Home || Community services || Public Arts || Staff

Staff

Rena J. Church

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1983
University of Illinois, Urbana, 1978-79
Laney College, Oakland California, 1976-77

1996-present:

Founding Director/Curator, Aurora Public Art Commission, Aurora

1998-present:

Founding Director/Curator Grand Army of the Republic Post 20 Museum, Aurora

Oversees all aspects of Public Art program, administers Art Fund, operates and maintains the David L. Pierce Art and History Center. Will operate the GAR Museum when restoration is complete.

Office: (630) 256-3340
Fax: (630) 256-3349
Email: rchurch@aurora-il.org

1990-95:

Art Instructor, Holy Angels School, Aurora

1989:

Director, Riverwalk Gallery, Naperville

1989-93:

Art Instructor, Waubonsee Community College Children’s education program

1989-95:

Private lessons in claymation, drawing and painting, taught students aged four through fourteen.

1986-87:

Illinois Company Investment Banking firm

1984-85:

Visual Artist In Residence, Beacon Street Gallery-Uptown Center Hull House, Chicago

1982-83

Intern, Animation, Shirlee Jensen’s BattleAx Productions

Awards

2008:

YWCA Women of Distinction Award

2004:

Illinois Art Education Association

Distinguished Service Outside the Profession Award

1996:

Women’s Works, Woodstock
Awarded a First