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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chicago activists in the 1960s and ’70s used design to create powerful slogans, symbols, and imagery to amplify their visions for social change. Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s features more than 100 posters, fliers, signs, buttons, newspapers, magazines, and books from the era, expressing often radical ideas about race, war, gender equality, […]
Presented by South Asia Institute and guest curated by Shelly Bahl, this multifaceted project documents the history of South Asian art and artists in Chicago and shares this history through an archival exhibition and an installation of contemporary art. The narrative begins with colonial-era perspectives, including those reflected in documentation and photographs from the Indian Pavilion […]
Presented as part of Red Line Services’ Designing Belonging series, this Lunch & Learn program features a presentation by Mary Patillio, the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and Black Studies and Chair of the Black Studies Department at Northwestern University, on her landmark work on the intersection of houselessness and criminality. Her talk will explore the […]
As part of Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People The BLACK Domestic Living & Dining Roomscapes, the GREYSTONE Collective presents Meal Time, a performance installation activated by guest artist Shonna Pryor. A space to celebrate the ritual of “breaking bread,” the Black domestic dining room is where family gathers to nourish mind, body, and spirit. Pryor invites guests to […]
The GREYSTONE Collective invites you to the closing reception for 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 […]
Tune in to Lumpen Radio 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 Holly Cahill and Olly Costello in a conversation about what liberated and flourishing futures look like. They discuss the joys […]
This exhibition makes visible the photograph collection of Japanese photographer Akito Tsuda, who documented Chicago's Mexican American Pilsen neighborhood in the early 1990s while attending art school at Columbia College. It also explores the relationships between the photographer and his subjects over time.
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 […]
Fragmenting, juxtaposing, and assembling media, collage touches a variety of artistic mediums and genres. Contemporary collage artists Aimée Beaubien, Cydney Lewis, Victoria Martinez, Mary Lou Zelazny, and moderator Dana Boutin discuss the meaning and contemporary relevance of collage as an art form. Panelists are also be invited to respond to collagist extraordinaire Alice Shaddle’s work, […]
Join Chicago Public Library for a walking tour of Pilsen led by photographer Akito Tsuda. Tsuda’s photographs are on display at Harold Washington Library Center, June 3 - December 31, 2024, in the exhibition Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days. Two different routes are available. On June 6 at 6:00pm, the tour meets and ends at Lozano […]
"Mr. Rami had a front-row seat to a who’s who of literary, political, entertainment, and civil rights icons who changed the course of history for Black people in this country." – Robert Townsend, actor, director, comedian, and writer Presented in conjunction with Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s, Chicago History Museum presents a lecture by […]
Join The GREYSTONE Collective for the opening of Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People: Venerate, Venerate! This solo exhibition featuring Chicago-based writer, maker and cultural-worker Talia Kimberly Wright utilizes memory, word (oral and written tradition), and material object to bridge the gap between the ancestral, traditional, and regenerated lives of African Americans who have been […]
Join Chicago Public Library and celebrate the opening of Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days. See the exhibition and meet the photographer, Akito Tsuda. Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days showcases a selection of Tsuda's photographs that he took of the Pilsen neighborhood while he was a college student in the early 1990s. Before returning to his native Japan in […]
Join Chicago Public Library for a walking tour of Pilsen led by photographer Akito Tsuda. Tsuda’s photographs are on display at Harold Washington Library Center, June 3 – December 31, 2024, in the exhibition Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days. On June 9 at 11:00 am, the group meets outside the Damen Pink Line Station at 2010 […]
Japanese photographer Akito Tsuda takes the stage to share his story of coming to Chicago as a young man in the early 1990s and the relationship he developed with the Pilsen neighborhood and its residents through the lens of his camera. People Tsuda photographed will join him in sharing their stories. Tsuda’s photographs are on […]
Join Chicago Public Library for a conversation between photographers Akito Tsuda and Diana Solis, moderated by Deanna Ledezma, to discuss photography, Pilsen, and the unique viewpoint each brings to their art. Tsuda’s photographs are on display at Harold Washington Library Center, June 3 – December 31, 2024, in the exhibition Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days. Diana […]
Of Her Becoming highlights the printmaking, work, and impact of influential artist and activist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) within an important site in Catlett’s career: Chicago’s South Side. The exhibition includes several of Catlett’s lithograph and woodcut prints as well as work of contemporary Black women printmakers on the South Side. Of Her Becoming sheds new […]
Celebrate with Arts + Public Life at the opening reception for Of Her Becoming: Elizabeth Catlett's Legacy in Chicago. The exhibition highlights the printmaking, work, and impact of influential artist and activist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) within an important site in Catlett’s career: Chicago’s South Side. It includes several of Catlett’s lithograph and woodcut prints as […]
Comfort Station presents La Casa de Todos / Everyone’s Home, an exhibition by Chicago-based artist Edra Soto. Soto’s practice draws from her Puerto Rican roots to instigate conversations about history, diasporic identity, and constructed social orders. La Casa de Todos builds on her ongoing project “Graft,” which integrates architectural intervention and social practice. With this public […]
Presented by the Center for Native Futures, the only all-Native artist-led arts non-profit organization in Chicago, Gagizhibaajiwan considers depth, duality, and paradox in Anishinaabe art as expressed through images of Misshepezhieu, the Underwater Panther, and Animikii, the Thunderbird. The exhibition features the work of four Anishinaabe artists: interdisciplinary artist Marcella Ernest (Gunflint Lake Ojibwe/Bad River […]
Tune in to Lumpen Radio 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 members of Marimacha Monarca Press, Selva Zafiro Luna and Sarita Maritza Hernández, with curators of the Amigas Latinas Forever exhibition, […]
Join Comfort Station for the opening of La Casa de Todos / Everyone’s Home, an exhibition by Edra Soto. The celebration features opening talks, public viewing, and a performance by Las BomPleneras. Soto’s practice draws from her Puerto Rican roots to instigate conversations about history, diasporic identity, and constructed social orders. La Casa de Todos […]
Join the Center for Native Futures for the opening of Gagizhibaajiwan, an exhibition that considers depth, duality, and paradox in Anishinaabe art as expressed through images of Misshepezhieu, the Underwater Panther, and Animikii, the Thunderbird. 4-5 pm VIP Native reception; 5-7 pm open to the public.
As part of its series Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People: Venerate, Venerate!, The GREYSTONE Collective presents an artist talk and reading entitled, “Shifting Towards Center” with Talia Kimberly Wright. Wright (they/them and she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. Their work is informed by Blackness, […]
Hosted by the American Indian Center over six sessions (June 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27; 6:00 - 9:00 pm), this immersive workshop teaches the traditional art of moccasin making. Under the guidance of experienced instructors, participants create their own pair of handcrafted moccasins. This is a unique opportunity to connect with Native heritage, develop […]
Christina Ramberg (1946–1995) was an influential and beloved member of Chicago’s contemporary art scene. Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective—the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Ramberg in almost 30 years—presents approximately 100 works from public and private collections, with several key pieces drawn from the Art Institute’s collection. From intimate early paintings focused on the pattern and form […]
Presented in conjunction with its exhibition, The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige, Hyde Park Art Center presents a screening of Dear Black Artist. This documentary project began right before […]
Join The GREYSTONE Collective’s featured artist Talia Kimberly Wright for “Binding Our Stories,” an interactive bookmaking workshop. Over three days, from 6pm to 8:30pm on June 21st and from 2pm to 4:30pm on June 22nd & 23rd, participants learn both simple and complex bookbinding methods and make their very own books (materials provided). Wright contextualizes […]
Tune in to Lumpen Radio for a conversation with Japanese photographer Akito Tsuda and exhibit curator Oscar Arriola. Hosted by artist, teacher, and researcher Nicole Marroquin, this discussion explores Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days, a photographic journey capturing the spirit and daily life of the Pilsen neighborhood in the 1990s, community learnings, cultural experiences, and the […]
Join American Indian Center for an enriching two-session workshop (June 29 and July 13; 10:00 am - 3:00 pm) focused on the art of loose feather fan making. Led by experienced instructor Ronnie Preston, this hands-on series guides participants through the intricate process of crafting traditional Native American fans. Each session offers a unique opportunity […]
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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.
