October 2019
Alexandra Bachzetsis: Chasing a Ghost
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 30th
I Walked with a Zombie
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 7PM - 9PM
VGA Cosplay Ball
@ Revolution Tap Room
3340 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 6PM - 10PM
SOFA
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
Hamza Walker
@ Art Theory and Practice
Kresge Hall, Room 1319, 1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Public Newsroom 123: Building Brave Spaces for Community
@ 345 Art Gallery
345 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
Bad Femme: Halloween Double Feature with Kat Sass and Siichele
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 7PM - 11PM
Shengze Zhu: Present.Perfect.
@ Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
HalloWolfbat
@ House of Vans
113 N Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL. 60607
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 7PM - 11PM
Aztec Art and the Fragility of Empire
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 6PM - 7PM
Colonialism Undead
@ Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
4048 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 7PM - 10:30PM
Workshop: Ground Truthings: Local Soil Tasting + 3 Deep Maps
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Place, Chicago IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
Office Hours for Performance Practices
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
América Now: Chicago Artists in Dialogue
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
October Co-MISSION WIP Series
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
Documenters Orientation
@ Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
YAMA – Attack to Attack / 山谷〜やられたらやりかえせ〜
@ Justice Hotel at 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL, 60660
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 7PM - 10PM
Julia Fish
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 23rd
Poetry off the Shelf: avery r. young & Dorothée Munyaneza
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 7PM - 9PM
Poetry off the Shelf: avery r. young & Dorothée Munyaneza
@ Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Propositions #2 – Macarena Campbell-Parra, Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira, & Alys Longley
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
A Woman of No Importance: The Spy Who Helped Win WWII
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6:15PM - 8PM
Karkomi Holocaust Exhibition: Resistance Gallery Opening
@ Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
9603 Woods Dr, Skokie, IL 60077
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Caravana Mx
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, November 25th
Graywolf 45th Anniversary
@ Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
61 W Superior St, Chicago, Illinois 60654
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Photocena 2019
@ LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Graywolf 45th Anniversary
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
Lee Plested: Some Ideas on Display
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Discussion: Sandro Miller & Mark Golitko
@ Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
Volun-Tuesday! The WasteShed’s Monthly Volunteer Party
@ The WasteShed
2842 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 6062
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
Career Development: A Field Guide to Health Insurance
@ Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, October 29th
Meanwhile: Fashion Show
@ Delilah's
2771 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
Bringing Hope to the (Nearly) Forgotten
@ Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Philip H Corboy Law Center, 25 East Pearson Street
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Re-Envisioning Masculinity
@ Oak Park Public Library
834 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60301
Opening Monday, October 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
In The Realm Of Senses: Beethoven 250 Part I: Band of Bohemia
@ Band of Bohemia
4710 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago IL 60640
Opening Monday, October 28th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Jeffrey Gibson
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, October 28th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Option: Wayne Montana
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago,IL 60660
Opening Monday, October 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
Incomplete Conversations
@ Silent Theatre
3824 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, October 28th, at 7:30 PM
On view through Saturday, November 23rd
Between Gestures: Notes on Agency, Dance in the Museum
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 10:30AM - 12PM
Excavations of a Hopewellian Burial Mound in Pike County
@ Evanston Public Library
1703 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Mobile Arts Bike Parade & Pop-up Arts Workshops
@ Woodard Plaza
2819 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
Radical Pedagogies Series
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 3PM - 7PM
Blood Lines: Artist Talk
@ High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Thursday, October 31st
Nancy Campbell Hays: A Retrospective
@ Hyde Park Historical Society
5529 S Lake Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, December 31st
Tie-Dye Workshop
@ Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 4PM - 6PM
Rhiannon Giddens
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 1PM - 2PM
From Here to There: artist talk: The Journey
@ Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 12:30PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, January 19th
Jenn Smith: Soup Kite Laser Church
@ Flatland
1935 W Pershing Rd, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 17th
Kiam Marcelo Junio: Mindful Movement
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Physical gestures that flatten out as moments
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S Throop St, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Jordan Martins, Angel Bat Dawid, & Norman Teague: Fugal Systems
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone, Chicago IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 4PM - 7PM
The Journey
@ Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 12:30PM - 2:30PM
Day of the Dead Xicágo
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Trajal Harrell and Ola Maciejewska: Between Gestures
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 10AM - 5PM
Remembering Rhumboogie Historic Tour with Lee Bey
@ Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 1PM - 4PM
Armor at the Disco!
@ Siblings
2700 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 6PM - 10PM
Moving_Image_00:06
@ DfbrL8r
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Taxidermy 101: The Art (and Science) of Taxidermy
@ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 10AM - 4PM
Kamau Patton: The Sky Above
@ Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Apt. A, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at 7PM
Jamie M. Moore: A Wild Pack Of Dogs
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, January 5th
Emily Rapport: Everything Is: Closing Reception
@ Eat Paint Studio
5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Rose Pritchett: Artist Talk & Performance
@ 1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, November 17th
CRITTERS and CRIPTOEXOTICALIA
@ GAG
3528 W Fulton Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, November 24th
Walking, Gathering, Listening: A nature walk program
@ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
4400 North Simonds Drive, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 3PM - 5PM
Surveillance and Black Activism
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 3PM - 4:15PM
Portate Bien
@ Langer Over Dickie
1309 N Leavitt St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, November 26th
New Monuments for New Cities: Closing Reception
@ Damen Arts Plaza
Damen Ave. & Bloomingdale Ave. Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power
@ Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, January 26th
Joanne Aono: Wetlands Elegy
@ Mosnart
11319 S Saint Lawrence Avenue, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, December 31st
LTE Book Launch and Pumpkin Carving: Templates For Public Art Vol.2
@ Free Range
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
Preserving Chicago’s Glass Houses
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 1PM - 3PM
Patti Smith: Year of the Monkey
@ Symphony Center
220 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 10AM - 11:15AM
ACRE Zombi Disco
@ ACRE
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 8PM - 3AM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Vexations for a Flag Pole – Sky Music
@ North Pole
1600 W Sherwin Ave. Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, November 20th
Jorge Lucero: Yourstuff Museum
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 2PM - 6PM
Alison Ruttan: Unmaking of Places and Histories
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, December 15th
Hallowzine 2019
@ Cards Against Humanity Theater
1917 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
Eric Anthony Berdis: Don’t let them clip your tiny little insect wings
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, December 15th
Words, Poems, and Music of Resilience
@ Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
4048 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
The Silver Room Presents: SOUL Music
@ Emporium Wicker Park
1366 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 9PM - 2AM
17 Piece Art Explosion By The Amazing Matt Lamb
@ David Leonardis Galleries
1346 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
Jacqueline Surdell: Vaulted Breath/Winded Spirit
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, December 1st
Dinner Night with Solomon Moore: Let’s Assume No One Lost with This Trade
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
Niki Kriese: Blindspot
@ ADDS DONNA
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 6064
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Fall Open House at Rogers Park Art Gallery
@ Rogers Park Art Gallery
6902 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Living Dead Art Show
@ Space Oddities
1007 N California Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
Monica Rezman: No In Between
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Woven: Connections and Meanings
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 19th
SPEAK: A Monthly All-Ages Safe Space Open Mic
@ Volumes Bookcafe
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Soundtrack: Karsten Sollors
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Michiko Itatani: Cosmic Codes
@ One After 909
906 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 7th
Captured, Sculpted, Written
@ Agitator: a co-operative gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 10PM
Between a Rock and a Dream
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, December 1st
secrets for strangers; portals for passing
@ Aspect/Ratio
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Dan Nelson
@ Essentia
2118 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, October 25th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Patti Smith with Lynn Goldsmith
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
Feminist Freelancers! All Are Welcome.
@ Agitator: A Co-operative Gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 11AM - 7PM
