Friday, June 12, 2026
6–10PM
The Art After Dark UnGala will be held this year on Friday, June 12! Art After Dark will be an inside/outside event. Guests will enjoy live music by Andre Detti, art making activities, a cash bar by Burn’Em Brewing, delicious pizza from Impulso Wood Fired Pizza, and desserts by Lia’s Bella Cucina and Tethan’s Candy & Confections.
With the 116 Expansion, Art After Dark is going to be a fabulous event with art on display in our gallery, art making activities in the new studios at 116, and music + dancing under the lights on South 4th Street!
We hope everyone can join us to celebrate the arts!
Tickets to Art After Dark are $100 per person, and the event attire is come as you are!
Proceeds from Art After Dark benefit Chesterton Art Center’s public events and educational outreach programs.
WHEN: Friday, June 12 / begins at 6 PM
WHERE: Chesterton Art Center / 115 S 4th Street, Chesterton, IN 46304
DESCRIPTION: Join us for a wonderful evening celebrating CAC and our vision of an inclusive community where art and arts education are championed, where artists and creatives thrive, and where people connect through the arts.
Food + Beer/Wine Cash Bar + Live Music + Art Demos + Silent Auction
ATTIRE: Be You!
INDIVIDUAL TICKET: $100 per individual
*Art After Dark is an inside/outside event that will take place both inside CAC and our new 116 studios and outside beneath tents on 4th Street.
Art Making Activities
6:00–7:30 PM
Interactive Tile Demo with Maureen Duffy-Daugavietis / 116 Ceramics Studio
Painting Demo by Mark Vander Vinne / Vinay + Suman Das Foundation 2D Studio at 116
7:30–9:00 PM
Pottery Wheel Demo by Alayna Erne / 116 Ceramics Studio
Interactive Printmaking Demo with Ida Short / Vinay + Suman Das Foundation 2D Studio at 116
Event Sponsors
Blade Cutters Landscaping
Carson Wealth
Silent Auction Donors
ATD Inc
Beata Krupa
Caleb Barnaby Canterbury Summer Theater Chelle’s Boutique
Coffee Creek Ceramics Dawn Duty
Debra Simanski
Dunes Arts Foundation
Edwin Shelton
Elizabeth Wamsley
Estate of Cinda Urschel
Evelyn Finnstrom
Evexia Salt Cave
F45 Training Farina’s Supper Club
Fitrain
Gastro 49
Goblin and the Grocer
Jaclyn Gray Design
Jeff and Chris Layman
JJ Rue Designs
Jon Hook
Judith Tanter Lakeshore Public Media
Larkfield Glass
Laurel Izard
Lee's Hallmark Shop
Lenore Senovic
Marcy Mitchell
Merry Clark
Michael Janosky
Musashi Restaurant
Olga Petryszyn
Patti Shaffner
Robert Hoshan
Schoolhouse Shops
Sheila Stein
SmokEy Lights
Susan Larsen
Suzy Vance
Teen Arts Group artists
Teixeira Artisan Woodwork
Tennison Art Works
The Port Restaurant
Thomas Zuber
Tom Sourlis
Towle Theater
Troy Anderson
Vanis Salon
Vin Hannell
