We work with community partners and volunteers to elevate and celebrate Evanston Creatives. Below are slide shows of Evanston Made events that take place throughout the year. To learn more, reach out to us at evanstonmade@gmail.com
We work with community partners and volunteers to elevate and celebrate Evanston Creatives. Below are slide shows of Evanston Made events that take place throughout the year. To learn more, reach out to us at evanstonmade@gmail.com
Thank you to everyone who joined Melissa Blount for the unveiling of the Black Lives Matter Witness Quilt hosted at the Frances Willard House Museum.
Background: Melissa Blount, is a licensed clinical psychologist and artist, who utilizes her background in psychology and the medium of quilting to create quilts that explore the notions of trauma, white supremacy and bearing witness to the unjust violent loss of life in communities of color.
Dr Blount, in this piece specifically focuses on the vulnerability and violence perpetrated against Black women, girls and babies. She collaborated with members of the Evanston community, to create social justice sewing circles, where a broad range of subject matters were discussed regarding issues of equity, feminism, violence and the trauma of white supremacy. Historic and contemporary influences include Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frances E. Willard, Mary Ann Pettway, Chyna Pettway, the Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective, Amos Kennedy, Ben Blount, Gwendolyn Brooks, Krista Franklin, Bryan Stevenson, Isabel Wilkerson, Claudia Rankine, Toi Derricotte, and Nikki Finney.
This Black Lives Matter Witness Quilt project, and social justice circles will continue within the Evanston community and elsewhere upon request and need. If you want to participate in a circle or donate funds or supplies to our efforts to create art, empathy, and bare witness, please contact Dr. Blount at melissa@blountpsychology.com
Thanks to a group of volunteers and the team at Bon Events, Evanston Made Kids 2016 was a huge success! The Evanston Art Center hosted a day of art make and take activities, food vendors from Evanston, a kid's pop-up shop and like music by our friends at etc. Music.
Thank you to our friends at Evanston Art Center for hosting a fantastic opening reception for Evanston Made 2016. Several hundred people attended to celebrate the work of more than 100 artists on display. Works included photography, fiber art, sculpture, painting and more. We look forward to 2017!
Evanston Made is excited to launch this year’s Community Art Project, Heart Art, where kids paint Heart Art to be displayed in windows across Evanston this June in celebration of Evanston Made's FIVE year anniversary.
Join us May 19 at YEA Day & June 10 at Evanston Made Kids to paint Heart Art!
