Private Tours are available by appointments for small groups. Open House Dates are every 1st and 3rd Sunday from 1:00-4:00 PM. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and $3 for children.
For questions, private tours and special event rentals please contact the Peoria Historical Society Office 309-674-1921. 

The John C. Flanagan House Museum was built in 1837 on Peoria's east bluff by Judge John C. Flanagan and is the oldest standing house in Peoria. This American Federalist style house offers a spectacular view of the Illinois River Valley. Collections of antique glass, china, furniture, toys, quilts and vintage clothing are displayed. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by the Peoria Historical Society.

for more info: https://www.peoriahistoricalsociety.com/events

Skill building classes which meet once a week.  Learn the basics of or improve your skills hand-building and wheel throwing pottery , as well as how to finish through glazing your work.

Instructor: Jacob Grant
No Experience Necessary.
Ages 18+.  
For Beginning students and Beyond Beginners: Intermediate and Expert levels require taking several classes at the Beyond Beginning level or several hours (500+) of independent work time.  
Registration cost is $190. This covers tuition and two 5lb bags of Red Stoneware Clay to begin the class.  If you need more, it can be purchased as needed.  
Everyone will need to have their own tools for the class.  If you do not have tools, there is a $20 add on option to purchase them through us.
All glaze and firing costs are included in the cost of the clay you purchase.  
When pottery is finished, it is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave safe.

After you fill out and return the form, your application will be reviewed, along with availability in the class.  If there is not room, you will recieve an email that you have been placed on a wait list and will be notified as soon as a spot come available.  

If there is room in the class, you will be notified by email and you will also receive an invoice via email, which you can pay online with card.

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/adult-clay-classes

Skill building classes which meet once a week.  Learn the basics of or improve your skills hand-building and wheel throwing pottery , as well as how to finish through glazing your work.

Instructor: Jacob Grant
No Experience Necessary.
Ages 18+.  
For Beginning students and Beyond Beginners: Intermediate and Expert levels require taking several classes at the Beyond Beginning level or several hours (500+) of independent work time.  
Registration cost is $190. This covers tuition and two 5lb bags of Red Stoneware Clay to begin the class.  If you need more, it can be purchased as needed.  
Everyone will need to have their own tools for the class.  If you do not have tools, there is a $20 add on option to purchase them through us.
All glaze and firing costs are included in the cost of the clay you purchase.  
When pottery is finished, it is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave safe.

After you fill out and return the form, your application will be reviewed, along with availability in the class.  If there is not room, you will recieve an email that you have been placed on a wait list and will be notified as soon as a spot come available.  

If there is room in the class, you will be notified by email and you will also receive an invoice via email, which you can pay online with card.

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/adult-clay-classes

kill building classes which meet once a week.  Learn the basics of or improve your skills hand-building and wheel throwing pottery , as well as how to finish through glazing your work.

Instructor: Jacob Grant
No Experience Necessary.
Ages 18+.  
For Beginning students and Beyond Beginners: Intermediate and Expert levels require taking several classes at the Beyond Beginning level or several hours (500+) of independent work time.  
Registration cost is $190. This covers tuition and two 5lb bags of Red Stoneware Clay to begin the class.  If you need more, it can be purchased as needed.  
Everyone will need to have their own tools for the class.  If you do not have tools, there is a $20 add on option to purchase them through us.
All glaze and firing costs are included in the cost of the clay you purchase.  
When pottery is finished, it is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave safe.

After you fill out and return the form, your application will be reviewed, along with availability in the class.  If there is not room, you will recieve an email that you have been placed on a wait list and will be notified as soon as a spot come available.  

If there is room in the class, you will be notified by email and you will also receive an invoice via email, which you can pay online with card.

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/adult-clay-classes

Skill building classes which meet once a week.  Learn the basics of or improve your skills hand-building and wheel throwing pottery , as well as how to finish through glazing your work.

Instructor: Jacob Grant
No Experience Necessary.
Ages 18+.  
For Beginning students and Beyond Beginners: Intermediate and Expert levels require taking several classes at the Beyond Beginning level or several hours (500+) of independent work time.  
Registration cost is $190. This covers tuition and two 5lb bags of Red Stoneware Clay to begin the class.  If you need more, it can be purchased as needed.  
Everyone will need to have their own tools for the class.  If you do not have tools, there is a $20 add on option to purchase them through us.
All glaze and firing costs are included in the cost of the clay you purchase.  
When pottery is finished, it is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave safe.

After you fill out and return the form, your application will be reviewed, along with availability in the class.  If there is not room, you will recieve an email that you have been placed on a wait list and will be notified as soon as a spot come available.  

If there is room in the class, you will be notified by email and you will also receive an invoice via email, which you can pay online with card.

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/adult-clay-classes

Every Thursday Open House from 10AM - 2PM. Private Tours are available for small groups by appointments. For questions, private tours and special event rentals contact the Peoria Historical Society Office 309-674-1921.

The Pettengill-Morron House has celebrated 150 years! When you visit lean about all of the owners, stories of abolitionists and the underground railroad, what famous actor was married in the home and other stories of Peoria's past along with unique collection of pieces. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by the Peoria Historical Society.

 

For more info: https://www.peoriahistoricalsociety.com/events

hese classes offer kids, ages 5-17, the chance to explore and build skill, learning different hand-building techniques and how to throw on the potter's wheel. They also learn how to finish work through different glazing techniques.  

Instructors Jacob Grant and Kyla Cadwell co-teach this course.  

Jacob started Wheel Art Pottery Studio in 2010. He has 25 years of experience working in clay, an M.F.A. in Ceramics from Bradley University, and 20 years of experience teaching ceramics.  He began teaching pottery to homeschool children at The Peoria Art Guild in 2005.

Kyla is a working artist with 15 years of experience in art education. She has taught art to children in many settings, including Montessori School of Peoria, Peoria Lakeview Museum, the 21st Century Program, Cornerstone Academy of Performing Arts and most recently at Wheel Art Pottery Studios.

Jacob and Kyla share a teaching philosophy that creativity is best learned through independent experimentation/trial and error.

Their teaching process involves detailed lectures on materials used in ceramics, the firing process, and its historic and technological impact on human civilization. Demonstrations are given of techniques on how to manipulate clay through hand-building and wheel-throwing methods to create a variety of functional and sculptural forms. Children are then allowed to "play in the clay." They are encouraged to fail and learn through their failures. Students will be instructed on being responsible for their workspace and tools, and mindful of the materials they use.

Wheel-thrown Projects: Students are instructed on the basics of creating pots on a pottery wheel.  They are then given opportunity to spin clay (throw) by themselves, while instructors are only observing.  After working on the wheel independently for a period of time, instructors will give assistance and more instruction, as needed.

Hand-building Projects: Students will learn pinch-pot, and slab techniques for the upcoming fall session.  Focus on fall-time creations: slab-built leaf trays, pinch-pot pumpkins (can be carved decoratively like jack-o-lanterns), and slab spiders (used from carving patterns of their hands).

Students learn to finish their own pieces by applying glaze, underglaze, and/or other ceramic mediums before they go into a kiln and fire on for a permanent finish.

Children in both classes follow individual paths in clay. With guidance from the instructor, they are allowed to develop their own unique voice in clay. 

All kid's classes work with stoneware clay and glazes that are food-safe, water-tight, oven-proof, microwave/dishwasher-safe.

No experience necessary

Ages 5-17

$165/student, includes materials & firings

Next Session: 7 Consecutive Thursdays, August 29-October 10, 4:30-6pm

To register: https://sites.google.com/site/wheelartpotterystudio/classes/kid-s-clay-classes

Whisper & Shout: Open Mic for Poetry
Thursday, September 19~ 8:00 - 10:00 pm

When checking in at the door, be prepared to share your table and seat number.

Tickets in Advance Online: $5-members, $8-nonmembers, $3-poets + fees (till 6pm day of event)
If an event is not sold out, tickets will also be sold at the door.
Tickets at the door*: $9-members, $12-nonmembers, $5-poets
(*No money will be taken at the door unless we don’t reach our max capacity)

*Please Note that purchasing a Poet Ticket is a commitment to share your poetry on stage. If you don't plan to read, then don't purchase a poet level ticket.

Water and Pop for $1.00 is offered at the bar.
Attendees may bring their own food and drink or bring in food and drink from the Rhythm Kitchen.

Experience a diverse open mic with artists from all backgrounds in a positive and inspiring atmosphere. 
Peoria’s Open Mic for Poetry is held on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. 
Hosts: Ryan Lowry and Whitney Jensen with DJ YV

Feature Poet: Mello
Mello loves to tell stories and keep the audience engaged. After 15 years as a spoken word poet, Mello still has the passion as he had from the start. The joy of putting words together to bring people together is a gift he cherishes and respects. Mello always gives it all and it shows in every performance.

For tickets: Tickets309tix.com/events/whisper-shout-open-mic-for-poetry-9-19-2024

Early Peoria history, thriving industry, grand mansions... this River City tour has it all. Travel along High Street, Moss Avenue, Glen Oak Avenue and Grandview Drive, while taking in views of the beautiful Illinois River. 

Venue Information

Caterpillar Visitors Center

110 Southwest Washington Street
Peoria, IL 61602

For tickets: https://309tix.com/events/roots-of-the-river-city-bus-tour-9-20-2024-160870

Willkommen to Central Illinois’ Biggest and Best Fest! This year’s festival has all your favorites with a few new things to put some guten in your tag!

The Peoria Park District and German American Central Society united their efforts in 1996 to bring the first of the “signature events” planned for the Peoria Riverfront. 

Peoria’s Oktoberfest” is the Midwestern equivalent of the Munich Oktoberfest.

Location: Peoria Riverfront

9/20: 5pm-11pm
9/21: Noon-11pm
9/22: 11am-5pm

Ticket Options: 
- Friday & Saturday: Advance $9; Day of event: $12. 
- Sunday: $6 Advance/Day of Event
- Weekend Pass Advance Only: $15

For more information, visit the festival website: www.oktoberfestpeoria.com

We're excited to welcome Matt Eckberg back to the beer garden for the 2024 season! Join us for great tunes, good company and refreshing beer.

 

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/967927844775527/967927848108860?event_time_id=967927851442193

Salsa At CAC
Friday, September 20, 2024

ADMISSION
$8.00 nonmembers
$5.00 CAC Members

Introductory Dance Lesson - 8:30-9:30 pm
Learn the basics of several Latin Dances by Guest Instructors.

Open dancing - 9:30-midnight

No partner is required. Mostly Salsa music is played but also Cha Cha, Bachata, Merengue, Tango, Reggaeton, R&B, Cumbia and Latin styled pop and R&B also. 

Bring your own food and drink or order take out from the Rhythm Kitchen. Pop, water and ice for sale on the floor for $1.00

Questions:
William Butler 
CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
305 SW Water Street, Peoria, IL 61602 • 309-674-6822 • cac@peoriacac.org • www.peoriacac.org

Peoria's biggest and best farmers market!  Featuring over 100 local vendors selling fresh produce, local meats, eggs, cheeses, breads, flowers, and baked goods!  Local artists, musicians and demonstrations each week!

Join us every Saturday morning 8 am - noon in the 200 block of Water Street.

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/PeoriaRiverFrontMarket

Meet at the parking lot behind Converse Marketing.

 

Join your guide as he takes you past the lavish homes of the first whiskey barons. Continue down along Moss Avenue, full of history and also the first paved street in Peoria.

Venue Information

Converse Marketing

1125 West Main Street
Peoria, IL 61606

For tickets: https://309tix.com/events/high-street-and-moss-avenue-walking-tour-9-21-2024

Learn the basics of setting up a pottery wheel to throw, the proper tools needed, how to prepare the clay through a process called "wedging," centering, throwing on the wheel and how to clean up.

We give a demonstration of how to throw a pot.  Next, we let you try by yourself for a short period of time.  Then we give assistance, as needed, to create your own piece which can literally exist forever (unless it is heated to 2500 fahrenheit:). You get to choose the glaze color of your piece.

This class qualifies a person to attend open studios and work independently. 

Materials and firing is covered in the cost for one piece (approximate maximum size-up to 6" tall x 6" width x 6" length).

Everyone keeps one piece. Additional pieces of equivalent size are $5 (covers material and firing costs).  These are paid for after the pottery session, if you create more than 1 piece you wish to keep.

Specialty Items are also available for additional cost.  These require additional time, material, and firing.

Pieces are kept at the studio for finish work, glazing and two kiln firings, and are picked up at a later date. When finished, everything is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, microwave-safe.

Ages 5+

No experience necessary

Pre-registration and pre-payment required.

Please Fill out the form and submit to register for a Wheel 101 class.  If you have a group of people, all paying together, please use one form.  If you are coming with others, but paying separately, please fill out separate forms.  After you submit the form, you will receive a confirmation email and invoice within a day.  When the invoice is paid, your spot will be reserved.

To register: https://www.wheelartpottery.studio/events/wheel-101-class

Enjoy a tour and tasting with a BLACK BAND team member in our restored historic space in Peoria’s Warehouse District.

As you explore the distilling process from grain to glass, you will learn about mash bills, still technology, distillate selection, barrel aging and more. Please bring your photo ID and plan to arrive 15 minutes before your tour begins.

For more info & to register: https://www.exploretock.com/blackbanddistillery/event/483954?date=2024-07-27&size=1&time=20%3A00

Willkommen to Central Illinois’ Biggest and Best Fest! This year’s festival has all your favorites with a few new things to put some guten in your tag!

The Peoria Park District and German American Central Society united their efforts in 1996 to bring the first of the “signature events” planned for the Peoria Riverfront. 

Peoria’s Oktoberfest” is the Midwestern equivalent of the Munich Oktoberfest.

Location: Peoria Riverfront

9/20: 5pm-11pm
9/21: Noon-11pm
9/22: 11am-5pm

Ticket Options: 
- Friday & Saturday: Advance $9; Day of event: $12. 
- Sunday: $6 Advance/Day of Event
- Weekend Pass Advance Only: $15

For more information, visit the festival website: www.oktoberfestpeoria.com