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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Exhibit B presents Charif Shanahan, Helene Achanzar, Juan Martinez, and S. Yarberry
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Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, February 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Max Guy: Running from one time
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Good Weather
1524 S Western Ave, Suite 121, Building A, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, February 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Celebrating the Visiting Teaching Artists of Forms & Features
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Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, February 29th, from 6PM - 7PM
Conversations at the Edge: AN EVENING WITH BALOJI
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, February 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Andrew Ek: The Emergency and other paintings
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Art City Chicago
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, February 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
Tracy Fuad – “Portal”
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, February 29th, from 5PM - 6PM
LUNCH & LEARN/DESIGNING BELONGING – Tapping into our common humanity for good design
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Red Line Service
2233 S Throop St, 5th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, February 29th, from 12PM - 2PM
Viola Yip: Liminal Lines, Beisel/Harris, Peisert/Billington
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, February 28th, at 8PM
Werner Herzog: My Best Fiend (1999)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 28th, at 7PM
Light of Truth: Richard Hunt’s Monument to Ida B. Wells
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, February 28th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Kamal Aljafari: AN UNUSUAL SUMMER (2020)
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, February 28th, at 7PM
Web3 Onboarding Workshop
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Art/Work Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
Culture of Care with Leah Gipson: Facials and Biscuits | Pt.2
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Threewalls
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
Tour | entre horizontes
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave Chicago IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, February 28th, from 2PM - 2:30PM
4 x 4: Four Makers
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Space 900
816 Dempster St, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Wednesday, February 28th, from 2PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 2nd
Ex-Votos Virtual Tour
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Gallery 400
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 28th, from 1 - 2:30
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Patrick Chamberlain: A Painterly Gifting: days of distribution
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, March 2nd
Executive Order (2020) // Soul in the Eye (1973)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, February 27th, at 7PM
Tracy Fuad, Daniel Borzutzky, and Jose-Luis Moctezuma
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Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, February 27th, from 7PM - 8PM
Signals and Pixels Art & Tech Meetup
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Tuesday, February 27th, at 7PM
Anna Elena Torres – “Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish” – Karen Underhill
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Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, February 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
Unearth Artist Talk
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Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Tuesday, February 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
RECKONING by V
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 27th, at 7PM
FRUTAS
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Parque Cultural de Berger
6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, February 26th, at 6:30PM
Post-Baccalaureate Annual Exhibition
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SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Wednesday, March 6th
Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
On view through Saturday, April 6th
Chicago’s Black Panthers
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Albany Park Organization Center
3625 W Lawrence Ave Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Sunday, February 25th, at 7PM
Spiral Body: Who Knows: Sound Performance/Installation
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Sunday, February 25th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
No Shelter: Migrant Detention, The State, and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex Film Screening + Discussion
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Inga
1740 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, February 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
No One Is Going To Mythologize My Life: Films by Chicago-based Artists
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Sunday, February 25th, from 3PM - 6:30PM
Art in Action: How Artists Helped Illinois End Money Bond
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Dragonfly Gallery & Creative Spaces
2436 W Madison, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, February 25th, from 2PM - 4PM
NINA IRWIN: THANK YOU NOTES
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston IL 60201
Opening Sunday, February 25th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 31st
BARBARA CURTIS: SWIMMERS
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, February 25th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 31st
Chicago Creative Machines: Hugo Flores Garcia
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, February 25th, from 2PM - 4PM
Mix n’ Muse
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Barrel Cheese and Wine
2831 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 9PM - 2AM
Leilah Weinraub: SHAKEDOWN (2019)
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, February 24th, at 8:45PM
Norman W. Long, Steve Fors, post doom romance, Kwaidan
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 24th, at 8PM
Winter Sounds
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
Reading the Room
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Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
Film concert: Tigre Reale
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, February 24th, at 7PM
Rotten Fruit / Virtual Artist Talk with Giselle Mira-Diaz & Jose Luis Benavides
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C33 Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 1PM - 2PM\
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
An evening of Performance Art/e Acción
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No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 24th, at 6:69PM
BLVCK X
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NYCH Gallery
2025 S Laflin St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 6PM - 10PM
Black Lives Matter
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Dragonfly Gallery & Creative Spaces
2436 W Madison, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Healing House – Rhythm Factory Music
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 5PM - 10PM
Pottery of Protest 7
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Lincoln Square Pottery Studio
4150 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 5PM - 9PM
Transitions/Transgender and Nonbinary Artist talk and Exhibition/Visual Artist Talk
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Dispatch Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 5 PM - 6:30 PM
On view through Sunday, March 31st
Matt Magee: Cutouts and Cut-offs: Closing Reception
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THE MISSION PROJECTS | THE RESIDENCE
email info@themissionprojects.com for an appointment
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, February 24th
Shifting from Self-Doubt to Self-Acceptance & Thriving in your Potential: A Healing & Growth Journey Using the Tarot, Manifesting, Journaling, & Positive Affirmations
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Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, #845 Chicago IL, 60608
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, February 24th
Artist Talk with Morgan and Alberto Aguilar
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ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Toyoharu Kii: Geophytes
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Pagoda Red
1740 W Webster Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 30th
Rituals and Rites of Renewal: A Workshop Series
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 12PM - 3PM
Reimagining and Remembering Series: Say Her Re-Naming / Douglass Park
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 12PM - 2:30PM
Mend and Remake: Fashion Upcycle Event
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Peoria Art Guild
203 Harrison St, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 9AM - 5PM
In Progress | Micah Schippa: Negative Ecstasies
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 10AM - 5PM
Threaded Visions: Contemporary Weavings from the Collection
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, August 26th
Perceptions of Flow: “Formation”
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Atrium Project: Do Ho Suh
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, February 2nd
Cloud Mediator, Johnson Rockstar, Matt Abajian & Casey Boyer, Mair
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 23rd, at 8:30PM
Ellen Arkbro Concert (Frequency Festival)
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The Renaissance Society
Bond Chapel: 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 23rd, at 8PM
Elastro Series: Shannon Hayden, Kezia Dorsey Swann/ Invisible God-sip, Hymns for Inanna
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, February 23rd, at 8PM
Figures and faces
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Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 8th
Jeanine Durning presents: The Invitation Situation
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, February 24th
ESSENCE of MARK-MAKING
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Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 8th
Witnessing Towards Resistance: Poetry Workshop
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Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Everything We Love Comes From Black People
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HAZ Cooperative Studios
1706 S Halsted St Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Sound Market
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 23rd, at 6:30PM
Zachary Cahill: Unicorn Death Moon Day Planner
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Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Mariel Harari: Settling Through the Palm
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NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 15th
George Zaremba: LEONARDO’S WALL
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 307, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 10PM
Alumni Showcase: Closing Reception
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 23rd
Anders Herwald Ruhwald: In the Woods
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Volume Gallery
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
Olya Salimov: The cyborgs undone, the ghosts came to light, the ancestors control the future: Closing Reception
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 23rd
Sara Greenberger Rafferty: An Audience
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DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
Juliet Jacobson: Named Rose
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
Elijah Burgher: Our Lady of the Latrines
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
GOODUNANIMOUSBAD BADUNANIMOUSGOOD
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, February 29th
Ish Lipman: Wind, Sand and Stars
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ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
LIQUOR STORE DREAMS (2022) with filmmaker So Yun Um
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 23rd, at 7PM
Maggie Bridger: Radiate
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Steppenwolf Theatre
1650 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, at 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 24th
Spilling Over: Music Inspired by the Art of Bob Thompson
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, at 8PM
teleVISION
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Cafe Mustache
2313 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Queer Portraiture Critique Group at LATITUDE CHICAGO
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LATITUDE CHICAGO
2003 W Fulton St. Suite 211, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, from 6:30PM - 8:30 PM
Lecture: Picasso’s “Year of Wonders”
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Fluid Figures: Painting with Oil and Water Distortion
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Fourtunehouse Art Center
4410 S Cottage Grove Ave Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
VOICES: June Carpenter
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Kate Folk: Out There
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, from 5PM - 6PM
WBEZ Presents: An Evening with Billy Dee Williams
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Francis W. Parker School
330 W Webster Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
In Their Own Words: Chicago Gun Violence Survivors Speak on Storytelling
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Impact House
200 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Dark Matter Residency: Sharon Udoh – ‘Songs for Someone Loyal’
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, February 21st, at 8PM
Queer Ecology In Portuguese Cinema: FLORES (2017) & WILL-O’-THE-WISP (2022)
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, February 21st, at 7PM
Werner Herzog: Grizzly Man (2005)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 21st, at 7PM
BA OPEN STUDIO NIGHT
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
Jean Alexander Frater: Color Form
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McHenry County College | Galleries One & Two
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
Opening Wednesday, February 21st, from 3:30PM - 5:30PM
On view through Friday, February 23rd
Research Bites with Adrienne Brown
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Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 21st, at 12PM
Zine Club Chicago: Crowdfunding Your Zines Edition
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Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 20th, at 7:30PM
Curating ‘Frida Kahlo: Her Photos’ Talk with Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
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Colossal
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 20th, from 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Eduardo Coutinho: Twenty Years Later (1984)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, February 20th, at 7PM
Courtney Thorsson: The Sisterhood
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Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, February 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
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