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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Arlo’s Living Room Gallery: Chicago Pride
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Arlo Chicago
168 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60601
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
COUNTER WEIGHTS
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, June 20th, at 7PM
Third Thursday Gallery Tour
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 6PM - 6:45PM
Frank Beyer: Trace of Stones (1966)
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Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave Suite 420 IL 60601 Chicago
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
Dear Black Artist: Film Screening + Discussion
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
Conversation: Painting, Quilting, Sourcing—Christina Ramberg’s Artistic Practices
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 6PM - 7PM
Jorge Félix: Facing Blackness (De Frente al Negro): RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Opening
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2104 N Kenneth Ave
2104 North Kenneth Avenue Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Hamza Walker: Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
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MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Borders Cruzadas: A Collaborative Exploration of Migration
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The Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, First Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, August 8th
Carmen Winant in conversation with Natalie Bennett
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Outsider, Folk and Fine Art Auction / Reception
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Potter & Potter Auctions
5001 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Thursday, June 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, June 26th
Chicago Style: Mike Royko and Windy City Journalism
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
On view through Saturday, September 28th
stevie emrich
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Bird Show
Online
On view through Thursday, July 4th
Artsy Barber
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Positive Space Studios Logan Square
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 19th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, June 26th
Not So Secret Secret Show: Livia Gazzalo, Molly Coleman, Angela James, and Mackenzie Beyers
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, June 18th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
OEWBG: Fair Play
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City Lit Books
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, June 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
Transvengence: Pride Edition
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Clash On Clark
4416 N Clark St Suite 2, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Tuesday, June 18th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
The Project of Togetherness with the New Art School Modality: Screening and Talk |
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, June 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Realtime Video Workshop w Juliana Castro Duperly
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VGA Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, June 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, June 19th
Claire Dederer & Kate Rossmanith: Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Monday, June 17th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Zefyr Lisowski: Girl Work: Book Launch
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Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, June 17th, from 7PM - 8PM
FRUTAS
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Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, June 17th, at 6:30PM
Light Matter Film Festival: Chicago
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, June 16th, at 7:30PM
Sunday Reading Series
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Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, June 16th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Dmitry Samarov: Everything new is old again
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Rainbo Club
1150 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, June 16th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 21st
OPTION: Dorothy Carlos
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 16th, from 3PM - 5PM
Summer Soundwalk Series: Hai-Wen Lin
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Crickett Hill in Montrose Fields
4500 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, June 16th, from 11AM - 12PM
Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People: Venerate, Venerate! – Artist Talk
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The GREYSTONE Collective
4733 S Forrestville Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, June 16th, from 1PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, July 6th
Donny Mahlmeister, Todd Mattei, Harris/Ali
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 15th, at 8PM
Zine Not Dead #23
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 8PM - 12PM
Fetish Film Forum – Sebastiane (1976)
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
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The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 15th, at 7PM
SPACORE Publication Release Party
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939 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Storytime
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Stasias
44 E Cedar St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 20th
Latter Impressions: A Lifetime of Creativity
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Elmhurst Artists Guild at Elmhurst Art Museum
1150 S Cottage Hill, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 12th
Diana Motta: Metaphysical
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STASIAS
44 E Cedar St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, July 15th
Gagizhibaajiwan
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Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, December 31st
Healing and Closing Celebration: Breaking Free, Releasing What Was & Moving Onward!
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6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 5PM - 6PM
Edra Soto: La Casa de Todos / Everyone’s Home
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, November 15th
Protected By Invisible Fence: A Dance Performance
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Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 3PM - 4PM
Donny Mahlmeister, Todd Mattei, Harris/Ali
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 15th, at 8PM
Noelle Africh: Superstition
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slow dance
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 2 PM - 5 PM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 2PM - 3PM
Jessie Mott: Pluto
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Overhang
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Pit Stop
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
21Minus | Love & Liberation
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 1PM - 6PM
Memory of Nature: Talk and Campus Landscape Walk
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Zine Not Dead Fest
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Grace Church of Logan Square
3325 W Wrightwood Ave Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 12PM - 6PM
LIMINAL: LGBTQ+ CHICAGO-BORICUA IMAGININGS
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The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, February 15th
I Like Your Art: Artist Talk
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
Front Porch Arts Center: Grand Opening!
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Front Porch Arts Center
5851 West Madison Street Chicago, IL 60644
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 12PM - 3PM
Rare Nest Gallery Benefit for Rise Up to Action
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Rare Nest Gallery
3433 N Kedvale Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, June 15th, at 7:30PM
Performance Residency: Tend
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, June 15th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Friday, July 19th
RACHEL HEIBEL
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Ackerman Clarke
2544 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
ARCHITECT by Alison Thumel
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, June 14th, at 8:30PM
Summer Art Walk at 21c Chicago
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St. Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
Signal Decay, Rush Falknor, Disaster Scope, Death Factory, VOSS
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 14th, at 8PM
CLEAT Series: Landon Caldwell, D Jean-Baptiste
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, June 14th, at 8PM
Banana Acid Fruit Stand Variety Show
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The Color Club Tavern Space
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
We See You: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2024
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Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 28th
Active Bitch Face Productions Present: A Variety Hour
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Sharon Louden: PERENNIALS
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ENGAGE-Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 26th
OF HER BECOMING: ELIZABETH CATLETT’S LEGACY IN CHICAGO
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Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 31st
Love, Land, & Deception: Deconstructing the Patriarchy Exhibition
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Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 26th
Yutian Liu: GRAMMAR
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free range
3257 West Lawrence Avenue
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 5th
Transformations
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VibrantCast Gallery
4313 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 21st
MAKING TIME
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SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Stephen Eichhorn: VOIDGROUND
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SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Listening Party! with Circles & Ciphers
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
DeGroot Fine Art ‘After Hours’
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DeGroot Fine Art
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
Art & Fashion Show
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The Phygital Gallery
1432 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 5PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Contra Corriente Festival 2024
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Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Friday, July 26th
Danielle Andress & Hope Wang: Gateways
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 20th
David Roth: Implied Motion
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 13th
Comfort Music: DPCD & Bad Posture Club
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Energy Made Visible: Painting and Drawing Workshop
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Awakenings Art
4001 N Ravenswood Ave, Ste. 204-C, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Thursday, June 13th
Diana Solís and Victoria Martinez in Conversation, moderated by Risa Puleo
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Conversation: Stories of O’Keeffe and New York
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Tree walk through Grant Park with Openlands
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Thương Hoài Trần: Cho Gia Đình: For Family
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NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St Louis Ave Building E, Chicago, IL
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, July 3rd
The Art School’s 2024 Senior Studio Seminar Thesis Exhibition
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 4:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 16th
Ziccy Delamarter: My Grotesque Comforts
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C33 Gallery
33 E Ida B. Wells Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, September 11th
Yesterday Girl (Abschied von Gestern)
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Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Screening and Discussion: One Million Experiments
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Jordan Brown and Kezia Waters: The Fellowship Hall
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Logan Square Creative Studio
2823 W Diversey Ave Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, at 6:30PM
Sabrina Nelson: Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin: Artist Talk
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S. MLK Dr, Chicago, IL, 60653
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
FEK Draw: Fetish, Erotica and Kink
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Tuesday, June 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Store | Book Signing with Don’t Fret and Kevin Coval
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, June 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman: What Are Children For?
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Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, June 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
Collections Viewing: Brooks McCormick, Jr. Collection of Japanese Prints
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 10AM - 4:30PM
mutual aid fundraiser
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No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, June 9th, at 7PM
Bimbola Akinbola: Grief Island
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 7th
OPTION: Luke Stewart & Joshua Abrams
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 3PM - 5PM
Short Film Screening: In Stone featuring Eric Lindsey
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ALMA Art and Interiors
3636 S Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 2PM - 4PM
PleiadesFest Day 3 w/ easygoingtech
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 9th, at 2PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
South Side Zine Library Launch Party!
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Richard J Daley Branch Chicago Public Library
3400 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 1PM - 4PM
Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends
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Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Curatorial Conversations: Yinka Ilori in Conversation with Cynthia Noble
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 10AM - 11AM
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