September 2021
Podlasie Pleasure Club
@ Podlasie Club
2918 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 9PM - 2AM
Aron Gent: Ice Dye Tie Die
@ David Salkin Creative
1709 W Chicago Ave, #2A, Chicago, Il, 60622
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Was/Is/Ought
@ Carrie Secrist Gallery
900 W. Washington BLVD
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, November 13th
Martha Poggiloi: Fixed Point, Addendum, Footnote, Aphorism: Closing
@ Julius Caesar
3311 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 18th
Intertwined
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, September 18th
Jacob Hashimoto: Misunderstandings
@ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Friday, October 22nd
Public Talk: North Caroline Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 17th, at 6PM
Soumya Netrabile: Open Your Mouth and Taste the Spores
@ Andrew Rafacz
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 30th
The Available City
@ Chicago Architecture Biennial
Various Locations
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Questions)
@ Chicago Riverwalk
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 17th, at 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, November 25th
Joe Fournier: Our Larger Than Life Political Scene
@ The Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 5th
Winds of Change
@ gallery 1871
1871 N Clybourn St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, November 19th
LEA LUND & ERIK K: Nomads
@ Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 0622
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 4th
Rine Boyer: What Just Happened
@ Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St. Studio 307, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 30th
Open
@ Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
On view through Friday, November 5th
LOCUS: VIII – a gallery show ft. visual + literary artist pairings
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 26th
A La Française: The French Way
@ Springboard Arts Chicago
1910 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 11AM - 3PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
Inflorescence
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee, Second Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
Take My Hand, Feel Your Fantasy Slip Away
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9AM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Marcelo Eli Sarmiento: De Sangre De Tierra y De Oro
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
rock, paper, scissors
@ ADDS Donna
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Virtual Poetry Reading: Susan Nguyen with Roy G. Guzmán & Jenny Qi
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, at 7PM
Pooja Pittie: Nothing Gold Can Stay
@ McCormick Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Paul Natkin: Wall of Blues
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Friday, December 10th
RAISIN: Community Conversation: Diasporic Theater & The Power of Black Narratives
@ 6018North
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, at 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Art After Work: Hiroyuki Doi
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 5PM - 6PM
Mid-Month Encouragement Speaker Series: Jyreika Guest
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, September 16th
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Whose Lakefront Information Workshop
@ Whose Lakefront
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Natural History
@ HF Johnson Gallery of Art
2001 Alford Park Dr, Kenosha, WI 53140
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 330PM - 630PM
On view through Friday, October 15th
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Not “A Nation of Immigrants”
@ The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 15th, at 3PM
Tatsuya Nakatani: Solo + Duos w/ Cristal Sabbagh, Norman Long, Molly Jones
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 15th, at 8:30PM
Mary Fedorowski: CLOSER
@ School of the Arts Gallery
3415 Broadway Ave, Gary, IN 46408
Opening Wednesday, September 15th, at 1:30PM
On view through Friday, October 8th
Concerned Black Image Makers in Conversation with Bernard Lumpkin
@ Gallery 400
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 15th, from 5PM - 6PM
Chiyuma Elliott and Michael Collier: Blue in Green and The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems
@ The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, at 4PM
Making Space: Chronic Illness, Disability, and Mental Health
@ LATITUDE
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Slow Living while Black : A virtual Panel Discussion
@ Woman Made Gallery
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
interference// Presents: Machines of Loving Grace
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, at 8PM
table of co.: within / without
@ Space p11
55 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Saturday, October 30th
william cordova: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Open Door Reading Series Online: Julietta Cheung, Hereaclitus Vernon, Joshua Demaree & Rachel Herman
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
Domesticity and Photography Critique Group
@ LATITUDE
Online
Opening Monday, September 13th, at 6:30PM
On view through Tuesday, November 2nd
September Intro to Printing Workshop
@ LATITUDE
Online
Opening Monday, September 13th, at 6:30PM
On view through Wednesday, September 15th
Tender to the Bone
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Smashing into my heart
@ Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, November 7th
Coded: Coated
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
Demilitarise: 20 Years of the War on Terror
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3:30PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Meet the Artists: Susan Knight & Sandra Leonard
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
Dirk Fletcher: Porcelain Utopia: Mid-Century Lustron homes in Illinois and Beyond
@ Riverside Town Hall
7 Riverside Road, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
Shir Ende and Lancer Livermont: Proposals and Speculations
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
José Villalobos: The Measure of a Cock
@ FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave. Suite 220 Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
David Heo: Presence
@ Vertical Gallery
1016 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 2nd
Susan Knight: Linked
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, October 10th
Gary Justis: Electric Dreams
@ Ken Saunders Gallery
2041 W Carroll Ave., Suite C-320, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, October 17th
Elastro: JG Thirlwell Presents ‘Silver Mantis’
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, September 11th, at 9PM
Oakbrook Art Festival
@ Oakbrook Center
100 Oakbrook Ctr, Oak Brook, IL 60523
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, September 12th
Playing
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Art as Activism: Shahidul Alam in conversation with Morten Krogvold
@ CASE Art Fund
Onine
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 10AM - 11AM
The Great Pause
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 4PM - 12AM
D. Rosen & Vanessa Viruet: Class & Classification
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 9th
Claude Viallat
@ Document
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, October 30th
DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD: New Sculptures
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Pugs Atomz: Mookie on the Southside
@ Connect Gallery
1520 E Harper Ct, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, October 22nd
IMAGINING FUTURES: ARC Members’ Show
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Bruno Surdo: Realities
@ Gallery Victor Armendariz
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 29th
Nancy Fritz
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Susan Rothenberg: On Both Sides of My Line, 1974-1979
@ Gray Warehouse
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, October 9th
Stanley Dean Edwards: An Abstract Universe
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 2nd
Autumn Colors
@ Vale Craft Gallery
230 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
GO FIGURE! A Survey of Figurative Art
@ Carl Hammer Gallery
740 N Wells St. Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 8M
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Julia Katz
@ Addington Gallery
704 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Reframing Comunidad, The Art of Ester Hernandez and Shizu Saldamando
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 10th, at 6PM
On view through Tuesday, December 24th
Día de Muertos – A Time to Grieve & Remember
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 10th, at 6PM
On view through Tuesday, December 24th
Douglas R. Ewart
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Demilitarise: 20 Years of the War on Terror
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Malgorzata Markiewicz: Medusa: Sensing with and Thinking with the World
@ Triangle
42 East Ave, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, September 30th
Keeping in Touch: Garden Party Fundraiser
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
Chicago Avant-Garde
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 10AM - 4PM
On view through Thursday, December 30th
Jean Alexander Frater: Reform
@ Aspect/Ratio Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Making Art Wherever You Are: a workshop on the business of murals + travel
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 12th
Wherever You Are: a night of music with Cora Rose & guests
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 12th
This is what we know so far
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 30th
Tyler Macko: Weavers Home
@ HG
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 10th
Alonso Galue: All The Brokenhearted People
@ Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Virtual Author Reading: SKINSHIP by Yoon Choi
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Thursday, September 9th, at 7PM
American Epidemic: Guns in the United States.
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 20th
Learned Objects: Studio Works by William Estrada, Regin Igloria, Nicole Marroquin, and Rochele Royster
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Sunday, February 13th
Yannis Tsarouchis and his Contemporaries: Body, Building, and Landscape: Concluding Program
@ Wrightwood 659
Online
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 11am - 12:30PM
Neon and Light Museum
@ Neon and Light Museum
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Sunday, October 31st
Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Radical Pedagogy
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 2PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 13th
Wherever You Are: a community open house with Art We There Yet
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 12th
Virtual Poetry Reading: Boomerang / Bumerán by Achy Obejas in conversation with Natalie Moore
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 8th, at 7PM
Krista Franklin
@ Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 601317
Opening Wednesday, September 8th, from 11AM - 12PM
Pour One Out: A Monthly Storytelling Series
@ Volumes Bookcafe
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 8th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Open Mic Night
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, September 8th, from 7:30 - 11
On view through Wednesday, September 8th
