Calling all artists.Submissions now being accepted online.Deadline: February 1, 2021. The West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission is hoping 2021 will be the year for new and returning artists to be inspired to take flight with the theme by the same name, and submit original artwork for consideration of the City’s annual art banner exhibit. Take […]
2020 People’s Choice Art Banner Winner Announced
The West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission is pleased to announce Emese Toth as the People’s Choice Award Winner of the 2020 Art Banner Exhibit, Home. She received the most number of online votes of the 17 artists who participated. Toth’s artwork, titled The Journey, provides a glimpse of the artist’s interpretation of the universal theme […]
Pop Art on Main Street, West Chicago
A fresh, new banner exhibit will be popping up on Main Street in early May, and the West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission is excited to share the colorful, bold results of the call for art that went out to local and area artists late last year. Commission members chose the theme Pop Art and placed […]
Art Banners a Creative Focal Point on Main Street
Over the past winter, the West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission invited area artists to submit original artwork for consideration for the 2016 Community Art Banner Project. The entries were anonymously judged by Chicago-based artist and Assistant Professor of Photography at Northeastern Illinois University, Nate Matthews. Seventeen exceptional works, depicting this year’s theme Patterns-Patterns-Patterns, were chosen […]
America – Who We Are
West Chicago, Illinois: June 6, 2012 – There’s still time to take a stroll down Main Street, West Chicago to view some great works of public art. Winning banners from the 2012 Art Banner Contest sponsored by the West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission will be on display through the summer and offer a creative take […]
