April 2023
Artist Safi Alia Shabaik: PERSONALITY CRASH: Closing Reception
@ 1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Sunday, April 30th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 30th
National Geographic Live – Coral Kingdom and Empires of Ice
@ Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, April 30th, at 2PM
ART HISTORIES SERIES – FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY EXPANDED: KINSHIP, COMMUNITIES, BELONGING
@ Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 30th, from 3PM - 5PM
RE•VER•BER•ATE Multi-Disciplinary CPS Arts Festival
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 30th, from 2:30PM - 3PM
Artmakers North: The Artist’s Voice Exhibition Tour
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, April 30th, from 2PM - 4PM
Forms & Features with Hua Xi
@ The Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 11AM - 1PM
Rabbit Foot Puppetry Presents: THE CLOWN CAR ROLLS ON!
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 8PM - 9PM
Enso: A Multimedia Ikebana Exhibit and Performance
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 29th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 30th
Laurie Hassold: Fragments Shored Against the Ruins
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago Il 60603
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Regin Igloria: Bookbinding Workshop
@ Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Encanto Oaxaqueño con Geo Meneses: acompañada por Celso Duarte y arte de Karla Wong
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 29th, at 7PM
Freedom in Vulnerability
@ 436 E 47th St Chicago, IL 60653
436 E 47th St Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 27th
Art Talks! With Block Student Associates – On Heartbeats
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Gift Economy: Artist Talk and Group Shake
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 12PM - 2:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Shona Macdonald: Weather Accents: Closing Reception
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago IL 60643
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Resource Fair
@ Marwen
833 N Orleans St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 12PM - 2PM
Community Screening: Nuestra Herencia Legacy Film Project
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
Leslie Baum: for IRIS and other flowers: closing reception
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL60302
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 2PM - 5PM
Ravenswood Makers Market
@ KOVAL Distillery
4241 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 1PM - 6PM
Amanda Williams: Redefining Redlining: BLOOMING in BRONZEVILLE CELEBRATION
@ tulip bloom at the site (Prairie Avenue and 53rd Street)
S Prairie Ave & E 53rd St Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 11AM - 3PM
Indie Bookstore Day 2023
@ Volumes Bookcafe
1373 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 10AM - 6PM
@EYEZ COLLABORATE ART SHOW – CHICAGO
@ Happen Space Gallery
3115 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 7PM - 10PM
Chicago Fine Art Salon Closing Reception: Figures
@ Chicago Fine Art Salon
2623 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 3PM - 6PM
Jeff Gillette: Art History Shacks
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago Il 60603
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Grzegorz Litynski: Polish Kaleidoscope Chicago
@ Dwell Studio Chicago
7449 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
Anya Kielar: Madam
@ DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
Cujo Dah x Dredske: Synthesis
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
R. Treshawn Williamson: Mirror Flower, Water Moon
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 8th
In the Realm of Senses presents: Beethoven & the Killer B’s
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 8PM - 10PM
SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (2006) in 35mm with filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 28th, at 6:30PM
Amanda Nadig: PROCLAIM YOUR JOY
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Street art pop-up gallery in Fulton Market
@ Carousel Fine Art
1052 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, April 20th
ONEderful: zachmorp, Quinn Tsan, Nolan Chin
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 28th, at 8:30PM
Raveling
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 8th
John-Michael Korpal: What is a Tree?
@ Warren Park
2045 W Pratt Blvd, Chicago, IL 60645
Opening Friday, April 28th, at 7PM
Haynes Riley: An Attitude that cares
@ David Salkin Creative
1709 W Chicago Ave, 2A, Chicago, Il 60622
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
Beethoven and the Killer B’s
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 28th, at 8PM
Disrupting Art History: Critical Indigenous Perspectives in Colonial California and Mexico —A Race in Dialogue Conversation
@ Newberry Library
Online
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 12PM - 1PM
Solitary Vices: Solo Bassoon Performance by Ben Roidl-Ward
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
Julia Arredondo & Chad Kouri: Temple Of
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
Portrait of my Grandfather & Me Importas Tú: Closing Reception
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Marshall Brown: Remastériser
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
OUR CHOICE
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Max Capus and Matt Mancini
@ Paris London Hong Kong
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, June 27th
DCASE Presents: Performance Art Residency with Suspended Culture
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, July 8th
Bryn Gleason: PASSING
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
IMPERFECT VICTIMS by Leigh Goodmark
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, April 27th, at 7PM
TRON Light Cycle Animator Bill Kroyer Talk
@ Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Will Rawls: [siccer]
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 27th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 30th
IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES: PANG! [The Bridge #2.5 ]
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, April 27th, at 8:30PM
Select Works from the CPS Class of 2023
@ TheMART
222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Tuesday, May 14th
Staff & Friends Reading: Adrian Matejka, Maggie Queeney, Charif Shanahan & Patricia Smith
@ The Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 7PM - 8PM
The Other Art Fair Chicago
@ artifact events
4325 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 30th
Mind Mirage, Lula Asplund, nunn, Courtesy
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 7:30PM - 11:30PM
Intro to Medicaid & Public Benefits
@ Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Online
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: Riotous Zines Edition, April 25th! Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, Updated Edition, Instagram Live Online Event with Anne Elizabeth Moore, May 17th » Quimby’s Offsite: Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983, Chicago Book Party at GMan Tavern
@ GMan Tavern
3740 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, April 27th, at 7PM
Puddin’head Press Celebration
@ The Atlantic Bar & Grill
5062 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
SLVRRM OPEN MIC NIGHT
@ The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Staff & Friends Reading: Adrian Matejka, Maggie Queeney, Charif Shanahan & Patricia Smith
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 27th, at 7PM
Writing About Empire —Literature, History, and the American Past
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
Comfort Music+ : Homeroom presents The Bridge: Pascal Niggenkemper/Seb El Zin
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 27th, at 7:30PM
How the Word is Passed: Online Collection Talk
@ Block Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
The Taxonomy of Peggy Macnamara: Closing Reception
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: MEMORIA
@ Conversations at the Edge at Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 27th, at 6PM
Alicia Olushola Ajayi and Kelley Lemon in conversation with Katherine Simóne Reynolds
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL60610
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
Mind Mirage, Lula Asplund, nunn, Courtesy
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 7:30PM - 11:30PM
Smart Reads: Home Is Not a Country
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, at 6PM
bb cinema: Sisters with Transistors
@ StretchMetal
2497 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647,
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, at 7:30PM
CPS Lives 5th Anniversary Celebration!
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Dark Matter Residency w/ JUSTY + olula ‘FORWARD’
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, at 8PM
Comfort Film Presents: THE HART OF LONDON (1970)
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, from 8PM - 10PM
Transvengence | Maurice Tracy + Open Mic
@ My Buddy’s (Upstairs)
4416 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
Women Trailblazers -Creating Success Through Copyright
@ Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, at 1PM
Tony Tasset Book Signing
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Fat Pigeon / ~Nois / Carol Genetti + Sam Scranton
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: Riotous Zines Edition
@ Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, at 7:30PM
Secrets of a Puzzle Master: A Conversation with Will Shortz
@ Forest Park Public Library
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
The Red Book of Farewells: Mia Spangenberg in conversation with Trisha Low
@ Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
Blessings of Cinema: Short Films with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, at 6PM
Black Coffee + Raw Sugar
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Anagram Series: Lamar Gay/El Zin/Pluta & Sophie Agnel Trio
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, April 24th, at 8PM
Tanda: LL Proyectos. Auto-Constructed Pathways in the Central American Art Scene
@ Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Atena O. Danner and Kira Tucker celebrate INCANTATIONS FOR REST
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 7PM - 8PM
Under The Umbrella
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza, HSB 201, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Thursday, May 11th
Mellon Fellows Public Program with Ben LaMar Gay
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 3PM - 4PM
Iris Bernblum: Various Pleasures
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
Hypnagogue, Erica Miller, Dathon, Alexander Adams
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, at 7PM
In Focus Lecture: Debora Wood, Echoes: Contemporary Trends in Printmaking
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 3PM - 4PM
Los Huecos del Agua, Recent Indigenous Art from Mexico: Public Tour
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, at 12PM
Benjamin Campbell: Sketchbook as an Artist Tool
@ Dispatch Gallery
Online
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 2PM - 3PM
Library Experimental w/Amanda Kraus & Helena Ford
@ Jefferson Park Library
5363 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 2PM - 4PM
EXCHANGE with Jahmal Cole
@ The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 2PM - 4PM
Lovesick on the Floor
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
Patrick Carroll: Dungeness
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
The Regulars: AnySquared Performance Night
@ AnySquared
2328 N, Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, at 6PM
