Please consider donating to the Oak Park Art League
as we approach Giving Tuesday on December 3, 2024!
We made it easy to donate online, or you can mail a check, or visit our historic gallery and say hello while you drop off your tax-deductible, year-end donation to OPAL. Thank you!

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Starting in January 2025, OPAL invites anyone interested in creating coral-shaped forms out of crocheted plastic to our monthly ‘make something’ meet-ups.

This year our Annual Fall Artist Member Exhibition, closes out the year by going small in a big way!

Please note ~ Opening reception:
Saturday, November 30th, 1pm - 4pm

Here is the latest lineup of workshops scheduled at OPAL. Check out the details and sign up early as these are one-time offerings.

Juror: Richard Laurent

Cartooning and animation are powerful modes for speaking truth to power, when protest is captioned in a word bubble and dry humor delivers the punch. In honor of Oak Park artist and prolific political cartoonist Keith J. Taylor, this juried national exhibition comes at a fraught time, an election year, and invites artists working in all forms of cartooning and animation to submit works that speak to this moment in human history.

The Oak Park Art League (OPAL) and By Discovery, After School Art Enrichment Program, co-host an evening of
art-making designed for adults to raise funds for art programming at St. Angela School in Chicago's Austin neighborhood.

As a way to raise funds for more seating and gallery improvements, OPAL is starting an adoption opportunity for our brand-new chairs. For $25. you can adopt a chair and add your name and website link to the back of your chair!

Sundays 10am - 1pm & Thursdays 9am - noon

There are now two figure sessions per week for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!

We are happy to announce that our state grant-funded building renovation will commence in the next week with the tear-off and replacement of our 40-year-old roof. Classes will continue as scheduled but this is your heads-up that work is being done on OPAL. Stay tuned for updates here as the project progresses. 

Discover new OPAL designs on swag you can wear and use to spread the word about the Oak Park Art League and help raise funds for our beloved organization. Find original artworks too!

OPAL is honored to host multi-media sculptor and Oak Parker, Bethany Cordero as or next artist in residence, beginning September 2024. You may have seen her sculpture as part of the Oak Park Sculpture Walk in downtown Oak Park, across from the Lake theater.

The Oak Park Art League is a unique space suitable for hosting a variety of events, from birthday, showers, meetings, photo shoots and more. We are now renting OPAL for outside events through Peerspace.

Check out our listing and plan your next event in a beautiful, historic location.

Join us for the artist reception, held Friday, September 20th, 2024, 7-9pm

Study Group Quilt Show

Shop handmade wares, art and more at our Harvest Market Pop-up Saturday October 19, 10am - 6pm.

FEATURED MAKERS

Jill Kramer Chimerapress Studios, Natalie Birholtz Jewelry and Art, Sam Donahue Photography, Isaac Streiff Desmond & Isaac's Little Guys, Jacqueline Lakely JM Lakely Original Artwork, Robyn Leah, My Eye on the World, little press, guacamollie art and accessories, Weldon Artpothecary, Alexander Stockdale & Jessica Fransen, Ted Sowinski Studio Pottery, Coffee from Grow The Earth

Saturday October 19, 10am - 9pm

Wander our courtyard Garden of Ghosts curated with otherworldy sculpture, shop the Pop-up Harvest Maker’s Market, come for kid’s crafts and costume parade at our ‘Witching Hour’, get spooked up in the Haunted Hayloft  plus some surprise guests throughout the day. Don’t forget to get your tickets for a first look ‘Ghost Stories’ Reception 

9/1/24_______UPDATE_________

Our street-facing installation will be traveling and be part of a Harris/Walz campaign event “Kayaks for Kamala” on Sept 22 in downtown Chicago!

We are the Groundwater Collective: Galen Garapolo, Jacqueline Rueckert Lakely, Kelly Donahugh, and Mary Jo Parker O’Hearn. We are four artists who have met together as a group to share and critique for over twenty years.

October 12 from noon to 9 pm, and Sunday, October 13 from noon to 6 pm, the Groundwater Collective will be sharing an eclectic bouquet of their recent and collected works at the Carriage House Gallery of the Oak Park Art League.

Join us for the artist reception, held Friday, August 16th, 2024, 7-9pm

Join OPALGA+ and Gerber/Hart Library at OPAL on Wednesday August 28, 7-9pm for a special storytelling event