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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Otobong Nkanga: Solid Maneuvers
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 2PM - 3PM
Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole that Collapses Again
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, September 9th
Orange
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Slow
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 21st
Queer Film Series: Episode 6: Part IV
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The Learning Machine
3145 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 6PM - 12AM
On view through Sunday, April 1st
Lauren Carter and Nico Gardner: Surface vs. Sap
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 29th
Possibilities of Print: Book Swap
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The Overlook
323 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 12PM - 4PM
Systems at Play
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LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 13th
Jeremiah Chiu & Adi Goodrich
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Marz Community Brewing
3630 S Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 5PM - 8PM
Craig Neeson: Panther Blinded By Shotgun
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Wedge Projects
1448 Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
D E C I D E. C O M M I T. T H R I V E
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Triumph Gallery
2055 W. Cermak Road, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
As I Walked Out One Morning
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Site Red
3201 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, April 10th
Igaies
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Drive Building
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 10AM - 1PM
Nikole Cooney
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LALUZ Gallery
1545 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
HUJO • Grassy Dune • Jeremiah Chiu • Domestik
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 31st, from 7PM - 11PM
John Pierson’s art show.
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Rogers Park Art Gallery
6902 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, March 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 2nd
Bike Winter 21st Annual Art Show
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Lab on Lake
3450 W. Lake St, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, March 30th, from 7PM - 12PM
On view through Saturday, March 31st
UIUC Industrial Design Senior Show 2018
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TEAMS
1812 W Hubbard, St #200, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
colossal gap
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, April 19th
Derrick Woods-Morrow: Keeping Record
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, April 19th
nitty gritty
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ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 21st
Adam Lundquist: Original Wood Carvings
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Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 30th
Samantha Hill / Matthew Steinke / Carlie Trosclair
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Outhaus
709 E Sunnycrest Dr, Urbana, IL 61801
Opening Friday, March 30th, from 5PM - 8PM
Thorsten Trimpop: Furusato 古里
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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 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Stacia Yeapanis: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery
9000 W College Parkway, Palos Hills, Illinois 60465
Opening Thursday, March 29th, from 10:30am - 12PM
On view through Friday, April 20th
MA Thesis Presentations: Day 3
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Maclean
116 S Michigan Ave, 707, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, March 29th, from 9AM - 3PM
On view through Thursday, March 29th
Gallery Talk: The Art of Noise with Wolfgang Voigt
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Griffin Court
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, March 29th, from 12PM - 1PM
Creature Comforts
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Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, March 29th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, April 13th
Hero•ism
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Gallery Guichard
436 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Thursday, March 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 13th
Cecilia Vicuña: PALABRArmas
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Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
Gas
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, March 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
Hungry for Stories #12 — Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology ft. Martha Bayne
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Read/Write Library Chicago
914 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, March 29th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Alan Perry and Doug Rosman: Playing Chess in the Chinese Room
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SITE Columbus
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, March 29th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 20th
The Therapy Sessions: Office Hours with Seth Vanek
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Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, March 29th, at 8:30PM
MA Thesis Presentations: Day 2
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Maclean
116 S Michigan Ave, 707, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, March 28th, from 9AM - 3PM
On view through Thursday, March 29th
The Exquisite Corpse and Velvet
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Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, March 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
Elemental Beauty: The Four Seasons and the Un-thought Aerial World
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The Renaissance Society, Classics Building
1010 E 59th St, Room 110, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, March 28th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Wednesday, April 18th
Cuban Documentaries from Faraway Places
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, March 28th, from 8PM - 10PM
MAS Context : Couplings 2018
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Leo Burnett Chicago
35 West Wacker, 21st floor, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, March 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
In Progress: The Machine is Neither …
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, March 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
WE Series: There is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, March 27th, from 8PM - 12AM
Teju Cole
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, March 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
Maryam Taghavi: Untitled
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Friday, March 30th
MA Thesis Presentations: Day 1
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
116 S Michigan Ave, 707, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, March 26th, from 9AM - 3PM
On view through Thursday, March 29th
Reading Riot
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, March 26th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Exposure Series at ESS
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, March 26th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
Work on the Sabbath hosted by K-Love the Poet
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BING Art Books
307 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, March 25th, from 3PM - 6PM
Exposure Series Day Four
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Horatio N May Chapel
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Sunday, March 25th, from 2PM - 4:30PM
Angela Davis Fegan
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F4F
2846 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, March 25th, from 2PM - 5PM
How lovely to be a woman
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Agitator: a co-operative gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, March 25th, from 2PM - 8PM
Cornered + Fission Fusion
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, March 25th, from 1PM - 2PM
Speakeasy Poetry and Storytime
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 24th
Beth Kamhi: Intersections
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Essentia
2118 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 1st
Nikki Maloof: Separation Anxiety
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Shane Campbell Gallery
2021 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, May 12th
Queer Film Series: Episode 6: Part III
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HUME
3242 W Armitage Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 6PM - 12AM
On view through Sunday, March 25th
Giselle Mira-Diaz and Qais Assali: Threshold
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The Overlook
3323 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 22nd
Janenne Eaton: The Yellow Brick Wall
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The Back Room at Kim's Corner Food
1371 W Estes Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 15th
A. Laurie Palmer: Sensing Connection to the Time Left
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Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 22nd
Sound Program: Cathy Hsiao: Movement 1, Bloom
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 3:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 24th
AtSalon 2018
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University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 12PM - 5PM
Samuel Levi Jones: Nexus
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PATRON
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 12th
Exposure Series: Molly Jones and Luke Stewart
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 9PM - 12AM
Jane Barthès: GRIDZ
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5000 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 24th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
Tashi Dorji
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 9PM - 11:59PM
1979! A Conversation Inspired by Howardena Pindell
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Arte Diseño Xicágo
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 19th
Charles Joseph Smith
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 24th
Moving_Image_00:03
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Lithium Gallery
1932 S Halsted St, Ste. 200, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, March 23rd
comfort Zone
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z1 Gallery
2850 W Belden Ave, Chicago, IL, 60647
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, March 23rd
Blunt Graffix Presents: Loaded Guns II
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All Star Press Chicago
2775 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 10PM
Alejandro T. Acierto
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LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 5PM - 7:30PM
Alejandro Jimenez Flores: On Love, Friendships, and Coexisting in Multi-Temporals Spaces
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Efrain Lopez Gallery
908 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
BCH Mixtape: Vol. 3
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Black Cinema House
1456 E 70th St, Chicago, IL 60619
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
Manuel Mathieu: Nobody is Watching
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
Connections: Exploring the Ties That Bind
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OpenWall
4243 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 1st
Visibility as Protest Roundtable
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's LeRoy Neiman Center, Student Leadership Suite
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 4:15PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, March 23rd
Ellen Holtzblatt
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Fermilab Art Gallery
Kirk Road and Pine Street, Batavia, IL 60510-5011
Opening Friday, March 23rd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, May 14th
Edward Owens: A Portrait Study
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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 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Cameron Clayborn: bodebuilder 2 (practice the way you play)
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, March 22nd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, March 22nd
Caleb Beck: Interesting Voids
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Backspace Gallery
330 Gilbert Drive, 1st Floor, Dekalb, IL, 60115
Opening Thursday, March 22nd, from 6:30PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 20th
Paul Pffeiffer
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Edlis Neeson Theater
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Part II: West Side/ South Side: Coalitioning Around School Closures
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Mike Goldstein: Iconic Pop/Rock Album Covers
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Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Thursday, March 22nd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Exposure Series: Brandon Lopez
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, March 22nd, from 9PM - 12AM
Visibility as Protest Symposium
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Maclean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, March 22nd, from 4:15PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, March 23rd
2018 Midwest Archives Conference
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Sheraton Grand Chicago Hotel
301 E North Water St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, March 24th
OTV Presents: Brujos
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Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, March 28th
Information Architecture: Current practice + future challenges
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IIT Institute of Design
565 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60661
Opening Wednesday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Dymaxion Trajectories
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Soccer Club Club
2921 North Cicero Avenue Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Wednesday, March 21st, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, April 6th
Artist Talk: Kim Piotrowski / Heather Marshall / Nina Rizzo
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Linda Warren Projects
327 N Aberdeen St Ste 151, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, March 21st, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 21st
Time Warp
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Fashion Outlets of Chicago
5220 Fashion Outlets Way, Chicago, IL 60656
Opening Wednesday, March 21st, from 10 a.m - 9 p.m.
On view through Friday, August 31st
Simone Leigh
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The Art Institute of Chicago
230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, March 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Julia Christensen
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, March 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Sharing Shovels: A Round-Table Discussion
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SITE Galleries
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, March 20th, from 4:15PM - 5:15PM
On view through Saturday, March 24th
Branding for Personal Impact
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, March 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
Tonika Johnson in conversation with Amanda Williams
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Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, March 20th, from 6PM - 7PM
Propositions #3: Marlborough Producer Collective
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Maclean
112 S Michigan Ave, #2m, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, March 20th, from 4:15PM - 5:30PM
Cameron Clayborn: bodebuilder 2 (practice the way you play)
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, March 19th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, March 22nd
Lori Waxman: Keep Walking Intently
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Monday, March 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
UIC MFA 2018: Works for the Screen
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The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Monday, March 19th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
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