Join Center for Native Futures for a closing reception for their exhibition Native Futures and a talk with exhibiting artist John Hitchcock (Comanche, Kiowa). Artist talk: 1:00-2:00 pm. Reception: 2:00-5:00 pm. John Hitchcock was born in 1967 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He is a contemporary artist and musician. He earned his MFA in printmaking and photography […]

In her brief but impactful career, Chicago artist Christina Ramberg ruptured representations of gender. Whether in early work featuring the ahistorical, often abstracted female body or in her eventual depictions of a more disregulated, deconstructed body, willfully ungendered or regendered, Ramberg questioned and dissected the gender conventions that defined both her time and ours. In […]

Thanks to drum machines, sound systems, repurposed warehouses and basements, 1980s Chicago House Music opened up a future that was black, brown and queer. DJs invented new ways of keeping and marking time in community. In the years since, computation has made music-making more accessible. What kinds of collectivities are still to come? Presented by […]