Visual Art

The current exhibit at the consistently innovative UIS Visual Arts Gallery is not your grandmother’s ceramics display. A series of evocative, colorful and otherworldly shapes, the elegant “Oblique Frontiers” offers hints of an alternate reality of tactile beauty and mysterious utility. Artist Tyler Lotz is a professor of ceramics at the Illinois State University College […]

DEMO Project may be the best-kept secret in the Springfield art scene, even after four years of presenting thoughtfully programmed monthly exhibitions by innovative artists from a variety of locations. The small house located on the Springfield Art Association campus was formerly living quarters for caretakers of the historic Edwards Place and is slated for […]

Since first opening in the summer of 2011, the Pharmacy Gallery and Art Space has transformed from a group of scrappy upstarts to something of an area institution – all without losing a combined sense of fun and exploration along with a self-evident belief in the intrinsic value of local, independently produced art. On Friday, […]

On Nov. 21, the Illinois Executive Mansion hosted an artist’s reception for Olu-Jimi Adeniyi of Springfield, resident artist for the Springfield and Central Illinois African-American History Museum. The exhibit, which completed its run on Nov. 26, is intended to be the first of many to grace the mansion’s gallery once renovations are completed sometime in […]

The Trutter Center at Lincoln Land Community College presents “Trutter: Black and White.” Art and artifacts from the travels of Springfield architect Philip Trutter and his wife, Mary Kathryn Trutter, are on display along with black and white photographs of Trutter’s architectural projects, which include Capital Airport, the Municipal Building West, Franklin Junior High School […]

A collaboration between Pharmacy member artists Felicia Olin and Jeff Williams. The Pharmacy has been presenting quarterly group shows featuring work by its member artists since November 2011. Through the ensuing five years, a change of location and many members joining and leaving (and sometimes rejoining), the spirit of the Pharmacy has always been one […]

Patrons at the “Translations” opening. “Translations,” the first new group exhibit featuring members of the Springfield Art Association since its merger with the Prairie Art Alliance early this year, is currently on display at the newly rechristened SAA Collective in the H.D. Smith Gallery at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. It proves an auspicious […]

An opening reception for the “Exhibit of Liturgical and Sacred Art” will be held on Saturday, April 30, from 4:30-6:30pm at the Springfield Art Association as part of the 11th annual Liturgical Arts Festival of Springfield. The Liturgical Arts Festival of Springfield is a weeklong interfaith arts festival presented every two years by a nonprofit, […]

The Capital City Visitors Guide Cover Art Contest Gallery Event was held at the Pharmacy Gallery on Friday April 1. PHOTO BY DAVID HINE On Friday, April 1, Illinois Times joined forces with The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space to present the results of the first-ever Illinois Times Capital City Visitor’s Guide Cover Art Contest […]

Celebrate and showcase the wonder of Illinois by entering your shot-in-Illinois photography in the 2016 Images of Illinois photography contest. To qualify, photos must have been taken on lands or in waters within Illinois state boundaries between Feb. 1, 2015, and March 12, 2016. Contest entries are separated into four classes: Professional, Amateur, Youth 13-17 […]

“Bremer Prairie,” by Ginny Lee, is part of the exhibition at Hoogland Center for the Arts through Feb. 25. PHOTO COURTESY H.D. Smith Gallery Prairie Art Alliance member artist Ginny Lee has come to terms with technology. “Even a year ago I was a little bit iffy about showing iPhone photos made with apps. But […]

 Art by Janet Sgro The artists of The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space will be hosting Pharm Aid this Saturday, October 3, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.. It is the nonprofit group’s second annual fundraising event with all proceeds benefiting The Pharmacy, which is in the process of applying for  501c3 status. Money raised will […]