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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
FNFVF Halloween Screening
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First Nations Garden
Wllson &, N Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Sunday, October 31st, at 6PM
A•MUSEʼ•MENT
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, October 31st, from 2PM - 4PM
Vibrant Mechanisms: Kinetic and Sound Art
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The Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
On view through Friday, January 7th
MOLOCH
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M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 30th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
Penny Allen: PROPERTY (1978)
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 30th, at 1 PM
Both And
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid
Mana Contemporary, 2233 S Throop St, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 30th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
Side Yard Sounds
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244 Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 30th, from 7PM - 9PM
Madeline Gallucci and Elissa Osterland: Night Swim
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Produce Model
1918 S Canalport Ave, Chicago IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, October 30th, from 6PM - late
On view through Saturday, December 11th
Art Talks! with Block Student Associates
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
GO MAKE A THING!
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
Jessica Gondek: Ironmades
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
RAISIN Artist Talk: Unyimeabasi Udoh, Tran Tran, and Diya Khurana
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6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, October 29th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Nancy Rubins: Sculpture & Drawing
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Alan Lerner
@
Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
In The Realm Of Senses: Immersive Beethoven & Art
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston IL 60201
Opening Friday, October 29th, at 7:30PM
On view through Friday, October 29th
Mary Fedorowski: The Watcher
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Artoma: Recurrence, The Art of Cancer
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Greenleaf Art Center
1806 W Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 29th, at 6PM
On view through Tuesday, November 30th
Havruta
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Second Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, December 5th
Esau McGhee + James Jankowiak: Bo Jackson
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Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
ANAHX Presents Conrad Egyir & Ato Ribeiro
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Artists Need Art Historians
Online
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 6PM - 7PM
空隙 In the Narrow Between: Sinophone Artists In the U.S. Pandemic
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The Research House for Asian Art
3217 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL60608
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, October 29th
IZAH + JUNEER, in-corporated: A* Hiccup In Time
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave. Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 29th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
Kari Cholnoky: Impending Moreness
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Julius Caesar
3311 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Deep Feel
@
the wrong biennale
online
On view through Tuesday, March 1st
Otto
@
Bubbles
418 N Clark St, 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 26th
In Good Hands
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 28th
Welcome to My Perfect Environment
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My Perfect Environment
1843 S Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 29th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, November 29th
Allison Zisook
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Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, October 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Lily Scherlis: Pool Party
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Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 28th, at 6PM
Flutronix Premieres Black Being
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The Arts Club of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, October 28th, at 6PM
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
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Poetry Foundation - Online
Online
Opening Thursday, October 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
jina valentine in conversation with Tracie Hall
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Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, October 28th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, October 29th
One Night Stand: Kevin Sampson
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 27th, from 6:30PM - 7PM
Laura Letinsky
@
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, October 27th, at 6PM
Am I Man Enough?: Stories on Toxic Masculinity
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Center on Halsted
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Nicole Marroquin in conversation with Allison Peters Quinn
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DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 27th, at 6PM
Retelling Resistance: OUVERTURES (2020)
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 27th, at 7 PM
TANDA: Convictions of the Classics: On the Presence & Erasure of Black and Brown Bodies in Classic and Mesoamerican Art
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Chuquimarca at Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Wednesday, October 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
A Discussion with Chicago’s Cultural Changemakers
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Design Museum of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
Caroline Kent with Jadine Collingwood
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 3rd
CREATIVE OPEN GYM (C.O.G)
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The Outtaspace
6840 32nd St, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Tuesday, October 26th, from 7PM - 11PM
OPTION: JayVe Montgomery
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Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, October 25th, at 8PM
Vida Sačić: Press and Clay
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Robert F. DiCaprio Art Gallery at Moraine Valley Community College
9000 College Pkwy, Palos Hills, IL 60465
Opening Monday, October 25th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Monday, October 25th
Doug Fogelson: REVERB
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Indiana University Northwest School of the Arts Gallery
3415 Broadway Avenue Gary, IN 46408
On view through Friday, January 21st
Football Practice: Imagining Football Futures
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High Concept Labs
Online
Opening Monday, October 25th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, February 6th
Vida Sačić: Press and Clay
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Robert F. DiCaprio Art Gallery at Moraine Valley Community College
9000 College Pkwy, Palos Hills, IL 60465
Opening Monday, October 25th, from 11:45AM - 12:30PM
On view through Monday, October 25th
Evanston Art Center In Focus Lecture: City on Fire, Chicago 1871
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 24th, from 2PM - 3PM
Flowurz w/ Cldwaterr
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Hideout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, at 9:30PM
Abstraction & Social Critique
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 8PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, January 1st
A Woman Ahead of Her Time: Katherine Dunham and Afro-Caribbean Dance
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 11AM - 12PM
Rebecca Keller: Portable Memorials and Abject Objects
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Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 27th
Mundane History with Nightfall – THEATRICAL SCREENING
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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 Saturday, October 23rd, at 5PM
Nontraditional Materials
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Dragonfly Gallery
2436 W Madison St, c-1, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 21st
Jessica Stockholder: Specific Shapes
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 8PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, January 7th
Sutton Foster on How Crafting Saved her Life
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Columbia College Chicago Student Center
754 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Fall Workshop Series
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Storyline Studio
5820 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 10.30AM - 5PM
MULTIPLE + GOODS + FAIR: Comfort Edition 2021
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 10am - 3PM
Christa Donner: Dear Human
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West Ridge Nature Park
5801 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Markets for Makers Chicago
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Artifact Event
4325 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
Unbound Sound: Radical Futures
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 10PM
Molly Blumberg: Papermaking
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salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 1PM - 4PM
Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, Brooklynn Skye Scott & Anaiet and Angel Bat Dawid
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Podlasie Pleasure Club Vol. III
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Podlasie Club
2918 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 9PM - 2AM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
Nayeon Yang: 1448 W. Howard St.
@
Wedge Projects
1448 W Howard St, Chicago, IL. 60626
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
David E Dallison: Global Watercolors
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Laura LaRue: Encaustics
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
David Hinske: The Zen of Trees
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Anthony Mann: THUNDER BAY (1953)
@
Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, at 1PM
By the Time It Gets Dark – VIRTUAL SCREENINGS
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
On view through Thursday, October 28th
INSIGHTS IV: An Art Exhibition of Creativity and The Bipolar Brain
@
Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Sunday, October 24th
Alex Katz: The White Coat
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Gray Warehouse
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, October 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 17th
RAISIN Artist Talk: Işıl Eğrikavuk and Nahum
@
6018North
Online
Opening Friday, October 22nd, at 10AM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Afrofuturist Weekend
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, October 22nd, from 8PM - 11:25PM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
Jennifer Cronin: There is Still Magic Here
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 27th
Sharon Louden: Our Solo Show
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ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave,Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 27th
Side Yard Sounds: Aaron Shapiro with Pete Benson
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, October 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
Giovanna Pizzoferrato Ribeiro: Burning in Heaven
@
Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 22nd, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 21st
Crip* Colloquium
@
Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
On view through Friday, October 22nd
By the Time It Gets Dark with Lemongrass Girl – THEATRICAL SCREENING
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 21st, at 6PM
Virtual Converstion with Steve Geer
@
Perspective Gallery
online
Opening Thursday, October 21st, at 7PM
Art After Work: Judith Scott
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, October 21st, from 5PM - 6PM
2021 Pegasus Awards Ceremony (Virtual)
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, October 21st, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, October 21st
MacArturos/Platicas
@
Public Media Institute
Online
Opening Thursday, October 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Black Wall Street Journey: The Economics of Black Chicago
@
Smart Museum of Art
online
Opening Wednesday, October 20th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Edgar Heap of Birds
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 20th, at 6PM
Lecture in Photography: Andres Gonzalez
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 20th, at 6PM
TANDA: Reconceptualizing the Madonna and Child through Archival Praxis
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Chuquimarca at Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Wednesday, October 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
FUR REEL Film Fest: The Company of Wolves
@
Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, October 20th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Mex Files LIVE: The Pandemia Chronicles
@
Main Stage, UIC School of Theater and Music
1040 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, October 19th, from 8PM - 9PM
Family Resemblance Panel
@
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, October 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
CREATIVE OPEN GYM (C.O.G)
@
The Outtaspace
6840 32nd St, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Tuesday, October 19th, from 7PM - 11PM
Hito Steyerl
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 19th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Webinar: Teaching the Skyscraper to Soar
@
Wrightwood 659
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 19th, from 11:30 AM CST - 12:45 PM CST
Voices: Onyeka Igwe
@
Gallery 400
online
Opening Monday, October 18th, from 3PM - 4.30PM
Virtual Reading: DEAR MEMORY by Victoria Chang
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Monday, October 18th, at 7PM
Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement
@
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
9603 Woods Dr, Skokie, IL 60077
On view through Sunday, May 8th
Dan Oliver: Afire
@
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 17th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, November 10th
Dia De Muertos Workshop
@
Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 17th, from 11AM - 2PM
stephanie mei huang: the foul lump in my throat
@
4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, October 17th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 21st
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