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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-December 31, 2024

Harold Washington Library

Gagizhibaajiwan

June 15, 2024-December 14, 2024

Center for Native Futures

La Casa de Todos / Everyone’s Home

June 15, 2024-November 15, 2024

Comfort Station Logan Square

Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons

August 3, 2024-February 2, 2025

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Prospetto a Mare

August 30, 2024-December 20, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Learning Together: Art Education and Community

September 5, 2024-December 14, 2024

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

Opening Reception: Dunning

November 8, 2024

The Center for Mad Culture

Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types

November 9, 2024-April 4, 2025

Design Museum of Chicago

Family Day: Inspired by Robert Earl Paige

November 9, 2024

Smart Museum of Art

Let’s Talk About Art: Museum of Contemporary Photography

November 11, 2024-November 14, 2024

Hyde Park Art Center

Jabena Buna Coffee Ceremony

November 12, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Artist Talk: Sam Kirk

November 13, 2024

Marshall Field Garden Community Center

Lecture in Photography: Dawit L. Petros

November 13, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Radical Mending: Sewing Stories

November 14, 2024

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Cariño: Festival de Cine

November 15, 2024

OPEN Center for the Arts

Cariño: Festival de Cine

November 16, 2024

OPEN Center for the Arts

Weaving Stories

November 16, 2024

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

Poetry Workshop with Ladan Osman

November 18, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Indigenous People and the Chicago Portage

November 21, 2024

Newberry Library

Curators Tour at the Smart Museum

November 21, 2024

Smart Museum of Art

Mark Alcazar Diaz: Umwelt

November 23, 2024

HAIBAYÔ

Keep The Embers Smoldering

December 6, 2024

Winthrop Family Historical Garden

The Dream House

December 6, 2024

Green Line Performing Arts Center

Let’s Talk About Art: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

December 9, 2024-December 12, 2024

Hyde Park Art Center

Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago

December 12, 2024-March 29, 2025

Newberry Library

Street Signs: Murals in Chicago

December 15, 2024

Chicago Art Department

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

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

Radical Mending: Paired Repair

February 6, 2025

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats

March 1, 2025-September 30, 2025

Floating Museum

Radical Mending: Mending Basics

March 13, 2025

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

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.

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”

Akito Tsuda and three reception attendees standing side by side smiling.

WTTW Takes a Look at the Reunion Inspired by “Pilsen Days”

Artist Victoria Martinez stands in front of an installation of her large-scale textile artworks.

Video: Artist Victoria Martinez Shares her Art and Influences

A street scene featuring an artwork pasted up on a brick wall. A figure passes by. A sign on the wall says "Build Coffee."

Look Longer: Reflections on Opening Passages

Portrait of Alice Shaddle seated among a collection of her artworks.

Reflecting on Alice Shaddle’s Fuller Circles: Art, Legacy, and Community

An aerial view of a festival site with green space, paths, and several pavilions.

Art Design Chicago Grants Awarded Spring 2024

A screenshot of The Triibe website featuring the Art Design Chicago article and a photo of Robert Paige wearing a white beret and large glasses.

In The Triibe: Art Design Chicago Honors the Black Experience

Group photo of members of the Greystone Collective in front of a brick building.

Block Club Chicago Sheds Light on Bronzeville’s Greystone Collective