Special Storytime with Poet Useni Eugene Perkins
@ DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 9th, from 1PM - 2PM
Harness Making with David Nasca
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 9th, from 2PM - 5PM
Queering The Abject
@ Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, December 9th, from 5PM - 9PM
Prints of Unusual Size III
@ Hoofprint Workshop
2433 S Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 22nd
Stay Positive
@ Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, December 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, December 31st
Gødbottom
@ The Condo Association
2700 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 9th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, January 10th
Laura Collins: Warm and Fuzzy
@ Night Light Gallery
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 8th, at 7PM
On view through Friday, December 15th
Festival of Poets Theater
@ Sector 2337 + The Green Lantern Press
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 10th
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
Felicia Holman: Wassup w/that ‘Yac?!
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 7:30PM - 8:15PM
Subversive Involvement
@ Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
Chi-Town 12″ x 12″ Holiday Showcase
@ Bucktown Gallery
2207 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
TRADE Routes: ATOM-r and Upended Teacups
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 9PM - 11PM
It Takes All Kind: Closing Reception
@ Studio Oh!
1837 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, December 28th
Outside Jokes / to Home
@ DEMO Projects
732 N 4th St, Springfield, IL 62702
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 30th
Gurumbe: Afro-Andalusian Memories
@ Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
5733 S University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 4PM - 6PM
Alternating/Currents
@ LITHIUM
1932 S Halsted St, #200, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 24th
Isabelle Frances McGuire: I’m a Cliché: Act Two
@ Prairie Chicago
629 W Cermak Suite 240, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, January 8th
HOT SIGNALS IN YOUR AREA: all of our computers are singing
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6:30PM - 10:30PM
Hide and Go Chic
@ Rover Gallery
2201 S Halsted St, Floor 3 4s Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, February 25th
Chris Capoyianes: Lets Play Charades
@ GreenDoor
1932 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, December 31st
You Are Beautiful: Chicago Miniature Billboards
@ Galerie F
2415 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 31st
CAD Holiday Leftovers Sale
@ Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Ste 100, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
The Poetics of Haunting: An Evening of Activations
@ Sullivan Galleries
33 S State, 7th fl, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 8th
Madman’s Eye: The Art of Mac Blackout
@ Galerie F
2415 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, December 31st
Artists’ Talk: Altar Call. The Architecture of Black Sacred Space
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, December 8th, from 7PM - 8:45PM
On view through Friday, December 8th
RAÚL ORTIZ
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, December 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 20th
The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, December 7th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, January 13th
Trade Routes
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, December 7th, at 7PM
GALERIA CHICAGO
@ National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 7th, at 6:30PM
On view through Friday, June 29th
Hansel and Gretel: How Hansel became Hansel
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60642
Opening Thursday, December 7th, from 7 PM - 8:30 PM
AMFM Juice Open Mic
@ AMFM Gallery
2151 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, December 7th, from 8PM - 11PM
Twyla Tharp: Minimalism and Me
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, December 7th, at 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, December 10th
Conversation with the DuSable’s Exhibition Team
@ DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, December 7th, from 12PM - 2PM
The Color Of Law
@ Chicago Teachers Union Center
1901 W Carroll St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Wednesday, December 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
A Smooth and Striated Practice
@ SITE Sharp
37 S Wabash, Chicago IL, 60603
Opening Wednesday, December 6th, from 4:15PM - 5:45PM
On view through Friday, December 15th
Lynne Tillman in conversation
@ University of Chicago's Classics Department, room 110
1010 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, December 6th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Quraysh Ali Lansana
@ Oakton Community College
1600 E Golf Rd, Des Plaines, IL 60016
Opening Wednesday, December 6th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Video Playlist: Inside/outside
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, December 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
Docunight #44 [Chicago]: Scorpio and Javad (2 films)
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MacLean Room 1307
112 S Michigan Ave, Room 1307, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, December 6th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Micro-Performances
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, December 5th, from 12PM - 12:30PM
On view through Sunday, January 7th
The Neapolitan Crèche—A Closer Look
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, December 5th, from 12PM - 1PM
Neighborhood Project Panel Discussion
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, December 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, January 14th
Day With(Out) Art: Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, December 5th, from 6PM - 7PM
Performances in The Hysterical Material
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, December 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
Eclipsing Workshop: Protecting the Body—The Queen of Swords as Sentinel
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, December 4th, from 5PM - 7PM
avery r. young and de deacon board
@ Currency Exchange Café
305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, December 4th, from 7PM - 9PM
Know Your Rights: A Toolkit for Cultural Producers
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, December 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
SSSS! Lee Blalock/Jen Hill/Jenna Lyle/Deidre Huckabay
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60660
Opening Monday, December 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
Every house has a door: This is not a dream
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, December 3rd
Uptown Poetry Slam: Mario Writes Poems? Still?
@ Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
4802 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 7PM - 10PM
Trade Routes: Mitsu Salmon and Michael Sakamoto
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, at 7PM
Bubbly Dynamics Open Studio
@ Bubbly Dynamics
1048 W 37th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 12PM - 5PM
Meg Duguid: Production of Nuclear Winter
@ The Back Room at Kim's Corner Food
1371 W Estes Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, December 3rd
Out with the Old, In with the New: Second Sexing Sound Symposium (SSSS!)
@ Sector 2337 + The Green Lantern Press
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 11AM - 4PM
Darger + War: Violence and Loss in Self-Taught
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, December 10th
Admission of Aggregate: Closing Reception
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 3rd
Hungry for Stories #10: Make Magazine #16, “ARCHIVE”
@ Read/Write Library Chicago
914 N. California Ave (enter on Walton), Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 2PM - 3:30PM
AACM Great Black Music Annual Kwanzaa Concert
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 5PM - 7PM
SSSS! second sexing sound symposium: Marina Rosenfeld and Neo Hülcker
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, at 8:30PM
The Homestretch screening and panel discussion
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2nd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 4PM - 7PM
QUEER FILM Series: Episode 4: Part I
@ Hume
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, at 6PM
Fine Art Faculty Exhibit
@ Cleve Carney Art Gallery
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 20th
Corey Hagberg: Ephemeral Whiplash
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 6th
When the cabbage fights the goat
@ Slow
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 30th
The Sick Muse #9
@ Archer Beach Haus
3012 S Archer Ave, Apt 2, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 8PM - 12:30AM
Krampusnacht
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S. Morgan St., Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 7:30PM - 12AM
On view through Sunday, December 3rd
Fidencio Fifield-Perez: Dacaments
@ Adler & Floyd
3537 S Western Blvd, #5, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 23rd
Bloomz
@ Ice House Gallery
609 South Boulevard, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
Cosmic Characters
@ Miishkooki
4517 Oakton St, Skokie, IL 60076
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 13th
Art of Sight, Sense of Feeling
@ The Franklin
3522 W Franklin Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 28th
Hideous Beast – Ideal Form
@ Wedge Projects
1448 W Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 2nd
Madeleine Aguilar: I just want to stay home
@ The Franklin
3522 W Franklin Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Inferno’s Sound Re:Creation at Douglas
@ Douglas Park
1401 S Sacramento Dr, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 1PM - 3PM
Audry Cramblt: Hieroglyphics
@ Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
1012 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Monday, December 11th
TALKING PLANTS: Making Kin with Our Rooted Relations
@ Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 3PM - 5PM
Play The Fool
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 31st
Chicago River and Canal Walking Tour: A History of Timber Extraction
@ Canal Origins Park
2701 S Ashand Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 9:30AM - 11:30AM
On view through Sunday, February 11th
Renegade Craft Fair Chicago
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 3rd
WOW Frequency
@ DreamBox Gallery
2415 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 11AM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, December 10th
Hey! Make! Creating game controllers from everyday objects
@ Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 12:30PM - 2:30PM
Reactions: New Perspectives on Our Nuclear Legacy
@ William Eckhardt Research Center
5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 2:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 2nd
Loretta Bourque
@ Linda Warren Projects
327 N Aberdeen St, Ste 151, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, January 13th
End of the World Part VII
@ The Learning Machine
3145 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 2nd
Organizing Strategies for Black Liberation
@ Roosevelt University
430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, at 1PM
On view through Saturday, December 9th
The Good Goods: A Winter Market
@ F4F
2846 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 10AM - 5PM
Fall 2017 Season Send-Off and Holiday Party
@ High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
WBEZ’s Podcast Passport Presents: NANCY
@ Athenaeum Theatre
2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, from 8:30PM - 9:30PM
Artists’ Talk: Altar Call. The Architecture of Black Sacred Space
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 7PM - 10:30PM
Black Out Dinners
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 7PM - 9:30PM
On view through Sunday, December 10th
Rites
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 21st
The Alchemist
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Thursday, January 12th
Variety Hours: t/here and the/n
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
Preview 7: The whole is always smaller than its parts
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, December 21st
90 Days
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 7PM - 9PM
A Sounding Line
@ LITHIUM
1932 S Halsted St, #200, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 7PM - 9PM
Michael Thompson: Immoral/Immortal
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, January 1st
The Ears Have Walls: A Survey of Sound Games
@ VGA Gallery
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave Apr 102, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 1st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 25th
