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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

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

Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types

November 9, 2024-April 4, 2025

Design Museum of Chicago

Unravel with The Weaving Mill

December 5, 2024

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Chicago Punk: Photography, Art, and Design

December 5, 2024

Newberry Library

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

2024 UIMA Winter Makers Market

December 14, 2024

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

2024 UIMA Winter Makers Market

December 15, 2024

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

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

Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum

Radical Mending: Paired Repair

February 6, 2025

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Producing Culture with Printmaking

February 6, 2025

Newberry Library

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.

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”

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