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Home Click here for the registration form to participate in the Home Grown Artists program.
The dates for artist participation for summer 2008 are: August 16th Please join us at the market.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ” -Scott Adams |
Home Grown Artists began in 2005 as a showcase for Evanston artists and their work at the busy and thriving Farmers Market. In order to avoid competition with the existing artists fairs, participation is limited to Evanston residents, employees of Evanston businesses and participants at Evanston studios and galleries. The artists sell their own work. All media are welcome. In 2005 a survey funded by the Illinois Arts Council and the Evanston Community Foundation determined that Evanston has ten times the national average of artists living and working here. Ten times! 75% of them support themselves with their art. And in the year of the survey, artists generated $25 million in the Evanston economy. In 2008, the City Council approved legislation to make Home Grown Artists a permanent part of the Farmers Market. The Farmers Market is located at University Place between Railroad and Maple Avenues, north of the municipal garage that serves the Cineplex movie theaters at Church and Maple. It is one block south of Emerson/Golf Road and east of Green Bay and Ridge Avenues. Hours are 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. from May through the first weekend in November. For more information please e-mail Emily Guthrie at: emilyg215@hotmail.com or phone her at 847-867-4826. |
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The Artists information pages will be changed and added to as we go along. There is much more to come including pictures of the artists work which will be added to the artist's information. Please come back soon to see which new artists have been added to our lists.
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