October 2023
Experimental Sound Studio Presents: Macie Stewart | A Mouth Full of Glass Orchestra
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Avant-Garde Soundscapes: DOUSING & MAC BLACKOUT at PAPER JAM
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 7PM - 11PM
Writing Life: On Essays with Isabel Zapata and Alejandra Oliva
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 20th, at 7PM
Bridgeport Art Center: Opens Studios Third Friday
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
Affen Segun: We are Kings: Timeless Transfers of Generational Joy, Happiness, and Swag
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 25th
Cornelia Arts Building October Open Studios
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 N Ravensweood, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 21st
The Theater Next Door Is Coming Back
@ mn gallery + studio
3524 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 1st
Andrew Maxbauer: Music for violin, field recordings, and the surrounding acoustic environment
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 22nd
Big Fluxus Show (Name tbd)
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 20th, at 6PM
Holly Murkerson: Second Body
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 18th
Opening Reception, Ash Huse: Now You’re Here
@ The Arcade
618 S Michigan Ave, Second Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, December 12th
The Super Secret Supper Club
@ A Very Serious Gallery
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago ,IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 18th
No Artificial Ingredients
@ East Erie Gallery
161 E Erie St Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 5PM - 9PM
Art from the Archives
@ Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 20th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 31st
S45
@ SITE/less
1250 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 19th, at 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 22nd
VS Presents: JOURNEY(S) – live podcast recording
@ The Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Healing Meditation & Fundraiser
@ Public Works
2141 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
Andrew Fitzpatrick, Shedding, Sam Scranton + Andy Danstrom
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, October 19th, at 7PM
Cohort Presentation
@ Awakenings Art
4001 N Ravenswood Ave, Suite 204-C, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Calvino’s Ecological Clairvoyance: A Question of Communication
@ Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
A New Decade of Dance Films: Screenings by Kierah KIKI King and Patricia Nguyen
@ Columbia College Dance Center
1306 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Art After Dark: Building an Ofrenda (Part I)
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, October 19th, at 6PM
Heather Bennett: Night Watch (Origin of the World)
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza Health and Sciences Building, 201, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, November 16th
Westermann—Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea: Screening
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Doug Cannell: Learning Curves
@ Stamelos Gallery Center
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128-2406
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 5 PM - 7 PM
On view through Sunday, December 10th
Film Screening: Common Exchanges, When Species Meet
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 6067
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Art After Work with Tom Greensfelder
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
4865 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
Gallery Talk for Tranifestations: Un:cover :: Re:member
@ NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL
Opening Thursday, October 19th, from 4:30PM - 5:30PM
On view through Friday, October 20th
Xingrui Xu: Removing Mountains
@ SITE gallery
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Saturday, November 26th
VOICES: Alejandro Almanza Pereda
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, October 18th, from 5PM - 6PM
Fall 2023 Warnock Lecture: Mapping the Ephemeral
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 18th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Edra Soto: Artist lecture and reception
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle Normal, IL 61761
Opening Wednesday, October 18th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Raven Chacon Lecture: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Talk | Jason Hammel on The Lula Cafe Cookbook with Book Signing
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
Pleiades Series: Sarah Clausen (solo), Clausen/Stewart/Finnegan Trio
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, October 16th, at 8PM
Maxwell Volkman: A Nightmare
@ Soho House
113-125 N Green St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, October 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Into Conversation: Temporality, Power and the Interview
@ Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Monday, October 16th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
An Artist Talk with Huehuecoyotl (Fernando Palma Rodriguez)
@ Logan Center for the Arts
915 East 60th St, Penthouse Room 901, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, October 16th, from 6PM - 7PM
Frequency Series Presents: Locus
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, October 15th, at 8PM
Elastro A/V Night 2: Curated by Ruby Que, Asya Dubrovina, and castroduperly
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, October 15th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Illinois Archaeology Lecture Series
@ Dickson Mounds Museum
10956 N Dickson Mounds Rd, Lewistown, IL 61542
Opening Sunday, October 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
Book Party: “First Grade” by Marcia Daehn Palazzolo
@ Rare Nest Gallery
3433 N Kedvale Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Sunday, October 15th, from 3PM - 5PM
Closing Reception for “Dialogue” and “The Remaining, Mourn…”
@ Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum
Altgeld Hall 595 College Ave, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Sunday, October 15th, from 2:30PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Lab E: Social Gathering
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 15th, from 1PM - 3PM
SoFar Sounds!
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 15th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
No Place Like Home
@ Devonshire Cultural Center
4400 Greenwood St, Skokie, IL 60076
Opening Sunday, October 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
REENCOUNTERS/REENCUENTROS: Curators’ Tour
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Sunday, October 15th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, October 29th
Portales de Abundancia / Portals of Abundance Facilitated by Silvia Ines Gonzalez
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 15th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
On view through Wednesday, November 1st
Elastro A/V Night 1: Curated by Ruby Que, Asya Dubrovina, and castroduperly
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, October 14th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
AT FIRST GLANCE
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S. MLK Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 25th
Jay Afrisando: is sound is tactile is visual is sound is
@ Curb Appeal Gallery
Email info@curbappeal.gallery for address
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 5 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Saturday, November 11th
Akira + Anysquared Performances
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 4:30PM - 7:30PM
Time Memory Mythos
@ Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave #4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 12th
NFTs and Art
@ Northwestern University - Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 3:30PM - 4:30PM
A Cornucopia of Prints and Group Show of Works on Paper
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, December 29th
Michelle Wasson: Aurea Nova: Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Joseph Friebert: The Experimental Years
@ Madron Gallery
1000 W North Ave, Third Floor, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 2 PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, December 22nd
Sue Taylor: Artist Talk
@ MADRON
1000 W North Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 14th, at 2PM
Dock 6 Design & Art 15
@ Dock 6 Collective
2100 N Major Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 2PM - 8PM
Art Talks! The Block Collects 2023
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Bryana Bibbs: Places (Edition I)
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S Throop St., Unit 419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, November 18th
First Lady MK Pritzker and Interior Designer Michael S. Smith on History and Architectural Preservation
@ Cahn Auditorium
600 Emerson St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 1PM - 2PM
Walk into a bar
@ Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, December 9th
Center Days: Open House Chicago
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 1PM - 4PM
Picasso: Printers, Art Dealers, and Lovers: A lecture by Jay Clarke
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
3831 Activation: The Last Green Book
@ South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 1PM - 3PM
Art Talks! Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Cariño Festival de Cine: 2023
@ OPEN Center for the Arts
2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 12PM - 4PM
Oliver Jeffers
@ Northwestern University - Ryan Center for Music
70 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 11:30AM - 12:30PM
Public Art and Environmental Justice in Chicago
@ Northwestern University - Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 11:30AM - 12:30PM
Forms & Features Community Reading (Virtual)
@ The Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 11am - 12PM
Family Day | Party!
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 11AM - 3PM
Selina Trepp: Everyone’s time has equal value: A Musical Performance
@ 150 Media Stream
150 N Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 11AM - 1PM
Finding Home: An Open House Community Partner Exhibition
@ ART WORKS Projects
625 North Kingsbury, Chicago, IL, 60654
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Freedom From Freedom To: A Group Performance
@ ALMA Art and Interiors
3636 South Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, October 14th, from 7PM - 10:30PM
Circuit des Yeux w/ Dorothy Carlos
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, October 13th, at 8:30PM
Justin D’Acci: PRESSURE DOME
@ SULK CHICAGO
525 S Dearborn St, Apt 209, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, October 13th, at 8PM
Tape Release Show for Nicholas G. & Teal Swan
@ Tone Deaf Records
4356 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL, 60641
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 8PM - ??
PAPER JAZZ!
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 7PM - 11PM
Sapphire & Crystals: Freedom’s Muse
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 10th
Muted & Mighty
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 10th
REENCOUNTERS/REENCUENTROS
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 29th
Warren Perlstein: Chicago Architecture: Construction and Renovation
@ DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
4740 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, November 30th
Eli Craven: I Don’t Want to Fall In Love Again
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 18th
Friday the 13th in Wonderland: A Spooky Fundraiser for Intuit
@ Stage 773
1225 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 9:30PM
Beautiful Souls Coffin Show
@ Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 5th
Rostrum312
@ salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
Mercurial Lake: Exhibition Walkthrough
@ Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, October 13th
Akira Iyashikei: Art Talk and Slideshow Screening
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
CAD OPEN STUDIOS
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
Samson Y Hiss presents: One-Handed Witch
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Tadao Ando: Spontaneous Sketches
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Friday, December 15th
Festival del Arte Popular
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 22nd
Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, December 16th
Stitched Time
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 13th, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Ana Paula Santana + Kikù Hibino with Kim Alpert
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, October 12th, at 8:30PM
Comfort Music: Jeff Kimmel
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Open Door: Chris Aldana + Czaerra Galicinao Ucol, Dior J. Stephens + jason b. crawford
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, October 12th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
