Museum to feature art from Elmhurst College Jazz Festival
Thanks to a collaboration between the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival and the Elmhurst Art Museum, the art museum will exhibit a collection of drawings and paintings commemorating the acclaimed collegiate jazz festival as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
For the last half century, the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival - which runs Feb. 23-26 this year - has welcomed the industry's top professional musicians and some of the nation's best college bands to perform on the Elmhurst College campus. The performance venue, Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel, displays vibrant, large-scale banners of such jazz luminaries as Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and Dizzy Gillespie. Another of the jazz festival's distinctive traditions has been to commission an artist each year to design an album/CD cover to commemorate the event.
This year, the Elmhurst Art Museum will exhibit a collection of this commemorative artwork, as well as the festival's performance banners, which were painted by former jazz band vocalist and Elmhurst College alumna Bethany Norman from the Class of 2009. The exhibition will be accompanied by a jazz soundscape featuring highlights from the festival.
The exhibit opens Saturday, Feb. 18, and ends on Sunday, April 30, at the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday. Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors 65 and older, and free for students and ages 18 and younger.
For information, visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.
If you go
What: Art from the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival
When: Saturday, Feb. 18, to Sunday, April 30
Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and closed Monday
Where: Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst
Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors 65 and older, free for students and ages 18 and younger
Info: elmhurstartmuseum.org