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Local Arts/Crafts
Blick Art Materials
343-6181
695 US Hwy 150 East
Blick Art Materials
Bluestone Forge
368-7967
Galesburg
Calico Cat
342-2212
88 S. Seminary St.
Calico Cat
Dove Tail Arts
344-3683
107 N. Seminary St.
Dove Tail Arts
From the Heart
343-5849
65 S. Seminary St.
From the Heart
Galesburg Antiques Mall Co
344-1918
349 E Main St
Galesburg Antique Mall Co
Galesburg Civic
Art Center
342-7415
114 E. Main St.
Galesburg Civic
Arts Center
JoAnn Fabric and Craft
344-1918
1920 N Henderson St
JoAnn Fabric
and Craft
Maple City Pottery
309-734-4791
620 South Main Street
Monmouth Illinois
61462
Maple City Pottery
Hawthorne Centre
Craft Mall
344-2818
2188 Veterans Dr.
The Finishing Touch
345-0825
Sandburg Mall
The Finishing Touch
Stained Glass
Creations by Carolina
343-9998
108 E. Main St.
Gossamer Wings
341-1606
902 Olive St.
Quinn's Stained Glass
289-6925
1291 US Hwy 150 E., Knoxville
January 22, 2009
Illinois Artisans Program is Calling all Artists
Artists working in all media are encouraged to apply by March 28th
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Museum’s Illinois Artisans Program (IAP), is once again seeking the best artists the state has to offer. The IAP invites artists in all media, including pottery, folk, traditional, contemporary, ethnic, jewelry, fiber, wearables as well as fine art forms to apply.
“The Illinois Artisans Program seeks to bring national and statewide attention to the work of Illinois artists,” said IAP Director Carolyn Patterson. “We strive to increase artists’ sense of importance as valued members of our communities and enhance their potential for economic advancement.”
Juried members of the Illinois Artisans Program are able to market their work through sales galleries in Chicago and Rend Lake and through museum stores in Springfield and Lewistown. Venues are operated under the statutory authority of the Illinois State Museum Society (ISMS), the Museum’s nonprofit entity. There are currently more than 1600 juried artists in the IAP.
Interested artists must live and work in Illinois and are required to submit an application, 6-10 digital images, artist statement, resume, a self-addressed stamped envelope, and a $20 application fee made out to ISMS. Deadline for submission is March 28, 2000."
“A panel of highly distinguished art professionals formally reviews the applications and selects new members,” said Patterson. “Artists should submit a cohesive body of work that represents their most recent efforts. Once work is accepted, artists are able to sell work in the Illinois State Museum Stores and Artisans shops state-wide. Artists must resubmit to jury if they decide to switch media.”
For more information and to download an application visit the IAP website at www.museum.state.il.us/artisans or send a self addressed stamped envelope to Illinois Artisans Program, James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph, Suite 2-200, Chicago, IL 60601.
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Check out some art from artist Dorothea Tanning. She was born August 25, 1910 and is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer:
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Welcome local artist Megan Robinson! Megan is a Monmouth College student who has gracouisly allowed us to post some of her art work online below. Her creative, unique style is a breath of fresh air.
Title "Daydream" - Media is watercolor and pencil
Self Portrait - media is acrylic.
Title "Monroe" - media is pencil
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Chris Verene has been documenting his birthplace
- the town of Galesburg, Illinois - for the past 18 years. Although Verene has produced a number of acclaimed series (including “Camera Club” and “The Self-Esteem Salons”), it is the
Galesburg work that is the most revered and historically
significant. A. D. Coleman, writing for the New York Times
Book Review, states, "Chris Verene is a most appealing
newcomer, a diamond in the rough whose square color pictures record his family and friends in candid, unvarnished fashion.
The tacky interiors, worn clothes and forlorn expressions in the pictures suggest that not all is well in Galesburg, but Verene
adds a commentary that tries its best to be upbeat and
compassionate. ...the larger shadow hanging over Verene's
work belongs to Diane Arbus, and that is not a bad thing."
Poignant, empathetic, touching, and humorous, The Galesburg
Series is also frequently challenging. Verene has been compared
to Walker Evans, William Eggleston, and Nan Goldin. An
indication of the dynamic complexity of The Galesburg Series
is the oft-debated potentially-exploitative aspect of these candid pictures. 
Depicting a “...semi-rural underclass that is seldom represented elsewhere, these images participate in the tradition of socially-conscious documentary-photography as well as the offbeat regionalism associated with William Eggelston,” asserts Philip Auslander, writing in ArtForum in 2004. Auslander goes on to
ponder the fine line between representation and exploitation,
as each viewer is also left to reach his own conclusion.
Chris Verene’s work is in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the High
Museum of Art and others. Verene was the first-ever
photographer to receive a Pollock-Krasner Grant for full
support (2002-2003). Verene was represented in the 2000
Whitney Biennial, and his “Self-Esteem Salon: The Orphanage”
was an invitational feature in the 2005 Armory Art Fair,
New York. His work has been exhibited in countless museums
and galleries worldwide, and his bibliography includes
PARKETT, ArtForum, Harper’s Magazine, Flash Art,
Aperture, Vanity Fair, Art in America and the New York Times, among many others. His work was last seen locally at The
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, in a mid-career retrospective exhibition in 2004.
