Guess where IT was last night? At the Hoogland Center for the Arts where our star helps hold down the floor in the lobby. Last night was the reception for winners of the Prairie Art Alliance Images of Illinois Photography Contest, sponsored by Illinois Times. Congratulations to everyone! This is the entrance to the beautiful […]
H.D. Smith Gallery
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Creative quarters
Prairie Art Alliance allows you to take a peek inside five of its artists’ studios and their private gardens. Included on the tour is Roland and Hazen Folse’s woodworking shop, ceramics and firing and painting studios and Bonsai garden; Sonia Lang painting and sculpture studio and husband George’s garden; Daniel McCarthy woodwork studio and garden; […]
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Springfield Picassos
What makes this month-long installment of three artists impressive is the individual power of each artist’s work and the combination of their unique presentations — each, to use a musical metaphor, sung in a different key. Springfield’s illustrious canvas-sage, Felicia Olin’s pieces are stunning as always, situated on the beautiful sides between haunting and whimsical. […]
