Evanston Art Center
Evanston Art Center
The Evanston Art Center has been a Chicago standard for over 75 years with the finest exhibitions of contemporary art, hundreds of art classes annually, and dozens upon dozens of free educational outreach programs to youth and seniors.
Check before your visit, you might be attending on a day there is a special programs for collectors, educational workshops, or lectures.
A small sampling of what you could experience in just week would be a Domestic Disturbance Exhibit, Find Art will open new artful doors to you, Art after Five highlights the often overlooked collections in major corporations and that is just in addition to the regular collection and exhibitions that are ongoing throughout the year at the Evanston Art Center.
Since its inception in 1929, the Evanston Art Center has been a major force for bringing together people, art and ideas. One of the oldest and largest community visual art centers in Illinois, the Art Center has always been strongly connected to its community roots and local and regional artists are always encouraged to participate in its events.
The Evanston Art Center was created through the efforts of 20 different civic organizations, from 1929 to 1943 the Art Center was housed in the basement of the old Evanston Library. Then, in 1942, the Art Center was incorporated as a nonprofit. Then, in 1966, the City of Evanston offered to lease to the Art Center for a nominal fee the Harley Clarke House, a three-story Tudor mansion on the shore of Lake Michigan, just north of Grosse Point Lighthouse on Sheridan Road. The Museum has been improved over the year and space added to accomodate all the growing exhibits and artifacts, but it is a classic example of successful adaptive reuse in a historic building.
The Evanston Art Center has been a Chicago standard for over 75 years with the finest exhibitions of contemporary art, hundreds of art classes annually, and dozens upon dozens of free educational outreach programs to youth and seniors.
Check before your visit, you might be attending on a day there is a special programs for collectors, educational workshops, or lectures.
A small sampling of what you could experience in just week would be a Domestic Disturbance Exhibit, Find Art will open new artful doors to you, Art after Five highlights the often overlooked collections in major corporations and that is just in addition to the regular collection and exhibitions that are ongoing throughout the year at the Evanston Art Center.
Since its inception in 1929, the Evanston Art Center has been a major force for bringing together people, art and ideas. One of the oldest and largest community visual art centers in Illinois, the Art Center has always been strongly connected to its community roots and local and regional artists are always encouraged to participate in its events.
The Evanston Art Center was created through the efforts of 20 different civic organizations, from 1929 to 1943 the Art Center was housed in the basement of the old Evanston Library. Then, in 1942, the Art Center was incorporated as a nonprofit. Then, in 1966, the City of Evanston offered to lease to the Art Center for a nominal fee the Harley Clarke House, a three-story Tudor mansion on the shore of Lake Michigan, just north of Grosse Point Lighthouse on Sheridan Road. The Museum has been improved over the year and space added to accomodate all the growing exhibits and artifacts, but it is a classic example of successful adaptive reuse in a historic building.
