Art group to launch season with demonstration

The Bloomingdale Artists Association will conduct the first meeting of the 2008-09 season from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, in the Bloomingdale Park District Museum, 108 S. Bloomingdale Road.

Kimberly Mullarkey will give a demonstration on colored pencils, and the richness of color achieved through layering techniques. She is an adjunct professor at the College of DuPage and art instructor in the Botanical Art and Illustration Certificate Program at Morton Arboretum. She also teaches at the Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles and her DeKalb studio. Her work is in private collections in the United States, Canada and France.

For more information, call the museum at (630) 539-3096.

Music, archaeology on tap at Wheaton College

• The Ying String Quartet and pianist Billy Childs will open the 2008-09 Artist Series at Wheaton College at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, in Edman Memorial Chapel on the northeast corner of Washington and Franklin streets, Wheaton. For more information or tickets, call (630) 752-5010. Online orders may be placed at www.artistseries.org through Sept. 18.

• Wheaton College welcomes singer, songwriter and renowned guitarist Phil Keaggy back to Edman Chapel at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12. During his 30-year career, he has released more than 50 solo albums and eight records with his band, Glass Harp. He has been awarded the GMA Dove Award seven times. Keaggy sells out concerts in both contemporary Christian and mainstream music markets. General admission tickets are available online at www.itickets.com and in the college bookstore; they cost $20 at the door. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more information, call the College Union concert hotline at (630) 752-5390.

Wheaton College Conservatory faculty members perform two concerts in Pierce Memorial Chapel on the southeast corner of Washington and Franklin streets, Wheaton.

• The “Waves of Irony” concert begins at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, with musicians including mezzo-soprano Sarah Holman and pianist Karin Redekopp Edwards.

• Faculty members perform the “Improvisation” concert at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, featuring Howard Whitaker on clarinet and Lee Joiner on violin. Tickets to either faculty concert are available only at the door and cost $6 for general audience and $4 for students and seniors. For more information, call the Conservatory of Music at (630) 752-5099.

• This year’s Archaeology Lecture Series, “From Migdol to Aswan: Geoarchaeology in Egypt and Sinai,” explores new insights into the human history of the Nile Valley, Nile Delta and Sinai. Jean-Daniel Stanley, senior scientist and director of the geoarchaeology program at the Smithsonian Institutions’ National Museum of Natural History, will present the first lecture titled “Ancient Cities Submerged Off Egypt: Exploration and Discovery.”

The lecture is free to the public at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, in the Phelps Room of the Todd M. Beamer Student Center at 421 Chase St. For more information, contact the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies at (630) 752-5054.

Band, fireworks near in Oakbrook Terrace

Families and friends are invited to the “End of Summer Celebration” at the Oakbrook Terrace Park District, featuring a concert and fireworks.

Taking place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, guests will hear the award-winning band play the biggest hits from REO Speedwagon, Journey, Styx and other classic rock bands. After the performance, a fireworks display lights up the sky at 9 p.m. The Park District and Lions Club will sell concessions.

The party is at the Terrace View Park stage, 1 Parkview Plaza, Oakbrook Terrace. For more information, call the Park District at (630) 627-6100 or visit www.obtpd.org.

Lions charity car show to add power

The Elburn Lions Club will present its 15th annual car show from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, to benefit “Campaign Sight First II,” a Lions Clubs International charity to treat and prevent blindness.

This year’s show, dubbed the Elburn All Wheels Classic, for the first time will include motorcycles, tractors, swap meet, for-sale corral and farmers market. It is set in Lions Park, 500 Filmore St., Elburn.

The popular Elburn Lions pork chop and chicken dinner will be available for purchase from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and other food and beverages will be offered.

A 383 Stroker engine with more than 400 horsepower will be raffled for $5 a ticket, with a limit of 1,500 tickets sold. Tickets are available at Fox Valley area businesses. To find out where or to print a mail-in order form, visit the Elburn Lions Web site at elburnlions.com.

Musician Larry Rossi to span genres

RPM Creative Music presents an afternoon concert with Larry Rossi called “Songs and Stories,” featuring a collection of musical styles and moods.

Presented in St. Charles, the program begins at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14, and will include Rossi’s originals, along with exceptional old standards, some rock and jazz and the likes of artists such as Santana, The Beatles, Miles Davis and Bob Dylan. Added to the mix of this family concert will be some of Rossi’s down-home stories and quips.

The performance is in the St. Charles VFW Hall, 119 N. Third St. Admission costs $7, $5 for children 12 or younger. Tickets are available at www.larryrossi.org.

Regional artists featured at Norris Gallery

The Norris Gallery in the Norris Cultural Arts Center in St. Charles presents its annual “Invitational” art exhibition, with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14.

Area artists were invited to display their talents. Artworks have been created in a variety of media from traditional photography to gauche and ink wash to copper etchings. The “Invitational” artists are Shirley Calby (honored in memoriam), Sandy Frigolett, Tina Leverenzzi, Geri Greenman, Nancy Staszak and Lennox Dunbar from Scotland.

Greenman taught art for 25 years for District 88 at Addison Trail and Willowbrook high schools. Staszak is an artist, a public school teacher at Lisle Public Schools, District 202, a poet and member of the Downers Grove Art Guild. She received an Illinois Arts Educators Association grant during the 2007 summer to travel to Santa Fe, N.M., to study with Navajo printmaker Michael McCabe. The workshop was “The Expressive Monotype,” a flexible and creative form of printmaking using painterly techniques. Some of her work in Santa Fe is exhibited at Norris.

Special guests in the exhibit include the students, staff and invited artists of the Printmaking Department from Gray’s School of Art at Robert Gordon University, Arberdeen, Scotland. Collectively, these limited edition prints from Gray’s School of Art represent a body of work titled “Portfolio X.” The project seeks to provide students with a first-hand understanding of the curating, production and dissemination of limited-edition prints.

The show runs through Thursday, Sept. 25, at 1040 Dunham Road on the campus of St. Charles East High School.

More information is available by calling (630) 584-7200, Ext. 14. The complete 2008-09 Norris Gallery Prospectus can be found at www.norrisculturalarts.com.