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An initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with artists and organizations across the city, Art Design Chicago is a series of events and exhibitions that highlight the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.

NOW + NEXT

Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days

June 3, 2024-April 29, 2025

Harold Washington Library

Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons

August 3, 2024-February 2, 2025

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Learning Together: Art Education and Community

September 5, 2024-March 15, 2025

Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago

Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935

September 8, 2024-July 27, 2025

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Indigenous Chicago

September 12, 2024-January 4, 2025

Newberry Library

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967

September 12, 2024-February 23, 2025

DePaul Art Museum

ReSOURCE: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago

September 14, 2024-December 21, 2024

South Side Community Art Center

Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond

September 21, 2024-January 26, 2025

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

Myth of the Organic City

September 22, 2024-February 23, 2025

6018North

Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!

September 24, 2024-July 31, 2025

Smart Museum of Art

beLONGING:  Lithuanian Artists in Chicago 1900 to Now

September 28, 2024-May 17, 2025

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture

Dunning

November 8, 2024-December 31, 2024

The Center for Mad Culture

Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types

November 9, 2024-April 4, 2025

Design Museum of Chicago

Sunday Sustainable Soup

December 8, 2024-February 23, 2025

6018North

Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago

December 12, 2024-March 29, 2025

Newberry Library

La Casa de Todos Closing Celebration with The Seldoms

December 21, 2024

Comfort Station Logan Square

Still Here: Linking Histories of Displacement

January 21, 2025-April 20, 2025

National Public Housing Museum

Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

January 26, 2025-July 13, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Living Stories: Contemporary Woodland Native American Art

January 27, 2025-January 5, 2026

Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum

Opening Celebration: Woven Being Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

February 1, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Woven Being Community Room Drop-In

February 5, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Radical Mending: Paired Repair

February 6, 2025

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Producing Culture with Printmaking

February 6, 2025

Newberry Library

The Indians Won: Woven Being Gallery Talk with Marisa Cruz Branco

February 15, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Art Talks! Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

February 22, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Woven Being Curator Tour with Jordan Poorman Cocker

February 26, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats

March 1, 2025-September 30, 2025

Floating Museum

Woven Being Community Room Drop-In

March 5, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Art Talks! Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

March 9, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Radical Mending: Mending Basics

March 13, 2025

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Art Talks! Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

March 15, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Inverse Surveillance

April 18, 2025-December 15, 2025

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)

Chicago as Catalyst: Immigrant Communities Nourish Self-Taught Artists

April 24, 2025-January 11, 2026

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

STORIES

Learn about the people, places, and ideas that drive Chicago’s dynamic arts
ecosystem. Dive in and discover interviews, essays, news, videos, and more.

Creative Conversations with Dawit L. Petros

Questions with a Curator featuring Lois Taylor Biggs

A gallery installation including large skeleton puppets and a wall-mounted video monitor.

Chicago’s History of Radical Art Pedagogy

Curator Amira Hegazy, wearing a long black dress and hair pulled back, stands in front of the opening exhibition text panel for "Letters Beyond Form."

WDCB Radio Tours “Letters Beyond Form” at the Design Museum of Chicago

A photograph of Mary Lawson interviewing Akito Tsuda. They sit at a big red table with photographs hung on a wall in the background.

Thank You for This Question

Four artists and two curators pose together in front of an gallery wall.

Stories found within art and spoken by Native artists in six contemporary exhibitions in Chicago

Questions with a Curator featuring Clemenstien Love

Visual Voices and Art as Resistance: Designing for Change at the Chicago History Museum

Headshot of Juarez Hawkins (left) and Patricia Stewart, Chicago's Middle Class c/o my Family History, 2015. Mixed media collage, 14" (W) x 28" (H). Courtesy of the artist (right).

WVON speaks to artist Juarez Hawkins and ADC Project Director Eva Silverman

Chicago Reader Examines the Origins of Chicago Arts Education at Hull-House

Two young visitors look at a large standing loom in front of a window of Hull-House.

ADC Partners Collaborate to Present “Weaving Stories” Series

The Sweetly Sly Art of Alberto Aguilar / El gentilmente travieso arte de Alberto Aguilar

Two boys run through a very rainy Pilsen street corner. A large church and cars in the background.

Tripartite Lenses: a History of Them, Him, and Us / Lentes Tripartitos: Una historia de ellos, de él, y de nosotros

Curation and Community Archiving as History Making: The Processes and Challenges of Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago

Newcity Examines Time as Art with Amay Kataria

Art Design Chicago X Design Museum of Chicago: Flag Feast

Chicago Grants Awarded Summer 2024

What Does It Mean to Design for Dignity? 

Questions with a Curator featuring Sheridan Tucker Anderson

Ivory colored sculptures on a white square pedestal with glass encasing.

Chicago Reader Showcases the History and Future of “What is Seen and Unseen”