-0202 for your Member discount code to receive 15% off at checkout.
For questions call 630-834-0202 or email education@elmhurstartmuseum.org
Refunds will not be accepted within 48 hrs of the start of this program. $12 administration fee is charged for all refunds requests before 48 hrs of the start of this program. No refund or credit will be provided for time that a student may miss.
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As part of the current exhibition Sustenance & Land, visitors are invited to create a mosaic inspired by the practice of exhibiting artist Lydia Cheshewalla, who will discuss the importance of meditative attention in her work and the nature of creating ephemeral artworks. Cheshewalla will lead a hands-on workshop for participants to use seeds and other natural materials to explore our relationships to the land.
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Art in Wilder Park features a preview of CROSSINGS, a solo exhibition of sculptures by acclaimed Chicago artist Bernard Williams exploring history of Black achievements in transportation and agriculture
In partnership with the Elmhurst Park District, theElmhurst Art Museum announces the return of Art in Wilder Park to the heart of Elmhurst this spring. One of the first outdoor festivals of the season, Art in Wilder Park features over 130 exhibitors including local artists, food vendors, a designated Kids Court for family activities, and more. The free-to-the-public event annually attracts over 8,000 people to the museum campus and takes place May 3-4, 2025, from 10 am to 5 pm, at 175 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst.
The highly-anticipated juried festival Art in Wilder Park features a variety of artisans selling one-of-a-kind jewelry, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, fiber arts, and mouth-watering treats from local food vendors. The festival offers fun for the whole family with engaging activities and creative art projects made in collaboration with partner organizations.
A visitor highlight of the 28th annual Art in Wilder Park is a preview of CROSSINGS, a solo exhibition of acclaimed Chicago-based artist Bernard Williams that will traverse the Museum’s campus this summer. On view during Art in Wilder Park will be several outdoor vehicle sculptures and an airplane sculpture inside the Museum’s Hostetler Gallery that will be free for the public to view. Several large paintings by Williams will be installed in the McCormick House in tandem with the opening of the Museum’s summer exhibition, Legacies: Selections from the Elmhurst Art Museum Permanent Collection (May 30 to August 17, 2025).
CROSSINGS is curated by Allison Peters Quinn, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Elmhurst Art Museum since December 2024.
Quinn says, “Williams’s compelling artworks give fresh perspectives on form, space, and common materials and will provide Elmhurst residents and visitors an opportunity to engage with cutting-edge art in an accessible, public setting. CROSSINGS highlights Elmhurst Art Museum’s commitment to fostering creativity and connecting artists with the community and vice versa, adding thought-provoking contemporary art to the draw of Art in Wilder Park this year.“
Art in Wilder Park is produced by the Elmhurst Art Museum in partnership with Elmhurst Park District. Presenting sponsor Kelly Stetler | Compass. Festival sponsors: All American Gutter Protection, Chiro One Wellness Centers, Discover DuPage, Enjoy Illinois Explore Elmhurst, Great American Exteriors, The Home Improvement Network,, and Renewal by Andersen Windows. Special Event Sponsors: Chicago Event Graphics and Unlimited Heating & Cooling. Sculpture Sponsors: Community Bank of Elmhurst, Lakeside Bank, Wangler and Company, and WinTrust Bank of Elmhurst.
ABOUT CROSSINGS
A Chicago native who has been making and exhibiting his art since 1990, Williams is celebrated for his public murals, sculptures, and paintings that highlight little-known or forgotten narratives in history. For CROSSINGS, Williams takes visitors on a journey through the history of Black achievements in transportation and agriculture.
“CROSSINGS is in my mind a far-reaching exploration of American history and culture. The artworks venture into the past and present to open up conversations about important individuals and ideas which can inform and inspire us today,” says Williams.
In CROSSINGS, Williams explores the concept of mobility—not just as physical movement forward, but as the human aspiration to rise to better circumstances.One of the sculptures is a race car, honoring Wendell Scott, the first Black man to win a NASCAR premier league event. Across the body of the car sculpture, Williams paints site-specific symbolism— for Elmhurst, the artist will recognize the lifetime achievements of the local NASCAR winner, Fred Lorenzen (1934-2024).
A highlight of the exhibition is a large, fabricated tractor in homage to the strength, power, and labor of African American farmers in the US. Titled Black Tractor (2020), the tractor memorializes Williams’s uncle, an Alabama-based farmer who distributed money from the Black Farmers Settlement to his relatives and funded Williams’s art practice with a small inheritance.
Two new sculptures resembling signposts will also be unveiled in CROSSINGS. One signpost will celebrate the achievements of Black cowboys in shaping the American West after the Civil War, tying into the agricultural history presented inBlack Tractor. The second sculpture honors Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman pilot and a trailblazer who created opportunities for other Black pilots in the early 1900s. This sculpture accompanies Williams’s new, life-sized airplane sculpture, which will be presented in the Hostetler Gallery inside the Museum.
CROSSINGS is generously supported by Lakeside Bank and Explore Elmhurst with important contributions from Community Bank of Elmhurst, Elmhurst Bank/WinTrust, and Wangler and Company, Inc.
ABOUT BERNARD WILLIAMS
Williams is celebrated as a painter and sculptor both regionally and nationally. He has been awarded an Illinois Arts Council Grant and the Artadia Award. His work has been featured at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson (MS), The African-American Museum in Dallas (TX), Chicago Cultural Center, Kohler Art Center, and The Eiteljorg Museum of Native American and Western Art (IN), among other institutions. Public sculptures and murals by Williams are spread throughout the Chicagoland area, including a permanent sculpture for the Chicago Transit Authority, the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, University Park, IL, Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, and several works for the Chicago Park District, one notable installation located at 31st Street beach in Bronzeville. Williams holds a BFA Degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and an MFA from Northwestern University. He also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (ME). Williams taught art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1991-2003 and has been an active member of the Chicago Public Art Group for nearly thirty years.
ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM’S SUMMER EXHIBITIONS
CROSSINGS will run concurrently with the major exhibition Legacies: Selections from the Elmhurst Art Collection, which will feature a small sculpture by Williams from the collection of Cleve Carney, along with dozens of artists in the Museum’s collection from Marc Chagall and Mies van der Rohe to Kay Rosen and Michiko Itatani.
Comprised of approximately 1,000 artworks, the Elmhurst Art Museum Collection began in the 1990s and focuses on modern and contemporary art works by Midwestern artists, architects, and designers that have exhibited at the museum, and furniture design items related to the McCormick House. Many of the people who donated their work to the Museum are Elmhurst community members or from Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Legacies: Selections from the Elmhurst Art Museum Permanent Collection will feature micro installations of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from nearly a dozen collections donated to the Museum to explore the nature of collecting; how and why the work was collected by these families, artists, or individuals.
Led by the Museum’s curatorial team, Legacies: Selections from the Elmhurst Art Museum Permanent Collection will be accompanied by a lively program of music, film, talks, and tours to address collecting practices and access to collections, while inspiring people to build collections.
ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regular admission prices are $18 for Adults (ages 18+), $15 for Seniors, $10 for Students, and $5 for Children. For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
Legacies: Selections from the Elmhurst Art Museum Permanent Collection features dozens of artists from Salvador Dali and Mies van der Rohe to Kay Rosen and Michiko Itatani drawn from the Elmhurst Art Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition explores the relationships between artists, collectors, and museums that lead to larger, ongoing narratives connecting people across time and place.
A regional center of 20th century American Art and Midcentury Design, the Elmhurst Art Museum Collection began in the 1990s and now includes approximately 1,000 works drawn from over 200 collections or donors, with a focus on modern and contemporary art works by Midwestern artists, architects, and designers that have exhibited at the museum, and furniture design items related to McCormick House.
The exhibition will feature micro installations of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from over a dozen collections donated to the Museum, and includes local, regional, national, and international artists.
This Fall, the Elmhurst Art Museum presents Shakkei: Work by Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust, the first major museum exhibition for Chicago-based artists Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust. Lake and Faust are mutually inspired by the Japanese principle of Shakkei (“borrowed scenery”), a design philosophy that incorporates organic features and architectural designs. The artists’ kaleidoscopic works use color and pattern to create immersive optical experiences, interpreting the Eastern concept broadly as a metaphor for empathy, adaptability, and the ability to hold multiple viewpoints simultaneously. The exhibition will feature recent large-scale artworks by Lake and Faust in separate galleries, as well as a collaborative new work combining their design languages. The exhibition is curated by Liz Chilsen, Manager of Exhibitions & Collections, and will be on view at the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst, from September 4, 2025 to January 4, 2026.
For this exhibition, each artist will bring their own perspective to the concept of Shakkei, reflecting their unique experiences and history. While Lake’s imagery is based on the symbolic floral motifs found in antique Japanese girls’ kimonos, Faust often incorporates the surroundings of the project or exhibition venue into his “wallworks,” creating site-specific perspectives manipulated from digital photographs. The dialogue between artists addresses the intersection of the patterns of everyday life and cultural and social histories.
Shakkei opening reception begins September 5 at 6PM with VIP & Members preview. Doors to the public open at 7PM.
Jazz concert with Yoko Noge 7:30-8:30.
FREE for Members, RSVP here.
Non-members can purchase tickets online.
SHAKKEI RECEPTION TICKETS & INFO
Allison Peters Quinn, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Elmhurst Art Museum, said, “Shakkei highlights cross-cultural exchange by showcasing Japanese principles of landscape design and its influence on contemporary art and architecture. The artists are longtime admirers of each other’s work and decided to collaborate for the first time on a new installation for this show.” She added, “Inspired by our McCormick House designed by Mies van der Rohe, Mayumi and Bob have pushed themselves to consider how their work creates vistas and portals that heighten our understanding of the world around us. We are excited to be the first to present this incredible blend of art practices rooted in nature, pattern, and play, that turn the everyday into an extraordinary, immersive sculptural experience.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Working in the space between art and design, Bob Faust crafts artwork with typography at its core and viscerality on its surface. Faust has over 30 years of experience as the principle and creative director of the eponymously named cultural branding studio, Faust. He makes his work with purpose first—to inform, empower and/or instigate in the service and celebration of human difference. Text, patterns, and the ideas of surprise and discovery emerge as throughlines throughout his conceptual art practice that defies categorization and genre. Faust has been recognized nationally and internationally for his inimitable creativity through many prestigious honors including a University of Illinois, College of Fine & Applied Arts, 2022 Distinguished Legacy Award and City of Chicago, 2022 Mayor’s Medal of Honor. Exhibitions have included Mass MoCA BY The Numb3r5 (Mass MoCA), For And Nor But Or Yet So (Poetry Foundation), WA/ONDER (167 Green), with all, and still... (The Peninsula Chicago), Rapt on the Mile (The Magnificent Mile Association), Ways and Means (Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and The Chicago Transit Authority), About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art (Wrightwood 659), Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container (Chicago Design Museum), guilty / Innocent (MASS MoCA); Unfolded: Made with Paper (Chicago Design Museum), Betweens (Riverside Arts Center), and CHGO DSGN (Chicago Cultural Center). In addition to his own work, Faust is also the professional and personal partner of artist Nick Cave. Together they founded the non-for-profit Facility: a multi-use creative space in Chicago that seeks to build community and change the world through art and design.
Mayumi Lake is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores the ideas of time, memory, and floating between the real and imaginary. With a foundation in photography, she integrates digital images of nature and Japanese textiles into her collages, sculpture, sound, moving images, and installation to expand the narrative of the work and form conceptual layers. Lake’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, Asia Society, Art in General, and Artists Space in New York; Chicago Artists Coalition and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City; Fotografie Forum International in Frankfurt; Cornelius Pleser Galerie in Munich; Galleria PaciArte in Brescia; FOTOAMERICA in Santiago; Witzenhausen Gallery in Amsterdam; and the Setouchi Triennale in Takamatsu. She has published two monographs, Poo-Chi and Ex Post Facto, with Nazraeli Press. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Art Institute of Chicago, Asia Society, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)/City of Chicago, the McCormick Place Art Collection/Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA), Video Art World, the Joy of Giving Something Foundation, and Facebook. Lake received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Shakkei: Work by Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust is presented as part of the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Running September 19, 2025 - February 28, 2026 at locations throughout Chicago, SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change explores timely global issues through the lens of architecture and design. Learn more at chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org
This exhibition is sponsored by Wintrust Bank with additional support from the Illinois Arts Council, Discover DuPage, Enjoy Illinois and anonymous donors.
ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regular admission prices are $18 for adults (ages 18+), $15 for seniors, $10 for students, and $5 for children. For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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The artists will share their thoughts about how the Shakkei principle has informed their artmaking and their process of collaboration for this exhibition.
SHAKKEI: Artist Talk & Exhibition Tour
Saturday, September 13
1:00-2:30pm
Included with museum admission. Members are free
SHAKKEI ARTISTS TOUR OF EXHIBITION
On September 21 from 1:00-2:00pm, join expert guest docent Bobbi Pinkert from the Chicago Architecture Center for a special McCormick House tour in celebration of the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. As a self-named “archiholic,” Bobbi Pinkert has been a CAC docent since 1999. She is the leader of many tours including the First Lady, Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise. Pinkert will share her expertise about the McCormick House, Mies van der Rohe, and modernist architecture.
The McCormick House is a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. It is one of only three free-standing residences designed and built by Mies in the United States--and one of only two open to the public.
Advance tickets recommended due to limited capacity. Tours are free for members (please call the museum to reserve your ticket 630-834-0202 ex 13 ). Tickets for non-members are available online.
Aces & Art: A Night of Luck & Giving at Elmhurst Art Museum
Tickets: $150-$175
Join us for Aces & Art: A Night of Luck and Giving at the Elmhurst Art Museum on Saturday, October 25, 2025 from 7:00-11:00 pm for an evening filled with style, and a touch of casino-night fun — all in support of the museum’s exhibitions and education programs.
The evening includes:
• Gaming tables of roulette, blackjack, craps, and more--put the fun in FUNdraising!
• Complimentary cocktails & heavy hors d'oeuvres
• DJ and dancing
• Raffles, artful prizes & surprises
Whether you're feeling lucky or just love a night out surrounded by creativity, this is the can't-miss event of the season!
Tickets available for $150 per person until September 15th - price increases to $175 per person on September 16th!
Special thanks to the Aces & Art Committee: Jen Blanchette, Alina Cahill, Kristi Bieber Gibbs, Christina Kanno, Kierstin Madda, Karen O'Keefe, Kate Subramanian, Karon Sullivan, Christina Witt
Can't make the event? Please consider supporting us, so that we can continue to make the power of art accessible and to sustain our ongoing efforts of programming for audiences of all ages through art, education, and architecture. We thank you!
This Winter, the Elmhurst Art Museum presents Living with Modernism: Kelli Connell. Presenting two series by the Chicago-based artist, Connell’s nationally traveling exhibition Pictures for Charis responds to the iconic photographs of Highland Park-born artist Edward Weston through a queer, feminist lens. Her second major body of work—Double Life—explores the evolution of intimate relationships shaped by the changing nature of identity over time, and features new commissions responding to the architecture of the Mies van der Rohe-designed McCormick House. The exhibition marks the largest presentation of Connell’s work in Chicago, placing queerness, power structures, and shifting ecologies in the twenty-first century in conversation with two giants of modernism.
The exhibition is curated by Allison Peters Quinn, Executive Director and Chief Curator, and will be on view at the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst, from January 24 to April 27, 2026.
Peters Quinn says, “The Elmhurst Art Museum is honored to present the arresting photographs of nationally acclaimed photographer Kelli Connell in the Chicagoland area, where she has rooted her art practice and mentored dozens of artists for over a decade. Following its extensive US tour, we have expanded the Pictures for Charis exhibition to include an additional series, Double Life by Connell. Connell’s commitment to exploring the everyday moments in relationships with ourselves and loved ones encourages us to cherish both the beautiful and the difficult times in our lives. Chicago is a crucial center for contemporary photography, and we are proud to highlight this through Living with Modernism.”
An exhibition in two parts, Connell explores the psyche of human relationships and our connection to nature and architecture. The main galleries will feature 45 photographs from her series Pictures for Charis, a tender and emotional sequence of work placing Connell in dialogue with one of the most innovative American photographers of the 20th Century, Edward Weston (1886-1958).
For this body of work, Connell revisited the sites of Weston’s black-and-white landscapes and portraits of his partner of 11 years, writer Charis Wilson, in California and the West (1934-45), to photograph her own former longtime partner, artist Betsy Odom. Connell’s work is presented alongside 48 original prints by Weston on loan from the Center for Creative Photography (Tuscon) and text excerpts from Charis. Shining new light on Weston’s subject, Charis, the installation bridges eighty years of ecological and social shifts with a feminist perspective.
The McCormick House gallery features the latest chapter in Connell’s ongoing series Double Life, which the artist began in 2002. For this series, Connell explores long-term relationships with others and the self. The digital images document the fictional relationship of two women, both played by collaborator Kiba Jacobson. Connell describes Double Life as “an honest representation of the fluidity of the self in regard to decisions about intimate relationships, sexuality, gender, family, belief systems, and lifestyle options.”
For Living with Modernism, the Elmhurst Art Museum commissioned Connell to respond to the architecture of McCormick House designed by Mies van der Rohe. Connell chose to photograph the site - and incorporate poetry from its former owner Isabella Gardner (niece of the Boston arts patron by the same name) - to generate new works adding to the perpetual Double Life narrative.
Connell says, “I am beyond thrilled to show Pictures for Charis and Double Life together at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Both projects portray my commitment to uncovering forgotten histories. Making new work in the McCormick House, a space where the work will also be shown, was a unique opportunity for me to think about architecture and its impact on people and the relationships we have with each other in these spaces.”
Pictures for Charis is co-organized by the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, at the University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona Board of Regents; the Cleveland Museum of Art; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Pictures for Charis is curated for each museum by Rebecca Senf, Ph.D., Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, at the University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona Board of Regents; Barbara Tannenbaum, Ph.D, Curator of Photography and Chair of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Cleveland Museum of Art; and Gregory J. Harris, the Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta and Allison Peters Quinn, Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Elmhurst Art Museum.
This project is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Photographs by Edward Weston are courtesy of the Edward Weston Archive at the Center for Creative Photography. Additional support for Living with Modernism and related programs are provided by the Illinois Arts Council and individual donors.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kelli Connell (b. 1974) is a photographer based in Chicago. Through her images, she addresses issues of sexuality, identity, and self-perception. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications include Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture and Center for Creative Photography, March 2024), PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice(Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships and residencies from The Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work, and The Center for Creative Photography.
ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regular admission prices are $18 for adults (ages 18+), $15 for seniors, $10 for students, and $5 for children. For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
Images Kelli Connell, Surf, Point Lobos, 2015, courtesy the artist.
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The only festival of its kind hosted by an art museum, Art in Wilder Park features over 130 booths showcasing unique, handcrafted treasures including jewelry, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, photography, and fiber arts created by talented Midwest artists. Visitors can enjoy a variety of artisan food vendors, a dedicated Kids Court with creative hands-on activities, and community partner and sponsor displays, all set against the picturesque backdrop of Elmhurst’s Wilder Park. The free-to-the-public event annually attracts over 7,000 people to the museum campus and takes place rain or shine, Saturday to Sunday, May 2-3, 2026, from 10 am to 5 pm, at 175 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst.
A new offering in 2026 is the addition of an Emerging Artist Pavilion that taps into the talent of the Chicagoland area, including the hundreds of artists coming out of prestigious college and university programs each year. Artists featured in the festival will be selected by jurors Fatima Hendricks, Manager of Exhibitions & Residencies at Chicago Artists’ Coalition, and Whitney Bradshaw, Curator at Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, IN.
Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Elmhurst Art Museum Allison Peters Quinn says, “Art in Wilder Park feels like a hometown hug in the spring. It is the best time of year to support diverse artists, eat delicious food, and let the kids run around. This year, we are excited to partner with other regional art institutions to open the door even wider to emerging artists, and connect their work and ideas to our local communities.”
Art in Wilder Park is produced by the Elmhurst Art Museum in partnership with Elmhurst Park District. Presenting sponsor Kelly Stetler | Compass. Festival sponsors: All American Gutter Protection, Chiro One Wellness Centers, Discover DuPage, Enjoy Illinois Explore Elmhurst, Great American Exteriors, The Home Improvement Network,, and Renewal by Andersen Windows. Special Event Sponsors: Chicago Event Graphics and Unlimited Heating & Cooling. Sculpture Sponsors: Community Bank of Elmhurst, Lakeside Bank, Wangler and Company, and WinTrust Bank of Elmhurst.
ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.
The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regular admission prices are $18 for Adults (ages 18+), $15 for Seniors, $10 for Students, and $5 for Children. For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
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Meet the artists, mingle with friends, and enjoy light refreshments. The reception will include a brief “Small Acts of Magic” performance by Jeanette Andrews exploring along with the audience the nature of perception and her research-based practice.
6:00 pm - Early access for Museum Members and exhibition VIPs
7:00 pm - Ticketed Entry for non-members
7:30 pm - Performance by Jeanette Andrews. - One night only!
On Wonder: Jeanette Andrews is made possible with support from Arts DuPage/DuPage Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and individual donors. Support for Near Eternity: Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford is from Lakeside Bank, and through grants from Indiana University Northwest and the JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation.
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Hulsebos-Spofford is a sculptor and assistant professor of sculpture at Indiana University Northwest. He is also a co-director and founder of the collective Floating Museum, and co-curator of the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Through his large plaster and silicon sculptures, he reinterprets modern monuments and classical sculptures as glitched assemblages. Although many of his works evoke ancient art history, Hulsebos-Spofford’s pieces are rooted in modernist aesthetics and its relevance in the everyday experience.
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Her first solo museum exhibition, On Wonder, Mind, & Magic will present interactive and site-specific works including installation, sculpture, video, sound, and performance, alongside new work developed while Artist in Residence at MIT’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology in 2024-25. Curated by Liz Chilsen, Manager of Exhibitions & Collections, the exhibition represents a return home for Andrews, who cites EAM as an early influence in her pursuit of a career honing her technical skills and applying magic and sensory illusion techniques to create artworks.
Andrews has presented numerous commissioned works with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, as well as for the Quebec City Biennial and Boca Raton Museum of Art, presented talks for Cooper Hewitt, Chicago Ideas Week, The British Society of Aesthetics, and universities, including Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard. She has held residencies with the Institute for Art and Olfaction and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston and is a former National Arts Club Artist Fellow and Affiliate of metaLAB at Harvard. She was a 2024-2025 Visiting Artist for the Center for Art, Science and Technology at MIT and the current visiting artist for the Arts Institute at Brown University.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 6-8pm.
Your $25 ticket includes full gallery access, drinks, and light bites, while building support for a new Teen Art Program at Elmhurst Art Museum.
This program empowers local teens to explore contemporary art beyond the classroom, connect with peers, and see themselves as part of a creative community. Through hands-on experiences and exposure to working artists and art careers, participants don’t just learn about art, they create it, share it, and lead with it. Together, we’re building a space where teens can: Connect with peers in an inclusive environment, Learn from contemporary artists and ideas, Create and share their own work, Lead by shaping a final showcase of their vision. Come raise a glass and help shape the future of art!
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Visit the museum to meet and create art with exhibiting artist Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford. Jeremiah will speak about his sculptures and his practice, and then guide participants through art-making inspired by his work. Included with museum admission. Members are free. This event is made possible through a grant from the JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation.
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This collaborative abstract painting workshop is all about experimentation, exploration, and shared creation. Through a mix of individual exercises and large-scale collective works, you’ll embrace surprise, let go of control, and learn to respond to instinct, emotion, and movement rather than technical perfection. Step out of your head... and into the chaos! You can sign up for summer art camps and summer classes on our website. If cost is an obstacle, apply for a scholarship for a class or camp!
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