See artists’ depiction of wild west at art meeting

Submitted by Fox Valley Community Associates

Fox Valley Community Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago will hold its next meeting Sunday, Jan. 13, at the Lincoln Inn, 1345 Batavia Ave. (Route 31) in Batavia. The topic will be “Imagining the American West.”

Cowboys and Indians are the American heritage of the settling of the western plains and mountains. Artists have visualized, mythologized, and romanticized the American West. Allison Muscolino will lead you through the work of Elbridge Ayer Burbank, Frederic Remington, and Charles Marion Russell, along with the Wild West shows of Buffalo Bill Cody.

The West, as shown by these artists, is explored as a nostalgic vision that influenced people’s perspectives of the land and the people living there. They also examine the particular relationship between Chicago patrons and artists depicting the western landscape.

Allison Muscolino earned her bachelor and master degrees in fine arts from the University of Notre Dame. She has been associated with the Art Institute since 2008 as coordinator of senior programs, coordinator of the Woman’s Board, and is now the Community Associates coordinator.

Join them at the recently renovated Lincoln Inn in Batavia for this evening program. Nonmembers are welcome to this program. The cost is $55 for members and nonmembers alike and includes the lecture and dinner. Social hour with appetizers begins at 4 p.m., the lecture is at 5 p.m. and dinner is served at 6:30 p.m. For reservations call Pauline, (630) 587-6468 by Saturday, Jan. 5.