about our art
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KodaRoamers Camera Club
Jan 15, 2020The KodaRoamers is a camera club in Bloomington, IL that is celebrating its 50th year! The goal of the club is “to promote and develop our skills in, and appreciation for, the beauties around us...Read More -
About our Art - Jim Lovelace
Oct 29, 2019Jim Lovelace attended Glenwood High School in Chatham, IL, then attended Illinois State University during the late 1970’s. Having virtually no involvement in painting until he was in his mid-fif...Read More -
About Our Art- J. Swiech
Sep 6, 2019J Swiech is an accomplished artist in a variety of styles and media. She grew up in Bloomington-Normal and graduated from ISU where she studied both theatre and art. Her primary focus and traini...Read More -
A Sense of Place
Jul 26, 2019Doug Johnson is a local artist who grew up in the Bloomington/Normal, IL area. He is a graduate of Normal Community High School and earned a master’s degree in Studio Art from Illinois State Uni...Read More -
Scott Ide Photography
Mar 4, 2019Scott Ide is a photographer from Dixon, Illinois. This is where he learned to appreciate the beauty that can be found in our countryside. In high school he had an interest in photography, but he has r...Read More -
Mandy Roeing Fine Art
Jan 4, 2019Mandy Roeing resides in Downs, Illinois with her husband and their two daughters. Mandy began her art career in 2001, when her love of animals and passion for painting merged through commissioned pet ...Read More -
About Our Art- Larry Kanfer
Nov 5, 2018Larry Kanfer is a photographer and longtime resident of Champaign-Urbana. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1979 and immediately opened his own photography gallery, which he has maintain...Read More -
About Our Art- Nostalgia
Sep 5, 2018Brianna Lehnen is a student at Illinois State University. She is a senior, majoring in Interactive Media within the Communications department at ISU, but her darkroom photography techniques were learn...Read More -
About Our Art- Refreshing Places
Jul 3, 2018Karen Gyllin is an artist from Bloomington, IL. After retiring from teaching in 2005, she has been able to focus on pencil drawing, watercolor painting, and printmaking full-time. Karen has created an...Read More -
Capturing and Creating Images
Mar 2, 2018Judy Steffens is an artist from Central Illinois who works in both oils and watercolor. Her subject matter is wide ranging; she loves doing figurative paintings of people, but will often paint dogs, h...Read More -
Suzette Boulais
Jan 3, 2018Suzette Boulais is an abstract artist from Peoria, IL. Her work is deeply influenced by Mark Rothko, an abstract expressionist, whose paintings deal with basic color combinations and shapes that creat...Read More -
Cathy Engberg
Nov 1, 2017Cathy Engberg is an oil painter who works out of her home studio in Peoria, IL. She mainly focuses on family life, children at play, or animals and always has her camera with her, ready to snap a phot...Read More -
Marc Making: Artists of Marcfirst
Sep 5, 2017Marcfirst is a local agency dedicated to supporting adults with developmental disabilities. Earlier this year, Marcfirst and University Galleries at Illinois State University collaborated to give thes...Read More -
Celebrazione Dell-amore!
Jul 7, 2017Jody DeCremer is the Assistant Director and an Instructor in the Arts Technology Program at Illinois State University. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design and a Master of Science ...Read More -
About Our Art... Digital Painting
Mar 2, 2017Arts Technology Program at Illinois State University Digital Painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques are applied by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet, stylus,...Read More -
IAACU About Our Art...Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Jan 4, 2017The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is a pioneering research institute affiliated with and located on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus. Founded in 2007, ...Read More -
About Our Art... Mikell Duncan
Sep 8, 2016Mikell Duncan was born in Fairmont West Virginia and grew up mainly in the Washington DC suburbs. As a child, she was always drawn to creating art. In grade school, one of her teachers assigned her a ...Read More -
About Our Art....Charlotte Archer
Jul 5, 2016Charlotte Archer was born and raised in Champaign, IL. She worked 29 years in what is now called American Water. Whether it is oils, watercolors, or acrylics, she has always had a passion for painting...Read More -
About Our Art...Alan Cring
Mar 2, 2016We're excited to have Alan Cring's work on display at the IAACU Lobby during March-April 2016! Alan Cring is an award-winning landscape photographer. His work has been featured in Illinois Farmer Tod...Read More -
About Our Art...Desiree Swanson
Jan 11, 2016Desiree Swanson was raised in Minooka, IL where she still resides today. Involved in the arts from a very early age she could be found sketching or drawing at every opportunity available in her trust...Read More