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 the exhibition. English CART captioning and American Sign Language (ASL) are available. Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe/European descent) is an artist based in northern Minnesota and Chicago. […]
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 modern and contemporary art at Chicago's encyclopedic museum.
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 piecemeal, darien hunter golston, Bryanna Bibbs, and Forrest (Ọhịa)Parks, in discussion about environmental justice, weaving, remembering, foraging, kinship, and what it means to be "keepers […]
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 Mahoney, and Erica Griffin, the Museum’s Director of Education. The exhibition centers the role of art in promoting social justice in Chicago, with a particular […]
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 H. Driehaus Museum, and Ladies Who Lit founder Kaylen Ralph (moderator) in a conversation inspired by Ruth Reichl’s “The Paris Novel.” The main character’s personal […]
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 led to movements like AfriCOBRA and the Black Arts Movement, in which exhibiting artist Robert Earl Paige was a critical figure. This discussion addresses the […]
“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 of Color Artist Space). This episode features Sarah Ross and Pablo Mendoza of Walls Turned Sideways in conversation about deconstructing power, architecting spaces of healing, […]
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 […]
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 artworks exhibited in Arte Diseño Xicágo II • From the World’s Fair to the Present Day, their artistic journeys from Mexico to Chicago, and their […]
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 Shadow Bodies Electric? (a section of the groundbreaking exhibition, What is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago), candidly share details of […]
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 […]
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 community member primarily practicing handmade papermaking and hand poke tattooing, approaching both as forms of citation and care. Frierson explores the physical and social practice […]
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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.
