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Is a cup just a cup? 'Contemporary Ceramics' at the McLean County Arts Center has a range of answersHarris Deller retired a decade ago after 45 years of teaching at Southern Illinois University. He's part of a wide-ranging group show at the McLean County Arts Center highlighting contemporary ceramicists.
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"All Hearts Beneath the Sun" is not a chronological retrospective. Rather, pieces from University Galleries' permanent collection are grouped thematically based on aesthetic connections, plus influences visiting artists had on Illinois State students who went on to careers of their own.
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Peoria artist Peytin Fitzgerald's "Falling in Between" is on view at Joe McCauley Gallery at Heartland Community College. Fitzgerald is a printmaker and self-taught textile artist who learned how to sew as a grad student during COVID. The show explores what is passed down intentionally — and inevitably — through generations.
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Adam Farcus' nomadic curatorial project called Lease Agreement is leaving at the end of the month. The DIY pop-up gallery in downtown Bloomington hosts Whitney Johnson's "Three Handfuls of Pennies" for a few more days.
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Joe McCauley Gallery's current exhibit highlights four artists with varying degrees of influence from Japanese art and culture, including a printmaker and textile artist working in central Illinois.
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For just one more week at the Coffeehouse in Uptown Normal, “Survivor Love Letters" is a collection of fine art, poetry, short stories and letters written to victims of sexual assault. Curator Kylie Ashton Maurer discusses how the project helped her and others heal.
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An exhibit and accompanying film screening at University Galleries share Chicago's 1970s "Imagism" movement. Though not a formal collective, the imagists share some aesthetic distinctions.
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Matt Jagitsch draws lifelike portraits and wildlife using white-on-black technique called reverse drawing. Rick Decorie takes his camera to Midwest junk yards in search of old cars and architectural artifacts. Both spent decades in different fields. Their concurrent solo shows at their McLean County Art Center prove any time is the right time to kick-start an art career.
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Work by St. Louis-based photographer Jess T. Dugan blends photographs and text in an exhibit at University Galleries. Called "I Want Your to Know My Story," the show journeys through portraiture and still life with a queer lens — but it's not about queerness.
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Through Aug. 26, 60 artists and more than 70 artworks are part of an eclectic exhibit at the McLean County Arts Center. At first, they might not appear to go together, but the pieces that make up “The Painter’s Pedagogy” all have a connection to Harold Gregor.