Youth Classes & Workshops

Join us at the Tarble this summer for exciting and enriching classes!

• Summer Art Investigations (ages 4-6): June 11-27
• Exploring Art and Artists I (ages 7-9): June 12-28
• Exploring Art and Artists II (ages 10-14): June 12-28
• Stop Motion Film Workshop (ages 11-14): July 9-13

30th Children's Art Exhibition

Perfect Shot by Lauren Chadick (Grade 10, Central A&M High School, Moweaqua), colored pencil

Presented is art in all media by area school students. The students represent approximately 40 area school programs taught by certified art teachers. The exhibition is sponsored in part by Consolidated Communications and is presented in cooperation with the participating schools' art teachers.

• 2012 Intent to Exhibit Form
• 2012 Inventory Form

May 12, Atrium: Children's Art Exhibition Awards Reception

Each student represented in the 30th Children's Art Exhibition will be recognized through three award programs, with the participating schools designated to one of the programs.

Participating Area Schools and Art Teachers

1:30 pm Program

• Arcola Elementary School, Alex Lugo
• Arcola High School, Diann Graham
• Arthur Elementary School, Paula Bidle-Stear
• Casey-Westfield Junior High and High Schools, Wendy Johnson
• Mattoon Middle School, Jamie Willis
• Mattoon High School, Janahn Kolden
• Riddle Elementary School, Sarah Lawrence
• St. John's Lutheran School, Larry Maxedon
• Tuscola High School, Shannon Johnson
• Williams Elementary School, Joyce Jackson
• Windsor Elementary and Junior-Senior High Schools, Kris Marslan

2:15 pm Program

• Ashmore and Mark Twain Elementary Schools, Penny Hess
• Carl Sandburg Elementary School, Heather Bryan
• Jefferson Elementary School, Mandy White
• Charleston Middle and High Schools, Toni Satterfield
• Crestwood Community Unit #4, Mary St. Clair
• Kansas Community School, Barbara Markewitz
• Lake Crest Elementary and Oakland High Schools, Jill Sweeney
• St. Mary's School, Paris, Christi McClain

3 pm Ceremony

• Altamont Grade and Junior High Schools, Rob Niemerg
• Altamont High School, Toni Niebrugge
• Bond Elementary, Central A & M Middle and Gregory Elementary Schools, Pamela Moore
• Central A&M High School, Justin Smith
• Central Grade School, Karen Littleford
• Effingham Junior High School, Terry Harbaugh
• Effingham High School, Charlie Huber
• Neoga Middle and Junior-Senior High School, Heather Curia  
• Okaw Valley Elementary School, Denise Piatt
• Okaw Valley Middle School, Pamela Dickey
• Okaw Valley High School, Jennifer Yantis
• Saint Anthony Grade School, Jan Cunningham
• Saint Anthony High School, Christi Hiatt
• South Side School, Joyce Green
• Sullivan High School, Sally Van Natta

Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists, 1840-1940

Woman in a Garden by Pauline Palmer, oil on canvas, circa 1910
(Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences Gift of Miss Deborah Boden)

Skirting Convention provides a look at American art history as it was influenced by political and cultural events from the Civil War to World War One, and a look at the opportunities open to women during that same time period.  Styles and approaches include Midwest Impressionism, Expressionism, Modernism, Surrealism, abstraction, with variations of academic realism and the American Scene/Regionalism.  Subjects are portraiture, still life, landscape, figure study, and illustration.  There is a predominance of paintings, with some sculpture, drawings and prints.  Most artists represented trained or lived in Chicago, but women living outside the Chicago metropolitan area are also included.  This exhibition was organized by Channy Lyons and Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, (Peoria, IL).

Commentary available as a Kindle book or online at The Lakeview Museum website.

2011-2012 Cultivating Creativity:  Consolidated Communications Children's Art Exhibit

Gordy the Fish, watercolor resist, by Lynsay Kibler, kindergarten, Mark Twain Elementary School

This traveling exhibit showcases art by students representing 43 east-central Illinois school art programs; made possible through the generous support of Consolidated Communications.

The remaining exhibition schedule is:

• May 8 - 31 - Paris Carnegie Public Library (207 S. Main St.)
• Jun. 2 -16 - Regions Bank, Casey (101 W. Alabama St.,)
• Jun. 19 - July 12 - Edgar County Bank & Trust, Kansas (101 S. Front St.
• July 14 - Aug. 5 - EIU's Booth Library, Charleston (south 4th St.)

Tarble Arts Center Outdoor Sculpture Court, south Tarble grounds

A permanent exhibition of art by past and present EIU Art faculty sculptors – Cary Knoop, James K. Johnson, and Jeffrey Boshart – plus noted Illinois artist Michael Dunbar and EIU Art alumnus Brett Evangelista. Also on Eastern’s grounds is outdoor sculpture by internationally recognized Illinois artist Ruth Duckworth (north of the Doudna Fine Arts Center), Ed McCollough (7th Street in front of Buzzard Hall), and Dan Nardi (between Lumpkin and Coleman Halls), all created through the State of Illinois’ Art in Architecture program.

Summer Sculpture Residency Exhibition

7th Street, between the Tarble and Doudna Fine Arts Centers

For 2011-2012, this revolving outdoor sculpture program features work by current or recently graduated Midwestern Studio Art masters students Kathryn Armstrong, Ben Clore, Michael Collins, Nathan Hatch, Davide Prete, Scott Ross, Clint R. Shaw, Jered Sloan, Melissa Van Sandt, and Andrew Woodar, with guest artist/emeritus EIU Art faculty member James K. Johnson.

The Summer Sculpture Residency project is coordinated by Jeff Boshart, of the EIU Art Department. This program is funded in part by the New and Emerging Artist Series.