Maggie Martino: Watercolors
Apr 5 - 26 2024
To correspond with her watercolor class in April, Maggie displays her work in the classroom. read more
CAC Member Artists Biennial Exhibition
Mar 1 – Apr 13 2024
The artists enrolled in the Contemporary Art Center’s Artist Membership program (CIAO) return to the Contemporary Art Center for a dynamic group exhibition featuring one work of art from each member covering most mediums. All CAC artist members are enouraged to participate. read more
Cathie Crawford: Relief Printmaking
Mar 1 - 29 2024
To correspond with her relief printmaking class in March, Cathie will display her work in the classroom. read more
Billie Howd: Canvas and Clay
Feb 23 – Apr 5 2024
Acrylic paint and texture medium along with strong line and geometric shapes epitomize Howd's paintings. Her terracotta sculpture emphasizes figurative form depicting a life of emotional joy and turmoil from a decidedly feminine perspective. read more
Seasoned: Anita & John Tuccillo
Jan 5 – Feb 16 2024
Each spouse brings their expertise to the process: Anita, her mastery of illusion with paint and John, his physical craft with paper-casting. The best of their ideas emerge in hybrid works that offer a unique view of the urban landscape. read more
Qingjun Huang: Illinois Family Stuff
Jan 5 – Feb 16 2024
When Chinese artists Qingjun Huang and Liu Yang wished to extend the “Family Stuff” series to local subjects, Contemporary Art Center assisted in making connections. Many of the photos in this exhibit are a result of that effort. read more
Contemporary Art Center Member Exhibition
Group Art Exhibition
Dec 11 2023 - Jan 20 2024
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Members have organized this group exhibition at Time Gallery. There are 33 works of art on BOTH the 2nd and 3rd floors. Each artist chose one original work of art to exhibit. read more
Justin Henry Miller: Regards From The Black Hole
Oct 27 – Dec 16 2023
Science-fiction and controversial trends in science, anatomical illustration and cartoons, collide in Justin Henry Miller’s whimsical fantasies of biomorphic beings, fluctuating between success and failure in their own dayglo world of desolation. read more
A Small Wonder Gift Shop
Oct 27 – Dec 16 2023
A small wonder means small work from local artists and that means work priced for holiday gifts! Gallery 3R is turned into a gift shop for small works of art. read more
Contemporary Art Center Member Exhibition
Group Art Exhibition
Aug 26 - Oct 16 2023
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Member Group Exhibition at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, 2400 Tom L. Wilson Blvd., Galesburg, IL 61401 read more
Artists of The Pharmacy
Group Art Exhibition
Aug 25 - Oct 14 2023
Artists associated with The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space in Springfield, Illinois display work in a group exhibit. The non-profit was formed by 13 visual artists in 2011 inside the old Watt Brother’s Pharmacy. read more
Tanya Bayer & Janet Bratcher
Aug 25 – Oct 14 2023
Some artists have a special ability to raise the secrets nature holds and spin them into something that most couldn’t have visualized. Seeing beyond the surface is the key to transforming the mundane into works of art. read more
Flowers for Ukraine
Group Art Exhibition
Jun 30 - Aug 11 2023
To show our support for Ukraine and to raise donations, Central Illinois artists have created artwork and patrons are invited to purchase them and/or to donate directly to various organizations serving in Ukraine. read more
Vera Scekic: Synthetic Being
Jun 30 – Aug 11 2023
Vera Scekic is especially fond of manipulating paint as it surrenders to gravity. Her playful works evoke biotic forms growing like microbial blooms in petri dishes. read more
Mid Illini Art Show
Apr 15 - Apr 20, 2023
The Mid Illini Art Show is an annual gathering of great student artwork from all participating Mid Illini high schools. Each school is allowed to submit up to 26 pieces of 2-D, 3-D, and photography combined. The work is then judged by a group of professional artists and art teachers outside of the district. read more
Preston Jackson: Biographical Tracings
Apr 29 - Jun 19, 2023
Offering a surreal but personal form of reality, Preston’s energetic work is filled with stylized figures inspired from nature and childhood experiences. This series of paintings reads like chapters from a fantastic memoir..... read more
Morgan Elser: The Other Side of Joy
Apr 29 – Jun 19 2023
23 years ago, Delavan artist Morgan Elser discovered her passion for creating in three dimensions and has since explored many mediums including bronze, fiber, stone, stainless steel and found objects. As she progresses, a story also unfolds... read more
Artists of Manneken Press
Feb 24 - Apr 14, 2023
Jonathan Higgins and Sarah Smelser’s Manneken Press in Bloomington invites significant contemporary artists to collaborate with master printmaker Higgins to create original works in intaglio, relief, lithography and monotype.... read more
Hattie Lee: Joy Intwined
Feb 24 – Apr 7 2023
While a member of the Cherokee Nation diaspora, Hattie Lee also recognizes she is a collage of cultures. Just as families and societies are shaped by each generation, she collages into her work metaphorical and physical materials... read more
Hot CIAO X
Group Art Exhibition
Mar 3 - Apr 15 2023
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Member Group Exhibition at Studios on Sheridan, 929 N. Sheridan Rd., Peoria read more
Harold Boyd & Rhea Edge: Lost Lore
Jan 6 - Feb 18, 2023
As fellow artists, educators and administrators, Rhea Edge of Eureka College and Harold Boyd of Illinois State University have shared a long partnership in the downtown Bloomington arts community... read more
Rhea Edge & Harold Boyd: PrintMakers
Jan 6 – Feb 18 2023
Boyd’s gestural figures defy gravity, exploring lithography, etching and relief printmaking with fluid lines in a largely black and white world. Edge brings us the power of stealth bombers and predatory birds in these abstracted etchings, lithographs and relief prints... read more
Qingjun Huang: Housed/Unhoused
Nov 4 - Dec 17, 2022
Chinese artists Qingjun Huang and his wife Liu Yang recently emigrated to USA to live in Peoria. While in China, Qingjun convinced people to display all of their belongings in front of their homes to be photographed... read more
A Small Wonder Gift Shop
Oct 28 – Dec 16 2022
A small wonder means small work from local artists and that means work priced for holiday gifts! Gallery 3R is turned into a gift shop for small works of art. read more