This exhibition examines the artistic genealogies and social justice movements that connect Puerto Rico with Chicago. Featuring works by an intergenerational group of artists with ties to Chicago, the exhibition presents Puerto Rican painters who use printmaking techniques and approaches alongside artists who address social and political issues through their work. entre horizontes (between horizons) […]
The newly formed Center for Native Futures (CfNF) presents this inaugural exhibition featuring more than a dozen established and emerging Native artists from the Great Lakes region. Exhibiting artists include CfNF co-founders Chris Pappan, Monica Rickert-Bolter, and Debra Yepa-Pappan, as well as Noelle Garcia, Kelly Church, Jason Wesaw, Tom Jones, Holly Wilson, John Hitchcock, Camille […]
In this two-part exhibition, designer Norman Teague uses legendary jazz musician John Coltrane’s album A Love Supreme as a personal, cultural, and spiritual touchstone to consider design influences from his lifelong home in Chicago. He explores how the power of bold improvisational jazz and unapologetic Black aesthetics have expanded the minds and inspired creative communities of color. […]
Sintonicen Lumpen Radio para escuchar una conversación en español entre Carla Acevedo-Yates, curadora de entre horizontes: Art and Activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico (Arte y Activismo entre Chicago y Puerto Rico) en el Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chicago), y Sandra Treviño, periodista de arte y miembro de la […]
Presented as part of Red Line Services’ Designing Belonging series, this Lunch & Learn program features a talk by Nootan Bharani, architect and Associate Director of Cultural Stewardship and University Partnerships at Arts + Public Life, and a lecturer in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. Presenting the Arts Lawn as a case study, Nootan discusses […]
Sintonicen Lumpen Radio para escuchar una conversación en español entre Carla Acevedo-Yates, curadora de entre horizontes: Art and Activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico (Arte y Activismo entre Chicago y Puerto Rico) en el Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chicago), y Sandra Treviño, periodista de arte y miembro de la […]
Presented as part of Red Line Services’ Designing Belonging series, this Lunch & Learn program features David Brown, Professor at UIC School of Architecture and founder of The Available City, NFP. In his talk, Brown shares a set of nine calls for collective spaces on vacant land intended as prompts for residents, community organizations, and designers to […]
Join Center for Native Futures for a talk with artist Chelsea Bighorn (Lakota, Dakota, Shoshone-Paiute, and European), who is exhibiting in their current exhibition Native Futures. A reception follows the presentation. Chelsea Bighorn explores art and design in a way that merges natural and geometric elements through a variety of mediums, including fiber arts and […]
Acompáñenos en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chicago (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) en el conversatorio con Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, quien hablará sobre sus películas y videos donde aborda temas políticos y conmovedores utilizando la recreación, improvisación y los acercamientos sensoriales para contar una historia a la cual no tendríamos accesos complejos. La obra […]
Discover the intricate world of Alice Shaddle (1928–2017), an artist whose practice of more than 60 years in Chicago centered on paper-based creations. Curated by Nicholas Lowe and Lisa Stone, the exhibition introduces Shaddle’s ingenious, original manipulations of paper, revealing her intensive modes of working and inventive use of materials. The exhibition explores Shaddle’s life […]
Join exhibition co-curators Norman Teague and Rose Camara on a tour of A Love Supreme in Elmhurst Art Museum's McCormick House to explore how more than 30 Chicago-based artists and designers responded to prompts about the effects of music on their work. Featured works incorporate a variety of media such as fiber art, furniture, photography, […]
Join Center for Native Futures for a talk with artist June Carpenter (Osage/Shawnee), who is exhibiting in their current exhibition Native Futures. June Carpenter is an Osage Nation tribal member and a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She addresses systemic injustices against Indigenous Peoples and explores connections to community […]
Tune in to Lumpen Radio for a conversation with artists and Center for Native Futures Co-Founders Debra Yepa-Pappan and Monica Rickert-Bolter. They talk with Lumpen's Nick Wylie about their Native artist-run organization, its new space in downtown Chicago, and the inaugural exhibition Native Futures. The Art Design Chicago Talk Series by Lumpen Radio explores and […]
Presented as part of Red Line Services’ Designing Belonging series, this Lunch & Learn program features Mejay Gula, Senior Project Manager, Site Design Group, Landscape Architects. Mejay Gula's pursuit of discovering places of belonging traces back to her upbringing in Chicago by immigrant parents and grandparents. From her early years, she recognized that civic spaces were […]
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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.
