December 2024
Fall Art + Impact Student Showcase
@ Art on Sedgwick Gallery
1404 N Sedgwick St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
Cash for Gold Screening with Q&A
@ Wayfarer Theaters
1850 2nd St, Highland Park, IL 60035
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
Culinary Expressions: A Journey Through Time
@ Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, December 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
ARTISTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS CRITIQUE AND CONVERSATION
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, December 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Test Literary Series
@ The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, December 11th, at 6PM
Comfort Music Presents: Twosies
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, December 9th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Caracole (for Izcali), Canticles, Ruling Star, Marginalia (2023, 2020, 2019, 2015)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, December 8th, at 8PM
Heather Mease (OH), Ben Zucker, Mountain Laurel
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 8th, at 7PM
C. C. Ann Chen: UNGROUND: Closing Reception & Artist Talk
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, December 8th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 8th
Jay Wolke: Building Place: Big Boat Little Pond
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, December 8th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, February 22nd
Soapbox: Chris Mack
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, December 8th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Gnarly or Gnice Ceramic Holiday Sale!
@ Bourbon on Division
2050 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 8th, from 1PM - 5PM
Holiday Fetish Fair
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave
Opening Sunday, December 8th, from 1PM - 6PM
Window Shopping and Pay-What-You-Can Headshots
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St. #845 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, December 8th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, December 15th
Orange Noise: Closing Event
@ Uncle Art Gallery via The Capsule
1359 N Maplewood St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 7th
Freedom From and Freedom To
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, December 7th, at 7PM
Ka Baird: Yomp
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, December 7th, at 7PM
SPECIES BEING
@ Sweet Void Cinema
3036 W Chicago Ave 1W, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
Waveforms
@ Asian Improv aRts Midwest
4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
Little But Bold!
@ CSI Project Space
1912 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
Kamille Krischling and Josephine Dorsey-Lauck: Opening In The Plane
@ Murmuration
2846 W North Ave Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, January 11th
Cohort | HCL 2024 Fellowship Showcase
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
E. Saffronia Downing and Rosemary Holliday Hall: Tracing Ways
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, January 12th
Isabelle Frances McGuire: Year Zero
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 9th
Echoes of Soul: The Roots of House and Black Music Culture
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, December 7th, at 3PM
Queerkindlmarkt – Booksale and Artist Market
@ Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 10AM - 4PM
The Hunt of the Unicorn [unicorn themed art show and free workshop]
@ Hoofprint
3143 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, January 17th
Jairo Granados Cardenas: barely there barely here
@ cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, Unit 920, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, January 25th
Talk | On Techno and Art: Robert Hood, Arthur Jafa, and DeForrest Brown Jr.
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Andi Crist: Office Hours
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, January 18th
School & Studio Sale + Fundraiser
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Ground Floor
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 9th
Underground Art Market
@ Revolution Brewing Taproom
3340 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 12 PM - 5 PM
Studio Deals Midwest
@ City of Chicago
Map of Artist Studio Locations will be provided to registered guests
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 12PM - 5PM
Krampus Basket
@ McCormick Gallery
2251 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, December 20th
Chicago Graduate SAIC Day
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MacLean Ballroom 112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 12 PM - 4 PM
35th Annual International Small Print Exhibition & Holiday Sale
@ Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 11AM - 7PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Cheers to Art!
@ New Community
2649 N Francisco Ave, Chicago 60647
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 11AM - 5PM
Cornelia Arts Building December Open Studios, Day Two
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 11am - 3PM
Winter Gathering & Art Festival
@ Trickster Cultural Center
190 S Roselle Rd, Schaumburg, IL 60193
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 9AM - 5PM
About the Bark #1 with Melissa Jay Craig
@ Artists Book House
4207 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 10am - 4PM
John Neff: White Hydrogen
@ Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 5PM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, February 1st
December Multiple Goods Fair
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, December 7th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 8th
ANTARANGA: Between You and Me
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Never So Free: Dream House
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
Kateryna Kryvolap: Heritage in Bloom: The Art of Petrykivka
@ Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago
2249 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, December 6th, at 7PM
On view through Friday, December 27th
Kafkaesque: Experimental Short Films from Germany and the US
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Holly Holmes: REVERBERATIONS
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, January 3rd
Cornelia Arts Building December Open House
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
TINY WORKS Art Opening & Holiday Market
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, December 23rd
Reflections on Practice
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Entre ritos y portales
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, January 17th
Laura Davis: Fauna
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 4th
Ishbel Rodriguez & Robert Rusch: Probable Monuments
@ free range gallery
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, December 6th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, January 10th
Marisol Cervantes: milk teeth
@ Side Street Studio Arts
15 Ziegler Court, Elgin, IL 60120
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Healers and Dreamers
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 West 2nd St, Michigan City, IN 46360
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 16th
Vignettes: Photographic Expressions
@ Storm Print City
2601 Prairie Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 11th
Claire’s Lobotomy EP release w/ Lark Lyra Lou, kezia waters, olula negre
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 6th, at 8:30PM
Drag, Jokes & Football Folks: a comedy fundraiser
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
3900-067: Trace Unknown
@ Color Club
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, December 6th
Tamara Wasserman: In the Garden of Gods
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 6:39 - 9:36PM
On view through Saturday, January 4th
Sam Dybeck and Justin Beachler: NARC
@ Grunts Rare Books
1500 S Western Ave, Ste. 403, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Sunday, January 19th
Under the Pendant Light
@ Soft Systems @ Stella's
935 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 5th, at 7PM
Zine Club Chicago: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout
@ Life on Marz Community Club
1950 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, December 5th, from 7PM - 9PM
Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Susan Mogul with Alexandra Juhasz
@ Media Burn Archive
Online
Opening Thursday, December 5th, from 6PM - 7PM
blk: Blues Funeral for James Baldwin
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, December 5th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Natasha Florentino: Artist Talk
@ National Public Housing Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, December 5th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Chicago Punk: Photography, Art, and Design
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, December 5th, from 6PM - 7PM
2024 UIS Visual Arts Silent Auction
@ University of Illinois at Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza Health and Science Building Room 201
Opening Thursday, December 5th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, December 5th
Reflections
@ The Hokin
623 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, December 5th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, February 10th
How to Fuck Like a Girl book launch
@ Women & Children First
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Wednesday, December 4th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Brendan Fernandes – ART NOW! Lecture
@ Film Row Cinema - Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, December 4th, from 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Jennifer Dorothy Lee: Anxiety Aesthetics
@ Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, December 4th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Printmaking History Lecture + Letterpress Printing Demo
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, December 3rd, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Ayer, hoy y mañana: Exploring Spanish Language Newspapers in Chicago
@ Harold Washington Library Center
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, December 3rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes edited by Danez Smith
@ Women & Children First
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Tuesday, December 3rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Lesbian Holiday Film Series at Dorothy: Under the Christmas Tree
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, December 2nd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
A Day With(out) Art: Red Reminds Me
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Sunday, December 1st, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
The Bi Wives Club: a comedy showcase
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 1st, from 7PM - 8:30PM
