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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Barbara Crane
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, April 30th, at 12PM
The Motherhood Archives Screening
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, April 30th, at 7PM
2020 MFA Thesis Show: This World Should Be More Wonderful
@
Gallery 400
Online
On view through Friday, May 21st
Imagination remix: Art Exhibition
@
Pilsen Art House
1756 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 30th, from 6PM - 10PM
Alberto Aguilar and Alex Bradley Cohen: That
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, April 30th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 29th
David Richards: Gargoyles and Escutcheons: Closing Reception
@
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 30th
Yora Lee: Burn In
@
Jude Gallery
629 W Cermak Rd, Unit 240, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, April 30th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 30th
Forms & Features Online: Cento
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, April 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
ANDREA PETERSON: In a Years’ Time
@
Fiber and Material Studies at SAIC
Online
Opening Thursday, April 29th, from 4PM - 5:15
If/Then online sharing #1: Honey Pot Performance with Norman W. Long (April 29)
@
Honey Pot Performance
Online
Boom Bloom Artist Talk with Renee Robbins Live at Lunchtime focus talk
@
Krasl Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, April 29th, from 11AM CST - 11:30AM CST
On view through Sunday, June 6th
Michio Kaku and LeVar Burton in Virtual Conversation
@
Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Thursday, April 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Chicago Takes 10: Pivot Arts
@
Chicago Takes 10
Online
Opening Thursday, April 29th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, April 29th
Forms & Features Online: Cento
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, from 10AM - 12PM
VGA Fireside with Catt Small
@
VGA Gallery
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
FarBar: Zoe Butt with ‘Pollination’ curators Kittima Chareeprasit and LIR (Mira Asriningtyas and Dito Yuwuno)
@
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, from 8:30PM - 9:30PM
One Night Stand: Ulysses Davis
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, from 6:30PM - 7PM
Tanda Spring 2021: Challenging Biometrics, AI, and Facial Recognition Technologies, Alex Santana
@
Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 5th
Cinéma Direct Action – Conversation with Curator & Scholars
@
Block Museum Online
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, at 12 PM
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Toward an Anti-Racist Art Ecosystem in Chicago
@
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, from 12PM - 1:45PM
Death & Dying Drink & Draw
@
Song for Autumn Deathcare
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
The Life of Artemisia Gentileschi
@
Effing Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, at 7PM
Art Advancing Justice
@
CAAU
online
Opening Wednesday, April 28th, from 12AM - 12PM
On view through Saturday, May 22nd
Talking Frankly about Race and Racism
@
Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 27th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Body as Nature, Body as Instrument: An intersection of movement, place, and process
@
Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum
Altgeld Hall, 1st Fl., West End, 1425 W Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Monday, April 26th, from 5PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 15th
Forms & Features Online: Cento
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Monday, April 26th, from 2PM - 4PM
ArtBash
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
online
On view through Friday, May 7th
Chicago’s Archive Collective Reuse Competition: Collecting Oral Histories
@
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Online
Opening Monday, April 26th, at 12PM
The METAMORPHOSIS of Gabriel Villa
@
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, July 17th
Goodman Davis Lecture: Nayland Blake
@
Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago
Online
Opening Monday, April 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Becoming the ‘Burbs: Part 2
@
Elmhurst Art Museum
Online
Opening Sunday, April 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
Cinéma Direct Action: 1960s Student Activism in Francophone Documentary
@
Block Museum Online
Online
Opening Sunday, April 25th, from 12PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, May 1st
The Free Time Open Mic 4
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, April 25th, from 5PM - 9PM
Artist Talk with Sofia Karim
@
South Asia Institute
Online
Opening Saturday, April 24th, at 11AM
On view through Saturday, May 15th
Water The Plants!
@
Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, May 30th
¡Viva la Libertad! Latin America and the Age of Revolutions: Opening Event
@
Newberry Library
Online
On view through Saturday, July 24th
Liz Flores: In Between
@
All Star Press Chicago
Online
Manuel Mathieu: Negroland: A Landscape of Desires
@
Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, July 3rd
Angela Ziqi Zhang: Fleece Engine
@
Produce Model
1918 S Canalport Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, April 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 12th
Jamal Cyrus: Manna and Braised Collards
@
PATRON Gallery
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 24th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 29th
Les Scott & Frank Korb
@
Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Road, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, April 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 9th
Virtual Family Studio: Seeds InService
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Saturday, April 24th, from 10AM - 11AM
Ragdale Spring Showcase
@
Ragdale Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, April 24th, at 6PM
Ben Foch: Hood Ornament
@
M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 24th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 5th
Ebony G. Patterson: she is land…she is the mourning…
@
moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina Street
Opening Saturday, April 24th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 12th
Brittney Leeanne Williams: How Far Between and Back
@
moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina Street
Opening Saturday, April 24th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 12th
Material Reuse Community Event
@
Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 24th, from 12PM - 4PM
Marianne Fairbanks: Interlaced Apertures
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 24th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
Birth On The Border Screening
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, April 23rd, at 7PM
Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Joanne Leonard
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, April 23rd, at 12PM
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue – Margeaux Rocco (’23) & Joely Simon (’21)
@
Block Museum
Online
Opening Friday, April 23rd, at 12PM
Ron Gard: Nexus Between Spaces
@
3D4D
1912 N Damen Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 23rd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 5th
The World Inside This One
@
Eighth Blackbird Production Facility
Online
Opening Friday, April 23rd, from 7PM - 8PM
Health Humanities in Times of Crisis
@
Smart Museum of Art
online
Opening Friday, April 23rd, from 10:45AM - 5PM
Dipesh Chakrabarty: The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
@
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Friday, April 23rd, at 10AM
Rem Koolhaas: Exhibition Making
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, April 23rd, from 10:30AM - 11:30AM
Open Studio Night
@
Dragonfly Gallery
2436 W Madison Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 23rd, from 6PM - 10PM
Kayla Mahaffey
@
Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, April 24th
Chicago’s Archive Collective Reuse Competition: Video and Audio Production/Editing
@
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Online
Opening Thursday, April 22nd, at 5:30PM
KELLY KACZYNSKI: Stages, (a)way from nouns
@
Fiber and Material Studies at SAIC
Online
Opening Thursday, April 22nd, from 4PM - 5:15
Joerg Metzner: Missing: The Tree at Greenwood Beach: Virtual Artist Discussion
@
Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, April 25th
Hurvin Anderson in Conversation with Michael Prokopow
@
The Arts Club of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, April 22nd, at 12PM
On view through Saturday, August 7th
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
MAS Context presents: Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants
@
MAS Context
Online
Opening Thursday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 7:15PM
The Chicago Monuments Project, Race, and Radical Imagination with William Estrada
@
Illinois State Historical Society
Online
Opening Thursday, April 22nd, from 4:15PM - 5PM
Artist Talk: Julietta Cheung
@
Roman Susan
Online
Opening Thursday, April 22nd, at 7PM
Directors’ Cut: Theaster Gates, Jacqueline Stewart, + Adrienne Brown in Conversation
@
Arts and Public Life
Online
Opening Thursday, April 22nd, from 7PM - 8PM
Busan Biennale, The Chicago Chapter: Say Sue Me
@
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Online
Opening Thursday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
Free2Groove with Rae Chardonnay and Friends
@
Threewalls
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 21st, from 12PM - 12:30PM
Seeing Family in Latinx Art: A Conversation with Diana Solís, Nicole Marroquin, and Deanna Ledezma
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 21st, at 6PM
Tanda Spring 2021: Bloodletting as Embodied Ritual: Latinx Tattoos, Clau Rocha
@
Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 5th
Asian Women Speak Out: Anjali Enjeti, R.O. Kwon, and Suchitra Vijayan
@
Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 21st, from 7PM - 8PM
Virtual Author Reading: MAKE YOUR ART NO MATTER WHAT by Beth Pickens
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 21st, at 7PM
Motion and Meaning Lecture Series: Rethinking and Revaluing Poetic Rhythm
@
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 21st, from 10AM - 12PM
How Can Design Address Climate Change?
@
IIT Institute of Design
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 21st, from 12PM - 1PM
ACTIVATING NEIGHBORHOOD SPACE: BACK ALLEY JAZZ AS A CASE STUDY
@
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 20th, from 5PM - 6PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Bingo Edition
@
Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 20th, at 7:30PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Bingo Edition
@
Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 20th, at 7:30PM
Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive
@
Department of Visual Arts
Online
On view through Tuesday, April 20th
Shannon Lee Dawdy and Jill Magid
@
Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Monday, April 19th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 23rd
Visita virtual: ¡Viva la Libertad!
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Monday, April 19th, at 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 24th
Chicago’s Archive Collective Reuse Competition: Archival Research and Fair Use
@
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Online
Opening Monday, April 19th, at 3PM
Voices: Jamal Cyrus
@
Gallery 400
online
Opening Monday, April 19th, from 1PM - 2.30PM
Behold, Be Held
@
Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, August 22nd
Resource Use and Reuse
@
Mana Contemporary
Online
Opening Monday, April 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
Three For Life – Art for Life Chicago: Award Winners Exhibition
@
West Loop Dot Gallery
1015 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Sunday, April 25th
A Look on the Bright Side: The Sunny Side of Art with Julie A. Mars
@
Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum
Online
Opening Sunday, April 18th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, May 15th
Long Braids, Strong Backs
@
LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 18th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 30th
Вічний Kалендар
@
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Online
Opening Sunday, April 18th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
The Quarantine Concerts: Ithaca Underground Presents
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Saturday, April 17th, at 7PM
Damon Locks: Then X Enters
@
Goldfinch
319 N. Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, May 29th
While We’re At It: Performances
@
6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 17th, at 1PM
On view through Sunday, April 25th
IMPACT Performance Festival
@
online
On view through Sunday, April 18th
Cydney Lewis: Suspended in the Realm of Possibility
@
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S. Throop St, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 17th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, May 1st
Long Braids, Strong Backs
@
LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 17th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 30th
The We Were Never Alone Project
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 17th, from 2PM - 6PM
Just a Container
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
online
Opening Saturday, April 17th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Joanne Aono: Harvesting Ethnic Roots
@
boundary
2334 W 111th Place Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, April 17th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, June 5th
Hattie Hopkins: Jingle Jangle Grassy Garden
@
Andersonville Galleria
5247 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, April 17th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 1st
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