Archived - Shows And Events

May 7, 2016 - June 18, 2017 - Selected from the MCA’s collection, the works rarely exhibited together were created over the span of more than 60 years in response to diverse historical and social contexts. Collectively, however, these pieces prompt a larger conversation that asks viewers to consider that art objects often achieve their fullest value when viewers approach them from multiple angles....

The 7,500-square-foot Model Railroad Garden: Landmarks of America exhibition features trains running on 1,600 feet of track. The garden-scale trains are 1/29th the size of life-size trains. Train and garden enthusiasts, young and old, return year after year for the delightful sights and sounds of the miniature trains traversing high and low through tunnels, across bridges, and around buildings. Ju...

May 7-8, 2016 - The market includes more than 200 vendors featuring gardening items, antiques, art collectibles, vintage clothing and more. Offered for sale will be a variety of antiques and collectibles, including country furniture, estate jewelry. Victoriana, postcards, art glass and porcelains, advertising items, old toys, vintage clothing and linens, coins, decorator items, paintings, primitiv...

May 5, 2015 – October 16, 2016 - This panel exhibition examines both the history of that period and the on-going trials. For three years, eight months, and twenty days, the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot ruled Cambodia, enacting a program of harsh internment and torture and subjecting the Cambodian people to inhumane living conditions, starvation, forced labor, forced marriages, and execution. ...

May 4 - November 4, 2016 - This new corridor installation examines the life, death, and sartorial swagger of the famously dissolute and fabulously attired Landsknechte of Renaissance Europe. These German mercenary foot soldiers behaved badly and wore whatever they wanted because their life expectancy was brief at best. While much of the arms and armor collection is off view in preparation for the ...

April 28 - October 6, 2016 - By entering the installation space, one is surrounded by laughing figures seated on bleacher-like structures. From this vantage point, it quickly becomes clear that Muñoz is not merely granting the viewer unusual access to the artwork but also shifting the role of the observer to that of an unwitting subject, and potentially even an object of ridicule as the sculptural...

April 23 - September 25, 2016 - The exhibition focuses primarily on Marshall’s paintings made over the last 35 years, from his seminal inaugural statement Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self (1980) to his most recent explorations of African American history.

April 23 - September 11, 2016 - This exhibition presents iconic examples from throughout the 20th century by makers including Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, Harry Bertoia, and Charles and Ray Eames, all of whose work contributed to the evolution of a new, modern ideal. The first episode of the series focuses on a piece of furniture that has captivated the popular imagination like no other: t...

April 23, 2016 - This Wheaton gun show is held at DuPage County Fairgrounds and hosted by Zurko Promotions of Illinois. All federal, state and local firearm ordinances and laws must be obeyed. Admission: General: $9.00

April 23-24, 2016 - This Kankakee gun show is held at Kankakee County Fairgrounds and hosted by The Cloe Group LLC of Illinois. All federal, state and local firearm ordinances and laws must be obeyed. Sunday 8:00am – 2:00pm Admission : General: $5.00