Join Sixty Inches From Center for the 2024 Chicago Archives + Artists Festival! This year’s festival embraces the theme of embodiment. The 3-day gathering explores the ways archivists and artists preserve the legacies of our communities via talks, performances, music, and workshops. The festival includes its usual offerings, such as the Archive Roll Call, an […]
Join the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in celebration of Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons with a conversation between the artist and Curatorial Associate Iris Colburn, who organized […]
In this illustrated talk, Dr. Madhuvanti Ghose, the inaugural Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses her experiences developing Indian […]
Tune in to Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM for a live radio broadcast presented by Silvia Inés Gonzalez, the administrator of POCAS (People of Color Artist Space). This episode features artists from […]
Tune in to Lumpen Radio for a conversation about the Chicago History Museum's exhibition, Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s-70s, with exhibiting artist Monica Trinidad, curator Olivia […]
Presented in conjunction with Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, this panel discussion features exhibiting photographer zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal, Elizabeth Cummings, Director of Pubic Engagement at the Richard […]
Artists, archivists, and curators discuss the state of Black art, artist communities, and movements across history. Historically, the contributions of Black artists have been overlooked, appropriated, and undermined, which has […]
“Walls turned sideways are bridges.” — Angela Davis Tune in to Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM for a live radio broadcast presented by Silvia Inés Gonzalez, the administrator of POCAS (People […]
Join the Comfort Station and friends in an exploration of home and community through spoken word! Calling Home features some of Chicago’s finest poets and prosaists sharing and exploring their varied experiences and memories of the communities that shape them with the community they are helping to build. An accompaniment to Edra Soto’s La Casa […]
Tune in to Lumpen Radio for a Spanish-language conversation with Cesáreo Moreno, curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art, and artists Carmen Chami and Rodrigo Lara. They discuss the […]
Join South Asia Institute for an extraordinary fusion of art and narrative in a special storytelling event. Eight dynamic South Asian American artists showing in the acclaimed group show, Are […]
Public Media Institute's How to Make a Scene series continues with legendary Chicago performers and platform-makers travis, P. Michael, Da Wei Wang, and Rosé Hernandez. The panel is curated and moderated by Chicago Reader Editor in Chief Salem Collo-Julin, whose legendary Chicago art career has included work on such iconic projects as Temporary Services and […]
Join The GREYSTONE Collective for an artist talk with Aidan Anne Frierson, presented as part of the Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People series. Frierson is a South Side Chicago […]
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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.
