October 2019
Mentor/Mentor
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St Fl 4, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
Celebrando Comunidad Mural Dedication
@ Celebrando Comunidad Mural Dedication
3657 W 26th St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 3:30PM - 5:30PM
Grown Folk Stories
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
Steve Macek of Project Censored (&Guests) Discuss Censored 2020
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7PM - 8PM
Narcisa Hirsch: Contact Zones
@ Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
Anchor Graphics: 25 Years of Printmaking
@ Hokin Gallery
623 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, January 24th
Design in Theatre: From Idea to Ideal
@ Design Museum of Chicago
72 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Platica y Poetry featuring Gregorio Gomez
@ Pilsen Outpost
1637 W. 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
Nostalgia for the Light
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
Am I Man Enough?
@ Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Lit & Luz Book Club Presents: Authors in Conversation
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 19th
Maryam Taghavi: Anatomy of A Fall
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 14th
Sisters in Cinema: An Evening with Yvonne Welbon
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Noche Con Ariana Brown | Poesia, Community, Celebration
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
Saeed Jones: How We Fight for Our Lives
@ American Writers Museum
180 N Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
영화 “김복동” / “My name is KIM Bok-dong”
@ 6018 North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Lunchtime Lecture: Chicago’s Beekeepers
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
Patty Carroll: Anonymous Women: Camouflage and Calamity
@ Governors State University Visual Arts Gallery
1 University Pkwy, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, November 26th
Karen Azarnia: Full Circle
@ Governors State University Visual Arts Gallery
1 University Pkwy, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, November 26th
Amanda Greive: Drowning in the Delicate
@ Governors State University Visual Arts Gallery
1 University Pkwy, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, November 26th
Meditation & Botanical drawing
@ Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
Cesáreo Moreno: Mi Casa es Su Casa
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Lit & Luz: Favorite Poems
@ Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
J e l l o: Season 3, Episode 1
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Sara Uribe
@ Roosevelt University
430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 5PM - 6PM
Art and Recovery: Images and Stories Through Addiction
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 7PM - 8PM
Angel Bat Dawid’s Mothership9: Duets w/ Dr. Charles Joseph Smith
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Ste 208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 9PM - 12AM
Open Door Series: Lisa Fishman & Jennifer Karmin
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
Eddie Opara
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Lit & Luz Festival: Verónica Gerber Bicecci
@ Northeastern Illinois University, Angelina Pedroso Center
5500 N St. Louis Ave, Building B, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, at 3PM
Puppets in Progress
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Perils and Purpose of Photojournalism
@ Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
9603 Woods Dr, Skokie, IL 60077
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
In Progress: A Tale of Today with the Driehaus Museum
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Policing Racial Violence: 1919 and Beyond
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Lit & Luz: Documents Bureau and Undocumented Projects Present: The Office of Migratory Perceptions
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, October 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
Learning in Public: Artist & Community-based Partnerships
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Monday, October 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, October 14th
Israel Martínez
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, October 14th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Ola Larsmo: Swede Hollow
@ Swedish American Museum
5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Monday, October 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
Sappho’s Salon: October
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Monday, October 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Tegan & Sara
@ Volumes Bookcafe
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, October 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Option: Andrea Pensado
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, October 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Israel Martínez
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, October 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 19th
Slow-Res: a Free and Self-Taught MFA Community
@ Read/Write Library
914 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 3PM - 5PM
Josefien Stoppelenburg: Enchanted Colors
@ Rembrandt Chamber Musicians Office
1522 Greenleaf St Suite C, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 2 PM - 5 PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
Kim Piotrowski: Have and Hold
@ Cultivator at Bray Grove Farm
202 E Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
Eric Scott Fisher: Broken Words
@ Cultivator at Bray Grove Farm
202 E Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
WooJin Shin & Daniel Salamanca: Mirage
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 10th
Never Again Is Now: Mass Incarceration Workshop
@ JASC - Japanese American Service Committee
4427 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 2PM - 4:30PM
Laura Biagi, Ph.D.: Inviting the Medicine
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Terrain Biennial: Project 1612
@ Project 1612
1100 N Underhill St, Peoria, IL 61606
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
Second Annual Open Studio at Double Trip Press
@ Double Trip Press
3318 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 11AM - 3PM
Lit & Luz Keynote Address with Luis Alberto Urrea
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 3PM - 4PM
The Vanishing City: Excavating the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893
@ Glessner House
1800 S Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 4PM - 5PM
Creative Conversations: Potluck Supper
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
The Silver Room turns 22!
@ The Silver Room (Chicago)
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
Art Speaks: I want to be…
@ Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 12 PM - 1 PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
John Henley: Hero
@ Slow
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
Goodbye, Clog
@ Loo
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
Alonso Galué: Immigrants To Go
@ Agitator Cooperative Gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
Extended Self: Transformations and Connections
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, January 19th
A Culinary Journey: How Chinese Workers Built the Railroad
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
Repair Fair at the Bridgeport Library!
@ Richard J Daley Library
3400 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
IMSS Family Festival
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 10AM - 5PM
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Theatrical Reading
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 10AM - 12:30PM
Indigenous Languages and Peoples in the Midwest: A Conversation
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 10AM - 1PM
East of Ridgeland Block Party: Performances for Terrain Biennial
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 3PM - 9PM
Domestic Violence Awareness Panel Discussion
@ Trickster Gallery
190 S Roselle Rd, Schaumburg, IL 60193
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 1PM - 3PM
Soviefy/Aerograd & Expect the Be(a)st
@ Ice House Gallery Evanston
609 South Blvd, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Lavender Women & Killer Dykes: Lesbians, Feminism, and Community in Chicago
@ Gerber Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 1st
Networks of Resistance
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 6PM - 11PM
2019 Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) Graduation
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
Lit & Luz Festival Kick Off Party
@ Sleeping Village
3734 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 19th
Mental Filmness
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 4PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
Solid Gold Saturday
@ The Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 1PM - 5PM
Big Brothers Big Sisters Patio Pop-Up
@ Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 9AM - 1PM
Mark Verabioff: Seminal Videotapes 1984-1992
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 7PM - 11PM
MELINA AUSIKAITIS: Free Fake Guitar Demo
@ Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 12th
Eighth Blackbird with Pamela Z
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Kyle Flens: Solo and Duo Works for Percussion
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Ste 208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
Ism, Ism, Ism: Dreams of Suitcases and a Blue Lobster
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Bold Abstractions: Paintings from the Thoma Collection Opening
@ Rockford Art Museum
711 N Main St, Rockford, IL 61103
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
Journey for Justice: Untold Filipino-American History
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
Travelin’ Mercies
@ The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 5th
Words of Encouragement
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 25th
¡Las Sandinistas!
@ Instituto Cervantes Chicago
31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Emily Rapport: Everything Is
@ Eat Paint Studio
5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Feminist Freelancers! All Are Welcome.
@ Agitator: a co-operative gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 11AM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 27th
Third Realm: Curatorial Tour and Gallery Talk
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, October 11th, at 12PM
Artists Connect: Pamela Z on Robert Rauschenberg
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 12PM - 1PM
Polish Imagination – The World of Tomorrow
@ Polish Museum of America
984 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 1st
Forgotten Forms
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 8th
Chip Thomas: Be Here Now!
@ Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
Luftwerk in collaboration with Iker Gil: Geometry of Light
@ Farnsworth House
14520 River Rd, Plano, IL 60545
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
House of the Apocalypse Art Opening
@ House of the Apocalypse
1908 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
garden/ruinate, Reading the diaspora
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 12th
Bridging the Gap
@ One River School
4625 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 1st
