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The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
Located in the heart of Highland Park, IL, The Center's vision is to be a cultural destination that inspires and ignites a passion for the arts; providing a forum for self-expression, dialogue, and community engagement.
Image: View of artist Nicole Gordon's exhibition in The Art Center's main gallery, photo credit Tom Van Eynde.
The Art Center's massive annual showcase of recycled and rediscovered artwork.
We are proud to announce that the 2026 Recycled Art Sale will be bigger, and filled with more treasures, than ever before.
Over the last year, donors have dropped off a record number of donations. The art at Recycled is carefully curated and priced to be affordable. Make sure you get your ticket for opening night below, or join us during the week of the sale for free.
First Look Entry:
Friday, Oct 16 | 5 pm
Opening Night Event:
Friday, Oct 16 | 6 pm
Opening Weekend
Saturday, Oct 17 | 10 am – 4 pm
Sunday, Oct 18 | 12 pm – 4 pm
Free Entry:
Monday, Oct 19 – Saturday, Oct 24
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\r\n\r\nThe 6th annual art contest open to Highland Park elementary, middle, and high school students and Highland Park resident adults (18+). The finalists and winners works will be on Exhibition in January at The Art Center - Highland Park. This exhibition is sponsored by The City of Highland Park, the Highland Park Cultural Arts Commission and The Art Center-Highland Park.
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\r\n\r\nThe 6th Annual Art Contest open to Highland Park elementary, middle, and high school students and Highland Park resident adults (18+). The finalists and winners works will be on Exhibition in January at The Art Center - Highland Park. This exhibition is sponsored by The City of Highland Park, the Highland Park Cultural Arts Commission and The Art Center-Highland Park.
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\r\n\r\nThe graphic look of hand-carved woodblock prints make perfect greeting cards. Students will learn to use carving tools & printmaking inks, using both the printing press and hand-rubbing techniques to fnish a beautiful set of handmade note cards. All levels welcome!
\r\n\r\nTAC Members $56 / Non-Members $76
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\r\n\r\nA Community outreach exhibition featuring the talented student artists of North Shore School District’s 112 elementary and middle schools and District 113-Highland Park High School & Deerfield High School.
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\r\n\r\nDistrict 113 on view February 4-14, 2017
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\r\n\r\nYou will be fascinated while learning the different techniques of working with this amazing state of the art material. Knowledge and skill will be acquired which will enable you to produce a wonderful piece of art of your own creation. All tools and materials will be supplied. No experience necessary.
\r\n\r\nTAC Members $45 / Non-Members $65
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\r\n\r\nSally Edelstein, Karen Gutfreund, Penny Mateer, Sinan Revell, Debra Thompson, Linda Vallejo and Margi Weir. This exhibition examines the current political climate in regards to social justice with works that address issues of social justice, stimulate dialog on truth, justice and the American Way. The topics and issues shown within the artist works are vast: racism, sexism, classicism, sexuality, gender identity, immigration, poverty, the environment, violence, and the ongoing wars. The work is unified by topic, with “embedded messages” running throughout. Curated by Karen Gutfreund.
\r\n\r\n
Opening reception: Friday, March 4, 6:30-9:00pm
\r\n\r\nBeneath the Surface is a juried exhibition using encaustic techniques, revealing the multifaceted layers to express messages. The meanings are sublime and often subtle taking on a quiet reverie. Requires the viewer to take time to find what is beneath the surface. Curated by Caren Helene Rudman.
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Instructor: Laura Mae Noble
\r\n\r\nIn this workshop, terrarium designer Laura Mae Noble (of Noble Terraria, available at Owen and Alchemy and West Elm Chicago), will give you the basics of design and care. Terrariums are enclosed glass vessels planted with small plants and moss, decorated with layers of sand, stones and soil, and even special colorful stones or miniatures. You’ll go home with a beautiful medium-sized terrarium little green world you create yourself! Terrariums make great gifts, and this workshop is great for couples, friends, families, and people looking to meet others and have some creative fun. Great for beginners and experienced terrarium makers alike.
\r\n\r\nAll supplies provided by instructor to create your terrarium, $25 of workshop cost is for supplies.
\r\n\r\nTAC Members $60 / Non-Members $80
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Sunday, August 6, 2-4:30pm
\r\n\r\nThe American Jewish Artists Club Annual Award exhibition will display members work addressing the themeSeeing Things in a New Light, artists will show their personal interpretations. A short statement by the artists will accompany the artwork, thus making the exhibit even more interesting.
\r\n\r\nThe American Jewish Artists Club has a long-standing commitment to the promotion of notable talent in the arts, and has exhibited widely in the Chicago area in a multitude of venues. The club encourages its members to exhibit work of varied content and personal style. Works of many of its members, who are Illinois artists, can be found in private, national and International collections.
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Our multifaceted event includes:
Performance by Michael Birnbaum’s musical group, Border Crossing Collective
Q&A with contributing artists Kelly Mathews’ Project Resist Fear
Performance Artist Patricia RAIN Gianneschi
And artists Erin Kaya and Suzette Bross.
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“Whenever I visit classes in session I’m impressed with the work being created by our students, and of course are faculty is made up of some of the best professional artists in the area”, says Executive Director James M. Lynch. “I’ve only seen a preview of the work so far, but it’s really something to look forward to”.
Featured Artists (at time of press release): Tobi Abrams, Bonnie Arkin, Jody Berns, Sandra Blank, Donna Bliss, Margaret Buchen, Stephen Butzlaff, Kathryn Butzlaff, Will Butzlaff, Zoe Carlson, Linny Coale Freeman, Winifred Courtland, Rieny G. Cualoping, Susan Dorn, Jill Dunbar, Nona Flores, Tim Flynn, Jonathan Friedman, Ravid Friedman, Jeanne Garrett, Marilyn Hollander, Tatijana Jacenkiw, Judith Joseph, Alexis Kanarek, Jan Keller Schultz, Jill Kolker, Jamie Kost, Jacqueline Kott-Wolle, Emma Kowalenko, Ellyn Lanz, Patricia Larson, Anne Leuck, Boruch Lev, Rino Liberatore, Terry Luc, Linda Lutz, Elyse Martin, Liber Morales, Robbi Montgomery, Abby Neumann, Tracy Ostmann Haschke, Amy Perlmutter, David Robbin, Trude S. Roselle, Ann Rosen, Karen Ross, Susan M Ruder, Caren Helene Rudman, Debra Katz Sampson, Peggy Schutze Shearn, Terry Schwartz, Laurence J Segil, Regina Siske, Judy Solomon, Cheryl Steiger, Mindy Tiberi, Verna Todd, Robert Tolchin, Stephanie Welter, Samantha Younis, Robin Zweig.
Winter classes start that same week, with the first sessions on January 7th, and nearly 20% of classes are new, including: Lightroom Basic and Introduction to Exposure (photography), Multi-Level Mosaics with Broken China, Intro to Steel Fabrication (jewelry), Hands On for younger artists (9-13), Creating Vector Graphics with Adobe Illustrator, The Art of Calligraphy and Decorative Borders, Relief Printing for Fabrics, Portraiture Through the Eyes of the Masters, and more.
Registration is online at https://theartcenterhp.org/registration-2/, and the catalogue can be browsed at https://theartcenterhp.org/winter-catalog-coming-soon/. Drop in registrations are available Monday through Friday, 9-5, and Saturdays till 3:30, or are taken by phone at 847-432-1888.
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The Art Center Highland Park (TACHP) presents a juried exhibition of work that reaches beyond the traditional concept of a self-portrait. With over 75 entries, our guest jurors, Judy Norris and Suzette Bross, chose art that reflects interpretations of the self-portrait theme . In today’s obsession with “Selfies,” we found that often artists push the boundaries of self-expression and representation.
Congratulations Artists: Cosima Aryee, Jooeun Bae, Hayley Bean, Ina Beierle, Jody Berns, Claire Brassell, Kandi Champagne Cook, Samuel Fisch, Lauren Geenen, Patricia RAIN Gianneschi, Candi Hall, David Hauptschein, Steve Juras, Mary Krebs Smyth, Al Krueger, David Kutz, Anne Leuck, Terry Luc, Ara Lucia, Julie Ludwick, Andrew Maxedon, Janet McNulty, Te Moore, Karena Nelson, Anna Redwine, Tamzin J. Richie, Tara Riley, Anne Rowell, Karmel Sabri, Rana Sadek, Anita Seltzer, Heather Sepanik, Ali Seradge, Erin Smego, Karen Smith, Mark Stafford, Kerra Taylor, Gale Trausch, Nikki Vismara, Ashley Young
Guest Jurors: Judy Norris & Suzette Bross
In the East Gallery: Express Your Selfie @ TAC
TACHP facilitates an interactive self-portrait activity, initiated by Director of Education, Mindy Tiberi. Visitors to the gallery will have the opportunity to create their own self-portrait to add to our walls.
Cortesi Gallery: PhotoVoice
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TACHP teams with the Highland Park Police Department and Edgewood Middle School, inspired by the International Program, Photovoice, to combine photography with social change and self-portraiture. The HP police has asked students at Edgewood to create a photograph to reveal what a healthy life means to them. “It’s all about choices. Students are faced with making choices every day. The most important choices they are faced with often have an impact on their health and well-being.”
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Artist Talk with Judy Norris: March 15, 2019, 5:00pm
TACHP exhibits two Chicago artists who explore the representation of self and others through art. Judy Norris has been painting for fifty years, with a prolific collection of works often reflecting her own life. As a kind of visual diary, there is a complexity between herself and viewer as her self portraits do not look us in the eye, but rather she turns her back to us, leading us further into her private world. By Contrast, Suzette Bross’ For the Glass, transforms the traditional portrait by turning a digital flatbed scanner into a contemporary version of the photographic plate. “Meditating on the tradition of portraiture, Bross mimics the sharp details and imperfections in the surfaces of 19th-century studio portraits. Her relationship with her subjects becomes a performative act of photographing.” By pushing technology into the past, Bross creates an intimacy with her subjects, including herself through her own self portrait. Together, their work exemplifies a commonality of self expression seen through very different lenses.
Judy Norris is a Chicago based artist explores the self, identity, and relationships to family. She is inspired by personal tales, the environment, and cultures around the world. Her work embodies much from her own life, including a series and book dealing with the sense of grief from the loss of her son. Her self portraits defy the usual expectations of defining the self with a sense of humor and realism tied together.
Suzette Bross is a photographer living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the New Britain Museum of American Art, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and more. With an MFA from the Institute of Design at IIT, Bross has taught at Columbia College Chicago, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and the Northwestern University Medical School. Her work has been exhibited internationally and across the United States. Her series, For the Glass, was featured in solo exhibitions at the Chicago Artists Coalition and Lehman Arts Center in North Andover, MA, Geary Contemporary booth at EXPO Chicago 2016, and as the first exhibition in the Chicago Google Artist Initiative. The series pushes the boundaries of portraiture.
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Visceral Dance Chicago,a contemporary dance company dedicated to a bold and progressive world of movement, and labeled by Chicago Stage Standard as a \"strong force in the contemporary sphere\", will be featured in TACHP’s first event of their new series, Sunday Art Salon. The free event will feature live performances by members of the company and a discussion on the process of choreography with Visceral’s Founder and Artistic Director Nick Pupillo.
Reservations are suggested: https://www.facebook.com/events/411777489632314
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Wendy Abrams
Wendy Abrams is an environmental activist and founder of Cool Globes, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of climate change. Cool Globes originated as a project stemming from the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006 and has grown internationally, traveling to 16 cities on four continents and translated into nine languages.
Jacqueline Chilow:
Jacqueline Chilow has over 15 years of planning special events both for her own company and for the last 10 year as the Director of Events for The Art Center of Highland Park (TACHP). Jacqueline has varied experience in being the creative force behind each event and watching each detail to ensure success. The Annual Spring Benefit this year celebrates her 10th anniversary planning and running this event as the major fundraiser for the TACHP.
BENEFIT CO-CHAIRS: Marla Gilbert and Deborah Hall
EXHIBITION OPENINGS: Solo exhibition of artist Bert Leveille | enLIGHTen
Bert Leveille will create site specific art installations exploring consciousness. Bert implements an full experiential component to her work, using light and sound to intensify the experience. “Streaming reflections” includes large-scale paintings which complete the stage’s transformation into an “alternate” world where the dancing figure seems to flow through light.
enLIGHTen is a group exhibition exploring how is light defined in reference to art? Some artists manipulate the elements of light through shades of colors, overlapping, and shaping, creating the illusion of light. Other artists use the idea of consciousness as a vehicle for bringing light into their art and their surroundings. The exhibition reflects the many values of LIGHT both literally and spiritually.
*Early Bird Single Benefit ticket price $175 and $150 for under 40 by April 20, 2019
For more information on becoming a Sponsor, call 847.432.1888 or email Donna Bliss: dbliss@theartcenterhp.org
For more information on Benefit, call 847.432.1888 or email Jacqueline Chilow: JChilow@TheArtCenterHP.org
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Congratulations artists: Joanna Aslanian, Jody Berns, Erin Bliss, Curtis Bozif, Wind Flow Photography (Candace Wark, Shirley Nannini), Laura Cerf-Dahl, Michael DeLuca, Richard Forsland, Jonathan Friedman, Lauren Geenen, Patricia RAIN Gianneschi, Susan Holtz, Alexis Kanarek, Jennifer Keyser, Deanna Krueger, Jenny Learner, Cynthia Lee, Jeffrey McMahon, Beth Peterson, Thomas Pickarski, Sarah Shotola, Jessica Smit Mattingly, Carrie Stapleton, Laura Stoecker, David Thomas, Mindy Tiberi, Mark Weidling, Ja Min Yie
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TACHP is proud to exhibit Bert Leveille’s “Streaming Reflections” in the Main Gallery.
A contemporary Chicago area artist with a Harvard, Starline studio, she creates art and art installations exploring consciousness. Collaborations include Shawn Coyle who, inspired by Leveille’s imaginative large scale art and 15 foot tunnel, choreographed the dance “Tunnel”. A collaboration with Angela Swan and Cellmod on Sept 11, 2015 evolved into a moving tribute to 911. Leveille’s mediums include video, animation, LED colored changing lighting, materials and canvas, and acrylic paint. Each installation offers a unique experience for the artist and the art viewer. bertleveille.com
Image: Bert Leveille (Guest Juror)
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Susan Smith Trees is a sculptor who has exhibited throughout the United States for the past 25 years. She is known for creating installations, wall reliefs, and floor works in a wide range of materials including thermoplastic, polyurethene, cast bronze and resin. Trees has won numerous awards including the Artists Program Grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and commissions from the Open Lands Association of Lake Forest, Il. She has been represented by Gallery H in Three Oaks, Michigan and her work has appeared in “Calculated Leap” by Teresa Devine, “Sculpture Invasion 2016” published by the Koehnline Museum of Art, and “Strong Exhibits for a February Spring” the Paul Klein Art Letter. Her sculptures and drawings are included in private collections throughout the United States. She currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. susansmithtrees.com
Michelle Stone is a veteran Chicago artist, best known for her constructed, impasto, painted, acrylic sculptures. Stone builds hybrid shapes hovering between figure and abstraction. Various sized forms crawl on walls, and floors, at times developing into elaborate installations and menageries. In addition to sculpture, she creates portraits, paintings, and drawings that explore relationships, evolving along a wide spectrum of the human condition. Stone has shown widely, is affiliated with Ceres Gallery, NYC, Chicago Sculpture International, and Dialogue Chicago, has a studio in Chicago with Cornelia Building Artists, and lives in Chicago. michellestoneart.com
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Guest jurors: Susan Smith Trees and Michelle Stone (images above) with a concurrent exhibition in the Main Gallery, Undercurrents.
Congratulations to artists: Jeff Baenen, Heather Brammeier, Susan Chertkow, Eva Marie Fitzsimmons, Jeanne Garrett, Lauren Geenen, Lisa Holzl, Suzanne Horwitz, Judith Joseph, Alexis Kanarek, Jill Kolker, Mary Krebs Smyth, Mara Krumins, Jacqueline Moses (image), Scott A. Mossman, Daniel Oliver (image), Raul Ortiz, Emily Papale, Lewis Rice, Lilach Schrag, Anne Smith Stephan, Jane Stevens, Kevin Swallow, Mark Charles Weidling
Susan Smith Trees is a sculptor who has exhibited throughout the United States for the past 25 years. She has created installations, wall reliefs and floor works in addition to pen and ink drawings. Her pieces are melted and stained with pigment, wrapped over rocks, marred with crevices and punctures and rolled and kneaded into limbs and organic figurations. Her career has involved working in multiple materials including thermoplastic, polyurethene, cast bronze and resin. Manipulation of materials are her touchstone to experimentation and the unknown. Trees has won numerous awards including the Artists Program Grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and commissions from the Open Lands Association of Lake Forest, IL. She has been represented by Gallery H in Three Oaks, Michigan and her works have appeared in “Calculated Leap” by Teresa Devine, “Sculpture Invasion 2015 published by the Koehnline Museum of Art, and “Strong Exhibits for a February Spring” the Paul Klein Art Letter. She is affiliated with the International Sculpture Center, the Chicago Artists Coalition, Arts Alliance Illinois, Dialogue Chicago and Woman Made Gallery. Her sculptures and drawings are included in private collections throughout the United States. She currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. susansmithtrees.com
Michelle Stone is a veteran Chicago artist, best known for her constructed, impasto, painted, acrylic sculptures. Stone builds hybrid shapes hovering between figure and abstraction. Various sized forms crawl on walls, and floors, at times developing into elaborate installations and menageries. In addition to sculpture, she creates portraits, paintings, and drawings that explore relationships, evolving along a wide spectrum of the human condition. Stone has shown widely, is affiliated with Ceres Gallery, NYC, Chicago Sculpture International, and Dialogue Chicago, has a studio in Chicago with Cornelia Building Artists, and lives in Chicago. michellestoneart.com
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$5 suggested donation to The Art Center Highland Park and open to the public, the Art Center Festival of Fine Arts showcases the work of over 100 juried artists from around the world in a variety of mediums, including ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, painting, sculpture and more. In addition to the incredible artwork available for purchase, attendees will be able to interact with artists through demonstrations and booth chats. Live music, kid-friendly activities, will be available for visitors to enjoy.
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Attendees will enjoy great food from neighboring restaurants and live musical performances during the weekend-long festival. Attendees will also have the chance to interact with artists through live art demonstrations and booth chats, young artists can create works to take home at the Children’s Creation Station, and visitors will have the chance to win a free TAC course.
Proceeds help support TAC’s many programs.
TAC’s annual event is produced in conjunction with Amdur Productions
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Guest Jurors include; Rhonda K. Brown, Cesar Conde, and Sheri Rush
Call for entry deadline is extended to July 8th
How do we measure the impact of Color or Black and White? The Art Center Highland Park will be filling our galleries with these concurrent themes in one exhibition, highlighting the dichotomies between color and black and white in terms of art. A bold sense of color can elicit a certain response, while a black and white photograph may take us to another time and place. TACHP is searching for work whose use of color or lack thereof directs the content of the work. Color technique represents tone, feelings and emotions while the power of the work is dependent on and derived from its use even when color is absent. We will be looking for work that pushes the theme literally and symbolically, from color theory to race, from form to intention.
To Submit: https://theartcenterhp.org/future-exhibitions
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The Art Center Highland Park hosts a panel discussion, Engaging Diversity in the Arts, on Sunday, September 22, 2019, 2:00-4:00pm.
Panelists include moderator Gabrielle Lyon, PhD, Executive Director of the Illinois Humanities, and featured artists from our exhibition, IMPACT Color IMPACT Black and White, Rhonda K. Brown, Cesar Conde, and Caren Helene Rudman.
We invite the community to this free event to join the conversation about the need for and acceptance of inclusion and freedom of expression. TACHP hopes to bring people together with Impact Color Impact Black & White, by breaking down barriers of constraints racial and negative preconceptions of those who are seen as “different”.. We hope you all join our conversation bringing communities together to make an impact in a positive way.
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Presented in partnership with The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and the Chicago Cultural Alliance.
Image: Interior of The Art Center of Highland Park
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Enjoy innovative cocktails and exciting food truck fare, Friday, October 18th 2019 starting at 6 PM, The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL 60035.
Probably the most anticipated event of their year, The Art Center Highland Park once again hosts the Recycled Art Sale Benefit with an opening party on Friday, October 18th, with continuing dates through the 28th of October.
“This is our 31st Annual Recycled Event”, says Jackie Chilow, Director of Events at TACHP, “and may be our best Recycled event ever. We’ll have the fun opening event on the 18th, but for the next ten days we’ll continue the sale until we’re sold out. That means being open on Sundays and, by request, we’ll be open in the evening on Wednesday, October 22nd, till 9 PM.”
During the year TACHP accepts donations from private collectors, galleries, estates, corporate art collections and institutions. The variety of items is vast and high quality, including paintings, prints, ceramics, decorative objects, vintage posters, silver, antiques, sculpture, art glass, jewelry, and more, storing it all in an off-site facility. “This year”, says Chilow, “the storage facility was so overcrowded that we had to add a storage container behind the building and most of our closets are filled to bursting with great pieces.”
This much anticipated event kicks off with a semi-private party on Friday, October 18th, from 6-7 PM, with an admission price of $150 and a limited number of guests. “People get the VIP treatment and early access to these incredible bargains,” adds Chilow. General admission on the 18th starts at 7 PM with $85 tickets that include food truck access and open bars spread throughout the entire upper floor of the center.
“We basically shut down every gallery on the main floor for most of October”, adds Executive Director James M. Lynch, “for cleaning, sorting and cataloging this collection. And it’s worth it. In the past these events have contributed in excess of $50,000 to our operating budget and scholarship programs. Besides, the public loves this event for the amount of fun it holds. This year we wanted to make it even more special and that’s why we’ve added food trucks, an open bar, music and other fun perks.”
TACHP Curator Caren Helene Rudman helps to sort, price and organize the collection, but outside volunteers really make this event ‘the place to be in October’. Long-time HP residents Heidi Kirsch and Lori Korol (aka ‘The ArtChiks’) along with Liz Salinas of @ Properties have been working on this event as co-chairs for months in advance. “Heidi and I spend all year helping people find just the right piece of art for their home”, says Korol, “so this is like a ‘working vacation’ for us; but we both love and support TACHP’s mission. This is really a lot of fun for us and we get to work with lots of friends in the community.” Salinas adds, “It’s really amazing how excited the community gets about this event. People have been asking me for details for months and asking about volunteering to help.”
“October is Arts Month and recycling is such an urgent issue,” adds Kirsch, “so this event really hits the bullseye. This year there will even be a secondary event in collaboration with Go Green HP. Wednesday the 22nd, at 4:30 and 7PM, we’ll share ‘From Coastal Clean-up to Mindful Art: a creative and educational program that will include video, discussion, art and snacks’.”
$150 Preview Tickets on sale atwww.theartcenterhp.org/recycledartsale
$85 General Admission, Open Party in advance or $90 at the door.
Preview includes open bar, food trucks, desserts.
$5 Admission on Saturday, October 19, 9:00AM- 4PM through October 28.
For more information call 847-432-1888, or email info@theartcenterhp.org
To volunteer call Jackie Chilow, 847-432-1888
Sponsorship and underwriting opportunities still available: Donna Bliss, 847-432-1888
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“We have been granted incredible access by the family of the late Judith Roth,” says TACHP curator Caren Helene Rudman, “and it is an opportunity to share her warm spirit and her enthusiasm for life. Even more incredible is the family has authorized us to sell much of her work so that her legacy will carry on.”
For those who are not familiar with her work, Judith Roth was a revered Chicago artist, loving mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin, friend, and teacher; who passed away from cancer on February 9, 2019 at the age of 83. This selection of work from throughout her career sheds light into what makes each piece unique and special. For example, after years of studying the body, she was able to capture not just the form, but the nuance of a gesture and a moment in time in such a way as to make her style instantly recognizable.
The challenge to the arts community was to consider how our society often focuses on difference rather than similarity when it comes to religion. Rudman was inspired after a visit to a Tibetan Church in Singapore, where “I saw overlapping rituals similar to my own American Jewish Heritage.” Rudman selected guest juror and featured artist, Gabriela Levya, who addresses these challenges in her own installations, “This is the most extensive group of work I’ve displayed at TACHP and possibly the most meaningful for me as we find ourselves both profoundly alone and profoundly connected to everything.”
Born in Mexico City Levya moved to Chicago in 2012 and earned her Master’s in Human Development and Gestalt Psychotherapy. This exhibit allows her to once again mix her passions, psychology and art, to create pieces that invites the individual on a spiritual journey with its own message and story. Each image in her installation appears out of the darkness in a ghost-like way, as if the image floats in our minds like a memory or dream. From the deep calm, there is a ‘luminous clarity’.
With over two dozen contributing artists, this exhibit may serve to show that beyond religion, sect, or theism of any type (including ‘anti-’) there is more similarity than difference, more that unites than separates, and what better place to hold that conversation than in the ‘secular cathedral’ of an art gallery.
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In View opens on January 10, with an artist’s reception free and open to the public. Wine and food will be served, with no pre-registration required. The event starts at 5:30 PM and continues until 8:00 PM. Class and membership registration will be available during the event.
The exhibit continues through the end of the month, when the gallery changes over for Youth Art Month, featuring students in a ‘big show’ hosted by our local public school art teachers.
The Art Center Highland Park (TACHP) is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to education in the contemporary visual arts through classes, outreach programs, gallery exhibitions and events. Our vibrant arts community delivers on our promise “Making Art Available” to all.
TACHP is located at 1957 Sheridan Road in Highland Park, at the corner of Park Avenue and Sheridan Road, offers street parking, and is a short walk from the Central Avenue Metra Station.
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Bring your ideas to life by transforming them into three-dimensional works of art. Budding and seasoned artists will be guided toward developing concepts for their sculptures through exploring various mediums such as; twisted wire, fabrics, Plaster, Apoxy Clay, found/hardware store materials, stone carving and more... Demonstrations on a variety of mediums will be offered during the course.
MEMBERS: Use code MEMBERSHIP20 to receive $20 off. Want to become a member? Select \"Memberships\" above to join!
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For our second year, TACHP teams with the Highland Park Police Department and Edgewood Middle School, inspired by the International Program. Photovoice combines photography with social change and self-portraiture. The HP police asked students at Edgewood to create a photograph to reveal what a healthy life means to them. “It’s all about choices. Students are faced with making choices every day. The most important choices they are faced with often have an impact on their health and well-being.”Edgewood Students have joined in partnership with the Highland Park Police Department, and the Highland Park Art Center, in a PhotoVoice Art Gallery Event, showcasing student’s artwork and captions about Feeling Good!
Students have…..
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Closing Reception for PhotoVoice, Youth Art, & District 112 Exhibitions
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Guest Jurors: Marketa Sivek (image) and Collaboration Team: Anoush Bargamian and Thomas C. Buechele (image)
Who do we love and how do we define love? These selected artists illustrate the many ways artists express LOVE. Although not the first to appropriate the word LOVE, Robert Indiana’s famous LOVE sculpture in New York City, may be the most famous. As a society, who we love is constantly under debate, from our national policies to our cultural reactions to advertising.
When artists come together and work together something magical can happen. Our guest jurors, husband and wife collaborators take the definition of partnership to a new level. They selected work created by artists in collaboration, which implies an element of trust, partnership, and cooperation in order to achieve work that stands on its own merit made by more than one artist.
Together, TACHP has merged these two open calls, exhibiting the work side by side to express love and collaboration.
Czech born artist Marketa Sivek has been living and working in Chicago for over 20 years. Born under communist rule, the narrative of Ms. Sivek’s multifaceted work is deeply rooted in her childhood. Inspired by the relationship of the past to the present, the known vs. the unknown, the stillness and movement, Ms. Sivek’s work is focused on the emotion it evokes within the viewer, and the recurring theme of love, hope, peace and promise.
Established as one of the leading artists in the community, her work has been featured in Elle Decor, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur and other publications, as well as featured on the Rachael Ray Show and national television. Ms. Sivek has numerous private and corporate collectors in the U.S., England, Australia, the Nordic countries and elsewhere, and is part of the private collection of Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith as well as many others. (http://www.marketasivek.com)
Thomas C. Buechele, Artist/ Administrator, has lived and worked in Chicago for the last 33 years. He has maintained an active art practice along with his day job as the Vice President of Facilities and Campus Operations at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received his BFA in 1989 and MFA in 2017. In 2016, he co-published a book on the history of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been highlighted in Chicago Business and American Builders Quarterly. Thomas’s work is inspired by the beauty of motion and the allure of common materials. Evident in his works are the reoccurring sounds of background noises, that we tend to tune out. (tbuechele.myportfolio.com)
Anoush Bargamian was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, living and working in Chicago, Illinois. After attending Massachusetts College of Art/BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago/MFA and the University of Illinois Chicago/BFA, her work has been seen in many selected exhibitions. Anoush’s background in art history, painting, printmaking, design, typography, and color theory, greatly influences the conceptual and compositional characteristics in her work. She is inspired by nature, mosaic tiles, textures, patterns, free forms, organic lines, symbols of hope, Art Brut, and dreams. Experimental in material and process she has explored aspects of collaborative work that has further enriched her process. (www.sweetangst.com)
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Guest Jurors: Marketa Sivek (image) and Collaboration Team: Anoush Bargamian and Thomas C. Buechele (image)
Who do we love and how do we define love? These selected artists illustrate the many ways artists express LOVE. Although not the first to appropriate the word LOVE, Robert Indiana’s famous LOVE sculpture in New York City, may be the most famous. As a society, who we love is constantly under debate, from our national policies to our cultural reactions to advertising.
When artists come together and work together something magical can happen. Our guest jurors, husband and wife collaborators take the definition of partnership to a new level. They selected work created by artists in collaboration, which implies an element of trust, partnership, and cooperation in order to achieve work that stands on its own merit made by more than one artist.
Together, TACHP has merged these two open calls, exhibiting the work side by side to express love and collaboration.
Czech born artist Marketa Sivek has been living and working in Chicago for over 20 years. Born under communist rule, the narrative of Ms. Sivek’s multifaceted work is deeply rooted in her childhood. Inspired by the relationship of the past to the present, the known vs. the unknown, the stillness and movement, Ms. Sivek’s work is focused on the emotion it evokes within the viewer, and the recurring theme of love, hope, peace and promise.
Established as one of the leading artists in the community, her work has been featured in Elle Decor, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur and other publications, as well as featured on the Rachael Ray Show and national television. Ms. Sivek has numerous private and corporate collectors in the U.S., England, Australia, the Nordic countries and elsewhere, and is part of the private collection of Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith as well as many others. (http://www.marketasivek.com)
Thomas C. Buechele, Artist/ Administrator, has lived and worked in Chicago for the last 33 years. He has maintained an active art practice along with his day job as the Vice President of Facilities and Campus Operations at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received his BFA in 1989 and MFA in 2017. In 2016, he co-published a book on the history of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been highlighted in Chicago Business and American Builders Quarterly. Thomas’s work is inspired by the beauty of motion and the allure of common materials. Evident in his works are the reoccurring sounds of background noises, that we tend to tune out. (tbuechele.myportfolio.com)
Anoush Bargamian was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, living and working in Chicago, Illinois. After attending Massachusetts College of Art/BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago/MFA and the University of Illinois Chicago/BFA, her work has been seen in many selected exhibitions. Anoush’s background in art history, painting, printmaking, design, typography, and color theory, greatly influences the conceptual and compositional characteristics in her work. She is inspired by nature, mosaic tiles, textures, patterns, free forms, organic lines, symbols of hope, Art Brut, and dreams. Experimental in material and process she has explored aspects of collaborative work that has further enriched her process. (www.sweetangst.com)
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The Art Center Highland Park celebrates our 60 Anniversary with the theme ‘Celebrate the Future.’
As we face new challenges in our world, we are proud to present our first virtual Annual Spring Benefit. On May 14 - 16, 2020, we invite people to join our “party”, to view amazing virtual exhibitions, to bid on incredible artworks and silent auction items and take part in raffle for a gorgeous pair of diamond pendant earrings from Burdeen’s Jewelry. All proceeds support the educational programming, exhibits and events TACHP provides all year round.
Luckily, TACHP selected as the Arts Honoree, Ellen Sandor, new media artist and Founder/Director of the collaborative arts group (art)n. Ellen had been working on an exhibit to coincide with our event, Visualizing in a New Light. Fortunately, the ‘shadow’ of a virus could not block her bright light of creativity and genius as we move forward, taking our event and her exhibit into a virtual realm.
Ellen and her team, Azi (Azadeh) Gholizadeh and Diana Torres, completely redesigned their work to accommodate an online experience. As it turned out, there are no better partners under these circumstances and we are thrilled to continue to host our first ever virtual fundraiser, complete with an amazing virtual exhibit.
Viewed through the lens of today’s crisis, (art)n and Ellen Sandor’s work becomes more inspiring and relevant. Throughout her career, Ellen has worked with incredible groups of gifted artists, scientists, technologists and thinkers, resulting in intense collaborations, integrating other artforms, computer graphics, medicine and science. The intense content merged into totally new mediums, PHSColograms, which deal with topics from AIDS and Papilloma viruses, to breast cancer and autism.
Ellen’s work has been groundbreaking, and today she and (art)n have exceeded expectations as they have expanded their selected images to transcend the virtual and literal, the screen and brain, the image and observer. What she and her team share with us in this exhibit is the fulfillment of the possibility that the arts have to inform and influence other areas, science, medicine, with the courage to come at issues from an entirely new direction. They take us back into the gallery, perhaps not physically, but have managed to recreate the space for all of us to enter. Like a traditional exhibition, their incredible work informs, educates and especially entertains. By merging virtual art into a true experience, they also challenge and inspire us to all “Visualize in a New Light.”
Inspired by Ellen Sandor and (art)n, TACHP had planned a juried exhibition called Art & Science, and again have transformed the art into a virtual exhibition. Opening to view on our website on May 8 through June 13, our featured artists/ guest jurors, Olea Nova and Rajee Aryal, selected sixteen artists from across the country that highlight the relationship between art and science. Art & Science have always been interdependent, from the chemistry of paint, the theory of color, to the visualization, illustration, and imaging within the field of science and research. TACHP sought work that addresses how art and science intersect and the ways we can interpret and manifest this intersection using the many mediums available to artists. For example, Olea Nova borrows results and concepts of scientific research in theoretical physics and cognitive science which she then combines in one work as form, color, or process. Rajee Aryal merges coding into her work, taking photographs and transforming them into painting that redefine and expand the meaning of computer science.
Congratulations accepted artists:Laura Cerf-Dahl, Susan Holtz, Jamie Kost, Robert Krawczyk, D. Lammie-Hanson, Kaitlin Maloy, Ryota Matsumoto, Chris Myhr, Diane Nelson, Mary Nott, Lindsay Olson, CV Peterson, Howard Sandroff, Heather Sepanik, Corrina Sephora, David Joel Thomas
Together, Visualizing in a New Light, Art & Science, and our exciting Virtual Benefit, help TACHP celebrate the future by bridging knowledge and imagination. This theme takes on new meaning and relevance, illustrating the power that hart has as we face new challenges in today’s world.
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Although our physical galleries are closed, we continue to share the power of art virtually.
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Online Viewing for the Exhibition
As we face new challenges in our world, we are proud to present our first virtual Annual Spring Benefit. On May 14 - 16, 2020, we invite people to join our “party”, to view amazing virtual exhibitions, to bid on incredible artworks and silent auction items and take part in raffle for a gorgeous pair of diamond pendant earrings from Burdeen’s Jewelry. All proceeds support the educational programming, exhibits and events TACHP provides all year round.
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Enjoy Summer Art Camp in a Box
Runs Jun 15, 2020 - Aug 8, 5 days a week 9am-noon CST
Ages 5 - 17 yrs
8 weekly projects for all ages to experience the fun of summer art camp at home. Projects are taught by TACHP instructor, Ana Spencer, through prerecorded videos and can be completed with supplies provided by TACHP as well as a few supplemental materials found around your home.
Since the videos are prerecorded you can watch them and do your project at any time. Videos will be released weekly and remain available for the duration of the summer.
Each week the new project box containing supplies, a newsletter, and your video link (you will also receive the video link by email) will be available for pick up curbside at TACHP or can be mailed to you in two 4-week installments for $30.
Click here to find out what each week's project is and what is included in the box and sign up any time!
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The Art Center Highland Park (TACHP) put out a call for artwork made during the stay at home order, asking if it is still possible to connect through art and if so how? The seventy-three artists from twenty-two states throughout the US and one entrant from Russia, with over 160 works of art selected, express a range of ideas and emotions coming out of this time. As the guest juror, James Lynch, Executive Director TACHP noted, “The work in the exhibit reflects the varied filters that artists applied to this situation from landscapes to literal reflections and interpretations of the virus.” How artists and galleries share their work may have changed, but the need to share reactions to the world are vital and continue to thrive as seen in this powerful virtual exhibit.
View gallery here – most works available to purchase.
Image: Kate Glowinski – Present Fashion, $1,500.00, 2020, Acrylic on Gessoed Art Board, 18in x 24in
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Love & Collaboration in Photographs
Gina Grillo’s Class Exhibition
Image: Verna Todd
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Voices & Visions, Standing on the Bridge Between Health and Disease will be on display August 14 through September 26, 2020, at The Art Center Highland Park (TACHP). The seventh biennial exhibit of V&V with the theme that aims to express the many ways cancer can be interpreted, literally and symbolically. TAC invited artists to submit works that address issues pertaining to cancer, from fear and facing mortality to finding strength and building community. Whether a survivor, previvor, caregiver, or just someone that has been touched by cancer or the fear of it, this exhibit seeks to find meaning and put into context how pain and suffering can lead to empowerment and healing.
Caren Helene Rudman, Curator and juror: Caren Helene Rudman has been an artist and curator for over 25 years. She exhibits locally in Chicago and Nationally since 1992, after receiving her MA from NYU/ ICP a prestigious 56 credit program affiliated with the International Center of Photography. Since 2010, she has curated this biennial exhibition and with the sponsorship from Medline, a Chicago based medical supply company, the 2010 exhibit traveled nationally to affiliated cancer centers across the county. Her curatorial goals have been to build the conversation around how art has the ability to heal both the individual as well as the community.
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Project 2020 Together, Le Cheile is the new interactive children’s exhibit at The Art Center Highland Park. Children and parents are invited to view the exhibit, read the poems and stories, and see the art collected this past June in Ireland and Italy. Art supplies are available for children to create their own responses to the exhibit, or to COVID-19, and add them to the wall themselves. The walls also have blackboard paint so art can be added directly as the inspiration strikes.
“The exhibit comes to us from The Museum of Childhood Ireland”, says James M. Lynch, Executive Director of TAC and co-curator of this US premiere exhibit, “but they did it during total lockdown. We wanted to make it an interactive place, a location where children and parents could safely visit and have something fun and challenging to do”. Safety precautions are in full compliance with COVID-19 restrictions, with art tools only used once before sanitizing, for example.
Lauren Perlman, co-curator and Founder/CEO of national arts education program Mummies and Masterpieces, introduced the project to Lynch and TAC. “From its inception, this exhibit has bound us together through the words and pictures of children. It will continue to do so as it travels around the globe, inspiring and lending an eye and an ear to the voice of our younger members of society.” Selected works created by the visitors to the gallery will be included in future presentations. The final project will be a multi-national expression of children on the way the pandemic has affected them.
The exhibit was launched online on the 4th of June, 2020, by The Museum of Childhood, Ireland, and represents the work of children’s author Myra Zepf, international art curator, Jessica Boffa, MOCI Executive Director, Majella McAllister, and other volunteer advocates in the fields of child advocacy and arts programming.
TAC will follow all health and safety regulations to assure the safety of exhibit visitors, including accepting work from those who only view the exhibit online. All art supplies will be segregated after use and sanitized, as will all contact surfaces of the gallery, and masks will be required of all visitors.
Exhibit hours are Monday through Friday from 10-4, and Saturdays from 12-4, starting September 12 at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. The exhibit will continue through at least October 31st, with a possible extension. Entrance is free, though donations are requested to support costs of the exhibit. Access the exhibit by the Park Avenue door, on the south side of TAC. Street and public parking is available and TAC is only four blocks from the Central Avenue Metra Station.
Image credit: Yohaan, Aged 8, Mauritius
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Outdoor Artist Reception: September 11, 5:30- 8:00
Voices & Visions, Standing on the Bridge Between Health and Disease will be on display August 14 through September 26, 2020, at The Art Center Highland Park (TACHP). The seventh biennial exhibit of V&V with the theme that aims to express the many ways cancer can be interpreted, literally and symbolically. TAC invited artists to submit works that address issues pertaining to cancer, from fear and facing mortality to finding strength and building community. Whether a survivor, previvor, caregiver, or just someone that has been touched by cancer or the fear of it, this exhibit seeks to find meaning and put into context how pain and suffering can lead to empowerment and healing.
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Due to the effect of COVID-19 we were forced, sadly, to cancel our Festival of Fine Arts this past June. How awful would it be if we also had to cancel the Recycled Art Sale and Benefit? Well, we have a plan.
To assure the health and well-being of our community, and still be able to hold this community favorite event, this year we’re doing things differently. We are selecting 100-200 of our best pieces or art work, decorative objects, accessories and sculptures and sharing them in a tent on our front lawn with no more than 10 people allowed at a time.
Since we’re scaling back the event it is even more important that we ask you to consider being a sponsor or supporter. Please click on the Sponsorship Opportunities button for details on how you can help TAC in this difficult time.
VIP EARLY BIRD ENTRY – Thursday, October 1, 4-6:30 PM. Limited to 10 people: reservation only
Friday, October 2, 10 AM – 4 PM
Saturday, October 3, 10-4PM
Sunday, October 4, noon-4PM
Monday, October 5, 10-4
Tuesday, October 6, 10-6:30
Wednesday, October 7, 10-4
Thursday, October 8, 10-4, FINAL DAY
Reservations suggested for ALL DAYS AND TIMES
Walk ups will be wait-listed and admitted if there is room
Location: The Art Center Highland Park | 1957 Sheridan Road | Highland Park, ILBI
For more information contact: Jacqueline Chilow: jchilow@TheArtCenterHP.org or 847-432-1888
Events Committee chair: Marla Gilbert
Director of Events: Jackie Chilow
The Art Center Highland Park will be presenting an exhibition with the theme of the Day of the Dead, (el Día de los Muertos) a Mexican holiday where families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a brief reunion that includes the deceased favorite food, drink and music. A blend of Mesoamerican ritual, European religion and Spanish culture, the holiday is celebrated every year during All Souls Day and All Saints Day (November 1 & 2).
The exhibition includes prints from two portfolios published by Arceo Press: “Posada, 100 Year Legacy” and “Dia de Los Muertos, Common Ground.” TACHP also accepted submissions created by artists from the Chicago region and beyond who, through their paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, sculptures and installations, contribute to keeping alive this meaningful tradition.
Featured Artist/ Guest Juror: René Arceo
Born in Michoacán, Mexico, Arceo graduated with a fine arts degree and an art teacher certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With support from the Illinois Arts Council he promoted and exhibited his works in Mexico, France and Poland. In 2018, the Lucerne-Chicago Sister City awarded him an Art Residency in Lucern, Switzerland. Arceo lives in Chicago where he co-founded the Galeria Ink Works (1984-87) and the Mexican Printmaking Workshop (1990-96). He founded Arceo Press in 2005 to foster international collaborations among printmakers. He is currently a member of Mid America Print Alliance, Consejo Grafico Nacional (a national network of Latino print shops), Expressions Graphics and the Chicago Society of Artists.
Participating artists:
Per Anderson, Jose Agustin Andreu, Rene Arceo, Atlan Arceo-Witzl, Lisa Marie Barber, Carlos Barberena, Tomas Bringas, Catherine Cajandig, Mizraim Cardenas, Mario E Castillo, Juan De Dios Mora, Nicolas De Jesus, Alma Dominguez, Juan R Fuentes, Trinidad Gabriel, Liliana Gerardi, Celeste Jaime, Judith Joseph, Al Krueger, Javier Lara, Kim Laurel, Fulgencio Lazo, Poli Marichal, Rosanna Mark-Andreu, Antonio Martorell, Kristin Meller, Dolores Mercado, Oscar Moya, Veronique Murail, Mark Nelson, Francisco R. Onate, Angel Pahuamba, Hyunju Park, Marcela Ramirez, Rodrigo Tavera, John Weber, Kelly Witte
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These are dynamic times! Due to Covid 19, The Art Center Highland Park Galleries had to adjust our exhibits to accommodate a changing schedule. This kind of fluidity has distorted our perspectives and shaken our foundation, inspiring the theme, Of Time & Place. The work explores how the pandemic has changed our perspectives of how we pass time, where we quarantine, and with whom with create bubbles of contact. The galleries have been adjusted to adhere to spacial restrictions, defying the confines of our usual gallery places. As a result, the juror, Victoria Marchio, was able to include outdoor works and installations.
Many of the pieces in the exhibit suggests a fleeting, ungrounded and fragmented shift in our notions of shelter and time, while others reflect the ‘bubbles’ in both literal and symbolic ways. While the shelter in place may have lifted, the altered sense of life post-pandemic has continued to alter perceptions. Time has moved both quickly and slowly. There exists an uncertainty, however, at the same time, there remains a constant in the reality of a global shared experience. The individual experiences can be different, but the international existence of a shared experience becomes the history that shapes who we are as a culture. It is incumbent on artists to reflect our responses to our situations that help us form meaning.
The exhibit will also have a virtual component.
Guest juror and feature artist, Victoria Marchio
Congratulations to the following artists: Michael Banning, Alice Becker, Stephen Butzlaff, Jack Chernyakova-Itskovich, Vanessa Filley, Nona C. Flores, Katherine Gibson, Carol Hammerman, Merrilee Hepler, Deborah Hirshfield, Marilyn Hollander, Doina Iacob, Sebastien Johnson, Lisa Kinzelberg, Jill Kolker, Jamie Kost, Boruch Lev, Terry Luc, Raymond McKenzie, Daniel Oliver, Sandra Perlow, Kenneth Probst, Molly Rivera, Kathryn Rodrigues, Verna Todd, Paul Waters, Aaron Wilder, Sunny Yeung, Lisa Youngdahl, Samantha Younis.
Juror bio: Victoria Marchio from Highland Park, IL, is an award-winning published photographer. Her commercial art degree helps merge her love for photography, graphic design, and painting. The photo-transfer work is inspired by Picasso, Warhol and Rauschenberg. Through her use of personal photographs, her powerful statements reflect on the common themes from death, loss to personal development and growth. “I look at this type of artistic form as experimental, which allows me to focus on creating bold works showcasing my current emotions and beliefs.” She honors the “happy mistakes and surprises” that emerge out of the medium. She has participated in several solo art shows & group gallery exhibitions around the Chicago area.
A not-for-profit visual arts organization since 1960, The Art Center Highland Park, located at 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, provides arts education to Highland Park and its surrounding communities, assuring access to the arts for all ages and cultural interests. This vigorous community-centered organization inspires everyone from tots through seniors to achieve and transform their world through more than 450 art classes offered annually in photography, oil and acrylic painting, watercolor, pastel, mixed media painting, ceramics, jewelry making, metalsmithing, digital arts, fiber art, mosaics, assemblage and more.
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These are dynamic times! Due to Covid 19, The Art Center Highland Park Galleries had to adjust our exhibits to accommodate a changing schedule. This kind of fluidity has distorted our perspectives and shaken our foundation, inspiring the theme, Of Time & Place. The work explores how the pandemic has changed our perspectives of how we pass time, where we quarantine, and with whom with create bubbles of contact. The galleries have been adjusted to adhere to spacial restrictions, defying the confines of our usual gallery places. As a result, the juror, Victoria Marchio, was able to include outdoor works and installations.
Many of the pieces in the exhibit suggests a fleeting, ungrounded and fragmented shift in our notions of shelter and time, while others reflect the ‘bubbles’ in both literal and symbolic ways. While the shelter in place may have lifted, the altered sense of life post-pandemic has continued to alter perceptions. Time has moved both quickly and slowly. There exists an uncertainty, however, at the same time, there remains a constant in the reality of a global shared experience. The individual experiences can be different, but the international existence of a shared experience becomes the history that shapes who we are as a culture. It is incumbent on artists to reflect our responses to our situations that help us form meaning.
The exhibit will also have a virtual component.
Guest juror and feature artist, Victoria Marchio
Congratulations to the following artists: Michael Banning, Alice Becker, Stephen Butzlaff, Jack Chernyakova-Itskovich, Vanessa Filley, Nona C. Flores, Katherine Gibson, Carol Hammerman, Merrilee Hepler, Deborah Hirshfield, Marilyn Hollander, Doina Iacob, Sebastien Johnson, Lisa Kinzelberg, Jill Kolker, Jamie Kost, Boruch Lev, Terry Luc, Raymond McKenzie, Daniel Oliver, Sandra Perlow, Kenneth Probst, Molly Rivera, Kathryn Rodrigues, Verna Todd, Paul Waters, Aaron Wilder, Sunny Yeung, Lisa Youngdahl, Samantha Younis.
Juror bio: Victoria Marchio from Highland Park, IL, is an award-winning published photographer. Her commercial art degree helps merge her love for photography, graphic design, and painting. The photo-transfer work is inspired by Picasso, Warhol and Rauschenberg. Through her use of personal photographs, her powerful statements reflect on the common themes from death, loss to personal development and growth. “I look at this type of artistic form as experimental, which allows me to focus on creating bold works showcasing my current emotions and beliefs.” She honors the “happy mistakes and surprises” that emerge out of the medium. She has participated in several solo art shows & group gallery exhibitions around the Chicago area.
A not-for-profit visual arts organization since 1960, The Art Center Highland Park, located at 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, provides arts education to Highland Park and its surrounding communities, assuring access to the arts for all ages and cultural interests. This vigorous community-centered organization inspires everyone from tots through seniors to achieve and transform their world through more than 450 art classes offered annually in photography, oil and acrylic painting, watercolor, pastel, mixed media painting, ceramics, jewelry making, metalsmithing, digital arts, fiber art, mosaics, assemblage and more.
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The Art Center Highland Park is proud to present IN VIEW 2021. This year is anything but normal but TAC is proud to focus on our annual member/faculty exhibition, allowing us to highlight the creative energy that is at the heart of our community. With 50 artists represented, the wide range of mediums, techniques, subject matter and styles reflect the professionalism, talent and skill so prevalent at TACHP.
The work exhibited by our faculty is evidence of their abilities as well as the skills and passion instilled in their students who thrive in their classes. From ceramics to mosaics, from painting to mixed media, In View 2021 is a celebration of our mission, showcasing the incredible work that drives TAC to make art available to all. The engagement and inspiration of this exhibit echoes the hope for a better tomorrow.
Gallery hours are 10-4, Monday through Friday, and Saturdays, 12-4, but visitors to www.theartcenterhp.org can also view the exhibit through a virtual program. Individuals who might need special accommodation can arrange exhibit visits by calling 847-432-1888. TAC is located at 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL, 60035.
The art is for sale and some of the proceeds go to support programming at TAC.
The Art Center, a non-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
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In a polarized world, what does it mean to be an ‘us?’ Is it grouping people together personally, as in the us of our family or community? Or is it political, grouping us by party, by race, by gender, or by place of origin? Artists, Robin Powers and Susan Block, define US by connecting all people, everything. Their sense of form represented in their work is based on the commonality of the human condition.
TAC Galleries put out an open call searching for the juried exhibition, THEM: All People Everywhere. Featured artists/guest jurors, Susan Block and Robin Powers, selected from submission work that explores how systems of labeling “other” lead to systemic discrimation, racism and conflict. In this extremely divisive era, how do we overcome the “us versus them” mentality? What brings US together? Inspired by the call to action by Toni Morrison,
“This Is Precisely The Time When Artists Go To Work. There Is No Time For Despair, No Place For Self-pity, No Need For Silence, No Room For Fear. We Speak, We Write, We Do Language. That Is How Civilizations Heal.”
TAC Galleries are replacing the word versus with the conjunction AND in order to break down these kinds of divisions. Our hope is to redefine “other” or “them” to encompass a larger use of “us,” reflecting a more realistic mirror image, providing feedback of what is around us in a more inclusive representational way.
Susan Block and Robin Powers are featured artists and guest jurors.
Chicagoland native, Robin Power received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Her primary areas of study were Figure Sculpture and Drawing. She is an exhibiting and teaching artist. Currently Robin holds a faculty position at Stirling Hall Art Center in Lake Forest where she teaches Ceramic Figure Sculpture and Hand-building. “The underling theme of my work is about the human condition and our interconnectedness.”
Susan Block is an Artist/Stage Actress/Painter/ Sculptor. She holds an M F A from The Art Institute of Chicago. Susan has appeared in dozens of stage plays. She was nominated for best actress of the year for her performance as Martha in, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, by Edward Albee. Susan has shown her paintings nationally and internationally. She has had one person shows in galleries all over the United States. She has also had one-person shows in Europe; including across from the National Gallery in London and in Dublin. Susan has also shown her work in Paris. “I believe in the gift of being born in America. My work is always about breaking boundaries and being free.”
Contributing Artists: Kelly Burke, Lindsay Cronk, Faith Hagenhofer, Lisa Kinzelberg, John Kirkpatrick, Melissa Lampl, Tom LaPann, Jennifer Levine, Roberta Malkin, Elaine Miller, Tena Russ, Sarah Sipling, Cheryl Steiger, Nancy Wieting
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Artist Reception: May 21, 5:30 (TBD: Zoom or Outdoor Weather Permitting)
The Art Center Highland Park (TAC) is looking forward to bringing the community together for an ‘alive and well’ art experience. For the last year, we have been extending work outwards into the community, from virtual exhibits to art in our city-wide storefront windows. Now, we invite the talents of artists to fill our walls (and floors) with the many ephemeral art processes that span the range of impermanence.
The formal definition of ephemeral art includes, “art that only occurs once, like a happening, and cannot be embodied in any lasting object to be shown in a museum or gallery.” However, Curator Caren Helene Rudman and Executive Director James Lynch decided to take street art off the street and bring it into the galleries! The artists’ mediums in this unique exhibit may include art forms from chalk and graffiti, to video and performance, filling the center with art and energy.
With two Chicago locals, guest jurors/ featured artists, Victoria Fuller and Nate Baranowski, TAC searched for a broad interpretation of the theme as we expand our definition of ephemera to include art that reflects the transient nature of things existing in the natural world. It is not mandatory that work use ephemeral material. Instead, artists illustrate the theme by addressing the power of what is ephemeral, impermanent, and fleeting.
Street painter, muralist and fine artist, Nate Baranowski will be creating an on-site 3-dimensional wall-art mural, allowing the viewer to step into the space and document it with images. This type of art is usually reserved for the street, as we bridge the boundaries between inside and out. Award winning artist, Victoria Fuller, exhibits installations using appropriated and constructed objects symbolizing the natural world, along with the powerful “Bring Back the Extinct Northern White Rhino.” The inflatable sculpture of the extinct rhinoceros will both shock and amaze audiences as she reflects on the temporal nature of life itself.
Ephemera coincides with our annual benefit, Draw Together. Community members will have the opportunity to share in the exhibit, both within our galleries as well as extending into their own homes, by purchasing chalk art kits, spreading creativity and connection with chalk art!
The Art Center, a non-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages. The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities ot experience and participate in the arts.
For more information, contact James Lynch, Executive Director, or Caren Helene Rudman, curator, at 847-432-1888, info@theartcenterhp.org
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The Biggest Chalk Art Event in the History of Highland Park!
Saturday, May 8th, 2021, people all over Highland Park and surrounding communities are invited to create their own Chalk Art Masterpiece as part of The Art Center Highland Park’s Annual Spring Benefit Event, Draw Together. Chalk Art Kits, with a few added surprises enclosed, can be purchased via the event’s Virtual Giving Center: http://bidpal.net/drawtogether
“Even as we move to different levels of COVID health observance, we wanted to plan an event that would work for everyone, at any participation level they feel comfortable with,” says Events Committee and Board Member, Marla Gilbert. “You can draw together with your family on your own sidewalk or driveway, without leaving home. Or you can draw together with us at TAC where we’ll draw on the sidewalks of the center itself.”
During the live event, on Saturday, May 8, starting at 12:30, TAC will create a staggered time schedule for participants to create art with a safety ‘buffer’ of six feet. During the daytime event artist Nate Baranowski will be working on his own custom, perspective artwork, and visiting the various groups to give encouragement, and maybe a few tips and tricks, from a nationally recognized chalk pro.
“You don’t have to be here to participate, that’s what makes this even better, as we knew ahead of time that health and safety would be prominent in our planning,” says TAC Events Director, Jackie Chilow. “We’re inviting people to use their own driveways and sidewalks, wherever they are. We have already have commitments from participants in Ireland, Australia, Italy, Switzerland, and several US states. All of them will be sharing their completed images us via social media and this will be our biggest benefit ever.”
Draw Together is The Art Center’s Annual Benefit and Fundraiser. This is an important source of funding for over 400 art classes a year, student scholarships, a professional level Art Gallery, and other programs, all designed to provide a welcoming space for diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
How to participate:
· Buy an Official Draw Together Chalk Art Kit for $35* via the event’s Virtual Giving Center:http://bidpal.net/drawtogether. All sales go towards year-round programs at TAC. Share your completed images on social media using #tachp, or #drawtogetherTAC, and emailing to media@theartcenterhp.org
· Reserve a TAC Sidewalk Square to draw on during the daytime event on Saturday, May 8, from 12:30-3PM. Social distancing will be observed through scheduling and appointments. Entertainment during the event. Sidewalk Square includes one Official Draw Together Chalk Art Kit*: $45. http://bidpal.net/drawtogether
· Donate a Chalk Art Kit to a local not for profit group. TAC has selected local groups who will create sidewalk art together as a way to share their creativity and inspire others. Sponsors can purchase 10 kits for $250. https://theartcenterhp.org/spring-2021-benefit-sponsorship
More ideas: organize your neighbors and create block-long chalk art projects or donate in honor of someone in the community who has gone ‘above and beyond’ to support the community during this past difficult year of challenges. https://theartcenterhp.org/spring-2021-benefit-sponsorship
The Art Center Highland Park, a 501c3 not for profit organization, is in its 61st year as the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration.
More information, including details about the nighttime event of Draw Together is available athttps://theartcenterhp.org/events/benefit-2021
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TICKETS ARE LIMITED DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS, BUY NOW
Under the tent at TAC, we’ll host a live outdoor event with food, cocktails and music – plus some other surprises and treats. Guests will be able to preview the exciting and groundbreaking gallery exhibit, Ephemera: The Power of Impermanence, in a COVID-safe environment.
Top Image: “USS Caliente” oil on panel 30x60in. Renee McGinnis
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The Art Center Highland Park welcomes people back to live events – safely – with the scheduling of its summer series, Late Night at the Gallery. Starting with a Thursday evening concert on June 10th, 2021, 6-8 PM, TAC is inviting couples, families, individuals to picnic on the front lawn, where they’ll be entertained with a short concert, and then will have a chance to stroll through the galleries to view the exhibits
“We are taking advantage of the good weather that’s coming and also creating exhibit access for people who may be unable to get in here during our daytime gallery hours’, says Executive Director James M. Lynch. “Also, community building is our focus this year, especially after such a difficult year of separateness, and coming together to eat, listen to music, and look at art is a great, low key, way to achieve that.
For this first Late Night TAC is hosting a mini-concert with singer/songwriter Max Subar, who grew up in Highland Park. Subar writes songs that attempt to illuminate the unseen. Intimately expressing his inner self and placing honesty at the forefront of the process, his writing seeks companionship in the listener. His most recent release is a self-titled EP. Produced and recorded throughout 2019 with the close help of friends, the project juxtaposes his solo songwriting process on guitar with a wider palette of instruments and sound.
https://maxsubar.bandcamp.com/. The music and event is family friendly, but also suitable for ‘date night’.
Starting as early as 5 PM, people are invited to come to The Art Center, 1957 Sheridan Road in Highland Park, and set up for their picnic*. They will play recorded music until Max’s set, which will go from about 6:30 to 7 PM, and then the gallery will be open to view the current exhibit, Ephemera: The Power of Impermanence until 8 PM.
There is a small fee of $5 to reserve space on the lawn but there is no charge for entry to the galleries. Reservations are required and they can be found at: https://www.meetup.com/The-Art-Center-Highland-Park/events/278184307/
The Art Center Highland Park is in its 61st year providing a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
Reservations are required in order to manage space and safety/health. A small fee of $5 will be charged to offset costs.
*In case of rain we'll move everything inside!
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The second event in the new series, Late Night At the Galleries, will present the Highland Park Trio on Tuesday, July 13, from 6-8 PM. Bring a blanket, dinner, lawn chairs, and enjoy a Highland Park Strings Trio concert on the lawn at 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, before taking a walk through their latest exhibit, InterConnectivity.
The Highland Park Strings Trio consists of FRAN SHONFELD SHERMAN, the Co-Concertmaster of the Strings, Dr. JEROME TAXY, a member of the viola section, and Larry Block, Founder, General Manager, and Co-Principal Cellist. The Strings, called “the little miracle in Highland Park” by the Chicago Tribune, will begin its 43rd Season in October.
The Trio has been performing together for many years at Senior Centers and Retirement Homes plus on many occasions at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The Trio was honored to provide the music for Highland Park’s kick-off of its Sesquicentennial Celebrations and was featured recently in concerts and masterclasses in Highland Park’s Sister City—Puerto Vallarta.
The program for the Art Center event is called “The Magic Carpet”. It consists of light and well-known classics from around the world—perfect for a summer evening*.
PICNIC: Bring your own food or take advantage of a few offers! Bring in the receipt (same-day date) from a local business** and win a free raffle ticket!
Reservations are required to manage space and safety/health. A small fee of $5 will be charged to offset costs. Reserve at: https://www.meetup.com/The-Art-Center-Highland-Park/events/279157518/
The Art Center, a non-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all ages and levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts. For more information about programming contact info@theartcenterhp.org or call 847-432-1888.
*In case of rain, the event will move into the main gallery
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Free and Open to the Public.
When French surrealist, Renee Magritte famously wrote, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”) beneath the image of a pipe in 1929, he effectively connected words and images, creating a dialogue about the true ‘meaning’ of words in and about art that continues to this day.
In 2021 the constant barrage of words and images through social media, billboards, commercials, etc., forces us to question what we see, hear, and read. Words are carelessly 'vomited' at us without regard for their potential effect or truthfulness, often artlessly and without skill.
In the best of circumstances, contemporary art reflects life’s urgent societal issues while visual artists employ words/text with wordplay, polemics, meta-messaging, subverted advertising (Warhol, Banksy), appropriation, and by combining their images with poetry, music and/or video. The artist, therefore, is in a position to reinterpret words and text, to craft a message, to communicate ideas, ideals, social values and, hopefully, to inspire or provoke.
With ‘Words Matter’, The Art Center Highland Park sought art that exists in the intersection between visual art and language. The featured artist/ guest juror, Makeba Kadem-DuBose uses vintage newsprint as a form of activism by shedding light on the lack of “news” about women, especially those who had gone missing. She states, “stories of women positive or otherwise that were missing from the “official” media archives... America Me: Missing 1930s through 2021 is intended as an homage, an ongoing series in honor of, and to bring light to the many women who’ve gone missing, and those who’ve survived attempts to disappear us.``
From the more than 70 artists who submitted, 43 artists were selected to represent a wide interpretation of the theme. We hope you join us as we set the stage to build a ‘conversation about Words’.
“What do you read, my lord?”
“Words, words, words.”
Hamlet, Act II, Scene II
Guest Juror/ Featured Artist- Makeba Kedem-DuBose: Chicago native, Makeba Kedem-DuBose, is a multi-published, multidisciplinary artist, curator, arts educator, Creative Director, and former gallerist. She studied interior design at Harrington College of Design and completed a Visual Arts Certification Program in Curatorial Practices at the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies at Hyde Park Art Center in 2017. She is a career artist practicing throughout greater Chicagoland and has exhibited both nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Kedem-DuBose was recently nominated for the prestigious 3Arts Award, to be announced in November of 2021.
The Art Center, a non-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all ages and levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts. For more information contact info@theartcenterhp.org or call 847-432-1888.
Top Image: ‘America Me: Missing 1930s to Present’ by Makeba Kadem-DuBose; photo courtesy of the artist
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Visceral Dance, a contemporary dance company dedicated to a bold and progressive world of movement, will be part of The Art Center Highland Park’s Sunday Salon series on Sunday, August 15th, at 2 PM.
The program will be led by Visceral Artistic Director Nick Pupillo, who will discuss choreography, and include micro performances by featured members of the company.
Founded in 2013, Visceral Dance Chicago is a contemporary dance company dedicated to a bold and progressive world of movement. The company has developed a diverse and respected repertoire with works by distinguished choreographers Danielle Agami, Sidra Bell, Banning Bouldin, Mónica Cervantes, Marguerite Donlon, Brian Enos, Mark Godden, Robyn Mineko Williams, Harrison McEldowney, Fernando Melo, Ohad Naharin, Kevin ODay, and Pupillo. In 2015 they were named one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch. This will be the company’s second visit to TAC after last year’s event was canceled due to COVID.
“We are thrilled to have Nick and Visceral back at TAC,” says Executive Director James M Lynch, “There is something special about dance within a gallery environment and this will be a high point in our year”.
Admittance is free but audience size is limited to 50. Reservations can be made on MeetUp, using this link.
The Art Center, a non-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all ages and levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts. For more information about programming contactinfo@theartcenterhp.org or call 847-432-1888.
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The Art Center Highland Park in partnership with The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Arbor Terrace Highland Park is thrilled to be bringing the incredible work of internationally renowned Life Magazine Photographer, Henri Dauman, to our galleries.
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Henri’s photography documents some of the most important events and personalities of the 20th Century, from the Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Buddhist priests in Vietnam, and the Castro revolution. His images capture the American experience during the ’60s, 70’s and 80’s, producing iconic images for the covers of Time, Life Magazine, and various other publications. What is even more extraordinary about Henri Dauman is how he defied the odds as an American immigrant after surviving the horrors of the Holocaust.
Born in France, Dauman was only 9 when his father was taken by the Nazis to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he died that same year. Dauman and his mother escaped and hid for several years. His mother died when he was 14 leaving him an orphan. At 17, he was invited to New York City by his uncle. “He asked if I wanted to come and live in the United States, and I said, ‘Sure.’ I had been dreaming of New York, seeing it in the movies and photographs. It’s such a photographic city. It’s like a big movie set.”
Henri Dauman’s photographs have been featured in Paris, and in KP Projects Gallery in Los Angeles. A recent exhibition was organized by the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Susanne Katz curator, Henri Dauman, and KP Projects Gallery.
The Art Center Highland Park’s exhibition will be Henri’s premier exhibition in Illinois and we will be offering community events, including a question and answer with the artist as well as a screening of the documentary about Henri’s life, “Looking Up.” The documentary, produced by his granddaughter, Nicole Suerez, and directed by Peter Kenneth Jones, spans both Henri’s professional life as well as his journey back to France, reconciling the devastating effects of war and discrimination.
For More Information about Henri’s life and work
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For the 33rd year in a row The Art Center Highland Park has committed to sustainability by recycling artworks throughout the North Shore in the charming style of an upscale Parisian flea market for the community to enjoy. This year the Recycled Art Sale and Benefit will run from October 14th to 23rd; Monday through Saturday, 10am-4pm, and Sunday 12-4pm.
Imagine an upscale Parisian flea market buzzling with art pieces and vintage treasures for the lucky discoverers to keep and bring home! This is what will be happening under a large tent in the front lawn of The Art Center Highland Park, from October 14th to 23rd, 2021, Monday through Saturday, 10am-4pm, and Sunday, 12-4pm. The variety of items is vast and high quality, including paintings, prints, ceramics, decorative objects, vintage posters, silver, antiques, sculpture, art glass, jewelry, and more.
“In place of ending up in a garage or basement, thousands of beautiful art pieces that have been donated to The Art Center by private collectors, galleries, estates, corporate art collections and institutions throughout the year, will find new owners and homes,” says James M Lynch, TAC’s Executive Director. “We collect and store unwanted art donations throughout the year and then we invite the community to hunt for treasures, which we price fairly, with value in mind, and in the hopes of clearing our stock out entirely.”
It all starts with a ticketed VIP event on Thursday, the 14th. “We really want to make this an event about the community where people can have fun browsing through items, fall in love with art pieces, buy at amazing prices; all while enjoying music, feasting on food truck cuisine, sipping innovative cocktails, and chatting about rare art finds!” says TAC’s Director of Events Jackie Chilow. “After the end of the 10-day event we will share the quality remainders with charities like Community Partners for Affordable Housing, Designs for Dignity, and Chicago Furniture Bank; each of them will be donated a number of art pieces of their choice that will mostly help low income community members and families moving into supportive housing turn apartments into homes.”
The Recycled Art Sale Benefit includes an exclusive preview for sponsors and ticket holders on Thursday, October 14 at 5 pm, giving buyers access to pre-event purchases, followed by general admission at 6-9 pm.Preview tickets are $175, general admission tickets are $75, and they will all be available for purchase on TAC’s website at www.theartcenterhp.com from September 1, 2021. All the proceeds from this event help fund TAC’s mission and programming to ensure all members of the community have access to the arts.
Art donations can be dropped off Monday through Friday, from 10am to 4pm and there is a limited availability to pick up larger items. Sponsorships are available starting at $250 and can be arranged by phone, 847-432-1888, or email, info@theartcenterhp.org .
The Art Center, a non-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all ages and levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts. For more information about programming contact info@theartcenterhp.org or call 847-432-1888.
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Wilmette resident and Art Center Faculty member, Rino Liberatore, will showcase his documentary \"Iron Five\", chronicling the story of the 1963 Loyola Rambler Basketball Team, still the only school from Illinois to ever win the NCAA Championship in a game that shattered a racist barrier in college basketball.
In 1963 there was an unwritten rule in the NCAA prohibiting college teams to field more than two Black players at a time. Loyola's starting line-up had four Black players and one white player. See what happened when they braved threats, tradition, and bigotry in this amazing documentary about the game Time magazine called one of the mostimportant moments in college basketball history.
The film includes interviews with members of that celebrated team. \"Iron Five\" debuted at The Black Harvest Film Festival and aired on WGN-TV. It can only be seen at this special event on Thursday evening December 2nd at 7 PM at The Art Center, 1957 Sheridan Road in Highland Park. Advance tickets are now available for this screening.https://bit.ly/3kqmzxY
The Art Center, a non-profit organization, is the North Shore’s cultural destination that inspires and ignites passion for the arts; providing a forum for self-expression, dialog and community engagement.
The documentary lasts 22 minutes and will be preceded by a director's reel of archival work, and finish with a Q&A with the producer/director Liberatore. Question and Answer with the film's creator will follow the presentation.
For more info contact: Jlynch @theartcenterhp.org, 847-432-1888.
Proof of vaccination will be checked at the door and masks are required of all participants.
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Guest Juror and featured artist, Kelly Mathews, a Chicago artist has been awarded an Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, for her project; Being Bipolar in a Polarized World.
Kelly states, “Mental Illness can be tragic and heartbreaking. This exhibit is meant to celebrate those of us who see things a little different and offer you a peek into our world.” Her series, Trigger Wall, highlights the outside forces, images, and symbols that affect her reactions, while Dear Texas and Dear Supreme Court express her powerful reactions to current events.
The Galleries at TAC is proud to be the first to exhibit this profound work in conjunction with The Thin Line Exhibition, a juried call open creating a dialogue about the world of artistic expression, breaking stigmas, and celebrating difference.
Funding for exhibitions generously provided by The Jackie Sabath Exhibition Fund: Marla & Rich London and The Robby Norris Charitable Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council and The Highland Park Community Foundation.
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Join us on Friday, January 28th for our IN VIEW 2022 Artist Reception!
Reservations for this Event are Required! (Free)
The Art Center Highland Park is proud to present IN VIEW 2022. Our annual member/faculty exhibition allows us to highlight the creative energy that is at the heart of our community. With 95 artists represented, the wide range of mediums, techniques, subject matter and styles reflect the professionalism and skill so prevalent at The Art Center.
The exhibit moves from bold color to subtle textures, from large to small, from abstract to realism. Moreover, the work reveals the depth and diversity of talent that motivates and drives us as an incubator and ambassador for art on the Northshore and beyond.
Due to the current surge in COVID cases, we will be requiring advance reservations for this event. Reservations are free.
Entry times to the event will be staggered, with 40 people allowed in the gallery at a time.
Times of entry are:
We will ask visitors to leave the gallery once the time slot they reserved is over.
Masks are required to be worn at all times. VACCINATIONS REQUIRED. Please bring proof of vaccination. The Art Center will not be serving food or drinks.
Pictured: I Have No Memory, John Kirkpatrick
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Tuition - $35 (Member Discount Available)
Online
6:00 PM-8:00 PM CST
Join us for a one-day, online workshop with instructor Steven Fischer.
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Artist Cleveland Dean returns to The Art Center Highland Park.
Cleveland Dean may not be a household name like Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning, but Art Center curator Caren Helene Rudman is sure that will change, in part because it is already happening. “Cleveland is one of those artists whose work people stop in front of and say ‘Wow’. His work stands out in any show. Add to that how dynamic he is as a person, and you’ve got a superstar in the making”. His upcoming solo exhibit, February 18 through April 9, at The Art Center Highland Park, is an opportunity to be among the first gallery goers to see works specifically created for this exhibit alongside works from his stellar career to date.
Born and raised in the Chicago area, Cleveland is a multi-disciplined, self-taught visual artist. Eclectic and interested in everything from science to psychology, his often large scale work is awe inspiring. His active mind is reflected in his abstract work that includes painting, mixed media, sculpture, and installations. Using unusual methods and techniques including a wide variety of materials like salt, wood, fire, cardboard, metal, and ‘anything he can get his hands on’, he experiments with the materials, literally lighting the work on fire (seen on his Instagram). His passion for philosophy, psychology and religion add to his approach which all comes together presenting the viewer with a visual experience, a connection to the work that is accessible to them on several levels, intellectually, spiritually, and/or emotionally, but always as a ‘wow’, as Rudman describes.
“I have no interest in easy, recognizable, non-challenging work. I want to challenge as well as be challenged. I need to be able to exercise my duality.” Cleveland Dean
“We are more than thrilled to have Cleveland in our gallery again”, adds James Lynch, TAC Executive Director. “Not only is he a fabulous artist, but he’s become a frequent visitor and a good friend to TAC. I think this is a rare opportunity for us: not a lot of people realize that the late Ed Paschke taught at TAC or that Nick Cave exhibited here before ‘making it big’. I firmly believe that one day soon we’ll be bragging ‘Remember when Cleveland Dean exhibited here?’.”
Dean’s work has been featured in scores of important national and international galleries and is currently featured at Pagoda Red, a high-end furniture, art and design store based in Chicago. In his spring exhibit, nearly one year after he exhibited several pieces for TAC’s popular ‘Ephemera Exhibit’ last spring. Collectors: mark your calendars!
For more information follow Dean on Instagram, @clevelanddean, or keep up with the exhibit information at theartcenterhp.org, or by joining their website. Members of TAC will be eligible for a small, private preview with Dean on the same night as the public artist reception event.
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Is Abstract Art having a ‘moment’? The once Modernist Era or Movement may have lost its shock value of its inception, however, abstraction as a technique, style, and conceptual concept is stronger than ever. The definition includes the artist’s interpretation of what is experienced in the world, which does not necessarily represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality, using shapes, colors, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. In Abstract Expressionism, the goal is to evoke feelings and emotions while Abstract Color Block is conceptual, causing one to think about the meaning behind the color, the brush stroke, or even the absence of anything discernable.
Today, although we are far from the shock value days of the origin of Abstract Art, we continue to ask: ‘How do artists find ways to express the deeper meaning behind their abstract work?’ The two exhibitions at TAC, Cleveland Dean’s Rapport and the concurrently running group show, Abstraction, explore the wide variety of contemporary abstract art. Inspired by our guest juror, Cleveland Dean’s approach to continue to push the boundaries in the shocking manner of the past, enables the artist to ‘extract the infinite out of the finite.’
Cleveland Dean, born and raised in the Chicago area, is a multi-disciplined, self-taught visual artist. Eclectic, and interested in everything from science to psychology, his often large scale work is awe inspiring. His active mind is reflected in his abstract work that includes painting, mixed media, sculpture, and installations. Using unusual methods and techniques including a wide variety of materials like salt, wood, fire, cardboard, metal, and ‘anything he can get his hands on’, he experiments with the materials, often literally lighting the work on fire (seen on his Instagram). His passion for philosophy, psychology and religion add to his approach which all comes together presenting the viewer with a visual experience, a connection to the work that is accessible to them on several levels, intellectually, spiritually, and/or emotionally, but always as a ‘wow’.
“I have no interest in easy, recognizable, non-challenging work. I want to challenge as well as be challenged. I need to be able to exercise my duality.” Cleveland Dean
“We are more than thrilled to have Cleveland in our gallery as our featured artist and appreciate his work as a guest juror”, adds TAC curator Caren Rudman. “His bold work in conjunction with the juried exhibition gives audiences a full experience of the beauty and power of abstract art.”
For more information follow Dean on Instagram, @clevelanddean, or keep up with the exhibit information at theartcenterhp.org, or by joining their website. Members of TAC will be eligible for a small, private preview with Dean on the same night as the public artist reception event.
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CSL: Central Suburban League
April 14-24, 2022
Reception: April 14
More details to be announced.
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Fiber-Fashion-Feminism
April 29-June 11, 2022
Benefit event: April 29, 2022, 7pm
Fiber-Fashion-Feminism is a deftly curated exhibit of fiber artists from all over the country. Curator Caren Helene Rudman reached out to some prominent names in the genre, notably Anne Wilson, a Chicago-based artist in the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute’s Fiber & Material Studies Department and a leader in the field. Each of the nine selected artists, Nneka Kai, Jennifer Markowitz, Laura Morrison, Marty Ornish, Maria Pinto, Nirmal Raja, Katrin Schnabl, Yana Schnitzler, Ginny Sykes, bring a unique perspective to the work. Fiber Art—the ‘next big thing’—will be on display from April 29th through June 11th.
The Art Center’s 62nd Birthday Party, made all the more important because it will be a return to a fully live and in-person event is inspired by the theme of the exhibit: ‘Common Thread.’
Along with a fashion show, passed appetizers, cocktails, desserts, skill demonstration by art faculty instructions, and the return of DJ Tess handling the music, it will include a fashion show featuring the designs of Maria Pinto, designer for Michelle Obama, and Katrin Schnabl, designer, artist, and educator, currently chair of the fashion department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Monica Pedersen, interior designer and former host of several HGTV programs will be the event’s guest host.
Tickets go on sale Friday, March 25th
For more information contact: info@theartcenterhp.org
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Our annual spring benefit is first and foremost a showcase to celebrate our 62+ years as the premier home of arts and culture on the North Shore. It also has the added purpose of raising potentially 10% of our organization’s income for the year. And as you may already know: it is always a lot of fun and the best place to be on a Friday night in Highland Park!
This year’s event, Common Thread, will take place on Friday, April 29th, and is a return to our tradition of live celebrations. Along with a fashion show, passed food, cocktails, and the return of DJ Tess handling the music, it will include the opening of our cutting edge exhibit, Fiber-Fashion-Feminism, featuring fiber artists Maria Pinto, Laura Morrison, Ginny Sykes, Nirmal Raja, Yana Schnitzler, Katrin Schnabl, Marty Ornish, Nneka Kai and Jennifer Markowitz.
Join us and celebrity guest host Monica Pedersen as we honor the Highland Park Community Foundation for their exemplary stewardship of resources and community leadership during the COVID pandemic, and toast their remarkable 30th year anniversary of service.
Your support, as a sponsor or a ticket buyer, will allow us to continue offering high-level programming in our galleries, classes, and events.
Please consider sponsoring* at any level that you are comfortable with: https://theartcenterhp.org/sponsorship/
More Event Details, and Ticket Sales to Follow
Our Spring Benefit will feature the opening of our featured gallery exhibit: Fiber-Fashion-Feminism
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The Art Center Highland Park Launches New Satellite Gallery Featuring Artist Norman Teague
The Art Center of Highland Park’s first of its kind satellite gallery, featuring the works of a visionary artist and furniture maker Norman Teague, will open on May 26, 2022, at 515-555 Roger Williams Drive, Highland Park, Illinois.
Teague, an African-American Chicago-based designer, and professor whose work and approach seek to represent a lesser told narratives of African American’s in the broader design industry and built environment in communities of color. Through consumer products, public sculpture, performances, and specially designed retail spaces, Teague explores representation and presence. With the help of lines, geometry, color, and craft-driven forms he uses Africa as his historical reference. Teague’s design practice intentionally engages local fabricators and communities of color to open doors to the design industry.
Teague's past projects have included consumer products, public sculpture, performances, and specially designed retail spaces. Sinmi Stool, a prototype rocking stool conceived as an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute, explores the challenges and comfort of urban life through the use of bent wood application. The first Sinmi Stool prototype was initially acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago and is now in over ten museums nationwide. Through his Design Studio, he works with other architects, designers to produce boutique retail spaces and public sculpture projects in predominantly African-American communities.
“Design for me,” says Teague, “is an act of cooperation within community that requires empathetic listening, compassion and activation.”
Constantly pushing an informal aesthetic, Teague is best known for shaping and bending wood, typically garnering sexy edges, contours, and soft lines that serve as structural humanistic forms that hint at symbolism. Teague’s signature look carries a level of simplicity, curiosity, curves, flexibility, and modularity as well a display of community engagement.
Teague is currently represented by gallerist R & Company in New York with acquisition by MOMA and other museums across the county. Teague continues his work with Chicago-based artists Theaster Gates’ Prada / Experimental Design Lab, a new collective. Through Norman Teague Design Studios, he works provides design and millwork fabrication to Bronzeville Winery, The Silver Room, The Exchange Cafe, and Redmoon Theater small businesses and non-profit organizations on the South Side of Chicago. Teague was a consultant with the Ralph Applebaum & Associates Chicago design team for the Obama Presidential Center. As a UIC Professor, he instituted a high-school level design incubator at Tilden Career Academy in the Back of the Yards community. He serves as lead craftsman and co-founder of the Design Apprenticeship Program at the University of Chicago's Arts Incubator.
The exhibit will be available 24/7, using QR codes and a video, making a ‘guided tour’ available to anyone with a smartphone. “This way we can open micro-galleries in other neighborhoods around the North Shore without the limit of staffing or other costs associated with a traditional exhibit space,” says James M. Lynch, Executive Director of the center. “Of course, we’ll schedule times to meet the artist, but the first priority was sharing his work with a new audience. Norman is a superstar and we’re thrilled to introduce this new concept with his work.”
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Drawing on the success of last year’s initiate event, The Art Center Highland Park is once again hosting their community-based sidewalk chalk art event, Draw Together, outside their home at 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, to support their outreach and arts educational programming. This year’s event takes place on Saturday, June 11, from 12-3, people are invited to use sidewalk chalk to decorate the sidewalks surrounding the building while enjoying music, food, fun, and friendship.
Created as a new summer option while COVID restrictions still called for outdoor events, last year’s Draw Together was a huge success. Dozens of sidewalk squares were uniquely decorated outside their building with hundreds of participants from other Northshore neighborhoods, as well as three US states and four countries.
“We had such a great crowd last year, and people we so happy to be back with friends, old and new, that we knew we had to make this an annual event,” says Jackie Chilow, Director of Events for The Art Center. “Community programming is one of the major goals of our organization and this event ticks every box.”
The Art Center invites everyone from Chicago to Milwaukee to bring the whole family for a chance to personally meet WTTW Kids’ Nature Cat, the passionate and curious feline who loves learning and experiencing all he can about nature, who will appear LIVE and in-person during the event.
For music, TAC has invited the many-times Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Ralph Covert. Featuring songs from both Ralph's World, the family-friendly rock and roll experience that both parents and kids love, and songs from his long and storied career as the lead singer for The Bad Examples.
Participants can purchase branded TAC Sidewalk Chalk Art Kits* that include 16-color sidewalk chalk, a Draw Together wristband, hand sanitizer, and a ‘surprise sweet’. You can even participate from home – wherever in the world that may be! Share your sidewalk creations with us online by tagging them #DrawTogetherTAC #tachp
The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit arts and culture organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
*Random kits will include TAC Gift Certificates, good toward art classes that are offered for all ages and skill levels.
TAC Sidewalk Chalk Art Kits are available to purchase at The Art Center Highland Park and shipping is available within the continental United States.
Image Credit: Family drawing with chalk in front yard of The Art Center Highland Park at the Draw Together Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival 2021. Photo credit: The Art Center Highland Park.
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The Art Center Highland Park wades into the age-old debate: Nature VS Nurture (Or is it Nature PLUS Nurture, Nature TIMES Nurture?)
As a starting point for this upcoming exhibit, curator Caren Helene Rudman derived from the writing, ‘The Age-Old Debate of Nature vs. Nurture’ by Kendra Cherry:
Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are—from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics.
Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture.
The Main Gallery will highlight the exhibit, 'famil-E', with featured artists/guest jurors Sheila, Joyce and Joshua Elias who are exhibiting together for the first time. Audiences will be able to draw their own conclusions pertaining to the question of whether artistic ability is genetically inherited, passed through generations, or is creativity a product of environmental factors. Sheila Elias, mother to Joshua and Joyce, instilled a love of art, exposing her children to her own process throughout their lives.
It is impossible to know for sure, sparking the theme for our adjunct exhibition, Nature VS Nurture. The Art Center invited artists to submit work that explores the interaction between inherited traits and environmental effects. In addition to the work, artists were asked to include statements containing their influences and/or stories that show how their own family trees have shaped their work.
The Art Center also offered submitting artists the option to expand from the context of human development to the exploration of environmental factors on our planet and how we may or may not influence the “nature” of things. In other words, does behavior affect the ‘natural’ order and, if so, how? With over eighty submissions, the Elias team selected sixty artists’ works that embody how these questions come to life; including a mother- son collaboration by Vonna Contino-Maslanka and Michael Contino.
Nature vs. Nurture is a free-admission exhibit on display at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, from June 17 through July 30th, with gallery hours from 10 AM - 4 PM, Monday through Saturday. The Artists’ opening reception will be held on Friday, June 17, 5:30-8 PM, free admission (masks required).
NOTE: The Elias family members will each conduct a workshop on the weekend of June 18, 12-3:30pm. The event is FREE but RESERVATIONS are required:
12-1:30pm, Joshua Elias Workshop. For info and reservations: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/354606978017
1:30-2pm, Sheila Elias Presentation. For info and reservations: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/354787146907
2-3:30pm, Joyce Elias Workshop. For info and reservations: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/354626636817
The Art Center, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
Media contact: media@theartcenterhp.org, or call 847-432-1888.
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Over thirty thousand children have lost their lives to gun violence since Sandy Hook and the number continues to grow. Isn’t it time to say ‘Enough’?
Artist Jacqueline von Edelberg brings her interactive public art installation “Enough” to The Art Center campus, 1957 Sheridan Road, in Highland Park, as part of their Arts in Action initiative, allowing TAC to respond to events going on in the world around us.
‘Enough’ contains over 30 thousand strips of orange fabric, representing some of the children across America who have been shot to death since Sandy Hook. “Thoughts and prayers are not enough. The best way to honor victims is to demand our Representatives pass sane gun control laws.” Says von Edelberg.
“Jacqueline is an integral part of our ‘Arts in Action’ initiative, a program specifically created to allow The Art Center to live up to Toni Morisson’s call to action, “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal\", says Executive Director James M Lynch.
The installation will host a live ‘calling out their names’ event on Saturday, June 25, beginning at 1 PM. Anyone from the community who is interested in saving future lives is welcome to attend.
Jacqueline von Edelberg is an artist, activist, social entrepreneur, and unapologetic ‘nasty woman.’ With two decades of applying creative thinking to seemingly intractable real-world challenges, Jacqueline is globally recognized for her public art on progressive issues. She recently decorated the TAC Limo Cow to draw attention to reproductive rights and Ukrainian refugees. Last winter, her Atlanta interactive art installation VoteTree helped change the course of history. She is passionate about building coalitions, glittery movements, and digital platforms that drive civic engagement and create systemic change.
For more information: https://theartcenterhp.org/contemporary-art-exhibitions/
Image: Installation of 'Enough' by Jacqueline von Edelberg on the U.S. Capitol Lawn with March For Our Lives in support of universal background checks. Photo credit: Kevin Fogarty.
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Artist’s Talk by Jacqueline Kott-Wolle on July 14 at 7pm. Admission is free. Jacqueline Kott-Wolle , whose traveling exhibit, Growing Up Jewish - Art and Storytelling, will be at The Art Center until July 15, will talk about Jewish identity in America and how it shifts from one generation to the next, especially looking at the tension of wanting to preserve Jewish traditions while contending with the pull of assimilation and American freedom. This event is sponsored in part through the support and cooperation of the United States Holocaust Museum.
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“I balance on the bridge between health and disease, living not in fear but with a caution that I may fall in. I hold onto the connections with my family and watch for signs of similarity. I hold onto the hope that genetics will once again leap forward until mutations will be altered, before my children have to choose. We are connected and separate all at the same time. I stand on the bridge so that my children can cross into adulthood along with me. I stand on the bridge so that I can see both sides. I am unsteady, but not afraid. I am unsure, but prepared. I stand on the bridge, firmly planted on the swaying form that holds us all together.”
Caren Helen Rudman, Voices and Visions Curator and Founder
Voices & Visions; Standing on the Bridge Between Health and Disease began in 2010 as an exhibit about breast and ovarian cancers. The exhibit was a great success, and the company Medline picked up the exhibit as part of their breast cancer initiative and proposed creating a tour of the 2010 exhibit to cancer centers across the country. Realizing the strength behind the theme, TAC continued to present the exhibit as an annual event until 2012. In 2014, it transitioned to a biennial exhibit with a wider theme of cancer as a metaphor.
In each exhibit, there exists a commonality derived from putting work together, organically developing a theme. In 2022, TAC is proud to present the most recent work by Ellen Sandor & (art)n who collaborated with curator/artist Caren Helene Rudman, “A Burst of Hope.” Using Caren’s Previving series imagery after undergoing life-saving surgeries as a result of her inherited affliction with the BRCA-Gene juxtaposed with the scientific sculptural renderings of CRISPR created by Ellen Sandor & (art)n, the viewer enters through this short film into a journey of strength, beauty, and HOPE.
Each year, TAC honors someone who has battled cancer. In 2018, we honored Jackie Sabath who had exhibited in 2016 with what turned out to be her last work of art made specifically for Voices & Visions just days before the exhibit installation. Jackie Sabath was an established artist on the North Shore. Her powerful piece, ‘Back Up Against a Wall, but Moving Forward.’ In partnership with Jackie’s family, TAC created ‘The Jackie Sabath Exhibition Fund’ to carry on her legacy by helping TAC’s future exhibitions, social awareness, and educational outreach.
In keeping with the theme of hope, this year TAC honors Clara Tomaz, whose story of incredible strength and perseverance exemplifies the meaning of HOPE. While undergoing the challenges of her cancer and losing her ability to speak, she created powerful videos documenting her story and is currently TAC’s communication & media manager!
Each year, TAC exhibits the Voices aspect to be shown alongside the artwork. In 2022, we ask: How do you remain hopeful when surrounded by the realities of cancer? Email responses to: crudman@theartcenterhp.org
The art exhibition opens with a reception on August 5, 5:30-8:00pm and will run through September 24th. Our galleries hours are Monday-Saturday 10:00-4:00.
The Art Center Highland Park could use your help in underwriting this powerful exhibit. All funds received will go into the Jackie Sabath Exhibition Fund, which carries on the legacy of an incredible woman, artist, and friend.
We hope that you will join our efforts by making a donation either by mail, marked ‘Attn: Sabath Gallery Fund’, by contacting us at 847-432-1888, or online at www.theartcenterhp.org/jackie-sabath-scholarship-fund.
As the curator of this meaningful exhibit, “I am amazed each year by the level of depth and beauty of the art and responses. When I speak at our events, I always say that this exhibit defies expectations and preconceptions about an art exhibit about cancer. It is anything but dark and sad.” Voices and Visions: Standing on the Bridge Between Health and Disease was conceived to express the shaky ground on which we feel when facing our mortality or of those we love. As we allow ourselves to share the depth of what is in our hearts, we shed light on that which gives all of our lives meaning. In 2022, TAC will focus on the word HOPE.
The Art Center, a 501 not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts. For more information, you can contact our media manager at media@theartcenterhp.org, our curator at crudman@theartcenterhp.org, or call the office at 847-432-1888.
Image: ‘Back Up Against a Wall, but Moving Forward’ by Artist Jackie Sabath, 2016
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Known for his poetic combining and altering of existing things, Lipski returns to his hometown to discuss his process of creating large-scale public art installations. Those interested in attending this free public event can register here.
Award-winning artist Donald Lipski presents an artist talk on Saturday, August 20th from 2 to 4 PM at The Art Center Highland Park as part of their Exchange Series. Known for his poetic combining and altering of existing things, Lipski returns to his hometown to discuss his process of creating large-scale public art installations. Those interested in attending this free public event can register here.
Born in Chicago in 1948, Lipski graduated from Highland Park High School in 1965. While in high school, Lipski began sculpting under the tutelage of Nick Prokos and Scotty Walker, earning a Scholastic Art Award in his senior year. He studied American History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA, 1970) and Ceramics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan (MFA, 1973).
Rising to prominence in 1979 with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Lipski’s work has appeared in galleries and museums worldwide. His work resides in the permanent collections of dozens of museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Numerous exhibitions of Lipski’s work have appeared in Chicago, including shows at the MCA, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Arts Club, and Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Lipski’s many awards include The Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and The Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome. A few years ago, he was honored as a Highland Park High School Distinguished Alumni and proudly joined the ranks of such Highland Park luminaries as Admiral Stansfield Turner, actor Gary Sinise, peace activist Karen Nussbaum, novelist William Goldman and astronaut John Grunsfeld.
In recent years Lipski has created dozens of prominent, compelling public sculptures. These works—including Spot! at NYU Children’s Hospital in New York City and The Yearling at Denver Public Library—are overwhelmingly popular with the general public and garnered critical acclaim in the art world. These inventive and ground-breaking works for airports, schools, sports stadiums, and other public sites have become icons and touchstones for their communities and must-see experiences for visitors.
For more information contact media@theartcenterhp.org or call 847-432-1888.
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FREE and Open to the Public
Come to The Art Center Highland Park – 1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL - on September 24, 2-4pm, to hear from Artists who focus their work on healing through the creative process. The Power of Art on Healing is an open forum and panel discussion about how art can impact healing.
Panelists will share how art has helped in their own journeys surrounding health and disease, and include: Ellen Sandor, founder of art(n); Vickie Marasco, director of Art Impact Project; Christine M. López, M.Ed., ACE, trauma-informed/trauma-responsive yoga specialist; Clara Tomaz, exhibit honoree and Media Manager at TAC; Caren Helene Rudman, Curator of Voices & Visions, Standing on the Bridge Between Health and Disease. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences, or just come to listen and explore the power that art has on healing, ultimately leading to HOPE.
The event is connected to TAC current exhibition, Voices & Visions; Standing on the Bridge Between Health and Disease, and is scheduled to run on the last day the show is open to the Public, September 24. Voices & Visions began in 2010 as an exhibit about breast and ovarian cancers and it transitioned to a biennial exhibit with a wider theme of cancer as a metaphor. In 2022, TAC is proud to present the most recent work by Ellen Sandor & (art)n in collaboration with curator/artist Caren Helene Rudman, “A Burst of Hope.” Using Caren’s Previving series imagery – created after undergoing life-saving surgeries due to her inherited affliction with the BRCA-Gene - juxtaposed with the scientific sculptural renderings of CRISPR by Ellen Sandor & (art)n, the viewer enters through this short film and VR experience into a journey of strength, beauty, and HOPE.
Each year, TAC honors someone who has battled cancer. In 2018, they honored Jackie Sabath who had exhibited in 2016 with what turned out to be her last work of art made specifically for
Voices & Visions just days before the exhibit installation. In keeping with the theme of hope, this year TAC honors Clara Tomaz, whose story of incredible strength and perseverance exemplifies the meaning of HOPE. While undergoing the challenges of her cancer and losing her ability to speak, she created powerful videos documenting her story and is currently TAC’s communication & media manager!
The Power of Art on Healing is a free event, and all are welcome, but online registration is required:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-art-on-healing-tickets-407661375147
For more information, please email info@theartcenterhp.org, call the office at 847-432-1888, or visit their website at www.theartcenterhp.org
The Art Center, a 501 not-for-profit organization, has been a cultural destination that inspires and ignites passion for the arts through self-expression, dialog, and community engagement, since 1960.
Image: Video, Installation, and VR experience, A Burst of Hope, 2020, by Artists and Panelists Ellen Sandor and Caren Helene Rudman as displayed at The Art Center Highland Park in the exhibit Voices & Visionsuntil September 24.
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A Homecoming for the Iconic Artist, Ruth Weisberg!
Ruth Weisberg has broken through glass ceilings that held back many women artists of her generation. In fact, Ruth Weisberg and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, in Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, a retrospective at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, and a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino.
Weisberg found her voice through what she calls, “traveling through time,” acknowledging that her family was part of a diaspora and a Jewish heritage filled with struggle. She put herself into her work, both literally and metaphorically, defining how interconnected the personal is with history and the politics surrounding it. She was emotionally devastated by her grandmother's \"Memorial Book,\" which was filled with images of Polish Jews who had perished in the Holocaust. As her awareness of the previous generation's tragic losses grew, her story as an artist grew as well, the impact of history leading her to merge art, time and memory in a profound way. She found she could be a conduit between the past and the present, by literally placing people she knows into a setting of the past, and vice versa. \"My work demonstrates an intense interest in the cycle of life, the continuity of generations, and issues of survival and impermanence.\"
While growing up in Chicago, Ruth’s father was an architect and her politically active mother was \"the president of everything.\"-Ruth attended the Art Institute of Chicago for ten years before moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan to pursue her higher studies, where she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965).
In a Huff-post article, Ruth explains, \"My main preoccupations have been time and memory. I'm very interested in the artist's ability to travel through time.\" Ruth’s images take the viewer on a journey through history that is both dark and yet filled with hope. Her most famous works, Waterborne(1973), A Year Passes (1985), and Questioning Veronese (2011) highlight the themes of how the personal stories and familial memory which include her Jewish heritage and her role as a mother, document a historical narrative. The personal is political.
Moreover, Ruth is acutely aware of art history and the struggle women have faced as both the subjects in art as well as the lack of access for women artists. As a result, she takes her love of Western art and places a more contemporary woman in the actual image in order to redefine women’s roles. The work on view includes unframed canvases and works on paper that merge painters from the past, Holocaust survivors, and those who perished, alongside herself and her family. By juxtaposing generations Ruth creates spaces that collapse time and space,
Arriving in Highland Park from Ann Arbor, Ruth Weisberg: Then & Now, brings together the pivotal works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career . Curator Caren Helene Rudman states, “As a member of The Women’s Caucus for Art, an artist, and a curator, it has been an honor working with Ruth. She has paved the way for so many women in the arts and has mentored even more through her prolific career as an artist and educator.” Ruth is a Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. She was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards; some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.
The Art Center acknowledges the generosity of The Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor for sending us the selected work.
For more information, email info@theartcenterhp.org or call the office at 847-432-1888.
The Art Center Highland Park has been a 501c3 not-for-profit arts organization since June of 1960.
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A Homecoming for the Iconic Artist, Ruth Weisberg!
Ruth Weisberg has broken through glass ceilings that held back many women artists of her generation. In fact, Ruth Weisberg and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, in Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, a retrospective at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, and a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino.
Weisberg found her voice through what she calls, “traveling through time,” acknowledging that her family was part of a diaspora and a Jewish heritage filled with struggle. She put herself into her work, both literally and metaphorically, defining how interconnected the personal is with history and the politics surrounding it. She was emotionally devastated by her grandmother's \"Memorial Book,\" which was filled with images of Polish Jews who had perished in the Holocaust. As her awareness of the previous generation's tragic losses grew, her story as an artist grew as well, the impact of history leading her to merge art, time and memory in a profound way. She found she could be a conduit between the past and the present, by literally placing people she knows into a setting of the past, and vice versa. \"My work demonstrates an intense interest in the cycle of life, the continuity of generations, and issues of survival and impermanence.\"
While growing up in Chicago, Ruth’s father was an architect and her politically active mother was \"the president of everything.\"-Ruth attended the Art Institute of Chicago for ten years before moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan to pursue her higher studies, where she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965).
In a Huff-post article, Ruth explains, \"My main preoccupations have been time and memory. I'm very interested in the artist's ability to travel through time.\" Ruth’s images take the viewer on a journey through history that is both dark and yet filled with hope. Her most famous works, Waterborne(1973), A Year Passes (1985), and Questioning Veronese (2011) highlight the themes of how the personal stories and familial memory which include her Jewish heritage and her role as a mother, document a historical narrative. The personal is political.
Moreover, Ruth is acutely aware of art history and the struggle women have faced as both the subjects in art as well as the lack of access for women artists. As a result, she takes her love of Western art and places a more contemporary woman in the actual image in order to redefine women’s roles. The work on view includes unframed canvases and works on paper that merge painters from the past, Holocaust survivors, and those who perished, alongside herself and her family. By juxtaposing generations Ruth creates spaces that collapse time and space,
Arriving in Highland Park from Ann Arbor, Ruth Weisberg: Then & Now, brings together the pivotal works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career . Curator Caren Helene Rudman states, “As a member of The Women’s Caucus for Art, an artist, and a curator, it has been an honor working with Ruth. She has paved the way for so many women in the arts and has mentored even more through her prolific career as an artist and educator.” Ruth is a Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. She was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards; some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.
The Art Center acknowledges the generosity of The Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor for sending us the selected work.
For more information, email info@theartcenterhp.org or call the office at 847-432-1888.
The Art Center Highland Park has been a 501c3 not-for-profit arts organization since June of 1960.
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Tickets go on sale on September 7, 2022. Sponsorships are available now!
Click here for tickets and more information.
Calling All Collectors!
One of the most popular community events on the North Shore, the annual Recycled Art Sale and Benefit returns to Highland Park October 13-22nd.
Now in its 23rd year, the event hosted by The Art Center Highland Park offers a collection of artwork ranging from posters, jewelry, artifacts, and curios, to deeply discounted works by artists such as Salvador Dali, LeRoy Nieman, and Chicago-based outsider artist Lee Godie.
“This is part Parisian art market, part treasure hunt,” says Jackie Chilow, Director of Events for The Art Center. “For weeks in advance we have a team of volunteers researching all the pieces that are obviously high value, but there are always works that go unrecognized—actual art treasures. And there is such a variety of work that a customer can, in an hour or two, purchase a wide and varied collection of pieces that makes it seem like they have been painstakingly building their collection for years.”
Barbara Abelson and David Wigodner, both board members, are the committee co-chairpersons for this event. “It’s my second year working on this event,” said Wigodner, “sifting through the artwork is interesting and the detective work researching a piece can be electrifying when you discover a real gem.”
Abelson adds, “This is my third time overall working on this as co-chair. People may not realize that although it is a ten-day public event it takes year-round effort to make sure we have a great selection. But all the gathering, the sorting, the research and the organizing pays off when we see the enthusiasm of our patrons, intent upon finding the perfect piece.”
The artwork sold each year has been donated by members of the community who are downsizing, trading out familiar pieces for new ones, closing out a parent’s estate, or local galleries donating because they support TAC. This year a good number of pieces came from a major corporate office redesign. Artwork is even donated during the actual dates of the event, so smart buyers return multiple times during the 10-day sale.
The Recycled Art Sale will begin with a ticketed VIP event on Thursday, October 13, at 5 o’clock. Early access ticket holders ($175 advance/$185 at the door) will have 1 hour to view the collection and get first pick. A second wave of ticket holders ($75/85) will be admitted at 6 o’clock. The evening is always exciting, with frenzied sales and satisfied buyers. The Thursday event will includes cocktails and bites that lend a party-like atmosphere to an already exciting night.
There will be a $5 entry fee during the event’s opening weekend, October 14th-16th. Entry for the rest of the sale is free of charge. This year we’re planning some special events and discounts throughout the sale, encouraging buyers to come back multiple times.
All sales and proceeds go toward the year-round programming offered at The Art Center Highland Park for over 62 years, including scholarships, underwriting for gallery exhibits, art supplies, community-building events, and administrative costs. “This event is a win-win-win for our programs and education, our community, and the art buyers who look forward to this event all year,” adds Yumi Ross, board president of TAC. “Recycled is a staff, board, and community favorite, a wonderful, fun, annual scavenger hunt for art that speaks to you. Collectibles can be found as well.”
The Recycled Art Sale and Benefit runs from Thursday, 10/13, through Saturday, 10/22.
Hours are 10-4, Friday 10/14 through Saturday, 10/24 with one late night, Thursday, October 20, when sales are open until 9 PM. Ample downtown parking.
Thursday night VIP event begins at 5 PM.
Image credit: Clara Tomaz for The Art Center Highland Park.
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The tragic July 4th shooting that so disrupted the peace of mind of this otherwise peaceful North Shore community prompted artist Jill Meyerhoff to take her feelings and put them into an homage to the city that will be featured as a POP UP style exhibit starting on October 28 at The Art Center Highland Park.
“Meyerhoff’s installation connects us to collective memories of a time and place and is a true love letter to the city”, says The Art Center Highland Park’s curator, Caren Helene Rudman. “With its beginning as a compulsion to collect memorabilia her work has taken on a whole new dimension”. A native Highland Park resident, Meyerhoff has spent the last 50+ years as a working artist/sculptor. Her work has included toy design, public sculpture, claymation, 3D clay illustration, dioramas, and private commissions. In this exhibit found objects are transformed to create a kind of reverie.
“Lately I put away the clay and started playing with some vintage oil paints that I found. I love how rich and electric the colors can be, the perfect medium for my obsession with the mod 60s and 70s. Since I was very young, I collected unusual and interesting objects; toys, fossils, plastic tokens, miniatures, and more. I assumed that my little treasures were capable of human emotion...and with my new work, I hope to capture the secret life of inanimate objects and the power they hold on capturing a sense of nostalgia now,” says Meyerhoff.
The reception, free and open to the public, is scheduled for 12 to 2 PM on Saturday October 29th and will be filled with family fun. Participants will be invited to create their own mini canvases that will then be added to the “Show Within A Show” diorama.
Exhibit hours are Monday through Saturday, from 10 AM to 4 PM in the Elkins Gallery at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL, 60035, 847-432-1888.
The Art Center, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
Press Info: call 847-432-1888 or email media@theartcenterhp.org
Image Credit: 'Hula Hoop, 1972', by artist Jill Meyerhoff, 2007. Photo courtesy of Jill Meyerhoff.
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EXCHANGE Event with Outstanding Printmaker René Hugo Arceo at The Art Center Highland Park
René Hugo Arceo, accomplished printmaker and founder of Arceo Press, returns to The Art Center Highland Park for a discussion about his work during the Exchange event on Sunday, October 30, from 2-4 PM.
Arceo graduated with a Fine Arts degree and an Art Teacher certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited his works in Mexico, France, and Poland.
Arceo also founded Arceo Press to foster printmaking collaborations and exhibitions with an international approach. Each limited-edition print portfolio includes the participation of 20-35 artists from various countries including Mexico, the United States, Spain, France, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Recently, Arceo just finished publishing for the Chicago Society of Artists the member-driven print portfolio Route 66: Mother Road Through Illinois and participated in a print portfolio with 50 printmakers from 19 countries, from Canada to Argentina, called “Amalgama Internacional America”, published in Asturias, Spain.
His last exhibit at The Art Center Highland Park was in October of 2020 and it was clear from the reaction of other artists and gallery-goers that they’d invite him back. “I am particularly interested in nurturing themes that could involve many possible artists’ interpretations and visualizations while being humanistic and/or culturally meaningful. The themes that search and explore some new level of meaning, that excite artists and may engage audiences are my constant pursuit.” Says Arceo.
Arceo will also bring a small printing press to demonstrate how he processes his linocuts. As part of the Day of the Dead Festival The Art Center will provide Mexican-themed refreshments.
Sunday, October 30, 2-4 PM, Free to the public but online registration is requested:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exchange-with-rene-arceo-tickets-406298699347
Image: 'Magician', 2021, Linocut & watercolor by Artist and Printmaker René Hugo Arceo
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Object-Oriented, The Art Center’s upcoming exhibition theme features the work of three incredibly talented artists/designers, all working in various mediums to create art in 3-D, once again catapulting this north shore gallery to the forefront of the Chicago-land art scene, not just as an exceptional suburban gallery, but a regional gallery with a growing reputation for innovation and vision.
“We’re experiencing what we’ve come to call a ‘reverse cultural commute’ with our gallery and events”, says Executive Director James M. Lynch. “Our gallery-goers are increasingly people who might otherwise stay in the confines of Milwaukee or Chicago but have realized that our ‘boutique town’ of Highland Park offers accessible restaurants and parking, a warm and welcoming ambiance, and our space is just a short distance from the Metra station on the Union Pacific North Line. Like Ravinia for concerts, we’ve become a destination for people looking for both a great night out and access to some amazingly talented artists.”
One such artist is designer, educator, and visionary, Norman Teague. Named by the legendary Theaster Gates as one of his five creative leaders of the future, Teague was recently listed in Newcity Magazine’s ‘Design Top 50’. “Back in 2021 Norman visited our gallery as the guest of TAC’s Board President, Yumi Ross, a long-term supporter, and friend of his, and we knew right away we had to feature his work at TAC,” explains curator Caren Helene Rudman. “It took over a year to find a space in our Center Gallery, the only one we have big enough to contain his breakthrough ideas and vision. Additionally, we have a mission at TAC to build community through our events, education, and exhibits, and Norman very clearly shares our outlook.”
An artist who always has his eye on community-building, Teague frequently works with other artists and organizations. Teague says that “compassion, empathy, and affirmation” are the key elements of a successful collaboration: “I think that if you bring those things to the table and that there’s a great deal of listening happening, people are excited and fired up about all the possibilities. I feel like this is a sheer collaboration with Highland Park, how does an outside voice talk to Highland Park, which has a Black population of less than 2%? That’s why the programmatic arm [of The Art Center] is really important. It gives me and that community a little bit of face-to-face time. I think that is where conversations start to happen and barriers are broken.” (More on TAC and Norman Teague: https://theartcenterhp.org/norman-teague/)
“Right around the time when we were planning this exhibit, I met another Chicago-based 3D artist, Michael Thompson. Originally introduced to us as a contributor for a silent auction by board member Terri Weinstein,” adds Lynch “I fell in love with his work and asked Rudman if we could co-curate this particular show. I’d been spending time with Norman and wanted to stay involved, and after a conversation with Michael, I saw a great possibility to build on the theme of 3D from a whole new angle.”
Thomspon’s kites have been featured in the lobby of the Goodman Theatre, as set dressing on the sci-fi TV series Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, and the eclectic design shop, Pagoda Red has this to say about him: “He’s the kind of creative whose technique, spirit, provocation, and form is always cut with a little mischief. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has been prolific, expressing himself through an array of media, which include collage, sculpture, painting, ceramics, etching, papier-mâché, dolls, and jewelry.”
A last-minute, yet welcome addition to ‘Object’ is the up-and-coming young artist Zachary Weber. He first exhibited with The Art Center during the recent ‘Abstraction’ exhibit and he has a fast-rising reputation for his innovative approach to ceramics. “One of our goals at TAC is to find new artists in whom we see tremendous talent, artists we want to ‘discover’ and promote: not a lot of people remember that a young Nick Cave once exhibited here,” reminds Rudman. “With these three unique Object-makers, we are projecting a major event, a big win not only for us as a gallery, but for the community at large to experience these three great talents all in one location. I wouldn’t want to miss it.”
The Galleries at TAC, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park
Hours: Mondays - Saturdays, 10-4, or by arrangement
Accommodations can be made for those with special needs
Opening Reception: November 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Free and open to the public
The Art Center, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
Image: 3-D work by artist Michael Thompson. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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“Art has the ability to achieve therapeutic effects without actual therapy,” advised one trauma therapist just after the July tragedy occurred in Highland Park. Within a couple of weeks after the event the Art Center Highland Park hosted three well-attended artmaking events, joining the efforts of so many local organizations that were committed to helping our community heal. Now the healing continues.
The Art Center is committed to ongoing arts-related programs to help people continue to heal and come together as a community. TAC has created a long-term agreement with the Lake County organization, Art Impact Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing emotional wellness through creative expression, and one of the groups to assist with the immediate needs in July.
The next Art Impact Project session at TAC will take place Thursday, December 1, from 6-7:30 PM, at The Art Center, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. Registration is required but the class is free and intended for adolescents to adults. Each 90-minute workshop provides a different project and medium for participants to explore, led by facilitators trained in providing support in a safe and non-judgmental environment.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/461816514627
Questions: 847-432-1888, info@theartcenterhp.org
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The Impact of the Arts After July 4th, Highland Park IL
“Art has the ability to achieve therapeutic effects without actual therapy,” advised one trauma therapist just after the July tragedy occurred in Highland Park. Within a couple of weeks after the event the Art Center Highland Park hosted three well-attended artmaking events, joining the efforts of so many local organizations that were committed to helping our community heal. Now the healing continues.
The Art Center Highland Park is committed to ongoing arts-related programs to help people continue to heal and come together as a community.
TAC has created a long-term agreement with the Lake County organization, Art Impact Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing emotional wellness through creative expression, and one of the groups to assist with the immediate needs following the tragic event at the July 4th Parade in Highland Park.
Each 90-minute workshop provides a different project and medium for participants to explore, led by facilitators trained in providing support in a safe and non-judgmental environment.
Information for the next event is:
Art Impact Project - Adolescents & Adults
Monday, January 30, 6-7:30 PM
at The Art Center Highland Park
FREE but registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-impact-of-the-arts-after-july-4th-highland-park-il-tickets-518109989927
For more information on this event please contact media@theartcenterhp.org
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Sam Lewis, a puppeteer known for exploring racial issues and negative iconography, will perform a collection of stories in a full-length performance piece, Everybody Knew Their Place. Pre-registration is required as there are a limited number of seats available. (Note to parents: This genre of puppet show offers valuable lessons for all ages but the subject matter is not necessarily geared toward young audiences).
“In late 2018 I learned of incredible family history that has taken me back over 200 years. That revelation redirected my practice. I commissioned the creation of a rod puppet that represents my paternal grandfather. I have been workshopping with this new puppet, in an amazing and fulfilling collaboration with my two sons, while continuing my research, to write this full-length puppetry and performance piece.“
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exchange-with-sam-lewis-tickets-503947649987
Above: Sam Lewis with puppet Grandpa James. Photo by Yvette Marie Dostatni.
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“In RAISED UP WEST SIDE, we follow the harrowing, yet frequently inspiring plight of ex-offenders, social activists, and entrepreneurs, witnessing the fierce tenacity required to change the narrative - and change lives on Chicago's West Side.”
Wayfarer Theaters at Renaissance Place
1850 2nd Street
Highland Park, IL 60035
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/raised-up-west-side-exchange-with-brett-a-schwartz-tickets-503748283677
Above: Screenshot from documentary ‘Raised Up Westside’ by Brett A. Schwartz.
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The Art Center Highland Park will feature the art of sculptor, community artist, and nonviolence educator, Indira Freitas Johnson in a new exhibit, BE-Longing*, a solo exhibition that reflects her efforts to maintain a sense of belonging for both her native India and her adopted home in America.
Named Chicagoan of the Year by Chicago Magazine in 2013 for her public art project, Ten Thousand Ripples, Indira has a true artistic agenda that makes her work even more important in the current world political and social climate of upheaval. Adds Johnson: “For me, art and life are interwoven so that creating objects in the studio goes hand in hand with site-specific installation and interactive/community-engaged projects. Making connections between different relationships, individual and community, order and chaos, spirit and matter is a fundamental aspect of my work.”
“We are thrilled to have Indira back at The Art Center,” says Curator Caren Helene Rudman. “Over the years, we’ve exhibited pieces of her work, including a series of fabric panels with text embroidered on them. I first learned of her with her Ten Thousand Ripples project where one hundred fiberglass Buddha sculptures were installed in sites chosen by Chicago area community organizations”.
Johnson will also function as the guest juror for The Art Center’s complementary exhibit, Freedom. How does an artist express through a person, a place, a moment, an event, or in some way represent an expression of freedom? Call for entry information is at:https://theartcenterhp.org/call-for-artists/.
The exhibits Be-Longing and Freedom will run concurrently from March 3 through April 8, 2023, with an artists’ reception on Friday, March 3, from 5:30 – 8:00 PM, free and open to the public.
TAC will host an Exchange/ Artist Talk with Indira Johnson on March 26th from 2-4pm.
The Art Center Highland Park is a not-for-profit organization and North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts. For more information about classes, events, and exhibits visit theartcenterhp.org.
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The Art Center is very proud to announce that Prescott Ellison and Superfood Friends Mascot, Andy Apple, will visit The Art Center Highland Park on March 11, 1-3pm, to present the Superfood Friends art exhibit, featuring original drawings for the award-winning Superfood Friends characters, a collection of the Superfood Friends children’s books, a display of the Superfood Friend Plush Toys, and more.
Ellison created the Superfood Friends, a team of super-powered fruit and vegetable characters, to engage, inspire and educate children about nutrition, fitness, and environmental awareness. The curriculum is currently taught in schools in Las Vegas. In addition to receiving the Barack Obama Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, Ellison received the 2017 Childhood Obesity Prevention Award, secured an endorsement from the Nevada Department of Agriculture, and was given the 2016 Field to Fork Award.
The event will include an open house for the Arts Education programs at The Art Center which will feature workshops, demonstrations, and activities for children, families, and adults.
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A champion of social justice, Jahmal Cole’s mission is to build a more interconnected Chicago on the pillars of service and education. As the founder and CEO of the city’s fastest growing social impact organization, My Block My Hood My City, Jahmal will be the next guest speaker at The Art Center Highland Park for their series of monthly EXCHANGES on Sunday, April 23, 2023, at 2-4pm.
Traveling, youth mentorship and community organizing are the subjects of Jahmal’s highly acclaimed books and speeches. He has spoken to audiences ranging from high school students to the Mayor of Chicago.
In 2022 Jahmal Cole received an honorary Doctorate Degree in Humanities and Philanthropy from Adler University and was voted best activist by the Chicago Reader. Jahmal was named one of the 25 Most Powerful Chicagoans by Crain’s Magazine. He has also been awarded the 2020 American Red Cross Community Impact Hero Award. In 2019, Jahmal Cole was named to Crain’s 40 under 40, he’s also the recipient of the 2019 Champion of Freedom Award, the 2018 Chicago Defender Men of Excellence Honoree, and the 2018 Chicago City Council Resolution Award. In 2018, he was also named one of the “20 Most Inspiring Chicagoans” by Streetwise Magazine and a Chicagoan of the Year by Chicago Magazine. He was recently voted 2021 Activist of the Year by Chicago Magazine!
Underwritten by Steve Sarowitz and the Wayfarer Theaters, this Exchange with Jahmal Cole is not to be missed. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required due to a limited number of seats. Anybody who is interested in attending the event can RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exchange-with-jahmal-cole-tickets-607534501047
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The Passion Project: What drives an artist to create, prepare a canvas, step behind their easel, and make that decisive first stroke of paint, that first line of a poem? The Art Center Highland Park’s The Passion Project captures the spark of inspiration that spreads from artist to artwork and from artwork to audience—igniting a blaze of passion.
The Passion Project features work from seven visual artists and one poet. BOJITT (Bojana Ilic) paints murals using wide strokes and spray paint to express her drive to inspire others through her connections. Brandon Breaux reflects on identity in his series of digital portraiture 28 Days of Greatness, celebrating everyday Black heroes. Veronica Clements harkens back to a Dutch tradition of painting, employing the style of vanitas as a critique of the expectations around gender biases. Katrina Smolinsky’s poetry explores the queering of Catholic religious tradition dissecting the meaning of passion itself and exploring the creative process. Jeremy Brown integrates inspirational text including LED lights onto his canvases. Irene Mamiye’s video projections and digital imagery redefine the materiality of photography and our saturation of images within the context of memory, nature, and longing. Yuko Nishikawa’s whimsical mobiles and sculptures made of wire and paper pulp exude a sense of movement and lightness with magnetic energy. Elisa Valenti’s paintings are a sensuous celebration of radical acceptance of the feminine body, a bold commitment to self-love.
The Passion Project reveals the foundation of the creative process, showing the way that artists dig deep to connect with audiences in the hopes of seeing their individual passions transcend into a universal context. Artists put their passions, their beliefs, and their hopes into their work, confirming a collective belief that what we feel matters. Moreover, the kinetic interaction from artist to art and then from art to viewers acts as a conduit, building and enriching our human relationships. Although each of these artists work in diverse mediums, they are unified by the way passion guides their processes. Their philosophical approaches to self-expression, defined by their personal identities and views of the world, translate into unique material that audiences connect to on a visceral level. Yes, all artists are passionate about their work, but what sets this group of artists apart is how their creative processes manifest what they know and feel in their guts. The result is artwork that emanates a palpable energy that audiences can enter into, share, and experience.
Caren Helene Rudman, Curator
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For an amazing tenure of 63 years The Art Center Highland Park has been a North Shore cultural destination inspiring and igniting a passion for the arts by providing a forum for self-expression, dialogue, and community engagement. To fund its year-round programming TAC hosts three annual fundraisers: the community-favorite Recycled Art Sale, the summer Draw Together event, which is a cross between an education open house and a massive sidewalk chalk ‘happening,’ and its biggest event, the annual Spring Benefit.
Last year’s benefit, Common Thread, launched the exhibit Fiber, Fashion, Feminism, which featured the work of nine invited artists, and ‘wove together the pretty and the profound’, according to the Chicago Reader. The event featured a live fashion show, music by the energizing DJ Tess, gourmet passed bites, sophisticated cocktails, and a fun, exciting silent auction. It was a party to remember and unquestionably the best place to be. So how do you top such a successful event? With PASSION.
The theme of this year’s benefit, inspired by the organization’s vision statement, is Ignite Passion. The upcoming event on Friday, May 5 at 7 PM, will take place in the galleries and studios of TAC at 1957 Sheridan Road in Highland Park with a VIP preview for donors paying $1,250 or more. It will also be the first viewing of a major gallery event, The Passion Project, featuring eight vibrant and passionate artists from around the country: Bojitt (Bojana Ilic), Brandon Breaux, Jeremy Brown, Veronica Clements, Irene Mamiye, Yuko Nishikawa, Katrina Smolinsky, and Elisa Valenti.
Featured artist Bojitt will create a live art piece that will be part of the night’s auction, and multi-instrumentalist Sam Thousand will provide music. Cocktails and light bites will be passed, with art demonstrations on the studio level, exhibits and activities on the gallery level, and a special performance by Chicago’s internationally renowned Hubbard Street Dance. NBC’s morning traffic anchor and general assignment reporter Kye Martin will host the event. More surprises are in the works, including an amazing group of silent auction and fund-for-cause items and an incredible raffle item provided by Burdeen’s Jewelry that will help TAC stay the leading arts and culture provider on the North Shore.
With the help and support of a volunteer committee led by board member Janea D. Harris and Highland Park gallery owner Lauren Laughlin, TAC’s Director of Events Jacqueline Chilow is once again tasked with making this year’s event even better than last year’s. “Our goal is to raise 15-20% of our annual budget in this one event,” says Chilow, “so the pressure is really on to make this a great party, but I know the community always comes through.” The Art Center is a 501C3 not-for-profit organization and is funded through arts education tuition, donations, and grants, so this event holds great importance in its ability to continue serving the public with programs, education, and events.
Sponsorship for Ignite Passion is still open and many levels are available, including the VIP preview on the night of the event for all donors of $1,250 or more. More information is available on the TAC website, theartcenterhp.org, or donations can be made and tickets purchased directly on the event website, https://one.bidpal.net/ignitepassion/welcome. This event website will enable participants to follow along as the night’s festivities play out and features a live link to the silent auction* and raffle* where everyone can follow the action on their phones or just set automatic bidding so they can relax and have fun, knowing they’ll win their favorite item at the end of the night. Anyone wishing to provide a silent auction item or with a special request, or question, can contact The Art Center at 847-432-1888, Monday through Saturday, 10 AM – 4 PM.
The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit organization, has been the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration since 1960. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
For more information about TAC contact: media@theartcenterhp.org, 847-432-1888
For more information about sponsorship, tickets, or to donate silent auction items: Jacqueline Chilow, jchilow@theartcenterhp.org, or Stina Taylor, staylor@theartcenterhp.org, 847-432-1888
*The online auction and raffle can be accessed remotely for those not able to be present for the live event.
Above: 'Empower' by Bojana Ilic - BOJITT, who will create a live art piece that will be part of the night’s auction at TAC Spring Benefit 2023, Ignite Passion. Photo courstesy of the Artist.
On May 27, 2023, The Art Center Highland Park will present two correlated events:
10am-4pm, by appointment only
FREE with application here
FREE with registration here
The Art Center Highland Park has a uniquely holistic approach that sets it apart from any other organization of its kind. TAC not only offers a wide selection of art classes, museum-quality exhibitions, and community-centered events, but also offers resources to the community for healing, inclusion, diversity, and social dialogue. In 2022 Yoga in the Gallery was launched with the purpose of allowing members to find inner peace surrounded by inspiring art; Exchange events with a wide range of artists and advocates on topics from art to social justice have become monthly subscription-based happenings. Additionally, since the Highland Park shooting, The Art Center has been offering a monthly art healing program in partnership with the non-profit organization ‘The Art Impact Project’ to help adolescents and adults in the community process the trauma under the guidance of specialized counselors.
The new program that The Art Center is launching on May 27, 10am-4pm, is founded on the belief that tattoos have healing powers, and is focused on “helping the survivors and families of victims continue to heal physically and emotionally while celebrating the heroism of (…) first responders”, as the organization Healing Ink states in its website at https://www.healingink.org. The organization will partner with The Art Center by bringing over several tattoo artists who will donate their time and artistic skills to cover the scars, either physical or emotional, of those affected by the shooting.
Why tattoos? Craig Dershowitz, founder and CEO of Healing Ink, states that “There are many forms of healing, each one working for different communities and people. We have found that for many, tattooing is an untapped and powerful resource. Manifesting emotional trauma in physical pain, commemorating the day, creating an opportunity for peers to ask questions, beauty or wanting to cover a scar and erase a memory, all provide a sense of agency and independence. We cannot control what happened on that day. We can control how we respond.”
For survivors, families of victims, and first responders of the Highland Park shooting, who are interested in participating in the program, applying is easy and starts with filling out a simple online form here. The applicants will then be contacted for a virtual interview where they can add more information to their responses. Once they are accepted, they are put in touch with their assigned tattoo artist to discuss and plan the tattoo design ahead of the event day.
On the same day, after the tattooing event, at 7:30 pm the community is invited to an Exchange with Craig Dershowitz and Rick Matros of Healing Ink for a discussion about how art can help heal after tragedy, and the history of the organization. The event is FREE but reservations are required and can be made here.
For information about the events: info@theartcenterhp.org, or 847-432-1888
The Art Center Highland Park is a not-for-profit organization and North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts. For more information about classes, events, and exhibits visit theartcenterhp.org.
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Collaboration with CWCA and Stola Contemporary Art. Curator: Caren Rudman, featured artist and juror: Sally Edelstein (image credit)
Theme: Dadaism was a movement with explicitly political overtones – a reaction to the senselessness of WWI. It essentially declared war against war, countering the absurdity of the establishment’s descent into chaos with its own kind of nonsense. Our version of Dadaism reignites the reaction to the political divisiveness, increased violence, and tensions within communities seen today through a similar lens of propaganda. Chicago is the perfect place to react and act.
The collaboration continues up until Spring of 2024 (and maybe even beyond) when we hope to present our project! The goal is to forge connections, to break divisions in our city, in our country, and in our world, that are not a one-time thing but last into the future! Participating Galleries: The Art Center Highland Park, Stola Contemporary Art, Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Woman Made, Evanston Art Center, Industry of the Ordinary, Alma Art and Interiors, Beverly Arts Center.
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For four nights, July 7 & 8, 15 & 16, The Art Center Highland Park will host a pop-up gallery featuring the work of upcoming artist Jimi P. with Bless You! The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, July 7, 5:30-8 PM. There will be an open bar with LIVE music performed by Nancy Popular. The ‘pop-up’ nature of the exhibit means it will come and go quickly.
Jimi P, the ‘P’ is for Paszkiewicz, is an interdisciplinary Chicago-based artist who has been working since 2017. His practice involves a combination of screenprinting, photography, videography, and various painting and drawing methods. Instinct and the subconscious play major roles in his work, facilitated by his abstract and gestural painting style. Jimi’s work seeks to raise questions about what delineates legitimacy and highlight the importance of influences in making art.
This Bless You! exhibit is informed by the impulse reaction when we hear another person sneeze and is a metaphor for Jimi’s approach to art making. He responds intuitively to images, places, ideas, and his self-taught style of art reflects that energy and impulse – but it’s not random. “You know Jimi’s work when you see it,” says TAC Curator Caren Helene Rudman. “He is full of raw energy and I’m eager to see how our audience reacts to him.”
“I first met Jimi at the opening of a friend’s business where he had done an entire wall with his abstract art. I ran into him again when he displayed at the AIR studio in Glencoe and right away asked Caren to find a place for him in our schedule,” says TAC Executive Director James Lynch. “We had been talking about finding artists who were ‘discoveries’ –artists who were ‘hot’ and ‘of the moment’ and offering them pop-up exhibits. Between his apparel and canvases, there will be something for everyone – and he’ll even take commissions for murals during the event.”
The Bless You! pop-up will be available Friday, July 7th, from 1-8 PM*, the 8th from 10-4 PM, and the 15th, from 1-4 PM, and close on the 16th, from 10-4 PM, at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL 60035.
The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
Artist Reception Friday, July 7, 5:30-8 PM with LIVE music performed by Nancy Popular.
Image: \"Bless You\" 2023, 40” x 40” mixed media artwork, by Jimi P. Photo Courtesy of the Artist.
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On August 15 from 6:00 to 8:00pm, TAC is hosting a commemorative event and artist talk in honor of the end of the yearlong anniversary celebrating the partition.
A public artist reception will be held on September 8 from 5:30 to 8:00 PM, and visitors are invited to view the exhibition, meet the featured artists, and enjoy refreshments and live music.
A Chicago-based artist, Chowdhry was born and raised in India. She holds an MFA in Studio Art and an MA in Visual Culture and Gender Studies from UW-Madison. Chowdhry has taught at Macalester College and the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Unlike traditional memorials—fixed structures dedicated to tragedy that tend to fade into the background of daily life—Chowdhry’s anti-memorials demand viewers' attention. Chowdhry’s “rigorously researched, experiential art installations excavate the traumatic counter-memories of the Partition of India.” Her work gives voice to those who have been lost in the history books, commemorating the casualties of war.
When Chowdhry proposed a new iteration of the Partition Anti-Memorial Project, TAC curator Caren Helene Rudman jumped at the opportunity. After reading a 2022 article on Chowdhry, ‘Anti-Memorials’ Honor Indian Partition’s Unseen Victims, 75 Years On, in CNN Style, Rudman was impressed by the scope and impact of Chowdhry’s work. Rudman felt there was a strong connection between Chowdhry’s work and the Highland Park community’s recent experience with mass violence. Rudman hopes this exhibition will help us understand the commonality of trauma throughout human history.
Chowdhry also served as the guest juror for the group show Borders and Boundaries Redefined, which will exhibit alongside her solo exhibition. For this exhibition, TAC asked artists to submit work exploring the impact of arbitrary lines, whether they be geographical or artistic.
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Food, Music, Fun: This year the event will include treats from the Fat Shallot food truck, a DJ, Bach to Rock Music School, and live performances by Laura Doherty & The Heartbeats.
A Chicago favorite in the family music scene, Laura Doherty & The Heartbeats, acoustically rock your kid’s world with breezy folk-pop tunes from her multi-award-winning recordings, including her latest album \"High Five\", full of upbeat and heartfelt songs about friendship, family and childhood.
Added bonus: kids can meet Daisy from the PBS Daytime Emmy Award Winning program, Nature Cat, live and ‘in person’!
All funds generated by Draw Together will support the art education programs at TAC, a 63-year-old not-for-profit organization, with scholarships, supplies, outreach, and the over 300 classes they offer with over 2,400 enrollments a year.
The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for their diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
Draw Together, Saturday, August 19, from 11 AM to 3 PM, at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL. Free admission, with a rain date of Sunday, August 20. Find out more at www.theartcenterhp.org, or by calling 847-432-1888.
Above: Daisy from the PBS Daytime Emmy Award Winning program, Nature Cat,will be one of the star guests of DRAW TOGERTHER 2023 at The Art Center Highland Park. Photo Courtesy of WTTW.
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And there’s so much MORE, including new, exciting exhibits, Summer Camps, Summer Classes, Artist Talks, Workshops, Pop-ups, etc., so you really, really need to be on our free newsletter. Sign up today!
The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
Above: Draw Together 2022. Photo credit: The Art Center Highland Park.
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The Art Center Highland Park is pleased to present a Pop-up exhibition in the Cortesi Gallery of The Art Center Highland Park featuring the work of three powerful women artists. The three women came together to explore the unknown meanings around abstraction, blurring lines, figures, and color. They each have had their own artistic successes and felt that together their work would push the boundaries of abstract art in a unique direction.
Inspired by the quote:
Who is she? She is someone who is gentle but powerful. Strong and courageous. Someone who pays attention to the little things and adds beauty to the world. She’s an artist, a friend and someone who cares for and celebrates others.
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Tickets are on sale now!
Recycled Art Sale VIP Preview and Opening Night Event
The event begins with a ticketed VIP event on Friday, October 13, at 5 o’clock. Early access ticket holders ($225) will have 1 hour to view the collection and get first pick. A second wave of ticket holders ($100) will be admitted at 6 o’clock. The VIP event includes cocktails and access to a fun food truck, adding a party-like atmosphere to an already exciting night.
Recycled Art Sale Opening Weekend
There will be a $10 entry fee during the event’s opening weekend, October 14th-15th. Entry for the rest of the sale is free of charge. Sales and proceeds go toward the year-round programming offered at The Art Center Highland Park, including scholarships, underwriting for gallery exhibits, art supplies, and community-building events.
The Recycled Art Sale and Benefit runs from Friday, 10/13, through Saturday, 10/21. The Friday night VIP event runs from 5-9 PM. Regular event hours are 10-4, Saturday, 10/14 through the following Saturday. Ample downtown street and parking lot access is provided.
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Refresh, Re-Do! October 14 and 15. Sat, 10am-3:30pm; Sunday, 12-3:30pm
(Millinery Workshop with Veronica Chin)
For this class, students are invited to bring their ‘tired,’ poor hats and transform them.
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(Recycled Art Workshop with Sandra Bacon and John Hatlestad)
For this class students are invited to bring their Recycled Art purchases and turn them into something new!
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The Carrying Stones Project was conceived by Rose and inspired by her own work exploring the inequity of women’s labor. Her works encourage viewers to confront issues of equity, labor, and community by pairing human faces and stories with the numbers behind them.
The Carrying Stones Project began in 2016 in San Francisco's Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture with a massive, 20-foot-long data visualization sculpture representing the paid and unpaid labor of 47 women participants. Over the years, artworks from the project have traveled all over the United States to universities, museums, corporate headquarters, and nonprofits. Thousands of visitors to The Carrying Stones Project have learned about their own place in the labor landscape through interactive artworks, participatory events, and public artmaking activities.
Rose’s powerful exhibition inspired TAC to look deeply at phrases such as ‘women’s work’ and advertising taglines like, \"You've Come a Long Way, Baby,” by searching for artists in an open call for entry exploring gender stereotypes. The work selected by the guest juror, Rose, calls into question patriarchal societal behaviors with a critical eye, expressing the many interpretations of the phrase ‘women’s work.’
TAC is excited to host this exhibit with Rose and add to its impact with performances and appearances during the weekend as we all come together to answer the pressing question: Are we making progress or moving backward on the long road to gender equality?
For more information contact: TAC Curator, Caren Helene Rudman: crudman@theartcenterhp.org or 847-432-1888; Media Manager, Clara Tomaz: media@theartcenterhp.org
The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts. The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035. Ph: 847.432.1888. www.theartcenterhp.org
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“Poetry and Storytelling groups have been meeting all over the area lately”, says TAC Executive Director James M Lynch, “so we figured let’s start an annual festival to give them a centrally located platform for their work.”
Starting at 7 PM on Wednesday, November 8, monthly poetry producer Lynn West will present ‘Native American Heritage: Footsteps into Culture’, featuring poetry, music, storytelling, and visual art highlighting Native American Heritage. Featured will be Vincent Romero, performance poet, storyteller, and lecturer, Mark LaRoque, storyteller and poet, William Buchholtz who performs on a Native American flute, and Margoth Moreno, silversmith, and painter. There is no fee for this event.
Friday night, November 10 from 7-9 PM, there will be a Spoken Word & Poetry Open Mic hosted by Janea D. Harris, author, poet, speaker, and TAC Board Member. Creative word artists are invited to share their work with the community and work toward the goal of connecting our collective communities through the arts. Everyone is welcome to attend. Sign up to read and/or recite during open mic upon arrival. Please register to attend using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spoken-word-poetry-open-mic-tickets-746315398447
There is no cover charge but donations to TAC are accepted and appreciated.
Saturday, November 11 has two events for participants. At 10 AM join workshop leader Lou Greenwald for an exciting Storytelling Workshop that will provide you with the tools and techniques to weave engaging tales that will leave your audience spellbound. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned storyteller, this workshop is perfect for you. Lou has taken workshops from Donald Davis, Jay O’Callahan, Chicago’s Scott Whitehair, Beth Horner, Megan Wells, and many others and has performed on stage at Storylab, This Much is True, Short Story Theatre, The Moth in Chicago, Madison, Phoenix, and many other venues. Lou’s plan is to make this workshop informative and lively, with hopes that each participant will love storytelling as much as he does and will wind up being one of Short Story Theatre’s future storytellers. The class will be limited to 12 participants. The fee for this 3-hour workshop is $65 and all proceeds go to TAC. Registration in advance required: REGISTER
Saturday at 7:30 PM, Short Story Theatre presents a full evening’s program. Mike Leonard, a Winnetka resident, and former Today Show Feature Correspondent, will share his story “A Rough Head Start.” Mike will reveal how a childhood blow to the head on the streets of Glencoe altered his way of thinking and oddly made it possible for him to succeed in the broadcasting business. Ellen Blum Barish tells a story entitled “Thank You, Mrs. Rosensweig.” Ellen recalls how as a six-year-old, she grappled with the existence of God after being taunted by a classmate and her first-grade teacher. Glenview resident Larry Glazer tells a story about faith, devotion, and a son’s perseverance in his story “Early Education.” Bill Stewart, a Lake Barrington resident, recalls his Meister Brau summer and his encounter with a bird in “Bird Brain.” Nadia Felecan, originally from Romania, Transylvania, shares how her middle-school French teacher unknowingly helped her cope with her family situation and inspired her to become a French teacher. Her story: “Love of My Life.” Tickets are $15, cash or check at the door, depending on availability. The show often sells out so advanced reservations are suggested. To guarantee a reservation, purchase tickets with this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/735906555317
All events take place at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035. The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
Above: Janea D. Harris, author, poet, speaker, and TAC Board Member, will host a Spoken Word & Poetry Open Mic at The Art Center Highland Park on Friday night, Nov 10, 2023. Photo Courtesy of Janea D. Harris.
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This year The Art Center Highland Park, with over one hundred new members in the last few months, is experiencing the highest participation level in the history of this event, with a record 140 artists showcasing their work. Unless otherwise indicated, all exhibited work is for sale. Profits from sales support both the artists and programming at TAC.
“We encourage the public to attend our opening event on the 15th to support our local artists,” says TAC Executive Director James M. Lynch, adding “What better holiday gift can you find than a unique artwork from the exhibit or from TAC’s gift shop?”
TAC Curator Caren Helene Rudman, herself a much sought after artist, has invited groundbreaking artists from all over the country to TAC and provides challenging, thought-provoking themes that mirror the times we’re living in. “A growing number of artists and audiences are aware of us and we have become a destination with a strong reputation for high-quality exhibits.” She adds, “And the quality of our members and faculty is amazing. We’re always proud to feature them.”
The Art Center Highland Park was founded as the Suburban Fine Art Center in 1960 and has been in its current location at 1957 Sheridan Road for over 20 years, the former home of the American Legion Hall, which it rents from the City of Highland Park. With a budget of just over $1M, TAC offers classes for all ages and skill levels six days a week and maintains four professional-level galleries with art sales rivaling most local for-profit galleries.
Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, from 10 AM to 4 PM, and a percentage of sales go towards programming at this 501C3 not-for-profit organization. TAC also has a gift shop and year-round classes and more information can be found at www.theartcenterhp.org.
During the reception on the evening of December 15th TAC is also asking attendees to bring books (In Spanish, English, and Ukrainian), puzzles, and manipulative toys for children 5 and under. Toys must be new, in original packaging, and unwrapped, and will be delivered to local not-for-profit early learning centers.
For more information. Please contact media@theartcenterhp.org, or call 847-432-1888.
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However, throughout its evolution, there remains a consistency within it’s Merriam-Webster’s definition:
“The art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface (such as film or an optical sensor).” Moreover, whether taken with a camera or a cell phone, photography is also defined as a source of information and communication, and a form of creative self-expression and documentation.
The featured artists/ guest jurors exemplify the depth and range of photography and how the medium can push boundaries of self expression and identity. TAC is thrilled to invite these amazing artists to help us look at photography with a new focus.
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Winnetka resident, artist Adam Siegel, will be featured in the Main Gallery at The Art Center Highland Park starting May 3, 2024, through June 15 in an exhibit simply entitled Adam Siegel: Works.
The Art Center Highland Park is excited to announce the upcoming exhibit with Adam Siegel, including several new works. As he did for his collaboration with the celebrity chef and James Beard recipient Grant Achatz and his business partner Nick Kokonas of Alinea, Aviary, and Next, where he created 24 original pieces for their culinary experience, The Progression at the Roister, Siegel is willingly entering new territory. “I feel like I’m bouncing back to some of my earliest work, opening new doors, and finding a new imagery that’s really exciting. I’m pushing my ego aside and trusting in the process, creating a ‘push-pull’ of different voices”, says Siegel of the work that will be exhibited through June at The Art Center Highland Park in an exhibit simply called Adam Siegel: Works.
The exhibit previews during the ticketed event, The Benefit: art. works., The Art Center’s biggest fundraiser of the year. “From my first meeting with Adam I knew we were going to have something incredible”, Says TAC Executive Director James M Lynch. “It’s another in a series of wins for the Galleries at TAC as we prove we’re not ‘just a suburban gallery’ but a regional center of growing reputation and importance.”
Siegel is nationally recognized for the breadth of his work as an abstract painter and is known for his large-scale works that bring a soulful refinement to the contemporary category. Influenced deeply by his time in Japan, the artist merges two distinct sensibilities—East and West—with compositions that showcase an elusive and elegant balance of both. For almost four decades, private collectors and noteworthy institutions have invested in Siegel’s work. Showcased in a variety of environments—be it a residence or unique public art project, capturing his affecting version of place-making—the artist’s collection is diverse and extensive. In 2001, the Museum of Contemporary Art partnered with Siegel to create a memorial piece titled “Path of Remembrance.” Stretching the better part of one mile, the work provided Chicagoans with a collective means to mourn and commemorate the terrorist attacks of September 11. After acquiring 68 paintings and photographs, the well-regarded Northwestern Specialists for Women clinic mounted what has become his mid-career retrospective in 2008.
Siegel has exhibited in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. He has exhibited at Chicago’s Around the Coyote art festival for 18 years with sold out shows eight years in a row. In addition, Siegel has shown at Art Expo Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago and Chicago’s famed Merchandise Mart. His work has been featured in esteemed local and national media outlets including Art in America, New York Times, Antiques & Arts Weekly, Luxe Interiors + Design, Modern Luxury Interiors Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Where Magazine, Key Magazine, New Art Examiner, CBS, WGN, NBC, CLTV, and can be seen on the walls in several scenes of the immensely popular cable series, Succession.
Adam Siegel: Work will be on exhibit at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, from May 3 (a ticketed fundraising event) through June 15, with a free and open to the public artist reception on May 17, from 5:30 PM until 8 PM.
Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10-4 PM.
The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts.
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Exploring multiple levels of art making, this wide-ranging exhibit will feature the ways in which art works to benefit the community, local businesses, and The Art Center. Highlighting artists ranging from children and teens, accomplished TAC students, a breakthrough artist in residence, artists with disabilities, a professional for profit gallery, and a graffiti wall with selected hanging work by well-known street artists by special arrangement. The Benefit will also offer a preview of an exhibit by acclaimed Chicago artist Adam Siegel, nationally recognized for the breadth of his work as an abstract painter and photographer.
Every year The Art Center Highland Park (TAC) selects a theme for their biggest annual fundraiser held the first weekend in May. “We wanted to be very transparent this year,” says Executive Director James M Lynch, “that this is a benefit intended to raise nearly 20% of our annual budget. We decided to be direct and call it what it is: THE BENEFIT. Then we added the tagline, Art. Works., because this is a case of mutual benefit between the community, local businesses, and The Art Center, all working together to make our area a great place to live. Too often people think of arts and culture organizations as ‘the icing on the cake’ when, in reality, we’re a key ingredient of the batter for a healthy, vibrant community. It’s fair to say that we benefit the community in a lot of ways.”
TAC has nine full and part-time employees, has 60 teachers who are independent contractors, 1,400 registrations a year producing over $500,000 in tuition, and has a budget just over $1M. It has not turned down a scholarship request in years, pays over $40,000 a year in rent to the City of Highland Park, and nearly $60,000 in building expenses, repairs and utilities. It partners with many other not-for-profits, and was responsive after the 2022 Highland Park Shooting— offering a program to support victims. Additionally, it is the venue for art classes for the Highland Park Senior Center and Arts of Life, a local program for adults with disabilities, and offers a series of wellness classes for seniors. Each February it offers its galleries to local schools, rent-free, to celebrate Youth Art Month, annually drawing thousands of people to the area as a regional hub of arts and culture. TAC is surely a BENEFIT to the community and repeatedly proves that art does indeed work.
According to Nora Daley, Board Chair Illinois Arts Council, “The arts and culture sector accounts for $29.7 billion of the Illinois economy and supports more than 216,700 jobs. Our sector is made up of small to large-sized businesses. Our artists are entrepreneurs. We are economic drivers.”
Community involvement and support, like sponsorship of events and exhibits, benefits the art center. “Hosting this event”, says Jackie Chilow, Director of Events for TAC, “allows us to come together and honor both our efforts and those of our community. Throwing this party gives us a chance to say thank you to everyone who takes classes, attends special events, donates, or supports TAC in any way. We absolutely made TAC the gem of the North Shore arts and cultural scene as a community and we love to celebrate it with a few hundred of our closest friends”.
This year’s event, The BENEFIT: Art. Works., will take place at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, and is open to the public. Tickets are already on sale at The Art Center Highland Park - The Benefit (bidpal.net). Sponsorships and Silent Auction items are requested and you can find out more by calling 847-432-1888 and asking for Jackie Chilow or James M Lynch.
The Art Center Highland Park, a not-for-profit organization, is the North Shore’s home for artistic discovery and creative exploration. Through innovative programs, exhibitions, and classes designed for all levels and ages, The Art Center provides a welcoming space for our diverse communities to experience and participate in the arts. Media
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Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10-4 PM.
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We open up TAC and our outdoor lawn for these monthly summer events and invite anyone and everyone to hang out, listen to music, and peruse our art exhibits.
Our next Late Night will feature The Crossing Borders Music String Quartet and Nisa Pov, Resident Artist of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum. This will be an amazing night of new arrangements of Cambodian classics. Performances will include beautiful new arrangements made by Crossing Borders Music violinist Rasa Mahmoudian and overseen by Pov for the Cambodian Day of Remembrance.
Bring a blanket, dinner, lawn chairs, and enjoy a concert on the TAC Lawn.
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Stop by between the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
No fee or registration required!
Learn more about our quiet alternative to July 4th festivities in The Chicago Tribune
Image: Guests arrive at the Spring Benefit The Art Center Highland Park. (Karie Angell Luc/Lake County News-Sun)
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This will take place on the front steps of TAC, and feature live music from Crossing Borders Music.
Bring a blanket, dinner, lawn chairs, and enjoy a concert.
Where: On the front lawn at TAC
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Tired of the Divide? Have dinner together.
A recent CommUNITY Dinner announcement on a local Facebook group prompted a series of comments about how divided our community can be. The divide, obviously for some, is not just a difference of opinion, but a chasm of misunderstanding. The CommUNITY dinners are not governed by the city of Highland Park and there is no sponsored agenda from any political or government agency. A group of friends has decided to make a grassroots-centered attempt at creating a greater sense of community.
Admittedly, not a solution for everything or everyone, these meetings are an attempt to bring people together to discuss a more united community and create a sense of connection. And it’s not a new project either; It’s a 3-year-old project labeled ‘CommUNITY Dinners’ and it takes place once every quarter at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, from 6:30-8:30 - and the next one is coming soon*.
A group of concerned citizens from multiple groups, TAC, the Highland Park Public Library, the Justice Project, the Human Relations Advisory Board, Go Green HP, the Sister Cities Foundation, and others came together to create this project. The dinners bring together people from different backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to discuss diverse issues in a welcoming and safe space with the goal of expanding perspectives.
We all come together out of a desire to make our community a little better, to contribute what we can as individuals. It is like the Margaret Mead quote, ‘“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
“We’re under no illusion that we’re solving the world’s problems”, says co-founder James M Lynch, Executive Director of TAC, “it’s more of a chance to be among other people who are invested in a better community and recharge our batteries”. People have shared their personal challenges, there have been speakers from all walks of life, documentaries, and sometimes it’s just a chance to check in with others in the community.
Each dinner is a potluck, and everyone brings something from a family recipe, or a favorite dessert, or those pressed for time might bring a pizza, but there is always enough for the group of 30-40 attendees. Originally, there was a shared Google Doc to coordinate the food choices, but participants say that it just seems to work out on its own. “We also ask people to bring their own non-disposable utensils and plates,” adds participant Andy Amend, “because why not be kind to the earth while we talk about improving our community? It just makes sense.”
The event is open to the public and free of charge, but registration is preferred so that the tables and chairs can be prepared. As the group progresses, they hope to host other groups from local religious organizations, social agencies, and any group that comes together to create a deeper sense of community. The next event, in July, has no agenda other than coming together with neighbors, sitting at one table, doing some icebreaker conversation starters to kick things off, or just meeting new people.
The next CommUNITY Dinner is Thursday, July 25, at 6:30, at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL 60035, in the main gallery. The event is free, and The Art Center provides beverages. Register in advance on this doc: CommUNITY Dinner. For more information reach out to info@theartcenterhp.org.
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The Art Center Highland Park throws a vibrant sidewalk chalk extravaganza on August 17th!
This family-friendly event is a celebration of community and creativity, with proceeds supporting scholarships and educational programs. Unleash your inner artist and transform the sidewalks into a masterpiece with one of TAC's Chalk Boxes. Live entertainment throughout the day includes tunes by Ralph Covert of Ralph's World, a meet-and-greet with WTTW's Nature Cat, performances from Bach to Rock, and a visit from the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation's StoryBus. Get a taste of classes with art demos from TAC instructors, and stay for lunch from The Fat Shallot food truck and ice cream truck!
Save the Date - reserve your sidewalk square today!
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What’s your first reaction when you see a painting, sculpture, quilt, or art on a skateboard deck? Gotta have it? How much will that be worth in 10 years? That would look so good in my living room?
Each and every one of those thoughts are valid. Led by Mary Longe, you will leave this session with an understanding of the art marketplace and tips for collecting and managing your art collection, and just in time for The Art Center's Recycled Art Sale October 19-26!
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David Bolton
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Brysen Kawamura
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The Art Center was packed with student artists and their friends and families for last night's opening reception for District 113. We love celebrating these emerging high school artists and providing a venue for them to share their creative endeavors.
Special thanks to the dedicated teachers and staff for going above and beyond to foster the next generation of creatives.
An exhibition that brings together ten women photographic artists exploring the liminal space between time and transience. This body of work represents the universal concepts of loss, mortality, and legacy, and the exploration of what inspires us to seek solace and reexamine our histories; subsequently unearthing discoveries about ourselves, our relationships, and our place in the universe.
To be displayed in the Art Center’s Elkins Gallery.
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Inspired by intimate interviews with her parents about their family history of immigration and assimilation from Eastern Europe to South Africa, Cuba, and ultimately to the United States, this show contemplates issues of personal lived experience and how memories that are uncomfortable or traumatic are processed.
“Postmemory,” is a word coined by Marianne Hirsch that describes— “the relationship that the “generation after” bears to the personal, collective, and cultural trauma of those who came before.” For this series, Gordon pulls imagery from both her own memory and her parents’ and grandparents’ records of history. The scenes depicted are hyperreal dreamscapes that juxtapose the actual with the metaphorical, and the observed with the imagined. The Art Center Highland Park 1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035 Half of the paintings in this series are inspired by Gordon’s mother, who was forced to flee Cuba for the United States as a teenager during the Cuban Revolution. The other half of the series was inspired by her father, who was born and raised in South Africa and who’s anti-apartheid views made it impossible for him to stay. Each painting from the series about her mother has a corresponding painting about her father that hangs side-by-side. While the details within the compositions of the paintings are unique, the layout of the corresponding paintings shares similarities. This illustrates the uniqueness of her parents' family stories, told within the shared framework of Jewish history from all over the world.
Postmemory will open with a free public reception at The Art Center Highland Park on Friday, February 28 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and will run through Saturday, April 5. Viewing is available during gallery hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 AM till 4 PM, and by special arrangement. In the same exhibition period, The Art Center will also show Memory is a Verb: Exploring Time and Transience, an exhibition that brings together ten women photographic artists exploring the liminal space between time and transience. Like Postmemory, this body of work represents the universal concepts of loss, mortality, and legacy, and the exploration of what inspires us to seek solace and reexamine our histories.
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What to Expect:
On March 19, Joe Bednarski and Phil Gayter will spar in an epic live painting event in The Art Center's main gallery!
What to Expect:
On March 19, Joe Bednarski and Phil Gayter will spar in an epic live painting event in The Art Center's main gallery!
What to Expect:
Playing with Light is RZJHS Studio Artists fifth annual exhibit. There will be an opening reception this Wednesday night in TAC's Cortesi Gallery at 7:30 p.m. The show is free and open to the public between March 26-28.
Gallery Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Mon-Sat
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The Art Center Highland Park hosts students from twelve Chicago area high schools as part of the Central Suburban League (CSL) Student Exhibition. Forty VHHS students’ artwork will be displayed at the Art Center to celebrate their creations from this school year. The CSL Student Art Exhibition seeks to unify the CSL schools through the visual arts in this celebration of a select amount of student work representing each school’s Visual Art program. Artwork is also featured from Deerfield, Highland Park, Evanston, Glenbrook North, Glenbrook South, Maine East, Maine South, Maine West, New Trier, Niles North, and Niles West high schools.
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A group show featuring artists represented by Victor Armendariz of Gallery VICTOR. In celebration of The Art Center's 65th anniversary.
Every year, The Art Center holds an art show to go along with its annual Spring Benefit. This year, TAC has invited Chicago gallerist Victor Armendariz to curate a new show titled Our Time.
This exhibition will celebrate art and legacy, commemorating 65 years of The Art Center Highland Park being the North Shore's home for artistic discovery.
2025 Spring Benefit: tickets and info
Raffle
Don't miss out on this private tour for six people of one of the most talked-about estates in Highland Park: Champion’s Point. Known for its architectural grandeur, state-of-the-art amenities, and rich connection to Chicago sports history, this sprawling custom home is a marvel inside and out.
At $100 a ticket (or 3 for $250), it’s a slam dunk!
Silent Auction
Travel, food, artwork, retail - we have a great selection of items in our silent auction and they are available now! The auction will be open until 9:30 PM on Friday, and you don't have to be at the event to participate. Take a look and place a bid on your favorites before they're gone!
Tickets
There are still some tickets remaining for Friday's event. Join us to honor Caren Helene Rudman and Michael Rosengarden, and celebrate 65 years of TAC!
Wear your best creative cocktail attire to get a fashion illustration done by artist Martha Nippert. Enjoy an interactive evening of art, cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and more surprises!
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Lie down, get comfortable, and experience the powerful frequencies of the crystal singing bowls on July 22nd. No skills, abilities, or beliefs are required to participate and/or benefit from the experience. Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, and/or pillow. Chairs will be available upon request.
5:30 to 6:00 p.m. Private gallery walk through with Karen Echt of Echt Gallery.
6:00 to 7:00 p.m. The experience with the crystal singing bowls.
(Bottled water & calming tea will be provided)
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Nikki Renee Anderson, known for her ceramic sculptures and immersive installations, brings a tactile intimacy to the exhibition. Her works challenge static notions of femininity and identity, drawing on personal history to create forms that are at once soft and assertive, playful and deeply psychological. Anderson’s practice reflects a career of national and international acclaim, with exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy. A professor and leader in ceramic education, Anderson’s work reclaims the domestic and decorative as spaces of feminist resistance and self-exploration.
Aaron Becker engages viewers with a sculptural language that distorts familiarity. Trained in ceramics, Becker constructs imagined environments through abstract form and geometric composition, asking us to examine the energies that shape our perception of place. His work, which often pairs the functional with the conceptual, explores the thresholds between domesticity and disorientation. His installations provoke questions about presence, interiority, and what it means to occupy space.
Molly Schiff (1927–2018), a visionary Chicago modernist, rounds out the exhibition with vividly colored paintings that channel emotional immediacy through abstraction. A lifelong creative force who began painting after a career in the garment industry, Schiff earned multiple degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibited widely across Illinois. Her works exemplify a blend of expressive form, bold palette, and open invitation to interpretive intimacy. She remains a cherished figure in Chicago’s art history and her legacy continues to influence new generations.
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Opening Reception: August 8, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: August 8 – September 2025
Location: The Art Center Highland Park 1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
Next Thursday, September 11, join us for a Sound Bath Experience with Chiquita Renee and Aaron Becker at The Art Center. The evening will start with a short visual sound performance by Becker and will be followed up with a sound bath from Chiquita Renee, who will guide participants through an experience with singing bowls.
Sign up now for this unique experience of art and relaxation in the galleries from 7:15 - 8:30 p.m.
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Molly Schiff (1927–2018), a visionary Chicago modernist, rounds out the exhibition with vividly colored paintings that channel emotional immediacy through abstraction. A lifelong creative force who began painting after a career in the garment industry, Schiff earned multiple degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibited widely across Illinois. Her works exemplify a blend of expressive form, bold palette, and open invitation to interpretive intimacy. She remains a cherished figure in Chicago’s art history and her legacy continues to influence new generations. Together, Anderson, Becker, and Schiff present a multi-generational conversation on form, identity, and the surface tensions that define civic life. Facades is more than an exhibition, it is a reflection on visibility, vulnerability, and the connective power of art in public discourse.
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Opening alongside KLAUBA, Beyond the Needle is an exhibition featuring ten tattoo artists from across the United States. Also curated by Teresa Hofheimer, each artist works in a variety of media—from ink drawings to photography—representing the wide world of body art.
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Curated by gallerist Teresa Hofheimer, this large exhibition of paintings and sculpture spans over two decades, referencing George Klauba’s life works as a Navy officer, a tattoo artist, and eventually a celebrated painter and fine artist.
Works by George Klauba are in public and private collections across the U.S., including the New Bedford Whaling Museum, MA; the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, and the Vermillion
County War Museum in Danville, IL. Three Moby-Dick paintings have been chosen for the book covers of Melville’s novel.
KLAUBA will open with a free, public reception at The Art Center from 5:30 to 8:00 pm on March 6, with all works on display for sale through the exhibition’s run.
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The event will take place on Friday, May 8th, 2026, at The Art Center Highland Park, featuring the photography of Sandro Miller.
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Join us for the free public reception on May 15, with a special performance from musical guest Kahil El’Zabar.
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Browse, shop, and enjoy a variety of watercolor works on display. Entry is free, with light refreshments and drinks provided.
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Selected from more than 230 submissions, the exhibition features 93 works spanning painting, photography, printmaking, encaustic, pastel, mixed media, and sculpture in bronze, wood, metal, assemblage, and other media. Installed throughout the Main Gallery, the Cindi Elkins Gallery, the main foyer, and additional first-floor spaces, the exhibition offers visitors an immersive fine art experience.
Fellow Highland Park artist Julie Scoma describes her acrylic painting “Clouds” as quiet and meditative, adding that she values CAVA because \"so often people don't find their art until later in life.\"
CAVA’s Exhibition Manager Susan Bennett believes The Art Center Highland Park provides an exceptional setting for CAVA's signature exhibition, allowing visitors to experience the remarkable diversity of the artwork. James Lynch, Executive Director of The Art Center Highland Park, called the exhibition \"a wonderful way to close out our gallery season. Many of CAVA's members regularly exhibit at TAC, and we're excited to welcome both familiar and new artists into our galleries,” while TAC Gallery Manager Caleb Smith said the exhibition will foster new artistic connections and creative collaborations.
Awards of Excellence, including Best in Show, will be presented during the Opening Reception on Friday, August 14, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., with awards announced at approximately 6:30 p.m. Admission to both the exhibition and reception is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. All artwork is available for purchase with proceeds supporting independent artists and The Art Center Highland Park.
CAVA will also present its annual Learning Symposium on Saturday, September 26, from noon to 3:00 p.m. at The Art Center Highland Park. Topics include estate planning for visual artists, the VibrantCast digital platform, and a panel discussion on gallery representation for older artists. The symposium is free for CAVA members and open to the public for a $10 fee.
About CAVA
Founded in 1988, the Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting, exhibiting, and promoting experienced visual artists through exhibitions, education, professional development, and community engagement. Learn more about CAVA, its events and exhibitions, or to become a member at www.wearecava.org.
About The Art Center Highland Park
The Art Center Highland Park is the North Shore's home for artistic discovery and creative exploration, offering exhibitions, classes, and programs for artists and the community. Learn more at theartcenterhp.org. The Art Center Highland Park is located at 1957 Sheridan Road in Highland Park IL and is open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m. Closed Sundays.
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