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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Gelitin: Democratic Sculpture 7
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Neubauer Collegium
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, September 23rd, at 5PM
On view through Friday, January 12th
The Magic Carpet at Kenwood Gardens
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Kenwood Gardens
6929 S Kenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, September 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Germán Bobe: Dreaming in the Gardens of Love
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VDB TV
Online
Opening Saturday, September 23rd, from 12AM - 12PM
On view through Tuesday, October 17th
Battalion of Cloudships & Janna Lee, Rin Peisert & Ben Zucker, Elmyra Duff, Melon Sprout
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 22nd, at 8PM
Celluloid Now Day 2: 35mm – Only In Theaters
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
Chloe Johnston: Grace
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Friday, September 22nd, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 23rd
Drago: Letters, Lost Series
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T. Mari Art Gallery
1227 W Devon Ave ,Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, September 29th
Water: Chicago River at the Scale of the Anthropocene
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6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
Diana Solís: Contigo: Closing
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Co-Prosperity
3129 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 6:30PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 23rd
Instigation Festival 2023
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Nick Schutzenhofer: drawing of a heart
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MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 5th
Cherylle Booker: Titania’s Masquerade: Unseen Worlds of Wonder
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 22nd, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
A World on The Move: Navigating Borders Amidst Conflict and War by Ada Trillo
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Chicago Center for Photojournalism
1226 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, December 7th
Salvador Jiménez-Flores: eagle, serpiente, nopalli
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 24th
Feminist to the Core: CLOSING RECEPTION
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salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL60609
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
Día de Muertos, Living Presence
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 22nd, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 10th
Matt Bodett: Of Exceptions
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ARTRUSS
4553 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Ashkon Haidari: Under the Cherry Moon
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Povos Chicago
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Sequence of a Dream
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Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Who Speaks for the Oceans?
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Tarble Arts Center
2010 9th St, Charleston, IL 61920
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 27th
Neighbors
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Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St. Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, September 22nd, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Friday, October 13th
J e l l o: Weigh(in)g The Balance
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Ste 208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 22nd, at 8:30PM
The Body Through Time
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Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 22nd, at 7PM
Celluloid Now Day 1: Film Party
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Constellation
3111 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 8PM - 10PM
Amalgam presents Kim Nucci & Tina Lefeuve, Sara Zalek Duo
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, September 21st, at 7:30PM
Owen Spryszak: Day of an Affair
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T.F. Projects and The Dime
1513 N Western Ave, #101 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 27th
Reeling: The 41st Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
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Chicago Filmmakers
Multiple Locations
Opening Thursday, September 21st, at 7PM
On view through Wednesday, October 11th
Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, February 4th
Smart to the Core: Poetry is Everything
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, February 4th
Deborah Stratman: Laika
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Gregg Bordowitz: Tetragrammaton
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Matthew Cortez: I Love You. I Love You? I Love You!
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Northwestern University’s Dittmar Gallery
1999 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Herman’s Lounge: A Night of Rhythm and Prose
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The Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Josiah McElheny: Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Frances Lightbound: Tectonics
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John David Mooney Foundation (International Currents Gallery)
114 W Kinzie St, Chicago IL 60654
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 29th
ZINES!: Conversations & Creations: Oscar Arriola & Derek Potts
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
Art After Work with Dionne Victoria
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Dionne Victoria Studios, INC.
735 E 79th St, Chicago, IL 60619
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Antonia Ruppert: A Broken Crayon Still Colors
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Robert F. DeCaprio Gallery
9000 W College Parkway, Palos Hills, IL 60465
On view through Tuesday, October 31st
Regina Martinez: overhearings
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Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL
On view through Sunday, December 31st
Flow embody in site 2023 Lectures with Out of Site Chicago
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, September 21st, from 12PM - 3:30PM
Eating Sharp Fruit: Season 2: Episode 4
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CAN TV19
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 20th, from 11PM - 11:30PM
Comfort Film Presents My Neighborhood: Chicago Films From The Center Cinema Co-Op
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 20th, from 8PM - 10PM
Dark Matter Series: Sam Thousand, Sharon Udoh, DJ Sey Twila
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 20th, at 8PM
2024 Arts + Public Life Residency info session
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, September 20th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
After Antarctica
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
Artist Talk: Anne Appleby
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, September 20th, from 6PM - 7PM
Andréa Connell: Hold On
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University Art Gallery, Western Illinois University
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Wednesday, September 20th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, September 20th
Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera
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The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, December 3rd
The Block Collects 2023
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, December 3rd
For One and All: Prints from The Block’s Collection
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, December 3rd
Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, September 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 22nd
Celebrating 100 Years of Rafael Tufiño
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The National Puerto Rican Museum Chicago
3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, August 31st
Open Call 2024 Exhibition Application Workshop with Nia Easley
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, September 18th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
NASTY, BRUTISH & SHORT: A Puppet Cabaret
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, September 18th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
The Electric Nature, Whisker ft. Carol Genetti, Death Tape Super Bass, Warmed Normal Forms
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, September 17th, at 7:30PM
Izzy Cho: Casually Superstitious: Closing
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, September 17th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 17th
An evening of Performance Arte Acción
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No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, September 17th, at 6:78PM
Lab E: Training Group
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Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
T.J. Ly-Donovan: Oily Foam
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Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 7th
Guzzo Pinc: Winnetka
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Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 7th
Adriana Poterash: SURREAL WORLD OF ALLIANCES
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St. Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 29th
Conversation with Liz Flores
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Clare Koury and BEVERLY FRESH: Local Hero
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Apparatus Projects
1524 S Western Ave, Suite 406, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Tuesday, November 14th
Wake Up and Rest: Jane Addams Bedroom Project Launch with Tricia Hersey
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 12PM - 1PM
Un’Taneh Tokef: Sending and Receiving Through the Gates: Artist Workshop
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 12PM - 2PM
The Black Arcade: Grief in Stereo | Skill Share/Jam Session #2
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 11AM - 1PM
Links Hall Open House
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 9AM - 6PM
Elastic Aural Mexico City x Chicago Exchange: Day 3 – An Afternoon of New Configurations and Improvisations at the National Museum of Mexican Art
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 16th, at 3PM
In New Light
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W. GALLERY
600 W Van Buren St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 7th
Drekka, Itsï Ramirez, Guests, Voss
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 16th, at 7PM
Zine Club Chicago 5th Anniversary Party: Juvenilia Edition with Special Guest Justin Kern of The Museum of the Unintentional
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Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Mercurial Lake: Poetry/Screening
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Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, November 3rd
Dala Nasser: Adonis River
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The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 26th
Ramiro Silva-Cortes: Sin Miedo A Sentir
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Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Native Futures
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Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 17th
Rodrigo Zamora: Memory Traces
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THE MISSION PROJECTS | THE RESIDENCE
email info@themissionprojects.com for an appointment
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
In Bed With Chaos
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Happy Gallery Chicago
902 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 4PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Mocrep: I want to know
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Tusk
3205 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 4PM - 6PM
Justine Kurland: SCUMB Manifesto
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Watershed Art&Ecology
1821 S Racine, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 2PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Amigas Latinas Artist Talk with CPL
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Sulzer Regional Library
4455 N Lincoln Ave Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Tom Torluemke: Gravity: Artist Talk
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, September 16th, at 1PM
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Mardy Sears: This Is It
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 29th
Closing Performance
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Produce Model
1918 S Canalport Ave, Chicago IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, September 16th
Celeste, Adee Roberson, Ruth Root
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RUSCHMAN
4148 N Elston Ave. Chicago, IL 60618
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Cole Pierce: In the Mist of a Great Fall
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago IL. 60647
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, October 7th
Artist Talk:
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Floor 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Artist Talk: WET
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
Shake Shook Shaken ‘VIBRATE’ w/ Andrés Crovetti
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, September 16th, at 12PM
Montserrat Alsina: Artist Talk and Workshop
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Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 11AM - 2PM
Through Our Eyes
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Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450, Chicago IL 60611
On view through Sunday, October 8th
Artists of The Pharmacy and Tanya Bayer & Janet Bratcher
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Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
305 SW Water St, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Involuntary Object
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LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 29th
At the Precipice: Volunteer Session at Happy Returns Studio
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Happy Returns studio
5339 W Lake St, Suites LL33 and LL29, Chicago, IL 60644
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 11AM - 12PM
On view through Monday, October 30th
Comfort Music: T.J. Borden with Tim Daisy & Christopher Riggs
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Elastic Aural Mexico City x Chicago Exchange: Night 2 – Compositions
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 15th, at 8:30PM
CAVA 2023 Member’s Show
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The Bridgeport Art Center, Fourth Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 3rd
Fournier/Walker Duo Jazz and Animation Performance
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Riverside Arts Center at the Riverside Town Hall
27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois 60546
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, September 29th
David Hauptschein: Selves Portrait: Self-Portraits
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Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Alex Garcia: Artist Talk
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Chicago Center for Photojournalism
1226 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
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