October 2020
Ben LaMar Gay, Jeremiah Collier and Isaiah Collier
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Conversations With the Curators: What Does Democracy Look Like? (Part I)
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, at 6PM
Alternate Assembly 2020: Environmental Impact in the Era of Pandemic
@ EXPO CHICAGO
Online
On view through Sunday, October 18th
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@ Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Peniel E. Joseph on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
@ Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
Pour One Out: Shame, Shameless, Shameful
@ Volumes Bookcafe
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Art and Social Progress: Creating a Better World
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
Lecture in Photography: Sam Contis
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
Museums at this Moment Leaders on Institutional Responsibility and Action
@ Block Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, at 1PM
Jesse Meredith: Safety Check and Tanya Garcia: To Be A Part of (I, II & III)
@ Langer Over Dickie
1309 N Leavitt St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 1st
Irma Boom
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 13th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Eileen Myles: Why I Write
@ Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 13th, from 7PM - 8PM
Presidential Scandal and the Media from Nixon to Trump: A Conversation with Jill Wine-Banks and Peter Slevin
@ Newberry Library
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 13th, from 5PM - 6PM
Virtual Tour | Ida B. Wells’ Chicago
@ Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 13th, from 4PM - 5PM
Option: Farida Amadou
@ Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, October 12th, from 1PM - 2PM
Body/Space
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, October 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 6th
We Are All on Native Land: A Conversation about Land Acknowledgments
@ Field Museum
Online
Opening Monday, October 12th, from 3:30PM - 4:15PM
Charles Joseph Smith: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
@ Lucky Pierre
Online
Opening Sunday, October 11th, from 2PM - 3PM
We Matter
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, October 10th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 25th
Art&Edibles
@ Pilsen Art House
1756 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 10th, from 4PM - 9PM
Banner Build Wkshps For The Movement
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, October 10th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
Anon Anym: Detritus
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 10th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, November 14th
Nathan Mason: Improvisations
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 10th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 14th
Rebecca Beachy: growing down
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Sunday, October 25th
Ciera McKissick: Black Independence Day All Day and avery r. young: eryday. new mercy(s) pt. 2
@ Principle Barbers
3820 Ogden Avenue Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, October 10th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Thursday, October 22nd
Whitney Bedford: Nevertheless…
@ Carrie Secrist Gallery
900 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, November 7th
In Performance, In Conversation: Jerry Bleem and Anne Harris
@ Riverside Arts Center + Freeark Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, October 10th, from 2PM - 3PM
Jesse Howard
@ South Side Community Art Center
3831 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, October 10th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, December 19th
Spencer Hutchinson: mezzanine
@ R.Mona
1724 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 6th
Déformer
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 9th, from 5 PM - 10 PM
On view through Tuesday, November 3rd
Altered Festival – A mixed-reality adventure
@ Redline VR
4702 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, October 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Marvin Tate and Bill MacKay: No different than the Day before
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, October 9th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
IMAGINE…Peace, Love & Understanding
@ Stola Contemporary Art
3738 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, October 9th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 15th
Virtual Tour | Jane Addams and the Activist Legacy of Hull-House
@ Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, October 8th, from 3PM - 4PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@ Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Thursday, October 8th, at 7PM
Avian Effects: Climate Change and Birds
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
Online Event
Opening Thursday, October 8th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, October 30th
ADDS DONNA presents Collection Studies
@ Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, October 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
At Home: Ephemeral Monument to Public Housing Residents
@ National Public Housing Museum
1322 W Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, October 8th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 10th
Ayanah Moor: FOR YOU
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Monday, December 28th
LIBERATING HISTORY: LEILA AND THE WOLVES (1984)
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 8th, at 7 PM CT
On view through Friday, October 9th
Poetry Day: Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, October 8th, at 8PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@ Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 7th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
At Home: Ephemeral Monuments to Public Housing Residents
@ National Public Housing Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, October 8th
Ocean Vuong
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 6th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Discussion between Diana Solís and Silvia Malagrino
@ LATITUDE
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
Virtual Book Launch: GOLEM GIRL by Riva Lehrer
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 6th, from 7PM - 8PM
Nasty, Brutish & Short: Puppet Quarantine 4
@ Links Hall
Online
Opening Monday, October 5th, from 8PM - 9PM
Neighborhood Memorial for Victims of Police Violence
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, October 4th, at 11AM
The Quarantine Concerts
@ Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Sunday, October 4th, at 2PM
The Kolmar Music Collective
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, October 4th, from 3PM - 4PM
Fête Galante: Virtual Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
Online
Opening Sunday, October 4th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, October 25th
Carrie Gundersdorf: False Colour
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, October 4th
Still Here
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, October 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Indira Johnson: Peace Offering
@ Dammrich Rowing Center
3220 Oakton Street, Skokie, IL 60076
Opening Sunday, October 4th, from 10am - 1PM
Chris Hyndman
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 4th, from 12PM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, November 8th
Carlos Melian
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 4th, from 12PM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, November 8th
Jelena Berenc
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 4th, from 12PM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, November 8th
Virtual Curator Tour of Claudia Wieser: Generations
@ Smart Museum of Art
Online
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, November 28th
The Quarantine Concerts
@ Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, at 2PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@ Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Cito, Longe, Tarde
@ Haynes
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 22nd
Blue Print: Annual Benefit for Spudnik Press Cooperative
@ Spudnik Press Cooperative
Online
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Erik Newman: Presenting the AquaHut MK3
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, from 3PM - 8PM
George Klauba: American Tattoo in the Greasy Grass
@ Hofheimer Gallery
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, October 30th
Out of Time
@ Aspect/Ratio
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 31st
Connie Gillock: Fahrenheit
@ Open Studio Project
903 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, from 12PM - 3PM
El Noa Noa: JuanGa Baila
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
Online
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, from 7:30PM - 10PM
External Eye: Yana Bystrova: Artist Talk
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, at 12PM
We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community
@ Haitian American Museum of Chicago-HAMOC
4654 N Racine Ave Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, from 11AM - 4PM
Pipsqueak Was Here!!!: It’s All Wrong, It’s Allright…
@ Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 3rd, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Button Power Virtual Event with Christen Carter & Ted Hake
@ Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Friday, October 2nd, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@ Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Friday, October 2nd, at 7PM
Focal Point Live with Jess T. Dugan and Rafael Soldi
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, October 2nd, from 12PM - 1PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@ Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Friday, October 2nd, at 7PM
Norman W. Long
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, October 2nd, from 6:30PM - 8PM
We Matter
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, October 25th
Virtual Movie Night! Beyond Beijing: The International Women’s Movement
@ PO Box Collective
Online
Opening Friday, October 2nd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
No Gray Area
@ One River School Evanston
1033 Davis St Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, October 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, October 29th
ZSÓFIA ÖTVÖS: Actors on Stage
@ Trap Door Theater
1655 W Cortland St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 2nd, from 4:30PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 3rd
The Quarantine Concerts
@ Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Thursday, October 1st, at 7PM
Water, Water Everywhere: First-Person Flooding, Impact & Action
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
Online Event
Opening Thursday, October 1st, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, October 30th
ART WEST GALLERY GRAND OPENING
@ ART WEST
801 S California Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, October 1st, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 3rd
Artist Run Chicago 2.0 Curatorial Talk via Zoom
@ Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, October 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
☼ chukwumaa + Zoë Argires
@ New Works
1430 N Artesian Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 1st, from 4PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 1st
What Does Democracy Look Like?
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Wednesday, December 23rd
What’s Next: Wealth, Property, and Inequality
@ Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Thursday, October 1st, from 7PM - 8PM
