Card making & Art supply swap. Make a card for your favorite valentine and grab a bag of FREE art supplies. 1100 Florence Ave., 12-4p
“I See You” is a series of portrait works on exhibit this November at 1100 Florence Gallery. BLERD: LeVar by Andrew Young.
Evanston Made hosts First Saturday Evanston Art Events, a self-guided exploration of Evanston’s Creative Community, featuring art on display at venues across Evanston. Shop for handmade goods, meet small business owners, enjoy a delicious meal, learn to sketch and make ART Friends!
Join us Saturday, September 2, check for times per location in Evanston. Google Map at evanstonmade.org.
Shop for textiles, prints, art and handmade goods created by Melissa Blount, Saturday, August 27th, 12-5p.
We’re on the West Village Art Crawl during Evanston Made’s First Saturday Evanston Art Events. Click here for citywide listings and a Google map.
1100 Florence Gallery presents Remission, a photography exhibit by Christine Huck
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 1, 5-8p
Artist Talk: Sunday, July 9, 3-5p. The Artist talk will be facilitated by Barbara Diener, Collection Manager and Research Assistant in the department of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago. RSVP here.
Closing Reception: Sunday, July 30, 3-5p
Exhibition Statement
In February of 2022, Christine Huck was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Christine's treatment included chemotherapy every other week from March through August. In April of that year, following her fourth treatment, she was told she was in remission after a PET scan, and continued the subsequent eight treatments as directed by her care team. This body of work, titled Remission, explores her perspective from the time of diagnosis through treatment and into remission. It contains imagery and text related to her everyday experience while in medical care over this period of time, including after she returned to work in mid-September.
Since 2013, Christine had sponsored Lizbeth, an Ecuadorian child through Children International. Lizbeth died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 18 in February of 2022, the same month Christine was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s. All artist profits for this exhibition will go to Lizbeth's family.
Christine Huck graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 2003, with a BFA in painting. She also received an MFA in 2009 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Visual Studies, with a focus in photography, sculpture, and painting. Her primary focus as of late is photography, and she shares much of her work on easily accessible platforms such as Instagram in order to reach audiences both inside and outside of formal art venues.
Summer Gallery Hours; Saturday 12-5p, Sunday 12-5p
Private viewings available, (847)544-8205 or 1100florencegallery[at]gmail.com
1100 Florence Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202
CLOSING DAY of Personality Crash : Portraits of My Father Who Suffered from Advanced Stages of Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia and Sundowners Syndrome
SAFI ALIA SHABAIK
SUNDAY, APRIL 30 @ 12-5 PM
Identity and Fortune is a solo show of artist June Chen Ahleman’s most recent work. The exhibition is extended to March 12. Private viewings available, email 1100florencegallery[at]gmail.com
Polyester Plate Lithography Workshop w Socorro Mucino, Saturday, Feb. 4, 12:30p
Evanston Made is hosting two group shows at 1100 Florence Gallery to kick off the new year this January and February; 3D & Fiber and Prints & Printmaking.
Evanston Made is hosting two group shows at 1100 Florence Gallery to kick off the new year this January and February; 3D & Fiber and Prints & Printmaking. Promo photo “Ordered Chaos” by Carol Hammerman
Dave Ford paintings on exhibit at 1100 Florence Gallery thru Dec. 18.
Join us for a pop up art exhibition featuring new works by students of David Gista.
Participating artists; Colleen Burns, William Needler, Lee Oberlander, Lori Prosnitz, Rob Richard, Janet Stein and Julie Windsor
Opening reception is Thursday, August 4, 6-8p at 1100 Florence Ave.
Evanston Made’s First Saturday Evanston Art Events invite the community to explore Evanston’s Creative Community, at openings and events across Evanston. Build your art-filled day using this Google Map
Curated by Robin Ryan of Hen & Jay, this pop up invites you to shop for fiber art, textiles, ceramics by Grandmont Street, and more. Shop this Saturday and Sunday only, 12-5p, at 1100 Florence Ave., in the West Village Arts District of Evanston, IL.
Join us for a weekend art pop up, featuring new works by artist Ruth Hodgins. December 4 & 5, 12-5p., 1100 Florence Avenue, Evanston, IL
Artist Rose Camastro-Pritchett brings the “Comfort Women” Project to 1100 Florence Gallery, October 1 - 27, 2021. The exhibition features exquisite works by Camastro-Pritchett on handmade paper along with the interactive Break the Silence: Message Board.
Join us for the opening night reception Friday, October 1, 6-8p
Visit Dave Ford’s interactive playground installations Swing Set Drum Kit and See Saw Organ Pipes this Saturday, during Evanston Made’s First Saturday Evanston Art Events, 12-3p.
Join artist Annie Asebrook for the unveiling of “Demodulator”, a light installation viewable from the sidewalk, this Saturday, June 5, 8-10p, sidewalk reception at 1100 Florence Gallery in Evanston. "Demodulator” is on exhibit thru June 30.
Matt Braun’s paintings and drawings are inspired by Braun’s experiences living, teaching and traveling in India, Nepal and Myanmar. Braun will be donating 20% of all proceeds from the sales of these paintings to Mutual Aid Myanmar in support of the Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar. https://www.mutualaidmyanmar.org/
These seven images serve as a historical account of the Howard Corridor into Southeast Evanston. I challenged myself to “re-imagine” the urban landscape forcing an aggressive 2-point perspective, choosing a “retro” inspired palette to block in the shapes and employing turn-of the century glazing techniques to draw out the sense of warmth and shadow. Mark Cleveland, 3/15/21.
First Saturday Evanston Art Events this Saturday, March 6, invite the community to experience Evanston’s Thriving Art Scene. Events require masks and practicing social distancing.
Art Exhibits and Openings
“LOVE”. Space 900 Core artists group show: Todd Anderson, Ken Avick, Colleen Conley, Clark Ellithorpe, Judy Freilich, Jill King Wynn, Joanna Pinsky, Judy Solomon, February 6 – March 6, 2021. SPACE900, 816 Dempster St., 12-4p
Lisa Zschunke, Village Farmstand, 810 Dempster, 10a-3p
My Covid Year: Beth Adler. Gallery 901, Open Studio Project, 901 Sherman Ave., 3-5p
Little Free Art Gallery Grand Opening, 1127 Dewey, 12p
Cie Bond, 1100 Florence Gallery, 1100 Florence Ave., 1-3p
Art Under Glass
Mask up and stroll by art on display in storefronts across Evanston
Rhonda K. Brown, Julia Finlayson, Joanna Kramer at 1040 Wesley Ave
Peter Kime, 1400 Greenleaf (corner of Greenleaf and Wesley)
Cie Bond, 1100 Florence Ave.
Alice George & Beth Adler, 1125 Florence Ave.
TreMain Art, 838 Custer Ave.
Cherie Lockett, Jamie Thome, Will Allen, Darren Oberto, Rob Larson, Jennifer Frankfurter, 700 Church St.
David Roberts, School Room Gallery, 1321 Emerson Ave.
Shop
Joanna Kramer Ceramics Studio, 1040 Wesley Ave., 10a-4p
Kombucha Brava, Kombucha orders can be made online at https://kombuchabrava.com, 717 Custer Ave., 10a-3p
Artem Pop Up Gallery, 1627 Sherman Ave., 11a-6p
Nature Art Exhibit!
Winter Wonderland at Canal Shores Closing Weekend
Walk thru Canal Shores Golf Course and find Nature Art Installations during Winter Wonderland’s last weekend. See a map of nature art at EvanstonMade.org
Fire pit by the Pro Shop will be lit, 3-5p, weather permitting
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Donate here, any amount helps, evanstonmade.org/donate/
This March, on exhibit in the gallery windows, new works by artist Cie Bond. Cie (pronounced see) is a West Village Arts District neighbor, and a prolific creator. Her studio, in the basement of her home, is packed with new 2D works and fiber art. This exhibit will focus on 2D multimedia works created in the last year, and embrace a sense of whimsy and hope that Spring and better days are on the way!
Join us for an outdoor reception with Cie on Saturday, March 6, 1-3p. Masks and social distancing required.
Artist Bio
Cie Bond grew up in a family of artists in Ann Arbor MI. She is a life-long maker who loves gardening, cooking, painting, collage, sewing and everything textiles. She weaves all these into resolutely happy mixed-media pieces for herself and others to enjoy.
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1100 Florence Gallery (https://www.1100florence.com)
Once a Polish Meat Shop, then a cabinet shop, this storefront now houses art and events, with easy street access and plenty of sunlight! Located on the corner of Greenleaf and Florence at 1100 Florence Ave., Evanston, IL 60202
On exhibit in the gallery windows, Sugar Creek Folks by artist Jevoid Simmons. The prints of paintings are part of Simmons’ upcoming book, Up from down Home: A Family’s Journey North. The paintings were executed over a seven-year period with the last one completed in 2015, illustrating the extraordinary hardships and the life and death struggle faced by Black folks living in the South under Jim Crow.
In addition to painting, Simmons is a woodcarver and storyteller. His carvings are ongoing and capture family, friends, acquaintances and other characters from the past. The carvings are a part of a collection called Sugar Creek Folks.
Linda Summerfield and Evanston Made are partnering to raise funds for Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Legal Defense Initiative with a Mail Art Fundraiser! Mail Art from around the world will be on display in the windows at 1100 Florence Gallery and online, and sold for $50 each, all funds go to the cause. Stay tuned for a slide show of cards and instructions on how to purchase.
Florence Avenue will be closed from Crain to Greenleaf, 12-6p, Saturday, Sept. 5, as part of Evanston Made's First Saturday Evanston Art Events. Explore the heart of the West Village Arts District, Florence Avenue! See art, buy art, make art! Free and open to the public, masks and social distancing required!
Evolution of Dissolution, a multimedia exhibit about love, marriage and divorce- sculpture, paintings, found objects featuring new works by Amy Gertler. Exhibit runs March 7 - 20, Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7, 6-9p
Group Show featuring works by Evanston Made Member Artists expressing their love for Evanston! Photo: Stitch by Jordan Scott.
First Saturday Evanston Art Events, 2/1, 10-9p, enjoy Evanston's Art Scene at art openings, pop up sales, community art making & more. #collectevanstonart
Drawings & sketches done in the studio, priced to sell. Artist Talk, Jan. 15, 7p • Exhibit runs jan. 4 - 17. Gallery Hours Sundays 12-5p, Wednesdays 5-8p, Fridays 5-8p
