April 2017
John Waters in Conversation with Chris Jones
@ Fine Arts Building
410 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, April 30th, from 4PM - 5PM
Museums and Race
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, April 30th, from 2PM - 5PM
Daniel Berrigan film The Holy Outlaw with panel discussion
@ Br. David Darst Center
2834 S Normal Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, April 30th, from 4PM - 7PM
Spring 2017 Open House
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 30th, from 1PM - 4PM
Artist Talk: Matthew Woodward and Tom Torluemke
@ Linda Warren Projects
327 N Aberdeen, Suite 151, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 4PM - 8PM
MCA Live: CabinFever
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 12PM - 4PM
WE: Lily Mooney and Plus Sign
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 8PM - 11PM
Stories To Tell
@ LALUZ Gallery
1545 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
Elias Sime: Art and Obsolescence
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 4PM - 5PM
Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred: A Graphic Novel
@ Fine Arts Building
410 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 4PM - 5PM
Firelei Báez and María Elena Ortiz in Conversation
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 2PM - 3PM
Candida Alvarez: Here
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, August 6th
BLOOM: A Community Project
@ The Port Ministries
5013 S Hermitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, April 29th, at 12PM
On view through Sunday, April 30th
Running Street Art Tour
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 10 AM - 1PM
Summit: What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights?
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 9:30am - 5PM
DIY Workshop: Exploring Text and Image
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 1PM - 4PM
Painting in the Real World
@ WEDGE
1448 Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
Jake Vogds: Play Dead
@ Hume
3242 W Armitage Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 28th
Igor Josifov: Continuum
@ DfbrL8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Kimberly Drew: Curating Art in a Digital World
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 2PM - 3PM
Photographing Black Life
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 12PM - 1PM
Nathan Mason + Catherine Schwalbe: Mistakes Were Made
@ UNUM
3039 W. Carroll Avenue, 315, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
Platforms: a.pe.ri.od.ic with Parsons and Charlesworth
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 12:15PM - 1:15PM
Teaching Artist Summit
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 29th, from 10AM - 3PM
Lit: 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition
@ Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Ave, 2nd FL, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 18th
Got The Love + On The Frontline
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
Geometric Complexions
@ Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, June 9th
Heather Mekkelson: What It Is We’re Measuring
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Blackbox: An Afrofuturist Opus
@ Student Union Galleries | SUGs
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 9PM - 1am
On view through Wednesday, May 17th
SAIC MFA Show 2017
@ SAIC Sullivan Galleries
33 S State St, 7th floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 17th
Tessa Gillett: I define\self
@ AMFM Gallery
2151 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 7PM - 11PM
Deborah Stratman: The Illinois Parables
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
2017 Thesis Exhibition
@ The University of St. Francis Art Gallery
25 E Van Buren St, Joliet, IL 60432
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 23rd
Boondoggle
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Thursday, May 18th
Ginger Krebs: Minor Local Slumpage
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9:30PM
On view through Thursday, May 18th
Film Screening: If Walls Could Talk
@ Uri Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL60608
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
Ruti Modlin: Round the Block: Prints and Paintings
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Angela A. McElwain: Loss, Change, Stasis
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Carolyne King: Fractured States
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Jean Alexander Frater: Softer and Gregory Bae: Spinning Backflip
@ The Mission
1431 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 10th
Cecil McDonald Jr: In the Company of Black
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
Dan Friedman: Radical Modernist
@ Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 12th
Landline: Robert Chase Heishman, Todd Mattei, and Betsy Odom
@ ADDS DONNA
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Pure Love
@ Bar4000
2000 W Carroll Avenue Chicago IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, June 1st
Shop Talks with Scott Carter
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 5PM - 6PM
Kevin Goodrich: Good Times Here, Better Down the Road
@ Fernwey Gallery
916 N Damen Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
Lucy P. Liu and Diane Ponder: Bethany Retirement Inaugural Art Exhibition
@ Bethany Retirement Community
4950 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Jim Dine: Looking at the Present
@ Gray Warehouse
2044 West Carroll Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 10th
Marzena Abrahamik: Girl Play
@ Johalla Projects
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 209, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
On view through Sunday, June 4th
Emily Rapport: Subject to Change: Urban Landscape and the Architecture of Place
@ Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave
Opening Friday, April 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Art, Publics, Politics: Legacies of the Wall of Respect
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 28th, at 9am
On view through Friday, April 29th
Arlene Shechet: In the Meantime and Karl Wirsum
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Her Environment: Mantle (part 1)
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Show and Tell
@ Low Res Studio
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
From the Other Side (Film)
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Conversation: The Gathering—Outlaw as Hero
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
A Matter of Conscience
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 18th
Hương Ngô: To Name It is to See It
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W. Fullerton
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 6th
Firelei Báez: Vessels of Genealogies
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 6th
Flak Performance Series
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Peter Fischli in conversation with Ann Goldstein
@ Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
My Body, My Self
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, from 8PM - 11PM
Jacquelyn Guerrero, Natalie Murillo, Holly Chernobyl: In-Session
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
This Is the Life: Moving Images, Making Cities Film Series
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Reparations in Native American and Japanese American Contexts
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Object Poetry
@ Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University
1 University Pkwy, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
TIPS 4 Tingles: a live ASMR experience
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 26th, from 8PM - 10PM
MCA Studio: All Rise
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
The Black G.I. (1970): Screening and panel discussion
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
The POWER Project general meeting #3
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
Homer to Vonnegut: A Print Odyssey (Part 2)
@ National Veterans Art Museum
4041 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Battles: Ss3 Post-Butoh Festival – Battle #3
@ Japanese Culture Center
1016 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
Walid Raad: Visiting Artists Program Lecture
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Visiting Artists Program
230 S. Columbus Dr.
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Black and Blue: Film screening and Panel Discussion
@ Community Film Workshop of Chicago
6200 S Drexel Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Film Rescue presents The Exiles by Kent Mackenzie
@ UIC Screening Room
400 S Peoria Street, Room 3226, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Before Work
@ Arts and Public Life
301 East Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 7AM - 9AM
Correct Opinions: curators’ talk
@ Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
Set Free
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
A Constant Struggle
@ Beverly Arts Center
2407 W 111th St, Chicago, IL 60655
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 2PM - 5PM
Thresholds, Divine: Myths, Manias and Queer Morphologies
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 6PM - 10PM
Slow Flow and Self-Express Yoga
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 1PM - 2PM
Incarceration: A New Narrative Through the Arts
@ Gallery 400 University of Illinois Chicago
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 2:40PM - 2:55PM
Reality is Not Good Enough
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 3PM - 6PM
Ben Shahn: Contexts for Today
@ Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
610 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 4PM - 6PM
When Did We Lose? What Did We Lose?
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 4PM - 6PM
Beauty Breaks at Open Engagement
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Audra Jacot : Adult
@ Rev. Billy's Chop Shop!
4314 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618-1712
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 6PM - 10PM
Open Engagement Closing Night Party ft. Slo ‘Mo
@ Reunion Chicago
2557 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 9PM - 11PM
Marisa Jahn: CareForce Disco
@ Hull House
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 1PM - 2PM
Rashida Phillips and Roger Bonair-Agard: Stranger in the City
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 7:30PM - 9:45PM
Patrick Chamberlain, Michelle Grabner and John Wilkinson Talk
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 4PM - 6PM
Devin Mays: Q: How are you? A: Everything is everything.
@ Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
Homegrown Justice Food Stand
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 23rd
MCA Live: Boomerang, For the toward
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 12PM - 4PM
Funding for Artists: The Inside Scoop
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 12PM - 1:15PM
Garry Noland: The Most Beautifulest Thing In The World
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
319 N Albany, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Josh Grotto: Woman With a Broken Nose
@ Standing Passengers
1458 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
Arnold J. Kemp: The Stupidity of Belief
@ Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, May 22nd
