December 2021
Blue Man Group Chicago New Year’s Eve Performances
@ Briar Street Theatre
3133 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, December 31st, from 7PM - 8:45PM
Hilma’s Ghost: Solstice Rituals
@ Carrie Secrist Gallery
900 W. Washington BLVD, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, December 21st, at 2PM
F.W. Nitsch @ Metropolis Cafe
@ Metropolis Cafe
1039 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, December 19th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, December 30th
Small Works Members Exhibition
@ Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport, #4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 18th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Mirrors and Misconceptions: Gallery Talk + Collage Activity
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, December 18th, from 2PM - 4PM
A Great Big Xmas Show!
@ The Latent Space
4150 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, December 18th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Works by John Kirkpatrick Jr, Leisa Corbett, Mike Bellefeuille
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, December 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 2nd
CRAM Collective: Transcend:Distance
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, December 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 2nd
Laura O’Connor: Embroidery as Testimony & Dissent
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, December 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 2nd
Michael Litewski: FOUR WORKS
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, December 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 2nd
Bob Nonnemacher: Native American Portraiture
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, December 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 2nd
Holiday Art Fundraiser
@ Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 18th, from 10 AM - 5 PM
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Co-MISSION Fall 2021 Works-in-Progress
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, December 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
Tina Mari Rucker: Black/White and Wax
@ Space 900
1042 Wesley Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Friday, December 17th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Mike Egan: In Memory Of
@ Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, January 21st
Pauline Kochanski: 3rd-Arc
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 17th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, January 8th
Mirrors and Misconceptions: Poetry Reading + Activation
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, December 17th, at 6PM
Behind the Lens: Jeffrey Wolin
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, December 17th, at 12PM
Seance
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 17th, from 7 PM - 11 PM
On view through Friday, December 17th
Where Art Works: Artist Communities and Creative Placemaking
@ Eat Paint Studio
5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, December 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 22nd
Idol Hands
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 12th
WNDRland of the Sweets
@ WNDR Museum
1130 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 17th, from 7PM - 11PM
KRAMPUS MY STYLE
@ TWISTED HIPPO TAPROOM & EATERY
2925 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, December 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
Discussion with Christopher Schneberger
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, December 16th, from 7PM - 8PM
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, December 16th, from 6PM - 7PM
Fruit Salad: a monthly queer open mic night
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, December 15th, from 6:45PM - 9PM
Alexander Bolton & Sharece Thrower: Checks in the Balance
@ 57th Street Books
Online
Opening Tuesday, December 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
Open Door Reading Series Online: Lillian Gardner, Saleem Hue Penny, Precious Musa & Hayley Kolding
@ Poetry Foundation
Virtual
Opening Tuesday, December 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
In Good Company
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, December 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 18th
Selina Trepp: I’m Thinking About Painting
@ Space & Time
3307 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, December 12th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, February 16th
Bells for Her
@ RUSCHWOMAN
2100 S Marshall Blvd. Unit 105 Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, December 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, January 23rd
Holiday Spirit 2021: Let’s Sit on a Polar Bear’s Lap!
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, December 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
Stacia Yeapanis: Reliquaries for Clinging and Letting Go
@ Material
2025 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, December 12th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, January 9th
Atomic Number 13
@ Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, January 8th
Freedom From and Freedom To #6
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 11th, at 7:30PM
Handmade Market
@ The Empty Bottle
1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 12PM - 4PM
Lauralynn White: Journey: Closing Reception
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
Lydia Ourahmane & Alex Ayed: laws of confusion
@ THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, January 30th
ALEXIS DE CHAUNAC: Minutiae: Works on Paper
@ FLXST601
2233 S Throop St, Studio 601, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, January 30th
Emiliano Cerna Rios: Emilianopolis
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 29th
Candor Arts: July 10, 2015–August 31, 2021
@ 062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago IL 60609
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, March 7th
Danny Carroll: The Trajectory of the Pendulum
@ Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, December 11th, at 7PM
A Garden, A Hole
@ curator's studio
2850 N Pulaski Ave, Suite 11, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 1PM - 5PM
To Break, Jerry’s Deli, Tattooed Lady
@ Gallery Sabine
1002 W 18th St, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
Kimmel.Ali.Harris + special guest Eli Wallace (NYC)
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Reading for Young People: Janet Wong
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, December 11th, from 11am - 11:30am
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Jeffrey Wolin: Faces of Homelessness
@ Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 0622
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, February 5th
Library Book Club Online: Rita Dove
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Like Queer Animals – We Hold Your Gaze
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 19th
The Life and Death of Charles Williams
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 24th
Inger Burnett-Zeigler: Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
@ 57th Street Books
Online
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
Empty Theatres: A Group Art Opening for the Love of Film in Several Mediums
@ Space Oddities
1007 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Intersections
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 22nd
LOCUS: IX
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
Yue Xu and Jasmine Yeh: Hostile Architecture
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
Through My Lens: Chicago Disabled Artists in Conversation with Justin Cooper
@ Bodies of Work
Online
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 3:30PM - 4:30PM
Holiday Market
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
General Objects
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, January 23rd
You Belong Here
@ Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave. Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 10th
2021 MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition
@ C33 Gallery
33 E Ida B Wells Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Tuesday, February 1st
Successful Failures: Lumpen’s 30th Birthday Party
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, December 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Essence McDowell and Skylah S. Hearn
@ Gallery 400
Online
Opening Thursday, December 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
A CONVERSATION WITH NELSON MORALES
@ Filter Photo
Online
Opening Thursday, December 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Sistema Ravinia Winter Concert
@ The Kehrein Center For The Arts
5628 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60644
Opening Thursday, December 9th, at 5PM
A Nation of Descendants: Meet the Author Francesca Morgan
@ Newberry Library
Online
Opening Thursday, December 9th, from 5PM - 6PM
Holiday Fine Print and Book Bazaar
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, December 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
Joelle Mercedes: Pensaba Qué El Mundo Se Te Iba Derrumbar Encima
@ Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, December 8th, at 7PM
Holiday Wreath Workshop
@ WNDR Museum
1130 W Monroe St. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, December 8th, at 6PM
Book Launch: The Allure of Matter: Materiality Across Chinese Arte
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, December 7th, at 6:30PM
Annie Leibovitz: Wonderland
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, December 7th, from 7PM - 8PM
Mark R. Warren: Willful Defiance
@ 57th Street Books
Online
Opening Monday, December 6th, from 6PM - 7PM
Eli Saslow: Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Story of Crisis, Courage, and Resilience
@ 57th Street Books
Online
Opening Monday, December 6th, from 7PM - 8PM
9th Annual Krampusnacht
@ Sleeping Village
3734 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, December 5th, at 9:30PM
Chicago winter art fair
@ Sleeping Village
3734 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, December 5th, from 1PM - 5PM
Mary Simpson: No Island is an Island: Closing
@ Haynes
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, December 5th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, December 5th
Sarah Hadley: Photographing Memory
@ Perspective Gallery
Online
Opening Sunday, December 5th, from 4PM - 5PM
Go-Go-Golem: A Performance
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Second Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 5th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 5th
Rituals
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, January 30th
Listo para el museo: Las Posadas
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 4th, at 10AM
The 32nd Annual International Small Print Exhibition & Holiday Sale
@ Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
KAC Members’ Show
@ Krasl Art Center
707 Lake Blvd, St. Joseph, MI 49085
On view through Sunday, January 9th
Christopher Schneberger: The Wanderers
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, January 2nd
ZINE NOT DEAD XVI – a new comics reading
@ Grace Church of Logan Square
3325 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 2PM - 11:45PM
Lauralynn White: Journey: Artist Talk
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@ Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
online
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Plein Air Painters Chicago Annual Group Show
@ Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
1012 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 8th
Every house has a door presents: 5 Beginnings ESS
@ Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Saturday, December 4th, at 1PM
Kayla Anderson: Staying With the Body
@ Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, December 4th, at 7PM
The WNDR Museum Ugly Sweater Party
@ WNDR Museum
1130 W. Monroe St. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, December 4th, at 7PM
SEVENTH CORNER @XBP @PRINTER’S ROW BREWING
@ PRINTER'S ROW BREWING
4801 N Austin Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 11am - 5PM
ROB RUTHERFORD: COLLAGE
@ R.Mona
1724 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 4th, at 6PM
Kevin Stuart: between all saints day and halloween
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 4th, at 5PM
On view through Sunday, January 2nd
The Harry Tonchev Trio
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Art Deco Nutcracker
@ Athenaeum Theater
2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, December 4th, from 2PM - 4PM
