Since the Main Library re-opened to
the public in October 2003,
local artists have exhibited their work in the Art Gallery on the Second Floor.
Artists interested in exhibiting their work in the Art Gallery should call 708-697-6915.
January 2007 "Extra
Credit: District 97 Art Teachers" works by Oak Park District 97
Elementary School Art Teachers
work by
District 97 art teacher Kristiana Murray
February 2007 "Jazz:
Revisited" photographs of jazz musicians by Jeff Lowenthal in
conjunction with the Looking At: Jazz series
Gerry
Mulligan photographed by Jeff Lowenthal
March 2007 "Measured
Quietude" natural and social landscape photographs of Ireland by
Michael Mejia
April 2007 sculpture
by Margot McMahon and paintings by her father Franklin McMahon
May 2007 works by
Chicago Hand Bookbinders
June
2007 "Scapes: Land, Mind & Body" works by Dzvinka
Stifel, Nina Ulana, Tatiana Weinstein
July 2007 "Off
the Shelves and On the Canvas" fine art, photography, collage, pottery,
and sculpture by seventeen Oak Park Public Library staff members
"Trees" by Mandy McGee
August 2007 paintings
by Hodges Williams
"Back
2003"
September 2007 works
by Oak Park Architectural League
October 2007 "Hemingway
in Love and War: A Local Writer's Footprints on the World" works by
various artists in conjunction the Big Read of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell
to Arms
"Ernest Hemingway: American Red Cross WWI serving in Italy"
by Frank Marshall and "Ideas in Storage" by Marlene Scott
November 2007 "Mirror
Images" hand-cut glass mosaic mirrors by Judy Steed
December 2007 "Holy
Land and Local Retrospective" photographs by Denise E. Ard