OPAL’s Art & Ornament Market is an opportunity to exhibit and purchase original handmade works of art and decorations for yourself or holiday gift giving.

As OPAL wraps up its Centennial year, we are asking our Artist Members to select one work of art that best exemplifies their current or practice. Because the pandemic has affected artists' creativity in different ways, we are open to accepting work that was created within the last 5 years.

Powerful art reflects the issues of the time it was created, commenting on injustices, inequality, subversive forces or subconscious collective behaviors that are called out and called on to create or advocate for change.

Celebrating its centennial year, the Oak Park Art League (OPAL) proudly announces a national call for art work with Beyond 100: A National Juried Exhibition. OPAL is looking for work that best demonstrates the artist's use of materials and mastery of skill in their chosen medium.

Art and music have a deep and resonating relationship. And the creative process of either can be affected by the other.

This is a judged exhibition.

This judged exhibition celebrates the innovation of artists who create work on a small scale and in a broad range of media and styles. We encourage artists to test their artistic abilities and explore the many different realms of art created on a small scale. OPAL is asking artists to transport us into a visual world that brings attention to the tiny details and invites us to take a closer look.

This exhibition provides an ideal opportunity for artists to celebrate their love of the Midwest landscape, including rural and urban imagery. Artists are invited to submit two pieces that exemplify their interpretation of the ‘American bread basket’. All mediums will be accepted. (drawing, painting, mixed media, digital / new media, printmaking, photography, ceramics, fiber, glass, sculpture). Artists submitting film or video, please inquire about our available projection system.

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From illuminated manuscripts to digital technology, artists have learned to harness the power of words to create art. The Treachery of Images or “Ceci nest pas one pipe” (“This is not a pipe.”) by Magritte gives viewers a chance to understand his work, and that of others, in a whole new way.

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As part of OPAL’s Centennial, we are asking our Artist Members to select one work of art that best exemplifies their current or past practice.

Link to virtual tour here!

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” - Pablo Picasso

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“Art helps us identify with one another and expands our notion of ‘we’ - from the local to the global.” -Olafur Eliasson

How do our recent experiences of isolation inform the way artists think and work?

It has become all too common to see redacted faces and obscured mouths & noses, by our new reality - the facemask. In this rendition of OPAL’s annual figure & portrait exhibit, artists are encouraged to present their new understanding of the human face, form and figure beneath a mask of their interpretation.