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**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 8** Call for Entry - Chicago Chandeliers Lillstreet Gallery is seeking entries for "Chicago Chandeliers - A collection of earrings from Chicago-based Metalsmiths" -- a juried show to run May 19 - June 7, 2019. This exhibition will be juried by Pam Robinson and Abby Rosen and is scheduled in conjunction with SNAG Chicago 2019. Entries must be statement earrings with a retail price between $100-300, representing your perspective as a Chicago-based artist. Applications are open to all jewelers and Metalsmiths living/working/originally from the Chicagoland area. Choice of materials is open. All work must be for...

Tony Passero Flying Fish October 5 - November 10 Lillstreet Art Center Rooftop Flag Exhibition  This colorful collection of flags was originally designed as a mural concept, but evolved to something higher.  In the final piece, we experience the juxtaposition of fish in the sky as we welcome the fish to Lillstreet's Rooftop Gallery. Created by blending cultural references into a unique style, the flags bear a message that the sky is sister to water, and our care for both is equally paramount. 

Abi A. Gonzales 2nd floor Annex exhibition: Canvas, Paper and Metal October 5- November 10, 2018 Closing reception: Saturday, 11/3, time and location TBD   "Canvas, Paper and Metal" is an exploration about capturing changing movements and moments in time in the life of clouds and flowers. The cloud prints and painting primarily started from monoprint studies done outdoors at Penland School of Craft and photographs. Abi chose to enhance the color palette to reflect a mood or the appearance of the sky. As a child, she used to wish that she could float on an orange or a gold...

Title: Swell Artist: Katie Coughlin Dates: August 24 - September 29 Exploring the ways cloth can morph from two-dimensional material into three-dimensional form, these flags translate from one to the other through the introduction of volume. Using seamlines and light to define form, they sit as two pairs — each duo comprised of a flat flag and a volumetric flag.

Second Floor Annex Gallery Show: August 24 - End of September Live Layered Sounds Project Performance with Ryan Ingebritsen: September 28 from 6-9 pm, performances at 7 and 8. The Lillstreet Art Center Second Floor Annex Gallery proudly presents Melanie Brown's show Sound and Memory: Painting the Intangible. Sound and Memory uses the spontaneity of material and gesture to capture fleeting moments. The landscapes are the result of using material to physically remember time spent among the mountains, hummingbirds, and quickly changing skies of Colorado. The soundscapes are records of sonic moments in time layered upon each other. Both series...