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A group of four people in a gallery looking at a painting of four abstract figures in a boat with a skyline in the background.

Terra Foundation Launches Art Design Chicago: A Citywide Event and Exhibition Series

Art Design Chicago—an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with local artists and arts organizations.

Reflections on Community Engagement from Terra Foundation Senior Engagement Fellow Pascale Ife Williams

Art Design Chicago highlights the voices and stories that are part of Chicago’s unique artistic heritage and creative communities.
A group of four people in a gallery looking at a painting of four abstract figures in a boat with a skyline in the background.

Terra Foundation Launches Art Design Chicago: A Citywide Event and Exhibition Series

Art Design Chicago—an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with local artists and arts organizations.

Reflections on Community Engagement from Terra Foundation Senior Engagement Fellow Pascale Ife Williams

Art Design Chicago highlights the voices and stories that are part of Chicago’s unique artistic heritage and creative communities.

Follow Art Design Chicago–Now on TikTok!

For the latest on Art Design Chicago exhibitions, events, and the stories behind them, follow Art Design Chicago on social media.

Pascale Ife Williams leads Art Design Chicago Community Engagement Learning Community

A key goal of Art Design Chicago is to build and strengthen relationships between Chicago-based visual art institutions and the communities they serve.

Chicago Partnerships: Supporting Arts and Culture in the City

The Terra Foundation for American Art’s support for art and culture in Chicago isn’t new.

The Story of the Art Design Chicago Logo

Although its colors and styling are recently refreshed, the Art Design Chicago logo has a long history behind it.
Six individuals stand in from of an artwork made up of small figurines in a rainbow of colors mounted on the gallery wall.

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.
Seven-foot by three-foot piece of canvas, split into two colors tan and black, and a frayed fringe.

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.
Metal egret’s beak and torso against the sky.

it wants to lie down, you want it to stand up: a letter to Ruth*

A letter written to artist Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009) is the most recent composition to come out of the editorial partnership between Art Design Chicago and Sixty Inches from Center.

Questions with a Curator: Cesáreo Moreno

A conversation with Cesáreo Moreno, Visual Arts Director and Chief Curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art, about his experience curating Carlos Cortéz 100 AÑOS.

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Signs designating the Winthrop Family Historical Garden. In the left corner, community members can be seen participating in an organized dance activity.

Dreaming of a Future, A Conversation with Artist Regina Agu

Threewalls, a partner of Art Design Chicago, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
A performer in a blue garment next to an art piece at the Water Music on the Beach event.

6018North, Trash to Treasure

6018North, a sustainability-driven partner of Art Design Chicago, has been working with artist Tria Smith

Newcity Profiles Carla Acevedo-Yates, curator of the MCA’s “entre horizontes”

A feature in Newcity by Jennifer Smart

A Look at “entre horizontes” in the Chicago Sun-Times

MCA exhibit explores sense of place, intertwined history between Puerto Rico and Chicago

The Art Newspaper Covers Art Design Chicago Announcement

Chicago Tribune Highlights Art Design Chicago’s 2024 Return

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Ruth Duckworth, "Clouds Over Lake Michigan," (© Estate of Ruth Duckworth; photo by Bob.)

HYPERALLERGIC Examines Ruth Duckworth’s Defiance as a Ceramicist

WTTW Looks at Art Design Chicago and its Mission to Highlight Local Artists and Organizations

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Ruth Duckworth, "Clouds Over Lake Michigan," (© Estate of Ruth Duckworth; photo by Bob.)

HYPERALLERGIC Examines Ruth Duckworth’s Defiance as a Ceramicist

WTTW Looks at Art Design Chicago and its Mission to Highlight Local Artists and Organizations

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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.

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