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Annual Benefit Art Auction Exhibition LAWRENCE
ARTS
CENTER
2021 BENEFIT
ART Auction
March 12 - April 10
With sincere thanks for the generosity of artists and the support of art buyers, the Lawrence Arts Center continues to provide free access to exhibits and ensure that Art is for Everyone. The annual Benefit Art Auction is the main funding source enabling the Exhibitions program to show a full range of exhibits – from preschool students to internationally recognized artists – to all audiences for free. Watch the website for ways to view the exhibition online and in-person, and to place bids to provide your support! Save the date for a virtual celebration on April 10. We’ll miss seeing you in person, but look forward to bringing the spirit of the event in a safe and socially distanced way. All pieces are available for online bidding. ALL BIDDING ENDS APRIL 10 at 9 pm. Free local deliveries. SIGNATURE SPONSOR
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Featured Artist Michael McCaffrey BIDDING OPENS
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Lawrence Arts Center Preschool & Kindergarten Exhibition
April 15 - May 14
The Linda Reimond Preschool and Kelly Galloway Kindergarten Exhibition features works from preschool students at the Lawrence Arts Center. Illuminating the roots of imagination through fearless creativity, this exhibit offers a rare and stirring glimpse of the origin of ingenuity and inspiration. Arts Center early childhood students have the opportunity to work with professional artists, actors, dancers, and musicians, attend performances, and create in the studios. Creative confidence and innovative skills are clear in the work of these very young students.
Poetry Despite/Music Despite Eternal War Requiem Aaron Hughes
June 4 – July 17
On the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Authorization for Use of Military Force, Aaron Hughes created a multi-media exhibit that explores our current state of endless war and historical antecedents. Aaron Hughes is an artist, curator, organizer, teacher, anti-war activist, and Iraq War veteran living in Chicago. He works collaboratively in diverse spaces and media to create meaning out of personal and collective trauma, deconstruct and transform systems of oppression, and seek liberation. Working through an interdisciplinary practice rooted in drawing and printmaking, Hughes develops projects that deconstruct militarism and related institutions of dehumanization. These projects often utilize popular research strategies, experiment with forms of direct democracy, and operate in solidarity with the people most impacted by structural violence.
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