A Family Portrait: Turner Family Show at Noyes through March 18
The City of Evanston Cultural Arts Division is pleased to announce an upcoming special exhibition in celebration of Black History Month, “A Family Portrait,” at the Noyes Art Gallery. The exhibition will be on display from January 23 through March 18 and will feature artwork by the award-winning Turner family of Chicago.
The exhibition is presented jointly by the City of Evanston’s Cultural Arts Division and Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center to celebrate Black History Month. An artist’s reception for the public will be held from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 30 at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., Evanston. Admission is free.
Turner family artistic tradition started half a century ago with Josephine Curtis Turner and Robert (Bobby) Lee Turner. Their children, Jan, Robert, Phillip, and Beatrice have all gone on to a life in the arts and music. The family started their own gallery on Chicago’s south side in the 1940s when Josephine Curtis exhibited her artwork in her mother’s living room when she was ten years old. Phillip Turner encouraged the gallery to expand in the late 1980s, and they exhibited local and international artists.
The exhibit will mark the first time the entire family has mounted an exhibition, and it will celebrate their creativity, as well show the diversity of their individual and collective styles. “A Family Portrait” will also feature works by Phillip Parker-Turner and Teresa J. Parker, and portraits of family members, Mary Washington, Margaret Curtis, Laverne and Jon Gill, and Erika and Erin Turner, will be highlighted.
The Noyes Art Gallery is located within the Noyes Cultural Arts Center. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is always free. For more information, call the Cultural Arts Division at 847-448-8260 or Philip J. Turner at 773-643-6526.