Fine Art and Design

Urbana’s Gallery Art Bar was packed when I arrived for the June 4th reception for June’s artists in residence, photographers Ace’lyn Henderson and Claire Daly.  While waiting to order my beer, I started viewing the …

Whether it’s visual or performance art, literature or film, Champaign-Urbana has always nurtured a vibrant arts community. We are looking for new contributors for our Arts section: You can see shows before they debut, talk to …

Walking into Hua Nian’s beautiful Urbana home, classroom, studio, and garden is like entering Narnia. There’s a kindness to all that beauty. Nian, a private studio art teacher in Urbana, has been teaching art to …

May’s actual milk moon has passed but you still have a couple more days to experience the colorful, and practical, art of Paula McCarty and Liza Wynette on display now at the Springer Cultural Center …

I’m excited to visit the new exhibit at Parkland’s Giertz Gallery starting next week. We’ve had gorgeous spring weather so far, but summer’s coming and I love the open and cool indoor space of Parkland’s …

Artists and arts educators, I’m coming for you. Art Works is a new series of profiles with working artists in Central Illinois. I’ll be chatting up everyone from graphic designers, painters, sculptors, dancers, actors, photographers, …

Ahhh. June. If you’re a student, a teacher, or in the family circle of most school-aged students, early June feels a bit like one big month-long Friday afternoon. Time to relax. Take a breath. Take …

Architectural photography, writes Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, “is a genre unto its own.” Kalantzis-Cope is the photographer responsible for the stunning images in Immaterial Books’ newest publication, Mid-Continent Modern: The Champaign School of Mid-Century Architecture. Together with …

I’m so looking forward to diving into the newest exhibit at the Springer Cultural Center. Under a Milk Moon opened on May 4th and will run through June 15th. Featuring the work of artists Paula …