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