March 2022
What To Send Up When It Goes Down
@ GRAY Chicago
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, April 16th
To Turn The World Around: For Audre Lorde and Pat Parker
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, March 31st, from 7PM - 8PM
Night’s End (2022) with filmmaker Jennifer Reeder
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, March 31st, at 7PM
The Start of a New Era: The Next 100 Years of Biomedical Visualization
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, 60610
Opening Thursday, March 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 8th
Unsettled Ground: Art and Environment from the Smart Museum Collection
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 31st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 26th
An Evening with Dani and Sheilah ReStack
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, March 31st, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Barak adé Soleil
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, March 31st, from 12PM - 1:15PM
Tanda: Facing Climate Change and Mass Migration Through Visual Art
@ Chuquimarca
Online/Virtual
Opening Wednesday, March 30th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
CRIP PAINT POWER: REPRESENTATION AS A FEMINIST ACT
@ Gallery 400
400 S. Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, March 29th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 12th
Les Tourlicoulis at Povos Chicago: Closing Reception
@ Povos Chicago
2000 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, March 27th, from 12PM - 6:30PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
DANCE PAMOJA CHALLENGE
@ Red Clay Dance Company
Online
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
A Tale of Today: Theodora Allen Saturnine
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 7th
Firelei Báez
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
On view through Saturday, April 9th
Jinn Bronwen Lee: Deviò
@ Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, May 7th
Theodora Allen Saturnine: A Tale of Today
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Juan Fernandez: Line, Shape, Form, Repeat
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 7th
Making Out in Tall Grass
@ Special Feature
2860 W Warren Blvd, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 6PM - Late
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
bellwether
@ Space 900 Gallery
816 Dempster St, Evanston IL 60202
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 26th
Kathleen Gallo: Faces & Figures
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Janette Hill: Abstract Watercolor Paintings
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 15th
Darlene Bock: Pastel Paintings
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 15th
Lashon Fouché: Reflections of Re-Emergence: Closing Reception
@ THE cre.æ.tive ROOM
7034 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 26th
Digs After Dark presented by CallMeIsrael
@ The Digs Chicago
333 N Oakley Blvd, #305, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 8PM - 11PM
Mary King: Curious Home and Soap Is A Noun
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, March 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Heather McAdams: Are We Having Fun Yet
@ Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Susanne Doremus
@ Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 W. Huron, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 25th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Virtual Event: The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Friday, March 25th, at 12:30PM
Conversation with Composer Terence Blanchard
@ First United Methodist Church of Chicago
77 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, March 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
Navigating Visas in Creative Fields
@ Latitude Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, March 25th, from 6PM - 7PM
Homegrown: Immersive Concert Experience
@ Awakenings Gallery
4001 N Ravenswood Ave, Suite 204-C, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, March 25th, at 6PM
Mike Amezcua: Making Mexican Chicago
@ 57th Street Books
Online
Opening Thursday, March 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
Lydia Diemer: Transparencies Also Cast Shadows
@ NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery
5500 N St. Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, March 24th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, March 25th
Live Body Paiting with Dawneeah’s Glow LLC
@ Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, March 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
Suburban Nostalgia
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, March 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, March 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
Morbid March: Curiosities After Hours Tour
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, March 24th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
Pop Stars!
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, March 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Exploring Death, Grief and Trauma Reading Group
@ LATITUDE
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 22nd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Tuesday, May 31st
Ayanah Moor: I Wish I Could Be You More Often: Artist Talk
@ Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Tuesday, March 22nd, at 11AM
Archiving 101 with Skyla Hearn of The Blackivists
@ Sixty Inches From Center
Online
Opening Sunday, March 20th, from 2PM - 3PM
Paste Papers Workshop
@ Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
1016 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 3:30PM - 6:30PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@ Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
online
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 11AM - 11:30AM
Rose Blouin: To Washington Park, With Love – Exhibition Artist Talk + Closing Reception
@ Washington Park Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Meet the Artist: Weiyang Gao
@ Mu Gallery Chicago
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, April 1st
PFFR Legacy XXX
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, April 22nd
Laura Lynn Hsieh: Mahjong and Dumplings
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 29th
Panel Discussion: Sustainable Architecture
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Meet the Artist: Weiyang Gao
@ Mu Gallery Chicago
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, April 1st
Authoring Allure + In Transition: Closing Reception
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Drawing Tending Tying: An Art and Rope Experiment
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave. Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 3:30PM - 7PM
Sound Healing with Jason and Cassandra
@ International College of Surgeons
1516 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Austin Osman Spare: Psychopathia Sexualis
@ Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 19th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
Human/Nature: Reception
@ Weinberg Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Lauralynn White: Naked: Closing Reception
@ Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Colin Fleck: Directions to Another Day
@ Fracas Gallery
2233 S Throop St. Studio 601 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, April 19th
This Too Shall Pass
@ Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
On view through Thursday, April 14th
C.J. Pyle: Skin Tight
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Emily Shopp Collection Release and Exhibition: Third Friday’s
@ salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, March 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 15th
Space to Say
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Second Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 18th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, May 1st
Spring Art Show at SSHC
@ South Side Hackerspace: Chicago
1048 W 37th St #105, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, March 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 1st
pressed like a breath collapsing into a sigh
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Second Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 18th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, May 1st
COMING TO THE TABLE: In Conversation with Archivist Skyla Hearn
@ South Side Community Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, March 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Stephanie Graham: Love You Bro
@ Riverside Arts Center Town Hall Gallery
27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Thursday, March 17th, from 9AM - 4PM
On view through Thursday, June 30th
Witnessing Allure: a night of burlesque
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, March 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
sonja thomsen: by her own movement
@ 062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Virtual Conversation: Rachel Krantz (OPEN) & Jessica Fern (POLYSECURE)
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, March 15th, at 7PM
A conversation with Agave! co-curator Kiff Slemmons
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, March 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 9th
Laura Davis: Before/After: Artist Walk-through
@ Hans Gallery
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, March 13th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, March 27th
Figures, Grounds
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, April 23rd
You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on
@ Devening Projects
3039 West Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, April 23rd
Lilli Carré
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, April 23rd
Sean Sullivan: In the shade of the tree
@ Devening Projects
3039 West Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, April 23rd
Illinois High School Art Annual Exhibitions
@ The Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
On view through Thursday, April 28th
Shannon Favia: Uppercut!
@ Material
2025 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, March 13th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, April 3rd
Closing Reception: ON DRAWING DRAWING ON
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, March 13th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 13th
Laura Catherwood: Book of Yielding
@ Vertical Project Space
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 12th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Judith Roston Freilich and Lilach Schrag: Naturally: Artist Talk
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 12th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, April 3rd
Gallery Talk: Cruz and His Contemporaries
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, March 12th, at 2PM
ARNOLD J. KEMP: TALKING TO THE SUN
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
On view through Saturday, April 23rd
Josh Grotto: Heroes & Villains: Closing Reception
@ Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
Discussing Allure: a panel on sex work, burlesque & bodily autonomy
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Linen, Silk, and Pearls
@ LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 24th
SOUTH LOOP SPARK PLUG
@ The Dance Center Columbia College
1306 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60605
Opening Friday, March 11th, at 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 12th
CLEAT Series: Dorothy Carlos + Shawn Decker
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 11th, at 8:30PM
Typeforce 12
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 11th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 26th
Kryssi Staikidis: Emergence
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 26th
STAFF PICKS
@ Chicago Printers Guild
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, March 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 14th
Azadeh Gholizadeh & Elnaz Javani: Phonetic Fragments
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 9th
GLOW UP
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2nd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, March 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
Daija Guy: In Transition
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60633
Opening Friday, March 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Side Yard Sounds presents: Mad Myth
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, March 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
56/Milwaukee
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 11th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 16th
Gallery Talk: Bob Thompson and His Contemporaries
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, March 11th, from 4PM - 5PM
In Conversation: Tomokazu Matsuyama in Conversation with Yi Cao and Maritza Lacayo
@ Kavi Gupta
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
