Illinois Watercolor Society: Reception

A not-for-profit visual arts organization since 1960, The Art Center Highland Park (TAC) provides a visual arts education to Highland Park and its surrounding communities, assuring access to the arts for all ages and cultural interests. This vigorous community-centered organization inspires everyone from tots through seniors to achieve and transform their world through more than 400 art classes offered annually in photography, oil and acrylic painting, watercolor, pastel, mixed media painting, ceramics, jewelry making, metalsmithing, digital arts, fiber art, mosaics, assemblage and more. TAC also brings national and regional art of established and emerging artists to our galleries through 20 exhibits of contemporary art each year to the surrounding community and Chicagoland area.TAC MissionThe Art Center Highland Park (TAC) is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to education in the contemporary visual arts through classes, outreach programs, gallery exhibitions and events. TAC is a community- based organization whose goal is to ensure access to the arts for all ages and cultural interests. The Art Center Highland Park is an Illinois 501 (c)3 not for profit organization.

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Come see beautiful artwork and enjoy light refreshments at this gallery reception for the Illinois Watercolor Society.

The Art Center Highland Park welcomes a historic group of watercolor artists for a legendary summer exhibition. This show will feature members of the Illinois Watercolor Society, a group that is celebrating over 40 years of history on the North Shore. This show will feature the height of the Society’s talent, with artworks being available for purchase in a six-week showcase throughout The Art Center’s gallery spaces. Established in 1981, the Illinois Watercolor Society’s mission has been to advance the education and caliber of watercolor painting throughout Illinois. The Society’s inaugural exhibition was held at the Redfield Estate at The Grove in Glenview, Illinois in 1982, a cottage on a vast 123 acres of prairie land, now designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of Interior. In 1982, it became a venue for the Society to introduce themselves to the world by covering the cottage walls with watercolor paintings.Over four decades later, the Society now chooses to hold its crowning exhibition at The Art Center Highland Park. On display you will find a variety of watercolor techniques: direct, indirect, collage, transparent, and opaque methods. Other water soluble mediums make an appearance in these paintings, including gouache, acrylic, and ink.

Illinois Watercolor Society: Reception

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