June 03, 2019-August 01, 2019
Location: Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College

​Reception: Saturday, June 8, 1-3 p.m.
Summer Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

​The local community is invited to submit artworks for this annual juried exhibition with cash prizes for the Best of Show artwork. A call for entries begins in April 2019 and can be found online and at the Fine and Performing Arts Center.

April 25, 2019-May 17, 2019
Location: Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College

Reception: April 25, 2:30-4 p.m.
Awards: 3 p.m.

The juried selection of student work from Moraine Valley students shows the college’s emerging artistic talents. This exhibition features work from across many media, including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking and design. The atrium exhibition includes these student artworks, as well as designs for the exhibition poster and postcard competition. The gallery exhibition will continue into the atrium.

Location: Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College

March 25-April 17
Reception: Saturday, March 30, 1-3 p.m.

​Moraine Valley hosts this regional exhibition of artwork by students from eight community colleges: College of Lake County, Elgin Community College, McHenry County College, Moraine Valley Community College, Morton College, Oakton Community College, Prairie State College, and Waubonsee Community College.

March 13, 2019-March 18, 2019
Location: RFD Art Gallery, Atrium Display Cases, and John and Angeline Oremus Theater, Moraine Valley Community College

Wednesday-Friday and following Monday 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Reception: March 15, 5-7 p.m.

A showcase of this year’s talented students from 11 local high schools: Victor J. Andrew, Argo Community, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Alan B. Shepard, Chicago Christian, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Carl Sandburg, Harold L. Richards, Evergreen Park Community, Oak Lawn Community and Reavis.

LYNN PETERS
February 06, 2019-March 08, 2019
Location: Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College

Reception: Thursday, Feb. 7, 10:30 a.m.-Noon
Artist Talk: 11 a.m.
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An exhibition of new ceramic works by Lynn Peters, professor of sculpture and ceramics at Moraine Valley, developed during her recent sabbatical. Lynn will talk about her new work and about her residency at the opening reception.

January 10, 2019-February 01, 2019
Location: Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College

Reception: Friday, Jan. 18, 6:30-8 p.m.

​The Robert F. DeCaprio Retrospective features a solo accolade to the artist’s passion for a life of art. Featured interests range from classic automobiles, European travel and architecture to graphic design. The collection of representational work shows the immense attention to detail and realism. Photography and comprehensive private travel journals will be shown as they provide insight to the artist’s eyes and creative mind. The exhibition will be featured in his  commemorative gallery and will continue into the atrium.

Tyehimba Jess's Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, Olio (2016), presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, work songs, and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Jess’s much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them. Tyehimba Jess’s first book of poetry, leadbelly, was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005.” Olio, his second collection, was published by Wave Books in 2016 and received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Presented by the Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program.

Learn more at blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

When: January 31, 2019, 6-7:30p
Where: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208

TOBY ZALLMAN
November 01, 2018-December 15, 2018
Location: Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College

Reception: Thursday, Nov. 8, 10:30 a.m.-Noon
Artist Talk: 11 a.m.

In Toby Zallman’s sculptures there is always a combination of unrelated materials to represent dialectical oppositions such as hard/soft, ephemeral/enduring, open/closed and natural/fabricated. Since 2004, she has been using some form of recycled material as the basis for her pieces. The ubiquitous presence of plastic bags in our lives inspired the most recent sculpture and drawings. Their usefulness belies the damage that they wreak on the environment. The newest work combines the drawings and sculpture into multimedia installations.

Next week (October 16 – 20) MVCC is hosting the group “Innov Gnawa” on campus. Innov Gnawa is a Grammy-nominated musical collective dedicated to exploring Morocco’s venerable gnawa music tradition – often referred to as the “Moroccan blues.”
 
This is a rare opportunity to interact directly with some world-class musicians. There are so many curricular connections in music, dance, theater, humanities, history, etc.
 
They will be here for several residency activities and will perform on Saturday, October 20 at 7:30 p.m. All of the residency activities are free and the performance is free for students.
 
For more information, visit any of the following links:
Show information: https://www.morainevalley.edu/fpac/events/innov-gnawa/
Information about the group: http://www.innovgnawa.com/
YoTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/hopagnawa