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Central Illinois is vibrant with arts, history and culture – make the most of your One State experience by arriving early or staying beyond the One State conference to play in Peoria! Learn more about Peoria, find sample itineraries, and plan your visit at the Peoria Area Convention and Visitors Bureau web site at www.peoria.org/onestate. And discover all that Peoria’s vibrant arts community has to offer at ArtsPartners of Central Illinois’ website: www.artspartners.net.
Space is limited; advanced registration and an additional $20 fee are required for all tours. (Cost includes transportation, an evening meal and a special artistic adventure.)
Beginning at the Peoria Art Guild, you’ll enjoy a light dinner and libations, live music, artist demonstrations, the photographic work of Elijah Sansom and sculpture by Sandra McKenzie-Schmitt. Members of the Bohemian Art Society and Contemporary Art Center will also display selected works. Then enjoy dessert at the Prairie Center of the Arts, a 120 year-old former rope factory, as members of the Peoria Ballet dance to a new piece of work set to original music by Peoria Symphony violist, Lowell Koons. You’ll also meet Fred Jones, Professor Emeritus Western Illinois University, whose art exhibition and retrospective will be in the gallery from May 29th through June 30th. Mr. Jones and Maria Michalis, both Artists in Residence, will be available to discuss their work. A short walk takes you next door to the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, the largest private downstate museum in Illinois. Here you will see a special Smithsonian exhibit - "Within the Emperor's Garden: The Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion", a polarized light exhibit, enjoy a buffet dinner and libations, and be entertained by live music. You will reboard the charter buses and head to Peoria Heights where you can step off to see the Don Kettleborough Art Exhibit on display at Picture This Gallery and enjoy a scenic ride on Grandview Drive, once dubbed by Teddy Roosevelt as "the world's most beautiful drive!"
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