April 2019
Frank DeCaro: Drag History
@ The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, April 30th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Jonas Becker
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
Visionary: Celebrating Judy Chicago
@ The Standard Club
320 S Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Tuesday, April 30th, from 12PM - 3PM
America: A Hymnal
@ Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St Savior
65 E 32nd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Tuesday, April 30th, from 8PM - 12AM
The Long Term, A Panel Conversation: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom
@ Kresge Hall, Northwestern University
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Monday, April 29th, from 5PM - 7PM
Danez Smith
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Monday, April 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
Perspectives on Photography: Tonika Johnson: Folded Map
@ Perspective Gallery
1310 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
Chicago Abortion Fund Bowl-A-Thon
@ Seven Ten Lanes
http://www.chicagoabortionfund.org/
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 1PM - 5PM
Margins, Material and Metaphor: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Participatory Arts Chosen Family Day: From A To Zine-making workshop
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 12PM - 4PM
Daniel Edward
@ StudioUs
4806 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
2019 Intercollegiate Undergraduate Art History Symposium
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago: The Leroy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 10AM - 3PM
UIC MFA Thesis Screening
@ Filmfront
1740 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
Pilsen Outpost – Book Club
@ Pilsen Outpost
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 3PM - 5PM
EXTRA LIVE: PAPER WORKS
@ EXTRA Projects
3551 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Encountering and Becoming Ghosts
@ School of The Art Institute of Chicago, MacLean Center (MC 1307)
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 4PM - 6PM
At A Distance #3
@ Wedge Projects
1448 W. Howard St
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
PO Box Mail-In Show
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
James Hoff
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 8PM - 10PM
Repetition as Ghost-making
@ School of The Art Institute of Chicago, MacLean Center (MC 1307)
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
ChiTeen Lit Fest Featuring Eve L. Ewing
@
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 11AM - 2PM
VISCERAL: Closing
@ EXTRA Projects
3551 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Stomping Grounds
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 West 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Joe Rauen: Talk and Performance
@ Union Street Gallery
1527 Otto Blvd, Chicago Heights, IL 60411
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 3PM - 5PM
Marc Lamont Hill and Barbara Ransby: Media and Democracy
@ UIC Forum
725 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
The World Is Always Coming to an End
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 1PM - 3PM
Jeremy and Farrah: Forms of Rest
@ Young Chicago Authors
1180 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6PM - 10PM
Sam Kirk and Joseph Josue Mora
@ Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Ste 102, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 4 PM - 5 PM
On view through Saturday, May 4th
CFA Out of the Vault: How We Work
@ Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
Liz Magor: BLOWOUT
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 23rd
16th Anniversary Sale & Show
@ Lincoln Square Pottery Studio - Learning Center
4150 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Found Gestures
@ Hyde Park Art Center Gallery 5
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Dear Beer 2: closing reception
@ Paper Hat
1953 N Campbell Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Art For People’s Sake
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 4PM - 6PM
Michael Cabrera
@ Essentia Gallery
2118 N Halsted St Chicago IL 60614
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
Toypurina and the Kizh Nation
@ Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
3001 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Circles and Squares: Natives, Colonists, and Maps
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 11AM - 11:30AM
Melissa Pokorny and Julia Hechtman: Double Bind
@ Space P11
55 E Randolph St, Pedway Level, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Tuesday, April 30th
Decarcerate: Art Making Against Mass Incarceration
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 2PM - 6PM
Traces: SAIC MAVCS (Un)symposium 2019
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 9:30AM - 4PM
Penelope Thrasher
@ Slacks Window Gallery
5752 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60646
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
SSW Workshop: Comics Journalism
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 1PM - 3PM
Bi-Queer Poetry and Open Mic
@ The Hatchery
135 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Kimono Exhibition
@ Japanese Culture Center (日本文化会館)
1016 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Tracy K. Smith
@ Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 2PM - 3PM
Chicago Black Social Culture Map: Early Chicago House Edition
@ DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 12PM - 4PM
Roots & Culture Spring Gala 2019: Idol Worship
@ Assemblea
1350 W Erie St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6:30PM - 11:30PM
Annual Book Sale
@ Gerber Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 10:30AM - 2:30PM
Ghostskate presents TruRute
@ Agitator: A Co-operative Gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
Sauna!
@ Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
The Webs Between Us
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
What’s Next: Closing Reception
@ Ice House Gallery Evanston
609 South Blvd, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 5PM - 7PM
Bad Ass Women of East Garfield Park
@ GAG
3528 W Fulton Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, May 23rd
The Veteran Art Initiative
@ The Pilsen Art House
1756 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 2PM - 10PM
Still Here: Torture, Resiliency and the Art of Memorializing: Closing Reception
@ Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Sarah Kaiser-Amaral: Elemental
@ Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 24th
Jan-Henry Gray, Xandria Phillips, mai c doan
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
James Krone: Model Of Dissolve
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Documenting the Archive, CMS Conference
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
An Ekphrastic Event for Sharing the Muse
@ South Bend Museum of Art
120 S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, South Bend, IN 46601
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
Cathy Hsiao: M ㄅ V ㄍ M ㄍ ㄇ ㄒ III: BAD BUDDHA, 嫦娥
@ McLean County Arts Center
601 N East St, Bloomington, IL 61701
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 24th
The Black Experience IV
@ The LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 9PM - 1PM
SAIC MFA After Party
@
2523 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 10PM - 2AM
NOTES on AN Appearance
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Vincent Dermody: NERVOUS SERVICE
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
AIR/ED Meet and Greet
@ LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
MFA Thesis Group 3 Gallery Talk
@ Grunwald Gallery of Art
1201 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN 47405
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 12PM - 2PM
Friday Festejo
@ Eco Collective Chicago
2042 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 8PM - 10PM
Matthew Metzger: Collapse
@ Regards Gallery
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Alberto Aguilar: moves on human scale
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 15th
Susan Keech McIntosh: Trans-Saharan Connections and the Global Turn in Africa: A History in Fragments
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Crystal Hodges
@ Leo Burnett
35 W Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 8AM - 9:30AM
Take Me Serious: 2019 Teen Arts Exhibition
@ Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 16th
Turtle Fox presents Little Worlds
@ Rogers Park Art Gallery
6902 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Re(a)sonable demon
@ Digital Art Demo Space
2515 S Archer Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 9:30PM - 2AM
BA Thesis Projects 2019
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 12:30PM - 6:30PM
Toward the Unsound: Closing Performance Marathon
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 4PM - 9PM
2019 MFA Show Opening Reception
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sullivan Galleries
33 S State St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, May 15th
unsettled
@ ADDS DONNA
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Tom Torluemke: Born in the USA
@ One After 909
906 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Parts of Speech: Steffani Jemison
@ South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S South Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 6PM
2019 Senior Thesis Exhibition
@ The University of St. Francis Art Gallery
25 E Van Buren St, Joliet, IL 60432
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
How We Make It 2019
@ Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
Kristen Kaza: Inclusive
@ Low Res Studio
1821 W Hubbard St. #203, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 8:30AM - 10AM
Rebel Nell
@ Chicago Truborn
1741 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 12PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
IN THE RECEIVING ROOM
@ FLOOD'S HALL
1515 E 52nd Pl, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
2019 Emerging Illinois Artists
@ McLean County Arts Center
601 N East St, Bloomington, IL 61701
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 24th
Poesía en Abril: David Huerta & Maya Islas
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
Kayla Mahaffey: Off to the Races
@ Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Sinema Obscura presents: DECAF DON
@ 6740Micro
6740 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
(un)noticeable and Forthcoming
@ University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza, HSB 201, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 9th
Perfect Tens
@ University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza, HSB 201, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 9th
Please, Continue (Hamlet)
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 25th, at 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Bauhaus Tea Party, Part I
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 11th
Eric J. Garcia: The Bald Eagle’s Toupee
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 11th
Her Mark: 27th Anniversary Gala
@ Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave Unit 4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Public Newsroom 105: Storytelling & Journalism with 2nd Story
@ Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
