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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Jerry Phillips: Phantom Redux
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Good Weather
1524 S Western Ave, Suite 121, Building A, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Teacher Institute Curriculum Share-out | 2023-2024
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave Chicago IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 13th, from 10AM - 11:30AM
EXPO CHICAGO: DIALOGUES (Day 3)
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EXPO CHICAGO
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 13th, from 12PM - 6:16PM
On view through Sunday, April 14th
INTERSPACE: UIC’s 2024 Thesis Film Fest
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Great Space at UIC
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 13th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Judith Geichman: The Floor, The Wall, The Space In-between
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Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 13th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Pothole²
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Rainbo Club
1150 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 8PM - 2am
On view through Sunday, April 21st
ART on THE MART Spring Projection Launch
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ART on THE MART
222 W Merchandise Mart Plza, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
On view through Wednesday, June 5th
Battalion of Cloudships, Butt Mommy, Cairns, Springboard
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, at 8PM
CLEAT Series: Regina Martinez / AJ McClenon, Carissa Lee, Christophe Preissing
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, April 12th, at 8PM
Rm 921: Selina Trepp
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
YUCK! 666
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evoke
3304 N Knox Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, April 12th, at 7:30PM
Brendan Fernandes: New Monuments
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General John Alexander Logan Monument in Grant Park
S Michigan Ave & E 9th St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 13th
knock, and the doors of perception shall be opened unto you
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Tasos Mylonas: Peactime Proxy
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Parlour & Ramp
2130 W 21st St Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Attunements and Formations
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Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 24th
Junar Rodriguez
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Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 12th
Christina Ballantyne: See-Through Place
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Julius Caesar @ COLOR CLUB
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
Camera Trappings
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Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 12th, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, April 24th
Meshuganah
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A Very Serious Gallery
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, May 2nd
Group Show Opening Reception and Gallery Launch
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Povos Downtown
600 W Van Buren St Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Alexandra Antoine: GATHERED TOGETHER
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Fourth Presbyterian Church
126 E Chestnut St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, May 16th
Regin Igloria: Seven Skins Catalog Release Party
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
CSI x ALMA
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ALMA Art and Interiors
3636 South Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, September 15th
Frances Waite: I Love It Here
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Edie Fake: Persuasions
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
McArthur Binion and Jules Allen: Me and You
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GRAY
2044 W Carroll Ave Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
If The Sky Could Dream: Art, Climate, Community, and Social Change
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Heritage Museum of Asian Art
3500 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
Soumya Netrabile: mono no aware
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ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Tala Inaugural Exhibition
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Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Christy Matson: Both Sides Now
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Volume Gallery
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Leonardo Kaplan: Chlorine Luck
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MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
HILMA’S GHOST | SPECTRAL VISIONS: A Feminist Collective Signals Magickal Futures
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SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
COSMIC GEOMETRIES: The Prairie’s Edge
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SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Ari Norris: Just Dust
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David Salkin Creative
1709 W Chicago Ave, #2a, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
3831 CINEMA: FOR THE LOVE OF BLACK ARTISTS
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South Side Community Art Center
3831 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
Soumya Netrabile: mono no aware
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ANDREW RAFACZ Gallery
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Julia Phillips: Energy Exchange: Book Launch
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, April 12th, at 4:30PM
Arte Diseño Xicágo II • From the World’s Fair to the Present Day
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Sunday, August 11th
BARELY FAIR
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Color Club
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 14th
Sandra Binion: Autobiography of Looking
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Do You Want to Sleepover?
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Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St. #845 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Panel Discussion on Mina Loy
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 11:30AM - 1:15PM
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Infinite Like Night
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DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
The Annual Breakfast & BOLT Open Studios
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 9AM - 12PM
EXPO CHICAGO: DIALOGUES (Day 2)
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EXPO CHICAGO
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Friday, April 12th, from 12PM - 6:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 14th
Cesca Carletto-Leon : I can’t sit still but I’m trying
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Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640
On view through Friday, May 3rd
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) / Blood Feast (1963)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 11th, at 9:30PM
On view through Friday, April 12th
Comfort Music + Homeroom: Keisha Janae
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Made In Chicago
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Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Open Door: Flor Flores + Maricela Guerrero, Érika Ordos + Jules Zinn
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 7PM - 8PM
Nikki Patin: Working on Me: Book Release
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Honeycomb Network
2659 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
The Other Art Fair Chicago
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Artifact Events
4325 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 14th
Shu Lea Cheang: Fresh Kill
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Artist Talk: María Dávila and Eduardo Portillo—Weaving a World
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 7PM
Azad Ashim Sharma: Boiled Owls
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Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 7PM
Oral Fixation Art Podcast at EXPO Chicago
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EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier
Online
Opening Thursday, April 11th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 14th
Vernissage 2024
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EXPO CHICAGO
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
Hillary Irene Johnson: Unity: Roots, Seaweed, Dinosaur Feathers, Snow in the Woods, Axons, Dendrites, and Human Beings
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C33 Gallery
33 E Ida B. Wells Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, April 29th
EXPO CHICAGO
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EXPO CHICAGO
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL 60611
On view through Sunday, April 14th
EXPO CHICAGO: DIALOGUES (Day 1)
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EXPO CHICAGO
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 2PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 14th
Artists Run Chicago: Here and Now
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Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, April 14th
Kyla Culbertson: Suspended Moments
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Annex Gallery, Heating Plant Annex, Western Illinois University
1 University Circle Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 430PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, April 11th
Come One, Come All
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ANTHONY GALLERY
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, May 11th
RenBen 2024
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
Shu Lea Cheang: UKI
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Costumes and Collapse: A Screening and Conversation with Nick Cave, with a Performance by CHAOS
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Isabella Mellado: Te Diré Quién Eres
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Povos West Town
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
Newcity Breakout Artists 2024 Exhibition
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 17th
Prof. Pauline Goul: Becoming Montaigne Seminar
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Hutchinson Courtyard, The University of Chicago
1131 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 4:30PM - 7:20PM
OFF-SPRING Guided Tour with 21c Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 4PM - 5PM
Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories: Artist Tour & Talk
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Nate Young in conversation with Luke Sanders, Queen Hibbler, Sarah Isela Aguilar, and Le Hien Minh
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 10th, from 12PM - 1PM
Jamal Cyrus and Harold Mendez: On turning ground
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Lorraine O’Grady: The Knight, or Lancela Palm-and-Steel
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MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Marcela Torres: ¿Para Qué? – Perdón Que No Fue Pedido
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 8PM - 10PM
Judith Butler: Who’s Afraid of Gender?
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Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 7PM - 8PM
Flor Garduño with Sandra Cisneros
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, at 7PM
Antonio Campos: Simon Killer (2012)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, at 7PM
TANDA: Decolonizing Death: Lessons From Marronage, Black Spirituality, & Afrofuturism by sun-Lynn Hunter
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Politics of Poetics: CAConrad
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
System Crasher
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Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, 3rd Floor Michigan Room, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Dawoud Bey and Antawan Byrd on Elegy
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Tom Burtonwood: Variety Show
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Material
2025 W Belmont Ave, storefront, Chicago IL 60618
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 4th
Devin T. Mays presents “In Concert #1: Hold, Weight”
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Hutchinson Courtyard, The University of Chicago
1131 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt with Orisanmi Burton, Damon Locks and Maryan Kashani
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Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 7PM - 8PM
Read/Write Library at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Sunday, July 21st
Bill Gunn: Personal Problems (1980)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 8th, at 7PM
Anna Tsouhlarakis: VOX CLAMANTIS IN CHICAGO
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Hutchinson Courtyard, The University of Chicago
1131 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 8th, at 12PM
James Benning: El Valley Centro (1999)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 7th, at 8PM
Tom Rubnitz: Community Drag Theater
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, April 7th, at 7PM
OCFF 2024: SWING AND SWAY
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
¡San Romero Vive! Documentary and conversation
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Inga
1740 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 3:30PM - 6PM
Susan Giles: Words to Grasp
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Mary Porterfield: That Which Remains
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Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Hutt Rubio: Collective Works
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Riverside Arts Center at the Riverside Town Hall
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, April 25th
OCFF 2024: THE LIFE THAT I WAS LIVING
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, April 7th, at 3PM
Impact Performance Festival
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SAIC 280 Building, 012 Performance Space
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 7th
Tom Meacham: Simile
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Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Eleanna Anagnos: Lucid
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Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
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