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(event) Art on the Library! Start: 7:23 am End: 6:00 pm The Colona District Public Library invites everyone to come and enjoy our new outdoor artwork. Artist Sarah Robb has painted a spectacular 60 foot long mural on the outside of the building, for all to see! (event) Mata Ortiz Workshop for Professional Artists Start: 8:00 am End: 5:00 pm MATA ORTIZ Lecture/Demonstration. Barrington High School will host Spencer MacCallum, the American anthropologist who introduced Mata Ortiz pottery to the United States and master potter Diego Vallas for a weekend of workshops, demonstrations, and lectures. Events held at the high school will include a two day interactive workshop for high school students (workshop size will be limited); a Friday evening lecture by Spencer MacCallum; and Saturday demonstration conducted by Diego Vallas. Saturday's lecture/demonstration will feature the unique Mata Ortiz hand building and decorating techniques followed by a pit firing. Mata Ortiz pottery will be on display Friday and Saturday October 23 and 24. (event) Our World at War Start: 9:00 am End: 5:00 pm Witness the emotional impact of war through the lenses of award-winning photojournalists: Ron Haviv, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and Franco Pagetti. The exhibit will display from September 25, 2009 through November 20, 2009 on Mondays - Fridays from 9 AM - 7 PM and Saturdays from 9 AM - 5 PM. (event) With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition Start: 9:00 am End: 5:00 pm With "Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition," an exhibition created by the Library of Congress, will open at the Newberry Library on October 10, 2009, in commemoration of the 200th birthday of America's 16th president. The exhibition offers the public the opportunity to view rarely seen treasures from the Library of Congress's collections. "With Malice Toward None" charts Lincoln's growth from prairie lawyer to preeminent statesman and addresses the monumental issues he faced, including slavery and race, the dissolution of the Union, and the Civil War. The exhibit reveals Lincoln the man, whose thoughts, words, and actions were deeply affected by personal experiences and pivotal historic events. By placing Lincoln's words in a historical context, the exhibition gives visitors a deeper understanding of how remarkable Lincoln's decisions were for their time and why his words continue to resonate today. This exhibition is on display from October 10, 2009 - December 19, 2009. (event) Palos West Student Exhibit Start: 9:00 am End: 1:00 pm "Experience the Arts in Palos" presents Palos West Student Exhibit The student exhibit will be displayed at Standard Bank & Trust Co. for the month of October, 2009 on Mondays - Thursdays 9 AM - 5 PM; Fridays 9 AM - 6 PM; and Saturdays 9 AM - 1 PM. A "Meet the Artist" reception will be held on Saturday, October 3rd from 4 - 5 PM at the bank. (event) Town and Country Art League Exhibit Start: 9:00 am End: 1:00 pm "Experience the Arts in Palos" presents month long exhibit of local artists The exhibition will display from October 1, 2009 through October 31, 2009 during normal business hours: Monday - Thursday 9 AM - 5 PM; Fridays 9 AM - 7 PM; and Saturdays 9 AM - 1 PM. (event) Journey Stories Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm *Journey Stories* tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell. Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean. Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers. This exhibition runs from October 24 - December 6, 2009. (event) Laureen Dunne: October Featured Artist Start: 10:00 am End: 5:00 pm Exhibit and sale of colorful pallette knife oil paintings by artist Laureen Dunne Artist Reception Sunday, October 18 1-4pm; Exhibit will be up 10/3/09 thru 10/31/09 Gallery Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm (event) Mexican Folk Art Exhibition Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Contemporary works in ceramics, wood, papier mâché, and paintings, including many works relating to The Day of the Dead by noted Mexican folk artists as well as vintage pieces from the Tarble Arts Center collection and private collections. This exibition is on display from October 2, 2009 - December 6, 2009. Tarble Arts Center hours are 10 AM - 5 PM Tuesdays - Fridays; 10 AM - 4 PM Saturdays, and 1 PM - 4 PM on Sundays. Note: Related film showings on October 29 and November 5, 7 PM Note: As part of Latino Heritage Month, there will be a ublic guided tour of this exhibition on October 13, 2009 at 3 PM. (event) Exhibition: Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Fantastic, surreal narrative composite images by Maggie Taylor made using sources ranging from snapshots to 19th-century daguerreotypes and tintypes created to illustrate Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland This exibition is on display from October 24, 2009 - December 20, 2009. Tarble Arts Center hours are 10 AM - 5 PM Tuesdays - Fridays; 10 AM - 4 PM Saturdays, and 1 PM - 4 PM on Sundays. Note: Related film showings on October 29 and November 5, 7 PM (event) Wellsprings Eternal: Imagination and Innovation for Oil and Water Start: 11:00 am End: 1:00 pm The challenges we face ahead in managing oil and water resources can be daunting. What are the imaginative and creative solutions being developed? Can technology and design really solve the problems we face or will we need to consider much more significant changes and sacrifices at the individual, community, and global level? Panelists: (event) Museum of Mystery: A Thirty-year Bannerline of Paintings by Glen C. Davies Start: 12:00 pm End: 2:00 pm Retrospecitve Exhibition featuring Illinois Artist Glen C. Davies that focuses on his series of "Bannerline" paintings influenced by his experience traveling with circuses and carnivals. Loose canvas formats reveal his personal language. This exhibit will be on display from October 5, 200 - November 17, 2009. Hours: Mondays - Fridays 10 AM - 3 PM; Mondays - Thursdays 6 PM - 8 PM; and Saturdays Noon - 2 PM (event) Art in Picture Book Technique Workshops Start: 1:00 pm End: 2:30 pm Technique Workshop Series for children 6-12 with one adult to explore media used in award winning picture books. This workshop features experimenting in paint. This workshop is made possible by a grant from Target. (event) Civic Cinema: Copyright Criminals Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Join us for a screening of *Copyright Criminals, a film produced by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod. Can you own a sound? As hip-hop rose from the streets of New York to become a multibillion-dollar industry, artists such as Public Enemy and De La Soul began reusing parts of previously recorded music for their songs. But when record company lawyers got involved everything changed. Years before people started downloading and remixing music, hip-hop sampling sparked a debate about copyright, creativity and technological change that still rages today. Following the film, Anton Seals* will host a discussion with filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein about the remix generation and copyright law. Does the age of the mash-up threaten the concept of intellectual property? What is the commons? How was Hip Hop changed by the wave of lawsuits? When is sampling theft and when is it fair use? (event) World Rhythms with Jason Finkelman Start: 2:00 pm End: 2:45 pm A listening adventure awaits families as percussionist Jason Finkelman presents an afternoon concert featuring a wide variety of African and Brazilian instruments, found objects, and interactive improvisation. (event) Piven's Empowerment through Enrichment Program Start: 2:00 pm End: 3:30 pm Stellar adults with developmental disabilities present their work. (event) Chicago Teen Museum: MCA Roundtable Discussion Start: 4:30 pm End: 7:00 pm In the Fall of 2009, the Chicago Teen Museum will engage in partnership with the Chicago Children's Museum (CCM) to create a Teen Council made up of Chicago youth from various backbrounds and neighborhoods of Chicago. The Council will engage other area youth and museum professionals in order to advise the CCM on the design of 8-9 future exhibits. The Council will also continue to work with the CCM and an advisory board to comprise the driving force behind the nation's first teen museum. (event) Haunted Dinner Start: 6:00 pm End: 9:00 pm Haunted Dinner and Cocktails, Auction, and Haunted Walk, if you dare, in Historic Mansion decked out for Halloween. Fundraiser for the development of an Arts Center for Kankakee County. Sponsored by the Community Arts Council of Kankakee County. (event) Get The Balance Right Artist's Reception and Anniversary Party Start: 6:00 pm End: 9:00 pm Celebrate Framing Mode & Gallery's 6th anniversary and Chicago Artist's month: "Basia Toczdlowska ", "Dana Day ", and "Marci Rubin " (event) 'Salute to the Military' Start: 7:00 pm End: 8:30 pm The Centralia Cultural Society's Philharmonic Orchestra will presents a concert, "Salute to the Military,", featuring patriotic pieces. (event) The Sublime Beauty of Hands and Klown Kantos Start: 7:30 pm Michael Montenegro's puppets run an astounding gamut, from tiny Punch and Judy figures to a headless, life-size doppelganger of the puppeteer. Most beautiful is a delicate moving sculpture of bones in the 2004 Sublime Beauty of Hands, which tells an oblique, poetic story about evil munitions makers, the vulnerability of the body, and the limitations of puppetry. Matters turn much less serious in the delightful Klown Kantos: six very funny puppet bits, loosely connected by the ensemble's clowning. Montenegro's interactions with his creations--comic revelations of the tender, antagonistic, complicated relationship between puppet and puppeteer--are a highlight. Display running Friday & Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3pm from October 16, 2009 - November 1, 2009.

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