May 2017
2017 Crystal Ball
@ Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Ste 100, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 7PM - 11PM
Lake Walk With Balas and Wax
@ Lincoln Park
Sheridan Road and Ardmore Avenue
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 10AM - 11AM
The Dangerous Professors
@ Triumph
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608-4115
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
Kim Fisher: If…we
@ Shane Campbell Gallery
2021 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
LtdWear2
@ LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Kadar Brock: summon artifact
@ PATRON
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 9th
Mocrep at Defibrillator
@ DfbrL8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
Matt Morris: Blue Mirror
@ Obst
1801 S Peoria, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
Lorraine Peltz: The Decorative Impulse
@ Schoenherr Gallery, North Central College
171 E. Chicago Ave, Naperville, IL, 60540
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Sunday, May 14th
Marcy Kennedy Anderson
@ Morpho Gallery
5216 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 21st
Estación Brutalísima
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 14th
MAS Context presents: paper/architecture
@ Perkins+Will Chicago
410 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1600, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
Joey Lala and Spencer Rogers: The Abstract and the Figurative
@ S. Rog Gallery
739 S Clark St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Friday, June 16th
THIS EVENT BUILDS COMMUNITY: How hyper-local collaboration can support the arts and free expression
@ City Lit Books
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Deconstructed, Not Destroyed
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 12th
Morgan Parker with Jamila Woods, Nate Marshall and José Olivarez
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Thomas Williams: To Be Conscious
@ William Hill Gallery
6144 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60637-2528
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 2nd
Protest Archives: Angela Davis Fegan + Lisa Vinebaum
@ Sector 2337
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
PIEZO
@ DEMO Project
732 N 4th St, Springfield, IL62702
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6 PM - 8:30 PM
Standards Variance
@ Public Access
3306 W North Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 10th
Violence and Indigenous Communities
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 8:30am - 5:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
Modus Operandi: BFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
@ The Arcade
618 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 26th
A MODERN BESTIARY
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
Luis Sahagun: Realms of Hope
@ Autotelic Studios
1856 N Richmond St Storefront, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, May 15th
Remember: Journey into the History of the Self
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Lewis Klahr: Sixty Six
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
Taking Shape
@ Studio Oh!
1837 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, June 29th
Switch On!
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 12th, at 7:30PM
Home
@ 47th Ward Office
4243 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, August 31st
Book To Art Club: Dune by Frank Herbert
@ John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Ave, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 53081
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Frank Pollard: Blasphemous Rumors
@ Framing Mode and Gallery
1526 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 18th
Kate Zambreno
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 7PM - 830PM
Gabourey Sidibe: This is Just My Face
@ Francis W. Parker School
2233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 7PM - 8PM
Action Books Live
@ Sector 2337
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Public Newsroom #17: Who Tells the Story of Englewood?
@ Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Wrote Two: An Open Forum for Arts Writers
@ ACRE
1345 W 19th ST, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Classic Kink (Part II)
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Screening: New Media Art from China
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 6PM - 7PM
And and and: Part II
@ Muffler Shop
359 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
The Loving Story
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Gallery Talk with Candida Alvarez and Terry R. Myers
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington S, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, May 11th, from 5PM - 6PM
Graduate Collaboration Final Presentations
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
Lecture in Photography: Charlotte Cotton
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, May 10th, at 6PM
Persist: Columbia College Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, May 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 28th
Dario Robleto
@ Segal Visitors Center
1841 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 10th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Curator’s Tour of Hương Ngô: To Name It is to See It
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, May 10th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
2017 Visual Arts Exhibition
@ Union League Club of Chicago
65 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, Illinois 60604
Opening Tuesday, May 9th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Indigo Dye Workshop
@ Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, May 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Bianca Bernardo: Art and Pedagogy in Brazil
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Tuesday, May 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Rotation with live soundtrack
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, May 9th, from 8PM - 10PM
Original Instruments Concert
@ LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, May 8th, from 3PM - 3:45PM
Pippa Skotnes: Books, Bones, Billiards: Real Presence in the Place of the Past
@ Buffett Institute at Northwestern
633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Monday, May 8th, from 4PM - 6PM
Amina Ross: I Am Conscious, I Am Love: Mother’s Reflection
@ Terrain Exhibitions
704 Highland Avenue, Oak Park, IL
Opening Sunday, May 7th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 4th
Lori-May Orillo and Matt Rutt: Park Tint
@ Bog Otherwise
1418 E Hyde Park Blvd, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, May 7th, from 2PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, June 7th
Candida Alvarez and Dawoud Bey in Conversation: New York in the 80s
@ Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Universal Love
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 7PM - 12am
Fill Me In (Not a Craig David Thing)
@ The Hermosa Walls
2306 N Keeler Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 1 PM - 5 PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Jong-un Choi: Selective Consciousness
@ Essentia Chicago
2118 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, May 31st
It will be more like scratching than writing
@ GOLDFINCH
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 10th
Dark Matter
@ Gallery Pink
1131 N East Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 2nd
Joey Garfield: Mound Town
@ 1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave., Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
Word to Mother: Forgot How To Fly
@ Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Wild garlic
@ Ignition project space
3839 W. Grand Ave., Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 5PM - 7PM
From Spaces to Places
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 2:30PM - 3:30PM
The baby gap
@ Outhaus
709 E Sunnycrest Dr, Urbana, IL 61801
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 3PM - 6PM
Chicago Free Black Women’s Library Pop-up
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 10AM - 5PM
Manifest Decks: Bringing Intention to Fruition w/Words, Images and Symbols
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 11am - 12:45PM
BLACK To Pilsen
@ Plus Gallery Chicago
1800 W 18th St, 1R (entrance on Wood St.), Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 2PM - 7PM
Stoop Dreams
@ Ageless Arts Tattoo & Body Piercing Studios
2407 S Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 7PM - 11:59PM
Good Enough: A Convention on Forms of Self-Reparation
@ SAIC MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, May 6th, at 2PM
On view through Sunday, May 7th
Chicago Zine Fest 2017- Exhibition Day
@ Local 130 Plumbers Union Hall
1340 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL60607
Opening Saturday, May 6th, from 11am - 6PM
Carlos Rolón: 50 Grand
@ Tube Factory Artspace
1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN 46203
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
Fluxus: Film Symposium
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Max Sansing and Sentrock: Love Movement
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, May 29th
Chicago Zine Fest 2017: Friday Night Panel Discussion and Reading
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6:30PM - 10:30PM
Iris Bernblum: Peaks and Valleys
@ Aspect/Ratio
119 N Peoria St, #3D, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 16th
Mouth Muffins with Holly Arsenault
@ Comfort Station
2579 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Split Ends: Works by Advanced Fiber and Material Studies Studio Spring 2017
@ Dfbrl8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Pedro Igrez: Structura Somnia
@ The West Wall
1350 W Erie St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 5PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, May 5th
Public Lecture by H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D
@ Corner
2912 N Milwaukee Ave (Storefront), Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 7:30 PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, May 24th
Marta Zgierska: Post
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
GrassRoots
@ Woman Made Gallery
685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
Reunion I
@ Woman Made Gallery
685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
Cameraperson
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Luna Custom
@ Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 28th
Michael Slack: We’re All Weirdos, We’re All Wonderful
@ Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 28th
Cameron Clayborn: Bawdy
@ BOYFRIENDS
3311 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 18th
Laurie Anderson: the Language of the Future
@ Old Town School of Folk Music
4544 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 7th
Robert Burnier: So That Justice Should Be Tyrant // Council
@ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
Nasty Women Art Chicago
@ Moonlight Studios
1446 W Kinzie St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 5:30PM - 10:30PM
Out of Body
@ ACRE
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 26th
Spring Thing ’17
@ Greenleaf Art Center
1806 W Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, IL60626
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
RESPECTability
@ Plus Gallery Chicago
1800 W 18th St, 1R (entrance on Wood St.), Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 26th
Watermelon Man
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 7PM - 9PM
Zack Wirsum: A Stranger Still
@ Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, June 30th
Gallery Artists 2017
@ Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 West Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 8th
Earsight Duo and Danny Clay: on/off
@ High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 5th, from 8PM - 10PM
Ervin Alex Johnson: InHonor:Monoliths
@ Gallery19
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, May 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 7th
