May 2018
Columbia College Art History Symposium: When Words Meet Images
@ Columbia College Chicago, The Hokin Hall
623 S Wabash Ave, Room 109, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 3PM - 5PM
Owning our Stories
@ OPEN Center for the Arts
2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 4PM - 10Pm
Surrealist Singing Workshop
@ Outerspace
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Larger Than Life: An Exploration of identity Through Figurative Painting
@ Connect Gallery
1520 E Harper Ct, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
Kitten Forever (mpls) + OvefOw & Vacuum
@ Happy Gallery Chicago
902 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 7PM - 11PM
The Rear View Mirror Sessions: Patti LaBelle
@ Arts Incubator
301 E. Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
I Think We’re Alone Now
@ The Block Museum, Alsdorf Gallery
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
Kazumi Seki: Bedtime Breathing
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 18th
Columbia College Chicago Art and Art History MFA Thesis
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, May 22nd
Propeller Fund 2018: Walk-In Session 2
@ Experimental Station, Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Leslie Baum on Helen Frankenthaler
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 100
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 12PM - 1PM
Gabriel Zucman: Globalization, Inequality, and Tax Justice
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Out of Easy Reach Artist’s Dialogues with Ayanah Moor, Bethany Collins, Edra Soto
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Judy Ledgerwood: Chromatic Patterns for the Art Institute of Chicago
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Bluhm Family Terrace
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 30th
Philip Carey: Restless Brain Meets Restless Hand
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 13th
Quartier Lointains: Emerging AfroFrench filmmakers
@ The Harper Theater
5238 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
April 1968 and Today: Police and Military Occupation of Chicago
@ Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, September 14th
Public Newsroom #62: Reimagining the High School Newspaper
@ Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Resist! A Visual History of Protest
@ Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 1st
Kazumi Seki: Bedtime Breathing
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
On view through Friday, May 18th
Now That’s What I Call Video Art Vol. 18
@ Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Ave, Room 205, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 11:30AM - 6PM
Gallery Talk with Poets House
@ Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 12PM - 1PM
Lesley A. Martin
@ Columbia College Chicago, Ferguson Lecture Hall
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Lesley A. Martin
@ Columbia College Chicago
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Embodying Diaspora
@ Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, May 8th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, May 8th
What Was Painting?
@ Club Nutz
418 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, May 8th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, May 8th
Migration and Museums
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, May 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Patrick Jagoda and Thenmozhi Soundararajan
@ The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E 60th St, Ste 112, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, May 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 7th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, August 5th
First Monday Jazz featuring M+N
@ Currency Exchange Café
305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
Collaborative Practices for Artist-Run Spaces
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, May 7th, from 5PM - 8:30PM
Option: Angel Bat Dawid
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, May 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
Felix Mas and Douglas Hofmann: Homage To Woman
@ Martin Lawrence Galleries
5 Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, IL 60173
Opening Sunday, May 6th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, May 30th
Dylan Cale Jones: Drawing Session
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, May 6th, from 11AM - 1PM
Anna Kunz: Color Cast
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, May 6th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
The Whole Yadig!? Teen Panel
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, May 6th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 22nd
Joan Giroux: ecomonopolies
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 11AM - 12PM
On view through Sunday, October 7th
Prismisms: Joshua Kent
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 5PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
Delicate Cycle
@ World's Largest Laundromat
6246 W Cermak Rd, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 6th
Peter Broitman
@ Happy Gallery
902 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, June 5th
Latinx Nation
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 7PM - 12AM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
“I’m a game.” Or, “Staying with the Trouble.”
@ Bar4000
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, June 1st
Christopher Ottinger: Excavations and Lorca Jolene: Liminal Creature
@ Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, May 5th, at 6PM
On view through Monday, May 28th
Sadie Woods: It Was a Rebellion
@ Nichols Tower at Homan Square
http://theradius.us/episode84
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 5AM - 7AM
Warrior Queens Pop-Up Shop
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 11AM - 3PM
Jason Dunda and Andreas Fischer: Shared Neuroses
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 9th
Volta String Quartet
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
A Better Tomorrowland
@ SideCar
411 Huehn St, Hammond, IN 46327
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
Frank Pollard: Glass Case Mini Art Gallery Opening
@ The WasteShed
2842 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
Art Awakening
@ The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
Opening Friday, May 4th, at 7PM
Lauren Sullivan, Kat Gu, Angela Lee: Excavate the Image
@ SITE Sharp
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 4:15PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, May 16th
Moved to Stillness
@ Gallery19
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Perceptions
@ Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL. 60625
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 5 PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, May 29th
Spring Showcase
@ Schneider Gallery
770 N LaSalle Dr #401, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Climate Change: The Price of Fairness
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 3PM - 5PM
Francesco Pergolesi: Tableaux
@ Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 West Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 7th
Anahid Ghorbani: The Edge of Shadows
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 26th
No Burden For Continuity
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 20th
Spring Thing ’18
@ Greenleaf Art Center
1806 W Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
In the Phantom Tongue of the Mountain Witch
@ LivingRoom
1530 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
Ambiguity and Fragments
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
MoDa: Mother and Daughter Exhibit Together
@ Elmhurst Artists' Guild Gallery
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
The Art of Sitting Quietly and Doing Nothing (2018)
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Ye Xuanlin and Sun Yi: Gaze in Silence
@ gallery no one
1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Room 303, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Thursday, May 31st
Tara Parambi: You Can Buy Happiness But Eventually You’ll Shit It Out
@ AMFM Gallery
2151 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, May 15th
Walk on the Wild Side
@ Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 530 PM - 730 PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Steve Hough: Sublime Geometry and Eric Tucker: From the Shore
@ Zg Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Emily Hutchings: Give me an account of your doings from the moment that I ceased to be a witness of them
@ Hume
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
MAS Context presents: Nathan Friedman
@ Society of Architectural Historians
1365 N Astor St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Conrad Bakker
@ Art Theory and Practice
Kresge Hall, Rm 1410, 1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL, 60208
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 6PM
Remaining Sharp
@ Threewalls
2738 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Copyright Protection in the Digital Age
@ LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
Ilit Azoulay
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Post Now and Post New: Afrofuturist Themes in Contemporary Art
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL60605
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Public Newsroom #61: Making TV with Aymar Jean Christian
@ Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Torkwase Dyson and the Wynter-Wells School
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Madlener House
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 28th
Yael Davids
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Drive Building
280 S Columbus Dr, 319, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 6:15PM
In-Session | kevrone. A Panel and Performance
@ Threewalls
2738 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 2nd, from 6:03PM - 8PM
Tricia Van Eck
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Drive Building
280 S Columbus Dr, 203, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, May 1st, from 5PM - 6:15PM
America Inside Out: The Muslim Next Door
@ CAIR-Chicago, Azima Center
17 N State St, Ste 1500, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, May 1st, from 5:30PM - 8PM
In Progress: Food and Labor
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, May 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
Ridge Park Art Programming Discussion
@ Ridge Park
9625 S Longwood Dr, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Tuesday, May 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
