April 2019
Fashion and Fabric: Textiles, Trade, and Africa
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Computer Science on the Chicago Streets: Conversations on Data Visualization
@ Northern Illinois University Art Museum
116 Altgeld Hall, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 5:05PM - 6PM
M(otherhood), Part I
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Whipped Cream
@ Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
SAIC MakeWork Showcase
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
Contested City: From Lower East Side of NYC to West Side Chicago
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Piranesi and Architectural Magnificenza
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Allan Lake: The Black Aesthetic
@ The University of Chicago, Center for Identity + Inclusion
5710 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 11th, at 6PM
On view through Thursday, April 25th
Space Art Symposium
@ The Leroy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 4:15PM - 5:30PM
EcoWorks
@ ShopColumbia at Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery
619 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Tuesday, April 30th
Stephanie Taiber: Natural Order: Artist Talk
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, April 11th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Halal If You Hear Me: Book Launch
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 7PM - 8PM
Los Adioses
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
Jacob Tobia Skype Q&A
@ Volumes Bookcafe
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 7:30PM - 8:45PM
Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM) Chicago
@ Chicago State University
9501 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 12th
Rear View Mirror Sessions with Duane E Powell: Eugene McDaniels
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
Aruna D’Souza
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Jennifer Reeder
@ Art Theory and Practice
1880 Campus Dr, Kresge Hall 1515, Evanston, IL, 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 5PM - 6PM
Ça Twiste à Poponguine
@ Comfort Film
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 8PM - 10PM
J e l l o: Synergy
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Ste 208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
Sinema Obscura presents: Dinner Theatre – act IV
@ Uncommon Ground
1401 W Devon Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
Laurie Simmons with Genevieve Gaignard, Cyrus Dunham, and Hannah Baer
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
Towards A Newer Avant-Garde Meeting 1
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
Amina Ross: Black Hair, Intimacy and Touch
@ Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
David Ranney: Living and Dying on the Factory Floor
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 4PM - 7PM
Encounters with Asia: Revitalizing Dying Areas in Japan with Site-Specific Art Projects
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Nichols Board of Trustees Suite
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 11AM - 1PM
Incommunicable
@ Cafe Logan
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 8PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
2019 Student Annual
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 12th
The City, Unfolding on Foot
@ Columbia College Chicago, Ferguson Lecture Hall, The 600 Building (ACC)
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
MAKE Lit Presents: A Lit & Luz Fundraiser & Social!
@ The Martin
2515 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Damaged Goods & FOBia
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Newton Harrison
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Rubloff Auditorium: 230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Fo Wilson and Chelsea Frazier
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
URL 2 IRL
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Havana From On High
@ Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
4048 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Genevieve Gaignard and Derrick Woods-Morrow
@ LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, April 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Leonardo Drew
@ Gordon Parks Arts Hall, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
5815 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
Jill Magid: Permission as Material
@ Kresge Hall
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Monday, April 8th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
Sappho’s Salon: 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Monday, April 8th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Teju Cole: Coming to Our Senses: Experience
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Body + Camera 2019: The Un/Certain Body
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 10AM - 8PM
Northwestern MFA Open Studios
@ Northwestern University - Locy Hall
1850 S Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 7th
Dr. Regina Bittner: Bauhaus Translated
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 1:30PM - 3PM
Of Folk, Faith, and Fellowship: Exploring Chicago’s African-American Women Composers
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Elements: an interactive gallery
@ MALA: Muslim American Leadership Alliance
20 W Kinzie St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 2PM - 5PM
Ivy Guild: Poetics of Pyracantha
@ ACRE
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 1PM - 3PM
David Maljković: Also on View: Closing
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Sun is Setting/Faith in Strangers
@ Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
VISCERAL: Artists Talk
@ EXTRA Projects
3551 W Diversey Avenue Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Edra Soto: Art Walk
@ Apple Michigan Avenue
401 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, April 7th
Nazia Kazi: Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics
@ The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 3PM - 4PM
Darin Latimer: Deathless-ness; 10,000 Works (Eyes & Teeth Dept.)
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, Il 60605
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Jessica Pierotti
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640, 3rd Floor
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
David Maljković: Also on View: Tour
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 7th
The Long Term
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 10th
Source of Origin
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 19th
Kathy Halper: What A Day It’s Been
@ 1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 22nd
Vertical Gallery 6-Year Anniversary Group Show
@ Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Found Object Puppetry
@ Outer Space Studios
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 12PM - 4PM
First Saturday Evanston Art Events
@ 1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 12PM - 8PM
Judy Bowman: This Stillness: Gallery Talk
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
Meditative Abstracts with Kristen Neveu
@ The Collage Cafe
1129 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 4PM
Jillian Hansen-Lewis: Borrowed Lamps (applause for my friends)
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Raul Ortiz: GRID-locked on Grand
@ Ignition Project Space
3839 W Grand Ave, #1 Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, April 30th
Jamie Viebach
@ The WasteShed
2842 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 2PM - 4PM
Giovanna Aguirre Peresson: The World We Live In
@ Austin-Irving Branch, Chicago Public Library
6100 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 2PM - 5PM
John Corbett: Pick Up the Pieces
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 8:30PM - 11:30PM
Filiberto
@ Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
4048 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Ann Craven: Promise (Birds for Chicago)
@ Shane Campbell Gallery
2021 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Perpetual Help
@ ColorCircles
5524 N Broadway Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 7PM - 11PM
Jessica Pierotti
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Joe Rauen: Unknown Musical Objects
@ Union Street Gallery
1527 Otto Blvd, Chicago Heights, IL 60411
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 3PM
Susana Aldanondo: The Intersection of Art and Music
@ Union Street Gallery
1527 Otto Blvd, Chicago Heights, IL 60411
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 3PM
Stina Joy Henslee: Eat Your Heart Out
@ Ampersand Cowork
3317 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
On view through Saturday, June 15th
John Maloof
@ Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Dorit Jordan Dotan: Redundant: Everything Must Go: Closing
@ Wedge Projects
1448 Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
Kathy Halper: What a Day It’s Been
@ 1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, April 22nd
Yvette Kaiser-Smith: On seeing: one point
@ Ignition Project Space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Christina Haglid: Tiny Sanctuaries and Carol Pylant: Into the Ulterior
@ Gallery Victor Armendariz
300 West Superior, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 12PM - 3:30PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
GOT IT FOR CHEAP
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5PM - 9PM
Daniel Hendricksen: Paper & Wood
@ Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 6th, at 6PM
On view through Tuesday, April 30th
Ricky McEachern: Vietnam: Chroma and Movement
@ Andersonville Galleria
5247 N Clark Street Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, April 30th
Millian Giang Lien Pham: Dislocated Labor
@ Prairie
2055 W Cermak Ave, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 12th
FOUND ART + FOOD
@ Post Scarcity
2215 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Colleen Hardison: Halftone Projects Release Party
@ Halftone Projects
2523 N Fairfield Ave Apt 1, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
Stephanie Taiber: Natural Order
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Abstractly Speaking
@ Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave Unit 4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Christian Arrecis
@ Side Street Studio Arts
15 Ziegler Ct, Elgin, IL 60120
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Jamiah Calvin and Stephen Signa-Aviles: Reanimation through Painting and Sculpture
@ Aurora Public Art
20 E Downer Pl, Aurora, IL 60505
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Brendan Hoffman: Brotherland: War in Ukraine
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
Intimacy of Visibility
@ ACRE
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Furtive Learning Labs
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, April 7th
for an easier recipe, sear pork shoulder
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Breaking Ground
@ A Cup of Joe
6806 W Archer Ave, Chicago, IL 60638
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
Brandon Markell Holmes
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Robie House: 1908–1910
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 3PM - 4PM
BRYANT lamont: BLACKTAX
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, April 5th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
Genevieve Gaignard: Black White and Red All Over
@ moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 24th
