Opening Reception for the work of Anna Lentz, the 2025 Elgin Fringe Festival button and poster artist.

The reception is free and open to the public until 8pm.

And you can purchase your 2025 EFF button for only $3! After Winter Mini Fringe, 2025 buttons will be $4.

Anna’s show will be on view until February 22 during gallery open hours: Saturdays from 12pm – 6pm and Sundays from 11am – 3pm.

Anna Lentz is a visual artist and arts educator living in Dundee, IL. She studied anthropology, women’s studies, and studio art at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN as well as community art at California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. She earned her MA in Art Education at School of the Arts Institute, Chicago, IL. Her research interests include community-based art education, hospitality, and vernacular art. Anna currently processes her emotions and life happenings through painting and sewing vibrant colors and shapes. For Anna, sewing with scraps and threads is meditative, magical, and comforting. Anna is Co-Founder of Spring Bird and Fruits of Our Forest.