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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
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Separate But Together: A Virtual Show
@
Fulton Street Collective
https://www.facebook.com/events/571295653513353/
On view through Friday, May 29th
Bright Sound Sense Meditation: Virtual Session
@
Heaven Gallery
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85120535464
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 7PM - 7:30PM
Tonada del tormento (Torment’s lullaby)
@
Public space
4101 W Cullom Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 11 am - 12 PM
On view through Saturday, May 30th
Spinning Home Movies Weekly Screening Series with Chicago DJs
@
Arts and Public Life
https://www.facebook.com/artspubliclife/
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
File Prep for Print and Web
@
LATITUDE
https://www.latitudechicago.org/classes-and-workshops/organize-your-hard-drive-ngj3j-p47gb
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
Forms & Features Online: Metaphor
@
Poetry Foundation
To register, email library@poetryfoundation.org
Opening Thursday, May 14th, at 6PM
Collective D(esign): A Webinar Series
@
International Interior Design Association (IIDA)
http://www.iida.org/content.cfm/collective-d(esign)-an-iida-webinar-series
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Leather Legacies: Heather Raquel Phillips
@
Leather Archives & Museum
https://zoom.us/j/94769427450
Opening Thursday, May 14th, at 2PM
Shorts from Underground: Tetsuya Mariko & Alexander Zahlten
@
Mana Contemporary
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85269425690
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
100th Anniversary of the DuSable Bridge – A Virtual Celebration
@
McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum
https://www.facebook.com/BridgehouseMuseum
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 7PM - 7:30PM
Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles & the Work of Art Shay
@
Newberry Library
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/troublemakers-chicago-freedom-struggles-through-the-lens-of-art-shay-tickets-104075087388
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 4PM - 5PM
Bearing Witness: Three Videos from Jesse McLean
@
Late Capital
http://flatland.online/
Opening Thursday, May 14th, at 7PM
On view through Friday, May 15th
Poetry off the Stage: A Virtual Reading with Dunya Mikhail
@
Poetry Foundation
https://www.facebook.com/poetryfoundation/
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 7PM - 7:30PM
Chicago Neighborhood Check-In: Englewood
@
Chicago Humanities
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
Forms & Features Online: Metaphor
@
Poetry Foundation
To register, email library@poetryfoundation.org
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, at 10AM
If/Then Showing #2 with HPP, Sojourner Zenobia & Allegra Dolores
@
Honey Pot Performance
https://www.honeypotperformance.org/if-then
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
ART on theMART Video Stream: Summer 2019 Program
@
Merchandise Mart
https://www.facebook.com/artonthemart/
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, from 7PM - 7:30PM
Paint with Leslie Baum
@
DePaul Art Museum
https://resources.depaul.edu/art-museum/public-events/Pages/default.aspx?mc_cid=1e83d6c75
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, at 2PM
Sanctuary Sessions with Dana Major
@
6018North
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/103736396354
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, from 1PM - 2PM
Pour One Out: The Lie(s) I Told For/To My Mother
@
Virtual Space
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Rear View Mirror Sessions: Bill Withers
@
Arts and Public Life
https://www.facebook.com/artspubliclife/
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Photos at Zoom: Recent Acquisitions
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
https://colum.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_llz8kMRMSmWBLBg3ckpXSQ
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, at 12PM
Lecture in Photography: Sarah Meister
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
https://colum.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tx3-V9P1QIaMi0kyecbLHQ
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Tuesday, May 12th, at 7PM
Gray Sound Sessions 4: Yip/Hein + Fohr/Crain
@
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
https://www.facebook.com/graycenterforartsandinquiry/
Opening Tuesday, May 12th, from 8PM - 9PM
Virtual Studio Visit: Kirsten Leenaars
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
https://www.instagram.com/mcachicago/?hl=en
Opening Tuesday, May 12th, from 12PM - 12:30PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Monday, May 11th, at 8PM
File Prep for Print and Web
@
LATITUDE
https://www.latitudechicago.org/classes-and-workshops/organize-your-hard-drive-ngj3j-p47gb
Opening Monday, May 11th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
2020 Photography Manifest Exhibition
@
Columbia College Chicago
https://www.artsteps.com/view/5e8e312113f62862e83df4c5
On view through Friday, May 15th
2020 BA Fine Arts Showcase
@
C33 Gallery
https://students.colum.edu/deps/c33-gallery/exhibitions/2020-ba-fine-arts-showcase/index
Opening Monday, May 11th, from 12 AM - 11:59 PM
On view through Friday, May 15th
2020 Undergraduate Fine Art Thesis Exhibition
@
The Arcade
https://students.colum.edu/deps/the-arcade/exhibitions/2020-undergraduate-fine-arts-thesis-exhibition/index
On view through Friday, May 15th
Forms & Features Online: Metaphor
@
Poetry Foundation
To register, email library@poetryfoundation.org
Opening Monday, May 11th, at 2PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Sunday, May 10th, at 2PM
Karen Christopher: (Are you in the Universe) or is the Universe in you? LOOKING AT THE SMALL THINGS — IN TWO PARTS (expect disappointment)
@
Lucky Pierre
https://forms.gle/Sk1ttuUXmrm1vm6B8
Opening Sunday, May 10th, from 2PM - 3PM
In Flux: Compass to Now|Here workshop with Silvia Ines Gonzalez
@
Chicago Cultural Center
RSVP for Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/104363522104
Opening Sunday, May 10th, from 3PM - 4PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Saturday, May 9th, at 8PM
In Flux: Sewing Circles with Sabba Elahi
@
Chicago Cultural Center
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-flux-we-are-the-cure-drawings-and-new-visions-on-covid-19-with-sabba-elahi-registration-102587594256
Opening Saturday, May 9th, at 1PM
Family Day Activities
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
https://experience.mcachicago.org/4592/4593
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 10AM - 2PM
Suspension Galleries- Virtual Exhibition
@
Instagram
@suspensiongalleries
Jurassic Warp
@
Ground Level Platform
2001 S Halsted, Chicago, Illinois 60608
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Friday, April 10th
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Friday, May 8th, at 8PM
Forms & Features Online: Poetry Comics
@
Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/events/153310/forms-features-online-poetry-comics
Opening Friday, May 8th, at 1PM
FEK Online Drawing #5
@
Leather Archives & Museum
https://leatherarchives.org/
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
ArtBash
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
http://artbash.party
OTVReruns x 6018 North: Border’d, United States of Aliens, FOBia
@
6018North
http://www.opentelevision.live
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 8PM - 10PM
Samantha Cabrera-Friend: Artist Talk
@
LATITUDE
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84883665142?pwd=alUvTDA2bjhiajBpR3BQNDVOWE8rQT09
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 3PM - 4PM
In Flux: Table-reading with Amanda Assaley and Qais Assali
@
Chicago Cultural Center
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-flux-table-reading-with-amanda-assaley-and-qais-assali-tickets-102839006236
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 1PM - 2PM
MoCP Behind the Lens: Priya Kambli
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
https://colum.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C3OOZ9umSYyW_Cu955RUFA
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 12PM - 1PM
Jurassic Warp
@
Ground Level Platform
http://jurassicwarp.com
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Friday, April 10th
Spinning Home Movies Weekly Screening Series with Chicago DJs
@
Arts and Public Life
https://www.facebook.com/artspubliclife/
Opening Thursday, May 7th, from 7PM - 8PM
Closing Lights Deirdre Fox at FlexSpace
@
FlexSpace: Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St. Riverside, IL
Opening Thursday, May 7th, from 6PM - 6AM
On view through Sunday, May 10th
Introducing “Postcard Tag”
@
Newberry Library
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introducing-postcard-tag-tickets-104142679
Opening Thursday, May 7th, from 4PM - 4:30PM
William E. Rattner Nonprofit Start-up Workshop
@
Lawyers for the Creative Arts
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KmCT6v-SQjyOngBgQ_4ORw
Opening Thursday, May 7th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
Max Guy: Flightless Bird: Home Movies from Chicago and Japan
@
Flatland
https://www.twitch.tv/latecapital
Opening Thursday, May 7th, at 8PM
On view through Friday, May 8th
Leather Legacies: David K. Johnson
@
Leather Archives & Museum
https://zoom.us/j/94769427450
Opening Thursday, May 7th, at 2PM
Volumes Virtual Book Club
@
Volumes Bookcafe
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85124103327?pwd=ZnY3Nk5yWDBTeWV2eDRPSW16bWdidz09
Opening Thursday, May 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
Community Lunch with Amanda Gentry and Yasmin Spiro
@
Mana Contemporary
https://zoom.us/j/96170361329?status=success
Opening Thursday, May 7th, from 1PM - 2PM
Online Event: Badnam Basti (1971)
@
Block Museum of Art
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-event-badnam-basti-1971-screening-and-discussion-tickets-103469903266
Opening Thursday, May 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
Collective D(esign): A Webinar Series
@
International Interior Design Association (IIDA)
http://www.iida.org/content.cfm/collective-d(esign)-an-iida-webinar-series
Opening Thursday, May 7th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Amina Ross: Specular Cry
@
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Sunday, May 10th
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Wednesday, May 6th, at 7PM
Forms & Features Online: Poetry Comics
@
Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/events/153310/forms-features-online-poetry-comics
Opening Wednesday, May 6th, at 10AM
Weave with kg
@
DePaul Art Museum
https://resources.depaul.edu/art-museum/public-events/Pages/default.aspx?mc_cid=1e83d6c75
Opening Wednesday, May 6th, from 2PM - 3PM
Rapid Response Video Series: Refuge
@
Envisioning Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxfOeLigjWw&feature=youtu.be
Opening Wednesday, May 6th, from 7PM - 8PM
Brandon Ballengee
@
Glass Curtain Gallery
https://colum.zoom.us/j/94886810252
Opening Wednesday, May 6th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Webinar: Emergency Support for Artists, Illinois Relief Fund
@
Mana Contemporary
https://zoom.us/j/99111823269?status=success
Opening Wednesday, May 6th, from 2PM - 3PM
Sanctuary Sessions: Self-Care Strategies with Rhonda Wheatley
@
Chicago Cultural Center
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/103737016208
Opening Wednesday, May 6th, from 1PM - 2PM
Photos at Zoom: Photography as Social Practice
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
https://colum.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PVlPz0fQQsOFgG6MAhiDpA
Opening Wednesday, May 6th, from 12PM - 1PM
826CHI’s Virtual Publishing Fest
@
826CHI
https://www.classy.org/event/2020-publications-fest/e280610
Opening Tuesday, May 5th, at 6PM
Luminarts Visual Arts Reception
@
Luminarts Cultural Foundation
For more information, contact info@luminarts.org
Opening Tuesday, May 5th, from 5PM - 7PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Monday, May 4th, at 8PM
In Flux: Artist-Led Tours
@
Chicago Cultural Center
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/102831170800
Opening Monday, May 4th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, May 4th
Forms & Features Online: Poetry Comics
@
Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/events/153310/forms-features-online-poetry-comics
Opening Monday, May 4th, at 2PM
Cooperation for Liberation Study & Working Group
@
the #LetUsBreathe Collective
https://zoom.us/j/947131868?pwd=TkR2ZFNsYnNueFVDemMxUlluenhnZz09
Opening Sunday, May 3rd, from 3PM - 4PM
Virtual Shodo Class for May
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-shodo-class-for-may-tickets-103175191776
Opening Sunday, May 3rd, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Virtual Center Sunday
@
Hyde Park Art Center
https://centersundaysmay.eventbrite.com
Opening Sunday, May 3rd, from 1PM - 5PM
Tune In: Jonathan Mannion: Music for the Masses
@
Mana Contemporary
https://www.manacontemporary.com/event/tune-in-jonathan-mannion-music-for-the-masses/
Opening Saturday, May 2nd, at 12PM
Online Events for Common Field National Artist Convening
@
Public Media Institute
https://www.twitch.tv/teamprecariat
Opening Saturday, May 2nd, at 8PM
In Flux: Kolektiv Goluboy Vagon (Коллектив Голубой Вагон)
@
Chicago Cultural Center
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-flux-kolektiv-goluboy-vagon-tickets-102837154698
Opening Saturday, May 2nd, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Monica Jahan Bose: Moonlight through an onion Skin
@
Agitator: a co-operative gallery
http://www.constantlyconsumingculture.com/
Opening Saturday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 10PM
Andrew Holmquist: HQME
@
Carrie Secrist Gallery
https://www.secristgallery.com/exhibitions/2020/andrew-holmquist-3/
Opening Saturday, May 2nd, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 30th
Nora Moore Lloyd: Birchbark, Wiigwaas
@
Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society
7363 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, May 2nd, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, May 30th
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Friday, May 1st, at 7PM
Forms & Features Online: Personification
@
Poetry Foundation
email library@poetryfoundation.org
Opening Friday, May 1st, at 1PM
Alina Das: No Justice In the Shadows
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/in-conversation-alina/register
Opening Friday, May 1st, from 7PM - 8PM
Learning Community Care from our Queer and Trans Ancestors
@
UIC Gender and Sexuality Center
https://www.facebook.com/UICGSC/
Opening Friday, May 1st, from 2PM - 3PM
Jocko Weyland: The Book I Read In
@
Everybody
https://www.everybody.gallery/
Opening Friday, May 1st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 30th
Rachel Fein-Smolinski: Artist Talk
@
LATITUDE
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87673111893?pwd=aVFqeCtIQlBzMzZPcWVMUDIxVmVBQT09
Opening Friday, May 1st, from 3PM - 4PM
Film Center From Your Sofa: Straight Up
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/straightup
On view through Thursday, May 7th
In Flux: Sewing Circles with Sabba Elahi
@
Chicago Cultural Center
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-flux-we-are-the-cure-drawings-and-new-visions-on-covid-19-with-sabba-elahi-registration-102587594256
Opening Friday, May 1st, at 7PM
Craftivism during a Pandemic
@
UIC Women's Leadership and Resource Center
https://uic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlcuuvpjMiGNFX-WhpzIo598FLgDjT_Epe
Opening Friday, May 1st, from 12PM - 1PM
Water Over Tea
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
https://www.instagram.com/mcachicago/
Opening Friday, May 1st, from 12:30PM - 1PM
MoCP Behind the Lens: Ross Sawyers
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
https://colum.zoom.us/j/214290758
Opening Friday, May 1st, at 12PM
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