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Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s

Chicago History Museum 1601 N. Clark St., Chicago

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, […]

Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days

Harold Washington Library 400 S. State St., Chicago

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.

Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 800 S. Halsted St., Chicago

Radical Craft, an exhibition, catalog, and workshop series, celebrates the work of immigrant artists and reformers at the country's most important social settlement. The exhibition showcases Hull-House’s rarely exhibited textile collection, drawn from a wide array of immigrant traditions. Also included are handbound books from Ellen Gates Starr’s bookbindery, newly restored paintings by Alice Kellogg […]

Myth of the Organic City

6018North 6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago

Myth of the Organic City presents an historical and contemporary overview of Chicago’s design and land use, from its Indigenous roots through 20th century infrastructure projects to present-day developments. The exhibition includes maps, landscape designs, installations, wall drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works by more than 25 artists. The exhibition features artwork by Alexandra Antoine, Rebecca […]

Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!

Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Ave, Chicago

For the Smart Museum’s 50th anniversary, South Side artist Robert Earl Paige creates a multi-part pattern-based installation and sprawling public art project that invites communities into a collective experience of space. Give the Drummer Some! is rooted in Paige’s decades-long practice as an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator who bridges cultural boundaries. A lifelong resident of the […]

beLONGING: Lithuanian Artists in Chicago 1900 to Now

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture 6500 S. Pulaski Rd., Chicago

Exploring identity and place through the diverse work, perspectives, and legacy of three immigration periods of Lithuanian artists in Chicago, this exhibition and its associated programs and publications consider the causes and consequences of immigration/migration, including displacement, colonization, trauma, and assimilation. The cost of belonging is choosing what to leave behind. Its reward: creating new […]

Sunday Sustainable Soup

6018North 6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago

On Sundays from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m., join 6018North for soup and discussions about sustainability. Presented as a part of 6018North's Myth of the Organic City exhibition, Sunday Sustainable Soup […]

Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208

Zhegagoynak, the place now known as Chicagoland, is a vital center for Indigenous art, past and present. Through the perspectives of four collaborating artists with connections to Zhegagoynak—Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent), Kelly Church (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Tribe of Pottawatomi/Ottawa), Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), and Jason Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) —Woven Being explores confluences that are […]

Living Stories: Contemporary Woodland Native American Art

Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum 3001 Central St, Evanston

This exhibition examines contemporary approaches to traditional Woodlands style art, highlighting the underrepresented and diverse Native cultures of the Great Lakes region and the materials, art forms, and processes they have carried forward over generations.

Still Here: Linking Histories of Displacement

National Public Housing Museum 1322 W. Taylor St., Chicago

This exhibition, curated Dr. Lucy Mensah, uses art, archives, and public dialogue to explore and connect the histories of displacement of Indigenous people and African American families on the land where the National Public Housing Museum is located. The project includes a temporary mural outside the museum by artist Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe) that links Indigenous […]

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