The Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame announced this week there are five individual inductee winners of the 2020 Hall of Fame presented in the categories of visual arts, performing arts, music educator and benefactor. The names of the award winners will be announced (TBA) on press day at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, at the Batavia Library, 10 South Batavia. The winners will be honored at the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame (FVAHF) awards dinner at 6 p.m. Friday, April 24 at the Villa Olivia, 1401 W. Lake Street, Bartlett.
The Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame is a not-for–profit organization, founded in 2001 during a commemoration for the Millennium, to give public recognition to artists associated with the Fox Valley by birth, education, residence, or service who have achieved national or international acclaim and to ensure a strong cultural legacy for future generations. Included artists must have 20 years in their profession. This class is the 10th of inaugurating inductees into the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame.
The FVAHF has inducted and celebrated the lives of numerous inductees over the past 20 years. Inductees into the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame are honored with engraved plaques, which will be displayed at the Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin.
The community is invited to join the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame and its inductee winners at the awards ceremony April 24 at Villa Olivia in Bartlett. The FVAHF and many of the Fox Valley artist community as well as businesses, and civic leaders attend the banquet to celebrate the FVAHF inductee winners and the work they do every day to create a thriving and vibrant creative community in the Fox Valley area.
To register to attend, go to the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame web site www.foxvalleyarts.org for information on attending the event, or contact Susan Starrett 630-605-4000.
— Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame