February 2017
Artist Talk: Kameelah Janan Rasheed
@ Forum Room, 1515 Kresge Hall
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Tuesday, February 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
MCA Talk: Bitch, be realistic.
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, February 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
Artist in Conversation: Steve Schapiro Civil Rights Photographs
@ Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA)
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, February 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
365Black
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Tuesday, February 28th, from 2PM - 7PM
Curating Latinx: Toward Queer Decoloniality with V. Gina Díaz
@ University of Illinois at Chicago - Museum and Exhibition Studies
935 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, February 28th, from 12PM - 1PM
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Tuesday, February 28th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30PM
Voices: Natalie Bookchin
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, February 28th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
MCA Talk: Mark Dion and David Rockwell
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, February 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
Artist Talk and Reception with Ben Blount
@ 1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 3PM - 5PM
Public School
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
Beauty Breaks: Session 9 | Mark Making
@ F4F
2846 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 2PM - 5PM
Drag Ball
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
Heather Mekkelson: In Absentia Luci
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, March 26th
Rick Alapack: We all Live Here
@ The Hermosa Walls
2306 N Keeler Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 1 PM - 4 PM
On view through Sunday, March 26th
Precariat Exhibition Reception
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, March 12th
Rhonda Wheatley: A Modern Day Shaman’s Hybrid Devices, Power Objects & Cure Books
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 7th
Simple Pleasures Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, March 19th
Erin Hayden: Your Hyperbole Could Be a Screensaver: Closing Reception
@ Randy Alexander Gallery
1926 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60616
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Liana Finck and Omar Velázquez: BOUQUET
@ Produce Model Gallery
1007 W 19th St, Suite 1, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Making My Mother’s Bed: A Durational Performance
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 6PM - 1:13AM
2017 Hashbrown Chili Cook-Off & Carnival
@ Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 302, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 6PM - 10PM
Amanda Gentry and Maura Segal: SERIOUS/play
@ Matthew Rachman Gallery
1659 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 9th
Sean Gannon + TL Solien: Time Will Darken It
@ Paris London Hong Kong
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Shawné Michaelain Holloway: Daughter of the Cage
@ Boyfriends
3311 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, Il 60624
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
Aranda\Lasch with Terrol Dew Johnson: Coil and Cloud
@ Volume Gallery
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Loyola University Museum of Art Puppet Show
@ Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA)
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 1PM - 3PM
The Living Room
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 2PM - 4PM
Avery R Young: 1990(what), plus DJ Jarvis Mason
@ The California Clipper
1002 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 25th, at 11PM
BrynIndie Film Society presents Tokyo Story – 1931
@ Japanese Culture Center
1016 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 1PM - 3PM
Steve Williams and Dave Richards: Muscle Fiber Sunrise
@ UNUM
3039 W Carroll Ave, 315, Chicago IL 6062.
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 1st
Eugene Eda’s Doors for Malcolm X College
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 11am - 12PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
Hydra: a reading of the exhibition text
@ 65Grand
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Geraldo de Barros
@ Document
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
MCA Stage: Music for Merce
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 25th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 26th
Kings and Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 7th
The Edgar Miller Legacy
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 2PM - 3PM
The Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and Legacies
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, February 25th, at 1PM
On view through Sunday, July 30th
50 x 50 Invitational / The Subject is Chicago: People, Places, Possibilities
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, February 25th, at 12PM
On view through Sunday, April 9th
Nicole Marroquin and Andres L. Hernandez: Historical F(r)ictions
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 10 AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 7th
Melina Ausikaitis: Long Distance Dedication: The Fall of Asclepius 4581
@ Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 15th
Ryan Travis Christian and Steve Reinke
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Trace Elements: Closing Reception
@ Miishkooki
4517 Oakton, Skokie, IL 60076
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 24th
Collector’s Talk + Closing Reception: Chicago on My Mind
@ Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
To Hold a Peach
@ Compound Yellow
125 Harvey Ave N, Oak Park, IL 60302,
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 7PM - 11:30PM
Meimei Song: Altered Green Walk
@ gallery no one
1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Rm 303, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 26th
Postponed: Will Kelly: Works on Paper
@ TCC Chicago
2547 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 24th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, February 26th
Chicago on My Mind: Collectors Talk + Closing Reception
@ Arts Incubator
301 East Garfield Boulevard
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 26th
Egymásra Nézve [Another Way]
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
Kathy Weaver + Mary Porterfield: Morality Tales
@ Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 7PM - 10:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 18th
Derrick Adams and Susan Hefuna
@ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
118 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 1st
Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib: Artist Talk
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 7PM - 8PM
Photographing Freetowns: Curator Tour
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Artist Talk: Nate Young
@ Depaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 2nd
Go
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Sunday, June 4th
Nathaniel Dorsky: The Dreamer
@ Conversations at the Edge
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Artist Talk: Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib
@ Cleve Carney Art Gallery
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 11am - 12PM
Art and Care as Resistance and Love: A Panel Discussion
@ The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
The University of Chicago, 5733 S University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 4:30PM - 6PM
Design for Good: Black Creativity in the Black Community
@ Leo Burnett
35 W Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Abdellah Karroum: Generation 00: Artists As Citizens
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
can/not escape
@ C33 Gallery
33 E Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, March 9th
Marie-Caroline Hominal: The Triumph of Fame
@ DfbrL8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, at 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
FLAK Performance Series
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 7:30 PM - 9PM
Continuum
@ Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Annex
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 5PM - 7PM
Eunsong Kim and Gelare Khoshgozaran: Decolonizing Art Education
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
McLean Center Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, February 22nd, from 4:30PM - 6PM
Colonizing Heritage: Adaptive Reuse of Myanmar’s Architecture
@ Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Trio A: A Baker’s Dozen by Elliot Gordon Mercer
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Classicisms
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 22nd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Zoe Beloff: Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society’s Dream Films
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, February 22nd, from 8PM - 9PM
Unite: Design for Social Activism
@ Xavier Apartments
625 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, February 22nd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Black Clay: A Survey of African American Ceramics
@ Chicago State University President's Gallery
9501 S King Dr, Cook Administration Building, 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Tuesday, February 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, April 21st
Strangers Lovers gods
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Tuesday, February 21st, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Art and Body: Exploring social and political issues through the art of performance, collage drawing, and zine making
@ The Port Ministries
5013 S Hermitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Tuesday, February 21st, at 4:30PM
Bird of an Iron Feather
@ DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, February 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
Deb Sokolow, Edra Soto, Jeff Robinson, Allison Lacher
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Cir, Ste 103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Tuesday, February 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 2nd
MCA Talk: More on Merce
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, February 21st, from 6PM - 7PM
College of DuPage Spring 2017 Visiting Artist Series: Mike Andrews
@ McAninch Arts Center, Playhouse Theatre
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Monday, February 20th, from 1PM - 2PM
Forms and Features at Compound Yellow: Tanka
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Monday, February 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
A Hole in My Bucket: Conversation with Cameron Harvey and Solo Performance by saxophonist Nick Mazzarella
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 4th
Tarot & Natal Chart Night at Hume
@ Hume
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Sean Sullivan: Sunday, Saudade Station and Paul Erschen: Cloven
@ devening projects + editions
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 25th
Artist Talk: Cameron Harvey / Solo Performance: Nick Mazzarella
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 2:30PM - 5PM
Sedimented: Artist Talk
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 2PM - 4PM
Abstract Experiments: Latin American Art on Paper after 1950
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Sunday, May 7th
Scott Carter: Velocity and Chris D. Smith: Strata
@ Linda Warren Projects
327 N Aberdeen, Suite 151, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 15th
Henry Darger’s Writing: Curator Talk
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 18th, at 2PM
X7
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 26th
Free River North Gallery Tour
@ Starbucks
750 N. Franklin
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 11 am - 12:30 PM
Space by Proxy: Readings and Writings for Precariat
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
On view through Sunday, March 12th
Fruiting Bodies
@ Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 18th
Stephanie Brooks: Sanguine with a wide streak of melancholy
@ Free Range
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Re:Reading [Performance] Spaces
@ Public Access
3306 W. North Avenue
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Glist!
@ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
Marcy Thomas: Nocturne
@ Autotelic Studios
1856 N Richmond St
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, March 15th
Lovey Town
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
MCA Stage: Ballet de Lorraine Works by Merce Cunningham and others
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Sunday, May 7th
