About 20 art professionals attended a get-together hosted by the Evanston Arts Council Wednesday night. The event, held at Wine Goddess on Main Street, aimed to give local artists and residents interested in art an opportunity to connect with each other, according to James Deeb, a member of the council and a local painter. The.
Evanston’s Public Arts Map is an online documentation of Evanston’s broad assortment of murals, sculptures, collages and other forms of public art. The map provides a short description of each piece, a photograph of the work and demonstrates where to find it in Evanston. The Evanston Arts Council created the map to “make public art.