Evanston Art Center
Jill Stark is an experienced design professional with a diverse background in various roles across multiple organizations. Currently serving as a Docent at the Art Institute of Chicago since 2023, Jill also facilitates at Deaf Kids Code and instructs painting at the Evanston Art Center, both roles undertaken since 2019. Additionally, Jill works as a Designer for Housing Opportunity Development Corporation and has operated under the personal brand, Jill E. Stark, since 2011. Past experience includes an Associate position at Amazon from 2020 to 2023, and product design roles at Fibre Craft and Enesco, with a strong foundation in graphic design and photography established during tenures at 1800flowers.com/DesignPac LLC and earlier at Fibre Craft. Jill Stark holds a BFA in Illustration from Columbus College of Art & Design, earned in 1998.
Evanston Art Center
Founded in 1929, the Evanston Art Center has become one of the largest community art centers in Illinois and a leading provider of quality arts education and community outreach. Created through the efforts of 20 civic organizations, from 1929 to 1943 the Art Center was housed in the basement of the old Evanston Library. In 1942, the Art Center was incorporated as a nonprofit. Since 1966, the Art Center has lived and grown in in the Harley Clarke House on the shores of Lake Michigan. In May 2015, the Evanston Art Center is officially moving to its new home at 1717 Central Street. The new location allows the Art Center to expand beyond the visual arts and additionally offer programming in culinary and language arts, design, digital fabrication, film, movement, music, performance and more. At its new home, the Evanston Art Center will serve more people in more ways, offering a variety of services to a diverse community.