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THE SYMPOSIUM: ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE: DAY 2
@
EXPO CHICAGO
online
Opening Saturday, October 16th, at 11AM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Mary Simpson: No Island is an Island
@
Haynes
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 5th
Open House Chicago 2021
@
Chicago Architecture Center
111 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
On view through Sunday, October 17th
Kandinsky: The Rediscovered Bauhaus Sketchbook
@
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 7th
MOLOCH
@
M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
A Flower Grew Out the Palm of My Hand
@
Special Feature
2860 W Warren Blvd, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 6PM - Late
On view through Tuesday, December 28th
Anatomy for Interiors
@
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Scarred: The Journey Of A Warrior
@
Electriqsoul Hideout Studios
216 S. Jefferson St. Chicago, IL 60661
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
INCOGNITO
@
Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N Knox Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 4PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Weekend Bash: Studio Sale
@
Arts of Life
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60612
On view through Sunday, October 17th
Kelly Reichardt: FIRST COW (2020)
@
Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 16th, at 1PM
Still Life
@
The Franklin
3522 Franklin Blvd, Chicago IL 60624
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 12th
Amina Ross: Man’s Country
@
Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 6062
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Open Studios
@
Grommit Studios
2003 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL, 60612
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 4PM - 8PM
Panel Discussion with Coded:Coated artists and curator
@
Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Tony Fitzpatrick: Jesus of Western Avenue
@
The Cleve Carney Museum of Art and McAninch Arts Center
425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 9AM - 9PM
On view through Monday, January 31st
THE SYMPOSIUM: ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE: DAY 1
@
EXPO CHICAGO
online
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 11AM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
RAISIN Artist Talk: Tintin Wulia
@
6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
SOJI ADEBAYO TRIBUTE AND MEMORIAL CONCERT FT. DOUGLAS R. EWART, SURA DUPART + MORE
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 8PM
Dreams & Nightmares
@
Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Art Talks! with Block Student Associates
@
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
RAISIN Community Conversation: Placemaking & Community
@
6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 10AM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Open Studios
@
The Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Spudraiser 2021: Annual Benefit for Spudnik Press Cooperative
@
Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard st, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sustainable Societies for the Future – Exhibition
@
Various locations
On view through Sunday, October 17th
Caroline Kent: What the stars can’t tell us: Gallery Walk
@
University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle #103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Friday, October 15th, at 3PM
On view through Thursday, December 16th
Sarita Garcia & Bobby T Luck: Surplus
@
Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 13th
Chad Kouri & Jeremiah Hunt: Side Yard Sounds
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
Our Tomorrow Happened Yesterday
@
Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 21st
Pants Without Legs
@
The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 23rd
Obama: An Intimate Portrait
@
The Arcade
618 S Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Friday, October 29th
Michelle Wasson: On Feronia
@
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
hiba ali: in the weeds
@
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 17th
F.A.B.L.E w/ Dai
@
Hideout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 14th, at 9:30PM
Building a Legacy: Gifts from Susann Craig
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, January 9th
Pooja Pittie: Nothing Gold Can Stay: Catalog Release and artist discussion
@
McCormick Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, October 14th, at 5:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Poetry & BYOBiscuits for October
@
Black Ocean
Online
Opening Thursday, October 14th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Tomashi Jackson in Conversation with Amanda Williams
@
Gallery 400
online
Opening Thursday, October 14th, from 5PM - 6.30PM
Catalytic Sound Festival
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, October 14th, from 8:30PM - 11PM
Designing the “Chicago Avant-Garde” Identity
@
Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
BMRC FELLOWS PRESENTATION SERIES
@
Black Metropolis Research Consortium
online
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, at 12PM
Pour One Out: A Monthly Storytelling Series
@
Volumes Bookcafe
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
#HereToo-COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO and AMERICAN ORIGAMI
@
The Getz Theatre Center
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, at 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 23rd
Lecture in Photography: Carolyn Drake
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, at 6PM
TANDA: Pre-colonial Indigenous Urban Planning and How to Imagine Indigenous Cities of the Future
@
Chuquimarca at Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Retelling Resistance: CEDDO (1977)
@
Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 13th, at 7PM
In Progress: Benji Hart
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
Hearth: The ACRE Annual Benefit
@
Bungalow by Middlebrow
2840 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
CREATIVE OPEN GYM (C.O.G)
@
The Outtaspace
6840 32nd St, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 7PM - 11PM
Jonathan Michael Castillo: Artist Talk
@
C33 Gallery
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, October 28th
Shirin Neshat
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Open Door Reading Series Online: Matt Bodett, Amanda Goldblatt, Isaías Rogel & Ricardo Mondragon
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 12th, from 7PM - 8PM
Kyle Beachy with Bing Liu: The Most Fun Thing
@
Columbia College Chicago - Student Center
754 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Archetypes: Film Screening and Conversation with Third Coast Percussion
@
SIX10
610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
leave me letters and dust
@
Apparatus Projects
1500 S Western Ave, #407, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, January 9th
Dia De Muertos Workshop
@
Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 11AM - 2PM
Indira Freitas Johnson: The Resonance of Emptiness
@
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Shir Ende and Lancer Livermont: Proposals and Speculations: Artists’ Talk
@
Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Concert: claire rousay
@
Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 8PM
Women in Jazz with Tammy McCann
@
Venue SIX10
610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Dawn Turner: Three Girls from Bronzeville
@
Venue SIX10
610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
5th Midwest Open
@
Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave, 4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Virtual Conversation: Marda Dunsky & Sahar Mustafah
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 4PM
NOISE PROM 3
@
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 1PM - 8PM
LAX/ORD III
@
Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Gina Lee Robbins: Tangled Up in Blue: Final Weekend
@
Dickson Project Space
Waubonsee Community College, 4S783 IL-47, Sugar Grove, IL 60554
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 8AM
On view through Thursday, October 14th
Open House Group Show for Terrain Biennial 2021
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 2PM - 9PM
Heroes: The Girls Rescued from Boko Haram
@
CASE Art Fund
Online
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 10AM - 11AM
CHANGING LANES
@
Morgan Arts Complex
3622 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, October 9th, at 5:30 PM
Karla Wong: Tales & Stories
@
Addison Center for the Arts
213 N Lombard Rd, Addison, IL 60101
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 1 PM - 4 PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Kwame Alexander: Reading for Young People
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, October 9th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
RAISIN Community Conversation: Placemaking & Community
@
6018North
online
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 10AM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Lynda Benglis in Conversation
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 6PM
SADIE LASKA: NO UTOPIA FOR YOU!
@
Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, November 5th
Lynda Benglis: Works in Video: Virtual Screenings
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
On view through Thursday, October 14th
George Klauba: Spirits of the Sand and Sea
@
Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
RAISIN Artist Talk: Zhiyuan Yang, Kyle Bellucci Johanson, and Maryam Taghavi
@
6018North
online
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Through the Flames and Beyond
@
Newberry Library
60 W Walton St Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 6:30PM
SECOND LIFE: All Women Exhibition
@
3D4D by CSI
1912 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 5th
T.J. Dedeaux-Norris: Second Line: Gallery Walk
@
University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, #103Normal, IL 61761
Opening Friday, October 8th, at 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Arte, Cultura, Y Resistencia
@
Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, November 29th
Harry Tonchev Trio
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Common Gesture
@
Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Maxwell Volkman & Tyler Sharpnack: Witchblades
@
Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Friday, October 8th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 17th
Lynda Benglis: Works in Video: Theatrical Screening
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 7th, at 6PM
Storytelling, Climate Justice, and Self-Determined Indigenous Futures
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
Mark Feldman Solo & Ochs /Robinson Duo
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 8:30PM - 11PM
Mutual Aid is Our Future: Time Salon
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Second Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
jina valentine in conversation with Mimi Onuoha
@
Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, October 29th
Bethany Collins and Sampada Aranke: About Looking
@
Gallery 400
Online
Opening Thursday, October 7th, from 5PM - 6PM
Smart to the Core: Medium / Image: Opening Celebration
@
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, October 6th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Sunset Yoga + Art
@
salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL, 60609
Opening Wednesday, October 6th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Chris Berti Artist Lecture
@
Giertz Gallery at Parkland College
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 5th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Abolition, Cultural Freedom, Liberation
@
Haymarket Books
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 5th, from 4PM - 5:30
Dia De Muertos Sewing Workshop
@
Comfort Station
2759 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Amitav Ghosh: Lecture and Reading
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 5th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Jake Victor Trio & Wills McKenna Quartet
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, October 4th, from 8PM - 10:30PM
OPTION: Quin Kirchner
@
Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, October 4th, at 8PM
Lecture: Dr. Jonathan Metzl
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Monday, October 4th, at 6PM
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