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ADC
Updates
ADC Updates
Art Design Chicago Grants Awarded Spring 2024
The Terra Foundation for American Art awarded 22 grants in spring 2024 through its Art Design Chicago initiative.
Art Design Chicago at EXPO 2024
Throughout the run of EXPO CHICAGO, make sure to visit Art Design Chicago at two Special Exhibition booths presented in collaboration with Hyde Park Art Center and Center for Native Futures.
Art Design Chicago Grants Awarded Spring 2024
The Terra Foundation for American Art awarded 22 grants in spring 2024 through its Art Design Chicago initiative.
Art Design Chicago at EXPO 2024
Throughout the run of EXPO CHICAGO, make sure to visit Art Design Chicago at two Special Exhibition booths presented in collaboration with Hyde Park Art Center and Center for Native Futures.
Lumpen Radio Examina Las Exposiciones de Arte Diseño Chicago en Una Serie de Charlas Bilingües / Lumpen Radio Examines Art Design Chicago Exhibitions in Bilingual Talk Series
A través de una serie de conversaciones transmitidas en español y inglés con artistas, curadores, y organizadores culturales, el Arte Diseño Chicago Serie de Charlas por Lumpen Radio explora y celebra el rico patrimonio artístico y las diversas comunidades creativas.
Art Design Chicago Grants Awarded Fall 2023
The Terra Foundation for American Art awarded 32 grants in October 2023 through its Art Design Chicago initiative.
Centering Community Engagement in Project Creation
ADC partners are collaborating to expand partnerships, exchange ideas, and apply practices that better reflect the needs of the communities they serve.
Artist-Run Spaces Join Art Design Chicago
Hyde Park Art Center partners with the Terra Foundation to support projects by artist-run platforms as part of Art Design Chicago.
Exuberant Experimentation: Christina Ramberg’s Late Works
Thea Liberty Nichols writes about Chicago artist Christina Ramberg (1946-1945), who is the subject of the Art Institute's retrospective exhibition opening April 20.
Sixty Inches From Center Explores Art Design Chicago Exhibitions in Instagram Series
Sixty Inches From Center’s cultural correspondent Julia Arredondo explores ADC exhibitions in an Instagram Reel series.
Center for Native Futures: Dreaming and Funding a Different Future for Indigenous Art
Showing up and supporting Native-led spaces is fundamental to broadening understandings of American Art.
Native Futures: An Artist-Led Gallery Reclaiming Indigeneity
Sixty Inches from Center's Tonal Simmons talks with attendees at the Center for Native Futures' inaugural exhibition opening.
Inside
Look
Inside look
Dreaming of a Future, A Conversation with Artist Regina Agu
Threewalls, a partner of Art Design Chicago, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
6018North, Trash to Treasure
6018North, a sustainability-driven partner of Art Design Chicago, has been working with artist Tria Smith
CBS2 Spotlights Lawrence Agyei: DRILL at Blanc Gallery
CBS2’s Darius Johnson gets a sneak peek at Blanc Gallery’s new exhibition, Lawrence Agyei: DRILL.
WVON’s The Afternoon Show Takes a Look at Art Design Chicago and Hyde Park Art Center’s Spring Exhibitions
WVON’s The Afternoon Show Looks at Art Design Chicago and Hyde Park Art Center’s Upcoming Spring Exhibitions and Programming.
WTTW and NewCity Explore Norman Teague’s Colorful World of “A Love Supreme”
Recent media coverage of A Love Supreme, a solo exhibition by designer Norman Teague at Elmhurst Art Museum, includes a feature by Angel Idowu of WTTW and an interview by Vasia Rigou of Newcity.
HYPERALLERGIC Examines Ruth Duckworth’s Defiance as a Ceramicist
Ruth Duckworth’s ceramics channel the world around us through elements of fragility, earthly phenomenon, and connection to the nonhuman.
In the
News
In The Triibe: Art Design Chicago Honors the Black Experience
The Triibe highlights two solo exhibitions featuring the work of two of the city's prominent Black artists.
Block Club Chicago Sheds Light on Bronzeville’s Greystone Collective
Block Club Chicago sheds light on The Greystone Collective, and their upcoming exhibition and event series as part of Art Design Chicago.
In The News
In The Triibe: Art Design Chicago Honors the Black Experience
The Triibe highlights two solo exhibitions featuring the work of two of the city's prominent Black artists.
Block Club Chicago Sheds Light on Bronzeville’s Greystone Collective
Block Club Chicago sheds light on The Greystone Collective, and their upcoming exhibition and event series as part of Art Design Chicago.