Illinois Art Station

Stefen Robinson, who performs as Yea Big, abruptly halted his monthly music series at cometogetherspace in downtown Bloomington. A reboot moves to Illinois Art Station, which recently has filled a much-needed gap as a live music venue.

Inside Out Accessible Art and a variety of community organizations offer art projects inspired by nature at an interactive festival in Miller Park.

A collaboration between theater groups and Illinois Art Station brings two interactive performances to Bloomington-Normal.

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.

Percussionist Jon Mueller and guitarist Share Parish team up with experimental musician Stefen Robinson on a pair of albums out this month.

Illinois Art Station, Bobzbay and Desithl have you covered for cozy, indoor activities on a blustery weekend.

The volunteer-run Fulton County Arts hosts art fairs, which give artists from all mediums a place to showcase and sell their work.

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.

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.

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.