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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
With A Vengeance Screening
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, April 16th, at 7PM
Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Shizuka Yokomizo
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, April 16th, at 12PM
Chicago’s Archive Collective Reuse Competition: South Side Home Movie Project Orientation
@
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Online
Opening Friday, April 16th, at 4PM
Michelle Bolinger: Paintings
@
Paris London Hong Kong
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, May 29th
Christy Matson: 12 Recent Works
@
Volume Gallery
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Friday, April 30th
American Roulette
@
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 16th
FIGURE 9
@
Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, May 29th
Ryan Travis Christian: CRYIN RYAN
@
Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, May 29th
SHANE HUFFMAN: Speed at the Sound of Loneliness
@
65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago IL 60647
On view through Saturday, May 22nd
2021 MFA Thesis Show Two: Ordinary Horrors
@
Gallery 400
Online
On view through Friday, April 23rd
Maryam Faridani & Li-Ming Hu: Art Drips From Each Of Her Fingers
@
Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 16th, from 4PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 15th
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Stage
@
Document
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, May 29th
Boundaries
@
Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave, 4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 16th, from 3PM - 7pM
On view through Sunday, May 16th
Maggie Queeney: Forms & Features Online: Ecopoetry
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Friday, April 16th, from 1PM - 3PM
Bridgeport Art Center Artists’ Spring Show 2021
@
The Bridgeport Art Center, Third Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 29th
Katie Rauth: The Worm at the Core
@
David Salkin Creative
1709 West Chicago Avenue #2A, Chicago, Il, 60622
On view through Saturday, May 29th
Adia Sykes: Economies of Care
@
Virtual Care Lab
Online
Opening Friday, April 16th, at 7:30PM
Buy A Plant, Support A Student
@
Design Museum of Chicago
72 E. Randolph, Chicago, IL 60601
On view through Monday, May 31st
ALEXANDRIA EREGBU: Surrealist Threads: Tracing the Marvelous in West African Art
@
Fiber and Material Studies at SAIC
Online
Opening Thursday, April 15th, from 4PM - 5:15
Museum As Classroom
@
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, June 13th
Art After Work: Sister Gertrude Morgan
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, April 15th, from 5PM - 6PM
Wong Ping Lecture and Conversation with Orianna Cacchione
@
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center
online
Opening Thursday, April 15th, at 7PM
Virtual Author Conversation: Quiara Alegría Hudes & Esmeralda Santiago
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Thursday, April 15th, at 7PM
Art After Work: Sister Gertrude Morgan
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, April 15th, from 5PM - 6PM
Cristal Sabbagh: OOPS! POW! SURPRISE!: Performance
@
Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, April 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 15th
Virtual Artist Talk: Joanna Pinsky
@
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, April 15th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 2nd
Open Education Info Session
@
LATITUDE
Online
Opening Thursday, April 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Boom Bloom: Artist Talk with Nikki Renee Anderson
@
Krasl Art Center
707 Lake Boulevard St. Joseph, MI 49085
Opening Thursday, April 15th, from 11AM CST - 11:30AM CST
On view through Sunday, June 6th
Chicago Takes 10: the National Museum of Mexican Art
@
Chicago Takes 10
Online
Opening Thursday, April 15th, from 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Culture of Care
@
Threewalls
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 14th, from 12PM - 1PM
Book Launch with Leisa Rundquist
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
Pour One Out: A Monthly Storytelling Series
@
Volumes Bookcafe
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 14th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Tanda Spring 2021: Making Visible the Invisible: Labor of Mothering as Immigrants in the Contemporary Culture and What Acquiring a New Language Provides, Karen Dana Cohen
@
Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 5th
April Curator Conversations @ 21c Museum Hotel
@
21c Museum Hotel Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
Maggie Queeney: Forms & Features Online: Ecopoetry
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 14th, from 10AM - 12PM
Signs of Creative Resistance
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 13th, from 5PM - 6PM
Chicago’s Archive Collective Reuse Competition: Kick-off: Who is in the Archive Collective, why do we archive, and what is reuse?
@
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 13th, at 3PM
Gunda: A Conversation with the Filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky
@
Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 13th, from 7PM - 8PM
Voices: Caroline Kent
@
Gallery 400
online
Opening Monday, April 12th, from 1PM - 2.30PM
CAPE Dialogue: What is the Body?
@
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Online
Opening Monday, April 12th, from 4PM - 6PM
Maggie Crowley: Playmate
@
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, June 6th
Virtual Tour: ¡Viva la Libertad!
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Monday, April 12th, at 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 24th
Jill Magid: Tender Balance: Walk-Through
@
Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Monday, April 12th, at 5:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 23rd
Maggie Queeney: Forms & Features Online: Ecopoetry
@
Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Monday, April 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
Wong Ping: Digital Fables
@
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center
online
On view through Sunday, April 18th
Janice Elkins and Gina Lee Robbins: Not Afraid: Artist Talk
@
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Online
Opening Sunday, April 11th, at 1PM
On view through Sunday, April 18th
Music for Self-care and Healing
@
Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum
Altgeld Hall, 1st Fl., West End, 1425 W Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Sunday, April 11th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 15th
Figures/Faces
@
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, April 11th, from 12PM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 23rd
Free Time Open Mic #3
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, April 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
Gallery Chat: Scott Wolniak
@
Goldfinch
Online
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 10th
Joanna Pinsky: Now and Then
@
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 12:30PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 2nd
Seeing Double: Mughal Reflections in South Asian art
@
South Asia Institute
Online
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 9 am - 11 am
Corran Shrimpton: Surface Tension
@
Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 1:30PM - 4:30PM
On view through Friday, May 7th
Is This Real?
@
Gallery Studio Oh
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, May 14th
Book Launch & Reading: 19 in 2021, part 3 by Nat Pyper
@
Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 3PM - 4PM
Kelly Clare x Marcellus Armstrong: the cclouds
@
the cclouds
Online
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 12PM - 1PM
Jill Magid: Tender: Balance
@
The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, 4th floor Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, May 23rd
Jill Magid: Artist Talk
@
The Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Saturday, April 10th, at 6PM
Virtual Family Day: April
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 10AM - 12PM
Suzanna Zak: Flesh of Earth
@
Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 2PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 22nd
Dom Smith: Higher Power
@
Hans Gallery
2000 W Carroll Ave Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, April 10th, from 1PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 8th
“Jane: An Abortion Service” & “Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa” Screening
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, April 9th, at 7PM
Gallery Chat: SaraNoa Mark
@
Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 9th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 10th
In Conversation: Michael Joo & Charles Gaines
@
Kavi Gupta Gallery
Online
Opening Friday, April 9th, from 3PM - 5PM
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue – Rory Kahiya Tsapayi (’21)
@
Block Museum
Online
Opening Friday, April 9th, at 12PM
Seven Openings
@
062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
On view through Wednesday, May 26th
Secret Rivers: Body Resonance with Yumiko Yoshioka
@
Butoh Curious Chi
Online
Opening Friday, April 9th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 11th
Ivy Glaser
@
Artspace
3418 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 9th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 9th
Department of Visual Arts BA Thesis Exhibition
@
Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, May 2nd
Kevin Wolff: Never Not Looking
@
Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, May 15th
Spring into the Art World: Weekend Pass
@
Various
Various
Opening Friday, April 9th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 10th
Lauren Carter: Offerings or Clusterfucks
@
Belong Gallery
2712 W N Avenue, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 30th
Momentum: Moving joyfully forward
@
Springboard Arts Chicago
1910 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 9th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, May 24th
Erin Peisert and Cynthia Post Hunt: every choice is a contradiction to itself
@
Dispatch Gallery
Online
Opening Friday, April 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Hurvin Anderson: Anywhere but Nowhere
@
The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, August 7th
Space: Chapter One
@
Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 9th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 8th
JERRY BLEEM: Still: Shaping an Exhibition
@
Fiber and Material Studies at SAIC
Online
Opening Thursday, April 8th, from 4PM - 5:15
Pablo Helguera: Unrequited (Chicago works) in conversation with Daniel R. Quiles
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, April 8th, at 6PM
EXPO CHICAGO: EXPO CHGO ONLINE
@
EXPO CHICAGO
On view through Monday, April 12th
Nikki Renee Anderson & Renee Robbins: Boom Bloom: Virtual Coffee with a Curator
@
Krasl Art Center
707 Lake Boulevard St. Joseph, MI 49085
Opening Thursday, April 8th, from 11AM - 11:30AM
On view through Sunday, June 6th
Artists At The Center: A Roundtable
@
Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, April 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Art and Love in the Renaissance
@
Smart Museum of Art
Online
Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe
@
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, June 13th
American Artist: If I Was ****, I Would Die
@
DePaul School of Design
Online
Opening Thursday, April 8th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
The Art of Scientific Storytelling
@
Block Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, April 8th, at 12PM
Ellen Lanyon: A Bit of Magic
@
Gray
875 N Michigan Ave, Ste. 3800 John Hancock Center Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Monday, April 12th
Poetry & BYOBiscuits with Daniel Borzutzky, Hedgie Choi, Kristin Dykstra, and Sawako Nakayasu
@
Black Ocean
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 7th, at 7:30PM
Tanda Spring 2021: Marronage: Between Freedom and Captivity, Tiffany M Johnson
@
Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 5th
Artist Talk: Maryam Taghavi
@
Roman Susan
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 7th, at 7PM
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (Online)
@
Online
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 7th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, April 28th
Mama Gloria: Luchina Fisher in conversation with zakkiyyah najeebah
@
Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 7th, from 6PM - 7PM
Imagining the End, Part III: Exemplars and the End of the World
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 7th, at 5PM
Virtual OUTspoken! LGBTQ Storytelling via Zoom
@
Sidetrack The Video Bar
online
Opening Tuesday, April 6th, from 7PM - 10:30PM
Ian Cheng
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 6th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Open Door: Mairead Case, Kenyatta Rogers, Erika Hodges, and Israel Solis Jr
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 6th, from 7PM - 8PM
Pandemics as a Portal to Change – Teen Creator’s Workshop
@
Krannert Art Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 6th, from 3PM - 4PM
Printmaking Inside the Prison Industrial Complex
@
Spudnik Press Cooperative
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 6th, from 6PM - 7PM
Irina Zadov: What Time Is It?
@
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, May 1st
The Quarantine Concerts: Collaborative Stream Scape Event – Violation Of Ordinary Values
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Sunday, April 4th, at 8PM
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