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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Exhibition Gallery Talk: A Site of Struggle with Emily Martin
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, June 17th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
FÁTIMA: AXKAUIA
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
Tamara Wasserman: VISCERAL
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave. Chicago, Il 60647
Opening Friday, June 17th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 9th
Altered Festival | Immersive | AR | VR Experience
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RedlineVRVR
4702 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago IL, 60640
Opening Friday, June 17th, from 4PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Introductions
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Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 23rd
Immersive Monet & The Impressionists
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Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago
108 W Germania Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, June 17th, from 1PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 25th
The Priestess of Morphine: A Forensic Study of Marie-Madeleine
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, June 17th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
On view through Friday, June 17th
Something I Can Feel/Third Fridays collaboration
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[salonlb.]
1010 W. 35th St. #500 Chicago IL 60609
Opening Friday, June 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, June 22nd
SICF x Coffee, Hip-Hop, and Mental Health: Artist’s Panel
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salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, June 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
Conservation Perspectives: Cezanne
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 16th, at 2PM
Evanston Made BIPOC Members Group Show: Curator’s Tour & Talk
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, June 16th, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, June 30th
Artist Talk: American Framing Photographer Chris Strong
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Wrightwood 659
Online
Opening Thursday, June 16th, at 12PM
On view through Saturday, July 16th
Virtual Artists’ Discussion: Suzanne Metzel and Kambua Chema
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Perspective Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, June 16th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 26th
Monica Ong: Planetaria: Exhibition Celebration
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, June 16th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 30th
Co-MISSION Festival of New Works
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, June 16th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 26th
Jess T. Dugan: LOOK AT ME LIKE YOU LOVE ME
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, June 16th, at 7PM
OPTION: Damon Locks presents “Isn’t It Beautiful?…Collapsing”
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, June 16th, at 4PM
Roman Villarreal: South Chicago Legacies
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, June 16th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, January 8th
A Movable Reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses
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Multiple locations, including the Newberry Library
60 W Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, June 16th, from 2PM - 7PM
CCMA Summer Exhibition Curator Discussion and Tour
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Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd Glen Ellyn IL 60137
Opening Thursday, June 16th, at 6:30PM
2022 Pougialis Fine Art Award Exhibition
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C33 Gallery
33 E Ida B. Wells Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Thursday, September 15th
Alberto Aguilar: Seeing Thoughts Through: Artist Talk
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ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, June 15th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, July 9th
Denise Treizman: In Between Living: Sensory-friendly morning
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University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, #103, Normal, IL 61761
On view through Sunday, July 31st
Elastro Series: Jason Kahn, Dalia Chin, Cunningham/Shippy
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 15th, from 8PM - 11:30PM
Residency: Dorothy Burge and Vincent Wade Robinson
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Wednesday, June 29th
Acknowledgments 2022 (revelations of life)
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, June 15th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
CCC MARZ & DRAW at BIG MARZ!
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Marz Community Brewing
3630 S Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Tuesday, June 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
Last Summer on State Street
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Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, June 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
NadNavillus / Advance Base / Tara Betts
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The Hidedout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, June 14th, from 8:30PM - 11PM
Rescued Stories Brought to Life: A Conversation with Writer/Cartoonist Ken Krimstein
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Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership
Online
Opening Monday, June 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Pre Juneteenth Freedom w/Fashion Pop Up
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Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, June 12th, from 2PM - 3PM
The Art of Pride
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, June 12th, from 1PM - 5PM
Chandra Christmas-Rouse: Earth Element: A Grounding in Community
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Burnham Wildlife Corridor
3946 S Oakwood Blvd, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Sunday, June 12th, from 3PM - 10:30AM
Mannequins: Meet the Artist & Poet
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A Shot of Art at Perkolator
6032 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Sunday, June 12th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, July 3rd
Perpetual Motion: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan
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Madron Gallery
1000 W North Ave, Third Floor, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, June 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, June 24th
Jory Drew: Curtain Wall
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, June 12th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 23rd
Woomin Kim: Doo Jip Salim
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, June 12th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 23rd
Brandon Chavis: for colored queers
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, June 12th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 23rd
Mike Ruiz: Leather Portraits
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Leather Archives and Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, June 12th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 25th
Crafting With Queens
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WNDR Museum
1130 W Monroe St., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, June 12th, at 11AM
Joey Africa
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Stola Contemporary Art
3738 W Irving Park Rd Chicago, Il 60618
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 17th
Hans Ekestang: Great Feelings and Meetings
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Swedish American Museum
5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, June 11th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, September 4th
Generations: 30 Years of Woman Made Gallery
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Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave #4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 16th
HALI POLOMBO AT SIDE YARD SOUNDS
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, June 11th, at 7PM
Poemtime
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, June 11th, at 10:30AM
Cheryl Pope: Variations on a Love Theme
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moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
Floating Museum: A Lion for Every House
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, October 17th
Denise Treizman: In Between Living: artmaking workshop
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University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, #103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, July 31st
Brad Novak: Hybrid 2.0
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Vertical Project Space
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 3rd
Basia Krol: Wildering: Artist Talk
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Eat Paint Studio
5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 11th
Damiane Nickles: Pass With Care
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Wells Street Art Festival
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Wells St. from North to Division
1548 N Wells St, Chicago IL 60610
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 10AM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 12th
Damiane Nickles: Pass with Care
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 9th
Anatomy for Interiors
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 12PM - 12PM
On view through Sunday, June 12th
Soundpost: AlgoRHYTHMS
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
220 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Jalen Hamilton: To Whom This Ground Belongs
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, 60653
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 22nd
Make Hay in the Sun
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HG
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
UNVEILED
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South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, June 11th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
MSAE Summer Soundwalks: Songpath at the Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
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The Dock at Montrose Beach
200 W Montrose Harbor Dr, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Ren Freeman: Lens Stories
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1100 Florence Gallery
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Open Labs #3: Ayako Kato
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Friday, June 10th, at 7PM
Magalie Guérin: hard green
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 6th
Bruce Nauman Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor), 1999
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, August 6th
Margot Bergman: Grover’s Corners
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 6th
TOMMASO MORETTI AT SIDE YARD SOUNDS
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, June 10th, at 7PM
FOCAL POINT Live: Artists Xyza Cruz Bacani and Jason Reblando
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, June 10th, at 12PM
Amanda Harth: HAVEN
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Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Douglas Blvd. & Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
Dan Galat and Kelly Quesada
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Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
Francesca Schwartz: Inscriptions
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Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Making Space
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The Plan
600 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 22nd
grelley.
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The Edge Theater
5451 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 8PM - 10PM
A Good Year For The Roses
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Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 15th
WNDR After Dark: Pride
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WNDR Museum
1130 W Monroe St. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 6:30 PM - 10 PM
Contra Corriente
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Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, Il 60608
Opening Friday, June 10th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, June 29th
FIVE PEOPLE
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 9th, from 8:30PM - 11:30PM
Legends and Legacy Award: Richard Hunt
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 9th, at 6PM
Julissa Arce: You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, June 9th, at 7PM
Juste Un Mouvement (Just A Movement)
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Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, June 9th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Some Parts of Us: DePaul University’s Graphic Design Senior Capstone Show
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, June 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
“The Priestess Of Morphine,” An Operatic Forensic Investigation
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Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 200, Chicago, lL 60601
Opening Thursday, June 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Sarah Leuchtner: Open Studio –
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Kimball Arts Center
1757 N Kimball Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, June 23rd
2020-2022 Fellows Celebration (!!!)
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Threewalls
Online
Opening Wednesday, June 8th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Saturnine Gallery Talk
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, June 8th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Friday, July 10th
Pour One Out: A Monthly Storytelling Series
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Volumes Bookcafe
1373 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, June 8th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Yoonshin Park: Finding Space: Artist Talk
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NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery
5500 N St. Louis Ave, Chicago, IL 60625, Building E
Opening Wednesday, June 8th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, June 17th
Patrick Girondi introduces his new book, Flight of the Rondone
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, June 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, June 8th
Women of the Blues: A Coast to Coast Collection
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, June 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 23rd
Alex After Hours
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LATITUDE
Online
Opening Tuesday, June 7th, from 6PM - 7PM
Sam Robertson Presents: Illustrating The Old Testament: a Midwest Book Release Tour
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, June 7th, from 8PM - 10PM
Demystifying Pitching, Press, and Publishing Workshop
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Tuesday, June 7th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, June 7th
Art House Underground Makers Market
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Hideout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, June 5th, at 11:30AM
Mirelsie Velázquez: PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, June 5th, at 7PM
Rachel Britton: Voyeur (Closing Reception!)
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, June 5th, from 3PM - 5PM
Melissa Brown: Thrift Store Find
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Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 16th
Kambua Chema: Postcards from Morocco
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Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, June 4th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 26th
Jennie C. Jones: Nocturnes
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, July 16th
Suzanne Metzel: Still Life
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Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, June 4th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 26th
Joseph Renda Jr.: Larger Than Life
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Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 4th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Artist Talk: Rirkrit Tiravanija
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, June 4th, at 3PM
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