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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
SAIC Visiting Artists Program: Vaginal Davis Lecture
@
The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S. Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, April 29th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
William Pope.L: Forlesen
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The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, 4th Fl Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 23rd
Dan Paz: the fiction is outside
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PSA Projects
2509 N Lawndale Ave
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, May 19th
Kevin Jennings: Plato Gyro
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Sofa King
3216 s. Morgan st. Apt 4R Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7 Pm - 10 PM
On view through Monday, May 27th
Edra Soto: Wake Up!
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+medicine cabinet
3216 s. Morgan st. Apt 4R Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7 Pm - 10 PM
On view through Monday, May 27th
Jeroen Nelemans: Higher Definition
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Terrain Exhibitions
704 Highland Ave; Oak Park, IL. 60304
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 4 PM - 8 PM
On view through Wednesday, May 22nd
Elsa Muñoz: Transience
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Zygman Voss Gallery
222 W Superior St
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Timothy James Kelly: Does It Look Like I’m Here
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LODOS
3106 W Fullerton Ave Apt1
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, May 7th
83ism and Lauren Feece: Now See Hear
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Believe Inn
2043 N Winchester Ave, Chicago, IL. 60614
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
David Soukup: Perennial Escapism
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Maxwell Colette Gallery
908 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Robyn O’Neil: I Want Blood
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Western Exhibitions
845 W Washington Blvd, Second Floor Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Breaking The Line: Works by Keelan McMorrow
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R. Hanel Gallery
119 N. Peoria St, #3A, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
1001
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Tom Robinson Gallery
2416 W. North Ave, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
Suara Wilitoff: Anyone Who’s Everyone
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Document
845 w Washington Blvd 3f, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition and Performances
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Center for Book & Paper Arts
1104 South Wabash, 2nd Fl, Chicago, Illinois 60605
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 17th
Resident Exposure: Chiara Galimberti & Fatima Haider
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President's Gallery at Harold Washington College
30 E. Lake St. Room 1105
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, June 7th
Iga Puchalska: That’s How it is / I Tak to Jest
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Gallery 214
214 Visual Arts Bldg, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Tzuchien Tho “Nothing Just Isn’t (what it used to be): The Void and Structure” (Lecture)
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria Street
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 4PM - 6PM
Todd Diederich (Artist Lecture)
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Latitude
2041 W. Carroll, Suite C223, Chicago IL
Opening Wednesday, April 24th, at 7:45PM
Salon Event: Benji Pearson & Jesse Malmed
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threewalls
119 N. Peoria #2C, North Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 24th, at 7PM
Raychael Stine: Psychopomps and Spectral Hounds (Lecture)
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Lillstreet Loft
4437 N Ravenswood Ave Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Wednesday, April 24th, from 7PM - 8PM
Chicago at Work: Barbara Kasten (Lecture)
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LeRoy Neiman Center, First Floor
36 S. Wabash Ave
Opening Monday, April 22nd, from 4:30 PM - 6 PM
Nina Palomba: Better Left Unsaid
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Peanut Gallery
1000 N. California Ave., Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Sunday, April 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Erik Wenzel: Fernweh
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The Storefront
2606 N. California Ave., Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 12th
Sean Fader: The Wishing Pelt
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Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery
1136 N Milwaukee Ave.
Opening Saturday, April 20th, from 8PM - 11:55PM
Caleb Sheridan: It Will Heal
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3433
3433 Kedvale Ave., Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, April 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
SAIC Spring Art Sale
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SAIC Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 19th, from 11am - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
Ply (UChicago MFA Show #2)
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Logan Center Gallery
915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Friday, April 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
BACK MATTER, SAIC’s Visual and Critical Studies Masters Exhibition
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 South Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
The Need to Paint: Phyllis Bramson, Nicholas Ostoff, Mario Romano, & Carly Silverman
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Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 W. Huron, Chicago IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 24th
Alumni on 5: Teaching Artists
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Columbia College Chicago Library
624 South Michigan Ave, 5th floor library, Chicago IL, 60605
On view through Friday, September 13th
Departure: 2013 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 4
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Gallery 400
400 S. Peoria
Opening Friday, April 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
Back Matter
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, Illinois 60608
Opening Friday, April 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
Point of Departure
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The Arcade
618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd floor
Opening Thursday, April 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, May 3rd
Open Studios at Columbia College Chicago
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Studio East
1006 S Michigan Avenue
Opening Thursday, April 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
Young Jean Lee Theater Company: Untitled Feminist Show
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The Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 18th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
Steven Nelson: Circumnavigating the Atlantic, Houston Conwill’s Choreographed Diaspora (Lecture)
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Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S Peoria Street
Opening Tuesday, April 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
Trebor Paglen (Lecture)
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Logan Center for the Arts
Logan Center for the Arts, Room 201. 915 East 60th St, Chicago IL
Opening Monday, April 15th, from 7PM - 8PM
Cauleen Smith: 17
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue
Opening Sunday, April 14th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 7th
Steven Frost & Steven Vainberg: Drinking from the Snake’s Mouth
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The Plains Project
1822 S. Despaines St. Chicago IL 60616
Opening Sunday, April 14th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
QT AUCTION
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Peregrine Program
3311 W Carroll Avenue, #119 Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Sunday, April 14th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Lauren Edwards & Kera MacKenzie: Burden of Proof
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 14th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, April 28th
Compiled People 2: MDF
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Alcatraz Chicago
1000 N. Halsted
Opening Sunday, April 14th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford: Hall of Khan
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 14th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Nowhere Better
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue
Opening Sunday, April 14th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 19th
Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford: Hall of Khan
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue
Opening Sunday, April 14th, at 14 April 2013
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Abigail DeVille: XXXXXXX
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Iceberg Projects
7714 N. Sheridan Rd.
Opening Saturday, April 13th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Sanford Biggers: Ago
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moniquemeloche
2154 W Division, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Kate Levant: Inhuman Indifference
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moniquemeloche
2154 W Division, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Seth Adelsberger, Stacy Fisher, & Peter Shear: Transposed Planes
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LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave
Opening Saturday, April 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Medley: A Group Collage Exhibit
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Chicago Urban Art Society (CUAS)
600 West Cermak Road
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
A Spectre is Haunting: UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition 3
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria Street
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 13th
Jordan Martins, Matthew Schlagbaum and Theodore Darst: Lossless
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Chicago Artists' Coalition
217 N. Carpenter Street
Opening Friday, April 12th, at 6PM
On view through Thursday, May 2nd
Christopher Ottinger: Ghost Machine
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Chicago Artists' Coalition
217 N. Carpenter Street
Opening Friday, April 12th, at 6PM
On view through Thursday, May 2nd
Allen Vandever & Team ART!
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showPOD
Halsted & 18th, Chicago
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, April 30th
SAIC MFA Show
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Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State St., 7th floor Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 17th
Steven Husby: Brute Force
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65GRAND
1369 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Sonnenzimmer: Image Structure
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Public Works Gallery
1539 N Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, June 7th
John Delk: Swing
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Thomas Robertello Gallery
17 N Morgan, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Anna Reich: New Works
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D Gallery
623 S. Wabash, Room 717D, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 12:05PM - 1:05PM
#yabsticker
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Havas CHI Lobby
36 E. Grand Ave., Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 10th
A Spectre is Haunting: UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition Screening
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6 PM - 7 PM
On view through Saturday, April 13th
SAIC Visiting Artists Program: Rosa Barba Lecture
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State Street, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Guy Ben-Ner (Lecture)
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Logan Center for the Arts
Logan Center for the Arts, Room 901. 915 East 60th St, Chicago IL
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
Documentarian Gallery Tour
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 12 PM - 1 PM
On view through Saturday, April 13th
The Artist As Philanthropist: Artist-Endowed Foundations as a New Force in Cultural Philanthropy
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Graham Foundation
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
Chicago at Work: Jason Foumberg (Lecture)
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LeRoy Neiman Center, Student Leadership Suite 205
36 S. Wabash Ave
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 4:30 PM - 6 PM
Kate Levant: Abduction (Lecture)
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Susan Hiller (Lecture)
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Logan Center for the Arts
Logan Center for the Arts, Room 201. 915 East 60th St, Chicago IL
Opening Monday, April 8th, from 7PM - 8PM
Alex Jovanovich: Some Poor Girls
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ADDS DONNA
4223 W Lake, Chicago IL 60624
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 1PM - 5Pm
On view through Sunday, May 12th
hArts for Arts 4
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LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 10:3PM
Emily Severance & Helmut Heiss: Be the party (please don’t go)
@
slow
2153 W 21st Street
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Karolina Gnatowski: Hash Mountain
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The Franklin
3522 W. Franklin Blvd, Chicago IL 60624
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Jesse Butcher & Anthony Romero: Cyclical, Circular. Like Vultures.
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Happy Collaborationists
1254 N Noble, Chicago IL, 60642
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Approaching 40
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ARC Gallery
2156 N. Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Psychosexual
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Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd.
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Diegesis (UChicago MFA Show #1)
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Logan Center Gallery
915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 14th
Fraser Taylor: Solids + Lines
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Room 406
406 Oakley Blvd, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 24th
Edward Dimendberg: Writing in the Present Tense
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Graham Foundation
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
Noah Barker: Production Courtyard
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LODOS
3106 W Fullerton Ave Apt1
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 19th
Todd Diederich: Luminous Flux
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Johalla Projects
1821 W. Hubbard St., Suite 209
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
David Hartt: for everyone a garden
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Ave 3rd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
FORM: ART + floral: CMYK
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 North Carpenter Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 5th
A strange house in my voice: UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition 2
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria Street
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
Visiting Artist Lecture: Laurel Nakadate
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Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Pick-Laudati Auditorium
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
Lyp Sinc Show
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Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery
Opening Monday, April 1st, at 7PM
The Interlink Visiting Artist Program presents: Jon Davies
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The MacLean Center - Room 601, 112 S. Michigan, Chicago IL
Opening Monday, April 1st, from 12:15PM - 1:15PM
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