UPCOMING EXHIBITS
NEW SEMANTICS GALLERY
VISIONS OF US: SOUTHERN ILLINOS PORTRAITS BY PAUL ELLEDGE
October 22 – December 31, 2023
- Exhibit Open: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm & Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 pm
- Gallery Admission – Free
GATHER AT THE GALLERIES – EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, October 21 | 5:00 to 7:00 pm
- Complimentary Bar & Hors d’oeuvres | 5:00 – 6:00 pm
- Admission $10.00 | Cedarhurst Members – Free
GALLERY TALK
Sunday, October 22 | 2:00 pm | Free admission
- Photographer – Paul Elledge
- Performance Hall and New Semantics Gallery
GALLERY SPONSORS: 
| Hunt and Donna Bonan
EXHIBIT SPONSORS:
Hunt and Donna Bonan | Garino Family Charitable Fund | Kate Tomford and David Grossman
Scott and Mary Rafferty | Shawn and Laura Fagan
EXHIBIT COSPONSORS:
Doug and Debby Kroeschen | Linda Calandra
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:
Visions of Us: Southern Illinois Portraits by Paul Elledge is a celebration of the remarkable people who live here with a new appreciation of their cultural complexities and diversities.
Paul Elledge challenges those who see only stereotypes with an exhibition featuring a variety of people with differing backgrounds, occupations, and outlooks. Ultimately, this exhibition asks “Are we really all that different?” For today’s complex world, Paul Elledge reminds us that men and women with democratic fortitude can rise from the humblest of places. A new vision for social order and harmony unfolds with this exhibition.
BEAL GRAND CORRIDOR GALLERY
HISTORIC ILLINOIS: BARNS & COAL MINING
October 22 – December 31, 2023
- Exhibit Open: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm & Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 pm
- Gallery Admission – Free
GATHER AT THE GALLERIES – EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, October 21 | 5:00 to 7:00 pm
- Complimentary Bar & Hors d’oeuvres | 5:00 – 6:00 pm
- Admission $10.00 | Cedarhurst Members – Free
GALLERY SPONSOR: 
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:
Historic Illinois: Barns & Coal Mining presents two major industries of Southern Illinois and provides context for the Visions of Us exhibition. These photographs of Illinois barns and coal mining originate from two 1980 exhibits in the Cedarhurst collections. Organized by the Illinois State Historical Society “Barns of Illinois” was originally designed to be hand-held photographs that schoolchildren could study up close. “The American Coal Miner” was commissioned in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter to document how coal miners lives had changed over the past 30 years. The coal miner exhibition documented 17 states including Illinois.
Beck Family Center
WIGGLE, WAGGLE, WOOF!
October 22 – December 31, 2023
- Exhibit Open: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm & Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 pm
- Gallery Admission – Free
GATHER AT THE GALLERIES – EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, October 21 | 5:00 to 7:00 pm
- Complimentary Bar & Hors d’oeuvres | 5:00 – 6:00 pm
- Admission $10.00 | Cedarhurst Members – Free
GALLERY SPONSORS: 
EXHIBIT SPONSORS: Kevin and Cheryl Settle
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:
Charles Schultz claimed that “happiness is a warm puppy,” from the looks of the wonderful work in this gallery, we don’t think anyone could disagree! Wiggle, Waggle, Woof! is an exhibition of submitted works of art from our southern Illinois community. Cedarhurst hopes visitors enjoy the variety of artwork representing some of the finest four-legged friends!
REGENHARDT GALLERY AT SHRODE ART CENTER
SHRODE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION AND EXHIBIT
October 22 – December 31, 2023
- Exhibit Open: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm & Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 pm
- Gallery Admission – Free
GATHER AT THE GALLERIES – EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, October 21 | 5:00 to 7:00 pm
- Complimentary Bar & Hors d’oeuvres | 5:00 – 6:00 pm
- Awards announcement – 6:00 pm
- Admission $10.00 | Cedarhurst Members – Free
ART CHAT – NEW YEAR’S EVE
Sunday, December 31 | 3:00 pm | Free admission
- Exhibiting photographers and public welcome
- Moderater – Carrie Stover, Director of Shrode Art Center
GALLERY SPONSORS: 
EXHIBIT SPONSORS: Doug and Debby Kroeschen
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:
The Shrode Photography Competition and Exhibition is a juried competition open to artists 18 years of age and older living in southern Illinois south of Interstate 70, including Charleston, IL. Eligible media accepted included photography created with photographic film, and digital images.
205 photographs were entered in this year’s competition from 51 different artists, representing 17 southern Illinois communities! 40 works were accepted representing 25 artists. We are delighted that so many people in the region are involved in the art of photography and that we are able to offer this challenge. Awards include cash prizes for Best of Show, 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place and Honorable Mention Certificates.
The 2023 competition judge was Jenny Kettler. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from SIU-E and a Bachelors of Arts in Photojournalism from the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, MO and Environmental Studies Certificate. She teaches photography at Lindenwood University, Maryville University and St. Louis Community College.
