today
Side Yard Sounds presents: Ana Everling & Edinho Gerber
@ compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Evanston Art Center’s 37th Annual Art Party
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St., Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
American Surrealism
@ 6311arts gallery
6311 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, May 16th
Bringing Together Established Chicago Artists, Emerging Student Voices, and Inclusive Community Programming
@ 6311arts
6311 N Clark St, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 16th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 4th
Conflict of Interests
@ ShadowBoxX Gallery
116 Washington St, Waukegan, IL 60085
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 13th
Hearth Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center's FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 6th
Will Gabaldón
@ Ackerman Clarke
2544 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 20th
Columbia College 2026 Art History Symposium: When Words Meet Images
@ Hokin Lecture Hall
623 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 1PM - 5:30PM
Data Translation Environment
@ Locker Room
2320 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, May 26th
Cornelia Arts Building May Open Studios DAY TWO
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia Ave, Chicago IL 60657
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 12PM - 4PM
Strategies of Resistance: Immigrant Bodies Beyond Assimilation- Virtual Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, June 7th
Planting Seeds: An Indigenous Zine Fest
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 11AM - 3PM
THIS WEEK
Sunday
May 17th
Anything, Everything
@ California Clipper
1002 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 17th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, May 17th
Art Salon at Oliva Gallery: Artist-Led Critique & Conversation
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, May 17th, from 2 PM - 4 PM
The Future of the Visualist— Working Meeting
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, #203, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 17th, from 10AM - 2PM
Tuesday
May 19th
Chicago’s German-Jewish Labor History with Ben Schacht and Matthew Schlerf
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, May 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Wednesday
May 20th
Aurora Film Society presents: On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
@ The Venue
21 S Broadway Ave, Aurora, IL 60505
Opening Wednesday, May 20th, from 06:30 PM - 10 PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
May Queer Stitch Night
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Wednesday, May 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
Thursday
May 21st
Hallucinating Hieroglyphs: The Visual Languages of Martin Wong
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Thursday, May 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Book Launch: How do you throw a brick through the window…
@ UIC Architecture + Design Studios
Room 1100, 845 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Nathaniel Mary Quinn: A Love Letter to My Mother
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 S Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 23rd
2026 Studio Sale
@ Arts of Life
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, May 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 24th
Friday
May 22nd
2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition: Too Much, Not Enough II
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 7th
Saturday
May 23rd
Day’s End
@ PenArt
3900 County Road F, Fish Creek, WI 54212
Opening Saturday, May 23rd, from 3:30PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 23rd
Lindsey Dorr-Niro: Spectral Psalm
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 23rd, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 20th
Lindsey Dorr-Niro: Spectral Psalm
@ compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 23rd, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 20th
Arts of Life Studio Sale at Warm Love Cool Dreams Music Festival
@ Salt Shed
1357 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, May 24th
NEXT WEEK
