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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Eclipsing Festival Opening Ritual Participatory Music Coalition
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, January 31st, at 7PM
Jackie Furtado
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LATITUDE Chicago
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, January 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
Drinking with Dionysos and Sekhmet’s Wrath: Beer and Wine in Egypt and Greece
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Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Fullerton Hall, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, January 31st, from 6PM - 7PM
Witness Quilt
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, January 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
Pia Cruzalegui
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Harold Washington College
30 E Lake St, Room 103, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, January 31st, from 10AM - 11AM
A Grin Without a Cat
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No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, January 30th, at 7:17PM
Winter Art Reception
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Lula Cafe
2537 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, January 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
Anne Elizabeth Moore: Body Horror
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Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, January 30th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
Grace Deveney on Paul Pfeiffer
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, January 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
The Ring of Truth and Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, January 30th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Teach-In: CVE, CPD and Islamophobia
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2nd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Tuesday, January 30th, from 6PM - 9:30PM
Performance for Direct Action and Intervention Training 2
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Free Street Theater
1419 W Blackhawk St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, January 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 2nd
Falling For You: Closing Reception
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Triumph Chicago
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, January 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, January 28th
Andrew Falkowski: Flat Earth
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, January 28th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Beyond Measure
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
319 N Albany, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, January 28th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 10th
The Ears Have Walls Tour
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VGA Gallery
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Apr 102, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, January 28th, from 11AM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, February 25th
Christalena Hughmanick: Falling For You, Closing Act
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Triumph Chicago
2055 W Carmak St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, January 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, January 28th
Resuscitate
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Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, January 27th, at 7PM
Creating Candela’s Cascarones: UIC Arquitectos Workshop
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Lorenza Perelli: I made it to the second floor
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 28th
Positive Patters
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Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, February 14th
Melissa Leandro: Trop-i-cal and Lindsay Rhyner: Eye of the Needle
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Efrain Lopez Gallery
908 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Meet RaD Lab Artist Nnenna Okore
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Chicago Public Library - Albany Park Branch (Meeting Room)
3401 W Foster Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 2:30PM - 4:30PM
Swap Circle for Teachers
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Victor Hall Chicago
3636 S Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 10AM - 4PM
CIM Artist Talk
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, January 28th
Zoran Shekerov Artist Talk
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ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, January 27th
Environmental Dialogues: performance by Norman Long and Sara Zalek
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Ignition Project Space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 4:30PM - 7:30PM
Art for Social Change: Sanctuary City Postcard Workshop
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River Forest Public Library
735 Lathrop Ave, River Forest, IL 60305
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 2PM - 7PM
Jennifer Stoever with Tara Betts: The Sonic Color Line
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57th Street Books
1301 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Quimby’s 2018 Zlumber Party
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Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 9:30PM - 6:30AM
ActivArte
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OPEN Center for the Arts
2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 9AM - 12PM
Living Light: Photos by the Light of Bioluminescent Bacteria
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ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, January 27th
Murmurs and Palpitations: Her Environment #7
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TCC Chicago
2547 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 27th
The Tip of My Tongue
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 17th
Stephen Warde Anderson: Attention to Detail
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 530PM - 830PM
On view through Sunday, May 13th
Mike Cloud: The Myth of Education
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
Eclipsing: the politics of night, the politics of light, a group exhibition
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Arts Incubator
301 East Garfield Boulevard
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 16th
Writers Workshop
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Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative | Rebuild Foundation
1456 E 70th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 3PM - 6PM
2018 Faculty Biennial
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University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, February 12th
The Last Days of Revolution
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
Rashayla Marie Brown: You Want Too Much
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
Heaven is a Place
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
MEN as seen through the lens of inkedKenny
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, June 7th
Syzygy: To Yoke or Pair Together
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Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, February 17th
Marwen Fall Term Exhibition Reception
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Marwen
833 N Orleans St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, February 23rd
Cultivation
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The Arts of Life North Shore studio, OPEN gallery
1963 Johns Dr, Glenview, IL 60025
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, March 16th
Decodings
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
Systemic Motion
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, January 28th
Boomerang
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, January 25th, from 6PM - 7PM
Public Newsroom #48: BGA Watchdog Training
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City Bureau
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, January 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Design + The Driverless City
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IIT Institute of Design
565 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60661
Opening Thursday, January 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Tracy M. Taylor: The Shape of Your Sound
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Durand Art Institute, Sonnenschein and Albright Galleries
555 N Sheridan Rd, Lake Forest, IL 60045
Opening Thursday, January 25th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, February 21st
Las ideas
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, January 25th, at 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, January 28th
Joanna Gardner-Huggett
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, January 25th, from 1PM - 2PM
Shadow Fixation: Discussion with the Artists
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Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, January 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, January 28th
Building a Studio Archive: Tools and Digital Resources for Arts
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, February 21st
Facing Objects: Renaissance Bust Portraits and the Case of Simon of Trent
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, January 24th, from 5PM - 7PM
Diana Matar
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Stage Two
618 S Michigan Ave, Chicago IL, 60605
Opening Wednesday, January 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
The FINAL That Belongs in a Museum
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The Gallery Cabaret
2020 N Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, January 24th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Queerness, Blackness, and Hip- Hop: A Dialogue
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John T. Richardson Library, Rosati Room 300
2350 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, January 24th, from 4:30PM - 6:30PM
On Time and Art with Laura Letinsky and John Muse – Bill Brown
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, January 24th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Splice Series: Jacobs, Genetti, Kirshner, Maunu
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Beat Kitchen
2100 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, January 24th, from 8:30PM - 11:30PM
In The Realm of The Senses (1977)
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No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, January 23rd, from 7:17PM - 10:20PM
In Progress: Access and Museums
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, January 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Experiments in Form: Rethinking Abstraction and Materiality
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Tuesday, January 23rd, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
Hungry for Stories #11 — Electric Arches ft. Eve L. Ewing
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Read/Write Library Chicago
914 N California Ave (Walton Entrance), Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, January 23rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Strategic Marketing for Creative Practices
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, January 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Soheila Azadi: Inside Out
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Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery
9000 W College PKWY, Palos Hills, IL 60465
Opening Monday, January 22nd, from 10AM - 11:30AM
On view through Wednesday, February 7th
Fieldwork for Mixed Disciplines!
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Outerspace
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, January 21st, from 2:30PM - 5:30PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
The Nakba of his Inauguration
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The Overlook Place
3323 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, January 21st, from 12PM - 5PM
Florasonic
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Lincoln Park Conservatory, Fern Room
2391 North Stockton Drive, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, January 21st, from 2PM - 3:30PM
On view through Friday, March 2nd
Dream In Your New Year: A Sound Meditation with GongLab
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South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S South Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, January 21st, from 3PM - 7PM
IN THIS HOUSE
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 Cottage Hill Avenue Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, January 20th, at 1:30PM
On view through Sunday, March 18th
Join Indivisible at the Women’s March to the Polls
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Down Town
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 11AM - 1PM
Regina Mamou: How the West Was Won and Mary Jane Duffy: Glitch
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 24th
Alexander Eisenschmidt and Juan Ignacio Del Cueto
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 2PM - 3PM
Dharma Talk with Gabriel Halpern
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 5:30PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Jacob Johnson Memorial Art Show
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Low Res Studio
1821 W Hubbard St, #203, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Monday, January 22nd
Andrew Holmquist: ALTER EGO
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Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Feeling Pink Like My Insides
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Hume
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 7 - 10
On view through Sunday, February 4th
Winter Romance
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ANDREW RAFACZ
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 24th
Cody Hudson: I Mean: I Wish I Could Have Time To Groove W/ You But I’ve Got To Get On With My Own Life
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ANDREW RAFACZ
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 24th
Project Onward Portrait Slam
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Sedgwick's Bar
1935 N Sedgwick St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 2PM - 5PM
New work by David Criner
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A + C architects
4840 Main St, Skokie, IL 60077
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 16th
CINNAMON
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Produce Model Gallery
1007 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 10th
Molly Welsh: Violet Hours
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Bar4000
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 9th
Winter Experiment
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moniquemeloche
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, February 24th
Annual Illinois High School Art Competition and Exhibition
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The University of St. Francis Art Gallery
25 E Van Buren St, Joliet, IL 60432
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Tuesday, January 23rd
Web Series 101 with Open TV (beta)
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Columbia College Chicago, 1104 Center
1104 S Wabash Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 1PM - 5PM
Meet RaD Lab Artist Norman Long
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Chicago Public Library, Jeffrey Manor Branch
2401 E 100th St, Chicago, IL 60617
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 3:30PM - 4:30PM
Eric Finzi: Various Contrivances and Philip J. Capuano: Ceramic Perspective
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Linda Warren Projects
327 N Aberdeen St, Ste 151, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 20th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 3rd
Architectural Elements
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Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, January 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, January 30th
Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Friday, January 19th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, March 4th
Félix Candela: Concrete Shells: An Engineered Architecture for Mexico and Chicago
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, January 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Chicago: A Cross-Town Exchange
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Spudnik Press Cooperative Annex
1821 W Hubbard St, #302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 19th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Whose Streets?
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Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative
1456 E 70th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
The Learning Tree
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Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative
1456 E 70th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 19th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Past Present, Present Past
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Roger Brown Study Collection
1926 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, January 19th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Monday, January 22nd
13th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibitions
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Morpho Gallery
5216 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, January 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, January 19th
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