Celebrate creativity in all its forms at the D205 Student Art Show at the Elmhurst Art Museum. This exhibition features work by over 100 talented elementary and middle school students from the community, highlighting a wide range of artistic voices and their work from the 2025-2026 school year.

From bold paintings and intricate drawings to innovative mixed media and sculpture, the showcase offers a glimpse into the imagination and skill of emerging young artists. Visitors are invited to explore the galleries, support student creativity, and experience the energy and originality that define the next generation of artists.

__This year's exhibition will run concurrently with Art in Wilder Park__

This exhibition is ONLY on view May 2nd and May 3rd, 10am-5pm

Admission is __FREE__ and open to the public.

This exhibition is sponsored in part by:
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D205 Student Art Show

The [Elmhurst Artists' Guild](https://www.elmhurstartistsguild.org/) presents their Spring Members' Show, with featured artist, Annelise Bronsveld, from March 22nd through May 3rd 2026.

The Opening Reception is Friday, March 27th from 7-9 pm and is free and open to the public.

Annelise Bronsveld is an Illinois based artist practicing watercolor. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Judson University in 2017. Annelise became interested in shapes and patterns from a young age where she would make patterns using paint swatches.

In college, Annelise took a watercolor class. Her interest in shapes collided with her newfound love for watercolor painting and the behavior of the medium. She began exploring how to create structure and order from a medium that is unexpected and often difficult to work with. What started out as painting intricate patterns with watercolor, evolved into cutting up her old paintings.

Her practice developed the theme of “Order in the Unexpected” in the realization that her anxieties and fear of the unknown have a direct correlation with watercolor. Since beginning this process in 2016, Annelise has experienced unsteady changes like broken relationships, moving, new jobs, graduating all of which provoked anxiety. When ‘what ifs’, fears, and doubts arise, her practice now provides a rhythm and calm to the anxiety. With every square glued to the page, she is able to make some sense of the chaos and unexpected.

Participating Artists in the Spring Show:  Anthony Abboreno, Kera Bjerga, Paul Callahan, Benjamin Calvert III, Jay Chuang, Eleanor Coffin, David Cyl, Paul Demers, Judy Druschitz, Jane Erlandson, Jeanne Garrett, Joe Giron, Maribel Hambric, David Hammer, Fletcher Hayes, Joan Heitmanek, Randi Holt, Susan Janssen, Gail Karet, Moni Kupisch, Maya Lantsova, Kim Laurel, Karen Lecker, Katie Luo, Lynn Mackenzie, Julie Mars, Jeane McGrail, Dana Meecham, Michael Mikottis, Amy Minster, John Nester, Susan Nester, Ann Pasteur, Janet Roller-Schmidt, Elaine Sage, Louis Sanfilippo, Gary Schirmer, Terri Shimkus, Jennifer Starchvill, Anna Toberman, Catherine Tully, Ana Vitek, Bruce Webber, Rosalie White, Charles Williams, Jr., Shannon Yeh

Above Image: *Dreamscape* by Annelise Bronsveld


Elmhurst Artists' Guild Gallery: EAG Spring Members' Show

*Crossing Currents- Four Voices of Contemporary Vision* runs February 22nd through March 20th 2026 in th Elmhurst Artists' Guild Gallery and features the work of Fletcher Hayes, Kim Laurel, Julie Mars, and Jeane Kat McGrail. This group exhibition brings together four distinctive contemporary voices whose artistic practices intersect through explorations of form, gesture, structure, and layered narrative. Working across painting, printmaking, collage, mosaic, and digital composite photography, the artists create a dynamic and resonant visual dialogue.  The exhibition investigates a unique expanse in contemporary artistic exploration, illuminating how individual perspectives can collectively shape a textured and compelling creative journey.

__The Opening Reception is Friday, February 27th from 7-9 pm and is free and open to the public__.

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Artists' Information:

The Bend in the Lake Path
Acrylic on canvas
Fletcher Hayes ©2025
https://www.fletcherhayes.com

Ginkgo Oak Leaf Dress
TetraPak Plate Drypoint Monoprint
Kim Laurel ©2025
http://www.kimlaurel.com

Coriolis
Glass Mosaic
Julie Mars ©2025
https://www.jamfinearts.com

Rhapsody: Restoration Spheres
Photographic Digital Assemblage
Jeane Kat McGrail ©2025
www.jeanemcgrail.myportfolio.com


Elmhurst Artists' Guild - Crossing Currents - Four Voices of Contemporary Vision

Elmhurst Artists' Guild Gallery: *EAG Volunteer Members Show* 
Jan 31st-Feb 20th

The [Elmhurst Artists' Guild](https://www.elmhurstartistsguild.org/ "Elmhurst Artists' Guild") presents their Volunteer Members' Show, from January 31st through February 20th 2026. __The Opening Reception is Friday, February 6th from 7-9 pm and is free and open to the public__.

Participating Artists:  Ana Vitek, Benjamin F Calvert III, Bruce Webber, Charlene Lee-Freislinger, David Cyl, David Hammer, Debra Vaccaro, Dorothy Bury Shaw, Fletcher Hayes, Gary Schirmer, Jane Erlandson, Janet Roller-Schmidt, Jennifer L. Wambach, Jennifer Starchvill, Joan Ladendorf, Joe Giron, John Duffy, John Nester, Karen Sugay, Katie Luo, Katy Costello, Kim Laurel, Maribel Hambric, Marlene Vitek, Paul Callahan, Shannon Yeh, Terri Shimkus.

Above Image: *Anger Abatement 101* by Gary Schirmer

Elmhurst Artists' Guild Gallery: EAG Volunteer Members' Show

Artist Jeanette Andrews applies sensory illusion techniques and her interest in the selective nature of attention and the bounds of perception to create artworks that explore magic, multiple realities, and the human psyche. This summer exhibition will present interactive and site specific works including installation, sculpture, video, sound, and performance, alongside new work developed while Artist in Residence at MIT’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology in 2024-25. 

The exhibition represents a return home for Andrews, who grew up in Wheaton, IL. She cites the Elmhurst Art Museum as an early influence in her pursuit to a career honing her technical skills and applying magic and sensory illusion techniques to create artworks. *On Wonder, Mind, & Magic* will be the artist’s first solo museum exhibition and is curated by Liz Chilsen, Manager of Exhibitions & Collections.

__About the Artist__

Jeanette Andrews is a New York-based artist working at the intersections of illusion, performance, installation, film, and audio. Her studio practice bridges the worlds of illusion, installation, and conceptual art, creating interactive vignettes and surreal, multisensory experiences that investigate perception, cognition, and the seemingly impossible. She invites audiences to co-create her illusory performances which function as live thought experiments.  She has presented numerous commissioned works with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, as well as for the Quebec City Biennial and Boca Raton Museum of Art, presented talks for Cooper Hewitt, Chicago Ideas Week, The British Society of Aesthetics, and universities, including Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard.

She has held residencies with the Institute for Art and Olfaction and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston, and is a former National Arts Club Artist Fellow and Affiliate of metaLAB at Harvard. She was a 2024-2025 Visiting Artist for the Center for Art, Science and Technology at MIT and the current visiting artist for the Arts Institute at Brown University. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, PBS, Chicago Tribune and New York Times.  

This project is made possible with support from Arts DuPage/DuPage Foundation
Additional support to the exhibition and related program are provided by the Illinois Arts Council and individual donors. 

Image: Still from *The Attention* by Jeanette Andrews. Image courtesy of Derrick Belcham

On Wonder, Mind, & Magic: Jeanette Andrews

The Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists (CAVA) returns to the Elmhurst Artists’ Guild Gallery at the Elmhurst Art Museum with their 2026 Small Works Exhibition -- on view May 30-June 26. 

This dynamic juried show features over 100 works selected showcasing painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, fiber, collage, bronze, and more — all measuring 24 inches or smaller. Despite the compact scale, the exhibition offers a powerful and diverse contemporary art experience that invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and discover unexpected moments of beauty, emotion, and creativity. 

The free opening reception takes place Friday, June 12, from 6-8pm and all artwork is available for purchase.  

Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists: Small Works Exhibition 2026

Near Eternity is a site-responsive exhibition unfolding across the McCormick House and the 
surrounding grounds of Wilder Park at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Through a series of sculptures, 
the artist considers the lifespans and fragilities of designed systems—biological, architectural, capital, and digital—asking how permanence and decay are mediated by natural and technological infrastructures. Together with threads of 3D scanning and sculptural translation of works from the museum’s collection, these references draw out parallels between botanical resilience, the myth of architectural immortality, and the digital networks that underwrite contemporary life.

The sculptures are created through a hybrid process combining 3D scanning, digital printing, casting, and hand sculpting to materialize the interplay of organic forms and manufactured objects. Between three and five sculptures will be installed within the domestic modernist interior of the McCormick House to produce a site-responsive “re-interior” that accentuates the structure’s vulnerabilities—aging materials, entropy, and the persistence of technological obsolescence. Outdoors, three companion works operate as public statuary that embed themes of reproduction and the information age into forms typically associated with civic permanence (the public monument), extending the exhibition’s inquiry into the landscape of Wilder Park.

Using sculpture as a tool to examine design and the larger systems in which objects circulate, the artist borrows familiar forms such as the Barcelona Chair, the Eames splint, standing desks, and children’s IKEA chairs. He disrupts/renders visibly haptic—pitted with fingerprints that polka dot the form with texture. In their altered states, these icons of modern design become part of a digital–analog matrix, collapsing distinctions between furniture, sculpture, artifact, and interior architecture. Near Eternity ultimately proposes sculpture as a method for re-sensing designed environments, revealing how endurance and obsolescence are co-produced across bodies, buildings, and networks.

__About the Artist__

Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford is a visual artist and assistant professor of sculpture at Indiana University Northwest. The sculptor primarily makes work to address themes of reproduction, value and digital culture with humor.  He is also a co-director and co-founder of the collective Floating Museum, which curated the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial and has created international public installations. His work has been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, Malmo Konstmuseum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, American Academy of Arts and Letters, The UCSD Art Gallery, and The Hyde Park Art Center, among other spaces. 

Over the course of his 20 year art practice, he has held fellowships at the Sculpture Space, the MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, the Brown Foundation Program at the Dora Maar House, and the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. His work has been supported by grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Harpo Foundation, the Propeller Fund, the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Sicily.  Reviews of his work have been included in outlets like Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artforum, and the Chicago Tribune.  

This exhibition is supported in part by Lakeside Bank and through grants from Indiana University Northwest, the IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Program, and the JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation.
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Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford: Near Eternity

*I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.*
    —Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam,” 1967

In the May 1967 issue of Ramparts Magazine, Martin Luther King, Jr. published a condensed version of his searing “Beyond Vietnam” speech under the title "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam." In it he named militarism, materialism, and racism as the “giant triplets” threatening American democracy and called for a “revolution of values.” 

Just days later, Dr. King led a march to the United Nations during which, for the first time, a group of Vietnam veterans marched under a banner declaring Vietnam Veterans Against the War. This public act of defiance marked the birth of one of the most radical anti-war organizations in US history, demonstrating that those trained for war could become some of its fiercest opponents. 

*A Revolution of Values* traces this lineage of resistance through the work of veteran artists who have turned away from militarism and toward solidarity. The exhibition includes ceramics, sculpture, papermaking, printmaking, photography, poetry and other forms that show the range of ways veteran artists examine their military experiences and critique militarism across generations.

# Featured artists include: Drew Cameron, Brittney Chantele, Rodney Ewing, Eric J. Garcia, GOODW.Y.N., Gina Herrera, Nathan Lewis, Ehren Tool, archival materials from Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Iraq Veterans Against the War, and more
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*A Revolution of Values* claims and centers this lineage of resistance to celebrate the way veteran artists turn from militarism towards solidarity, exemplifying the “revolution of values” Dr. King called for.  The exhibition highlights the vast array of creative processes veteran artists use across generations to express this radical turn.

*A Revolution of Values* is one of the four featured exhibitions of the 2026 Veteran Art Triennial, RESISTING THE LONG WAR curated by Aaron Hughes, Mohamed Mehdi, and Amber Zora. The Triennial highlights artists’ creative defiance to war and militarism. The featured artworks lift up overlapping legacies of war resistance, presenting alternative visions of peace, healing, and justice generated by diverse communities impacted by war. 

Additional featured exhibitions will be at the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and Walls Turned Sideway. Exhibition receptions will take place during the Veteran Art Summit November 5-8, 2026.

Elmhurst Art Museum is a Blue Star Museum.

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