With live music playing in the background and spring temperatures in the mid-60s, people strolled up and down the Main-Dempster Mile on Thursday for the second annual Evanston Arts & Craft Beverage Crawl. Co-hosted by local art nonprofit Evanston Made and the Main-Dempster Mile, the event celebrated Evanston businesses, serving locally brewed craft drinks and.
The Evanston Arts Council will fund 20 local artists, art organizations and community art groups, awarding $70,000 in grants. The Cultural Fund Grant recipients range from Claudia Renteria, who works with local organization Evanston Latinos to promote Latine artists, to Chicago chamber music group Crossing Borders Music. The grant, which was open for applications from.
The Evanston Arts Center announced its new Weighardt/Kawamura scholarship Tuesday. The need-based scholarship will fund eight students’ tuition for arts center classes each year for 25 years. It will also display 20 artists’ work each year. The center also renamed its second floor gallery the Sueko Kawamura Gallery. Arts Center member and artist Sueko Kawamura,.
After COVID-19 forced the event to go online in 2020, “A Bright Night for the Arts,” an annual celebration of visual and performing arts of Evanston, was held in person on Thursday night at the Evanston Art Center. The event, hosted by the Evanston Arts Council and the city’s mayor, incorporated elements of both visual.
Noyes Cultural Arts Center’s newest exhibition, “What is Racial Justice?,” seeks to spark conversations around race, power and equity. More than 20 artists from Evanston and the greater Chicago area contributed to the show, curated by Fran Joy, a member of Evanston Made and a former member of the Evanston Arts Council. One of Joy’s.