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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
DANCE PAMOJA CHALLENGE
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Red Clay Dance Company
Online
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
33rd Prairie Arts Festival
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Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts
201 Schaumburg Ct, Schaumburg, IL 60193
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
Maryann Held: Offerings
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Sideshow Gallery
2219 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 16th
Una noche con Susana Zabaleta
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 28th, at 7:30PM
Junli Song: Body Rhythms
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Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
On view through Saturday, July 30th
Side Yard Sounds: Hearsay
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Way We See It: A Chicago Zine & Photo Show
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The Digs Chicago
333 N Oakley Blvd. #305 Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 5PM - 9PM
Kristin Ashley: Nature Spirits
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Marjorie Davidson: Quiet Times: Land & Seascapes
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
NEW WORKS from our 2021 Collective Artists
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Hot Mess!
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208 Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 4:20PM - 9:30PM
Together Again – Agitator Pop Up Exhibit and Backyard Barbecue
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Agitator Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Zoe Beaudry: DEEP TIME, GARBAGE MINUTES
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Art Battle Chicago
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SPIN Chicago
344 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 7PM - 11PM
Nadav Assor & Tirtza Even: Chronicle of a Fall
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 6th
Granite Palombo Amit: THE MOVEMENT FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE NARRATIVE – Exodus and the Divine Humor
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Phil Gayter: MASKERAID
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 3rd
Stevie Hanley: TEMPERANCE
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Twin
Online
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 12PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, June 27th
Rick Sindt: Skin Remembers
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Gallery Victor Armendariz
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Juan Arango Palacios: Amor de mis Amores
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Jude Gallery
629 West Cermak, Unit 240, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Tigray Art Collective: Wa’ela Exhibition
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
A Species of Theft
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 6th
Jonathan Muecke: Objects in Sculpture
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, October 10th
Norman Teague
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The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
On view through Thursday, July 14th
A is for Albano Artists
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Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, August 31st
Miniature Marvels: Natural History Through the Looking Glass
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 8:45PM - 9:45PM
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
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Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 6PM - 7 PM
Who Belongs? A Conversation about the Long History of American Identity
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, 60610
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 8
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, May 26th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
The Guild Complex presents Exhibit B
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The Chicago Mosaic School
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
In Conversation: Artists Devan Shimoyama and Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, and Curator Rikki Byrd
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
Released and Abandoned: Forgotten Oddities of the Home Video Era presents: STAR TIME (1992)
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 8PM - 10PM
Abolitionist Toolkits Release Event
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Chicago Freedom School
719 S State St UNIT 300, Chicago, IL 60605
Smart Reads: Feminism is for Everybody
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 6PM - 7PM
One Night Stand: Charles Williams
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 6:30PM - 7PM
To Render the Infinite: Visual Genealogies of Black Kinship
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
CPS Lives Annual Benefit
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Susy Bielak: Segundo Piso: closing and artist talk
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 26th
VentureCat at Northwestern
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White Auditorium in the Kellogg Global Hub
2211 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, at 6PM
Chicago Poetry Center’s All Schools Reading 2022
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The Chicago Poetry Center
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 6PM - 6:45PM
Early LATITUDE Slideshow with Jennifer Keats
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LATITUDE
Online
Opening Tuesday, May 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
Paul Giallorenzo’s “New Dimensions in Sense-uality”
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 8:30PM - 11:30PM
Break the Siege: Medical Aid for Gaza
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Nick Cave and Jack Cave: The Color Is
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, at 5PM
On view through Monday, May 23rd
Indira Freitas Johnson: A Gathering of Energies, Labor and Love
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Cultivator
202 E Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Brenda Moore: The Mules of Bray Grove Farm and Other Working Equines
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Cultivator
202 E Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
BIMBOFICATION SENSATION: Closing reception
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Povos Chicago
2000 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL 60647
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 12PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
Zarouhie Abdalian: Interregna
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Haynes
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, June 30th
AfriClassical Futures Series: Elizabeth A. Baker
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 8PM - 11PM
Hyde Park Art & Centered: A Wellness Day
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 11AM - 4PM
BOUNDARYMIND: Community Recording Session
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 2PM - 5PM
Side Yard Sounds: Flux Bikes + Norman Long & Sara Zalek
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
INTIMATE SPACES
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Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Premiere of Breaking the Barrier Short Film & Networking Event
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
Zarouhie Abdalian: Interregna
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Haynes Court
1160 W 31st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, June 30th
Summer Session 1
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Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Bengali Spiritual Songs by Ochin Pakhi
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South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 7:30PM - 9PM
In-between at rest
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Produce Model
1918 S Canalport Ave. Chicago IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, June 1st
Nicole Leung: Untitled (Nicole Leung is too American to be Chinese and too Chinese to be American)
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Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
Ukraine Crisis: The World is On the Move
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Addison Center for the Arts
213 N Lombard Rd, Addison, IL 60101
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Megan Finch: Going-To-The-Sun Sounds: Performance
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Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 4 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, June 4th
Chicago Japan Film Collective: Japanese Style
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The Logan Theater
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 21st, at 7PM
LYNX Project: beautiful small things
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Wanting It Both Ways: Artist Talk
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, June 4th
Sergio Gomez: Transfiguration
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Oh Art Foundation, Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 20th
Domestic Evil III
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Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, June 17th
Suzanne Rose
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
René Romero Schuler: Reflection
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
One Lawndale
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Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Douglas Blvd. & Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 5th
Eseosa Edebiri: Simulated Rainbow & Kimberly Montiel: Veins Darken With Nectar
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Panel Discussion, Sandra Binion: the beauty of something ripped
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Alliance Française de Chicago
810 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 3PM - 5PM
Cecil McDonald, Jr.: The Making Mask
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 20th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
Cecil McDonald, Jr.: The Making Mask
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Paintbrush Ball 2022
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Revel Motor Row
2400 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 6PM - Midnight
On view through Friday, May 20th
Fantasía Ariel: Plucked
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Ani Afshar: Veiled
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Guild Room at Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 9th
Annette Baksinskas: Meditations on Shape
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 11th
This Way Home
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Terrain Vague: The Promised Land
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Yaismel Alba Garib: smooth and painful
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Fracas Art Gallery
Mana Contemporary Building, 2233 S Throop St. Studio 601 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
In Living Color
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University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
On view through Wednesday, August 10th
Nancy Wong: Noble
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, May 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, June 1st
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, May 19th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Architectural History as Migrant History
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The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 18th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Artist Talk with John Neff Featuring Eileen Mueller and Walker Blackwell
@
LATITUDE
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
Excess | Twilight
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Wednesday, May 18th, at 7PM
Afro-Punk Creator James Spooner in Conversation with Live Musical Performances
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EMPTY BOTTLE
1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, May 18th, from 8PM - 11PM
Farah Salem
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Tuesday, May 17th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 26th
Beate Axmann: Sichtverrückt.Lost and Found: Live Performances
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DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
4740 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Tuesday, May 17th, at 5PM
On view through Friday, May 20th
Toasting the Revolution
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, 60610
Opening Tuesday, May 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
OPC Talk: Aki Sasamoto
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Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 16th, at 6PM
A WONDERFul Sunday Service
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
Beyond the Surface
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Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
21850 N Riverwoods Rd. Riverwoods, IL 60015
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
Neighborhood Memorial for Victims of Police Violence
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PO Box Collective
6900 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 11AM - 1PM
Teaching Black History to White People: American Writers Museum Event with Leonard Moore & Laura McEnaney
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, 60602
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 10:30am - 11:15am
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, 60602
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 11:30am - 12:15PM
Kintsugi Memory Workshop
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 10:15AM - 12:15PM
Joseph Noderer: The Old Same Place
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Catherine Schwalbe: Flock
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Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
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