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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

Parapluie

April 6, 2024-October 27, 2024

Hyde Park Art Center

The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige

April 6, 2024-October 27, 2024

Hyde Park Art Center

Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People

April 14, 2024-November 2, 2024

The GREYSTONE Collective

Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s

May 18, 2024-June 28, 2025

Chicago History Museum

Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days

June 3, 2024-December 31, 2024

Harold Washington Library

La Casa de Todos / Everyone’s Home

June 15, 2024-November 15, 2024

Comfort Station Logan Square

Gagizhibaajiwan

June 15, 2024-December 14, 2024

Center for Native Futures

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

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967

September 12, 2024-February 23, 2025

DePaul Art Museum

Indigenous Chicago

September 12, 2024-January 4, 2025

Newberry Library

ReSOURCE: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago

September 14, 2024-December 21, 2024

South Side Community Art Center

Let’s Talk About Art: Chicago History Museum

September 16, 2024-September 19, 2024

Hyde Park Art Center

Art for the Living & the Dead Workshop #2

September 16, 2024

Comfort Station Logan Square

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

September 21, 2024-December 22, 2024

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

Chicago Style Film & Fashion Show

September 21, 2024

Green Line Performing Arts Center

Freedom From and Freedom To

September 21, 2024

Compound Yellow

Myth of the Organic City

September 22, 2024-February 23, 2025

6018North

Jazz on da Block at The Green Space

September 22, 2024

327 Green Space

Art for the Living & the Dead Workshop #3

September 22, 2024

Comfort Station Logan Square

Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!

September 24, 2024-July 31, 2025

Smart Museum of Art

JeeYeun Lee: Shore Land at Berger Park

September 26, 2024

Berger Park Cultural Center

beLONGING:  Lithuanian Artists in Chicago 1900 to Now

September 28, 2024-May 17, 2025

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture

Water Music on the Beach

September 28, 2024

Lane Beach

Life is a Drag

September 28, 2024

Comfort Station Logan Square

Pilsen Day Art & Experiences

September 29, 2024

National Museum of Mexican Art

Sundays On The Boulevard: Animalpalooza

September 29, 2024

Lawndale Pop-Up Spot

Weaving Stories

September 29, 2024

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Jared Brown and AJ McClenon: A Girly Show

October 4, 2024

Berger Park Cultural Center

Jared Brown and AJ McClenon: A Girly Show

October 5, 2024

Berger Park Cultural Center

Walk: Encounters with Roman-Influenced Architecture in Chicago

October 10, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Indigenous Artists and the Archives

October 10, 2024

Newberry Library

Life is a Drag

October 13, 2024

Comfort Station Logan Square

Lecture in Photography: Dawit L. Petros

October 16, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Mapping Indigenous Chicago

October 17, 2024

Online

Let’s Talk About Art: DePaul Art Museum

October 21, 2024-October 24, 2024

Hyde Park Art Center

Hand Drum Making Workshop

October 22, 2024-October 24, 2024

American Indian Center

Día de Muertos

October 26, 2024

Comfort Station Logan Square

Symposium

November 1, 2024

Film Row Cinema

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

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

Radical Mending: Sewing Stories

November 14, 2024

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Still Here: Linking Histories of Displacement

November 20, 2024-April 20, 2025

National Public Housing Museum

Indigenous People and the Chicago Portage

November 21, 2024

Newberry Library

Inverse Surveillance

December 6, 2024-April 5, 2025

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)

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

Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

January 26, 2025-July 13, 2025

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Anishinaabe Art: Stories of Today

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

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.

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

South Shore Drill Team performers with rifles in hand, shot in black and white.

CBS2 Spotlights Lawrence Agyei: DRILL at Blanc Gallery

An abstract female form from shoulders to thighs, without hands. The vagina is formed from an inverted torso and a pair of legs.

Exuberant Experimentation: Christina Ramberg’s Late Works

Left: Line drawing of a series of raised garden beds containing a variety of plants. Text states: Space Shift Collective.; Right: A detail view of a fiber artwork featuring long red fabric ribbons hanging vertically with tangled fringe at the ends.

Art Design Chicago at EXPO 2024

Ciera McKissick (left) and Dr. Pascal Ife Williams (right) are seated side by side at a round table with microphones in front of them and audio recording equipment scattered on the table.

WVON’s The Afternoon Show Takes a Look at Art Design Chicago and Hyde Park Art Center’s Spring Exhibitions