<![CDATA[ACA - Past Exhibits & Events]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:32:10 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Addison Art Guild's 2026 Spring Members' Show]]>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:32:21 GMThttps://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/past-exhibits--events/addison-art-guilds-2026-spring-members-show
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We were delighted to host the Addison Art Guild's 2026 Spring Members' Show. The exhibition ran from May 16 through June 5 and showcased colored pencil, pastel, watercolor, acrylic, oil, mixed-media pieces, and scratch boards. 

The Addison Art Guild's 2026 Spring Members' Show's featured artists were Margaret Bucholz, Susan Cargill, Adrienne Curiale, Carol Davy, Darlene Hoekstra, Vernon Jadrich, John Keeley, Lisa Lucaccioni, Taiwo Owoniyi, Jackie Pickell, Carol Severson, and Lyn Tietz.

The AAG's 2026 Spring Members' Show opening reception was on May 16. There was a critique by Lynne Kornecki, a publisher of the online visual arts newsletter ArtBEAT Buzz, followed by a ribbon award ceremony, and a raffle. The gallery visitors also enjoyed live music by Joe Eddy Brown and Richy Zayad. 

We would like to express gratitude to Lynne Kornecki for critiquing the show and sharing her expertise with us and thank Joe Eddy Brown and Richy Zayad for playing wonderful music during the event.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ADDISON ART GUILD'S 2026 SPRING MEMBERS' SHOW WINNERS!
  • Best of Show -- Darlene Hoekstra's The Lake District
  • 1st Place -- Darlene Hoerkstra's Mine
  • 2nd Place -- Lyn Tietz's Strutting Peacock
  • Honorable Mention -- Margaret Bucholz's Hike Through the Woods
  • Honorable Mention -- Lisa Lucaccioni's Days of Summer
  • Honorable Mention -- Vernon Jadrich's Black Maiden Contrast
  • Honorable Mention -- Vernon Jadrich's Surprise!
  • Honorable Mention -- Carol Davy's Grow, Eat, Paint Nasturtiums

About the Addison Art Guild
The Addison Art Guild was formed in 1976 for the purpose of providing the community of Addison and its surrounding area with an association that would advance the study of the fine arts as an integral part of community life. The Addison Art Guild meets on the second Wednesday of every month from September through May in Forum Room B of Addison Trail High School. For more information about the Addison Art Guild, go to www.addisonartguild.org.
]]><![CDATA["Creative Futures: Student Exhibition Series"]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 03:23:53 GMThttps://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/past-exhibits--events/creative-futures-student-exhibition-series1936309
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The Addison Center for the Arts was delighted to host "Creative Futures: Student Exhibition Series" -- Addison School District 4 and DuPage High School District 88 Student Shows, featuring a variety of pieces by talented young artists. 

The ASD 4 Student Show was on display at the Addison Village Hall from April 21 through April 30, with the reception on April 21. The participating schools were Ardmore Elementary, Fullerton Elementary, Army Trail Elementary, Stone Elementary, Wesley Elementary, Lake Park Elementary, Lincoln Elementary, and Indian Trail Junior High. 

The ASD 88 Student Show ran at the Addison Center for the Arts Gallery from April 23 through May 8. The participating school was Addison Trail High. The opening reception was on April 23.
]]><![CDATA["2026 Expressions: Art & Verse"]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:06:42 GMThttps://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/past-exhibits--events/2026-expressions-art-verse
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​"2026 Expressions: Art & Verse" exhibition in collaboration with the Illinois State Poetry Society was on display at the ACA Gallery from March 27 through April 18. We were delighted to host this annual show for the 6th year in a row. The Gallery visitors enjoyed a gorgeous collection of digital photographs, woodblock relief prints, acrylic, oil, watercolor, mixed-media paintings, collages, and woodburning pieces that inspired the ISPS members to craft ekphrastic poems about each artwork.​

This year's featured artists were Roseanne Benson, Elizabeth Berry, Benjamin Calvert III, Susan Cargill, Peter Hagerty, Laura Kuhrau, Lisa Lucaccioni, Kathy McHenry, Tom Michalski, Iglika Milcheva-Godfrey, David Morris, Sharon O'Conor Sleezer, Iryna Shkrobach, Lori Szkodzinski, Lyn Tietz, and Carol Weber.

The Illinois State Poetry Society’s featured members were Carol Alfus, Rafael Antigua, Candace Armstrong, Marie Asner, Bakul Banerjee, Mary Beth Bretzlauf, Paul Bucheit, Hanh Chau, Michael Escoubas, Kathryn Haydon, M. E. Hope, Mark Hudson, Cielo Jones, Jill Langois, Rene Parks, Raj Shah, Joris Soeding, Jill Spealman, and R. M. Yager.

Learn more about the Illinois State Poetry Society here.
"2026 Expressions: Art & Verse" opening reception and poetry readings were on March 28th.
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​The Addison Center for the Arts hosted its second Community Group Show that celebrated the talents and creativity of local visual artists. The exhibition featured the artworks by Anthony Alonzo, Roseanne Benson, Susan Cargill, Kate Diosdado, Peter Hagerty, Lisa Lucaccioni, Iryna Shkrobach, and Andrew Thies, as well as the paintings from the Bruce Peterson's Legacy Collection, available at discounted prices. The Community Group Show was on display from February 13 through March 14, 2026, with the artists' reception on February 14.
The Community Group Show artists' reception
]]><![CDATA[Addison Art Guild's 2025 Fall Members' Show]]>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:51:12 GMThttps://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/past-exhibits--events/addison-art-guilds-2025-fall-members-show
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The Addison Center for the Arts was delighted to host the Addison Art Guild's 2025 Fall Members' Show, which was on display at the ACA Gallery from November 21 through December 13, 2025. The show's featured artists were Margaret Bucholz, Susan Cargill, John Keeley, Lisa Lucaccioni, Julie Mars, Ann O'Brien, Jackie Pickell, Carol Severson, and Lyn Tietz. 

The Addison Art Guild was formed in 1976 for the purpose of advancing the study of the fine arts as an integral part of community life. The AAG meets on the second Wednesday of every month from September through May and always welcomes new members. For more information about the Addison Art Guild, visit https://www.addisonartguild.org.
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The Addison Art Guild's 2025 Fall Members' Show opening reception was on November 22. This year's distinguished judge was Carmelo Schifano.
]]><![CDATA["Abstraction" by Joan Ladendorf]]>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:07:41 GMThttps://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/past-exhibits--events/abstraction-by-joan-ladendorf
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The Addison Center for the Arts was excited to host "Abstraction" by an award-winning artist Joan Ladendorf. Her solo exhibition, featuring a wide variety of mixed-media work, was on display at the ACA Gallery from October 11 through November 8, 2025. 

Joan Ladendorf is a self-taught artist who has been exploring a variety of media and subject matter on her artistic journey over the past forty-odd years. At the heart of it all is color and shape. This “Abstraction” show was a celebration of those qualities without anything recognizable getting in the way.

Joan began with theatre costuming and graphic design, then progressed through traditional quilt making and various art quilt techniques and styles. She then developed an innovative technique using cotton batik fabrics hand cut with scissors and assembled with a sheet of mounting adhesive.

Joan then returned to photography, a place she had visited before, back in the old days of film and darkrooms, but the digital offered so much more. She focused on local sites, collecting thousands of images from her backyard creek, auto junkyards, the Chicago Botanic Garden, Spring Valley Nature Center, the Illinois Railway Museum and many other great facilities. She used her collection originally as stand-alone images but quickly moved into using Photoshop’s layering capabilities to create composite work.

Currently, she is creating what she likes to call “Photo Collage,” imagery made from pieces and part of her photographic collection of textures and landscapes. Hand-painted and hand-altered repurposed papers are scanned and used as ingredients as well.

​Joan’s work has been featured in area galleries since 2005, and she has participated in juried fine art shows for many years, winning multiple awards. Learn more about the artist here.
Joan Ladendorf's reception was on October 18, 2025.
]]><![CDATA["Layered Narratives" by the Midwest Collage Society]]>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:09:24 GMThttps://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/past-exhibits--events/layered-narratives-by-the-midwest-collage-society
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The Addison Center for the Arts was delighted to host "Layered Narratives", a collage show by the Midwest Collage Society. The exhibition graced the Addison Center for the Arts Gallery from September 12 through October 4, 2025 and featured the artworks by the MCS’s members Carol Weber, Robin Trew, Ross Rolando, Julie Marshall, Janice Meister, Marie Cassidy, Nancy Staszak, Nancy Castner, Andrea Fox, Margi Hafer, Joan Petranovich, Joan Lucht, Laura Lein-Svencner, and Mary Yezek. 

About the Midwest Collage Society
The Midwest Collage Society (MCS) has been promoting collage as a fine art for more than 20 years. Founded in 2003, it has 52 members with the backgrounds ranging from graduate training in the fine arts to the self-taught. The MCS’s members are professional artists from Illinois and its neighboring states.
"Layered Narratives" artists' reception was on September 19, 2025.
]]><![CDATA["Creative Futures: Student Exhibition Series"]]>Mon, 19 May 2025 06:21:29 GMThttps://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/past-exhibits--events/creative-futures-student-exhibition-series
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The Addison Center for the Arts was delighted to host "Creative Futures: Student Exhibition Series", featuring 2D & 3D mixed-media artworks by Addison Trail High School students and Addison School District #4 students. The shows were on display at the Addison Center for the Arts Gallery from April 24 through May 17, 2025.
The opening receptions were held on April 24 and 30, 2025.
]]><![CDATA["Expressions: Art & Verse 2025"]]>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:12:57 GMThttps://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/past-exhibits--events/expressions-art-verse-2025
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The Addison Center for the Arts was pleased to host "Expressions: Art & Verse 2025", our fifth collaboration between visual artists and the Illinois State Poetry Society! 

Illinois artists exhibiting in “Expressions: Art & Verse 2025” were Roseanne Benson, Tania Blanco, Margaret Bucholz, Susan Cargill, Kate Diosdado, Andrea Fox, Jeanne Garrett, Beth Gollan, Cheryl Holz, Kendra Kett, Joan Ladendorf, Gahel Lezama, Lisa Lucaccioni, Lennart Lundh, Beata Nowak, Matthew Padilla, Rene Parks, Carol Severson, Eleni Sianis, Iryna Shkrobach, Lori Szkodzinski, and Lyn Tietz.

The Illinois State Poetry Society’s featured members were Marie Asner, Bakul Banerjee, Mary Beth Bretzlauf, Hanh Chau, Thomas Chockley, Gail Denham, Kathryn Haydon, M.E. Hope, Mark Hudson, Marilyn Huntman Giese, Kate Hutchinson, Emory Jones, Rafael Lantigua Medina, Lennart Lundh, Wilda Morris, Rene Parks, Judy SooHoo, Nancy Staszak, Jim Wilkerson, and R.M Yager. 

The show was on display at the ACA Gallery through April 19, 2025. 
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"Expressions: Art & Verse" opening reception was on March 29, 2025.
]]><![CDATA[The Community Group Show]]>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:13:46 GMThttps://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/past-exhibits--events/the-community-group-show
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The Addison Center for the Arts was pleased to host its first Community Group Show, celebrating the talents of local visual artists. The show featured acrylic, watercolor, oil paintings, photographs, digital photo collages, and prints by local artists Roseanne Benson, Susan Cargill, Kate Diosdado, Michael Hogan, Joan Ladendorf, Yee Lee, Lisa Lucaccioni, Ann O’Brien, Carol Severson, Andrew Thies, Amanda Thomas, and Lyn Tietz.

The Community Group Show was on display from February 22 through March 19, 2025. 
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The opening artists' reception took place on February 22 at the Addison Center for the Arts Gallery.
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