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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Trident Chili Cookoff
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 5PM - 7PM
Elijah Burgher: A List of Wishes
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(northern) Western Exhibitions
7933 N Lincoln Ave, Skokie, IL 60077
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, December 22nd
Sharon Hoogstraten: Dancing for Our Tribe
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Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Riley Duncan: futures
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S-H Projects
905 W Eastman St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, November 8th
Asian Improv aRts Midwest Presents: Jamie Kempkers / Tatsu Aoki (Album Release)
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 8:30PM - 10PM
KOHLMALLOZZIMAUNU
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Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, October 19th, at 8PM
Twelvetwelvangle
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 19th, at 8PM
Heaven Gallery Benefit
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, FL 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 7PM - 12AM
The Arts in the Dark Parade
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Arts in the Dark Parade
State Street in the Chicago Loop
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Culture is an Initiation Ritual
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Lot49
2201 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 6PM - 12AM
Specter
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Evoke Gallery
3040 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
Posters 4 Progress
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
Impressions No. 2
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Studio FreeLove
2255 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 5PM - 10PM
PPP — THE PREPARATOR’S PET PIANO: Live Concert with Chelsea Bridge, Janet Xmas & Itsï Ramirez
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Weaving Workshop
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Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative | Rebuild Foundation
1456 E 70th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 1PM - 3PM
Day Two – Cornelia Arts Building October Open Studios
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Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia, Chicago IL 60657
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 11am - 3PM
Chicago Graduate Portfolio Day and Open Studio Night
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
36 S Wabash St, Suite 1201, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 10AM - 2PM
The Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago Museum: Foundations of a Community’s Memory
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Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Studio 316, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 22nd
Mana Contemporary: Open House
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Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 10AM - 5PM
Sigfredo Chacón: Horror Vacui
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Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Monday, December 30th
The Beastiarium: Artist Talk
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Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 18th, at 7:30PM
To Washington Park, With Love: Rose Blouin Book Launch
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
Jeremy Carter: Fate Pull
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Yes Project Space
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
Juntando orillas: Book Release with Velia Vidal + Kianny Antigua
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Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
Cornelia Arts Building October Open Studios – Opening Night
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Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
Kristin Abhalter Smith: Double Stitch
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 18th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
[hold]
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Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave #1, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 14th
Anna Horvath: Flock
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, November 13th
CAPE Proximities: in conjunction with others
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CAPE
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, January 17th
Women at War: 12 Ukrainian Artists: Curator Tour and Interview
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
SK Reed: The Unreal
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United Colors
611 N 6th St, Kansas City, KS 66101
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, October 31st
Art Fair 2024
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Marwen
833 N Orleans St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 5PM - 9PM
Background Echoes: Mexicanness and the Production of Race in Hollywood
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
Fall (in love) Show
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East Erie Gallery
161 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 1st
Edgar Arceneaux: Until, Until, Until . . .
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7:30PM - 8:20PM
On view through Saturday, October 19th
Comfort Music: Juan Flores & Veronica Anne Salinas
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
PO Box Poetry Series
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, October 17th, at 7:30PM
Roger Deakins Exhibition and Film Screening & Conversation: The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
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Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture
2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
On view through Wednesday, April 30th
WILL (Jessie Maple, 1981)
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 17th, at 7PM
Halloween Fright Night
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Friendly Community Room
6725 W Roosevelt Rd, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Thursday, October 17th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 10th
DOVEWHETHER – Halloween Live Show
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O's Tap
2044 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
An Evening with Paige Taul
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Luftwerk X Aram Saroyan: More Light!
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Poetry Foundation
2249 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 11th
Mapping Indigenous Chicago
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Newberry Library
Online
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Florian Klinger: Aesthetic Action
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Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6PM - 7PM
Conversation: The Cultural Tide of Hokusai’s Great Wave
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6PM - 6:30PM
Intimate Alchemy: David Levinthal’s XXX Polaroids from the Kinsey Institute
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Grunwald Gallery
1201 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN 47405-5501
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, November 11th
Muyiwa Adeyanju: Roots and Routes
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Western Illinois University Art Gallery
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, October 17th
Blue Hour Reading & Workshop Series
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Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, at 7:30PM
Time Machine Bronzeville
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Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Cole Pierce: Home Spun
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McHenry County College | Galleries One & Two
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 2:30PM - 4:30PM
On view through Friday, November 1st
Virtual Discussion: Neïl Beloufa, Patrick Jagoda, and Gary Kafer
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The Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, at 1PM
Pierre Bayard: Hitchcock s’est trompe
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Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 6PM - 7PM
Mai Zetterling: Loving Couples (1964)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637`
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, at 9:30PM
Dread Scott: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
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The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
VISITING CURATOR TALK: RACHEL ADAMS
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Kresge Hall, Northwestern University
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, at 5PM
Screening | The D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 10AM - 9PM
Mary Burton: The Soul Of The Land
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Life Force Arts Center
1609 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 1:30p - 6:30p
On view through Monday, January 5th
Juan Sánchez: Puerto RicanEquation: mixed media works, video y El Espiritu Santo
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The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, Illinois 60622
On view through Friday, August 29th
The Labyrinth
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Chicago Artist Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago IL
Opening Monday, October 14th, at 6PM
On view through Thursday, October 24th
Place des Vosges
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, October 19th
Life is a Drag
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
Father Daughter Dance
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The DuSable
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 11AM - 4PM
ELASTRO AV Night 2: Curated by Clark Woods, Taylor Dye, Gordon Fung
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 13th, at 8PM
ebere agwuncha: chinelo house: weaving workshop
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, October 13th, at 2PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
Tilichero x POCAS+ Mercado
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The Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 12PM - 4PM
ELASTRO AV Night 1: Curated by Galina Shevchenko
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, October 12th, at 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
PERFORMANCE MIXTAPE #1: Casemier and Patsula/Malmed/Smith
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Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
THƯƠNG HOÀI TRẦN: In the Spaces Remaining
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ARTRUSS
4553 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 24th
25th Anniversary Show
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago IL, 60603
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Through a BIPOC Lens: Decolonizing Feminism
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Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
OUR / SELVES
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BlueRojoStudios
11441 S Saint Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio’s October SECOND SATURDAY
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Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 3:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Friday, November 1st
LIVE POETRY EVENT: SYLVIA PLATH & Co.
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
Desert. Forest. Water.
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Ancillaerie
109 South Calumet, Chesterton, IN 46304
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 2 PM - 3 PM
On view through Friday, November 15th
IGIN EXHIBITION
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3750 W Ogden Ave
3750 W Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 1PM - 3PM
Day of The Dead Exhibition: To Remember
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Dragonfly Gallery & Creative Spaces
2436 W Madison, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People: THE Artisanal Roomscape LABORATORY
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The GREYSTONE Collective
4733 S Forrestville Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 1PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
Rafael Blanco: Artist Talk
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 1PM - 2PM
SHAKE SHOOK SHAKEN: COUNTERBALANCE W/ Lindsay Weinberg + Julie Meckler
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647, USA
Opening Saturday, October 12th, at 12PM
Dromez, Flesh Narc, Bakantez, Manual Pollination
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 12th, at 8PM
Side Yard Sounds: Heavy Tiny
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 12th, at 7PM
6th Annual Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 11am - 5PM
Family Day | Patterns & Portals
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 11 AM - 3PM
desde afuera. rapid. chaotic.
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Grounded Studio
2570 S Harding Ave. Suite 111 Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 11AM - 3PM
O Truant Muse
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Accessory Dwelling Unit
2538 W Shakespeare Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 11AM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
Dialogue Chicago: Out Loud
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL, 60201
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 9am - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Sunday, January 12th
Cecilia Beaven: Flickering Cocoon
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, April 6th
Kevin A. Williams: Then and Now
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Connect Gallery
1451 E 53rd St Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 23rd
Toiret Status | CVN | Koeosaeme | Tentacle 229 | Dawn Division
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Digital Art Demo Space
2515 S Archer Ave, Suite 2, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 11th, at 8PM
CLEAT Series: Moth Vegas, Sam Clapp ‘Bliss Point 3’, Wyrd Modulo
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 11th, at 8PM
Quiet Comfort: Hedra Rowan
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
On the Verge of Hope
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Gallery Wrightwood
3325 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Out of the Vault at 20: Preserved Silent Shorts from CFA
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, October 11th, at 7PM
Volodymyr Podlevsky and Svitlana Moiseieva: Divine Gardens
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Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago
2249 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
The Feminist Film Collectives of Cinenova
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 11th, at 7PM
Janice Marin & Pia Cruzalegui: STORIES Y DESEOS
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, December 6th
Austin Pope: The (Mis)Education of Chicago
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S MLK Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 8th
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