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. […]
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 […]
Lawrence Agyei: DRILL is the artist’s first solo exhibition featuring portraits documenting Chicago’s South Shore Drill Team. Through photographic acuity, Agyei captures the team’s unwavering focus, confidence, and youthfulness as they prepare for the return of the 2022 Bud Billiken parade following their first halt in performances in 35 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Join Blanc Gallery for the opening of Lawrence Agyei: DRILL, an exhibition celebrating the historic South Shore Drill Team. Free and open to the public. This event is supported by […]
This one-person exhibition features the art of Chicago-based creative Victoria Martinez, who works in a variety of materials and scales, drawing inspiration from the body, the urban environment, architecture, and graffiti.
Longstanding artist, educator, and designer Robert Earl Paige believes beauty should be accessible all around us for everyone to experience. This exhibition presents a survey of textiles, drawings, tiles, prints, and other works that spans over half a century of Paige’s prolific creative practice and aims to encourage us to make art every day. The […]
As part of The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige, the Hyde Park Art Center presents this companion exhibition in an adjacent gallery that features the works of local artists Paige identifies as being in his peer-to-peer creative network. The parapluie, or umbrella in French, is how Paige describes the circles of artists that mutually […]
Join the artist for the opening reception of The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige as a part of Hyde Park Art Center's quarterly Center Days. Interactive art making is […]
Celebrate the opening of Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles during Hyde Park Art Center's quarterly Center Day. Participate in an art making activity inspired by Alice Shaddle’s practice with teaching artist Jasper Goodrich.
Join The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige artist, Robert Paige, and curator, Allison Peters Quinn, for a tour of the exhibition. Presented in conjunction with EXPO South Side Night, this event is open to all.
Join Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles curators Nicholas Lowe and Lisa Stone for a tour of the exhibition and explore the archival website of Shaddle’s work and practice. Presented in conjunction with EXPO South Side Night, this event is open to all.
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 […]
Join Chicago-based artist Victoria Martinez for a tour of her solo show at the Chicago Cultural Center, Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories. Martinez works in a variety of materials and scales, drawing inspiration from the body, the urban environment, architecture, and graffiti.
This exhibition examines the 1893 World's Fair as a platform for expressions of cultural identity and reveals how many Chicago and Mexican artists had similar objectives. The exhibition features 19th-century works of art from both Chicago and Mexico by some of the leading artists participating in the World’s Fair, along with contemporary artworks by Mexican-born, […]
Mark your calendar and join the National Museum of Mexican Art for the opening reception for Arte Diseño Xicágo II • From the World’s Fair to the Present Day. This […]
In conjunction with the exhibition Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories, join Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Curatorial Associate Iris Colburn for a conversation with exhibiting artist Victoria Martinez.
Architecture creates an indelible mark on the landscape; buildings speak to the culture of the people. We are tied together by the stories of our lives and the places we've experienced, marking indelible moments in time. The GREYSTONE Collective is an established Home + Studio for Black Queer + Trans Makers. Indelible ORIGINS celebrates the odyssey […]
Join The GREYSTONE Collective for the opening of Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People: The BLACK Domestic Living & Dining Roomscapes. Featuring two roomscapes, a living room and a dining room, the installation explores Black domestic interior spaces worthy of deep investigation and discovery. The exhibition focuses on the home as lived and imagined by Black […]
Join the Newberry Library's Jill Gage for a look at an exceptional collection of artists' books gathered over several decades by Robert McCamant, the noted book designer, former president of the American Printing History Association, and longtime graphic designer of the Chicago Reader. Mr. McCamant recently donated parts of this collection to the Newberry. Images […]
Grammy-nominated musician, Emmy Award winner, and producer/composer Corey Wilkes headlines this night of jazz, poetry, and nostalgia exploring inspirations behind Elmhurst Art Museum's exhibition A Love Supreme. Additional highlights include video screenings from UChicago Arts’ South Side Home Movie Project and a special rendition of A Love Supreme interpreted by Elmhurst University Faculty Jazz Combo. […]
This retrospective celebrates the remarkable career of Christina Ramberg (1946–1995), best known for her stylized paintings of fragments of the female body that critique physical and social constraints. Ramberg's work, a hallmark of Chicago Imagism, stands out with its gripping yet enigmatic aesthetic, evolving from early technical depictions of women's hairstyles to mature pieces exploring […]
Tune in to Lumpen Radio on 105.5 FM for Sala: A Living Room of Ideas, a live radio broadcast presented by Silvia Inés Gonzalez, the administrator of POCAS (People of Color Artist Space). The program features poets Hilesh Patel and Christian Aldana in conversation about the personal and political poems that touch on love and […]
Presented by The GREYSTONE Collective as part of its series Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People The BLACK Domestic Living & Dining Roomscapes, Game Time is an interactive installation curated by guest artist Schetauna Powell. The Black domestic living room is a place family gathers to engage in play and performance together. In Black culture, an object […]
As part of Roman Susan’s Navigations series, Chicago-based artist John-Michale Korpal leads a guided tour of trees around Warren Park on Chicago’s North Side. In celebration of Arbor Day, the artist shares stories, interactive prompts, and learnings from close observation of this location over the past year. Attendees are invited to look, interact, personify, and […]
Join photographer Lawrence Agyei for an artist talk on his series DRILL, on view at Blanc Gallery. The artist shares his inspiration for the series and the power of photography and community. The event includes a conversation between Agyei and Michael A. Borum, Assistant Director of the South Shore Drill Team, who reflects on what being […]
As part of Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People The BLACK Domestic Living & Dining Roomscapes, the GREYSTONE Collective presents Reading Time, personal readings by artist and writer Talia Kimberly Wright. The BLACK domestic living room is a place family gathers for cultural enrichment through conversations and literature. Utilizing memory, word, and material object, Wright's work […]
Presented as part of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, this pop-up installation at BUILD Chicago on the city’s West Side features the work of Sasha Phyars-Burgess and Karim Kal. Both artists embrace traditional black-and-white photography to explore the urban environment and the communities that live within it. They have photographs on display […]
Enjoy some creative time with drop-in sketching at the Art Institute of Chicago inspired by the rich, abstracted forms of Chicago artist Christina Ramberg. This program is led by Chicago-based artist and educator Cameron Mankin and open to all experience levels. All materials are provided. Meet in Griffin Court. No registration required. Free with general […]
This multi-site photographic exhibition presents recent works by ten artists who engage with the dynamic social landscapes of Chicago or Paris, staging a cross-cultural reflection on contemporary life in two global cities. The artists presented are Chicago-based artists Marzena Abrahamik, Jonathan Michael Castillo, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal, Tonika Johnson and Sasha Phyars-Burgess, and Greater Paris-based […]
Presented at 6018North in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, this exhibition is part of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, It features the works of the five photographers who explore notions of frontier, immigration, and diasporic identity. Jonathan Michael Castillo and Gilberto Güiza-Rojas focus on the notion of work, Rebecca Topakian and Marion Poussier question […]
Presented as part of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, this outdoor installation takes place at Experimental Station in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. It shows photographs by two artists living and working on Chicago’s South Side, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal and Tonika Lewis Johnson, with a series of images produced along the Paris transit system […]
Join Villa Albertine for the opening of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, an outdoor installation at Experimental Station in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood, to meet the artists and curators in person. Photographs by two artists living and working on Chicago’s South Side, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal and Tonika Lewis Johnson, are shown here on 61st […]
In conjunction with Hyde Park Art Center's exhibition, The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige, Honey Pot Performance (HPP) presents The People’s Ring Shout, an experimental movement and sound workshop inspired by traditional ring shout rituals. As a core symbol in Honey Pot Performance’s practice, they engage this early Black Americana form of movement, song, […]
Join Villa Albertine for the vernissage of the exhibition Opening Passages : Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris at 6018North. Meet the artists and curators in person and gain insights into the creative processes behind the captivating works on display. Part of a multi-site project produced by Villa Albertine and its City/Cité program, this exhibition showcases the works […]
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