On Sunday, April 30 at 2pm, join us for an Exhibition Tour of The Artist’s Voice with Joanna Pinsky — artist, co-founder and artistic director of Art Encounter.

Joanna Pinsky is a painter, and also a co-founder and the Artistic Director of Art Encounter, a non-profit art education organization. Her shaped paintings and works on paper have been exhibited in NYC, Santa Fe, Japan, Germany, and, frequently, in group and one-person shows in Chicago. Solo exhibits include The Evanston Art Center, The Koehnline Museum of Art at Oakton College, Perimeter Gallery in Chicago, and Space 900 Gallery in Evanston. Collections include Oakton College, Springfield Museum, Mathematics Dept. of Northwestern University, Millikin University, Decatur, IL and corporate and private collections. Pinsky has a B.F.A. from Cornell University.

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About The Artist’s Voice

Most of us live in a world that connects us to and subjects us to many voices whether from other people, broadcast or print media, or our ever-present phones and internet sources. But the voice of the visual artist is expressed mainly in image and form. Usually it is the silent voice of color, texture, materiality, scale, memory, free association, wonder, and emotion. Artists may be showing you what the world looks like to them, how they feel about politics, history, love, beauty, our planet, art history, design, or religion. Each artist in this exhibition has a unique experience and an individual manner of expressing it through art. The artists’ voices come to life through the eyes of the viewers, who animate the conversation with their reactions, questions, or delight. This is how we bring art to life.

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About Artmakers North

Artmakers North is an informal group of mid-career artists who have come together to discuss common interests in making and exhibiting art. Creating art is usually an individual practice and can be isolating. And the task of finding venues for exhibiting can be daunting. These two issues inspired Ann Rosen, retired Executive Director of The Art Center Highland Park, to start Artmakers North. Ann Rosen definitely touched upon a need: since 2018, more than 100 artists, instructors, curators, and art directors have joined Artmakers North. Before the pandemic, artists met once a month in various area art studios, galleries, and schools to share their approach to their work, introduce new media, demonstrate various techniques, discuss other artists’ work and explore the different ways to apply to shows and approach galleries. Since the spring of 2020, Artmakers North has held regular meetings via Zoom. The group has sponsored thirteen exhibits to date.

For more information about Art Makers North, please contact us via email: artmakersn@gmail.com.

Artmakers North: The Artist’s Voice will be on view April 15 – May 21, 2023. The exhibition and this program are free and open to the public.
Artwork Pictured (Above): Bonnie Katz, Untitled, 2022.

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