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.
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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. |
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September 19 - October 31, 2025 Brandt Gallery |
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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 |
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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. |
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January 10 - February 21, 2025 Brandt Gallery |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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.
 | "This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts" |