EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art (April 11-14, 2024), is upon us, marking the opening of the spring art season. Throughout the run of EXPO, make sure to visit Art Design Chicago at two Special Exhibition booths presented in collaboration with Hyde Park Art Center (Booth #191) and Center for Native Futures (Booth #182).   

Hyde Park Art Center’s booth features projects by four of Chicago’s artist-run platforms that engage in critical dialogue around Chicago neighborhoods through art interventions in public space. The featured platforms, Contra Corriente, Cooperation Racine: incubated by in c/o: Black women, Roman Susan, and Space Shift Collective, are all recipients of the Art Center’s Artists Run Chicago Fund, a regranting initiative that gives unrestricted financial support to the city’s diverse artist-run platforms. These four platforms, among others, received additional funding provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art to create new programs as part of Art Design Chicago. The exhibited projects will continue to take place in Chicago neighborhoods through 2024.   

The booth presented by Center for Native Futures, the only all-Native, artist-led arts non-profit organization in Zhegagoynak (Chicago), features artworks by four contemporary Native women artists: Camille Billie (Oneida and Diné); Chelsea Bighorn (Fort Peck Assiniboine, Sioux, and Shoshone-Paiute); Lydia Cheshewalla (Osage); and Hattie Lee (Cherokee Nation, mixed European). Their work exemplifies Native Futurism―artistic means for expanding possibilities by imagining Indigenous realities without colonial limitations.  

At both spaces, visitors will find information about Art Design Chicago alongside a selection of giveaway postcards featuring illustrations and reproductions of exhibited artworks. Visit the booths and collect all eight cards!