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Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s

Chicago History Museum 1601 N. Clark St., Chicago

Chicago activists in the 1960s and ’70s used design to create powerful slogans, symbols, and imagery to amplify their visions for social change. Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s features more than 100 posters, fliers, signs, buttons, newspapers, magazines, and books from the era, expressing often radical ideas about race, war, gender equality, […]

Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 800 S. Halsted St., Chicago

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 collection, drawn from a wide array of immigrant traditions. Also included are handbound books from Ellen Gates Starr’s bookbindery, newly restored paintings by Alice Kellogg […]

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967

DePaul Art Museum 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago

Edgar Miller (1899–1993) arrived in Chicago in 1917, and over the next fifty years established a successful career as multi-hyphenate creative practitioner. He worked as an architect, artist, craftsperson, curator, designer, and illustrator during a particularly rich period that saw the emergence and establishment of modernism across the visual culture of the city. The tremendous […]

Theaster Gates | When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive

Stony Island Arts Bank 6760 S. Stony Island Ave., Chicago

Over the last nine years, artist Theaster Gates has been the steward of the Johnson Publishing Company’s ephemera, periodicals, furniture, inventory, and architectural fragments originally housed at the Johnson Publishing Company building on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The devices for the interrogation of these objects and their permission to be public have created one of […]

Myth of the Organic City

6018North 6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago

Myth of the Organic City presents an historical and contemporary overview of Chicago’s design and land use, from its Indigenous roots through 20th century infrastructure projects to present-day developments. The exhibition includes maps, landscape designs, installations, wall drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works by more than 25 artists. The exhibition features artwork by Alexandra Antoine, Rebecca […]

Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!

Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Ave, Chicago

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. Give the Drummer Some! is rooted in Paige’s decades-long practice as an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator who bridges cultural boundaries. A lifelong resident of the […]

beLONGING: Lithuanian Artists in Chicago 1900 to Now

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture 6500 S. Pulaski Rd., Chicago

Exploring identity and place through the diverse work, perspectives, and legacy of three immigration periods of Lithuanian artists in Chicago, this exhibition and its associated programs and publications consider the causes and consequences of immigration/migration, including displacement, colonization, trauma, and assimilation. The cost of belonging is choosing what to leave behind. Its reward: creating new […]

Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types

Design Museum of Chicago 72 E. Randolph St, Chicago

This exhibition explores typography, the shape and design of letters, within Chicago's diverse neighborhoods to investigate design legacies and their contemporary echoes. The exhibition highlights alternative modernisms by considering how revolutionary movements and concepts like love and safety shape the way communities spread and design information for one another. Featured designers and lettering artists activate […]

Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago

Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street, Chicago

This exhibition and accompanying public program reflect on the lived experiences of immigrant printers, designers, and bookmakers in Chicago and explore how printing by and for immigrant communities has shaped the city’s cultural landscape. 

Still Here: Linking Histories of Displacement

National Public Housing Museum 1322 W. Taylor St., Chicago

This exhibition, co-curated by Dr. Lisa Yun Lee and Dr. Lucy Mensa, uses art, archives, and public dialogue to explore and connect the histories of displacement of Indigenous people and African American families on the land where the National Public Housing Museum is located. The project includes a temporary mural outside the museum by artist […]

Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208

Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland asks the question: What would it mean if Indigenous people with ties to this land were the point of entry to Chicago’s art history? Guided by Indigenous collaborations, priorities, and voices, the exhibition foregrounds the perspectives of Indigenous artists currently based in the city and those from nations forcibly displaced from […]

Living Stories: Contemporary Woodland Native American Art

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian 3001 Central St, Evanston

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 have carried forward over generations.