Archived - Shows And Events

May 20, 2017 - All year cars are welcome. Admission to the public is free. There will door prizes given throughout the day to the car show registrants. Pre-registration is $20.00. After May 8, registration will be $25.00. We are expecting 200 cars, so register early. Two featured cars will be Guy Mace’s Great Race Car “The Bomb Squad” and Marty Denny’s Larry Phillips Tribute Camaro. The Kilties wi...

November 11, 2016 - November 12, 2016 - Make plans to attend the highly popular Springfield Car Show & Swap Meet, now in its 23rd year, it is still one of the largest such event in the Midwest. Our 126-acre site is bulging at the seams, to the point that we must also lease adjacent fields for parking. With over 4000 vendor spaces, you’re bound to find the parts you need, or the car you always want...

June 28, 2016 - July 30, 2017 - This exhibition will celebrate the 100th anniversary of this important event with a range of photographs taken on the trip and a variety of memorabilia and news articles. The exhibit will coincide with a planned reenactment ride across the country. In 1916 the United States was preparing to enter World War I. Augusta and Adeline Van Buren were, at the time, active m...

June 14, 2016 - January 15, 2017 - This exhibition exemplifies the artist’s abstract style, while also demonstrating his achievements with various printmaking techniques. Though Kandinsky is perhaps best known for his paintings, this series of prints shows his mastery of lithography, woodcut, and etching. Kandinsky used each method to its best advantage in rendering his abstract compositions, crea...

June 7, 2016 - June 4, 2017 - Over seven decades, Currier & Ives produced nearly 9,000 print designs that were distributed nationally through a successful marketing network. They printed pictures at an affordable price that reflected public interests of the time, making them accessible to most of the public. Currier & Ives did not play favorites in the political arena, often printing promotional l...

The Annual meeting will be held in Hilton Hotel Springfield, 700 E Adams St., Springfield, IL. The American Breweriana Association Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt educational and historical corporation founded in 1982. Our purpose is to advance the public knowledge of brewing and breweriana; to serve historians and collectors, and dedicated to the preservation of the memories and artifac...

May 28 - September 4, 2016 - Based on the popular book by Dr. Wayne Lynch, The Scoop on Poop will introduce the whole family to the science of poop! Listen in on a bear’s digestive system, learn the language of poop in countries around the world, examine fecal samples in a veterinarian’s lab, compete in dung beetle races, track wild animals by clues left in scat, improve your #2 IQ in Stool School...

April 12 - July 20, 2016 - Conceived by the American Kennel Club as a charitable public-art initiative, DOGNY: America’s Tribute to Search and Rescue Dogs, was launched shortly after 9/11 as a way of bringing attention to the valuable work done by canine search and rescue teams on a regular basis. The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the attacks of September 11, 2001 brought these efforts to the ...

April 12 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibit features works by the preeminent artist-photographers of the day, This combination of painterly imagery and print-making became known as Pictorialist photography. The 78 works presented in this exhibit include prime examples of a variety of photographic printing techniques used by the Pictorialists, such as the use of platinum, gum bichromate, carbon, cyan...

April 5, 2016–April 9, 2017 - An exhibition of illustrations created by former art teacher Blanche Cybele Derby celebrate the diverse plant life of New England’s fields, fruits, and fauna. This exhibit showcases drawings created for GreenPrints as well as several illustrations from her books My Wild Friends and More My Wild Friends. The thirty works on view depict gardeners, pets, and many types o...