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Carbondale Southern Illinois University Museum The University Museum serves Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the greater Southern Illinois community and beyond as a steward of the past and a gateway to the future. We collect, preserve, research, display and educate using a diverse and engaging range of artifacts and objects and educational methods. The Museum illuminates the local and world connections behind the arts, humanities, and sciences. As a teaching museum, we offer hands-on opportunities in progressive museum practices and provide leadership to museums across the region. |
Carterville John A. Logan College Museum and Art Galleries The |
Champaign Krannert Art Museum Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion is a catalyst in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the extended community to support interdisciplinary collaboration and the synthesis of knowledge for the benefit of current and future generations. The museum is a cultural destination and a virtual presence that strives to enrich the human experience by inviting visitors to make connections through the visual arts between the past and present, between what is understood and what is unknown. |
Charleston Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University The Tarble maintains a one-thousand piece permanent collection, including a 500 piece collection of late 20th century Illinois folk arts and related archival information. Intended as a teaching collection, holdings are concentrated on art from Illinois and the region. Also included are select examples of art from other cultures and historical periods in various media. |
Chicago Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 as both a museum and school, first stood on the southwest corner of State and Monroe Streets. It opened on its present site at Michigan Avenue and Adams Street in 1893. Built on rubble from the 1871 Chicago fire, the museum housed a collection of plaster casts and had a visionary purpose: to acquire and exhibit art of all kinds and to conduct programs of education. The collection now encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world, and the school's graduate program is continually ranked as one of the best in the country. Within the next decade, a new complex will continue this process of growth. Chicago Athenaeum International Sculpture Park The Chicago Athenaeum's International Sculpture Park is situated on 20 acres of meadow, forest, and natural prairie and is located one hour from downtown Chicago and five minutes from the Museum's new satellite facility in Schaumburg, Illinois. DePaul University Museum The DePaul University Art Museum is a 4,000-square-foot facility on the university's Lincoln Park campus. Staffed by museum professionals, it serves as a focal point for teaching and discussion through visual arts and material culture. It supports the educational mission of the university through its collections, exhibitions, programs, and events, which allow both students and members of the wider community to explore broadly the visual representation of ideas over time and space. Its collections and programs are diverse, but strongly represent art of the Chicago area. Many of its projects are historical or thematic in focus, but the gallery has a commitment to showing contemporary art as a means of exploring aspects of our own culture. DuSable Museum of African American History The DuSable Museum of African American History, the first and oldest institution of its kind in the country, has been dedicated to the collection, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the history and culture of Africans and Americans of African descent for more than 46 years Loyola University Museum of Art The Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) was founded in 2005 on the Water Tower Campus of Loyola University Chicago. LUMA is located on the Magnificent Mile at the Water Tower in Lewis Towers, an historic 1927 Gothic Revival building. The museum with 35,000 sq. feet contains eight exhibition main galleries, the William G. and Marilyn M. Simpson Lecture Hall, the Solomon Cordwell Buenz Library of Sacred Art and Architecture and the Museum Store, the Push Pin Gallery and the Harlan J. Berk Ltd. Works on Paper Gallery. LUMA welcomes new members and volunteers at all levels of participation. Museum of Contemporary Art One of the nation's largest facilities devoted to the art of our time, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance. Located in the heart of downtown Chicago, the MCA boasts a gift store, bookstore, restaurant, 300-seat theater, and a terraced sculpture garden with a great view of Lake Michigan. Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) is the only museum in the Midwest with an exclusive commitment to the medium of photography. By presenting projects and exhibitions that embrace a wide range of contemporary aesthetics and technologies, the Museum strives to communicate the value and significance of photographic images as expressions of human thought, imagination, and creativity. National Museum of Mexican Art Mexican Art from the Bank of America Collection is a unique survey of one of the most extensive private collections in the U.S. and Mexico and takes a close look at the paintings, prints, and photographs created over the past 80 years. The exhibition examines and celebrates work by artists on both sides of the U.S. - Mexico border, to reveal a variety of cultural aspects as they emerged in the years after the Mexican Revolution. National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum inspires greater understanding of the real impact of war with a focus on Vietnam. The museum collects, preserves and exhibits art inspired by combat and created by veterans. Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago The Oriental Institute Museum is a world-renowned showcase for the history, art, and archaeology of the ancient Near East. The museum displays objects recovered by Oriental Institute excavations in permanent galleries devoted to ancient Egypt, Nubia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, and the ancient site of Megiddo, as well as rotating special exhibits. Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago Located on the University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus, the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art houses a permanent collection of over 10,000 objects, spanning five millennia of both Western and Eastern civilizations. The scope of its permanent collections, combined with ground breaking special exhibitions, a focus on research and teaching by University of Chicago scholars, and distinguished outreach and educational programs geared to both adults and school age children, make the Smart one of the Midwest's most dynamic and innovative educational institutions in the visual arts. Terra Foundation for American Art For fifteen years, the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny in France was dedicated to promoting the understanding of American art. The museum, which focused particularly on transatlantic exchange, operated under the auspices of the Terra Foundation for American Art. In May 2009, the museum will reopen as the Musée des Impressionnismes, Giverny. Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art Today the UIMA is home to one of the world's largest collections of Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American abstract and minimalist works from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The UIMA collection is increasingly being recognized for its breadth and quality. Many of the artists represented have world-class reputations; their works can also be found such places as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, and the Barnes Collection. Yet we here at UIMA consider our "collection" to be much more than a few rooms filled with objects to us it is a collection of priceless memories, it is a representation our heritage, our community, our nation, and our voice. |
DeKalb Northern Illinois University Art Museum As an art museum belonging to an academic institution, the dual roles of the Northern Illinois University Art Museum are to contribute to the university's educational curriculum and to provide opportunities for art education and cultural enrichment throughout the community. The Museum pursues its goal of furthering understanding of the visual arts by presenting a balance of high-quality, professional contemporary art exhibitions supplemented by written educational material, gallery talks, artist lectures, panel discussions, symposia and other related activities. |
Des Plaines Oakton Sculpture Park Oakton's collection of modern and contemporary art is on display at the Des Plaines campus and the Ray Hartstein Campus in Skokie. The collection features commissioned and donated paintings and sculptures mostly by Chicago and Illinois artists and graphic work by such twentieth century masters as Alexander Calder, Salvador Dali, Jean Dubuffet, Fernand Leger, Juan Miro, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenberg, Georges Rouault and Antony Tapies |
Elmhurst Elmhurst Art Museum The Elmhurst Art Museum is the cultural center of DuPage County, Illinois. Specializing in late 20th Century American Art, its award winning building was designed around McCormick House, one of only three Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed residences built in the United States and the first such residence in the U.S. to be re conceived as part of a regional art museum. |
Evanston Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, is the fine arts museum of Chicago's North Shore, offering focused visual arts programming for the Northwestern University community and the greater Chicago area. The Museum mounts several exhibitions a year, organizes numerous lectures, symposia, and workshops with artists and scholars, and screens classic and contemporary films at Block Cinema. We also reach national and international audiences through our traveling exhibitions, publications, and Web site. Our expanding permanent collection — consisting primarily of works on paper — distinguishes the Museum as an important repository of original works of art. |
Mt. Vernon Cedarhurst Center For The Arts Nestled on a 90-acre site in southern Illinois, Cedarhurst celebrates the arts year-round with exciting visual and performing arts programs for the public. Explore rolling meadows and woods, home to Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, the museum's outdoor gallery with over 60 large-scale sculptures. Visit the Mitchell Museum with contemporary art exhibitions in two galleries, including the Children's Gallery. Enjoy works by Mary Cassatt, Maurice Prendergast, Childe Hassam and more, part of the museum's American painting collection acquired by founders John R. and Eleanor R. Mitchell. |
Rockford Rockford Art Museum American Views: Selections from the Permanent Collection documents the evolution of America through more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. The diverse elements inherent in our American culture are underscored through the Museum's provocative installation which contrasts historical art works with contemporary images. |
Skokie Skokie North Shore Sculpture Park There are more than 70 large sculptures along a narrow very lengthy (two-mile) stretch of land by the Chicago River's north channel. It's a peaceful place - except for the traffic whizzing by on one side - and there are benches along the walking & bicycling trail. |
University Park Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park Established 30 years ago, the park has grown into a major collection of 26 works that is set within the wild prairie swales of the Governors State University campus. Located just 34 miles directly south of Chicago's Loop business district and connected by a one-hour Metra train ride to the Millennium Park station, the park is easily accessible by train, automobile, or tour bus. |
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