Evanston Art Center

was the home of the Evanston Art Center from 1966 to 2015. The Evanston Art Center was founded in October, 1929. It was officially incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1942. which considerably expanded the available space. The move was funded by a capital campaign that raised $2.5 million. == Notable people ==

Artists and students Artists who were students or who exhibited at Evanston Art Center: • Jane Fulton Alt, photographer • Carol Diehl, painter, art critic, and poet • Fay Peck (1931–2016), American Expressionist painter and printmaker Teachers • George Cohen (1919–1999), painter and Northwestern University faculty • Harry Mintz (1904–2002), Polish-American painter and professor at Washington University in St. Louis and later at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago • Corey Postiglione (born 1942), American abstract artist == Exhibitions ==

Past exhibitions held at the Art Center include: • 2018 – Multiple Perspectives featured photography-based works by Columbia College Chicago faculty member Fred Camper and two other artists. • 2018 – Catching Light: The Art of Architecture, which featured works by Heather Hancock and Jack Nixon, was "an exhibition that considers the architecture and design of our intertwined natural and manmade landscapes." • 2017 – Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, a multimedia exhibition including photographs by Jeanine Michna-Bales. • 2017 – New Work, which featured abstract pieces by Annette Turow and Linda Robinson Gordon. • 2017 – Undefinable: Women’s Health in America, curated by Chicago artist Caren Helene Rudman and including works by herself and nine other female artists, featured commentaries on women's health in the United States. • 2011 – Dimensional Lines: Art + Dress featured a collaboration between artists and fashion designers curated by SAIC’s Fashion Resource Center Director Gillion Carrara. == References ==