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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
STITCHES
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Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 2nd
Onion City Shorts Program 3: Touching
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, March 10th, from 3:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
Onion City Shorts Program 4: Thinking
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, March 10th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival: Incense, Sweaters & Ice
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, March 10th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
You Can Tell Me Anything: Harm Reduction As Art
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Agitator Cooperative Gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 10th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
Betty Cleeland
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Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL 60625
On view through Friday, May 4th
Framed in Time: Throwback to the 1920s
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The Underground
56 W Illinois St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
Yassaman Moussavi: Roots
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 21st
Prelude to the Flood
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New Works
3403 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, March 23rd
Re-opening Reception: Alternating/Currents2
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LITHIUM
1932 S Halsted, STE 200, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 25th
Morganne Wakefield: Hard Broom
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baby blue gallery
2201 S Halsted St, 3-4s, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 6th
Cameron Clayborn: bodebuilder 2 (practice the way you play)
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, March 22nd
House of the Apocalypse
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House of the Apocalypse
1908 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Cathy Hsiao and Kaveri Raina: To Hover
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 9th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
Art of Resistance and Resilience in NW Indiana: A 21st-century Urban Colony
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Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
Işıl Eğrikavuk
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 6PM - 7PM
Kim Alpert: Standard Definition
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Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, April 2nd
Onion City Shorts Program 1: Growing
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
Onion City Shorts Program 2: Moving
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 8:30PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
Platypus Publishing: Marxism in the Age of Trump
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Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 12PM - 1PM
Magritte Emmanuel Nankin: TIME IS HER NAME
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
Double Gaze
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ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 31st
Laura Huertas Millán: Ethnographic Fictions
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Inextinguishable Fire: Blind Spots of Memory
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, March 8th, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, March 8th
Shifting Boundaries: Community Arts Practice in Public Schools
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 9th
Pushed Processes: Reworking the Photographic Medium
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The Hokin Gallery
623 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 24th
Women of Color Candidate Forum for Illinois
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Reunion Chicago
2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Chicago Feminist Film Festival: Wish You Were Here Shorts Program
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Film Row Cinema
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 1:30PM - 3PM
Idolatrous Ruskin
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University of Chicago Department of Art History
5540 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
Zapatos Rojos
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
Waterworld
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 21st
Comix: Pencils to Panels
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Columbia College's Department of Exhibitions, Performance, and Student Spaces
618 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 27th
Selves
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OPEN Center for the Arts
2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 6PM - 11PM
Tigerman
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Women who Run Hollywood with Ally Acker
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Film Row Cinema
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 6:45PM - 8PM
Seventeen (or so) Mini-Lectures…, OR Facets of a Scott Stack Painting
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, March 8th, at 5:30PM
On view through Sunday, August 5th
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival: Ouroboros
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 7:30PM - 11:30PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
Signs of the Resistance
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Morningstar
22 West Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Antibody Corporation: 10 Years | PAST
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Defibrillator Gallery
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Thursday, March 8th, from 8PM - 11PM
R and P: Stories on Race in the Classroom
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, March 7th, from 4;30PM - 6PM
In-Session: Eclipsing – Migration, Movements and Desire
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Threewalls
2738 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, March 7th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Cameron Clayborn: bodebuilder 2 (practice the way you play)
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, March 7th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, March 22nd
Deun Ivory and Abena Boamah: The Power of Visual Stories with Grow in Glow
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Apple Store
401 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, March 7th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Chicago Feminist Film Festival: Women in Science Fiction Shorts
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Film Row Cinema
1104 S Wabash Av, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, March 7th, from 8:15PM - 10PM
(Postponed) Lecture in Photography: Jennifer Blessing
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave. first floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, March 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
Işıl Eğrikavuk
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, March 6th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Creative Conversations: Lifting Creativity Bringing Others into Creative Space
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Phantom Gallery Chicago Network
436 E 47th St, Rm 205, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Tuesday, March 6th, from 11AM - 11:30AM
In Progress: OTV | Open Television Tonight
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, March 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
Sssshhhh #1
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Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
37 S Wabash Ave, Room 508, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, March 6th, from 4:30PM - 7:30PM
Heaven Is a Place Screening
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The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, March 6th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
BlacKorea
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, March 5th, from 7PM - 9PM
Gira Dahnee
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Currency Exchange Cafe
305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, March 5th, from 7PM - 9PM
Monique Haley: Encounter: Nurturing Embodiment Through Ritual and Community
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, March 5th, at 7:30PM
Amanda Ross-Ho
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Department of Visual Arts at The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, March 5th, from 6PM - 7PM
Fabiola Jean-Louis
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, March 5th, from 4PM - 6PM
Rodrigo Valenzuela
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, March 5th, from 5:30PM - 6:45PM
Option: Phillip Sudderberg Solo with Stein and Kirchen
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, March 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
Soul Sunday
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AMFM Gallery
2151 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, March 4th, from 2PM - 5PM
Eclipsing Workshop: Towards a Politics of Healing: Ethics of Storytelling with Patricia Nguyen
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Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, March 4th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, March 16th
Hollywood on State: Where You’re The Star
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, March 4th, at 6:30 PM
Two-Part Panel Discussion
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ANDREW RAFACZ
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, March 4th, from 2PM - 5:30PM
Love the Giver
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The Franklin
3522 W Franklin Blvd, Chicago IL 60624
Opening Sunday, March 4th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 29th
Lindsay Olson: Art and The Elegant Universe
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, March 4th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 1st
Holographic Body
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Baby Blue Gallery
2201 s halsted st. 3-4s, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, March 4th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, March 4th
Tom Burtonwood: Schrödinger’s cat isn’t dead after all
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The Franklin
3522 W Franklin Blvd, Chicago, Illinois 60624
Opening Sunday, March 4th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, March 4th
Got You
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Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
Hans-Jörg Mayer: Kristen Stewart
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M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 14th
Sheree Hovsepian: The Altogether.
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Monique Meloche Gallery
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
Jessica Vaughn: on the wall
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Monique Meloche Gallery
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
North Branch Projects Bookbinding Workshop
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago IL 60654
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, March 17th
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
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DePaul University: Richardson Library: Scholar's Lab
2350 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from Noon - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Shannon Finnegan: Anti-Stairs Drawings
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Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 31st
Form and Class: Origins and Ends of the Work of Art
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ANDREW RAFACZ
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 14th
La Cultura Cura Market: Muxeres en Rebeldia
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La Catrina Cafe
1011 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, at 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 4th
Keller Easterling
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The Renaissance Society
Kent Hall, 5811 S Ellis Ave, 4th Floor. Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Della Wells
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Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
Imani Elizabeth Jackson: Halotherapy | Saltsitting
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F4F
2846 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Locals Only
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Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 8th
Natalie Hopkinson: Mouth is Always Muzzled
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Phoebe Chin: Can Cacti Fall In Love, Or Batatas Trace Their Slips?
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, March 25th
Lie: Bloom
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Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 24th
Happy Thoughts
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All Star Press Chicago
2775 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 6PM - 10PM
Pottery of Protest (POP!)
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Lincoln Square Pottery Studio Learning Center
4150 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
Andres Acosta
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Ice House Gallery Evanston
609 South Boulevard, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
(DIS/RE)MEMBERING THE EMPIRE
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 6064
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
LENS 2018
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Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 5PM - 7PM
Intuitive Hemispheres
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Agitator: a co-operative gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Within the Walls
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The Overlook Place
3323 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 5PM - 7PM
Cameron Clayborn: bodebuilder 2 (practice the way you play)
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, March 22nd
OKA Amnesia performs for “Cathy Hsiao: Movement 1, Bloom”
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GOLDFINCH
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 24th
Library Experimental
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Jefferson Park Library
5363 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Cat’s Cradle
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The Condo Association
2700 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Prairie Auction
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Prairie
629 W Cermak Ave, Suite 240, Chicago, IL 60608
Existential Credit
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Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 6th
A Collaborative 2018 Inaugural Show
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Lo Rez Brewing
2101 S Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 3rd, from 7PM - 11PM
Lee Grantham: Reverse Acrylic Paintings
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Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 2nd, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, February 24th
Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber: Empire
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Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 2nd, from 5 PM - 7 PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
Barbara Crane: The Polaroid Years
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Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 2nd, from 5 PM - 7 PM
On view through Saturday, April 14th
Sara Law and Marcy Thomas
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Rubberneck
2058 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 2nd, at 6:3oPM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
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