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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Felicia Holman: Public Engagement
@
Threewalls
Online
Opening Monday, November 30th, at 6:30PM
Shelter In The Speculative: New Works by Spudnik Press Members
@
Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, November 30th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, January 9th
Video series: Architecture of Community: Reflecting on Lessons from Doshi
@
Wrightwood 659
Online
Salvador Jiménez Flores: Public Engagement
@
Threewalls
Online
Opening Monday, November 30th, at 6:30PM
Mariana & Chijioke: Comics as a tool for tackling social issues Part 2: Identity
@
Lucky Pierre
Online
Opening Sunday, November 29th, at 2PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, November 28th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Illuminate
@
Springboard Arts Chicago
1910 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 28th, from 8AM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, January 17th
Katrina Davis-Salazar, Alex Gashunin, Mike Bellefeuille, Jaynanne Ridder
@
Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, November 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 20th
RARA: Kristin McWharter Closing Performance
@
Langer Over Dickie
Online
Soundtrack: Duane Powell
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, November 27th, from 12PM - 1PM
Springboard Arts Chicago Neighborhood Sneak Peek
@
Springboard Arts Chicago
1910 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 27th, from 12 PM - 4 PM
On view through Friday, January 17th
Virtual Holiday Stories Happy Hour
@
Chicago Detours
Online
Opening Friday, November 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, December 28th
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 25th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Portrait of a Goth
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 24th, from 5PM - 5:45PM
A Talk with Sabrina Pastard
@
POROUS Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
Online
Opening Monday, November 23rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Mariana & Chijioke: Comics as a tool for tackling social issues Part 1: Racism
@
Lucky Pierre
Online
Opening Sunday, November 22nd, at 2PM
Code Is Not Neutral: CQDELAB Coding Workshop + Reading Group
@
ADDS DONNA
Online
Opening Sunday, November 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
Daniel Danger: Half Curtained and Breathless
@
Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Sunday, December 13th
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, November 21st, from 1PM - 1:30PM
NMMA En Casa Virtual Series: Loom Weaving Workshop
@
National Museum of Mexican Art
Online
Opening Saturday, November 21st, at 10AM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Jugalbandi: The Interplay Between Architect B.V. Doshi and Artist M.F. Husain
@
South Asia Institute
Online
Opening Saturday, November 21st, from 9AM - 10:30AM
Hyde Park Art Center Interactive Virtual Gala
@
Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Saturday, November 21st, from 3PM - 9PM
ONLY CONNECT
@
Carrie Secrist Gallery
900 W. Washington BLVD, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Thursday, February 13th
Jonah Koppel
@
M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 20th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, November 20th
American Gun Book Launch
@
Guild Literary Complex
Online
Opening Friday, November 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
Winter Arts & Crafts Expo
@
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, December 20th
Dusty Groove: The Sound of Transition
@
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Online
Opening Friday, November 20th, at 7PM
Tarrah Krajnak: El Jardín de Senderos Que Se Bifurcan
@
Filter Photo
Online
Opening Friday, November 20th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, October 9th
Virtual Trolley Tour 2020 !
@
Bronzeville Art District
Online
Opening Friday, November 20th, from 7PM - 8PM
Mercy in the Museum: Online Collection Tours
@
Block Museum
Online
Opening Friday, November 20th, from 12PM - 12:30PM
SAIC Advanced Artists’ Books
@
062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
On view through Friday, December 11th
Art After Work: Inez Nathaniel Walker
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, November 19th, from 5PM - 6PM
Spinning Home Movies with Roy Kinsey
@
South Side Home Movie Project
Online
Opening Thursday, November 19th, at 7PM
Urban History Seminar
@
Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, November 19th, from 7PM - 8PM
Warhol’s Jewish Geniuses
@
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
Online
Opening Thursday, November 19th, from 7PM - 8:15PM
Fernando Domínguez Rubio: Still Life
@
University of Chicago Press
Online
Opening Thursday, November 19th, from 3:30PM - 4:30PM
On view through Thursday, November 19th
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 18th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
The Fight is Far from Over
@
The ACLU of Illinois
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 18th, at 4PM
Open Door Series Online: Nathan Hoks & Tara Betts
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 17th, from 7PM - 89PM
Casey Carsel: Knobl Hearts
@
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, November 17th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, January 15th
Virtual Tour | Bronzeville: The Black Chicago Renaissance
@
Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 17th, from 4PM - 5PM
Raqs Media Collective
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 17th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Nick Cave and Friends
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 17th, from 12PM - 1PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: All Together Now
@
Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 17th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Race and Rights: Wells, Willard and Addams
@
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
Alec Karakatsanis in conversation on Usual Cruelty
@
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Monday, November 16th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Virtual Author Conversation: Paola Ramos & Cecile Richards
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Monday, November 16th, at 7PM
Chicagoland Shorts: Live with Lisa Barcy and Martin Mulcahy
@
Mana Contemporary
Online
Opening Monday, November 16th, from 6PM - 7PM
Bisa Butler: Portraits
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, April 19th
Cecil McDonald, Jr.: Cuts & Beats
@
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, March 7th
Code Is Not Neutral: CQDELAB Coding Workshop + Reading Group
@
ADDS DONNA
Online
Opening Sunday, November 15th, from 1PM - 4PM
ENTRECUERPOS: Virtual Artist Talk
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, November 15th, from 12PM - 1PM
CCTV: Club Chicago Television
@
Reunion Chicago
Online
Opening Saturday, November 14th, from 6PM - 12AM
Virtual Tour | Union Station
@
Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Saturday, November 14th, from 3PM - 4PM
ST(ART UP): K.HSIA and JACKERSIZE
@
Elastic Arts
Online
Opening Saturday, November 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
Doug Stapleton: Dropped from the Clouds and Sandra Yagi: Illuminated Movie Monsters
@
Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave Suite 620 Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, November 14th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, December 31st
Spencer Hutchinson: Eglantine
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, November 14th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Monday, December 28th
(a legacy) on our own terms: Virtual Artist Talk
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 14th, from 12PM - 1PM
Jaume Plensa: Nocturne
@
Gray Warehouse
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, January 9th
Fall Art Bazaar
@
Pilsen Art House
1756 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 14th, from 12PM - 5PM
Revolution Craft Show: Holiday Pop Up
@
Revolution Craft Show Chicago
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 14th, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, November 15th
Movement Workshop with Brendan Fernandes & Paige Fraser
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Friday, November 13th, at 6PM
Now, We Do: A Panel Discussion with Ayanah Moor, Jordan Johnson, Cindy Pickett, and Martin L. Boston
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Friday, November 13th, at 12PM
Chicago Shorts at the Drive In Program 2
@
ChiTown Futbol
2343 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
Indigenous Interventions: Reshaping Archives and Museums
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 9:30AM - 3:15PM
Helen Mayer: Tracks
@
Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 5th
TQC: AIRMW presents Kioto Aoki & the Reduction Trio
@
Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Bridge Dance Festival 2020
@
Links Hall
Online
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 14th
Forrest Stuart and Cathy Cohen: Ballad of the Bullet and Democracy Remixed
@
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 12PM - 1PM
AIA Chicago Designight 2020
@
AIA Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 3:30PM - 6:30PM
BUILD Chicago and Arts of Life: THE CATACOMBS
@
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 17th
Divine Femininity
@
Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
MFA Open Studios 2020
@
UIC School of Art & Art History
Online
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Pintura Obscura “??????? ????” Dark Art Exhibit
@
Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, November 29th
Forrest Stuart and Cathy Cohen: Black Youth and Political Agency
@
Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Friday, November 13th, from 12PM - 1PM
2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition: You’ve changed
@
Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, December 20th
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Chicago Music Poster Workshop
@
Art Design Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 4PM - 5PM
Art on theMART
@
Chicago Riverwalk
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 7PM - 7:30PM
On view through Wednesday, December 30th
Teaching Social Justice: About Museums, Culture, and Justice to Explore in Your Classroom
@
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
Celebrate People’s History: A Panel Discussion
@
Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, at 7PM
Christopher K. Ho and Abigail DeVille in Conversation
@
Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 1PM - 2PM
Unreal City: Film Essays on London
@
Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, November 12th, at 7PM
Anthony Iacuzzi and Kurt Kramer: Virtual Artists’ Discussion
@
Perspective Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Chicago Shorts at the Drive In Program 1
@
ChiTown Futbol
2343 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 8PM - 11PM
Marwen Virtual Art Fair 2020
@
Marwen
Online
On view through Sunday, November 15th
Speaking Truths Series: Home, Homeland, and Belonging
@
Guild Literary Complex
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
What’s Next: Democracy
@
Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 7PM - 8PM
Flannery
@
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, at 6PM
BFA in Art Education
@
UIC School of Art & Art History
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, at 12PM
BFA Open Studios 2020
@
UIC School of Art & Art History
Online
Opening Thursday, November 12th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Rebecca Rego: The Chicago Artists Workshop
@
Eighth Blackbird
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 11th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Wednesday, November 11th
Teen Workshop: Remixing the Archive
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 11th, at 4PM
Paola Cabal: What Means Light
@
The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Friday, April 24th
Pour One Out: Scared to Death
@
Volumes Bookcafe
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 11th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Virtual Exhibition Tour: Wright vs. Mies
@
Elmhurst Art Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 11th, from 7PM - 8PM
Virtual Tour | Pilsen Murals
@
Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 10th, from 4PM - 5PM
Voices: Kamau Patton
@
Gallery 400
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 10th, at 6PM
Chicago Music Poster History
@
Art Design Chicago Now
Online
Opening Tuesday, November 10th, from 4PM - 5PM
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