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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 […]

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 […]

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.

Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats

Floating Museum 949 E 75th St, Chicago

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 […]

Inverse Surveillance

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) 2745 W. 63rd Street, Chicago

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.

Chicago as Catalyst: Immigrant Communities Nourish Self-Taught Artists

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art 756 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago

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 […]