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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Yvette Kaiser Smith & Bobbi Meier: Rebellious Fibers
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OS Projects
601 Sixth St, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, February 12th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, April 16th
deborah handler: Larger work, (“tea for two” Monk’s version)
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Produce Model Gallery
1918 S Canalport Ave, Chicago IL 60616
Opening Saturday, February 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 9th
Amy Babinec + George Liebert: FLOODPLAIN
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boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, February 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Field Skjellerup: Everything in Consideration
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My Perfect Environment
1843 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Monday, February 28th
Reckless Law, Shameless Order: An Intimate Experience of Incarceration
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Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Friday, February 11th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, April 2nd
Rose Blouin: To Washington Park, With Love
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Washington Park Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Saturday, March 19th
CLEAT Series: JoVia Armstrong’s Eunoia Society
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 11th, from 7PM - 10:30PM
Flor, Manal Kara, & Caleb Yono: THEM
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 12th
ART INSPIRED BY ARTISTS
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
Mediating Patriotism
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Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, February 28th
Micaela Felix: Conditional Beauty
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 26th
Terra Femme (2021) live documentary-performance with Courtney Stephens
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 11th, at 7 PM
Ayanah Moor: I Wish I Could Be You More Often
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The Cleve Carney Museum of Art and McAninch Arts Center
425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Virtual Poetry Reading: Paul Tran with Alison C. Rollins
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Thursday, February 10th, at 7PM
The American Sector (2020) with filmmaker Courtney Stephens
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 10th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Claire Ashley Artist Talk
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Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, February 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, February 18th
Open Door Reading Series: George Abraham, Diamond Forde, Nabila Lovelace & Fargo Tbakhi
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Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, February 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
Live Painting @ FMK featuring Lily Schumacher
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Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, February 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
The American Sector (2020) with filmmaker Courtney Stephens
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 10th, at 7PM
Katherine Lampert: Pattern in Nature
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Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, February 10th, from 10AM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 9th
V Crushable
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HF Johnson Gallery of Art
2001 Alford Park Dr, Kenosha, WI 53140
Opening Thursday, February 10th, from 3:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Friday, March 11th
Austin Channing Brown: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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Dominican University
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 9th, at 7PM
Cameron Rowland
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 9th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
February Intro to Printing Workshop
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LATITUDE
1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, February 9th, at 6:30PM
On view through Wednesday, January 19th
Virtual Book Launch: COST OF LIVING: ESSAYS by Emily Maloney
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 8th, at 7PM
Badia Ahad-Legardy: Afro-Nostalgia
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57th Street Books
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 8th, from 6PM - 7PM
Nancy Johnson: The Kindest Lie
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American Writer's Museum
180 North Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, February 8th, at 6:30PM
Soundtrack: Sen Morimoto
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, February 8th, from 6PM - 7PM
Documenting Persepolis and the Paintings of Joseph Lindon Smith
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Oriental Institute
1155 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, February 8th, at 4PM
A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence – A Northwestern University Panel Discussion
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 8th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Forms & Features Online: Ephemeral Poetry
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Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Monday, February 7th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Thursday, February 10th
Poonie’s Cabaret
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, February 7th, from 8PM - 10PM
Zack Goulet: Out of the Blues
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Epping Gallery, McHenry County College
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
On view through Monday, March 21st
Dream Activations: “Whose Lakefront?” and “The Dirty Books”
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Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Sunday, February 6th, from 1PM - 4PM
‘Stay-Up’ Opening Session for HERE & NOW
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Frame Chicago
1627 N Clybourn Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, February 6th, from 11AM - 3PM
On view through Monday, February 28th
Artist Talk: Jordan Strafer with Sohrab Mohebbi and Alexandro Segade
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Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Sunday, February 6th, from 1PM - 3PM
Judith Roston Freilich and Lilach Schrag: Naturally
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, April 3rd
Place and Memory: Art Talks with Block Museum Student Associates
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, February 5th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
La Vie en Rose
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MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Tomokazu Matsuyama: The Best Part About Us
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Megan Greene: Shrimp Eagle Owl
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Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 5th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Malika Jackson: Whispers of a World Without Words
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, May 14th
COMMONground: A Collaboration with Poetry Ireland
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Poetry Foundation
Onnline
Opening Saturday, February 5th, from 1PM - 2PM
FEMME
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave., Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, February 5th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, March 28th
2nd Annual Black Lives Matter Exhibition
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Dragonfly Gallery & Creative Spaces
2436 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, February 5th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, February 27th
Erol Scott Harris: LORE
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2233 S Throop St, Unit 419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 5th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, February 19th
XX: INTROSPECTION
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The Andersonville Galleria
5247 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, February 5th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, February 28th
Winter Wonderland Nature Art Exhibition
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Canal Shores Golf Course
1030 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, February 5th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Monday, February 28th
Honoring Our Mothers: Featuring – Sharing Grandmothers
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DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
Houses of Tomorrow: Solar Homes from Keck to Today
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Friday, February 4th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
Anna McKeown: Stand Up
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 26th
Distance Stations: Jonathan Worcester
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Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave. Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, February 26th
VANISHING POINT: Black Mask, IWW, Atelier Populaire
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Gallery Sabine
1002 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, February 13th
Visible / Invisible
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Noyes Cultural Arts Center
927 Noyes St, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Friday, February 4th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, March 18th
Sheri Rush: Chasing Light
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Layla F. Saad: Me and White Supremacy: Young Readers Edition
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The Book Cellar
Online
Opening Thursday, February 3rd, at 11:30AM
Virtual Event: Imani Perry in conversation with Eve L. Ewing
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Thursday, February 3rd, at 7PM
Museum Subjectivities / Subjetividad en los museos
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DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, February 3rd, at 1PM
On view through Sunday, February 13th
Judith Brotman Artist Talk
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Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, February 3rd, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, February 18th
A Simple Cotton Sack: A Conversation about African American Women, Trauma, and Resistance
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Newberry Library
Online
Opening Thursday, February 3rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Anything Can Be A Dragon, Anything Can Be A Snake
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NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery
5500 N St Louis Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, February 3rd, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, February 4th
Michael Heizer: HOLLYWOOD 24
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Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, February 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 9th
Lecture in Photography: Zora J Murff
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, February 2nd, at 6PM
Avreeayl Ra – Healing Arts Initiative: Meditation in Motion
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, February 2nd, from 7PM - 10PM
Just Help! How to Build a Better World with author U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Chicago Public Library
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 2nd, at 6PM
Homeroom Residency: AvreeAYl RA and Dream Stuff
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, February 1st, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Tuesday, February 22nd
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