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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Onion City: Ephemerality Means That No One Can Take It From You
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, March 23rd, from 5:30PM - 6:45PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Jared Buckhiester: Fumbling Heart
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Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
Kindness: an Open Mic
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 23rd, from 12PM - 2PM
Jillian Evelyn: It’s About Time
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Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
DRIFT – an Aquatic Printmaking Exhibition
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Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, March 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 4th
Framed in Time: 8-Bits and 80s Hits
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Chicago Party Animals Warehouse
1133 W Fulton Market, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 22nd
Lykanthea
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ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, March 22nd
Moving_Image_00:05
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6.30PM - 9m
slit – silt
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Ground Level Platform
2001 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 29th
Jude Lo: Landscapes of the Strong
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Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 22nd, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, April 3rd
Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 18th
Joanna Kramer & The Zip Code Kid
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stumble+relish
1312 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 4PM - 7PM
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 12th
Inside the Box
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OPEN Gallery
1963 Johns Dr, Glenview, IL 60025
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Flash Forward 2018 Special Interest Winners Opening Night
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Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 19th
Trajectory: Process Revealed
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1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
In Progress: Jennifer Harge
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Siblings!
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The Condo Association
2700 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Foto Mercado
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Ace Hotel Chicago
311 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Best of Yollocalli 2019
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Alex Puryear: Between Two Worlds
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
HANA Center Presents: Asian American Storytelling Through Art
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HANA Center
200 W Madison St, 9th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
Onion City: Casting Spells and Slowly Swaying
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 9PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Onion City: The Tension Here
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 7PM - 8:15PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
CRUX release party
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Z1 gallery
2850 W Belden Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 22nd
Ana Arzoumanian, Gabriel Amor & Marta Hernández
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, March 21st, at 7PM
Karolina Gnatowski: Some Kind of Duty Book Release and Potluck
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
Evan Meaney: We Will Love You Forever
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
ON / Being Read
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LVL3
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Janis Mars Wunderlich: Rocking the Boat
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Sauk Valley Community College Art Gallery
173 IL Route 2, Dixon, IL 61021
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, March 21st
Annie Dorsen: The Great Outdoors
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 606011
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Happy 100th Public Newsroom–Let’s Dance with ChicAGoGo!
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City Bureau
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Annie Dorsen: The Great Outdoors
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 7:30PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Big Read Kick-Off Event: Views of Global Migration: Haiti
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Onion City Opening Night: Histories & Futures
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 7:30PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Out of Nowhere: Artist Talk
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Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery (DfbrL8r)
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 5th
A Blacker Beginning
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Molasses
954 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 10PM - 4AM
Palor Room Presents: Karsten Lund
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LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 12:30PM - 1:15PM
Transformations
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Uncommon Ground
1401 W Devon Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Persian New Year
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6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 4:58PM - 9PM
Robin Hustle
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The Cuckoo's Theater Project
7077 N Ashland Blvd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 20th
Only Muteness Pronounces It: FVNMA Grad Talk
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
36 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 4:14PM - 5:45PM
HOME in the Other: a Community Zine Making Workshop
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LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sinema Obscura presents: TV Party s3 e3
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
Spring Equinox: Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 4PM - 8PM
Migration, Fragmentation, and Translation: Poetry Workshop
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The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Creative Freedom: Writing In and Out of Prison
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
ATS Grad Talks Present: Chung Zeng, Nihat Karatasli, and Yi Kang
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MacLean Center, Black Box Theater
112 S Michigan Ave, #402, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
Jenny Boully & Sara Wainscott
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, at 7PM
Aaron Williamson
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The Art Institute of Chicago
Rubloff Auditorium: 230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Hương Ngô
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera: Curator Tour
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 12PM - 1PM
More Than Machines: Women in Science Fiction Shorts
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Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
In Progress: Move Me Soul
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Photography Book Club
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
David Yarrow
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Hilton | Asmus Contemporary
716 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 2PM - 4PM
Terike Haapoja
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LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave. first floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
SPRING EQUINOX CELEBRATION
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Outerspace
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Art Night-STEAM Theme
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Longfellow Elementary School Illinois
715 Highland Ave, Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Community Soup 2: Soup Boogaloo
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
2019 Ibero and Latin American Film Festival at UIC
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Richard J Daley Library
801 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Bryan LeBeuf & Shi Zheng: FVNMA Graduate Talk
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 4:15PM - 5:45PM
Stateless Film Festival
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Davis Theater
4613 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Through Her Eyes: Women of Color Filmmakers
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Sara Condo: Playing the Blues in Space
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Flatland
1965 W Pershing Rd, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, March 17th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 17th
Kuras & MacKenzie: 2001 Annual Meeting
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GOLDFINCH
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, March 17th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Meghan Borah: I’d Rather Be a Hammer Than a Nail
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GOLDFINCH
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, March 17th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
From the Bauhaus to Our House
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Sunday, March 17th, at 1:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
Chississippi Mixtape: Daughters of the Delta
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Rebuild Foundation
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, March 17th, from 1PM - 4PM
Knitting Community
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
Gather: Moonbones // Rocio Zavala
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Rebuilding the Present: Exhibition Walk-through
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, April 13th
Nibble / Memory Forest
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Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, March 16th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 30th
Careful Material
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The Back Room at Kim's Corner Food
1371 W Estes Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Danielle Orchard: Head of a Woman
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ANDREW RAFACZ
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Undiscoverable Country: Artist Talk with Gina Hunt and Robert Burnier
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 30th
Water on the Bridge
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Eckhart Park Pool
1330 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, March 19th
Alejandro Acierto: The Dead Are Not Altogether Powerless
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boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 13th
Andrew Holmquist: New Succulence
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Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Darren Oberto: Artist Talk
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1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 3PM - 5PM
Dancing Brush Creativity Workshop
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Olivia Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 1PM - 3PM
Comics and Art Book Fest: Jessica Campbell with Zine Not Dead
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 12PM - 5PM
Moby Dick—Rehearsed, A Play by Orson Welles
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 10AM - 12PM
Growing Up
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Filmfront
1740 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
In front of a trapdoor
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Annas
629 W Cermak Rd, Suite 240, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7PM - 10 PM
Pita
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 8PM - 10PM
Kristen Aune: Fashion Show
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Swedish American Museum
5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
7000 Marks Speculative Drawing Workshop
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Seerveld Gallery
6601 W College Dr, Palos Heights, IL 60463
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
NEON BRITE Bazaar
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Festive Collective
3279 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 10AM - 5PM
Red Skate Mag Release Party
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Happy Gallery Chicago
902 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 8PM - 11PM
An Alternate History of Cinema: Women Pioneers
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Dead Precedents
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Volumes Bookcafe
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Study at the Arts Incubator
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Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 12PM - 3PM
Red Rover Series Experiment #115: Emergent Ocean
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Outer Space Studio
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Asleep Standing
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BAR4000
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 15th
Cain Baum: Isthmus
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Night Light Gallery and Studios
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 15th, at 7PM
On view through Monday, April 15th
Cleveland Dean: I Am? – The Insecurity of Divinity
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One After 909
906 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
ALL WELL AND GOOD
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Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 19th
Surabhi Ghosh + Olivia Valentine: Margins, Material and Metaphor
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 7 PM - 11 PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
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