The Effingham Art Guild will be the featured exhibit at the Paris Bicentennial Art Center in Paris, Il during the Christmas season 2012. The details will be worked out later but the dates for the show are opening on Nov. 20, 2012, the Reception will be held on Nov. 30 and the show wil

Sandra Lautrup will be showing her art in Mattoon, Ill. at the Common Ground Coffee House and sponsored by the Mattoon Arts Council.  The show will run from Dec 1 through the end of January, 2012.  The council plans a reception for her on December 10th at 4pm. It is a coffee hous

Clare Smith had two paintings accepted in the Women’s Contemporary Artist Fall Show now on display at the Manatee Museums of art in Braden ton Fl. Her artwork will also be hanging in the  Main Lobby of the Players Theratre of Sarasota on Tamiami Trail. Twenty works from

Guild member Lynn Reznick and Ceramacist Rhonda Cearlock are holding their annual openhouses and art sales on November 19 & 20.
The sales are in their respective homes in Vandalia. Hours for the sale are Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 12-4.  

The Reception for the Lakeland Art Heritage Show was held October 13th, 2011 The Effingham Art Guild members that took awards are: Professional: 1st Place - Sherry Harras, “Somewhere In Turkey” 2nd - Marcia Boroughs “Winter Bird” plus Honorable Mention –

November: Terry Waldron, Roscoe Misselhorn, artist and Gallery December: Annual Potluck and FACE Christmas Melodrama January: Dee Sigmund will demonstrat painting with transparent oil and building to opaque. Maybe a portrait! February: Ben Cohen, new full time instructor at Lake Land

I recently spent a weekend at DuBois Center near Mt.Vernon, Il taking advantage of the opportunities at the Southern Illinois Art Workshop. This organization offers two, two and a half day camps each year at a beautiful site in southern Illinois. Not only were the classes offered broa

The Art Guild meeting will be at 7 P.M. on November 8, Tuesday, at the Hendelmeyer Part District building at 1906 S. 4th St. in Effingham. Our presenter for the evening is Terry Waldron, curator at the Misselhorn Art Gallery in Sparta, Il. The gallery, dedicated to the art of the late

EAG member, entered in Paris’ 57th Annual Fall Show, received the following awards: John Gabb, Professional Artist Altered Perception, Watercolor MERIT AWARD John Gabb, Professional Artist Waterford & Lemons, Pastel HONORABLE MENTION Marcia Boroughs, Professional Artist and

Letter received to the Effingham Art Guild: Hello all, This Saturday, the 22nd, the Factory Art Studios in Sullivan are hosting an event.  It is a group exhibition/open house for our collective of artists that work on the 2nd floor of the old Brown Shoe Factory (across from Monicalâ€