David Adler Music and Arts Center Announces Call for Artists

The David Adler Music & Arts Center Announces

Brush up your Shakespeare: A Call for Artists

To celebrate the Lake County Discovery Museum's selection as Illinois' host site for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, the David Adler Music and Arts Center will curate a national juried exhibition of fine art inspired by Shakespeare's words in February 2016. Artists are invited to submit entries for Brush up Your Shakespeare before November 15, 2015.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, in partnership with the American Library Association and the Cincinnati Museum Center, is touring Shakespeare's First Folio through all 50 states in 2016 to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. The First Folio is the first collected copy of Shakespeare's plays, and was published seven years after his death, in 1623. It contains several plays that were performed on stage during Shakespeare's life, but were left unpublished at the time of his death. Without it, plays including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, and As You Like It, would have been lost.

"It's very exciting that Lake County has been chosen as the host for Illinois," says Tanya Facchini, Arts Program Coordinator. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our community, and for the artists who will participate."

During the First Folio's time at the Lake County Discovery Museum, a wide variety of Lake County theatres, museums, libraries and arts organizations will host supporting exhibitions. In addition to Brush up Your Shakespeare, the David Adler Music and Arts Center will host "Shakespeare Meets Song" a concert featuring the voices of Chicago performers, Ellen Williams & Jen Vanselow on Saturday, February 27, at 7pm.

Brush up Your Shakespeare is open to artists of all media, both two and three-dimensional work is accepted, and artists may submit up to three pieces. The final entry deadline is Sunday, November 15, 2015. Applications may be found on line at www.adlercenter.org.

The David Adler Music and Arts Center is dedicated to making music and the arts an integral part of everyday life. Its year-round activities are designed to foster critical thinking and interpretation, participation, entertainment, and achievement in music and the arts for the people of Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. The David Adler Music and Arts Center maintains and interprets the historic home of architect David Adler, which is the base of its activities, and a visual image of the harmony between music, the arts, and daily life. The David Adler Music and Arts Center is located at 1700 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville.