Exhibition SPONSORSHIPS


2024 Exhibition sponsors are acknowledged on postcards, exhibition wall signage, on the website, social media, in the artist interview video, and the lobby donor board.

 

Ann Coddington & Peg Shaw

Champaign-based fiber artist Ann Coddington will exhibit sculptures that explore the dichotomies of everyday lived experience. Peg Shaw, also of Champaign, is a multi-media artist working in video, photography, sound, writing, and mixed media. Her work explores how layered elements can change both conceptually and physically as reality and imagination merge.   

 

 September 19 - October 31, 2025

Brandt Gallery




   





Michelle Rial

Michelle Rial, a glass artist based in Serena, IL, will show a series of nature-inspired fused glass works nature inspired fused glass artworks that experiment with deep color and perspective shifts.

November 7- December 30 2025
Dolan Gallery


 



 

 



Miles Bair & Ryan Bair

Miles and Ryan Bair, father and son, will hold a joint exhibition of their large scale paintings featuring landscapes and natural themes. Miles Bair’s work is heavily influenced by traditional Japanese painting and printmaking. 


 

January 10 - February 21, 2025

Brandt Gallery



   




Nicole Foran

Texas-based mixed media artist Nicole Foran will exhibit a series of paintings that investigate how the environment nurtures and defines us as individuals, while our communities and organizations divide and impact the landscapes in which we live.

November 7- December 30 2025

Armstrong Gallery

 


     
 

 


Trevor Basham

Bloomington-based artist Trevor Basham’s work is all about finding the beauty in the mundane and the horrific. His pop-culture inspired pieces juxtapose symbols of death and struggle with bright, colorful landscapes.

March 7 - April 23, 2025

Dolan Gallery






Bill Kolok

Kentucky-based sculptor Bill Kolok will show a series of sculptures that investigate the relationship between materials, surface, and content. 


August 1 - September 10, 2025

Armstrong Gallery

 




 

 


Micah McCoy

Micah McCoy is a photographer and poet from Central Illinois currently based in Northwest Arkansas. His exhibition will feature photographs taken around his family home that form a narrative, blurring the line between traditional documentary and the fictional.


 September 19 - October 31, 2025

Armstrong Gallery



 

 




Lori Fuller

Champaign-based artist and educator, Lori Fuller, will exhibit a series of doodle drawings that welcome fragments of stories and snapshots of memories into a larger narrative of the phenomena of lived experience.


September 19 - October 31, 2025

Dolan Gallery


 





LJ Douglas

LJ Douglas is a Bloomington-based multidisciplinary artist working in printmaking, painting, artist’s books, and animation. Her exhibition will feature recent monoprints. 

November 8 - December 30, 2024

Armstrong Gallery




Laurie Bergner

Laurie Bergner, photographer and psychologist, will exhibit a series of photographs from her travels to the DRC.

January 10 - February 21, 2025

Armstrong Gallery

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Jessica Benjamin

Jessica Benjamin is a Normal-based figurative artist who will show a group of paintings that are influenced by living in this area, highlighting landscape and the people. 

March 7 - April 23, 2025

Armstrong Gallery




 

Jay Reed


 

Sheri Ramsey

 


Fred Jones


Fred Jones, Jay Reed,

& Sheri Ramsey


Fred Jones, Jay Reed, and Sheri Ramsey are all artists with different approaches to and philosophies of landscape painting. WIU emeritus professor Fred Jones’ work explores the often destructive relationship between man and nature. Jay Reed, based in Ottawa, IL, paints and collages abstract landscapes. Sheri Ramsey uses pastel and oil paint to show how people handle the earth through abstract and non-representational landscape. 

June 13 - July 26 2025

Brandt Gallery

   

David Proeber

David Proeber is a Bloomington-based photographer who uses photography to explore who we are and how we relate to each other. His exhibition will feature a series of photos structured around the visions, curses, and blessings that come into our lives based on the book of Isaiah from the Hebrew Bible. 

May 2 - June 6, 2025

Armstrong Gallery



 

 


Dann Nardi

Dann Nardi creates drawings, public- and site-specific installations. He will exhibit a series of mixed-media studies created over the years to experiment and explore ideas behind his installations.


May 2 - June 6, 2025

Brandt Gallery

Ginny Krueger

Grayslake-based artist Ginny Krueger will be showing a series of mixed-media encaustic paintings and sculptures that concern the physicality of materials that reveal life, and the idea of transformation in its depth and complexity.

June 13 - July 26 2025

Armstrong Gallery


 




Holiday Treasures

Exhibition & Sale

For more than 30 years, the annual Holiday Treasures exhibition at the McLean County Arts Center has showcased a range of paintings, prints, ceramics, soaps, jewelry and more made by local artists.

November 8 - December 30, 2024

Brandt Gallery



98th Amateur Art Exhibition

The 98th Amateur Art Exhibition will feature work from local artists, from high school to adult, in a range of different media.

March 7 - April 23, 2024

Brandt Gallery




 


Since 1888, the McLean County Arts Center has served our creative community with exhibitions, classes, and the Sugar Creek Arts Festival.  Ranked every year as the community’s favorite Art Gallery in the Pantagraph Reader’s poll, the Arts Center has a significant and valued impact on our community. We would like to help you connect with this audience.  We are excited to announce several sponsorship opportunities for next year’s exhibition programming at the McLean County Arts Center! Our upcoming exhibitions will feature an impressive lineup, showcasing diverse shows that will create even more opportunities for local and emerging artists to share their work with the community.

Your partnership truly makes a difference! To express our gratitude for your generous support, we offer a variety of sponsorship benefits tailored to enhance our collaboration. Exhibition sponsorships begin at as little as $500 and are acknowledged on postcards, exhibition wall signage, the website, social media, the artist interview video, and the lobby donor board. We would love to discuss how we can align our initiatives with your goals and interests.

Partnership Benefits:

· Promotes your business’ name on exhibition announcement postcards, exhibition announcement posters, exhibition video, MCAC’s website and Social Media pages, press releases, and signage on the gallery wall.

· Creates a partnership with a cultural non-profit of McLean County.

·  Is tax deductible. The McLean County Arts Center is the designated Arts Agency for our region and as a 501(c)3 non-profit, your gift is tax deductible.


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Mission Statement: We encourage and promote the appreciation, study, cultivation, development, and practice of art for the benefit of all the people, cultures and communities of McLean County. 


    
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