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Artists have 48 hours to build an original painting that will be auctioned off this Sunday. Half the proceeds of all sales benefit Illinois Art Station.
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Percussionist Jon Mueller and guitarist Share Parish team up with experimental musician Stefen Robinson on a pair of albums out this month.
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Illinois Art Station, Bobzbay and Desithl have you covered for cozy, indoor activities on a blustery weekend.
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The volunteer-run Fulton County Arts hosts art fairs, which give artists from all mediums a place to showcase and sell their work.
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The second annual Further Jazz Festival includes an 8-piece band playing Oliver Nelson's 1961 landmark album, "Blues and the Abstract Truth," led by Oliver Nelson, Jr.
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Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is best known as Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby. She takes a break from fairy training to bring comedy cabaret, puppet-making and a sock called Lolly Lardpop to Bloomington-Normal and Peoria. Carrara-Rudolph and Normal native Paul Rudolph will sit down to talk about their journeys to Sesame Street at the end of the four-day residency next month.
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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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A new gallery at Illinois Art Station called #3YearsIn3Lines encourages youth to reflect on the long arc of their pandemic experiences. The community-sourced exhibition will be contributed to a COVID-19 archive at the McLean County Museum of History.
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A crowd gathered in Miller Park on Saturday to celebrate a new public art piece about "Creating Safe Spaces." More than 40 youth artists worked with local arts organizations and police officers to create the colorful, large-scale painting while community building.
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Youth art camps are already filling up at Illinois Art Station. As the art center rounds the bend on one full year since moving into their new home on Vernon Avenue, new leadership by a familiar face in the Twin Cities arts scene is returning the non-profit to its community roots and reigniting the Youth Mural Project for the first time since 2019.