Peoria County is showcasing some of our original inhabitants: Bison. In celebration of the 200-year anniversary of the founding of Peoria County, a community-wide project....

After all his digital manipulations and distortions, Jack Crouch preserves primitive nature of his forms. He challenges us...

Each year, artists offer realistic, symbolic, and abstract glimpses as varied as plein air painting and images from the vaudeville years.

She is a graphic designer who began using Artificial Intelligence to create images that are memory laden spaces.…

Nichole Gronvold-Roller begins with stain. Using acrylic inks she follows the density and dissolving transparency of singular color on the surface of canvas.....

Vera Scekic of Racine, Wis., recently displayed “Synthetic Being,” at the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria......

Inland Art: Peter Ahart has got Your 6...

Creative clothing with a view toward sustainability is the focus of three fashionistas in Peoria. Dana Baldwin creates phenomenal evening gowns....

Upon entering the 22 VA Art Exhibit last November in the Downtown Branch of the Peoria Public Library, I immediately felt connected to a wide range of creative works...

Three beloved teachers have been recently acknowledged in central Illinois. Two Illinois State University professors, Harold Boyd and Harold Gregor, in Bloomington-Normal; and in Peoria, Bradley’s Ken Hoffman......

If you have seen Janis Mars Wunderlich’s work, it is not simple to feel neutral about or easily forgotten.....

Two talented photographers from China, husband and wife Qingjun Huang and Liu Yang, arrived in Peoria in March 2022. Finding Peoria a very livable city, they are building their artistic connections in the U.S. from here. This fall their work is featured at the Peoria Art Guild and the Contemporary Art Center...

What if we could avoid degenerative bone loss with some simple yoga poses done at home?

Winding Thread is a mini view of how I work. This particular piece is end to end and then I place more pins to begin to join, twist and create the subtle patterns that form in the purely linear thread work. Once the thread is laid and pinned as close to the surface as possible, I apply a layer of diluted acrylic medium to adhere. Various applications occur depending on the density of the thread and the kind of surface I'm interested in working with.

Paint brush to John Cage -- this is the process of embedding materials between two very thing pieces of Unryn or Kozo paper. saturated with acrylic medium the paper layers edge toward clarity and transparency.

Disentangle -- inherent in thread work is the potential for chaos and confusion. My mom taught me to just keep pulling, keep it loose and don't attempt to figure it out -- just keep at it and voila something may just change from chaos to control.

Paper Sea -- There it is, there it is an invisible swirl of wind.

10' painting -- this is a thread painting that had layers of paint adhered both sides and also many layers of thread. No longer extant, this piece has been reconfigured into densely threaded smaller panels.

walking meditation - one foot after another, but don't get too wet.

"incoming" holds the color space of subtle interchange and the constancy of flow.

stairs -- one step at a time in one of the most beautiful places I've been. The Meher Baba spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, SC.

"ripples of light" - everything happens and almost nothing.