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00000179-2419-d250-a579-e41d38c20001The Gallery @ NPR Illinois is in the studio complex and facilitates listeners engaging with Illinois art. Additionally, artists works from each exhibit are digitally captured and posted here and shared with other public radio stations.Each exhibit kicks-off with an opening mixer where listeners are invited to attend and refreshments are provided. Each exhibit is open for viewing for a few weeks after the opening during business hours: weekdays 8 AM - 5 PM. Viewing by appointment can also be arranged by contacting Carter Staley. Many newsmakers come through the studios to be interviewed on-air and see the art during an exhibit as do attendees for other events like Live at the Suggs.To participate in a future exhibit or stage one of your own, click here to submit your art exhibit idea.Featured Artists:Bill AblerRL BostonDelinda ChapmanRita DavisColleen "Cookie" FerratierSandra FinneyRich FordCathy J. GanschinietzAneita Atwood GatesGeorge KingRachel LattimoreGinny LeeDouglas Levi (Brackney)Gwen LewisBenjamin LowderMarcia McMahon MastroddiDebbie MegginsonHugh MooreShannon O'BrienMaggie PinkeSheri RamseySue ScaifeMary SelinskiCarolyn Owen SommerJan SorensonElizabeth TroneKate Worman-Becker

Art Exhibit: Everyday Spaces, Everyday Rides, Everyday Places

NPR Illinois Presents Everyday Spaces, Everyday Rides, Everyday Places art exhibit.

The NPR Illinois Gallery will exhibit the works of two Springfield Artists: Jeff Williams and Corrin Smithson McWhirter. Their art re-evaluates and draws attention to our overlooked surroundings. 

The exhibit will be on display through the end of August. 
Stop by the NPR Illinois Studios on the UIS campus any weekday from 8 AM - 5 PM to view the exhibit. 
Click here to view a map of the UIS campus. 

Jeff Williams Artist Statement

Sometimes humans glide along with the fluidity of an animal stuck in an oil slick. Some of these paintings deal with human face and figure in a bit of a graphic novel or low-brow sense. Some of these paintings deal with one of the human transport methods that uses a little less oil, hopefully hampering that oil slick in which they often get caught up.

Jeff Williams

Corrin McWhirter Artist Statement

We spend hours each day glancing at the same walls, walking over the same floors, and interacting with the same objects. We do not take time to digest them visually. In my current body of work, Of These Places, I draw attention to simple elements of our everyday spaces—elements we have learned to stop seeing amidst our daily routines. By using the surface texture of these spaces and rendering them as detailed line drawings or "texture maps," a small inconsequential element now becomes the central focus.

Corrin Smithson McWhirter

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