About Us

Throughout the year the Beverly Arts Center strives to bring the community superior fine arts opportunities. The BAC e-newsletter is your unique opportunity to stay informed of upcoming events, as well as new and exciting classes offered at the BAC.

By joining our email list you will receive the latest information about gallery exhibits, upcoming events & live performances, classes and student programming and even special promotions!

To sign up for email newsletters email bac@beverlyartcenter.org. Subject line: E-NEWS

The Beverly Arts Center is located at 2407 W. 111th Street (corner of 111th street and Western Avenue), about 20 minutes from the Loop in Chciago's historic Beverly Hills/Morgan Park neighborhood.
To see a map of the area, please click here.

VIA CAR:
Interstate 57: Exit at 111th Street (Exit 355). From the North, turn right at the second traffic light (Monterey Avenue) and head West. Note: Monterey Avenue merges into 111th Street. Free parking is available in the BAC lot adjacent to the building.

VIA PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
Metra's Rock Island line from LaSalle Street Station downtown (La Salle and Van Buren El Stop). Take the Joliet Sub-line (Beverly Branch) to 111th Street. Head West about 6 blocks. Call (312) 322-6509 or visit Metra's Rock Island website for schedule information: http://www.metrarail.com/Sched/ri/ri.php

CTA: 111th Street bus from 95th Street (Red line El).
Pace: 49A bus and 349 bus (South Western)

The Beverly Arts Center was founded in 1968 to provide educational and cultural enrichment to Beverly Hills/Morgan Park and surrounding neighborhoods. Now a regional fine arts facility, the BAC welcomes patrons from South and Southwest neighborhoods and suburbs and greater Chicago with a multidisciplinary program of performing arts, independent film series, art exhibits and a non-credit School of the Arts that offers nearly 100 classes in the visual arts, music, theater, movement and dance.

The Beverly Arts Center offers Chicago's only Irish Film Festival in March; stages live music and other performance entertainment; and offers an educational outreach program to area local schools, the Bravo Jr. children theater series, affordable field trip opportunities for school groups.

The BAC is managed by a 14-member Board of Directors and a professional team of full-and part-time staff members, joined throughout the year by more than 45 faculty artists and many volunteers. Support for programming comes from class tuition, ticket sales, contracted services, and charitable donations.

After more than 30 years in existence, the Beverly Arts Center moved into a new home at the corner of 111th Street and Western Avenue in 2002.

Click the following links to take a look around the BAC: Theater, Theater (catwalk view), Dance Studio, Gallery, Atrium, Front Desk, Courtyard, Upper Lobby

As a nonprofit organization, the Beverly Arts Center depends on the generous support of our members to sustain a growing array of educational programs, exhibitions and performing arts presentations.

May I Have This Dance has become the most popular and well-respected Latin, Swing & Ballroom school in the Midwest. BAC is proud to welcome the friendly and expertly-trained instructors of May I Have This Dance to the BAC community and members.

Beverly Area Planning Association (BAPA), Serving the Beverly/ Morgan Park neighborhood since 1947. www.bapa.org

The programs of the Beverly Arts Center are partially supported by a City Arts Program 3 grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Additional support for our programming has been provided by the Chicago Community Trust, Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs. A special thank you is extended to our corporate contributors, and to all of our individual and business members.