Walking With Giants at McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage
Wed, Jun 03 – Sun, Oct 18, 2026
425 Fawell Boulevard, Glen Ellyn, IL, USA, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Walking With Giants is a free outdoor exhibit featuring towering painted silhouette sculptures celebrating influential American artists, musicians, and performers in honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary.
This summer, in honor of the United States’ 250th anniversary, the McAninch Art Center and Cleve Carney Museum of Art, in association with the College of DuPage Foundation, will present Walking With Giants, a free, outdoor, walkable exhibition celebrating American artistic achievement.
Opening in June and continuing throughout the summer, the exhibition will feature 10 larger-than-life painted silhouette sculptures, each approximately 10 feet tall, installed along a walkable route surrounding the MAC on the College of DuPage campus in Glen Ellyn. Developed with community input and created by contemporary artists, the works will honor influential American figures in visual art, music, theater, and dance, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dolly Parton and Lin-Manuel Miranda, among others.
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