IT Picks

Focus in on the fabric of artwork displayed at the Springfield Area Quilt Guild’s A Community of Quilters Quilt Show the weekend of March 19-20. Besides a display of junior and antique quilts and the featured work of 2010 Marian Brockschmidt Quilting Achievement Award recipient Barbara Olinger, view competitive quilts vying in several categories. These […]

Star gazers and animal enthusiasts get two for the price of free at Lincoln Memorial Garden March 12. Trek the trails with two UIS science professors and learn about the night sky and night animals. Dr. John Martin from the astronomy/physics program will have telescopes and teach about the nighttime sky. Biology department vertebrate biologist […]

Families can learn all about collections — how to start a collection and how to keep it in great shape – and explore the collections of Springfield area kids and teens March 13 from 1-3 p.m. at the museum. There will be no sales or appraisals at this event. Families with younger children, ages 4-8, […]

Prairie Art Alliance has a new downtown gallery, Gallery II, located in the old Serendipity shop across from Maldaner’s. The opening day will be March 15. If you’ve seen the original gallery, H.D. Smith Gallery at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, you know that this will be a beautiful and special place. The opening […]

Don’t get pinched. Put on your green attire and march out to downtown Springfield where the Paddy’s Day parade kicks off at noon. The procession of floats, walking units and bands makes its way from Jefferson and Seventh streets, heads south down Fifth Street onto Capitol Avenue heading east. Then it turns north on Sixth […]

The Illinois Products Expo is a great way to discover and sample the goods of some of our local and regional producers. More than 70 Illinois food companies, and a few non-food companies, will exhibit at this food and cooking extravaganza. You can sample the food for free before your purchase. Soy and herb candles, […]

Dr. Eric Grimm, Illinois State Museum botany chair, presents a free lecture, “Global Warming: Past, Present, and Future — Why Florida Should Care about Greenland.” His talk examines major climate and vegetation changes in Illinois since the last ice age, how scientists reconstruct past vegetation and climate, the major drivers of climate change and how […]

Award-winning Guthrie Theater and The Acting Company join together for a national tour with a co-production of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy of innocent young lovers who fall victim to family hatred and a cruel destiny. Swords clash, everlasting love is promised and a treacherous sleeping potion is swallowed in the greatest love story of all time. […]

New striking images of Minneapolis and St. Paul by Midwestern photographers Chris Faust and Michael A. Shapiro will be on display at the SAA Gallery of Art. Faust’s photographs, popular with collectors and curators across the Midwest, have been shown at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Walker Art Center and Weisman Museum along with numerous […]

Families can celebrate Illinois’ cultural diversity at the Illinois State Museum Feb. 27. International displays highlight India, Africa, Italy, Peru, the Underground Railroad, Juneteenth history and more. Activities planned include African drumming, fabric stamping and totem pole making. Hands-on crafts will engage the entire family, as will live performances by the Sokol Polish Folk Dancers, […]