Independent Drawing Hour at University Galleries

Spend time looking closely at artworks in the exhibition and drawing at your own pace. Materials provided.

University Galleries of Illinois State University is pleased to present Collaboration in Progress: Normal Editions Workshop at 50 from January 12 through March 25, 2026 and Dianna Frid: Matter Is the Nectar of Writing / La materia es el néctar de la escritura from January 12 through March 1, 2026. 

Collaboration in Progress: Normal Editions Workshop at 50 is an exhibition that celebrates the 50^th anniversary of Normal Editions Workshop, a non-profit, professional, collaborative print research and publishing workshop within Illinois State University’s Wonsook Kim School of Art. The exhibition features 50 prints created at Normal Editions by visiting artists, emeritus faculty, current faculty, and alumni.

Dianna Frid: Matter Is the Nectar of Writing / La materia es el néctar de la escritura features new and recent tapestries, artist’s books, embroideries, photographs, mixed-media works, and sculpture. This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of a group of works that Frid created in Mexico and Chicago from 2023 to 2025. In 2025, most of these artworks were exhibited in concurrent exhibitions at two libraries in Oaxaca, Mexico: the Biblioteca Andrés Henestrosa and the Biblioteca Fray Francisco de Burgoa (Burgoa Library). Related works from 2015 through 2025 are also included in the exhibition at University Galleries.