August 2024
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
@ The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, August 17th, at 10PM
Women at War
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Sunday, December 8th
Comfort Music: Marcin Bozek/Danny Kamins Duo & Gilded Waves
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Marcus Bacerra: Seeing Stars
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, September 13th
It’s A Sign: Queering the Gallery
@ Carriage House Gallery
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, September 6th
Sam Keller: Extra Value Meal
@ A Very Serious Gallery
673 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 14th
Bruce Riley: Phantasma
@ Leslie Wolfe Gallery at the Old Town Triangle Center
1763 North Park Ave Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, September 6th
Bryana Bibbs: Unforeseen
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E. Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, October 31st
Jeffrey Swider Peltz: Static Flow
@ A Very Serious Gallery
673 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 14th
Glow: HCL Film & Projection Night
@ The Capsule
1359 North Maplewood Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
Calvin Coleman
@ Gallery Guichard
436 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Static Flow
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 14th
Martinez E-B: Objects, Images, Signs, & Symbols
@ The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
Zachary Hutchinson: Beauty, beauty, look at you, I wish to God I had it, too.
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, August 16th
CAPE WORKROOM Celebration
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
Marc Benja / Nancy Fleischman: Penalty
@ old friends
3405 N Paulina St Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, August 16th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 21st
Easygoingtech, Noise Shrine, Ends, Aidan Bay, Don
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, August 15th, at 8PM
Bodymilk and Comfort Music: Wajid & Janna Lee
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, August 15th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
PO Box Poetry Series: multilingual open mic
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, August 15th, at 7:30PM
Chicago House Music: Culture + Community
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, August 15th, at 6:30PM
Conversation: Impossible Ideas—Georgia O’Keeffe and Aaron Douglas Envision the City
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, August 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
A Reading Party with Naomi Ortiz
@ punctum books
Online
Opening Thursday, August 15th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Closing Event: the urban+nature sonic pavilion
@ Millennium Park
201 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, August 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
Democracy in the Dark with Jason Lazarus
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, August 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 23rd
Test Literary Series
@ The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, August 14th, at 6PM
Opening Passages with Ladies Who Lit & The Paris Novel
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, August 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
Poppy & the Pen: You Exist Too Much
@ City Lit Books
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, August 14th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
FEK Draw: Fetish, Erotica, and Kink
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Tuesday, August 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | The Aggregation featuring Justin Dillard
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, August 13th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Incongruent Access
@ Center for Mad Culture
410 S Michigan Ave, #419, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Monday, August 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
DEMOCRAZY: DNC Counter-Programming at Co-Prosperity
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Friday, August 23rd
Drew Parkinson: For, Places into Squares
@ APPENDIX GALLERY
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Thursday, September 12th
Milo Christie and Sam Dybeck: 2:30
@ Unda.m.93
(Email for address)
Opening Sunday, August 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 1st
Soapbox: Tonal Simmons
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, August 11th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
OPTION: Chris Williams & Trae Crudup
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, August 11th, from 3PM - 5PM
Screening Acts: Leslie Harris: JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T. (1992)
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, August 11th, from 1PM - 4PM
Side Yard Sound Presents: Ephemeral Improvisations vol.3: David Boykin and Makeba Kedem-DuBose
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
Marilyn Artus: Her Flag
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Ginny Sykes: 100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
Whitney Bradshaw: OUTCRY
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
And Now: Stories from the Edge
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 24th
Seventh Evening Festival: Chinese Valentine’s Day- All My Love, curated by Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC)
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
WOMEN’S VOICES: ARTISTS WHO AMPLIFY
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 5PM - 6PM
THE SEVENTH CORNER GALLERY PRESENTS : ART CAR PINEWOOD DERBY
@ HOWLING PAGES
4354 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, August 10th, at 4PM
Day of Leisure
@ Leisure
Division & Western Avenues, Chicago
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 4PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Screening and Conversation: Carolina Caycedo—Land of Friends
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 2PM - 3PM
Tyanna Buie: Revisionist History
@ cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, Unit 920, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, September 21st
Lois Bielefeld: its own pristine devices
@ OS Projects
601 Sixth St, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, October 12th
Hương Ngô: This Space Is for Lost Time
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2233 S Throop St, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Thursday, October 3rd
Kinky Rummage Sale Kinky Rummage Sale
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 9AM - 4:30PM
Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
Summer Soundwalk Series: Josh Rios
@ Harrison Park
1824 S Wood St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Store | Sidewalk Sale
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 10AM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, August 11th
Educator Workshop | Care Practices through Artistic Lineages, Part 1
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, August 10th, from 10AM - 12PM
Cheryl R. Riley and Tracie D. Hall: Migrations in Black and White | 2.0
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, September 8th
Screens: A Panafrica Film Series
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, January 6th
CLEAT Series: Sam Anthem, Alexander Dupuis ‘Asterion’, Matt Test ‘Down: A Gravity Opera’
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, August 9th, at 8PM
SPARKER: Uncaged
@ Positive Space Studios- Mundelein
620 E Hawley St, Mundelein, IL 60060
Opening Friday, August 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
Vani Aguilar: Blinked Twice
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, August 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 6th
Michael Christoff: Microcosm: The Little Big Picture
@ Friendly Music Community
6725 W Roosevelt Rd, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Friday, August 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 7th
Multi Maintenance
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, August 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 7th
Cheri Lee Charlton: Unseen & Underserved
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, August 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Power Frauen: German Women Who Dared to Dream
@ DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
4740 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, August 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, September 20th
Exploration
@ Dragonfly Gallery and Creative Spaces
2436 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, August 9th, at 6PM
On view through Monday, August 26th
Echoes of Ferguson
@ Chicago Justice Gallery
1344 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, August 9th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 25th
Sydnie Jimenez: A Respite
@ Lillstreet Art Center, Annex Gallery
4401 N. Ravenswood Street
Opening Friday, August 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, September 9th
S. Elliot Bowers: Displacement
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, August 9th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 24th
Bodymilk and Comfort Music: ‘MAGIN’ & fleshwheel
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, August 8th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
The Love Fridge – Town Hall
@ Public Works
2141 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, August 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Tarik Dobbs: Nazar Boy: Book Launch and Celebration
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, August 8th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Curatorial Conversations: Indira Johnson in conversation with Jeff Stevenson
@ 21c Museum Hotel
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, August 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Lecture: Adenike Cosgrove on Collecting African Art Today
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, August 8th, from 6PM - 7PM
Max Davis: Sheet, Bar & Block
@ Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, September 30th
Jack Langdon & Andrew Maxbauer: music for miniature organ
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, August 7th, at 8PM
Artist Talk with Lee Bey and Howard Simmons
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, August 7th, at 6:30PM
Preserving the Heritage of the Black Panther Party in Illinois
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, August 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti in conversation with Justin Davidson
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, August 7th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Howard Simmons: My Camera Tells: Once Upon a Chicago
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, August 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
Pretty in Paperback: WELLNESS
@ City Lit Books
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, August 7th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Art/Access Lab: Work in Progress Showing
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, August 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Julian Davis Reid’s Circle of Trust
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, August 6th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Poetry Reading: Liberation Poetry with Ramiro Rodriguez, Ivy Raff, and Shonda Buchanan
@ Humboldt Park Library
1605 N Troy St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, August 5th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Gallery Conversation: Kelly Church, Gertrude Abercrombie, and Time
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, August 5th, from 2PM - 3PM
Christine Forni: Natural Recall
@ McHenry County College | Galleries One & Two
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
On view through Friday, September 13th
Mia Furlong: Playground
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, August 4th, at 7PM
Orson Welles: F FOR FAKE (1973)
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, August 4th, at 4:30PM
Soapbox: Asante Owusu-Brafi
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, August 4th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
OPTION: Brittany Karlson
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, August 4th, from 3PM - 5PM
Screening Acts: Spike Lee: BAMBOOZLED (2000)
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, August 4th, from 1PM - 4PM
Maker’s Market 2024
@ Maple Avenue Garage 5th Floor Parking
1800 Maple Ave, Garage 5th Fl, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, August 4th, from 12PM - 5PM
2024 Chicago Archives + Artists Festival: Embodying the Archive: Day Three
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, August 4th, from 10AM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
chi-soul workshops with avery r. young
@ Austin Library
5615 W Race Ave, Chicago IL 60644
Opening Sunday, August 4th, from 2PM - 4PM
深海の魂 / Shinkai no tamashīi
@ Asian Improv aRts Midwest
4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, August 3rd, from 8PM - 9:30 PM
Erotic Photography Workshop
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, August 3rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Side Yard Sounds presents: Carol Genetti/Peter Maunu/Theo Katsaounis/Donny Mahlmeister/Rs Masters
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, August 3rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Bridgette Bramlage: Future Memories
@ Yes Project Space
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, August 3rd, from 7PM - 10PM
