Oak Park Illinois Film Festival & the Oak Park Art League

September 11-14, 2025

Experience Three Days of Art, Fashion & Film in the Heart of Oak Park

Join us for an unforgettable cultural celebration featuring the best of visual arts, fashion, and cinema right in Oak Park, Illinois. This vibrant weekend showcases the creative spirit that makes our community truly special.

This is where you will find all the opportunities we come across or that come in especially to be shared with the OPAL artist community.

OPAL is honored to host Shanelle Harrison as our artist-in-residence April through June 2025, and back as the curator for OPAl’s August exhibition, Stories from the Soul.

During OPAL’s Fall Fundraiser HOUSE of OPAL, the work by Oak Park Art League members on the gallery walls will create a rich backdrop of creative expression, epitomizing OPAL’s mission and reflecting our unique artistic community.

Our June through September featured OPAL Artists at Prairie Title are Sandra Ferguson and Dave Ottens.
The Oak Park Art League is once again offering members a chance to display their work outside our main gallery, in local businesses we have partnered with to provide more exposure for artists.

The Oak Park Art League has partnered with La Romita School of Art in Umbria Italy to form a group artist retreat in summer 2027. Currently we are sharing this opportunity and gathering interested artists who would like to learn more join in this exciting art adventure!

OPAL is honored to host Betty Kim as our artist-in-residence July through September 2025.
Betty is a lens-based artist and educator in the Chicago metropolitan area. She incorporates self-portraiture, archival materials, pop culture, and a range of fiction

and non-fiction sources through her exploration of the following mediums: photography, printmaking, fiber arts, and sculpture.