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Supporting the Illinois Arts Sector for 60 Years
SMU DataArts Names Illinois Sixth Most Vibrant Arts State
Arts Impact in Illinois
$36.1B
of our state's gross domestic product was contributed by arts and culture in 2022 - Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Dept of Commerce
216,227
Illinois jobs were in arts and culture (2022)
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
22
grants totaling $862,855 were directed to Illinois school districts in developing arts and foreign language curricula in partnership with the Illinois State Board of Education (FY2024)
$29.1B
in revenues to state and local government are delivered by Illinois arts nonprofits in 2022 - Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6)
29
local arts councils partnered with IAC through its Local Arts Network to support statewide arts programming (FY2024)
100%
of all legislative districts throughout Illinois receive free access to local and regional news, public affairs and arts programming through IAC support for Illinois Public Radio and Television (FY2024)
Featured Fellowship Recipient
Laurie Hogin is an artist and occasional writer who currently lives in rural East Central Illinois. She received her BFA from Cornell University, where she also studied cultural anthropology, in 1985, and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989. Her work consists primarily of allegorical paintings, many garishly framed, of mutant plants and freakish animals in languishing, overgrown landscape settings or posed as though for classical still life or portraiture. An evolving, multimedia installation practice conceptualizes these framed paintings as objects among other, psychologically- and culturally-related structures—strange architectural details, mutant furniture, weird interpretations of the “decorative arts,” miniature dioramas, and other references to practices by which humans organize their habitats and “frame” their experience of the world. Laurie’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally for more than 35 years. She has had more than 30 solo exhibitions and been included in more than 125 group shows, including at the DePaul Museum of Art, the Illinois State Museum, the Rockford Art Museum, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the Asheville Art Museum, the Racine Art Museum, the Palo Alto Art Museum, the de Cordova Museum, the Carnegie Art Museum, the J.M. Kohler Arts Center, the International Print Center of New York, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Peoria Riverfront Museum, and many others. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections and has been reviewed and reproduced in hundreds of publications. Laurie works as a professor of studio art at the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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