About: Meg Duguid

We’re closing down the street for a block party! Join us for food, music, activities, and a tool sale outside the Tool Library!

A celebration of Thresholds and its studio artists, and an initial grant made to Thresholds by the Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner Foundation in 1997 to support this program, “Artists First: 25 Years of Studio Art at Thresholds” introduces a compelling group of outstanding artists who are living with challenges and building from them daily; makingContinue Reading

“Freedom is the oxygen that democracy breathes…Despite the climate of fear, the arrests, disappearances, extra judicial killings, torture and death, people still resist.” -Shahidul Alam In keeping with our commitment to providing a platform for art that engages the critical issues of our time, Wrightwood 659 hosts We Shall Defy, an important exhibition of imagesContinue Reading

Wrightwood 659 is pleased to present Michiko Itatani: Celestial Stage, an exhibition of more than 60 paintings and drawings that reveal the Chicago-based artist’s fascination with humankind’s efforts to comprehend the universe and the inspiring grandeur of the unknown. Over the course of her 40-year career, Itatani has created a compelling body of work thatContinue Reading

The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869-1930 takes as its starting point the year 1869, when the word “homosexual” was first coined in Europe, inaugurating the idea of same-sex desire as the basis for a new identity category. On view will be more than 100 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and film clips—drawnContinue Reading