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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Forms & Features Online: Syntax
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Wednesday, March 31st, from 10AM - 12PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
online
Opening Wednesday, March 31st, from 1PM - 1:30PM
A Century of Culture: The Creation & Early Years of the Oak Park Art League
@
Oak Park Art League
Online
Opening Wednesday, March 31st, at 7:30PM
Tanda Spring 2021: Visual Sovereignty: Understanding the Ethics of Depicting Indigenous Culture in Visual Art, Lorena Cruz Santiago
@
Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, March 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 5th
Miranda July
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 30th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Sarita Garcia: Five Works
@
Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Tuesday, August 31st
OPTION: Akira Sakata
@
Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, March 29th, at 7PM
Forms & Features Online: Syntax
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Monday, March 29th, from 2PM - 4PM
Movement Studies
@
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Sunday, May 9th
Tesh Silver: Liberation Among the Stars: A Past and Future Dream
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Co-Prospertiy
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Monday, March 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 26th
A Talk with Natasha Moustache
@
POROUS Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
Online
Opening Sunday, March 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
NEW WORKS from our 2021 Collective Artists
@
Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Sunday, March 28th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 11th
Re: Impurities
@
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave #101, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, March 27th, at 2PM
Virtual Artist Talk: Autoethnography
@
Heaven Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, March 27th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, April 25th
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, March 27th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Haerim Lee: Site-Specific Memories
@
Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 27th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 16th
DREAM INQUIRY: Discovering Chicago Surrealism
@
Gallery Sabine
1002 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 27th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 30th
Melissa Rasor: Beautiful Existence
@
Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, March 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 11th
Juli Janovicz: The Memory of Flowers
@
Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, March 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 11th
Slinging Ink, Part 2: Preserving Type History in the Midwest
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Friday, March 26th, from 12PM - 1PM
Chris Saint Martin: CONSUMER SERIES: SERIES 1-4
@
The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, May 2nd
Mel Cook and Kailyn Perry: Dream On: Closing Reception
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Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 26th
Context 2021
@
Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 1st
Virtual Artist Lecture: Ashley Jude Jonas
@
University Galleries of Illinois State University
Online
Opening Friday, March 26th, at 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 16th
PO Box Collective’s virtual Unboxed Film Series
@
PO Box Collective
Online
Opening Friday, March 26th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Richard Yu-Tang Lee: I Come In Peace
@
Firecat Projects
2019 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 15th
“Very Well, Thank You”: The Arts as a Means to Well-being
@
Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum
Altgeld Hall, 1st Fl., West End, 1425 W Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL 60115
On view through Saturday, May 15th
JUDITH BROTMAN: Of Strange and Wondrous, Odious and Erotic Occurrences That You Should Know (if you are here)
@
Fiber and Material Studies at SAIC
Online
Opening Thursday, March 25th, from 4PM - 5:15
Forms & Features Online: Elegy
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, March 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Lecture and Conversation
@
Conversations at the Edge
Online
Opening Thursday, March 25th, at 7PM
ExB #5: March Reading
@
Guild Literary Complex
Online
Opening Thursday, March 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
Conversations from the Frontlines: Transitioning to a Regenerative Economy
@
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave #101, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, March 25th, at 5PM
Sancho-Madridejos: The Space Within the Fold
@
MAS Context
Online
Opening Thursday, March 25th, from 12PM - 1PM
Frontera y Periferia // Border and Periphery
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, March 25th, at 6PM
Club de lectura #3: Umami
@
Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Thursday, March 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
Crip Ecologies: Kay Ulanday Barrett & Petra Kuppers
@
Poetry Foundation
online
Opening Thursday, March 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
Livestream with Joyce Carol Oates
@
Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Thursday, March 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
Forms & Features Online: Elegy
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Wednesday, March 24th, from 10AM - 12PM
Lecture in Photography: Candice Breitz
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Wednesday, March 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
Artist Talk: Suburban Piano Quartet
@
Roman Susan
Online
Opening Wednesday, March 24th, at 7PM
FEK Draw Online And Live
@
Leather Archives & Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 23rd, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Talk: Omar Velázquez with Carla Acevedo-Yates
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 23rd, from 2PM - 3PM
Charles Atlas
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 23rd, at 6PM
Why Are We Making This?
@
IIT Institute of Design
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 23rd, from 12PM - 1PM
Forms & Features Online: Elegy
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Monday, March 22nd, from 2PM - 4PM
Think About Water
@
Think About Water
Online
Opening Monday, March 22nd, from 6:30 PM - 8 PM
On view through Monday, June 21st
Ida B. the Queen: Michelle Duster in conversation with Essence McDowell
@
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Online
Opening Monday, March 22nd, at 6PM
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Speculative Archives
@
Conversations at the Edge
Online
On view through Sunday, March 28th
Communal Beach Clean at the 57th Street Beach: SaraNoa Mark: 36° 15’ 43” N 29° 59’ 14” E
@
Goldfinch
57th Street Beach
Opening Sunday, March 21st, from 1PM - 3:30PM
Curator’s and Artists’ Zoom Conversation and Discussion
@
The Riverside Arts Center / Zoom Event
Onine
Opening Sunday, March 21st, from 2PM - 3PM
JCSpaceRadio: Frequency Workout!
@
Compound Yellow
Online
Opening Sunday, March 21st, from 2PM - 4PM
Upkeep: Everyday Strategies of Care: Closing Tours
@
The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, March 20th
Take Care, Be Well
@
Smart Museum of Art
Online
Cameron Gainer and Xie Hongdong: Intentional Attention
@
Aspect/Ratio
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, April 24th
Adrian Stein: Quantum Mirror
@
Artspace 8 Gallery
900 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, March 20th, from 10AM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, April 20th
1st Annual Exhibition: Photographic Processes & More
@
Dragonfly Gallery
2436 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, March 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 24th
I’ll Never Be Untrue
@
Fluffy Crimes
1760 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Friday, April 9th
AIRMW Presents: Kioto Aoki, Mai Sugimoto & Da Wei Wang
@
Elastic Arts
Opening Saturday, March 20th, at 7PM
12 dreams for the past, 12 memories of the future
@
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, March 20th, at 12PM
Michael Fleming (aka Tweedlebop): Curious Critters
@
Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Sunday, April 11th
Artist Talk: Claire Elliott, Vanessa Shinmoto, and Alexandra Stevenson
@
Eat Paint Studio
Online
Opening Saturday, March 20th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 17th
Forms & Features Online: Assonance
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Friday, March 19th, from 1PM - 3PM
9th ANNUAL BRIDGEPORT ART COMPETITION JURORS EXHIBITION
@
The Bridgeport Art Center, Fourth Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, March 19th, from 9PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 7th
Let Us Vote! Voting Stations for Those Who Legally Can’t
@
Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, March 19th, from 5PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 11th
Survey 2
@
Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, March 19th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 8th
Preview 10
@
Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, March 19th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, April 28th
Bricolage ft. Ken Vandermark & Mazen Kerbaj
@
Elastic Arts
Online
Opening Friday, March 19th, at 8PM
Open Dialogue: adrienne maree brown on How We Talk With Each Other
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, March 19th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
As Clean As We’ve Been
@
Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
On view through Saturday, May 1st
Slinging Ink, Part 1: Wood Type and Letterpress in the Midwest
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Friday, March 19th, from 12PM - 1PM
TQC: KIOTO AOKI – SOLO ALBUM PREVIEW
@
Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Friday, March 19th, at 7PM
Jurors Exhibition
@
Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
On view through Friday, May 7th
Photos at Zoom: Walker Evans
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, March 19th, at 12PM
March Curator Conversations @ 21c Museum Hotel
@
21c Museum Hotel Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, March 19th, at 6PM
Art After Work: Eugene Andolsek
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, March 18th, from 5PM - 6PM
JOHN PAUL MORABITO: A Queer Tangent in Tapestry
@
Fiber and Material Studies at SAIC
Online
Opening Thursday, March 18th, from 4PM - 5:15
Screengrab Paintings: Dushko Petrovich
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, March 18th, at 6PM
Ground Floor: Excavating the Past and Present: A Panel Discussion
@
Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, March 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
In The Realm Of Whiskeys: Luck of the Irish
@
Jordan's Food of Distinction
1551 W Thomas St, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Thursday, March 18th, from 7PM, 9PM - 7oPM, 10PM
On view through Thursday, March 25th
Grounded
@
HF Johnson Gallery
2001 Alford Park Dr, Kenosha, WI 53140
Opening Thursday, March 18th, from 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
On view through Friday, April 9th
The J. William Holland Memorial Virtual Lecture—Ancient Coins
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, March 18th, from 5PM - 5:45PM
Flooded and Forgotten: The Fight for Housing and Environmental Justice in Centreville, IL
@
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, March 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
Lens2021 Virtual Artists’ Discussion
@
Perspective Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, March 18th, at 7PM
Amy Beste Interviews Filmmaker Stanya Kahn
@
The Arts Club of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, March 18th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Forms & Features Online: Assonance
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Wednesday, March 17th, from 10AM - 12PM
Chicago Monuments Project Drop In Discussion – Session 7
@
City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
online
Opening Wednesday, March 17th, from 12PM - 1PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
online
Opening Wednesday, March 17th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Photoshop for Play Workshop
@
Filter Photo
Online
Opening Wednesday, March 17th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Wednesday, April 7th
Zine Club Chicago Online: Is It a Zine? Edition
@
Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 16th, at 7:30PM
Session 2: Building Resilience
@
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 16th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Meg Onli: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 16th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Little Theatre in the Second City
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 16th, at 4PM
Forms & Features Online: Assonance
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Monday, March 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
Artist Information Session: Request for Ideas (Reimagining Monuments)
@
City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
online
Opening Monday, March 15th, from 12PM - 1PM
OPTION: Gabby Fluke-Mogul
@
Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, March 15th, at 7PM
Cut It Up and Remake It
@
Gallery 400
Online
Opening Monday, March 15th, from 1PM - 3PM
Diasporic Rhizome
@
South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Saturday, May 15th
Spring 2021 Undergraduate Exhibition
@
SAIC Galleries
33 E. Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Saturday, March 27th
Christina Ballantyne and Mary Griffin: Macabre Babies
@
Bubbles
418 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Sunday, March 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, March 28th
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