October 2024
Ray Madrigal: Fear of Losing, Love of Having
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Family Day: Arts and Craft with the Chicago Mosaic School
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 10AM - 1PM
Drum Talk 2024 Annual Book Fair
@ The DuSable
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 11AM - 4PM
YANIRA CASTRO: I CAME HERE TO WEEP
@ Honeycomb Network
2657 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 3PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, November 17th
Spotlight Artist Chien-An Yuan – Closing Reception Concert & Artist Q&A
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 2:30PM - 5PM
Alberto Ortega Trejo: One of the qualities of nocturnal animals is that they speak words of truth: Closing Reception
@ Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 5th, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, October 5th
OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage – Film and Q+A
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Sa Schloff: Filtered Through Time: Closing Reception
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 2 PM - 4 PM
On view through Saturday, October 5th
Holly Holmes: Companions Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 12th
Nicholas Sistler: Artist Talk
@ SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Talk | Notes in the Margins: “Why I Don’t Talk About ‘The Body’”
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago- Edlis Neeson Theater
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Artist Talk: Visions of Home: Lagos to Accra with Orry Shenjobi
@ Omenai Gallery
1716 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 2PM - 4PM
Quilt-Making Workshop
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 5th, at 12PM
Side Yard Sounds: Carol Genetti/Peter Maunu
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 5th, at 7PM
CXW Gallery Talk with David Antonio Cruz and Jasmine Wahi
@ moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
On Display
@ LATITUDE CHICAGO
2003 W Fulton St. Suite 211, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, November 26th
Latham Zearfoss: Third Space
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Tuesday, April 29th
60 wrd/min Art Critic: Red Line Service Edition
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 1PM - 7PM
Evanston Made Artist Studio Tour
@ 1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 6th
Evanston Made’s 10th Annual Artist Studio Tour
@ Ben Blount Letterpress Studio - MAKE
1123 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 6th
Kartemquin Films: Documentaries for Democracy Symposium
@ Cobb Hall
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 9AM - 5:30PM
Chicago Zine Fest + Midwest Perzine Fest
@ Columbia College Student Center
754 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 11AM - 6PM
Embracing Chicago
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
50 E Erie St Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
Trio: Seeking Synergy
@ Black Sheep Flower Farm
11055 N Dixon Mounds Rd, Lewiston, IL 61542
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 10am - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
Exorcism = Liberation
@ Multiple Locations
Chicago
Opening Saturday, October 5th, at 10AM
On view through Wednesday, November 6th
Learning Series | The Creative Classroom and Post-Quarantine Gaps, Part 1
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 10 AM - 12 PM
AFTERNOON MEET & GREET // Lefty Out There
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 12PM - 3PM
Nancy Holt: Seeing in the Round
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Sunday, April 20th
ASSEMBLYWOMXN Episodes III and IV
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 7PM - 8PM
Jared Brown and AJ McClenon: A Girly Show
@ Berger Park Cultural Center (Coach House)
6215 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, October 4th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 5th
Sweet Void Presents… The Video Village
@ FACETS
1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, October 4th, at 7PM
BENEATH THE SURFACE: Spirituality in Art
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 25th
Wander Home
@ Izora Contemporary at The Guesthouse Hotel
4872 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, November 4th
Day 54: The Sun Never Sets (Every Hours a Happy Hour)
@ Stasias Gallery
44 E Cedar St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
Jade Yumang / Qianwen Yu / JohnClaud Ruder
@ Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
AfroFuturist Weekend Day 3: Flex Obscura @ AFW9
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 4th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 5th
HUGE ART SHOW/OPEN-HOUSE at Hubbard St. Lofts
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
Sample Path
@ Open Shed
2003 W Fulton St, Studio 215, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
Ále Campos: Artists Talk
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 6PM - 7PM
Landscapes from Under the Rubble: Destroyed Artworks from Gaza
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
Patrick Jilbert: Departed
@ Chicago Truborn
1741 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
Mac Blackout, Pop Up Art Show and Mural Reveal
@ Chicago Billiard Cafe Mezzanine Art Lounge
5935 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, October 22nd
The Oldtimers: A Poetry Reading with Wing Tek Lum
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 4PM - 5PM
ReCovered: Chicago’s Urban Tree Canopy
@ Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
3601 W Douglas Blvd, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
1st Friday Studio Tour
@ Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
305 SW Water St, #2R, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Kiran Bath, Kabel Mishka Ligot, and James McKenna
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 7PM - 8PM
BDSM History & Memories: Notes from the Sexual Underground BDSM History & Memories: Notes from the Sexual Underground
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Ian Merritt: RURAL v. URBAN, Perception
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 9am - 5PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
Blake Jones: B-Sides
@ Vertical Gallery
2006 W Chicago Ave. #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
AfroFuturist Weekend Day 2: Improvised Music Series @ AFW9
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, at 8PM
Comfort Music: Instinct Control & Donny Mahlmeister / Jamie Levinson
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
RETURN OF THE CHINESE FEMME by Dorothy Chan
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, at 7PM
CXW: Tala x Re/Match Artists
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 6:30PM - 8PM
MAS Context Presents: Phil Donohue: The Future Was Then
@ Society of Architectural Historians
1365 N Astor St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
An Evening with Angelo Madsen Minax
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Kelsey Street Press 50th Anniversary
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Earthly Delights
@ Julius Caesar
3808 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 10PM - 9PM
What She Said: Movies and Movements on the Arts Lawn
@ The Arts Lawn
337 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
Leopoldo Gout: Elefante
@ Povos West Town
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 5PM - 9PM
Nancy Ava Miller presents…Erotic Hypnosis
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Case For The Black Abstract
@ Fourtunehouse
4410 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, October 6th
Works by Evelyn Statsinger from the 1940s to the 1980s
@ GRAY
2044 W Carroll Ave Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, October 31st
LATE HOURS: Lefty Out There Meet & Greet
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
PANEL: Threads and Legacies: Chicago’s Artist Educators and Their Networks
@ Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, from 5PM - 8:30PM
Agnès Varda: Vagabond (1985)
@ The Auditorium at NEIU
3701 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago, IL 60646
Opening Wednesday, October 2nd, at 7:30PM
Patchbent Sessions: Multichannel Panel
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Wednesday, October 2nd, from 6PM - 8PM
AfroFuturist Weekend Day 1: Black Food Futures
@ The Blk.Room
4015 W Carrol Ave, Unit 204 Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Wednesday, October 2nd, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 5th
Elastro: Tiziana Bertoncini / Thomas lehn Duo + Quartet w/ Emily Beisel + Michael Zerang
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, October 1st, at 8PM
Fatimah Tuggar Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 1st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Writing Resistance: Hannah Moushabeck and Sahar Mustafah
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, October 1st, from 7PM - 8PM
Store | Meet Chicago Street Artist Sentrock
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Store
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
