Shorefront Legacy Center

Are you part of our June Giving Campaign? This month, we’re asking for a small commitment of just $5 a month to support Shorefront’s work preserving and sharing Black history on Chicago’s suburban North Shore. From caring for archival collections and restoring historic materials to digitizing videos and creating educational programs, we work every day to ensure that Black lives, stories, and contributions remain visible and accessible for generations to come.

We turn to you (our community) for support in this ongoing effort. Your generosity helps provide the supplies and resources needed to preserve, protect, and share the rich history entrusted to our care. Together, we can continue expanding and elevating Black stories.

Get involved at the Main Street Fair as a volunteer!! This wonderful event is coming up on June 27th. We are very excited, but we need volunteers to make all of the magic happen. Sign up today!

Volunteer activities include helping with booth set-up, traffic management, ADA es**rt, clean-up, and other essential duties. Volunteers get a behind- the-scenes look at the Fair, a commemorative t-shirt, and our undying gratitude. LOCAL NON-PROFITS: Refer your volunteers to us, and you’ll receive a $20 thank you gift for each one who signs up! Visit for more details.

Make sure you get a chance to see the group exhibition “In The Absence of Space” presented by Evanston ASPA, Evanston Latinos, Aloha Center Chicago, Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum, Shorefront Legacy Center & Evanston Made. This show will explore how artists respond to exclusion and invisibility by imagining and building spaces of presence, connection and community.

We are excited to announce local artist Ray Sanders and Evanstonian for over 75 years, will have paintings on display for the duration of this show. See his work in the second slide! Sanders’ wonderful work will be accompanied by local talented artists.

Come to the artist reception on June 6th between 4 and 6pm. If you can’t make it, stop by Grove Gallery at 619 Grove St in Evanston before June 28th to see the exhibition.