Many people interested in learning how to paint on canvas turn to academe
and enroll in semester-long classes. Others seek guidance from Springfield Art
Association or the Prairie Art Alliance.
In 1966, Bob Waldmire and I were enrolled at Springfield Junior College, and
already he was known as an artist whose star was on the rise. And though many
artists are destined to follow their s
For the first time in the history of the Prairie Art Alliance, organizers
have assembled an exhibit of works by faculty at Springfield's different institutions
of higher education, including Ro
Some social anthropologists suggest that the impressions made on the life
of a young child through the age of 5 "set the table" for how the young person
relates to the rest of the world for the
Springfield's oldest retail art gallery was launched in 1970 as an afterthought
to the restoration of the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices at the corner of Sixth
and Adams streets. Three families ha
Morrisonville native Thomas "Thom" Whalen saw a lot of the country before
settling down almost where he started. After grad school at the University of
Kansas in Lawrence, Whalen lived in Kansa
Danville native Grace Eckert didn't take art classes in high school, even
though she knew she was going to be an artist. Her father, a math professor
at Illinois State University and the Univer
More than 60 artists from 12 states have registered for this weekend's Edwards
Place Fine Crafts Festival, an annual event hosted by the Springfield Art Association.
The number of participants
As a tide of "getting back to our roots" sweeps the country, woodcarving is
gaining in popularity. The phenomenon will be in evidence this weekend at the
14th annual Sangamon Valley Woodcarvers
One of the longest-lasting galleries in Springfield evolved not from dreams
of framed immortality but from the desire to put down roots in a relatively
small Illinois community. Art Concepts is