EXCHANGE  with Bob Hercules

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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Join Bob Hercules, Peabody and Emmy Award-Winning filmmaker, for film excerpts and a discussion about his work.

EXCHANGES

Monthly Exchange events featuring accomplished arts and culture figures provide a variety of opportunities to inform, educate, and entertain.

Join The Art Center Highland Park as we welcome Bob Hercules, Peabody and Emmy Award-Winning filmmaker, for a discussion about his work. The program will include excerpts from his films, “Mikva: Democracy is a Verb” and “Stoney Does Houston.”

 Bob Hercules is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker whose work has been seen widely on PBS, BBC, IFC, Netflix, Amazon, and in film festivals around the world. His film, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (co-directed by Rita Coburn), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win 19 awards on three continents and a Peabody Award. The film was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and aired on both PBS’ American Masters and BBC’s Storyville series. In 2021 Hercules directed Mikva! Democracy is a Verb (a film about the legendary Congressman &amp; Judge, Abner Mikva. The film aired on PBS. Hercules also made a film focusing on the intense creative process of choreographer Bill T. Jones entitled A Good Man (co-directed by Gordon Quinn). A Good Man aired on PBS’ American Masters and played at many international film festivals including IDFA, Silverdocs, Full Frame, and DOXA. Hercules also directed Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance. The film, narrated by Mandy Patinkin, premiered at the Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center and aired on PBS’ American Masters.

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