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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Zoe Gac & Karla Biery: Night Vision: Closing Reception
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, June 30th, at 7PM
OPTION: Nick Dunston
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 30th, from 3PM - 5PM
Alberto Aguilar: Grid Luck
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Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Sunday, June 30th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Queer Activism & Book Reading with Eugene I-Peng Tang
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Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, June 30th, from 2PM - 5PM
Summer Soundwalk Series: Veronica Anne Salines
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South Shore Nature Center
7059 S South Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, June 30th, from 11AM - 12PM
PERSONAL HISTORIES AND EXPERIMENTAL VISIONS
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, June 29th, at 8:30PM
Back in Da Hood: Renegades of Funk: Closing Reception
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Agitator
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 29th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Anabelle Lee Dehm: CENTERFOLD
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SULK CHICAGO
525 S Dearborn St, Apt 209, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, June 29th, at 7PM
PUTA MESTIZA MARICA: ¡Que Mierda Haz Hecho!: Artist Talk
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Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 29th, at 2:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Sabrina Nelson: Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin: Closing Reception
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S. MLK Dr, Chicago, IL, 60653
Opening Saturday, June 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Poetry On Stage: Sarah Ruhl’s LETTERS FROM MAX
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, June 29th, from 2PM - 4:30PM
The Unreliable Narrator: I Prefer Not to be Named
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CAMOC| Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, June 29th, from 2PM - 3PM
Industry of the Ordinary: Beauty, Terrible Beauty: Closing Reception
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, June 29th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Sarah Beddington: FADIA’S TREE (2022)
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, June 29th, at 6PM
It’s Electric! A Tour of Chryssa’s Neon Sculpture
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Wrightwood 659
659 Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, June 29th, at 12PM PM
RAYA MUSEUM: Grand Opening
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RAYA MUSEUM
1901 W 21 St Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 29th, from 12PM - 8PM
BORDERS CRUZADAS
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Pueblo Unido Gallery
6212 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, June 29th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Elastro: castroduperly, Paige Alice Naylor, Judd Morrisey
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, June 28th, at 8PM
Gear Night @ The Museum Gear Night
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, June 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
Deadly Prey
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Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, June 28th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, July 12th
2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Spring Fellow: Najee-Zaid Searcy
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 28th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
D. Lammie-Hanson: Indigo Seven: Gilded Agility
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, June 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
THE QUEER PARTY AS RESISTANCE: Opening Reception & Panel
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Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, June 28th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Zachary Hutchinson: Beauty, beauty, look at you, I wish to God I had it, too.
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ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, June 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 11th
Paper Per Se
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Pierre Alexandre Savriacouty: Iceberg Process 5
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Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave #1, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 21st
Luiza Moraes: Alien Spouse
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Side Street Studio Arts
15 Ziegler Ct, Elgin, IL 60120
Opening Friday, June 28th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Modou Dieng Yacine: Seeing Lumumba
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Black Artists Network
1901 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 28th, from 5PM - 10PM
LAUNCH: an Exhibition of Work by Lillstreet Ceramics Faculty
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Lillstreet Art Center, Annex Gallery
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, June 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, August 15th
Amrikan: Cookbook Event with Khushbu Shah
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City Lit Books
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project Panel with Gerber/Hart
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Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
The MacInnes Brothers: Connected Landscapes
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Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 7th
Artist Conversation: Rhonda Holy Bear
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
Creative Wing Open Studio Night
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Third Spaces & The Arts: A Conversation
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Marwen
833 N Orleans St Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
Threewalls Fellows Celebration
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Industrious Central Loop
231 South La Salle St, Suite 2100, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Rebecca Shore: Being There
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Ted Halkin: Rediscovered Works, 1964–69
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Jem Cohen: Aerie
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
CRIPPING THE STUDIO: Disability Pride
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Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sara Rabin: Tongue ON Cheek: Irreverent Takes on Young Womanhood
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Lunk + Hancy
902 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093
Opening Thursday, June 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
Weird & Wonderful: THE CABINET
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City Lit Books
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 26th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Garden of Liminal Bodies: Artist Talk
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Wednesday, June 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 27th
Teresa Baker: Shift in the Clouds: Exhibition Opening and Artist Talk
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, June 26th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, August 16th
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Jorge Morataya-Marimba
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, June 25th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Kimberly Drew: Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
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MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, June 24th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
(VIRTUAL) Artist Talk: Teresa Baker with Janine Mileaf
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The Arts Club of Chicago
Online
Opening Monday, June 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
Sishi Wang: Before, Because, Becoming 從前 因果 未來: Artist Talk
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Lillstreet Art Center, Annex Gallery
4401 N. Ravenswood Street
Opening Monday, June 24th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 28th
“And Another More”
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The GREYSTONE Studio
4733 South Forrestville Avenue
Opening Sunday, June 23rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 23rd
Holly Holmes: Secret Garden
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Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa ST , Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Sunday, June 23rd, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, August 30th
Katy Kirbach: Radiant Net
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RUSCHWOMAN
2100 S Marshall Blvd, Unit 105, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, June 23rd, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, August 25th
OPTION: Jake Meginsk
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 23rd, from 3PM - 5PM
Kwamé Azure Gomez: Artist Talk and Closing Reception
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 East Quincy Street, Riverside, Illinois 60546
Opening Sunday, June 23rd, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, June 23rd
LETTERS
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Space & Time
3307 W Irving Park Rd. Chicago IL 60618
Opening Sunday, June 23rd, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, July 21st
William Eckhardt Kohler: Studio Sale
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Purple Door
2711 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, June 23rd, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, June 27th
Letterpress Printing with Amber Favorite
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a. favorite design studios
4432 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Sunday, June 23rd, from 11am - 2PM
PATTERN RECOGNITION
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Friday, July 26th
Hui-min Tsen: Rain Follows the Plow
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Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Sunday, August 4th
Bound at Smartbar Bound at Smartbar
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Smartbar
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 10PM - 2AM
Yaz Lancaster, Liz Durette, Billington/Genetti/Maunu, Hasani & Perahje, Jade Sayson & Andrew CS
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, at 7:30PM
agua viva
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 7PM - 8PM
2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Spring Fellow: Lani T. Montreal
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 23rd
Ephemeral Improvisations vol.2 : David Boykin and Rhonda Gray
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
KAY SMITH: Acrylic Paintings
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Road | Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
Laura O’Connor: Embroidery as Dissent
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Road | Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Blue Moon Gallery Collective Artists Group Show
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Road | Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
LOCAL PAPERS: Art Created On or With Paper
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Road | Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
The Next Tomorrow
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The Garage at N.O.B.
10500 S Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 5PM - 8PM
Maculate Conceptions
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boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Caracoleando: Poemas Naturales
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Burnham Wildlife Corridor
5445 S Tripp Ave, Chicago, IL 60632-4636, United States
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 4PM - 6:30PM
Key Loop
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NON STNDRD
2300 Falling Springs Rd, Sauget, IL 62206
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Griffin Goodman: Don’t Eat the Glue: Artist Panel
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ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 13th
Devotion: A Queer Photography Exhibition
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LATITUDE CHICAGO
2003 W Fulton St. Suite 211, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 13th
BILL CONGER: night drops: Artist Talk
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, at 2:30PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Words of Art: Dennis Lee Mitchell and Rhonda Gates
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 2PM - 4PM
Summer Soundwalk Series: JeeYeun Lee
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Steelworkers Park
E 87th St at Lake Michigan, Chicago, IL 60617
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Laleh Motlagh: Entanglement: Artist Talk
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SoNa Chicago Art Gallery
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, July 20th
The Chicago Film Society Presents: Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
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Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL, 60613
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, at 11:30AM
Ellsworth Kelly: Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, June 22nd, at 12PM delete
On view through Monday, September 9th
Reflections in a Dark Room
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SITE/less
1250 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, June 21st, at 7:30PM
Dance Sound Sound Dance Party
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Miyagi Records
307 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Fall Residents: AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
QUEER FUTURES
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, June 21st, at 7PM
FOUR WALLS / FOUR ARTISTS Art Opening at Fulton Street Collective
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 307, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
Prismatic (re)ality
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OH Art Foundation
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 12th
VENERATE, VENERATE! – Artists’ Book Mark-Making WorkShop
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The GREYSTONE Collective
4733 South Forrestville Avenue
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, July 6th
Creative Reflections: Chicago’s Native Community
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American Indian Center
3401 W Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, June 28th
Ruth Burke: Of Love: A Labor
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 26th
In Concert with Jen de los Reyes
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Pearlie Taylor: A Life Well Abstracted
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Gallery Guichard
436 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
Luke Shemroske: Shed Skin
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Project Onward
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, June 21st, at 6PM
On view through Friday, July 12th
Jewlya Sturtevant: Berserk Through A Flower Field
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Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 12th
Helen Dannelly + Yolanda Fernandez-Shebeko: PERCEPTIONS OF NATURE
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Fourth Presbyterian Church
126 E. Chestnut St
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, August 15th
Deconstructing Paper & PULP
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The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Stina Joy Henslee and Eleana Daniel: Handle with Care
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Art City
1400 N Halsted Street, Chicago
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, July 17th
Spider Cannibalism
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RUSCHMAN
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Civic Engagement or Bust! Stories, Songs and a Meal for Collective Joy
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
Barely Here
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Yes Project Space
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 7:30PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
New Work 2024
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SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St. Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, June 21st, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 20th
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