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Visual Arts

Light, motion and color surround a face as lightning strikes on one side of the painting.

New Evanston Art Center exhibition inspired by cosmos, Black experience

February 24, 2022

Yaoundé Olu started creating art at the age of two. The pioneering multi-disciplinary artist and musician considers herself a storyteller and retro-futurist and said she wants to show different perspectives...

Front entrance of the Block Museum of Art.

Block Museum presents “Wilmington 10 — USA 10,000” in screening event

February 21, 2022

Filmmaker Haile Gerima’s 1979 film “Wilmington 10 — USA 10,000” came to the Block Museum of Art for a screening event Friday. The film was accompanied by an introduction and Q&A with University...

A Black man sits on a bench to the side of a brick wall on which white letters read, “Stop white people from killing us” and “action.” The image is in black and white.

“A Site of Struggle” brings historical context to anti-Black violence

January 30, 2022

Featuring about 65 works of art, Block Museum’s latest exhibit, “A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence” highlights depictions of anti-Black violence from the 1890s to 2013. The...

The exterior of a storefront. The wall is brick painted purple. A large banner above the door reads, “The WasteShed Evanston,” also in purple. There is a purple sign with whales on it that reads, “Enter to the right.”

The WasteShed Evanston brings creative reuse to the North Shore

January 6, 2022

Not everyone would expect to see a coffin-turned-ball-pit when they walk into an art store, but at The WasteShed in Evanston, customers can see exactly that and more unique, donated items.  “People...

A piece of artwork with scribbles of warm colors.

Alum Matt Irie’s “Arresting Gestures” at Evanston Art Center explores tension between reality and simulation

November 22, 2021

Matt Irie (TGS ’02) always had a passion for manipulating the mundane. The artist has transformed items as simple as a saucepan, bath towel and even a stop sign into works of art. “There's something...

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