Radical Craft, an exhibition, catalog, and workshop series, celebrates the work of immigrant artists and reformers at the country's most important social settlement. The exhibition showcases Hull-House’s rarely exhibited textile […]

For the Smart Museum’s 50th anniversary, South Side artist Robert Earl Paige creates a multi-part pattern-based installation and sprawling public art project that invites communities into a collective experience of space. […]

Zhegagoynak, the place now known as Chicagoland, is a vital center for Indigenous art, past and present. Through the perspectives of four collaborating artists with connections to Zhegagoynak—Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage […]

This exhibition examines contemporary approaches to traditional Woodlands style art, highlighting the underrepresented and diverse Native cultures of the Great Lakes region and the materials, art forms, and processes they […]

This large-scale and moveable public work of art and exhibition platform references Mecca Flats, a historic building on Chicago's South Side that was significant to the city's cultural and social history but was razed during urban renewal efforts. The sculpture is installed in public spaces and accompanied by programming that both celebrates the arts and […]

This installation, co-created by Chicago-based artist Assia Boundaoui and members of Muslim-American communities in Chicago, uses glass and multi-channel video to abstract thousands of records collected during a decade of FBI surveillance of the community, simultaneously making visible the community's own archive of itself.

Immigration and the immigrant experience had a profound effect on artists who began or expanded self-taught practices upon arriving in Chicago. The first to open in Intuit's newly-renovated museum, this […]