Local Art Exhibit - Maryam Ghadiri
Date and Time
Wednesday Jul 15, 2026 Sunday Aug 30, 2026
July 15 - August 30 2pm-10pm
Location
The Scratching Post is Champaign's Cat & Board Game Cafe. Enjoy our light snack and drink menu, purchase a game pass to access our massive library of 500+ board games, or make a reservation to visit our cat lounge where 20+ adoptable cats are waiting to play with you.
Fees/Admission
FREE
Description
Walk through our cafe and enjoy a collection of local art by Maryam Ghadiri.
No admission fee to view the art on the cafe side. If you’d like to visit the cats in our lounge, you can make a reservation here.
Pieces will be available for sale. 10% of each art sale is donated to our partner non-profit rescues.
As always, we donate 20% of the profits from our food, drink and merch sales back to our partner rescues. Enjoy art, grab a drink, help cats.
Maryam Ghadiri
Maryam Ghadiri majored in engineering but has been passionate about art from a young age, starting drawing classes at the age of 10. She later took painting lessons under a professor at Tehran University for seven years. Specializing in abstract art, she works primarily in watercolor and mixed media. Maryam has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in Tehran, Los Angeles, and Urbana-Champaign. In 2020, she won first place in the Town and Country Art Show and third place in a state competition in Illinois.
