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The Art Institute of Chicago
www.artic.edu/
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6404
Tel: (+ 1) 312 443 3600

The Art Institute’s collection ranges from ancient artefacts to architectural displays to contemporary visual arts exhibitions. Sculpture is on view in the gardens.

Open 10.30am to 5pm weekdays (late night on Thursdays) and 10am – 5pm on weekends. Admission fee applies.

 

Cedarhurst Sculpture Park
www.cedarhurst.org/
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (formerly Mitchell Museum)
Richview Road,
P. O. Box 923,
Mt. Vernon, IL 62864
(1 hour drive from St. Louis)
Tel: (+ 1) 618 242 1236

This park, set on 85 acres of the estate of John R. Mitchell, has a policy of acquiring works on a two year loan basis from other sculpture parks for a programme of changing exhibitions. At Cedarhurst’s expense, artists are invited to help site their work and comment on conservation techniques. Artists include Alexander Liberman and Dennis Oppenheim.

The Center is open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and Sundays from 1 to 5 pm. Closed Mondays and national holidays.

 

Chicago Athenaeum International Sculpture Park
www.chi-athenaeum.org/park.htm
Robert O. Atcher Municipal Center
Schaumburg, IL 60193
Tel: (+ 1) 815 777 4444

A satellite of The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in downtown Chicago, the sculpture park is an hour drive from the Loop in a 20 acre well-landscaped forest, meadow and natural prairie. Well executed sculptures by Jerry Peart, Dennis Oppenheim, Jarle Rosseland (Norway), Klaus Vieregge (Germany), Apostolos Fanakidis (Greece) and Nina Levy.
Benbow Bullock's 24 foot high silicon bronze sculpture, Heroic Encounter was dedicated into their permanent collection May 26, 2001.

The sculpture park is open daily from sunrise to sunset.

 

Evanston Art Center: Sculpture on the Grounds
www.evanstonartcenter.org/
2603 Sheridan Rd
Evanston, IL 60201
Tel: (+ 1) 847 475 5300

Unique temporary site-specific sculptures are installed on the Center’s lawns, situated within Lighthouse Landing Park overlooking Lake Michigan. Chicago and Midwestern sculptors are usually selected for these commissions.

Art Centre hours are 10am to 10pm Mondays to Thursdays, 10am to 4pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and 1pm to 4pm on Sundays.

 

Millennium Park
www.millenniumpark.org/
Northwest Corner Grant Park
(Over the old Illinois Central RR yards)
Just north of the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue.
Tel: (+ 1) 312 742 1168
E: millennium-park@cityofchicago.org

One highlight of this park is the 25 acre Pritzker pavilion, a Gehry-designed architectural statement. A pedestrian bridge over Columbus Drive links the Millennium Park to the rest of Chicago's lakefront system.

A featured sculpture is Anish Kapoor's 66 feet long and 33' high stainless steel rendition of an Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile raised high enough for people to walk under it. Nearby is a fountain designed by Barcelona artist Jaume PLensa that has two 50 foot high towers that stand in a reflecting water pool 1/8th inch deep. As water comes falling down the sides of the towers, huge video images of 1,000 Chicagoans are projected from glass blocks in the high towers. Also there is an ice skating rink that only operates in winter months.

Millennium Park is open from 6am to 11pm daily.

 

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: Sculpture Garden
www.mcachicago.org/
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: (+ 1) 312 280 2660

The sculpture garden opened on the museum’s new premises in 1996 and is used for the display of temporary exhibitions.

Museum and sculpture garden hours are 10am to 5pm on Wednesdays to Sundays and 10am to 8pm Tuesdays. Admission is free on Tuesdays.

 

The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
www.govst.edu/sculpture/
Governors State University
1 University Parkway
University Park, IL 60466-0975
Tel: (+ 1) 708 534 4486
E: sculpture@govst.edu

Located just off I-57 at the Sauk Trail exit, this 300-acre outdoor park features 26 monumental works by artists including Mark diSuvero, Mary Miss and Bruce Nauman.

The park can be visited anytime from dawn till dusk every day, free of charge.

 

Northwestern University: Mary and Leigh Block Museum Sculpture Garden
www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/
Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Tel: (+ 1) 847 491 4000
E: block-museum@northwestern.edu

A donation of works by Mary and Leigh Block include Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Joan Miro.

The Sculpture Garden is due to reopen in 2012 following refurbishment to the campus.

 

Oakton Community College, Des Plaines Campus: Sculpture Garden
www.oakton.edu/museum/
Koehnline Museum of Art
Oakton Community College
Des Plaines Campus
1600 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
Tel: (+ 1) 847 635 2633

Sculptures by mostly regional sculptors can be seen Des Plaines and Ray Harstein campus sites. Works displayed on campus include ‘Red Baron’ (2004), a thirty foot high spiral auger sculpture by Benbow Bullock. For more on the collection visit: www.oakton.edu/museum/park.html

 

Oakton Community College, Ray Hartstein Campus: Sculpture Garden
www.oakton.edu/museum/
Oakton Community College
Ray Hartstein Campus
7701 N. Lincoln Avenue,
Skokie, IL 60077
Tel: (+ 1) 847 635 2633

Sculptures by mostly regional sculptors can be seen Des Plaines and Ray Harstein campus sites. Artists who are in the collection on Ray Harstein Campus include John Adducci, Ann Melanie, and Jim Gallucci. For more on the collection visit: www.oakton.edu/museum/rhcs.html

 

Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
www.sculpturepark.org/
Located on the east side of McCormick Boulevard, between Dempster Street and Touhy Avenue
Skokie, IL
Tel: (+ 1) 847 679 4265
E: info@sculpturepark.org

The sculpture park has been created on a thin strip of land two miles long, once a neglected eyesore in the village of Skokie. Today 60 sculptures are on display.

Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park is open all year round. Admission is free.

 

University of Chicago: Sculpture on Campus
www.uchicago.edu
5801 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Tel: (+ 1) 773 702 1234

Sculptures include Henry Moore’s ‘Nuclear Energy’ and Lorado Taft’s large scale ‘Fountain of Time’. The campus collection was donated to the university by the family of Nathan Cummings.

 

Wandell Sculpture Garden
www.urbanaparks.org/facilities/254.html
Meadowbrook Park
Windsor Road and Race Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: (+ 1) 217 367 1544

The Wandell Sculpture Garden originally opened in 1998 with 10 sculptures to view. Today a three mile trail wanders through the 22 acre sculpture garden. Most of the pieces sit amid recreated native Illinois prairie, the largest recreated prairie within an urban area in the nation.

Open daily from dawn till dusk.

 

 

 

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Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park, IL, USA

Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park, IL, USA

Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, IL, USA

Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, IL, USA

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