Prairie Center of the Arts

Fall 2014 Classes and Workshops Intro to Relief Printmaking Carousel Book Making Old-school Printing Beginning Letterpress printing - part one Beginning Letterpress printing - part two    Registration Form and Information    2014 Fall Instructors Our instructors at Prairie Center are experts in the field of Book Arts and printmaking. They have a love for what they do and want to share that with our community.   Cathie Crawford working in her studio Cathie Crawford has concentrated on the color reduction woodcut since completing an MFA in 1987 from Bradley University.   Her work has been included in over three hundred exhibitions, fifty-five juried national shows and fifteen international juried exhibitions.   Crawford has won thirty-five awards at both the national and regional level.   Her woodcuts have been exhibited in 21states as well as France, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom.   Crawford’s print...

Backspace Collective Metropolis Familiaris -  ends Friday, August 22 Gallery Hours:  Monday - Friday 10am -3:00pm  or by appointment please contact Dawn Gettler dawn@prairiecenterofthearts.org 773.425.2507 Metropolis Familiaris Internationally Juried Show Group Show hosted by BACKSPACE COLLECTIVE at Prairie Center of the Arts Gallery One Urban sunset , Christina LaMaster Our cities are made up of thousands of individual cells working separately yet together to form a unified body. Circulatory systems move goods, currency, information, and people throughout the city. The combination of these interactive systems starts to mimic the complexity found in biological organisms. Metropolis familiaris will explore how cities are a shared environment - places of private space and public space. How do our individual lives affect each other? How do buildings talk to each other? Architecture and city systems come to life as cities rise and fall and the peop...