October 2024
Inadelso Cossa: The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
Max Guy: Book Launch
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E. Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 7PM - 9PM
Inadelso Cossa: A Memory in Three Acts
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
Book Talk Life After Kafka
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline with Jamie Merchant and Tyler Zimmer
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
North Shore Black Artist Group Show
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
DARK ARTS 3: GOES TO HELL
@ THE SEVENTH CORNER GALLERY
4354 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 5PM - 9PM
Cecilia Beaven: Semilla
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Sunday, March 30th
Side Yard Sounds: Christine Shallenberg & Aurora Tabar, Kim Nucci, Mabel Kwan, Sara Zalek
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at 7PM
Día de los Muertos Xicágo
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at 3PM
Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Heid E. Erdrich and Andrea Carlson
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
Giordano Dance Chicago – Season 62 | SOARING
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
An Evening With Alan Kwan
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
James Florio at Tippet Rise
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
VOICES: Andrea Carlson
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Live Arts | Joseph Lefthand
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Olalekan Jeyifous Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Alison Ruttan: Falling to Pieces
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Trident Chili Cookoff
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 5PM - 7PM
Sharon Hoogstraten: Dancing for Our Tribe
@ Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Heaven Gallery Benefit
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, FL 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 7PM - 12AM
Posters 4 Progress
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
PPP — THE PREPARATOR’S PET PIANO: Live Concert with Chelsea Bridge, Janet Xmas & Itsï Ramirez
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Weaving Workshop
@ Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative | Rebuild Foundation
1456 E 70th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 1PM - 3PM
Day Two – Cornelia Arts Building October Open Studios
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia, Chicago IL 60657
Opening Saturday, October 19th, from 11am - 3PM
To Washington Park, With Love: Rose Blouin Book Launch
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
Kristin Abhalter Smith: Double Stitch
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 18th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
Cornelia Arts Building October Open Studios – Opening Night
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
SK Reed: The Unreal
@ United Colors
611 N 6th St, Kansas City, KS 66101
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, October 31st
Edgar Arceneaux: Until, Until, Until . . .
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 7:30PM - 8:20PM
On view through Saturday, October 19th
DOVEWHETHER – Halloween Live Show
@ O's Tap
2044 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
An Evening with Paige Taul
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Intimate Alchemy: David Levinthal’s XXX Polaroids from the Kinsey Institute
@ Grunwald Gallery
1201 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN 47405-5501
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, November 11th
Muyiwa Adeyanju: Roots and Routes
@ Western Illinois University Art Gallery
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, October 17th
Time Machine Bronzeville
@ Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Cole Pierce: Home Spun
@ McHenry County College | Galleries One & Two
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 2:30PM - 4:30PM
On view through Friday, November 1st
Pierre Bayard: Hitchcock s’est trompe
@ Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, October 16th, from 6PM - 7PM
Dread Scott: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Screening | The D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 15th, from 10AM - 9PM
Father Daughter Dance
@ The DuSable
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 11AM - 4PM
ELASTRO AV Night 2: Curated by Clark Woods, Taylor Dye, Gordon Fung
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 13th, at 8PM
ebere agwuncha: chinelo house: weaving workshop
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, October 13th, at 2PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
Tilichero x POCAS+ Mercado
@ The Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 13th, from 12PM - 4PM
THƯƠNG HOÀI TRẦN: In the Spaces Remaining
@ ARTRUSS
4553 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 24th
25th Anniversary Show
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago IL, 60603
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio’s October SECOND SATURDAY
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 3:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Friday, November 1st
LIVE POETRY EVENT: SYLVIA PLATH & Co.
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
IGIN EXHIBITION
@ 3750 W Ogden Ave
3750 W Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 1PM - 3PM
SHAKE SHOOK SHAKEN: COUNTERBALANCE W/ Lindsay Weinberg + Julie Meckler
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647, USA
Opening Saturday, October 12th, at 12PM
Dromez, Flesh Narc, Bakantez, Manual Pollination
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 12th, at 8PM
Side Yard Sounds: Heavy Tiny
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 12th, at 7PM
Family Day | Patterns & Portals
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 11 AM - 3PM
6th Annual Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 11am - 5PM
Dialogue Chicago: Out Loud
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL, 60201
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 9am - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
On the Verge of Hope
@ Gallery Wrightwood
3325 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Austin Pope: The (Mis)Education of Chicago
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S MLK Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 8th
Janice Marin & Pia Cruzalegui: STORIES Y DESEOS
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, December 6th
Cocktails and Canvas
@ Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Double Ground
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
Spooky & Gay-er: a queer horror storytelling show!
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Gina María Balibrera and Nishanth Injam
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 8PM
20 Years of Chicago Film Archives
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
Festival del Arte Popular
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Sunday, October 20th
MAS Context Presents: Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville
@ Society of Architectural Historians
1365 N Astor St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, October 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
More Anxious Bodies
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, October 10th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Art as Civic Ritual
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E. Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, October 10th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Approaches to What: Latitude Benefit
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Thursday, October 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
Mark Hawk: Artist Talk
@ Hokin Gallery
623 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 9th, from 6PM - 6:30PM
On view through Thursday, October 10th
Antawan I. Bryd – ART NOW! Lecture
@ Film Row Cinema
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Roundtable: The Classroom as Community and the Community as Classroom
@ Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, October 9th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Claire Moore and Zander Raymond
@ Lula Cafe
2537 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, October 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
The Minneapolis Reckoning: Michelle Phelps and Julian Go
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, October 8th, from 7PM - 8PM
Visionary: Celebrating Leadership in the Arts
@ The Four Seasons
120 E Delaware Pl, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, October 7th, from 11 AM - 1:30PM
Dmytro Krishovsky: Heritage of Resistance: Heavyweight Graphics of War
@ Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 6th, from 5PM - 9PM
Paludarium
@ Grunts Rare Books
1500 S Western Ave, Ste. 403 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 6th, from 4PM - 7PM
Austin McCann: Turn Over
@ Letters to Nora
1500 S Western Ave, Ste. 407 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 6th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, December 8th
damsel. & Friends at Dorothy
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
Art/Access Lab: Meet & Make
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 & Online
Opening Sunday, October 6th, from 2PM - 4PM
YAWN SIGH!
@ Mayfield
505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park, IL 60130
Opening Sunday, October 6th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 1st
Evanston Made’s 10th Annual Artist Studio Tour
@ Joanna Kramer Ceramics
1100 Florence Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Sunday, October 6th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 6th
Maker’s Market
@ Maple Avenue Garage 5th Floor Parking
1800 Maple Ave, Garage 5th Fl, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 6th, from 12PM - 5PM
Endless House
@ Unda.m. 93
DM or email for address.
Opening Sunday, October 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Queer History Symposium at Gerber/Hart
@ Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 9AM - 5PM
Reflections: Arushi Jain with Dorothy Carlos
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, October 5th, at 8:30PM
Janna Lee, Hali Palombo, Ania Pieroni, Terran Wretch
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 5th, at 8PM
AfroFuturist Weekend Day 4: Freedom From and Freedom To @AFW9
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 5th, at 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 6th
Gender Jumble Juggernaut
@ Agitator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 7:30PM - 11:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
TRANS & QUEER ARTIST SHOWCASE
@ Chicago Therapy Collective
5237 N Clark St Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 6th
Lee Bey: Five Years of Southern Exposure
@ The Block House Gallery, PullmanArts
11137 S Langley Ave Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
Marsi Rex + Zack Rafuls: Modern Boys and Mobile Girls
@ Hardboiled
DM For Address
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, November 1st
Archiving Sites as Resistance and Reimagination
@ Chicago Artist Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
The Death and Untimes of Jackson and CASUAL T
@ Anthony Gallery
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
Empowered Support: A Conversation with Benedicta Badia
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
Patrick M Palsgrove: A/Symmetry
@ Open Studio Project: Gallery 901
901 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Anna Marie Tendler: Men Have Called Her Crazy
@ UIC Dorin Forum
1213 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 4:30PM - 5:30PM
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
Luis J. Rodriguez: Todos los caminos llevan a casa (All Roads Lead Home) Book Release
@ 18th Street Casa de Cultura
2057 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 4PM - 7PM
LUCKY NUMBER
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 5th, from 4PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 16th
