School of Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) offers hundreds of studio art, design, and liberal arts classes for students to choose from, and move easily between. Hands-on studio opportunities at SAIC range from the traditional—bronze foundries, ceramic kilns, figure modeling, oil painting, and weaving looms—to the contemporary, using high-definition digital video camcorders, robotics, computer controlled woodworking routers, holography, and digital looms.

Beverly Art Centre
Beverly Art Centre is a not-for-profit cultural and educational institution located in Beverly Hills/Morgan Park. Beverly Art Centre offers a large variety of classes including drawing, painting, dance, film, theatre and photography.

Brickton Art Centre
Brickon Art Centre is a non-profit community organization headed by a Board of Directors and an Executive Director. Located in the community of Park Ridge, Brickton Art Centre offers a variety of classes including drawing, painting, ceramics, jewlery, fashion and printmaking.

Eastern Illinois University
At Eastern Illinois University, its College of Arts & Humanities offers a large variety of programs including visual arts, music, theatre, art education and art history. In fall 2008, the university opened the newly constructed Doudna Fine Arts Center, designed by international architect Antoine Predock.

Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago
The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago is part of the collection of 41 private, for-profit art schools (The Art Institutes) across the nation. The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago offers degree programs in Fashion Design, Game Arts & Design, Interior Design and more...

Prairie Art Alliance
Prairie Art Alliance is a non-profit community organization headed by a Board of Directors and an Executive Director. Located in in the Hoogland Center for the Arts in downtown Springfield, the Prairie Art Alliance offers a variety of classes including drawing, painting, book art and photography.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Southern Illinoise University Carbondale is divided into twelve colleges including the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts. The School of Art & Design offers programs leading to BA, BFA and MFA degrees in a variety of areas, including fine arts, interior design, fashion design and industrial design. The School of Music also offers a strong and varied program.

University of Illinois at Chicago
At the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the College of Architecture and the Arts offers accredited professional programs in Architecture, Graphic Design and Industrial Design, to Studio Arts, Photography, and Moving Image, to Music and Theater and Art History.