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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Anke Fachmann: Vibrancy on the Brink
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DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
4740 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, August 19th
Anthony Adcock and Kevin Byrne: Honest Work
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 13th
Edging
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Saturday, September 24th
…of the land: acts of refusal and ratification
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South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 24th
SAPPHIRE & CRYSTALS: FORWARD
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The Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, September 2nd
Bronzeville Art District Art Tour 2022!
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Bronzeville Art District
Various locations
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Kombilesa Mi
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DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Keyierra Collins Performance
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Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Douglas Blvd. & Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 4PM - 6PM
Reception and Artist Talk with Britni Mara
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Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Friday, July 15th, at 6:30PM
Kitchen Table Stories
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 21st
Aron Gent: Shur Shot
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Epiphany Center For The Arts
201 South Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, July 15th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 27th
Nubes Art Fair
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, August 28th
New Futures “Back in the Arena”
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GRACE JANE
3203 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 12th
Something I Can Feel: Closing Reception
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salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 15th
By Degrees
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3D4D Gallery
1912 N Damen Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, August 19th
Film Screening: Frida
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, July 14th, at 1PM
Evanston Plein Air Art Festival
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Downtown Evanston
various locations
On view through Sunday, July 17th
Remaking the Exceptional Publication Release: Poetry Reading and Stories of Resistance
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, July 14th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
Community as Rebellion: Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color
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Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, July 14th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Picturing Tokyo’s Modern Girl: Moga at the Meguro Gajoen
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Wrightwood 659
Online
Opening Thursday, July 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
ASSEMBLY HALL I
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, July 14th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Live painting with Joey Africa!!!
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Stola Contemporary Art
3738 W Irving Park Rd Chicago, Il 60618
Opening Wednesday, July 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 17th
Films of Irving Gamboa
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 13th, from 8PM - 10PM
Creative Placemaking
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Weinberg Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave #101, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, July 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
The Ways We Read: Amplifying the Genius of Black Learning Week 3
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Holy Family Ministry School
3415 W Arthington St, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Wednesday, July 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
Tara Betts: Refuse to Disappear
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57th Street Books
1301 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, July 12th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Care & Criticism: An Art Writing Panel
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 12th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Disability Portraiture Project: Let’s talk about Mental Health!
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Access Living
115 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, July 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
THE RE-WIRED PROJECT
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Access Living
115 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Monday, July 11th, from 2PM - 5PM
TechTonic Black Table @ Sundays on the Boulevard
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Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Douglas Blvd. & Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Sunday, July 10th, from 1PM - 5PM
Darrell Roberts: Endless
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Riverside Arts Center Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, July 10th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 29th
Midday Cabaret with Jae WB and Heather Raquel Phillips
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, July 10th, from 3PM - 5PM
Chicago Works: Gregory Bae, Opening Reception
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, January 29th
Collin van der Sluijs: Collision
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Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
Low-Residency MFA Exhibition
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SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60601
On view through Sunday, July 31st
moniquemeloche presents…: Curator Gallery Talk
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Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd, Michigan City, IN 46360
Opening Saturday, July 9th, at 11:30AM
On view through Friday, October 21st
To Trouble, Escape & Exceed – Curated by the Concerned Black Image Makers
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, July 9th, at 2:30PM
Exhibition Gallery Talk: A Site of Struggle with Alisa Swindell
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
When You’re Within A Few Meters of Your Destination, You Are There
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 31st
Side Yard Sounds: MEGA LAVERNE & SHIRLEY (巨拉夫恩和謝莉)
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 7PM - 9PM
James Wilke: Pox Americana: How Smallpox Once Plagued America & The World
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman: Delirium
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave Suite 620. Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, August 26th
Jesse Howard: Blue Nile with Daughter
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave Suite 620, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, August 26th
True Grit
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Space 900
816 Dempster St., Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, July 31st
Ragdale in Chicago: avery r. young
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, July 9th
Lingered and Grasped: BIPOC Writing Workshop
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 9th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
SUMMER GROUP SHOW
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Carl Hammer Gallery
740 N Wells St. Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 5PM - 8M
On view through Saturday, September 3rd
Carl Linstrum: Habitat
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Addington Gallery
704 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 20th
Jeffrey Hirst: Parallel Structures
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Addington Gallery
704 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 20th
Ten x Ten 2022
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Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 26th
All That Light: A Ten Year Retrospective of the Artists-in-Residence Program (2012-2022)
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Arts Incubator Gallery
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, September 11th
Nailah Golden
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Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Douglas Blvd. & Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 4PM - 6PM
CLEAT Series: Coppice, Leash
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 8PM - 11PM
Melon Sprout and Clark Woods: simulated trans*ition
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Ray Borchers: Coasting on None
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The Dime
1513 N Western Ave #104, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, September 1st
All That Light: A Ten Year Retrospective of the Artists-in-Residence Program (2012-2022)
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, September 11th
Cydney Lewis: Colored with Iron and Lace
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Fracas Gallery
2233 S Throop St. #601, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, August 5th
5 Stages of “Nile” with Miles Reuben & Darryl DeAngelo Terrell
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Block Museum of Art
Online
On view through Friday, July 15th
green belt
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Jargon Projects
3310 N Milwaukee Ave, Suite 202, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, July 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, August 12th
Beyond the Frame
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, July 7th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 30th
Jenna Lyle
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, July 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Space Between Us
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, July 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, August 3rd
The Ways We Read: Amplifying the Genius of Black Learning Week 2
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Holy Family Ministry School
3415 W Arthington St, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Wednesday, July 6th, from 5PM - 7PM
Martine Syms: She Mad Season One
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave Chicago IL 60611
On view through Sunday, February 12th
Conversation in Community
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 2nd, at 12PM
Phil Gayter Artist Talk: What Life Can Learn from Painting
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, July 2nd, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, July 3rd
i/thee: Side Yard(s): A PUBLIC MODEL EXHIBITION & TOWN HALL
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 2nd, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, July 29th
Side Yard Sounds 2022 presents Sinner’s Friend + opening performance by Spencer Hutchinson
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 2nd, from 7PM - 9PM
A Community Affair
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The Digs Chicago
333 N Oakley Blvd, #Suite #305 Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, July 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
Indigo Dye Demonstration with Amanda Harth
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Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Douglas Blvd. & Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, July 1st, from 4PM - 6PM
OUTS
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Friday, August 19th
Victoria Fuller: Bring Back The Extinct Northern White Rhino
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, July 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 20th
Lynn Basa: Hoodoos and Other Anomalies
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Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 1st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 23rd
Roland Santana: Mega Mania
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Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 1st, from 7 PM - 10 PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
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