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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, February 13th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Emma Oliver: Beginning Knits with Emma
@
University Galleries
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103 Campus Box 7150, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Saturday, February 13th, at 10AM
On view through Sunday, February 21st
Reading for Young People: Jillian Tamaki (Online)
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, February 13th, from 11AM - 11:30AM
Tarrey Torae: Catching Feelings
@
Eighth Blackbird
Online
Opening Saturday, February 13th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 13th
Against Impossibility
@
FLXST CONTEMPORARY
2251 S Michigan Ave, Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Sunday, March 28th
Pintoras Mexicanas 10th Anniversary Exbition
@
Dragonfly Gallery
2436 W Madison C-1, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, February 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 7th
Studio Visit with Norman Teague Furniture (Maker) Designer
@
Diasporal Rhythms
Online
Opening Saturday, February 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
Big Dark Love: anti-valentine’s group art show
@
Blnk Haus
3206 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 13th, from 8PM - 10PM
Services to Artists & Services to Artists Media Lounge (Day 4)
@
109th CAA Annual Conference
Online
Art&Edibles 2/12
@
Pilsen Art House
1756 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 12th, from 4PM - 9PM
Services to Artists & Services to Artists Media Lounge (Day 3)
@
109th CAA Annual Conference
Online
Distant DiscarDisco 2021: The WasteShed’s Annual Trash Fashion Show Fundraiser
@
The WasteShed
2842 W Chicago Ave
Opening Friday, February 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
K. Kofi Moyo and FESTAC ’77: The Activation of a Black Archive
@
Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 12th, from 1PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, March 21st
Virtual Performance: Love Songs
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, February 12th, from 12PM - 1PM
Virtual Artist Talk: Marilyn Nelson on Bisa Butler
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, February 12th, from 6PM - 7PM
Services to Artists & Services to Artists Media Lounge (Day 2)
@
109th CAA Annual Conference
Online
Wendy Clarke In Conversation with Bruce Jenkins and Maria Gaspar
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, February 11th, at 7PM
Talk: Carolina Caycedo
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, February 11th, at 6PM
Immersive Van Gogh
@
Lighthouse ArtSpace at Germania Place
108 W. Germania Pl. Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, February 11th, from 6AM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, May 2nd
Radical Pleasures: Artist Talk
@
C33
Online Event
Opening Thursday, February 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, February 11th
MAS Context presents: Pioneering Black Architects in Los Angeles and Chicago
@
MAS Context
Online
Opening Thursday, February 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Educations in Colonialism and White Supremacy
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Thursday, February 11th, from 4PM - 5PM
One on One: Arnold and Ahneva
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
On view through Wednesday, February 17th
Brittany Greeson + Claudia Perkins Milton: A City in Limbo
@
Art Works Projects
Online
Opening Thursday, February 11th, from 5PM - 6PM
4th Midwest : In conversation
@
Woman Made Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, February 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Services to Artists & Services to Artists Media Lounge (Day 1)
@
109th CAA Annual Conference
Online
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 10th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Colleen Plumb: Surveilling Snow Lily
@
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Wednesday, February 10th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 28th
A Photo History of Reproductive Justice: Special Presentation by Loretta J. Ross
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 10th, at 6PM
Emma Copley Eisenberg & Wendy C. Ortiz
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 10th, at 7PM
Be a part of pARTicles
@
Fermilab Art Gallery
Kirk Rd & Pine St, Batavia, IL 60510
On view through Sunday, February 14th
Julian Bond’s Time to Teach with Jeanne Theoharis, Pam Horowitz, and Judy Richardson
@
Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 9th, from 6PM - 7PM
FEK Drawing ONLINE and LIVE
@
Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Tuesday, February 9th, from 6;30PM - 9:30PM
Open Door Reading: Kristy Bowen, laaura goldstein, Dominique Dusek & Damon Locks
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 9th, from 7PM - 8PM
THAW 2021: Abundance
@
Links Hall
Online
Opening Monday, February 8th, at 7PM
One on One: Ken and Louise
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
On view through Sunday, February 14th
Rebecca Zorach
@
Evanston Art Center
Online
Opening Sunday, February 7th, from 2PM - 3PM
Nom Nom: 40 Years of Pac-Man Design and History
@
Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave Apt 101, 2418 W Bloomingdale Ave Apt 101
Opening Sunday, February 7th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 30th
Nereida Patricia: Sea Queen
@
Bubbles
418 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Sunday, February 7th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, February 20th
Exploring Black Space
@
Forest Park Public Library
Online
Opening Sunday, February 7th, at 1PM
Center Sunday: Teen Takeover
@
Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Sunday, February 7th, from 1PM - 4PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, February 6th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Gallery Talk with Risa Puleo
@
Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, February 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, March 8th
Tim Lowly: Without Moving, Tondos
@
Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, February 6th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 27th
It Was All A Dream
@
Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 6th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, February 27th
Jerry Birchfield: A Pale, A Post, A Boundary
@
Devening Projects
3039 West Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, March 20th
Haig Aivazian: All of the Lights
@
The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, 4th floor Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, March 21st
Q&A with Artist Paul Branton
@
Springboard Arts Chicago
1910 W North Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 6th, at 4PM
Hyun Jung Jun & Cody Tumblin: A Long Sleep Before Spring
@
HG
2000 W Carroll Ave Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, February 6th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 6th
Aviva Kramer: 1000 Mirrors
@
ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 6th, from 4PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 27th
Winter Tool Swap with Chicago Tool Library
@
Plant Chicago
4459 S Marshfield Ave, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, February 6th, from 10AM - 2PM
Virtual February Needlefelting Workshop
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, February 6th, from 2PM - 3PM
Adam Daley Wilson: Already Gone
@
Aspect/Ratio
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, March 13th
Virtual Artist Talk: Confluence
@
Heaven Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, February 6th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Saturday, March 13th
Shahrbanoo Hamzeh: Artist Talk
@
University Galleries
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103 Campus Box 7150, Normal, IL 61761
On view through Sunday, February 21st
LatinXAmerican Podcast: Episode 5: Salvador Jiménez-Flores
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Friday, February 5th, at 12PM
A Flame Sparkling
@
Fluffy Crimes
1760 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago IL 60614
On view through Friday, February 5th
2021 Student Juried Exhibition
@
Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, February 5th, at 12PM
On view through Friday, March 12th
Lawrence Brown: The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
@
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Friday, February 5th, from 2PM - 3PM
Aaron Shapiro Organ Trio
@
Elastic Arts
Online
Opening Friday, February 5th, at 7:30PM
Black Caribbean Waters: Decolonizing the Archive
@
Northwestern University Black Arts Consortium
Online
Opening Friday, February 5th, from 3PM - 5:30PM
Cesáreo Moreno: Folk Art to Fine Art, Mercados a Museos
@
McAninch Arts Center at the College of DuPage
Online
Opening Friday, February 5th, from 7PM - 9PM
Tim Lowly: Without Moving, Tondos
@
Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
On view through Saturday, February 27th
Paul Levack
@
David Salkin Creative
1709 W Chicago Ave, #2A, Chicago, Il, 60622
On view through Wednesday, February 10th
Latinx Inclusivity: A Conversation between Arlene Dávila and Ed Morales, moderated by Bill Johnson González
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, February 4th, at 6PM
Breaking Down Plastics. Building up Solutions.
@
Glass Curtain Gallery
Online Event
Opening Thursday, February 4th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, February 19th
Poetry & BYOBiscuits with BYOBicuits
@
Black Ocean
Online
Opening Thursday, February 4th, at 7:30PM
Sounds of the Chicago River – Deep Listening Workshop
@
Fifth House Ensemble
Online
Opening Thursday, February 4th, from 2PM - 3PM
Conversation with the Artists
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Thursday, February 4th, at 6PM
Virtual Curator Conversations @ 21c Museum Hotel
@
21c Museum Hotel Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, February 4th, at 6PM
Building a Collection
@
Circle Contemporary
Online
Opening Thursday, February 4th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
What is Publicness?
@
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Online
Opening Thursday, February 4th, from 4PM - 6PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 3rd, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Guillermo Gómez-Peña: An Open Letter to the Museum of the Future
@
Smart Museum of Art, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Public Media Institute
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 3rd, from 7PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, January 27th
Virtual Paperback Release: EVERYWHERE YOU DON’T BELONG by Gabriel Bump
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 3rd, at 7PM
Artist Talk: Sadie Woods
@
Roman Susan
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 3rd, at 5PM
Collective Communities: Actions on Environmental Crises
@
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, March 27th
ONLY CONNECT Webinar: Lisa Solar + Liz Nielsen
@
Carrie Secrist Gallery
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 3rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Virtual OUTspoken! LGBTQ Storytelling via Zoom
@
Sidetrack The Video Bar
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 2nd, from 7PM - 10:30PM
Reuben Jonathan Miller: Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
@
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 2nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Paula McCarty Artist Lecture
@
Giertz Gallery at Parkland College
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 2nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Art Personas: Building Celebratory Worlds
@
Circle Contemporary
Online
On view through Sunday, February 28th
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