2024 Past Events

April 18th, 2024 Member meeting

EAG welcomes Melissa Rasor, an interdisciplinary artist and painter from Grayslake, Illinois. Using recycled magazine pages as her medium, she creates art while minimizing her environmental footprint. Her goal is to raise awareness about single-use waste and unsustainable resource consumption.

MArch 2st, 2024 Member meeting

Guest artist Donna Castellanos Chicago-born, Elmhurst-raised artist who attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago, earning a degree in graphic design and, after five years in advertising, realized her true passion was in art and traded in the keyboard for a paintbrush. EAG would like to thank Donna Castellanos for sharing her work and art journey with us. We created our own work with so many cut out illustrations to choose from her stash. What a fun night.

February 15th, 2024 Member meeting

Guest speaker Dorothy Bury Shaw a native Chicagoan and award winning mixed media artist and poet. DOrothy spoke about her evolution as an artist, shared some of her early works, followed with what she creates today.

January 18th, 2024 Member meeting

Guest speaker Ann Blaas is an abstract artist and educator, making paintings, drawings, Installations and murals.