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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Hot Mess!
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 4:20PM - 10PM
A Rebels Fantasy
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave., Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
UIMA’s Annual Fundraising Gala
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sick Fisher: Copy Cat
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Chicago Truborn
1741 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 9th
Alex Chitty: Figs break open of themselves
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, January 28th
James Little: Black Stars & White Paintings
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, December 20th
Soup Is On: Soup Service and Bowl Pick Up
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 12PM - 3PM
Kadar Brock: the purple rose ashram of the new age
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, January 28th
Patrick Fitzgerald
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Pagoda Red
1740 W Webster Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 12PM - 4PM
The Ephemerality of Light and Sound: Panel Discussion
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, November 12th, at 2PM
On view through Sunday, January 29th
Kajahl: Submersia
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moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, January 7th
Daniel Bruttig: Artist Talk
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave,Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 12th, at 2:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 19th
SOUTHEAST: a city within a city
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
The Future of Meat
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The Plant
1400 W 46th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 2PM - 9PM
Vincent Larouche: FATHERS
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M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, January 7th
Megan Sterling: By virtue of a more quiet instinct and Matt Bodett: Introductory Analysis of a Still Life
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 16th
Nour Mobarak: Intermissions
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Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
Agitator Comics! Volume 3 Launch Event and Pop Up Exhibition
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Agitator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 18th
Chicago Graduate SAIC Day
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 12PM - 4PM
Brian Divis: In High Regard
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OS Projects
601 Sixth St, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, January 14th
Virtual Artist Talk: Remnants
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Heaven Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, November 27th
Sweet 16: 16 Years of Geoffrey Todd Smith at Western Exhibitions
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(northern) Western Exhibitions
7933 N Lincoln Ave, Skokie, IL 60077
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 7th
Midnight Things
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Phase
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The Latent Space
4150 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 13th
InDialogue: Armel Sagbohan and Ann Lu
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CAB Studio
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL, 60602
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 1:30PM - 2PM
Gallery Talk: Kelli Connell, Natalie Krick, Collen Keihm, and Sonja Thomsen
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave. first floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, November 11th, at 12PM
Suchitra Mattai: Osmosis
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, December 20th
Panel discussion on the healing power of art and effects of trauma on young people
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
11:11 Moon Gathering: Release and Manifestation
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18th Street Casa de Cultura
2057 W 18th St Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Marina Rheault Post: Interior Wanderings
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 3rd
In Good Hands
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Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 3rd
Film Studies Center: Color Corrections
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 8th
Bakers Dozen
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The Donut Shop
656 W Wallen Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 10AM - 2PM
Chicago: Demilitarize and Abolish Propaganda Party
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
Connie Noyes: we are built in water
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 18th
2022 SAAH Open House/Open Studios
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UIC Art & Exhibition Hall
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
Soft Noise
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The Plan
600 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 2nd
Chicago Art Department 2nd Friday Open Studios
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Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
Warriors of the Apocalypse
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House of the Apocalypse
1837 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, December 11th
The Land of Arden
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Jude Gallery
629 W Cermak Rd, Unit 240, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
On view through Monday, December 5th
Isabelle Frances McGuire and Kira Scerbin: Death Besring
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HG
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, January 14th
William Downs Lecture | Stories, Traveling, and Making Work
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Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Thursday, November 10th, at 6PM
A DOOR TO THE SKY (1988) Farida Benlyazid
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, November 10th, at 7PM
I HAD TO THINK UP A WAY TO SURVIVE by Lynn Melnick
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, November 10th, at 7PM
Panel and Performance: Into the Blue
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 8th
Shannon Bool: 1:1
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave. first floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 2nd
ACM and Chicago Fringe Opera present: La Jetée
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Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, November 10th, at 8:30PM
Passing Through: Screening: One Inch Leather by Lauren Beck
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 11th
William Bridges: Channeling the Canal: Artist Talk
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Perspective Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, November 10th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 27th
Refracting Histories
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave. first floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 2nd
Open Door: Arnold Kemp, AJ McClenon, Ayanah Moor, and isra rene
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The Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
Norman W. Long: Calumet in Dub
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, February 17th
The Eagle & Long Live Leather
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
Precolonial / Ancient History of Chess (Lecture + Public Chess Tournament)
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The Abrahamic Center for Cultural Education
55 W Van Buren St, 5th floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Notes on Territory – Activation with Jay Carlon
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Thursday, November 10th, at 5PM
On view through Sunday, November 20th
Selva Aparicio: Our Garden Remains
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NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery
5500 N St Louis Ave, Chicago, IL 60625, Building E
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, November 25th
Joiri Minaya: Artist Lecture
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, November 9th, at 3PM
Lecture in Photography: Shannon Bool
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave. first floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, November 9th, at 6PM
What Use Are Old Buildings? Historic Preservation in 2022
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, November 9th, at 6PM
First Nations Film and Video Festival: Once upon a time in Huasco Alto
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, November 9th, from 8PM - 10PM
Roman Susan Proposals: Online Info Session
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Wednesday, November 9th, at 7PM
Tanda: Video Game Non-Architecture: Digital Spaces and Their Impact
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 9th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Wednesday, November 9th
Online Artist Talk: Samia Halaby
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Block Musuem
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, November 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
self in self sound & body
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, November 8th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Florentine Topographies: The Buildings, Spaces, and People of the Renaissance City
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, November 8th, from 6PM - 7PM
Expanding the Canon: Posthumous Works by Women Writers
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Monday, November 7th, at 7PM
Anagram Series x The Bridge: Berry/Keravec/Faber, Abdou/Jackson/Claus/Roebke/Cunningham
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, November 7th, at 8PM
Nicole R. Fleetwood in Conversation with Maria Gaspar: Artmaking and Incarceration
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, November 7th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
15th Annual 3Arts Awards Event
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3Arts
Online
Opening Monday, November 7th, from 6PM - 7PM
Youth Art Market
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, November 6th, at 2PM
Open Labs: Yoshinojo Fujima aka Rika Lin: Kurokami E{m}Urge #ChooseYourReality
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, November 6th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, November 13th
Memorial for Victims of Police Violence
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PO Box Collective
6900 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, November 6th, from 11AM - 1PM
Minami Kobayashi: Somewhere Not Here
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, December 17th
G.E. Liu: Purple Hearts for Virgin Wizards
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, December 17th
Adam Zanolini, Sharon Udoh
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 8PM - 11PM
Día de los Muertos: Love Never Dies Ball
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 5th, at 6PM
Poetry Workshop: Robin Myers
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Chicago Public Library - Lozano Branch
1805 S Loomis St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 12PM - 2PM
Matthew F Fisher: Lakes
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Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Sunday, January 1st
Writing Workshop: Julio Enríquez-Ornelas
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Chicago Public Library - Lozano Branch
1805 S Loomis St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 2PM - 4PM
Lit & Luz Closing Celebration at Chicago Art Department
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Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
At the Intersection of Faith, Culture and Music
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South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 3PM - 5PM
Chicago Design Summit: The Future Real Conditional
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 5PM - 10AM
William Bridges: Channeling the Canal
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Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 27th
Photographs by Vivian Maier
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Alan Koppel Gallery
342 Park Ave, Glencoe, IL 60022
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 7th
Atomic Number 13 part 2
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Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 19th
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 5PM - 7PM
Gallery Talk with Krista Franklin
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Opening Saturday, November 5th, at 3PM
On view through Saturday, November 5th
2022 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation – Program 2
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, November 5th, at 3PM
2022 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation – Program 1
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, November 5th, at 12:30PM
Out-of-Bounds
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Agitator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 5th
Wayfinding
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LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, #3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Eula Biss Conversation with Karsten Lund
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Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, Room 307, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Guanyu Xu: to be seen
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Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
2022 Fall Undergraduate Exhibition
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SAIC Galleries
33 E. Washington St.
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Friday, November 18th
Artist Performance by Liz McCarthy
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Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, 1B (entrance through alley), Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 2 PM - 3 PM
On view through Saturday, November 5th
Lauren Ball: The Village of the Mind
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boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago IL 60643
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 28th
The Feminist Biennial: Closing Reception and Artist Talks
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Woman Made Gallery
2150 S. Canalport Ave. 4th Floor Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 5th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, November 5th
30th Anniversary Show
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Vale Craft Gallery
230 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, November 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Panel discussion on youth incarceration, alternatives, and effects on families and communities
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, November 4th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
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