40 North | 88 West: Champaign County Arts, Culture and Entertainment Council
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SIGHT SPECIFIC

SIGHTSPECIFIC - a pilot program brought to you by 40 North | 88 West - is a rotating series of storefront exhibitions in the downtown Champaign area. The program offers visual artists a unique opportunity to display their work and engage a new, wide-ranging audience, while property owners enjoy the impact of fine art in urban spaces.

Art work will be selected after review by an advisory committee, and all visual arts genres, styles, and media will be considered.

The current series of exhibitions can be seen at the following locations:

M2 - Second Floor Windows feature paintings by Brian J. Sullivan. In this series of large scale paintings Brian explores the portrait genre, not as a photographic-like rendering, but rather as an expression of their inner being. To this end, he utilizes specific colors, shapes, and textures to help reinforce this persona. Each image has an historical significance attached to it which Brian attempts to manifest in the works thereby adding a further level of complexity to each piece.

57 East Main (old Trader’s World, next to Memphis on Main) TBA.

The Art Theater’s ticket booth (126 W. Church) TBA.

CALL FOR ARTISTS 
Interested artists, property owners and managers please contact Kelly White, Programs & Marketing Manager, at kwhite@40north.org. To download an application click here.

  • juried selection process
  • Champaign County artists eligible
  • 6-week rotations
  • original works only
  • artist stipend available

 

SIGHTSPECIFIC is supported in part by the City of Champaign. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.