Visual Arts
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Best Bets: Elgin's Ballet Folklorico Huehuecoyotl celebrates 25th anniversarySep 29, 2021 1:00 pm - Dancing anniversary Elgin's own Ballet Folklórico Huehuecoyotl celebrates its 25th anniversary this weekend. See performances of traditional Mexican folk dances at ...
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Artist Linda Schmitt wins People's Choice Award for 2021 'Take Flight' art banner exhibitSep 23, 2021 11:00 pm - The West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission named Chicago area artist Linda Schmitt as the People's Choice Award winner for the 2021 art banner exhibit titled "Take Flight...
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Pop-up art show Saturday in Prospect HeightsSep 23, 2021 1:00 am - Local artists will be featured in a pop-up art show and sale from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Izaak Walton Park, 201 N. Elmhurst Road in Prospect Heights. Attendees...
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Stop by ArtWalk pop-up show and sale Sept. 25 in Prospect HeightsSep 22, 2021 11:00 pm - Local artists will be featured in a pop-up art show and sale on Saturday, Sept. 25. Stop by Izaak Walton Park, 201 N. Elmhurst Road in Prospect Heights, between 11 a.m....
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Fine Line hosts 'Small Wonders' exhibit through Oct. 9Sep 21, 2021 11:00 pm - "Small Wonders," the current show at Fine Line's Kavanagh Gallery in St. Charles, celebrates small pieces of art. The idea for the show came from a discussion about the...
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Festivals Sept. 24-30: Long Grove Apple Fest, Fright Fest, Oktoberfests and moreSep 20, 2021 11:00 pm - This weekend Goebbert's Fall Festival: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Sunday, Oct. 31, at 42W813 Reinking Road, Pingree Grove, and 40 W. Higgins Road in South Barrington...
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Constable: Artist's stroke of inspiration with kids turns summer from gloomy to gloriousSep 18, 2021 1:00 am - By Burt Constable Facing what very well could have been a "Summer of COVID" with isolation, segregation and even some mutual antagonism, artist Carol Keene found a way t...
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Best Bets: Lyric Opera crowns a new 'Macbeth'Sep 15, 2021 7:30 am - Shakespearean tragedy Former St. Charles resident Sondra Radvanovsky makes her role debut as Lady Macbeth in Verdi's "Macbeth" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The new pro...
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College of DuPage alumnus creates vaccination video for Arts Alliance IllinoisSep 14, 2021 11:00 pm - College of DuPage alumnus Ryan Jolly is promoting the COVID-19 vaccine through a short animated film that he created as part of Arts Alliance Illinois' "Vax to Get Back"...
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College of DuPage unveils downtown Glen Ellyn mural, launching DuPage Public Art ProjectSep 14, 2021 11:00 pm - College of DuPage and community leaders recently unveiled two, 8-by-10-foot acrylic murals painted by world-renowned artist and COD alumnus Tony Fitzpatrick in the heart...