October 2021
THE SYMPOSIUM: ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE: DAY 2
@ EXPO CHICAGO
online
Opening Saturday, October 16th, at 11AM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Mary Simpson: No Island is an Island
@ Haynes
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 5th
Open House Chicago 2021
@ Chicago Architecture Center
111 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
On view through Sunday, October 17th
Kandinsky: The Rediscovered Bauhaus Sketchbook
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 7th
Tony Fitzpatrick: Jesus of Western Avenue
@ The Cleve Carney Museum of Art and McAninch Arts Center
425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 9AM - 9PM
On view through Monday, January 31st
Panel Discussion with Coded:Coated artists and curator
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Open Studios
@ Grommit Studios
2003 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL, 60612
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 4PM - 8PM
Amina Ross: Man’s Country
@ Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 6062
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Still Life
@ The Franklin
3522 Franklin Blvd, Chicago IL 60624
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 12th
Kelly Reichardt: FIRST COW (2020)
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 16th, at 1PM
Weekend Bash: Studio Sale
@ Arts of Life
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60612
On view through Sunday, October 17th
INCOGNITO
@ Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N Knox Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 4PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Scarred: The Journey Of A Warrior
@ Electriqsoul Hideout Studios
216 S. Jefferson St. Chicago, IL 60661
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Anatomy for Interiors
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
A Flower Grew Out the Palm of My Hand
@ Special Feature
2860 W Warren Blvd, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 6PM - Late
On view through Tuesday, December 28th
MOLOCH
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
THE SYMPOSIUM: ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE: DAY 1
@ EXPO CHICAGO
online
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 11AM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
RAISIN Artist Talk: Tintin Wulia
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
SOJI ADEBAYO TRIBUTE AND MEMORIAL CONCERT FT. DOUGLAS R. EWART, SURA DUPART + MORE
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 8PM
Dreams & Nightmares
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Art Talks! with Block Student Associates
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
RAISIN Community Conversation: Placemaking & Community
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 10AM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Open Studios
@ The Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Spudraiser 2021: Annual Benefit for Spudnik Press Cooperative
@ Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard st, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sustainable Societies for the Future – Exhibition
@
Various locations
On view through Sunday, October 17th
hiba ali: in the weeds
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 17th
Michelle Wasson: On Feronia
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
Obama: An Intimate Portrait
@ The Arcade
618 S Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Friday, October 29th
Pants Without Legs
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 23rd
Our Tomorrow Happened Yesterday
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 21st
Chad Kouri & Jeremiah Hunt: Side Yard Sounds
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
Sarita Garcia & Bobby T Luck: Surplus
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 13th
Caroline Kent: What the stars can’t tell us: Gallery Walk
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle #103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 3PM
On view through Thursday, December 16th
F.A.B.L.E w/ Dai
@ Hideout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 14th, at 9:30PM
Building a Legacy: Gifts from Susann Craig
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, January 9th
Pooja Pittie: Nothing Gold Can Stay: Catalog Release and artist discussion
@ McCormick Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, October 14th, at 5:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Poetry & BYOBiscuits for October
@ Black Ocean
Online
Opening Thursday, October 14th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Tomashi Jackson in Conversation with Amanda Williams
@ Gallery 400
online
Opening Thursday, October 14th, from 5PM - 6.30PM
Catalytic Sound Festival
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, October 14th, from 8:30PM - 11PM
Designing the “Chicago Avant-Garde” Identity
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
BMRC FELLOWS PRESENTATION SERIES
@ Black Metropolis Research Consortium
online
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, at 12PM
Pour One Out: A Monthly Storytelling Series
@ Volumes Bookcafe
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
#HereToo-COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO and AMERICAN ORIGAMI
@ The Getz Theatre Center
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, at 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 23rd
Lecture in Photography: Carolyn Drake
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, at 6PM
Retelling Resistance: CEDDO (1977)
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, at 7PM
TANDA: Pre-colonial Indigenous Urban Planning and How to Imagine Indigenous Cities of the Future
@ Chuquimarca at Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
In Progress: Benji Hart
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
Hearth: The ACRE Annual Benefit
@ Bungalow by Middlebrow
2840 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
CREATIVE OPEN GYM (C.O.G)
@ The Outtaspace
6840 32nd St, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 7PM - 11PM
Open Door Reading Series Online: Matt Bodett, Amanda Goldblatt, Isaías Rogel & Ricardo Mondragon
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 7PM - 8PM
Shirin Neshat
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Jonathan Michael Castillo: Artist Talk
@ C33 Gallery
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, October 28th
Kyle Beachy with Bing Liu: The Most Fun Thing
@ Columbia College Chicago - Student Center
754 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Archetypes: Film Screening and Conversation with Third Coast Percussion
@ SIX10
610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
leave me letters and dust
@ Apparatus Projects
1500 S Western Ave, #407, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, January 9th
Indira Freitas Johnson: The Resonance of Emptiness
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Dia De Muertos Workshop
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 11AM - 2PM
Shir Ende and Lancer Livermont: Proposals and Speculations: Artists’ Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Concert: claire rousay
@ Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 8PM
Women in Jazz with Tammy McCann
@ Venue SIX10
610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Dawn Turner: Three Girls from Bronzeville
@ Venue SIX10
610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
5th Midwest Open
@ Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave, 4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Virtual Conversation: Marda Dunsky & Sahar Mustafah
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 4PM
NOISE PROM 3
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 1PM - 8PM
LAX/ORD III
@ Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Kwame Alexander: Reading for Young People
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Karla Wong: Tales & Stories
@ Addison Center for the Arts
213 N Lombard Rd, Addison, IL 60101
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 1 PM - 4 PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
CHANGING LANES
@ Morgan Arts Complex
3622 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 5:30 PM
Heroes: The Girls Rescued from Boko Haram
@ CASE Art Fund
Online
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 10AM - 11AM
Open House Group Show for Terrain Biennial 2021
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 2PM - 9PM
Gina Lee Robbins: Tangled Up in Blue: Final Weekend
@ Dickson Project Space
Waubonsee Community College, 4S783 IL-47, Sugar Grove, IL 60554
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 8AM
On view through Thursday, October 14th
RAISIN Community Conversation: Placemaking & Community
@ 6018North
online
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 10AM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Lynda Benglis in Conversation
@ Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 6PM
SADIE LASKA: NO UTOPIA FOR YOU!
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, November 5th
Lynda Benglis: Works in Video: Virtual Screenings
@ Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
On view through Thursday, October 14th
George Klauba: Spirits of the Sand and Sea
@ Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
RAISIN Artist Talk: Zhiyuan Yang, Kyle Bellucci Johanson, and Maryam Taghavi
@ 6018North
online
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Through the Flames and Beyond
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 6:30PM
SECOND LIFE: All Women Exhibition
@ 3D4D by CSI
1912 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 5th
Maxwell Volkman & Tyler Sharpnack: Witchblades
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 17th
Common Gesture
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Harry Tonchev Trio
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Arte, Cultura, Y Resistencia
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, November 29th
T.J. Dedeaux-Norris: Second Line: Gallery Walk
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, #103Normal, IL 61761
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Lynda Benglis: Works in Video: Theatrical Screening
@ Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 7th, at 6PM
Storytelling, Climate Justice, and Self-Determined Indigenous Futures
@ Newberry Library
Online
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
Mark Feldman Solo & Ochs /Robinson Duo
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 8:30PM - 11PM
Bethany Collins and Sampada Aranke: About Looking
@ Gallery 400
Online
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 5PM - 6PM
jina valentine in conversation with Mimi Onuoha
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, October 29th
Mutual Aid is Our Future: Time Salon
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Second Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Smart to the Core: Medium / Image: Opening Celebration
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, October 6th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Sunset Yoga + Art
@ salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL, 60609
Opening Wednesday, October 6th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Chris Berti Artist Lecture
@ Giertz Gallery at Parkland College
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 5th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Abolition, Cultural Freedom, Liberation
@ Haymarket Books
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 5th, from 4PM - 5:30
Amitav Ghosh: Lecture and Reading
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 5th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Jake Victor Trio & Wills McKenna Quartet
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, October 4th, from 8PM - 10:30PM
