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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Julian Adon Alexander: Spine.
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
Shannon Bruce Elliott: Footwear Design from an Outdoor Industry Perspective
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Krannert Art Museum
Online
Opening Friday, March 31st, at 5PM
Alexander Gonzalez: Process
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The International Museum of Surgical Sciences
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, March 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 14th
ONION CITY: LATE NIGHT AT COMFORT STATION (FOR THE NIGHT OWLS)
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 31st, at 10PM
Me Importas Tú
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Los huecos del agua: Recent Indigenous Art from Mexico
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 31st, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, August 27th
Yollocalli Class of 2022
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 31st, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, August 27th
Giving Shape: Yollocalli Artistic Practice Through the Years
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 31st, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, September 3rd
Blood, Sweat, & Tears
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Grace Jane
3203 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 31st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Queer in Color: PUCE MOMENT (1949) and DESERT FURY (1947)
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, March 31st, at 7PM
COMING INTO VIEW: NIU MFA Exhibition
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, April 22nd
Natural Ink Workshop with Mara Baker
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LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 31st, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Melanated in America
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The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, March 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 2nd
Forms & Features with grace (ge) gilbert
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The Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, March 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
TRUTH AND REPAIR by Judith Herman
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Women & Children First Bookstore
online
Opening Thursday, March 30th, at 7PM
Poetry & Grief: Raquel Salas Rivera & Angel Dominguez
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The Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, March 30th, from 7PM - 8PM
Deborah Stratman: LAST THINGS
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, March 30th, at 6PM
Soundpost — Remixing Transit: Found Sounds with Rachel Steele
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
220. S Michigan Ave. Chicago Il, 60604
Opening Thursday, March 30th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Curatorial Conversation: theNate Director and Curator Jeff Stevenson and artist Bernard Williams
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, March 30th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Gallery Talk: “The Living Image of Sound”
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, March 30th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Improvised Music Series: Maunu/Kessler/Kirshner, Wark/Harris Duo
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, March 30th, at 8:30PM
2023 Artists-In-Residence Welcome Reception & Artist Talk
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 30th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
El Track Lapse
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Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, March 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
The Don Powell Distinguished Architect Series: Anupama Kundoo
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, March 30th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
Night School
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Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, March 30th, from 8PM - 10:30PM
Smart Reads: Prisoners of Geography
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, March 29th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Reception for Seed Lynn, Harry Detry, and the ACSA
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, March 29th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Aria Dean in Conversation with Michael Connor and Filip Kostic
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Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, March 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
An Evening w/ The Artist: Tuan Jones
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Tabu
401 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, March 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
Immanuel Wilkins in conversation with Camille Bacon
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Tuesday, March 28th, from 5PM - 6PM
2023 UIC MFA Thesis Show 1: a series of encounters
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Tanda: Between the Black Body and Water; Finding Rest in Turbulent Times
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Monday, March 27th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Anagram Series: Bob Dogan Tribute Quintet
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, March 27th, at 8PM
Mellon Fellows Public Program with Dr. Honey Crawford
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, March 26th, from 3PM - 4PM
Laura Kina: Over the Rainbow, One More Time
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, March 26th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Regin Igloria: One Ends Another Begins
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Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, March 26th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Memorial for Victims of Police Violence
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, March 26th, from 11AM - 1PM
Sarah Whyte: What Color Am I?
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Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, March 26th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 7th
2023 Co-Mission Fellows: Works-in-Progress: Erin Kilmurray and Rika Lin
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, March 26th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Latinx Voces: Creaciones
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Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
On view through Wednesday, May 24th
Side Yard Sounds
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, March 25th, at 7PM
Into the World of Erika L. Sanchez
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 25th, at 7PM
Katherine Simóne Reynolds: A different kind of tender and the practice of overhealing
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
On view through Saturday, June 10th
Catherine Reinhart: The Collective Mending Sessions
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Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 1PM - 4PM
A House Called Tomorrow: Copper Canyon at 50
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The Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 2PM - 3PM
WOMAN 2 WOMAN
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BOJITT STUDIO GALLERY
3044 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 30th
Gonzalo Guzman: Portrait of My Grandfather
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Verdant — A Survey of Five Nature Artists
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North Shore Art League
620 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka, IL 60093
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Monday, April 24th
It’s Not All Black & White
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
Collective Artists Group Show
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
Artist Led Workshop: A look inside—A day in the life with Type 1 Diabetes
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lakeshore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Monday, September 4th
Make You Make Me
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Free Range
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
Soft Noise Skillshare | Series #2: VCR Rack | Mallory Yanhan Qiu
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Yvonne Zipter Poetry Reading & Open Archives Tour
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Gerber Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 25th, at 2PM
Armando Román: Crawling Through Glass: Closing Reception
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, March 26th
Dara Schuman: CityScape: Closing Reception
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T. Mari Art Gallery
1227 W Devon Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 25th
Claire Moore: Two Step
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Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 14th
Tiny Art Show
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The Literary
122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project: Sans Pareil
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 26th
NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS
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Artist Replete
835 N Michigan Ave, Floor 2, Chicago, IL, United States, 60611
Opening Saturday, March 25th, from 1PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 9th
RAWL
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 24th, at 8PM
Ducks in a Pond: 2023 BA Thesis Exhibition
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
Letting the Clock Play the Piano
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Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, May 22nd
Zine Club Chicago: No Sleep ’Til Stapling Zinemaking Hangout!
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Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 7PM - 11PM
Michael Lee Zirulnik, Ph.D.: Strips & Needles—A Day in the Life
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lakeshore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, September 4th
Iwona Duniec: On It’s Way to Dharma
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Dwell Studio Chicago
7449 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 6:30PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Carisa Mitchell: Oh, the terms of ambiguity
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Parlour and Ramp Gallery
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, April 20th
Loyola University Chicago’s Black Europe Symposium: Closing Event
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 24th
This Used to Be My Playground
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SITE/less
1250 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 24th, at 7PM
You Will Die Too
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Public Works
2141 W North Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Rhonda Gray: Sapphire Queens in Wonderland
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Chicago Center for Arts & Technology
1701 W 13th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Artists and Creatives Networking Event
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The Cotton Seed Creative
64 S River St, Aurora, IL 60505
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
We Don’t See Our Shadows
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The Plan
600 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 2nd
Hand Drawn Circle: Arts of Life studio past and present
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 21st
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Sunday, August 6th
Copper Canyon 50th Anniversary Reading: Chris Abani, Tishani Doshi, Alison C. Rollins, Arthur Sze & Javier Zamora
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The Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, from 7PM - 8PM
The Taxonomy of Peggy Macnamara: Behind the Scenes Tour at the Field Museum
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Field Museum
1400 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
William Camargo: Photography, Process, and the Movement to Decolonize Photography
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Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, at 5:30PM
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, from 11AM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, August 6th
SLVRRM OPEN MIC NIGHT – Every 4th Thursday
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The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Kim Piotrowski: Joy Experiment
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McCormick Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Louis Sullivan’s Architecture and Chicago’s Labor Movement
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Community Talk with Janine Mileaf
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Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, from 12PM - 1PM
Rear View Mirror Sessions: Chaka Khan – A Rewind
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
Monika Fabijanska: Women at War: Ukrainian Feminist Art Today
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Columbia College Chicago | Art and Art History Department
1104 S Wabash Ave, Room 813, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
No Peaceful Burying Place: A History of Body Snatching and Anatomy
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Pop-Up Books through the Ages
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
On view through Saturday, July 15th
Haas Brothers
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, March 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Activist U
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Calling on the Past: Selections from the Collection
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, February 4th
Johnson Publishing Library Reading with Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas O’Neal
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, March 19th, from 3PM - 4PM
pt.fwd presents Jeremy Young
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McLean County Museum of History
200 N Main St, Bloomington, IL 61701
Opening Sunday, March 19th, from 4PM - 5PM
Meet the Artists of Juxtaposed – Darren Oberto and Jesus Monsivais
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, March 19th, from 1PM - 4PM
Sunday Service
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, March 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
Ukraine. Fundraiser Film Screening and Art Show
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Parlour and Ramp Gallery
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, March 19th, from 4:30PM - 9PM
They have to seek it out
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Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, March 19th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 19th
Leah Ke Yi Zheng: Leah Ke Yi Zheng
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4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, March 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
Memorial for Victims of Police Violence
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, March 19th, from 11AM - 1PM
In Focus Lecture: Joyce Marter, The Financial Mindset Fix for Artists
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St. Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, March 19th, from 2:30PM - 4:30PM
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