SKOKIE NORTHSHORE SCULPTURE PARK ANNOUNCES 2008 DOCENT-LED, 
FREE PUBLIC TOURS OF SCULPTURE PARK

The Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park announces this year's guided tours, free and open to the public.  One Sunday each month in the summer months running May through October, weather permitting, trained volunteer docents will lead informal and informative walking tours in the Sculpture Park.  Adults and families will learn about a selection of the Sculpture Park’s over 60 large-scale, contemporary sculptures, the creative entities and forces behind the works and the history and genesis of the Sculpture Park.  Tours begin promptly at 1pm, will be approximately one hour in length and cover one section of the Sculpture Park.   

Dates and locations for the tours are:

The Sculpture Park’s:

• North Parking Lot is located on McCormick between Dempster and Main

• South Parking Lot is located on McCormick between Howard and Touhy

• Additional Parking is located at the boat launch on the east side of the north branch of the Chicago River at the McCormick/Oakton intersection and on local side streets.

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MEMBERSHIP

We invite you to join the Friends of the Sculpture Park.  As a member of the Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park, you will be the first to know about new additions to the Sculpture Park; you will be a part of member-only tours and events such as the opportunity to meet artists with work in the Sculpture Park. More important, however, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your contribution will ensure that the quality of the works in your Sculpture Park remains high, the permanent collection is well-maintained, that educational programs will continue to be offered in our local schools, libraries, places of worship and retirement homes, and that our popular Sunday tours will continue to be offered free of charge.

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