![](\"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1745505822/hz5gvg4otej7f9toq5v8.jpg\")
What’s inside the Block? It depends on how you look.
The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is an engine that drives questioning, experimentation, and collaboration across fields of study, with visual arts at the center. We do this by activating art’s power as a form of insight, research, and knowledge creation that makes human experience visible and material. Fueled by diverse perspectives and ways of knowing, we create shared encounters with art and with one another to deepen understandings of the world and our place within it.
Through exhibitions, classes, programs, screenings, and initiatives, The Block convenes bold conversations that explore the relevance of art to our lives and that deepen our thinking. We are as committed to exploring what art can do as we are to studying what art is.
Always free and open to all.
Image: Block Museum Student Associates tour The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto, 2023
","type":"EventCategory","state":"published","slug":"children-youth-families","created_at":"2018-10-22 18:54:41.138792","updated_at":"2018-12-20 22:47:49.895412","excerpt":"","is_timeless":false,"organization_id":707,"highlighted":false,"opening_starts_at":"2025-04-26 12:00:00","opening_ends_at":"2025-04-26 17:00:00","searchable":"'-5':21B '12':20B '26':19B 'activ':39B,86B 'afternoon':148B 'age':25B 'aloha':126B 'also':135B 'american':78B 'april':18B 'art':29B,55B,68B,79B 'artist':94B 'block':7A,15B,52B,103B 'ceil':120B 'celebr':27B,63B 'center':127B 'ceron':113B 'chicagoland':71B 'coloring/scavenger':84B 'communiti':1A,9B,151B 'contemporari':75B 'craft':144B 'cultur':31B 'danc':142B 'day':2A,10B,34B,49B,152B 'door':130B 'enjoy':80B 'evanston':42B 'exhibit':65B,93B 'explor':50B 'famili':137B 'festiv':48B 'free':23B 'galleri':82B,90B 'gichigamiin':3A,11B,58B,116B,133B 'hula':141B 'hunt':85B 'indigen':4A,12B,28B,59B 'join':44B 'librari':124B 'live':73B 'lloyd':97B 'locat':128B 'moor':96B 'mural':121B 'muralist':111B 'museum':6A,8A,14B,16B,43B,53B,61B 'nation':5A,13B,60B 'nativ':77B 'new':119B 'next':129B 'nora':95B 'offer':136B 'open':81B 'place':100B 'pm':22B 'program':138B 'rsvp':149B 'saturday':17B 'sergio':112B 'stori':74B 'storytel':36B,83B 'take':99B 'talk':37B,91B,109B 'ukelel':140B 'us':45B 'welcom':26B 'woodland':76B 'workshop':145B 'woven':66B 'zhegagoynak':70B","thumbnail":"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1721669849/mfv0xujrzzertg1ilwky.jpg","calendar":null,"carousel":false,"event_body":"Community Day: Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum & Block Museum
Saturday, April 26, 12-5PM, FREE, All ages welcome
Celebrate Indigenous art and culture with a day of storytelling, talks, and activities at both Evanston museums.
Join us for a festive day exploring The Block Museum of Art and the Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum in celebration of exhibitions Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak / Chicagoland and Living Stories: Contemporary Woodland Native American Art. Enjoy open galleries, storytelling, coloring/scavenger hunt activities, and more. A gallery talk with exhibition artist Nora Moore Lloyd will take place at The Block, and there will be a talk from muralist Sergio Ceron at the Gichigamiin on the new ceiling mural in their library. The Aloha Center, located next door to the Gichigamiin, will also offer family programming, with ukelele, hula dance, and craft workshops in the afternoon.