Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. | FREE with General Admission!
Join us in Boy: Joys and Sorrows for a conversation between guest curator of film Carlos Valladares and artist Nicolas Africano, bridging the fine arts and the art of film.
Limited seating is available. Reserve your ticket HERE
Nicolas Africano, born in 1948 in Kankakee, Illinois, is a contemporary artist whose cast glass sculptures uniquely merge classical form with modern sensibilities. Living and working in Normal, Illinois, since the 1960s, Africano’s art is deeply personal, with his wife and muse, Rebecca, serving as the central subject of much of his work.
The cinema is the quintessential artistic medium of the 20th century; it is the meeting point of literature, poetry, theater, painting, photography, essay, music, and dance. Yet those who look at, make, or study movies have a tendency to segregate it from the other arts. Carlos Valladares aims to unite the incredible contemporary art of Africano with film, putting the two in dialogue. From the unmoving beauty of Africano's busts to the frenetic pace of films on the Giant Screen, see it come together in beautiful harmony.
Sponsored by Visionary Society, Friends of Art
