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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos
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Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Guanyu Xu: Parallel Journeys
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SITE Galleries
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago IL, 60603
Opening Thursday, February 28th, from 4:15PM - 5:45PM
On view through Saturday, March 23rd
Morgan Fisher: Paintings, Photographs, Films
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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, February 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
Nations of Migrants: Panel and Conversation
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Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 28th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
James McNeill Whistler: Blurring the Lines
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, February 28th, from 12PM - 10PM
Speculating the Now: A Panel on Healing Justice
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Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, February 28th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, March 1st
An Interactive History of Comics
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CHALLENGERS Comics + Conversation
1845 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, February 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
Wintry Mix: An Experimental Station Fundraiser
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Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, February 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
The Magnificently Mundane
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University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza, HSB 201, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Thursday, February 28th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 11th
Fulfilled Fantasies
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The Hokin
623 S Wabash Ave, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Thursday, February 28th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, April 1st
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
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Film Row Cinema
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, February 27th, from 6:30PM - 8:45PM
On view through Friday, March 1st
Atlas Unlimited (Acts V–VI): From Syria to the South Side
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 27th, from 4:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Sunday, March 17th
Future Cafe: Kinship
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Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT)
5811 S Kenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 27th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Lalla Essaydi
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
618 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, February 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Artists Live: Brandon Breaux and Nikko Washington
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Penthouse 901
915 E 60th Street, Performance Penthouse 901, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 27th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Robin Deacon: Vinyl Equations
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, February 27th, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, February 28th
Daniel Wilson: ART HOUSE
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Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, February 27th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 2nd
Lalla Esaydi
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Stage Two
618 S Michigan Ave, Ste 1200, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, February 27th, at 6PM
Art Now! Gallerists’ Roundtable
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Hokin Hall
623 S Wabash Ave, Room 109, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, February 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
Fia Backström
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Art Theory and Practice
1880 Campus Dr, Kresge Hall 1319, Evanston, IL, 60208
Opening Tuesday, February 26th, from 5PM - 6PM
50 Children: Rescuing the Collections
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Mesirow Financial - James C. Tyree Auditorium
353 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, February 26th, from 12 PM - 1:30 PM
Susan Lepselter: Conspiracy/Theory: Feeling the Plot
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Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), Wilder House
5811 S Kenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, February 26th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
In Progress: Jeanette Andrews
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, February 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
Jefferson Pinder: This is Not a Drill
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, February 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
A Slippery Land
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DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, February 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
Spontaneous Remarks / Reassembling Reality
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Tuesday, February 26th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Thursday, March 21st
Julietta Singh: No Archive Will Restore You
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The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, The University of Chicago
5733 S University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, February 25th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
David Anthony Geary: The Great Migration
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Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University
1 University Pkwy, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Monday, February 25th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, March 14th
Untitled_8 Launch Party!
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The Leroy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, February 25th, from 4:15PM - 5:30PM
Slideshow
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Wedge Projects
1448 Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Sunday, March 10th
Still Birds in Shifting Places
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The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Monday, February 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
Yao-Yi Wang and Jina Park: Everything in Its Right Place
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MacLean Center
112 S Michigan Ave, Room 1307, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, February 25th, from 4:15PM - 6PM
Gina Hunt and Kate McQuillen: Undiscoverable Country
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 30th
Lynn Basa: Nomads
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Screening: Laurie Simmons
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Edlis Neeson Theater
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
From the Bauhaus to Our House
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Sunday, February 24th, at 1:30PM
Kristin Mariani: Two Sides to the Horizon
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1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, February 24th
Judith Harding: DARK DARK FUNNY
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Read/Write Library Chicago
914 N. California Ave (Walton Entrance), Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 2PM - 3PM
Lee Darling: My Venus is in Aries… A Funeral
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North Pole
1600 W Sherwin Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 4PM - 7PM
Sarah Leuchtner: 12 New Paintings
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
Naming Rights
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Annas
629 W Cermak Rd Suite 240 Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 1PM - 4PM
Nathaniel Robinson: Paintings
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Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, March 23rd
Nancy Ford
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Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, March 23rd
Sarah Leuchtner: 12 New Paintings
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Hubbard Street Lofts
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 1st
The Rise of Fascism in Brazil: Ele Não / Not Him
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, February 24th
Spontaneous Remarks/ Exquisite Style Battle
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Chicago Artists' Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, February 24th
Selina Trepp: animations to keep you sane and strong
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Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Ave., Chicago
Opening Sunday, February 24th, from 2 - 4
On view through Friday, March 9th
Voices from the Farm: Digging Deep in the Vermilion Watershed
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 2PM - 4PM
The Rejuvenate Series
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 307, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 6 PM - 10 PM
On view through Saturday, February 23rd
Exhibition Closing Celebration (Fall Term 2018)
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Marwen
833 N Orleans St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, March 1st
Cloud 9
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LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 31st
Curtis William Readel: Feed the Beast
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Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Chicago Black Social Culture Map: South Shore/Southside Edition
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 12PM - 6PM
Jesse Hora: High Five Art Show
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The Martin
2515 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, February 23rd
Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
The Comeback: A Formerly Incarcerated Immersion Experience
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BBF Family Services
1512 S Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 12PM - 3PM
Laurie Simmons: Talk
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Edlis Neeson Theater
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
David Boyle: To Be Determined
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Givins Castle, Beverly Unitarian Church
10244 S Longwood Dr, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, at 7PM
The L.A. Uprising: Before, During, and Is It Over
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Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Artruck Inside!
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Bucephalus Bikes
1424 Lake St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
Happy Anniversary Show
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Happy Gallery Chicago
902 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 10PM
Black Lesbian Archives 2019 Chicago Tour
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Gerber Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 9:30PM
Michael Lopez and Roni Packer: Two Spreads: Closing
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, February 23rd
Sarita Garcia: Fantasyscape: Saturating the Familiar
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Adler & Floyd
3537 S Western Blvd, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Black Creativity Career Showcase
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Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 9:3oAM - 1:30PM
Third Estate Art: Access to Care Salon
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The Factory Theater
1623 W Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Lyfted Up
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Second Story Studios
2251 W Devon Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 10PM
Rivanna Jihan: Lovers
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Society Tattoo Gallery
3360 N Karlov Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 11PM
Curtis William Readel: Feed the Beast
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Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Winter Pageant 2019
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No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 8PM - 11:11PM
Doug Rosman: Fractured: Digital Topographies
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LITHIUM
1932 S Halsted, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, March 7th
Jazz improv
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Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery
201 W 10th St, Lockport, IL 60441
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 2PM - 4PM
Live Again: Closing
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Wedge Projects- The Extension
1442 Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 23rd
Kira Scerbin: Pot of Snot
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Prairie
2055 W Cermak Ave, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Open Access
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
Sungjae Lee: The Hair Shop: Whiteyellowwhite
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gallery no one
1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Room 303, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Friday, February 22nd
Robert Chase Heishman
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LATITUDE Chicago
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On the Fence
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Aspect/Ratio
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 23rd
Igor Kozlovsky & Marina Sharapova: Freedom of Illusions
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Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 23rd
Typeforce X
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 6 - 10
On view through Friday, March 8th
Richard Shipps: I Saw It in the Paper
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Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Salvatore Garcia and Penny Burns: Star
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The Pilsen Art House
1756 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
Céline Browning: War Games
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Dittmar Gallery
1999 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, March 25th
Art For Dentists
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The Yards
2028 S Canalport Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 7PM - 12AM
The Funambulist Four Years Later: Our Successes and Failures Are Also Political!
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 12PM - 1PM
Still Inspired(?): Release
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The Athenaeum Theatre
2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 7:30PM - 8:45PM
On view through Sunday, February 24th
Technology Transformations: A Feminist History of the Supercut
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The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
Studio Tour: IDEO
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IDEO
626 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60661
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 3:30PM - 5PM
Rocio Caballero: Abyss
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
The Stormy Night
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
Don’t Be Scurred: Pathways to Liberation
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, March 2nd
Refreshing Feminism
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Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave Unit 4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Material & Digital; Substances & Containers: Closing Reception of Bodies
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Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Ste 100 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, February 24th
maeve & quinn
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
Form Without Plan: Closing Reception
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, February 21st
SaraNoa Mark: Temporarily Removed
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 4th
Stitches of the Soul/Las Puntadas del Alma
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Schingoethe Center of Aurora University
347 S Gladstone Ave, Aurora, IL 60506
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 5PM - 6:45PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
BECOMING: Transformation in American Indian Art
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Schingoethe Center of Aurora University
347 S Gladstone Ave, Aurora, IL 60506
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 5PM - 6:45PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Laida Lertxundi: Landscape Plus
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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, February 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
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