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The Chicago Cultural Center is a historic and architectural gem located in the heart of downtown Chicago. Originally built in 1897 as the city’s first public library, the Cultural Center is a stunning example of neoclassical architecture, featuring a grand marble staircase, magnificent Tiffany stained-glass dome, and ornate mosaics throughout the building.
The Cultural Center is a vibrant hub of arts and culture, offering a wide range of free public programs, exhibitions, and events. Visitors can explore the building’s many galleries, performance spaces, and event rooms, which showcase a diverse array of visual art, music, dance, and theater. Whether you’re a local resident or a visitor to the city, the Cultural Center offers an enriching and inspiring experience that celebrates the power of art to unite and inspire.
Image: the exterior of the Chicago Cultural Center as see from Michigan Ave.
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Curated by: Mya Lewis
Between the folds of this world, lingering pieces of one’s own gossamer, narrative threads lay waiting to be unearthed and held.
To Be Remembered: Woven Matters of the Heart embraces the reflective ways in which five contemporary textile artists illuminate their rich interior worlds through their unique fiber practices. The artists: ebere agwuncha, Nnaemeka Ekwelum, Hale Ekinci, Josué Esaú, and Thương Hoài Trần each visually intertwine time, memory, and emotion to conjure deeply felt histories across spatial geographies, venerating the cultural traces that connect us to the motherlands.
Embedded in their designs and motifs, the artworks’ layered meanings preserve cultural continuity through extensive research that awakens their ancestors’ legacies and gifts. The works create new pathways to becoming closer to one another, communicating how we become and become undone within the ever-changing cycles of life. Skillfully made by hand, the artists guide us in how we learn to weave our own personal mythologies.
The magic in life is apparent, and we invite you to find it within.
Friday, August 21, 2026
4-7 p.m.
Opening Reception
Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North
Saturday, September 19, 2026
2 p.m.
Artist Talk
Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North
Saturday, October 3, 2026
12:30-2 p.m.
meditation on: sculptural portals, a visual lecture by ebere agwuncha
Claudia Cassidy Theater, 2nd Floor North
Through exploring familial archives, local collections, and diasporic memories, this presentation will expand the site-specific sculptural portals created by the artist, ebere agwuncha, for the exhibition To Be Remembered: Woven Matters of the Heart. sculptural portals incorporate oral histories from agwuncha’s parents, who immigrated from Nigeria to Chicago in the 1980s, alongside traditional Igbo craft to expand the significance of art-making through an active archiving practice. This event offers a deeper dive into the research and personal history behind agwuncha’s installation, giving the audience an intimate look into an artist’s process.
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Noon - 2 p.m.
Woven Vessel Workshop with ebere agwuncha
Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North
The Woven Vessel Workshop invites creatives of all skill levels to learn basket weaving techniques to craft a unique functional object. This workshop is facilitated by ebere agwuncha, a transdisciplinary artist from Chicago. Visitors will have the opportunity to make a woven basket and utilize beads as adornment for their work. Supplies are provided and are limited for the event.
Saturday, December 5, 2026
Noon - 2 p.m.
Weaving Workshop with Thương Hoài Trần
Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North
Join us for an accessible, hands-on weaving workshop that utilizes affordable materials such as cardboard and secondhand yarn. This workshop explores how to approach weaving without a specialized loom, making the process more accessible to beginners and those without access to traditional weaving equipment.
Friday, December 11, 2026
Noon - 2 p.m.
Weaving Workshop with Thương Hoài Trần
Learning Lab, 1st Floor South
Join us for an accessible, hands-on weaving workshop that utilizes affordable materials such as cardboard and secondhand yarn. This workshop explores how to approach weaving without a specialized loom, making the process more accessible to beginners and those without access to traditional weaving equipment.
Image: Kỷ Niệm Ngày Cưới: Burgundy and Gold, Thương Hoài Trần, 34\" x 28\", 2021. Photo credit: Thương Hoài Trần;
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Planning and creating public art can be a risky enterprise. For over 200 years, Chicago has been putting art in public places. Sometimes it’s loved. Sometimes it’s hated. To further complicate matters, times change – and so do people and tastes. See for yourself in this exhibition of stories and historical public artwork of the past 200 years. Part of the City of Chicago's Year of Public Art.
\r\n\r\nCurator Tour with Cultural Historian Tim Samuelson February 25, 4-5pm
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Artist talk on February 25, 11am
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition will reunite all 32 doors painted by Eugene Eda for the stairwells of the original, now demolished Malcolm X College. Painted in 1971 by one of the principal artists of the Wall of Respect, the monumental doors are a landmark of the Black Arts movement in Chicago. The Exhibition includes other portable artworks in the MXC collection as well as documentation that will shed light on this important and turbulent period in Chicago history. Part of the City of Chicago's Year of Public Art.
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Aram Han Sifuntes is committed to the social practice of working with diverse communities, particularly immigrants and refugees, in order to provide insight into their everyday world. With collaborator Verónica Casado Hernández, she will teach the skills necessary to create protest banners from cloth. The public is invited to drop in to work on collective banners and make one to take away or contribute to a lending library. They will also maintain a lending library where visitors can check out a completed banner to use. Large groups are encouraged to make an appointment.
\r\n\r\nPart of the Chicago Cultural Center Artists in Residence and Curatorial Fellows taking place Summer 2016-Winter 2017
\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Cultural Center Artists in Residence and Curatorial Fellows were selected by a panel of esteemed jurors following a competitive review of nearly 200 qualified applicants. Each recipient or collaborative team will be awarded a stipend to develop their work and engage with the public. Additionally, the Artists in Residence will be provided with three months of studio space, either private or public, at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., where they will engage visitors in public programs and talks to be announced. These awards are provided through a generous grant from the Joyce Foundation to support underrepresented artists and curators who demonstrate a strong level of commitment to diversity and community and whose work shows promise or is on the brink of advancement.
\r\n\r\nPublic Studio Artists in Residence each receive a $6,000 stipend and a dedicated studio space in the Chicago Cultural Center. The Garland Gallery studio (first floor south) is a hub of creative activity, which provides ongoing opportunities for artists to interact with the public. Private Studio Artists in Residence each receive a $6,000 stipend and a dedicated studio space in an area of the Chicago Cultural Center that is not generally accessible to the public, expect for monthly open studio events.
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Six distinguished artists and curators, Miguel Aguilar, Janice Bond, Jesse Lee Cochran, Tempestt Hazel, Nicole Marroquin and Tricia Van Eck selected one artist from each of Chicago’s fifty wards, in order to engage a broad cross-section of Chicago artists, few of whom have exhibited previously at the Chicago Cultural Center. The exhibition yielded works in painting, drawing, video, photography, sculpture and design, and demonstrates the diverse perspectives on life in Chicago.
\r\n\r\nFull list of artists can be found here.
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\r\n\r\nPrinting workshop by artists Nicole Marroquin and Andres L. Hernandez on February 25, 10am-6pm
\r\n\r\nBy critically engaging with archival materials and living testimonies, Nicole Marroquin and Andres L. Hernandez rewrite two narratives of citizen struggle in Chicago: student walkouts on the Lower West Side between 1968-1973, and resident-led protests at the Cabrini-Green housing development in spring 1981. The artists transform the galleries into a suite of active public archives and invite participants to interpret the recent past in order to re-imagine solutions to the crises of our historic present.
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Part of the Chicago Cultural Center Exhibition Open House
\r\n\r\nNicole Marroquin and Andres L. Hernandez: Historical F(r)ictions on view February 18-May 7, 2017 in the Michigan Avenue Galleries
\r\n\r\nBy critically engaging with archival materials and living testimonies, Nicole Marroquin and Andres L. Hernandez rewrite two narratives of citizen struggle in Chicago: student walkouts on the Lower West Side between 1968-1973, and resident-led protests at the Cabrini-Green housing development in spring 1981. The artists transform the galleries into a suite of active public archives and invite participants to interpret the recent past in order to re-imagine solutions to the crises of our historic present.
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Exhibition on view January 21-June 25, 2017
\r\n\r\nPart of the Chicago Cultural Center Exhibition Open House
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition will reunite all 32 doors painted by Eugene Eda for the stairwells of the original, now demolished Malcolm X College. Painted in 1971 by one of the principal artists of the Wall of Respect, the monumental doors are a landmark of the Black Arts movement in Chicago. The Exhibition includes other portable artworks in the MXC collection as well as documentation that will shed light on this important and turbulent period in Chicago history. Part of the City of Chicago's Year of Public Art.
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Roundtable Discussion with Curators and Artists part of the Chicago Cultural Center Exhibition Open House
\r\n\r\nExhibition on view February 25-July 30, 2017
\r\n\r\nGuest curated by Romi Crawford, Abdul Alkalimat and Rebecca Zorach, this exhibition chronicles how the Organization of Black Arts and Culture – a collection of 14 designers, photographers, painters and others – designed and produced a seminal mural for and within Chicago’s Black South Side communities. Featuring the images of leading black icons ranging from Sarah Vaughan and John Coltrane to Marcus Garvey and Ossie Davis, The Wall of Respect received national critical acclaim when it was unveiled in 1967 on the side of a building at 43rd St. and Langley Ave on the heels of the March on Washington, the assassination of Malcolm X and the emergence of Black Power. The Wall was ultimately painted over and virtually forgotten after damage by a fire in 1971, but it’s legacy has reemerged today as one of the most significant projects in Chicago’s storied public art history. Part of the City of Chicago's Year of Public Art.
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Guest curated by Romi Crawford, Abdul Alkalimat and Rebecca Zorach, this exhibition chronicles how the Organization of Black Arts and Culture – a collection of 14 designers, photographers, painters and others – designed and produced a seminal mural for and within Chicago’s Black South Side communities. Featuring the images of leading black icons ranging from Sarah Vaughan and John Coltrane to Marcus Garvey and Ossie Davis, The Wall of Respect received national critical acclaim when it was unveiled in 1967 on the side of a building at 43rd St. and Langley Ave on the heels of the March on Washington, the assassination of Malcolm X and the emergence of Black Power. The Wall was ultimately painted over and virtually forgotten after damage by a fire in 1971, but it’s legacy has reemerged today as one of the most significant projects in Chicago’s storied public art history. Part of the City of Chicago's Year of Public Art.
\r\n\r\nRoundtable Discussion with Curators and Artists February 25, 1-3:30pm
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Guest curated by Terry R. Myers, this first major institutional exhibition of the work of Chicago-based artist Candida Alvarez will focus on the artist’s paintings, presenting significant works from 1975 to 2016. Born in Brooklyn and based in Chicago since 1998, Alvarez has been involved with both abstraction and representation in her diverse work for more than 40 years.
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\r\nEmerging from a home life that immersed her in the traditions of her parents’ birthplace in Puerto Rico, Alvarez incorporated narrative and ritual into her work from the outset. Her early work introduced a modular format to her paintings, creating diptychs, triptychs and other multi-paneled works that enable her to investigate the structure of the painting along with that of the narrative. Her multi-paneled paintings chart the development of a synthesis of abstraction and representation, predictive of a major dialogue in current painting. Alvarez received her MFA from Yale University in 1997, an experience that brought unconventional materials and the use of chance to her work. Her recent work has returned to canvas transforming her storytelling and building upon the diversity and complexity of her entire career – ensuring that this exhibition will be a revelation.
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\r\nSince 1998, Alvarez has been teaching painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She hashad exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Queens Museum; Brooklyn Museum; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Her works are in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; and El Museo Del Barrio, among many others. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and the New York Foundation for the Arts Award.
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Public programs:
\r\n\r\nIn Conversation: Candida Alvarez and Curator Terry R. Myers
\r\nSunday, April 29, 2-4pm
\r\nClaudia Cassidy Theater, 2nd Floor North
Candida Alvarez and Dawoud Bey in Conversation: New York in the 80s
\r\nSaturday, May 6, 6:30-8pm
\r\nClaudia Cassidy Theater, 2nd Floor North
Gallery Talk with Candida Alvarez and Curator Terry R. Myers
\r\nThursday, May 11, 5-6pm
\r\nExhibit Hall, 4th Floor North
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Self-guided art tours and social media activites to showcase public artworks in 50 rail stations
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\r\n\r\nFREE
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\r\n\r\nThe Young People's Concerts are produced by the International Music Foundation, for more information on the concerts, visit the IMF website at www.imfchicago.org.
\r\n\r\nDates: May 18th, May 25th and June 1st
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\r\n\r\nMiro Plaza, 77 W. Washington St
\r\n\r\nFREE
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\r\n\r\nLoyola Park, 1230 W. Greenleaf Ave
\r\n\r\nFREE
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\r\n\r\nToday, history represents neither an oppressive past that modernism tried to discard nor a retrograde mind-set against unbridled progress. Instead, at a time when there is too much information and not enough attention—when a general collective amnesia perpetuates a state of eternal presentness—understanding the channels through which history moves and is shaped by architecture is more important than ever. A generation of architects has noted a renewed interest in precedents of architecture. Committed to progress, but always from within an architectural tradition, these architects are producing innovative and subversive works grounded in the fundamentals of the discipline, and rooted in the fabrics of the cities where they are built, without feeling pressured to keep up with micro-trends or being accused of cultural appropriation.
\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017 will showcase the diversity of work from around the world to examine the underpinnings of this resurgence of historical interest. Titled “Make New History,” this second edition of the Biennial will focus on the efforts—across registers of building and discursive production—of contemporary architects to align their work with versions of history. Through the lens of architecture, the Biennial aims to examine the interplay of design and the broadening access to, as well as recall of, historical source material. In the realm of building practice—from new construction to adaptive reuse to conservation—it will investigate the ways in which the architect’s encounter with a site is, in fact, the act of interpreting and responding to a prior accumulation of state and government regulations, social conventions, and markers of personhood. Considerations for architecture in the context of history include the regulation and management of power and identity; what prevails and what does not; and how to recognize the significance of untold narratives. Now, more than ever, the assumptions embedded in cultural exempla and civic imaginaries require examination and discussion.
\r\n\r\nWith a legacy that is embedded equally in the buildings and fabric of the city and in a lineage of media and cultural production, Chicago will provide a backdrop to typify disciplinary concerns around the continued importance and value of history in architecture. A calendar of events, emanating from the Chicago Cultural Center outward to Biennial partners, will create comparative encounters with various sites across the city. The Biennial will foreground questions and ideas regarding the making of a new history: What political role has history played in the regulation of buildings and the city? How can buildings speak to history without being nostalgic or pastiche? And how might we build connections to the past that are relevant and valuable to our present?
\r\n\r\nArchitecture’s entry into the domain of the art biennial, almost 40 years ago in Venice, was marked by a reflection on the relationship of history and memory in architecture. During its inaugural edition in 1980, the Venice Architecture Biennale showcased an expanding repertoire of theatrical devices and scenographic modes of display. Today, the role of history in the field of architecture has changed, as has the role of the exhibition. On the one hand, the biennial format lies at the core of architecture’s cultural and exhibitionary project: a forum to reach and produce new audiences. On the other, it replicates the enduring question of how to showcase and tell stories about absent buildings. This question has been addressed by a suite of new modes to express and mine architecture’s own traditions. Often, these new methods of communication reflect an intensified engagement with media and approaches traditionally seen as art practices. This sort of overlap has served to blur the expertise and responsibilities of distinct disciplines.
\r\n\r\nThe relationship between art and architecture is a historical narrative unto itself. Both practices have evolved around the changing nature of public space, in the function of specific sites, and in the expanding definitions of national and civic identities. To continue the unity of architecture and the exhibition format of the biennial is to acknowledge these commingling histories. It also becomes—in its very act and existence—a nod to the past, which stands to strongly influence both the present and future of design depictions. At stake is the furthering of diverse identities and cultural politics, and the way in which these identifiers shape the changing representations of the architectural practice.
\r\n\r\nVisit chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org for more information
\r\n\r\nTop image: Pedro & Juana, © Chicago Architecture Biennial / Steve Hall, 2015
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\r\n\r\nA story of transformation and perseverance, this locally produced PBS documentary explores the intricacies and voices that make up Pilsen's rich tapestry.
\r\nMy Neighborhood: Pilsen gives an intimate look inside the Pilsen community through the stories of its Latino residents, exploring how its community organizations, local activists and citizens have come together to tackle the neighborhood’s biggest problems.
Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor South
\r\n\r\nChicago-based artist Duk Ju L. Kim was born in Busan, South Korea and spent her formative years in Tehran, Iran. The historical, geopolitical, and current events that shaped her early life and her perception of the world are present in her paintings. Cities lie in ruins, layers of psychological, architectural history pile up and human figures take on the structure of buildings–appear amidst the rubble.
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\r\n\r\nThe abstract and conceptual works by Cleveland Dean are presented through a wide range of prosaic materials executed in mixed-media on panels and sculptures. The charred and highly reflective surfaces, grids, wood, cement and resin create tension-filled objects that invite the viewer to reflect into their own psyche and remind them that they are greater than they may believe.
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\r\n\r\nThe exhibition of sculptural ceramics presents work with sensuous possibilities. The deft handling of material and skillful glaze technique is created by the palms but executed at the back of the mind. The “fluttering inventions” mingle experience with emotions, touching on the real, aware of the historical moment but un-consumed by it. The objects are fluid, electrical, absurd, theatrical and existential…with wild lone beauty.
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\r\n\r\nThis exhibition presents 12 recently completed, large-scale paintings that challenge our perceptual capabilities as well as defy conventional categories and operations of abstract and representational traditions in modern painting.
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\r\n\r\nNina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush is the first solo exhibition in a museum for the Chicago-born artist. The exhibition is a 10-year survey of approximately 30 of the artist’s paintings, watercolors and collages. Abney, born in 1982, is at the forefront of a generation of artists that is unapologetically revitalizing narrative figurative painting, and as a skillful storyteller, she visually articulates the complex social dynamics of contemporary urban life. The exhibition is organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
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\r\n\r\nThe exhibition features 36 original panels of the monumental mural created in 1989 by internationally-acclaimed artist Keith Haring with the assistance of 500 Chicago Public School students in Chicago's Grant Park. The mural is a reflection of Haring’s incisive draftsmanship and symbolic characters (e.g. radiant baby, barking dog). Presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools, the exhibition will also feature a collection of photographs, correspondence, designs, plans, t-shirt drawings and much more.
\r\n\r\nOver five days, May 15–19, 1989, which the City of Chicago declared “Keith Haring Week,” the renowned artist worked with approximately 500 Chicago Public School students from 63 area high schools to paint a monumental mural in his familiar energetic style. The 488-foot long mural, made up of 122 4x8-foot Masonite panels, stretched along the edge of Grant Park at Michigan Ave. between Randolph St. and Madison St. Without any sort of sketch or plan, Haring first painted his signature black outline drawings of figures and symbols. The students were then given five colors – red, orange, sky blue, light green and yellow – and minimal instructions to paint each section in a solid color and adjoining sections in different colors. Many students took creative license and included personal messages, from their own initials to support for their schools, to social messages.
\r\n\r\nThe project was planned and managed with great dedication by Irving Zucker, a teacher at William H. Wells Community Academy, after meeting Haring at a dinner party in New York. The artist expressed interest in a project with kids in Chicago, and the planning began in 1987 for an innovative arts-in-education program to be developed by the Chicago Public Schools Bureau of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago (MCA).
\r\n\r\nFor a number of years, these 36 panels resided at Chicago’s Midway Airport. Following the exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, the panels will be returned to the Chicago Public Schools for conservation and distribution to select schools. Other panels have already been placed at various schools and other locations throughout the city.
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Explore Chicago’s music legacy through ragtime, jazz and blues in an exhibition that highlights the contributions of important places and people that shaped the music scene. Seldom-seen original artifacts will be on display including sheet-music, rare 1920s records with quirky period graphics–and even the original 1932 telephone booth from the old Sunset/Grand Terrace Café from which the actual music can be heard. The scope is broad and surprising–Ragtime morphs into jazz, Blues transforms into modern gospel, and it all echoes throughout the contemporary genres of House and Hip Hop.
Location: Garland Gallery, 1st Floor South
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\r\n\r\nLocation: Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor North
\r\n\r\nPhoto credit: Alexis Rockman (American, b. 1962). Cascade, 2015. Oil and alkyd on wood panel. 72 x 144 inches. Commissioned by Grand Rapids Art Museum with funds provided by Peter Wege, Jim and Mary Nelson, John and Muriel Halick, Mary B. Loupee, and Karl and Patricia Betz. Grand Rapids Art Museum, 2015.19
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“Board-up” and “Lean-to” are the latest evolution of Faheem Majeed’s Shacks and Shanties installation series. These current works speak to his interest in the signs of devaluing neighborhoods, the board-up initially serving to protect the investment of the house while serving as a clear notice of abandonment. The lean-to is the stripped-down form of the shack, the simplest form used for shelter and survival.
Susan Giles explores the role of hand gestures in remembering monuments. Using the Chicago Cultural Center as inspiration, these sculptures examine how gestures create imagery that reveals the internal space of memory. The lines and shapes that come from the gestures build an abstracted, mediated form representing a single monument. The work investigates our shared desire to make memory physically tangible.
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Location: Chicago Cultural Center • Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor North
Photo credit: Robert Savon Pious, 1908-1983, American Negro Exposition, 1865-1940, 1940, Poster, 55 x 35 cm (21 5/8 x 13 inches) Image courtesy of the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago
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To register, visit www.eventbrite.com.
For more information, visit www.weareo.tv/originals/the-t.
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Expo 72, 72 E. Randolph St. (across the street from the Chicago Cultural Center)
Just before the turn of the century, the popularity of the bicycle in America was at an apex and the majority of American-made bicycles were being produced by Chicago-based manufacturers. Through designed items such as advertisements, brands, objects and spaces, this exhibition looks at how design has shaped how Americans think about bicycles – something familiar to us all.
Thursday, December 6, 6–7 p.m.: Gallery Talk “Beauty and the Bike: The Impact of Recreational Changes on Park Designs”
Saturday, December 15, 1:30–2:30 p.m.: Gallery Talk “From Bloomers to Pedal Pushers to Rompers: Riding Bikes in Style”
Tuesday, January 22, 6 – 7 p.m.: Panel Talk “Biking for Change and Empowerment”
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With engaging music and dance in a kid-friendly setting, the FREE admission Juicebox presented by Lifeway Foods programs are geared toward the stroller set and enjoyable for the whole family. Children will experience a diverse range of artistic and educational presentations, with hosts regularly inviting youngsters to move, dance and interact with performers.
Presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and Lifeway Foods, the Juicebox series runs on alternating Fridays at the Chicago Cultural Center and Saturdays at the Garfield Park Conservatory, with occasional special events at other venues. Except where noted, performances are 11-11:45am.
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December 7, 12:15pm
Shakespeare's play-texts are punctuated with beautiful song-lyrics, too often cut from modern productions. What can attention to Shakespeare's songs add to our understanding of his plays? Examples may be drawn from Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Henry IV Part I, Othello, Hamlet, and The Tempest.
Presented by:
Nicholas Bellinson studied Early Modern intellectual history at Princeton University, then Renaissance art history at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and is now preparing a dissertation at the University of Chicago on Shakespeare's songs, under the auspices of the Committee on Social Thought.
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Presented as part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, \"Everyone’s a Designer/Everyone’s Design\" is a free traveling museum exhibition that explores and celebrates everyday Chicagoans’ influence on art and design in the city. Travelling across Chicago’s Cultural Centers, the exhibition tells the stories of five people, the homes they’ve made uniquely their own, and the rich design and architectural history of their neighborhoods. For more information, visit ilhumanities.org/program/everyones-a-designer-everyones-design.
Friday, December 21, noon–2 p.m.: Learning Lab Meet an Artist
Saturday, January 12, 1–3:30 p.m.: Live Storytelling
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Register at www.eventbrite.com.
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Room 108, 1st Floor South
Presented as part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, \"Everyone’s a Designer/Everyone’s Design\" is a free traveling museum exhibition that explores and celebrates everyday Chicagoans’ influence on art and design in the city. Travelling across Chicago’s Cultural Centers, the exhibition tells the stories of five people, the homes they’ve made uniquely their own, and the rich design and architectural history of their neighborhoods. For more information, visit ilhumanities.org/program/everyones-a-designer-everyones-design.
Saturday, January 12, 1–3:30 p.m.: Live Storytelling
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Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor North
Featuring work from a wide range of practices including cartooning, sign painting, architectural signage, illustration, graphic design, exhibit design and product design, this exhibition is the first to demonstrate how African American designers remade the image of the black consumer and the work of the black artist in this major hub of American advertising/consumer culture. African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce and the Politics of Race is funded in part by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, as part of Art Design Chicago, an exploration of Chicago’s art and design legacy.
Thursday, January 3, 12:15–1 p.m.: Gallery Talk with Historian Chris Dingwall
Saturday, January 5, 1:30–3pm: Panel Discussion, \"The Archive, the Gallery and the Practices of Public History\"
Thursday, January 17, 12:15–1 p.m.: Gallery Talk with Curator Daniel Schulman
Thursday, February 21, 12:15–1 p.m.: Gallery Talk with Curator Daniel Schulman
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January 4, 12:15pm
When readers finally reach the end of Plato’s Meno, they often have the reaction stated in the title to this talk. After working through Socrates’ dogged investigation of Virtue with the less-thanreceptive Meno, the ending of the dialogue can feel frustrating, facile, and even like a downright cop-out. However, just as the solution to the geometry problem within the dialogue results from looking at the problem in a new way, changing our perspective on the end of the dialogue may help us arrive at a more satisfying conclusion.
Presented by:
Zoë Eisenman is the current chair of the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults. She holds an MA in classics from University of Chicago. Her main academic focus is on Greek and Roman philosophy, Classical cultural history, and gender studies.
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Everyone’s a Designer/Everyone’s Design is a free traveling museum exhibition that explores and celebrates everyday Chicagoans’ influence on art and design in the city.
We want you to contribute to the exhibition!
On January 12 bring an object and its story from your home to the Chicago Cultural Center at this live storytelling event and meet the people who’ve shared their objects and stories from the Calumet Park, Indian Boundary Line Park, Austin Town Hall, and Tuley Park communities.
The object can be anything that reflects how you turned your home into a space that reflects your own history, culture, and community. Your object and and your story will be added to the exhibition during its time at the Cultural Center.
Questions that we’ll ask to help tell the story of the object include:
We’ll be doing the documentation and have explanatory flyers in both English and Spanish on January 12th.
Everyone’s a Designer/Everyone’s Design, produced by Illinois Humanities, is a free traveling museum exhibition that explores and celebrates everyday Chicagoans’ influence on art and design in the city. Travelling across Chicago’s Cultural Centers, the exhibition tells the stories of 5 people, the homes they’ve made uniquely their own, and the rich design and architectural history of their neighborhoods.
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Over the course of seven years, artist and educator Cecil McDonald, Jr. photographed people he describes as “extraordinarily ordinary.” As the artist explains, “When it comes to Black people, America is fascinated with extreme poles: either showing victims of violence, pain, and poverty (Black misery) or famous athletes and entertainers, and icons of popular culture (Black exceptionalism). This false dichotomy denies Black people the individuality and full spectrum of humanity that is so readily offered to the white population in this country.\" The photographs of In the Company of Black live in the space between, including tender moments with McDonald's daughters, informal portraits of his friends and collaborators and references to music, art, history and popular culture.
Thursday, February 7, 12:15–1pm: Gallery Talk with Curator Greg Lunceford
Sunday, April 14, 2–5pm: Closing with House Music DJ
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Explore Chicago’s music legacy through ragtime, jazz and blues in an exhibition that highlights the contributions of important places and people that shaped the music scene. Seldom-seen original artifacts will be on display including sheet-music, rare 1920s records with quirky period graphics–and even the original 1932 telephone booth from the old Sunset/Grand Terrace Café from which the actual music can be heard. The scope is broad and surprising–Ragtime morphs into jazz, Blues transforms into modern gospel, and it all echoes throughout the contemporary genres of House and Hip Hop.
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The play Chicago originally premiered on the New York’s Broadway stage in 1926. Since that time, it has been reshaped into three major motion pictures, and a long-running musical still popular on Broadway today. Lead characters Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly have become almost folkloric figures associated with the play’s namesake city. Not as well-known is the fact that the characters were based on two real-life murderesses of 1920s Chicago, and that playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins based it on her experiences as a Chicago Tribune reporter. On display will be seldom-seen posters, photographs and original artifacts documenting the play’s evolution over the past nine decades.
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Filter Photo is pleased to announce two exhibitions opening in the month of February: Furtive, a three-person exhibition featuring the work of Daniel Hojnacki, Karolis Usonis, and Krista Wortendyke at the Chicago Cultural Center‘s Michigan Avenue Galleries and Life Stand Still Here, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Rafael Soldi at Filter Space gallery.
Curated by Jennifer Murray, Furtive is a photography-based exhibition that explores the complexity of memory, both personal and collective. Through an examination of place, archive, and the intersection of perception and knowing, artists Daniel Hojnacki, Karolis Usonis, and Krista Wortendyke ask us to reconsider what we think we know based on our past experiences, communal knowledge and memories. By using photography as a conceptual tool rather than an objective medium for documentation, these artists are able to examine and question our collective use of photography in the making of both memories and histories.
http://filterphoto.org/portfolio/furtive/
This exhibition is presented through DCASE’s ArtsSpace in-kind grant program and supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Additional Public Programming: Gallery Talk on March 14, 5:30 – 6:30 pm; Interactive “Meet the Artists” Events on March 16, 1 – 3 pm & April 5, 12 – 2 pm
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday | 10 am – 7 pm; Saturday – Sunday | 10 am – 5 pm
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In Good Company is a group exhibition presented by Arts of Life. This exhibition seeks to highlight the mutually beneficial relationships and connections that develop within the Arts of Life studios. In Good Company features seven Arts of Life studio artists and four community volunteers, and includes work that has been developed both independently and collaboratively. The ongoing collaborations between studio artists and community volunteers are fundamental to the success of both individual practices and the overall health of the organization. This exhibition showcases the way in which these partnerships develop and thrive around a person-centric model. Arts of Life advances the creative arts community by providing artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities a collective space to expand their practice and strengthen their leadership. For more information, visit artsoflife.org/events/in-good-company/.
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 2, 1–3pm
Gallery Talk: Thursday February 21, 5:30–6:30pm
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Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
Forgotten Forms is a collaborative exhibition between members of the Chicago Cultural Alliance, the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. Investigating seemingly everyday objects to reveal a much greater story about neighborhood identity, placemaking and city life, the exhibition highlights the work of two emerging artists, both of whom explore structural elements of urban landscapes. Edra Soto revisits Puerto Rico’s vernacular architecture through her GRAFT installations and architectural interventions, and Yhelena Hall touches on the history of Chicago and explores a marginal state of detritus becoming artifacts through her series Polished Remnants. For more information, visit chicagoculturalalliance.org.
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The Chicago Children's Choir will offer a preview of their annual Black History Month Concert Series taking place February 25, 26 and 27 at Orchestra Hall.
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Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor North
Opening Preview: Friday, March 29, 6–9pm
Throughout the 23 years of its existence (1986–2009), the Chicago-based Goat Island contributed to the conception of nine major performance works, accompanied by publications, film and video projects, workshops, summer schools, lectures and symposia, inventing a complex institution bigger than the individual works. Freed from prescribed narrative and dialog, the work of Goat Island is built slowly in a creative process informed by repetition, chance and individual perception. Their democratic, shared activations continue to influence generations of artists, theatre makers, cultural theorists and social philosophers.
In conjunction with the city's Year of Chicago Theatre, nine national and international performance groups and artists have been commissioned to develop and present new work, each inspired by one of Goat Island's original performances. The works-in-progress will be presented at partner cultural venues throughout Chicago as part of the IN>TIME Festival, and “final” works will take place at the Chicago Cultural Center's Sidney R. Yates Gallery, which will be transformed into a scale re-imagining of the church gymnasium where the collective rehearsed. A tenth performance, created as a composite of “Missing Scenes” from the prior nine works, will be presented in June during a week of concluding events. The accompanying exhibition in the Chicago Cultural Center's Exhibition Hall will present archival materials that reflect Goat Island's generative and pedagogic processes and still invite consideration and reinterpretation.
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With a focus on the visual, literary, performative and creative practices of veterans, the National Veterans Art Museum Triennial explores a century of war and survival while challenging the perception that war is something only those who have served in the military can comprehend. Throughout history, art has provided a frame to create meaning out of the complicated experience of war, seek justice and imagine reconciliation. The NVAM Triennial draws on this history to connect today’s veteran artists with the history of veteran creative practices and their impact on society over the past century.The exhibition coincides with the Veteran Art Summit happening in Chicago May 2–5, with additional presentations, workshops, panels and discussions happening at the National Veterans Art Museum and the DePaul Museum. For more information, visit nvam.org/triennial.
Image: Kelley Michael, The Count
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G.A.R. Hall, 78 E. Washington St.
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Claudia Cassidy Theater, 78 E. Washington St.
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Millennium Park Room
When gardening in small spaces, the variations are endless, but they all offer a chance to work the dirt and grow. Lurie Garden welcomes William Moss, author of Any Size, Anywhere Edible Gardening and founder of Get Out and Grow, to give you tips on growing an edible garden in a container. Using William’s tried and true techniques, you will be enjoying your homegrown harvest, no matter where you live or how much time you have. Attendees will be entered in a drawing to take home a container garden designed by William!
Registration is strongly recommended.
REGISTER
Your support is meaningful to the Lurie Garden’s continued efforts in providing free nature programs to the public.
With your contribution, you help us to continue these free programs.
CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT LURIE GARDEN’S FREE NATURE PROGRAMMING
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Free Admission
Preston Bradley Hall
Haitian piano music by pianist Marianne Parker
![\"Crossing](\"https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/dca/Chicago%20Cultural%20Center/crossing_borders/crossingborders.PNG\")
Presented by Crossing Borders Music, and partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency and City of Chicago.
For more information on Crossing Borders Music, visit crossingbordersmusic.org.
Schedule
Pages intimes: A Concert of Haitian Piano Music
Hear music lost for over a century, and a world premiere performance, in this ground-breaking program of Haitian piano music by Crossing Borders Music pianist Marianne Parker! The program's namesake composition is the finely crafted, intensely emotional Pages intimes by composer Edmond Saintonge. A prolific composer in his lifetime, Saintonge's music became shrouded in obscurity after his death in 1907. The recent work of scholars rediscovering and recreating Saintonge's scores makes this performance possible, bringing to life Saintonge's music for the first time in over a century. Haitian composer Ludovic Lamothe, known as “Black Chopin,” infused lively Haitian méringue dance rhythms into his Quatre Danses (Four Dances). This concert includes the world premiere of Arôme musical (Musical Fragrance) by Haitian-Canadian composer Gifrants! The piece uses the compositional technique Gifrants describes as “natif,” drawing extensively on the rhythms, melodies, and harmonies of Haitian musical traditions.
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in Landmarks Gallery, 1st Floor
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Free Admission
5:30pm Reception in G.A.R. Rotunda
6:30 Screening in Claudia Cassidy Theater
Join us for a special screening and reception in honor of the grantees of The Chicago Digital Media Production Fund. The Production Fund, a project of Voqal, which is administered by Chicago Filmmakers, awards $100,000 each year to local media makers producing socially progressive work for the web. Directors will be in attendance.
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Free Admission
Preston Bradley Hall
Travel through China with Yin He Dance Company! Through dances from China's different regions and ethnic enclaves, audiences can see first-hand how dance transcends linguistic and cultural boundaries as a means of expression. Program includes cultural lessons and hands-on activities that are sure to thrill those both young and young-at-heart.
For more information on the program, visit www.yinhedance.org.
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Claudia Cassidy Theater
Free Admission
The festival is dedicated to sharing the human experience of disability through art and film. ReelAbilities screens a variety of films, workshops, panels, and other arts programming at different venues in Chicago.
For details or to request ADA accommodations, visit reelabilities.org/chicago/.
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Free Admission
Millennium Park & Venues Across Chicago
The Chicago Jazz Festival showcases the greatest jazz artists from Chicago and around the world across the city during new, extended festival dates. The Chicago Jazz Festival is produced by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and programmed by the Jazz Institute of Chicago.
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Throughout the Chicago Cultural Center and across Chicago
See exhibitions, performances, films and talks at the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial and explore how architecture shapes our communities, cities and environment. As the largest exhibition of contemporary art, architecture and design in North America, the third edition of the Biennial features over 80 contributors from more than 20 countries. More than 40 sites and 100 organizations across Chicago will partner with the Biennial, serving as host venues and producing independent exhibitions and programs throughout the neighborhoods. For information, visit chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org.
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Millennium Park, Boeing Gallery North
Constructed from approximately 400 charcoal-hued, 12-inch cast concrete blocks, the 10-foot high pavilion-like structure comes out of an ongoing series exploring symbolic transplants of iron grills and decorative concrete screen blocks found throughout the Caribbean and the American South. These decorative screens, known as rejas and quiebrasoles, are ubiquitous in Soto’s birthplace in Puerto Rico. In Screenhouse, Soto transforms the quiebrasol form from a planar screen that divides public from private into a nearly fully enclosed, free-standing structure that functions as both a sculptural object and a social gathering place.
Born in Puerto Rico and now based in Chicago, Edra Soto is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, curator and co-director of the outdoor project space THE FRANKLIN. Her recent projects, which are motivated by civic and social actions, focus on fostering relationships with a wide range of communities. Her work has been shown at museums throughout the United States and included in three exhibitions supported by the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund in Puerto Rico, Cuba and an upcoming 2020 project in Salvador, Brazil. Edra Soto holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico. She teaches Introduction to Social Engagement at University of Illinois in Chicago and is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Presented by the Millennium Park Foundation
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City Gallery at the Historic Water Tower, 806 N. Michigan Avenue
A celebration of community managed green spaces throughout Chicago. Curated by the City of Chicago's Department of Planning and Development, in collaboration with NeighborSpace and part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019-2020.
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Luftwerk in collaboration with Katherine Young
January 31–February 2, 11am–6pm
Millennium Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion * Free Admission
Requiem: A White Wanderer is an ongoing art and sound project by Chicago-based collaborative Luftwerk to inspire a robust public dialogue about climate change here in Chicago and beyond. Inspired by Larsen-C, a 120-mile long crack that ran along the Antarctic ice shelf and broke into a trillion-ton iceberg named A 68 in 2017, Requiem: A White Wanderer translates seismic data from this ailing iceberg into an emotional experience, connecting the public to the urgency of climate change. The source data is based on the seismic recordings made by Douglas MacAyeal, a world-renowned glaciologist based out of the University of Chicago. MacAyeal has recorded seismic data over a multi-year time period, observing the movement of iceberg B15 from its first cracking to its disintegration across the globe. Seismic data is a low frequency sonic signal, inaudible to the human ear, but it can be perceived and felt throughout the ocean system, traveling through trenches and the SOFAR channel from the Antarctic to Haiti and beyond.
Amplified from the latticed sound system of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the sound system will bring audiences into the way that aquatic animals might experience a calving iceberg, with the sounds of its disintegration reverberating throughout the ocean. Several Sound Walk tours will be presented throughout the weekend to give more guidance to the intricacies of the installation.
The installation is accompanied by two special concerts at 5pm and 7pm on Saturday, February 1. Over the course of 2019 as part of their Outer Ear Residency at Experimental Sound Studio, Luftwerk has been working in collaboration with composer Katherine Young to create a musical composition for orchestra and voice based on these sonic signals. This composition will premiere in two special concerts at 5pm and 7pm on Saturday, February 1. Illuminated sculptural objects will fill the stage's space with shadows and reflections creating a visual topography as if in a glacial landscape. Free registration for the concerts is recommended since seating is limited.
Requiem: White Wanderer is developed in partnership with Experimental Sound Studio and Natural Resource Defense Council and is presented by the Millennium Park Foundation in collaboration with the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events as part of the Year of Chicago Music.
11am–6pm
Sound Installation
An immersive sound installation amplified from the latticed Jay Pritzker Pavilion sound system will bring audiences into the way that aquatic animals might experience a calving iceberg, with the sounds of its disintegration reverberating throughout the ocean.
12:15pm
Sound Walk with Giovanni Aloi - Art Historian and Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
In a 20-30 minute guided listening experience around the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Experimental Sound Studio will offer sonic guidance for listening closely to the intricacies of the installation.
11am–6pm
Sound Installation
An immersive sound installation amplified from the latticed Jay Pritzker Pavilion sound system will bring audiences into the way that aquatic animals might experience a calving iceberg, with the sounds of its disintegration reverberating throughout the ocean.
4pm
Family-Oriented Sound Walk
In a 20-30 minute guided listening experience around the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Experimental Sound Studio will offer sonic guidance for listening closely to the intricacies of the installation.
5pm
Family-Oriented Concert on the Jay Pritzker Stage.
Registration recommended at http://bit.ly/whitewanderer
A family-oriented musical performance; preceded by a soundwalk at 4pm around the Jay Pritzker Pavilion lawn.
7pm
Family-Oriented Concert on the Jay Pritzker Stage.
Registration recommended at http://bit.ly/whitewanderer
An all-ages musical performance and panel discussion with the artists and collaborators moderated by Kari Lydersen, Chicago-based reporter, author, and lecturer in the journalism graduate program at Northwestern University; program followed by a soundwalk at 8pm around the Jay Pritzker Pavilion lawn.
Both the 5pm and 7pm performances feature the following musicians: MYRA HINRICHS (violin); MIN PARK (violin); ALEXANDER ELLSWORTH (cello); LIA KOHL (cello) ; ANTON HATWICH (bass); JENNA LYLE (vocals); RYAN PACKARD (percussion).
8pm
Sound Walk with Douglas MacAyeal - Glaciology Expert and Professor, University of Chicago
In a 20-30 minute guided listening experience around the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Experimental Sound Studio will offer sonic guidance for listening closely to the intricacies of the installation.
11am–6pm
Sound Installation
An immersive sound installation amplified from the latticed Jay Pritzker Pavilion sound system will bring audiences into the way that aquatic animals might experience a calving iceberg, with the sounds of its disintegration reverberating throughout the ocean.
Noon
Sound Walk with Sonal Aggarwal - Artist , Comedian, and Performer
In a 20-30 minute guided listening experience around the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Experimental Sound Studio will offer sonic guidance for listening closely to the intricacies of the installation.
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Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
Luis A. Sahagun: Both Eagle and Serpent is an expansive solo exhibition of new work by the Chicago-based visual artist at the Chicago Cultural Center in the Michigan Avenue Galleries. The solo show opens on Saturday, February 1, 2020, with a reception from 2-4 pm and is on view through Sunday, April 26.
Both Eagle and Serpent is an exhibition presenting an artistically constructed and colorful mythology as an act of cultural resistance and reclamation. Working at the intersection of migration, race, gender, and socio-economic status, the exhibition challenges preconceived notions of what it means to be the immigrant, the other and marginalized from Sahagun’s point of view as a Latinx artist. Both Eagle and Serpent presents a wide body of intricate paintings, drawings, and sculptures that combine beads, rope, jute, icons, concrete, lumber, and drywall, which simultaneously celebrate and critically look at his relationship with his hybrid cultural origins and identity. Sahagun is a previously undocumented immigrant, former laborer, ex-gang member, grandson of a curandera, educator and studio artist. He comes from a cultural lineage of Indigenous alchemy and spirituality and European imperialism, which hybridized traditions, histories, and belief systems. Sahagun’s mythology reflects on the integration of these ancestral parts to impart a holistic understanding of the present and himself in the world.
The exhibition title, Both Eagle and Serpent, is inspired by the queer and feminist Chicana writer, Gloria Anzaldúa whose seminal book, Borderlands is a meditation on the binaries of male and female gender, patriarchal and matriarchal order, and the critique and celebration of a dual culture. The eagle-and-serpent symbol is represented on the Mexican flag and is derived from the pre-Hispanic Mexica story of Huitzilopochtli, the god of war, who guided people to an eagle perched on a cactus with a serpent in its beak. The eagle symbolizes the spirit of the sun, the paternal figure of war, Huitzilopochtli. The serpent symbolizes the human soul as the maternal figure, Tonantzin. Together they connote the struggle between male and female. As Anzaldúa points out, the symbolic sacrifice of the serpent to the ostensibly “higher” masculine power indicates the patriarchal order vanquishing the matriarchal order of indigenous Mesoamerica.
For Sahagun, Both Eagle and Serpent means to honor and represent both masculine and feminine energy as an artistic device to heal. It’s a mythology that celebrates ancient beginnings and shapes new contemporary identities in his artwork. Through experiencing spiritual and psychic interventions, Sahagun has learned that he harbors feminine energy in a male-presenting body. Both Eagle and Serpent, as an exhibition and symbolic reference, opens up a conversation about gender, power, conquest, trauma, and survival.
Luis A. Sahagun: Both Eagle & Serpent is organized by Teresa Silva, in collaboration with the artist, and with generous support from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Programming:
1. February 29 - Totemic Ancestor Dolls Workshop with Luis A. Sahagun and Teresa Silva.
2. March 14 - Monument, an interactive sculpture that visitors can embellish with materials provided and learn about the significance of beads as coded language for resistance in art and craft.
3. April 25 - Tianquiztli or Tianguis, a traditional pop-up market that dates back to ancient Mesoamerica. Shoppers will find local Chicago vendors offering cultural items for sale.
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First presented by 6018 North in spring 2019, under the title 'Living Architecture,’ In Flux is a large-scale, multidisciplinary exhibition that highlights the influence and impact of immigrant artists on Chicago. The exhibition responds to the current political climate to highlight how Chicago was built with immigrant labor, particularly in the arts, and is continuously shaped today by exemplary immigrant artists. With over 20 contemporary artists, In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration illustrates a living and evolving legacy between past and present work by Chicago immigrants in art and design.
Curated by Tricia Van Eck, Director of 6018 North
Opening Event with artists and exhibition curator. Kioko Aoki will perform on Taiko drums in the gallery at 6pm and 7pm. William Estrada will be in the gallery with his Mobile Street Art Cart
Curator Tour with Tricia Van Eck, Director of 6018 North
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Between 1950 and 1975, Chicago-based Container Corporation of America ran a campaign heralded as one of the best in advertising history, Great Ideas of Western Man. The world has changed since 1975, but great ideas are timeless.
Our response, Great Ideas of Humanity, celebrates the globalization and cross-pollination of ideas, societies, and cultures. Like the original series, a committee meets, gathers “great ideas,” and commissions artists or designers to create visual responses. The work does not advertise a product, but rather an ethos—of the museum, of the community, of Chicago—to make the world a better place through thoughtful design.
Two public artworks, one of women in the arts and one of Latinx icons, inspired this iteration of the project which features the work of Chicago students. Great Ideas of Humanity: Passing the Torch celebrates the work of new artists, underrepresented thinkers, and Chicago communities.
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Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
what flies but never lands? presents works that, through their own logics and affects, resist the recollective slipstreams of the present. Staged in the Michigan Avenue galleries, what flies but never lands? is gently organized into three concepts, one for each room: swirl, light, and ground. Swirl proposes an imaging of history that, unlike a linear Western teleology of time, is embodied by the concentric, helical, and dual-directional form of the spiral. Light evokes the relationship between time and technology, namely the promise of technology as a font of modern progress and mastery over nature. Ground considers earthly materials as tools for record-keeping, and the mutability of these materials’ associations over time.
Image caption: Hương Ngô, In the Shadow of the Future (2014 - 2019), video still, three-channel digital video, architectural installation, color, sound, hypertufa, full spectrum lights, plants (invasive and non-invasive), concrete.
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June 2–August 29, 2021
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North
League of Nations is a new body of work examining power structures and copies through architectural installation and sculpture. The show is anchored by a new installation based on Hans Meyer and Hans Wittwer’s unbuilt 1927 proposal drawing submitted for the headquarters of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. This work will act as a monumental and fragile cipher for the other works in the show, leveraging history to build an unbuilt container for utopian global ambitions. The show as a whole will ask questions about our current contemporary moment, world order and different systems we navigate through.
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CHICAGO: Where Comics Came to Life (1880-1960)
June 19–October 3, 2021
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
A significant but often overlooked contribution to American art and culture is Chicago’s role in the development of the early comic strip. Through its countless newspapers and its publishing industry, Chicago led the transformation of comics from daily fantasy and joke features into ongoing stories grounded in the textures and details of real life, its first real step towards legitimacy as an expressive language and semi-literary art form.
The exhibition focuses on the origins of the comics in popular publishing, the immeasurable importance of African-American cartoonists and publishing, the first woman cartoonists and editors, the first daily comic strip, and finally the art and comics of undeservedly forgotten Frank King, who with “Gasoline Alley” captured not only the rhythms and tone of everyday existence in his characters that aged not only at the same daily rate as its newspaper readers, but were also fictionalized versions of real people.
Curated by artist and author Chris Ware, and Chicago Cultural Historian Emeritus, Tim Samuelson, this exhibition is designed and planned as an intentional historical companion to the concurrently appearing survey of contemporary Chicago comics at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in which Ware’s work also appears.
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September 18, 2021—January 2, 2022
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North
This one-person exhibition by highly respected Chicago photographer Jin Lee features a series of photographs that closely examine landscapes and built environments around Chicago. The exhibition brings together four bodies of work: Train Views – images made during the artist’s weekly 2-hour Amtrak commute between Chicago and Bloomington/Normal; Great Water – views of Lake Michigan taken from a single location on the South Side of Chicago; Salt Mountains – images of piles and mounds of salt and dirt found on storage sites around the city; and Weeds – a collection of portraits of wild plants that grow in alleys and empty lots in a neighborhood.
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Please note, event will take place in the Claudia Cassidy Theater, 2nd floor, at the Chicago Cultural Center.
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In partnership with Exhibit Columbus we are pleased to invite you to join architect and professor Joyce Hwang; Henry Adams, Wildlife Management Coordinator of the Urban Wildlife Institute at Lincoln Park Zoo; and Forrest Cortes, Director of Community Engagement for the Nature Conservancy in Illinois, for a conversation that explores the intersections of architecture, urban wildlife conservation, and community engagement.
Chicago Architecture Biennial's InDialogue Series is supported by Hindman Auctions.
We are also excited to invite you to check out our Upcoming Programs page to learn more about all the programs our partners are hosting. Visit our website to learn more about self-guided tours, exhibitions, and ongoing programming.
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This FREE exhibition brings together 55 paintings and works on paper spanning 50 years of Colescott’s prolific career. Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott has been extended through May 29, 2022.
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is pleased to announce the first comprehensive retrospective of Robert Colescott (1925-2009), one of America’s most compelling and provocative artists, opening at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington St., ChicagoCulturalCenter.org) on Saturday, December 4.
In his large-scale paintings, Colescott confronted deeply embedded cultural hierarchies involving race, gender and social inequality in America with fearless wit and irony.
Art and Race Matters invites a renewed examination of the artist, whose work is still as challenging, provocative and relevant now as it was when he burst onto the art scene over five decades ago. Presenting works from across Colescott’s career, the exhibition traces the progression of his stylistic development and the impact of place on his practice, revealing the diversity and range of his oeuvre: from his adaptations of Bay Area Figuration in the 1950s and 60s, to his signature graphic style of the 1970s, and the dense, painterly figuration of his later work. Art and Race Matters also explores prevalent themes in Colescott’s work, including the complexities of identity, societal standards of beauty, the reality of the American Dream and the role of the artist as arbiter and witness in contemporary life.
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is co-curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Matthew Weseley, and organized by Raphaela Platow, the Contemporary Arts Center’s Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator. Following its debut in Cincinnati, the exhibition traveled to the Portland Art Museum, Sarasota Museum of Art and Chicago Cultural Center.
Major support of the exhibition has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Richard Rosenthal; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for the research phase of the exhibition and the exhibition itself; and the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation for its support of the catalog. The exhibition was awarded a Sotheby's Prize in 2018 in recognition of curatorial excellence and its exploration of an overlooked and under-represented area of art history.
The exhibition is made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Advisory: This exhibition contains mature content including nudity — and uses the language of visual and verbal stereotype to critique and expose racism and sexism in American culture.
The Wreckage of the Medusa, 1978, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 84 inches © 2021 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Private Collection. Photo Credit: Ray Litman
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Melissa DuPrey notes, “As comedians, we are called to highlight the hypocrisy and, most times, the absurdity of racial and societal inequities, while we still must live these experiences as Black and Brown bodies well after we leave the stage. I’m honored to help make the connection between Colescott’s early work and how comedy is currently living during these hypercritical times by inviting comics and performers I admire who utilize these intersections in their art.”
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is a free exhibition brings together 55 paintings and works on paper spanning 50 years of Colescott’s prolific career. The exhibition has been extended through May 29, 2022.
Art and Race Matters invites a renewed examination of the artist, whose work is still as challenging, provocative and relevant now as it was when he burst onto the art scene over five decades ago. Presenting works from across Colescott’s career, the exhibition traces the progression of his stylistic development and the impact of place on his practice, revealing the diversity and range of his oeuvre: from his adaptations of Bay Area Figuration in the 1950s and 60s, to his signature graphic style of the 1970s, and the dense, painterly figuration of his later work. Art and Race Matters also explores prevalent themes in Colescott’s work, including the complexities of identity, societal standards of beauty, the reality of the American Dream and the role of the artist as arbiter and witness in contemporary life.
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is co-curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Matthew Weseley, and organized by Raphaela Platow, the Contemporary Arts Center’s Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator. Following its debut in Cincinnati, the exhibition traveled to the Portland Art Museum, Sarasota Museum of Art and Chicago Cultural Center.
GO WEST, 1980. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo. Photo Credit: Joshua White. © 2021 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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GO WEST, 1980. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo. Photo Credit: Joshua White. © 2021 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Gallery Talks
Wednesdays, December 15, February 16 and April 13, 12:15–1pm
With Daniel Schulman, DCASE Director of Visual Arts, in the Exhibit Hall
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America’s most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009). In his large-scale paintings, Colescott confronted deeply embedded cultural hierarchies involving race, gender, and social inequality in America with fearless wit and irony.
Advisory: This exhibition contains mature content including nudity — and uses the language of visual and verbal stereotype to critique and expose racism and sexism in American culture.
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Part of a citywide commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire
COVID-19 Update
For the health and safety of our visitors and staff, DCASE is taking necessary precautions for all its programs and venues. Please wear face coverings and keep your social distance. Learn more about the City’s response to COVID-19 and its vaccination efforts at chicago.gov/covid.
About the Ongoing Exhibition (Free)
Landmarks Gallery
Following the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871, commercial photographers descended on the city to record its devastation.
Photographic equipment of the era had quality lenses, and the glass-negatives inserted into the camera had the capability to record intricate details. But the paper-based prints offered for sale by the photographers lost much of the negative’s sharpness.
Over time, original paper prints fade and discolor, further reducing their clarity. Between the poor quality of the 1870s prints, and the degradation over time, the power of surviving Chicago Fire images have offered only a diminished imagery of the horror.
For over fifty years, historian and photographic collector David R. Phillips sought and discovered the long-forgotten glass plate negatives that photographers inserted into their cameras 150 years ago. When combined with today’s digital reproduction technologies, these rescued 1870s glass negatives provide detailed imagery of the Chicago Fire’s devastation with a dramatic clarity never before possible.
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Robert Colescott exhibition programming at the Chicago Cultural Center includes Gallery Talks with Daniel Schulman, DCASE Director of Visual Arts, from 12:15–1pm on Wednesdays, February 16 and April 13.
About the Exhibition:
Advisory: This exhibition contains mature content including nudity — and uses the language of visual and verbal stereotype to critique and expose racism and sexism in American culture.
Art and Race Matters invites a renewed examination of the artist, whose work is still as challenging, provocative and relevant now as it was when he burst onto the art scene over five decades ago. Presenting works from across Colescott’s career, the exhibition traces the progression of his stylistic development and the impact of place on his practice, revealing the diversity and range of his oeuvre: from his adaptations of Bay Area Figuration in the 1950s and 60s, to his signature graphic style of the 1970s, and the dense, painterly figuration of his later work. Art and Race Matters also explores prevalent themes in Colescott’s work, including the complexities of identity, societal standards of beauty, the reality of the American Dream and the role of the artist as arbiter and witness in contemporary life.
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is co-curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Matthew Weseley, and organized by Raphaela Platow, the Contemporary Arts Center’s Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator. Following its debut in Cincinnati, the exhibition traveled to the Portland Art Museum, Sarasota Museum of Art and Chicago Cultural Center.
The Wreckage of the Medusa, 1978, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 84 inches © 2021 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Private Collection. Photo Credit: Ray Litman
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“It’s the satire that kills the serpent, you know…”: Robert Colescott and the Art of Racial Irony on Thursday, February 17 from 7–8:30pm will be a virtual conversation with Richard J. Powell of Duke University, Jefferson Pinder of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Tina Post of the University of Chicago. ASL interpretation will be provided. For more information, visit ChicagoCulturalCenter.org.
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With brilliant color and provocative forms, the artists in “An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman” (February 26 – September 4, 2022; Michigan Avenue Galleries) — an exhibition by Leslie Baum, Diana Christiansen and Selina Trepp with Annie Morse — suggest an alternate universe, at once familiar and surreal, seen through the prism of their invention. Echoes of landscape, still life and psychological portraiture reside in resolutely abstract works.
Admission is FREE
Open Daily, 10am–5pm
Exhibitions close 15 minutes before the building closes
(Closed Holidays)
Selina Trepp
I work with what I have, 2019
3 channel video installation (3 projectors, 3 media players, 3 projector mounts)
HD video, silent, color 40 minutes
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Robert Colescott exhibition programming at the Chicago Cultural Center includes Gallery Talks with Daniel Schulman, DCASE Director of Visual Arts, from 12:15–1pm on Wednesdays, February 16 and April 13.
About the Exhibition:
Advisory: This exhibition contains mature content including nudity — and uses the language of visual and verbal stereotype to critique and expose racism and sexism in American culture.
Art and Race Matters invites a renewed examination of the artist, whose work is still as challenging, provocative and relevant now as it was when he burst onto the art scene over five decades ago. Presenting works from across Colescott’s career, the exhibition traces the progression of his stylistic development and the impact of place on his practice, revealing the diversity and range of his oeuvre: from his adaptations of Bay Area Figuration in the 1950s and 60s, to his signature graphic style of the 1970s, and the dense, painterly figuration of his later work. Art and Race Matters also explores prevalent themes in Colescott’s work, including the complexities of identity, societal standards of beauty, the reality of the American Dream and the role of the artist as arbiter and witness in contemporary life.
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is co-curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Matthew Weseley, and organized by Raphaela Platow, the Contemporary Arts Center’s Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator. Following its debut in Cincinnati, the exhibition traveled to the Portland Art Museum, Sarasota Museum of Art and Chicago Cultural Center.
The Wreckage of the Medusa, 1978, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 84 inches © 2021 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Private Collection. Photo Credit: Ray Litman
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Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North
Nelly Agassi’s solo exhibition, “No Limestone, No Marble” is a site-specific installation in the monumental Chicago Rooms gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Ionit Behar and designed by Andrew Schachman. Israeli-born Chicago-based artist Agassi calls this project a “biography of the site” in which she develops a personal relationship with the past, present, and future history of a place in connection to her own. With this methodology, Agassi “sculpts” the site as a material, and creates a project from the specificity of the place in relation to the city of Chicago and the institution’s impact. A publication and performances are being planned in conjunction with this exhibition.
“No Limestone, No Marble” is funded in part by Artis.
Image credit: Nelly Agassi, Lady CCC. Courtesy of the artist.
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Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
A celebration of Thresholds and its studio artists, and an initial grant made to Thresholds by the Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner Foundation in 1997 to support this program, \"Artists First: 25 Years of Studio Art at Thresholds\" introduces a compelling group of outstanding artists who are living with challenges and building from them daily; making work that speaks directly to our shared humanity and intersectional diversity.
Symposium Series: Inclusivity for Artists with Disabilities
In-person panels will be held in the Claudia Cassidy Theater, 2nd Floor North from 10am-12:30pm
Via livestream from 10:30am-12pm Central
Sponsored by Kiyoko Lerner & the Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. Held in tandem with the Chicago Cultural Center exhibition, Artists First: Twenty-Five Years of Studio Art at Thresholds. Co-presented by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Image: Dewayne Jenkins, Night Skyline, 2021 design marker on Lenox paper, 22” x 30” photo by Clare Britt
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Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor North
Exact Dutch Yellow is a new immersive exhibition by the Chicago-based collaborative Petra Bachmaier & Sean Gallero of Luftwerk Studio. Drawing upon the scientific history of color and color theory, the exhibition explores how we perceive the natural world today. A series of sculptural light installations using botanical pigments and dynamic, changing light conditions will transform Exhibit Hall into abstracted, atmospheric chromatic experiences.
A play on words and the act of naming, Exact Dutch Yellow references the inherent difficulties that have always accompanied the classification of color. When the noted English biologist Charles Darwin embarked on his now famous journey aboard the HMS Beagle in the early nineteenth century, he brought along one of the earliest and most influential books to attempt a taxonomic guide to the colors of the natural world: Patrick Syme’s Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814). Based on the groundbreaking work of German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner, Darwin used the book extensively to help describe flora and fauna he observed, but occasionally improvised the naming of colors, changing for example Werner’s “Dutch Orange,” to “Exact Dutch Yellow.” The title of the exhibition speaks to the subjectivity of description and offers space to contemplate and consider the interconnected ecology of light, color, and nature.
Exhibit Hall will feature a series of immersive color and light installations using botanical colors in combination with color changing light conditions that transform into abstracted, atmospheric experiences. Whether using natural pigments, exploring the phenomenon of light and color in the sky, informed by a holistic perception of the natural world and an interconnected ecology.
Image: An offering from Petra Bachmaier & Sean Gallero of Luftwerk Studio
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10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. central, Claudia Cassidy Theater
10:30 a.m. – noon central, Zoom
Artists First Conversations: Inclusivity for Artists with Disabilities is a three-part symposium series held in tandem with the Chicago Cultural Center exhibition Artists First: Twenty-five Years of Studio Art at Thresholds. The second of three panels will feature Laura Bickford, Irene Haynes, Katherine Jentleson and Vincent Uribe.
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Moderator: Faheem Majeed
Panelists: Leslie Baum, Cherylle Booker, Robyn Jablonski and Mary Trent
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“Music for Light” – Katinca Kleijn and Lia Kohl in response to Exact Dutch Yellow
Cellists and interdisciplinary artists Lia Kohl and Katinka Kleijn will create a live, sound-based response to Luftwerk's Exhibition, Exact Dutch Yellow. Longtime collaborators, their shared practice explores vulnerability and resilience through the cello as an object, a body, and a sound-making tool.
Free and open to the public!
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 6pm
Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor
Photo by @johnfaier
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Groundbreaking in scope, Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy (CAAIP) hosts a touring exhibition that explores the African American philanthropy experience and giving traditions grounded in faith, mutuality, responsibility, and social justice. The exhibition illustrates Black philanthropy through innovative and interactive presentations, including luminous photographic prints on metal, iPad kiosks with digital apps featuring music, poetry, photography, narratives, and more. It comprises over a dozen vignette stories and more than 50 black-and-white images that depict facets of giving across generations. Elements of the exhibition invite visitors of all ages to share their own stories of giving and to contribute to “reframing portraits of philanthropy.”
Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
Image: TSOP Exhibit Photography, Darian's Heart. The Soul of Philanthropy illuminates the human impulse to show compassion, to progress, to see fairness, to connect with others, to repair and to love.
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Open through June 2023
CAB Studio, 1st Floor North
As the Chicago Public Library (CPL), celebrates its 150th anniversary, this exhibition, “Reimagine Your Public Library”, by the Chicago-based non-profit Human Scale encourages a collaborative design process that reflects on the assets, needs, culture, and identity of communities and neighborhoods that can inform the design of a library.
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Summit March 16–19, 2023 | 4th floor Exhibit Hall
“Surviving the Long Wars: Reckon and Reimagine” is one of the three featured exhibitions of the second Veteran Art Triennial and Summit. From the “American Indian Wars” to the “Global War on Terror,” the exhibition explores the multiple, overlapping histories that shape our understanding of warfare, as well as alternative visions of peace, healing, and justice generated by diverse and entangled communities impacted by war.
Featuring powerful work of Indigenous artists responding to the “American Indian Wars” alongside artists from the Greater Middle East and its diasporas reacting to the \"Global War on Terror,” the exhibition explores how these works complicate and relate to the creative practices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) veterans whose experiences profoundly challenge the dominant histories of these long wars.
Curated and organized by Aaron Hughes, Ronak K. Kapadia, Therese Quinn, Joseph Lefthand (Cheyenne-Arapaho, Taos, and Zuni tribes), Amber Zora, and Meranda Roberts with NEH Veteran Fellows Gina Herrera (Tesuque Pueblo), Monty Little (Diné), Gerald Sheffield, Anthony Torres, Eric Perez, and Natasha Erskine.
“The Veteran Art Triennial and Summit draws from our unique and diverse experiences in a way that strengthens our human connections and offers an opportunity to think honestly and creatively about peace,” shares co-curator Joseph Lefthand (Cheyenne-Arapaho, Taos, and Zuni tribes), artist, cultural advocate, and Marine Corps veteran.
Visit ChicagoCutluralCenter.org to learn more about the featured artists and programming occurring in response to the exhibition.
Image: Michael Rakowitz (b. 1973), American Golem, 2022
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Landmark Chicago Gallery, 1st Floor West
RE:ALIZE is where Chicago Public Schools student artists engage and experiment with a wide range of materials and concepts under the mentorship of professional artists in residence. cpsarts.org.
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Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
A Long Walk Home is a national art organization that empowers young people to end violence against girls and women. Since its inception in 2003, A Long Walk Home has built a powerful collective of artists, activists, healers, survivors, scholars, and women and girls of color leaders. We are committed to increasing resources and opportunities for society’s most vulnerable girls and women in the Chicago area -- low-income girls and women of color, those with disabilities, and LGBTQ-identified -- and those most impacted by violence.
During the uprising and global pandemic in 2021, A Long Walk Home's Chicago-based artists Scheherazade Tillet and Robert Narciso created The Black Girlhood Altar. The Black Girlhood Altar is a multimedia, artifact-based, video, and object-based artwork to create sacred spaces and honor the lives of Black girls and young Black women who have gone missing or been murdered. As a mode of urgent healing – weaving together commemoration and advocacy – the Black Girlhood Altar is built on years of engaged work in Chicago and taking on national prominence. This temporary monument traveled through various neighborhoods in Chicago before being exhibited at Chicago Cultural Center. Other installations were at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Project Row Houses in Houston, Project for Empty Space in Newark, and the Minnesota State Capitol in St Paul. As a vital cultural institution in the heart of Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center represents the democratization of arts for public life.
This iteration Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar is intended as a sacred site for missing and murdered Black girls and women. Assembled by A Long Walk Home’s artists Scheherazade Tillet and Robert Narcisco and Black girls in Chicago, the altar is a mixed-media, object-based installation initially created during the pandemic to transform public spaces from trauma sites to collective remembering and power.
The Black Girlhood Altar honors eight Black women and girls: Rekia Boyd, Latasha Harlins, Ma’Khia Bryant, “Hope”, “Harmony”, Marcie Gerald, Lyniah Bell, and Breonna Taylor, whose deaths or disappearances have galvanized A Long Walk Home’s Black girl leaders to be activists and artists. In many cases, injustice defines their afterlives while their stories remain untold, their legacies honored by only a few.
The exhibit is presented in three distinct gallery spaces - Ritual and Prayer; Rest and Recess: The Courtyard; and Call and Response – each introduced by a distinctly colored lightbox.
Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar aims to bring awareness to the issue of missing and murdered women of color, promote community accountability, end gender-based violence, and increase visibility. The exhibition creates a space for artists, families, and community activists to engage in public conversation.
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Chicago Cultural Center, Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Hall
2nd Floor North
The “American Indian Wars” and the ongoing “Global War on Terror” are two of the longest military conflicts in US history. These long wars are intertwined through similar military strategies that often profile, target, and devastate Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities while recruiting and enlisting people from these same groups. This tension is visible in the creative responses to these long wars by artists.
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Hall was built as a site to honor the sacrifice of Union Civil War veterans and their families. There is no better place to consider the threads that connect artists impacted by the US long wars as they utilize varied approaches to document distinct yet overlapping community histories, challenge colonialism, recycle military technologies, and struggle for freedom. Together, their work proposes alternative ways of understanding and surviving the long wars.
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Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North
This one-person exhibition features the art of Chicago-based creative Victoria Martinez who works in a variety of materials and scales, drawing inspiration from the body, the urban environment, architecture, and graffiti. Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities. Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
• Artist Tour & Talk
Chicago Rooms
Wednesday, April 10, 12–1pm
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April 11, 4-8pm
With April being EXPO CHICAGO, the Spring Open House celebrates the new visual exhibitions on view in the Chicago Cultural Center, activates the building with live music, and offers a professional development fair featuring DCASE Opportunities and activities.
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Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities. Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Location TBD
Saturday, April 13, 3–4:30pm
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Michigan Avenue Galleries
April 20 – August 4, 2024
Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s presents a range of photographic practices that used the medium as a tool for collectivity and empowerment within interconnected lesbian, trans, and queer grassroots organizing. This exhibition reveals the technologies through which influential image cultures were constructed and circulated. The exhibition presents a range of photographic practices to explore the process of learning within alternative schools, workshops, demonstrations, dance clubs, slideshow presentations, correspondences, and community-based archive projects.
Featured artists and collectives include: Diana Solís, Joan E. Biren (JEB), Lola Flash, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, ART+Positive and the Sexual Minorities Archives, among others. Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s is curated by Ariel Goldberg. The exhibition is co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY. The exhibition was originally presented as a FotoFocus exhibition on the occasion of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial: World Record September 30, 2022 – February 12, 2023.
Related Programs:
Michigan Avenue Galleries
Wednesday, June 12, 12–1pm
Image: Diana Solis, Flexing Our Muscles, 1981
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Presented as part of Art Design Chicago
Exhibit Hall
May 4 – August 25, 2024
Opening Passages brings together ten photographic commissions by French and American artists that survey the dynamic social landscapes of Chicago and Paris. The artists presented are Chicago-based artists Marzena Abrahamik, Jonathan Michael Castillo, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal, Tonika Johnson and Sasha Phyars-Burgess, and Paris-based Gilberto Guiza-Rojas, Karim Kal, Assia Labbas, Marion Poussier, and Rebecca Topakian.
This multi-venue exhibition also features site-specific installations in non-traditional venues and community spaces spread across the city, including Experimental Station (Hyde Park), BUILD Chicago (Austin), 6018North (Edgewater), and The Salt Shed (Goose Island). These various activations throughout the city feature work that directly resonates with the neighborhoods where the venues are situated and speak to the socio-cultural themes that structure the overall exhibition, which reflects on urban divisions, cultural identity, immigrant experiences, waterfronts and green spaces, and the built environment. The exhibition centers stories from the margins, forming a visual collage of life within these two global cities.
Opening Passages: Artists Respond to Chicago and Paris is part of Art Design Chicago. The exhibition is supported in part by the FACE Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and is curated by Carl Fuldner.
Related Programs:
Exhibit Hall
Wednesday, May 8, 12–1 pm
Image: Face Passages
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Exhibit Hall
May 4 – August 25, 2024
Opening Passages brings together ten photographic series by French and American artists that survey the dynamic social landscapes of Chicago and Paris. American artists include Marzena Abrahamik, Jonathan Michael Castillo, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal, Tonika Johnson, and Sasha Phyars-Burgess, while the French are Gilberto Guiza-Rojas, Karim Kal, Assia Labbas, Marion Poussier, and Rebecca Topakian.
This multi-venue exhibition also features site-specific installations in venues and community spaces spread across the city, including 6018|North (Edgewater), BUILD Chicago (Austin), and Experimental Station (Woodlawn). These various activations throughout the city feature work that directly resonates with the neighborhoods where the venues are situated and speak to the socio-cultural themes that structure the overall exhibition, which reflects on urban divisions, cultural identity, immigrant experiences, waterfronts and green spaces, and the built environment. The exhibition centers stories from the margins, forming a visual collage of life within these two global cities.
Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris is organized by Villa Albertine in Chicago, curated by Carl Fuldner in association with Pascal Beausse from the Centre national des arts plastiques and Clément Postec from the Ateliers Médicis. It is supported by the Terra Foundation for the American Arts, Albertine Foundation chapter in Chicago, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Chicago and the Institut Français.
Opening Passages is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities and Villa Albertine's City/Cité program that seeks to foster a multidisciplinary transatlantic conversation on urban issues. Pairing metropolitan areas from both countries, it brings together diverse stakeholders, including researchers, artists, architects, journalists, urban planners, community activists, culture professionals, and political leaders.
Gallery Talk – Wednesday, May 8, 12-1pm
Join us for a Gallery Talk inside the exhibition Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris at The Chicago Cultural Center.
Curators Carl Fuldner and Pascal Beausse (Cnap) will host a conversation between Jonathan Michael Castillo, Gilberto Güiza-Rojas, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Karim Kal and Marion Poussier. The discussion will focus on documentary strategies for representing communities.
Image: Karim Kal (self portrait), Tonika Lewis Johnson ©Nyjah Johnson, Marion Poussier ©Leila Graindorge, Jonathan Michael Castillo ©Daniel Hud, Gilberto Güiza-Rojas ©Julia Amarger
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Artist Bio Dorothy Graden currently lives and makes art full time in Valparaiso, IN. On her travels to many stunning and remote ancient rock art sites she has witnessed astounding art on canyon walls. The hunt remains fresh even though this has been a 30 year journey. Her body of work and slide presentation lectures open a new world to viewers and are even more valuable because these are sites that most will never see.
She has given lectures on ancient rock art as near as Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland as well as universities in Russia, Ireland and Austria.
Chicago Cultural Center, Renaissance Court
Image: Figure#1: Liminal Passage. © Dorothy Graden. Mixed media on paper. 22 x 30 inches. $1,800.00
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Chicago Cultural Center, Renaissance Court
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May 30, 4-8pm
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of House music, the Summer Open House activates the building with engagement and live music in the lead-up to the Chicago House Music Conference and Festival that weekend.
Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s
Michigan Avenue Galleries
April 20 – August 4, 2024
Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s presents a range of photographic practices that used the medium as a tool for collectivity and empowerment within interconnected lesbian, trans, and queer grassroots organizing. This exhibition reveals the technologies through which influential image cultures were constructed and circulated. The exhibition presents a range of photographic practices to explore the process of learning within alternative schools, workshops, demonstrations, dance clubs, slideshow presentations, correspondences, and community-based archive projects.
Featured artists and collectives include: Diana Solís, Joan E. Biren (JEB), Lola Flash, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, ART+Positive and the Sexual Minorities Archives, among others. Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s is curated by Ariel Goldberg. The exhibition is co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY. The exhibition was originally presented as a FotoFocus exhibition on the occasion of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial: World Record September 30, 2022 – February 12, 2023.
Related Programs:
Michigan Avenue Galleries
Wednesday, June 12, 12–1pm
Image: Diana Solis, Flexing Our Muscles, 1981
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This genre-bending work will be presented by The City of Chicago at The Chicago Cultural Center for two months this summer.
“As I left “Tend,” I felt light, like walking on air. The memory of the dancing, performed in such a small space, was tight and technical, but also spontaneous and organic.”
-See Chicago Dance
Tend is a service-based performance experience fulfilling a socially requisite and biologically exigent allogrooming need. Structured as a one hour appointment, the self-care informed dance and music score leaves space for you to allow your nervous system to settle, contemplate the inherent power differentials in human interaction, and allow the somatic possibility of conflict resolution in true social grooming form. The world of Tend exists in the motile architecture of a reflective, airy, enveloping, and luminescent convalescence banquette that the performance appointments flow through continuously through the day. Colliding necessity, extravagance, and irrelevance, it imagines a world where your monthly dance appointment is a legitimate need, a necessary line item in your personal budget. A haptic, phatic, and kinetic service providing a much-needed place to rest, recharge, reflect, reconcile. An environment supporting small talk, catching up, grooming bodies and relationships in turn.
In short, come ready to chat, be touched/touch, and watch a performance made especially for you.
To view the live performance version of Tend, audience members select an hour long appointment time. Thursday and Saturday appointments are available every half hour between 12:30pm – 4pm. To view the Tend video, photo, and constructed environment installation, visit the Yates Gallery during open hours of the Chicago Cultural Center.
To attend this performance, please visit https://www.khecari.org/tend/
You will be asked to fill out a brief audience interest form. This is not a vetting process but to ensure clear, informed consent.
Ticketing information will be provided upon completion of the form.
Tickets + Details:
Khecari presents Tend by Julia Rae Antonick
June 15th, 2024 - July 18th, 2024
Performances are June 15, 20, 22, 27, 29, and July 6, 8, 11, 13, 18 Gallery hours for installation viewing are 10am-5pm every day
Yates Gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center
Free https://www.khecari.org/tend/
Khecari supports the artistic inquiry of choreographers Julia Rae Antonick and Jonathan Meyer and presents the work they create in collaboration with artists in dance, music, design, and other media, to offer live performed art that challenges, engages, and focuses. Art is vital. We engage art as a fluid, undefined, questioning and questing force in society. The body is vital. Live performance connects us to our lived, physically grounded reality. Khecari presents unusual, intimate experiences that attend to the audience, challenge theatrical conventions and disrupt social norms. We hold a radical care philosophy that places the audience at the core of our work. We prioritize equal compensation to all collaborators, in part to address the endemic underpay of dancers, and to advocate for the essential role of art within society, of dance within the arts, and of all artists working within the dance ecosystem.
Artists who are currently working on Tend: Julia Rae Antonick – choreographer/director
Gina Hoch-Stall – project discussion/main cast performer/care contact Chih-Hsien Lin – project discussion/main cast performer
Enid Smith – project discussion/main cast performer
Helen Lee – project discussion/main cast performer
Kristina Diaz – project discussion/main cast performer
Maggie Vannucci – project discussion/main cast performer
Jonathan Meyer – environmental construction/design/lighting/project discussion Joe St.Charles – composer/project discussion
Jeff Hancock – environmental construction/costuming/project discussion
Heather LaHood – architect/project discussion/environmental construction/design Kristin Weinberg – photography
Artists who have contributed to Tend:
Phillip Wood – project development cast/project discussion
Jordan Reinwald – project development cast/project discussion
Kellyn Jackson – project development cast/project discussion
Jenn Freeman – project discussion/graphic development/project development cast JmeJames – project discussion/project development cast
Precious Jennings – childcare
Jamila Kekula Kinney – project training/discussion
Jyreika Guest – project training/discussion
Francine Kelley – project training/discussion
Suzi Coates – project training/discussion
Jenny Oelerich – project discussion/project development cast
Charlie Vail – project discussion/project development cast
Maddy Joss – project discussion/project development cast
Amanda Maraist – project idea exploration
Ian Vecchiotti – photography/videography
Image: photo by Kristin Weinberg, pictured (left to right) are Enid Smith, Julia Rae Antonick, Helen Lee, and Gina Hoch-Stall
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Curated by Grace Needlman + Will Bishop
Coordinated by Ashwaty Chennat
Co-Presented by Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
Chicago is home to a rich and growing ecology of puppetry, bridging mediums and communities of makers. This sampling of puppets by local artists challenges expectations about puppetry and inspires the public to tell their own stories. Puppets are made to tell stories. By taking puppets off stage, we can focus on how artists design specific stories into each object. How do artists invent new ways to mechanize materials in motion, build cohesive worlds, and create characters that expand our ability to understand and empathize with ourselves and others?
This is an exhibition of potentialities. How can the possibility for a particular story be built into a puppet? What are new and unexpected ways to use familiar materials? What stories could you imagine telling with these puppets? What stories do you want to tell and how can you start telling them?
Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibit Hall and Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North + Randolph Square, 1st Floor North
Curated by Ryan N. Dennis and Jessica Bell Brown
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration explores the profound impact of the Great Migration on the social and cultural life of the United States from historical and personal perspectives. Co-organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), the award-winning exhibition features newly commissioned works across media by 12 acclaimed artists, including Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems. Through the artists’ distinct and dynamic installations, A Movement in Every Direction reveals anew the spectrum of contexts that shaped the Great Migration and explores the ways in which it continues to reverberate today in both intimate and communal experiences. A Movement in Every Direction is accompanied by a two-volume publication that includes commissioned essays by Kiese Laymon, Jessica Lynne, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and Dr. Willie J. Wright.
The Great Migration saw more than six million African Americans leave the South for destinations across the United States at the start of the 20th century and well into the 1970s, including Chicago, IL. This incredible movement of people transformed nearly every aspect of Black life, in both rural towns and urban metropolises, and spurred an already flourishing Black culture. A Movement in Every Direction provides a platform for the featured artists to explore, reflect on, and capture their own relationships to this singular historic happening, both personally and artistically. Brought together by co-curators Ryan N. Dennis (she/her), MMA Chief Curator and Artistic Director of the Museum’s Center for Art and Public Exchange, and Jessica Bell Brown (she/her), BMA Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, the works offer an insightful rumination on the complexity of the Great Migration as a narrative that is still unfolding. The exhibition showcases an incredible richness of artistic vision and endeavor, with installations ranging widely in conceptual and technical approach and embracing painting, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, and immersive installation.
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North
Curated by Elise Butterfield
two hundred and fifty-one days, a solo exhibition by Bryana Bibbs, is an artist's exploration of loss, ancestry, time, and memory. The show’s title references the span of time between the death of Bibbs' grandfather on December 18, 2023, and her grandmother on August 25, 2024, during which Bibbs, along with her mom, lived in her grandparents’ home and cared for her grandmother. In two hundred and fifty-one days, Bibbs incorporates the objects of her grandparents’ everyday lives into weaving and print series. Painstakingly and lovingly, she took apart hospital blankets and favorite shirts to weave them into new artifacts; she cataloged socks and adult bibs in black and white prints. Bibbs’ repetitive artistic practice and commitment to witnessing her own inner landscape lays bare the profoundly emotional and yet mundane experience of processing the death of a loved one. Each object in two hundred and fifty-one days is a testament to the transformative potential of grief.
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Exquisite Canvas is a living exhibition of public art presented at the Chicago Cultural Center. The Michigan Avenue Gallery walls will become an expansive and awe-inspiring canvas for ten weeks, meticulously painted with narratives of hope, resilience, and the brilliant spirit that defines Chicago. Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in a dynamic display of the creativity that covers buildings and viaducts throughout the city. This exhibition offers a window into the creative process of public art by inviting visitors to watch three Chicago artists, Andy Bellomo, Stephanie ‘Stef Skills’ Garland, and Gabriel Villa, develop original murals throughout the exhibition. By witnessing the creative processes in action, visitors can appreciate the creativity, dedication, and work that goes into each mural and public artwork. Through observation of and engagement with the artists as they paint, visitors are active participants in the creation of the artistic work.
The murals developed for Exquisite Canvas are a testament to the interplay between tradition and innovation of modern-day muralists and showcase the dynamic creative legacy of Chicago street artists. These vibrant compositions celebrate the diverse voices and narratives that shape our urban landscape, forging a meaningful connection between art and the residents of Chicago.
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A monograph and exhibition catalog for Tom Torluemke: Live! On Paper has been published by SKIRA Editore, Milan, and edited by Dan Cameron, with essays by Dan Cameron, Jeff Huebner, Robin Dluzen, Alan Pocaro, and David Detmer.
Tom Torluemke is a contemporary artist whose practice spans 40+ years and includes works in painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and various mediums. Tom is known for his powerful, no-holds-barred approach to subject matter relating to socio-political, ethical, and humanistic themes. With over 150 solo and group exhibitions and 30 public art commissions throughout the Midwest, his work testifies to the relevance and scope of his ideas and his ability to present them in a meaningful context within their communities.
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Join us before the exhibition reception on Saturday, May 24 at 12:15 p.m. in the Claudia Cassidy Theater, 2nd floor, for Roast of Tom Torluemke, a humorous performance and illuminating observations about the life of exhibiting artist Tom Torluemke featuring Chicago artists and friends of the art community.
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June 14, 2025 - May 24, 2026
Chicago Cultural Center, Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Hall Cases, 2nd Floor North
Everything in history, once it has happened, looks as if it had to happen exactly that way. We can’t imagine any other. But I am convinced of the uncertainty of history, of the possibility of surprise, of the importance of human action in changing what looks unchangeable.—Howard Zinn (US Army veteran), 1994*
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Hall was built as a memorial to the sacrifices of Union Civil War veterans and their families. According to the renowned American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, their sacrifices were for freedom and a testament to the most profound declaration of human rights in history. Yet, Douglass also argued in a 1877 speech to the GAR, that the task of fully realizing this freedom remained unfinished. In the face of this unfinished task, and the current challenges to freedoms, Uncertain Histories reveals entanglement between past military actions and today’s state repression, between historic declarations and the current struggle for freedom.
The creative practices of contemporary veteran artists Darrell W. Fair, Eric J. Garcia, Monty Little (Diné), and Amber Zora draw throughlines that complicate legacies of colonialism and militarism while seeking a more peaceful future. These creative acts of hope transform violent histories into stories of survival and resistance. As celebrated historian and World War II veteran Howard Zinn writes, “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.”*
Uncertain Histories is curated by Aaron Hughes in affiliation with the emerging Veteran Art Movement, with support from the DEMIL Art Fund, DCASE, and the City of Chicago.
* Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (Beacon Press, 1994).
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Through more than 15 crafted works selected from a larger body of over 50, Jean-Louis invites viewers on a spiritual and historical journey that explores Black identity, ancestral heritage, and freedom. Using innovative techniques and symbolic materials — including paper, glass, crystals, shells, and 23K gold — Jean-Louis constructs portal-like sculptures, tabernacle paintings, and relic-inspired artifacts with symbolic meaning and cultural resonance. The exhibition was originally organized by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Photo Credit: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Fabiola Jean-Louis
Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures is a comprehensive survey of the late visionary choreographer and multimedia artist.
Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures celebrates the life and legacy of groundbreaking choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings (1944–2015). Renowned for her fusion of dance, visual art, and everyday gestures, Cummings brought modern dance into kitchens, hallways, and living rooms — placing Black domestic life and memory at the center of avant-garde performance.
This multimedia exhibition also includes video excerpts of her iconic works like Chicken Soup (1981), archival photographs, interviews, and installations that reflect her ability to capture the poetry of daily life and reframe movement as both art and storytelling. The exhibition was originally organized by Art + Practice and the Getty Research Institute. You can view the exhibit now until July 27, 2025.
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Together, this artist collective challenges the idealized narratives of motherhood, exposing the strength, struggle, and resilience that shape both art making and parenting. Through the media of painting, photography, ceramics, text, and installation, this exhibition explores the question: “What does it mean to create in the margins of care?” Some pieces are resolved and refined; others remain raw, incomplete, or in-process by design, revealing the realities of creating art in stolen moments. Collectively, the works reflect the fragmented time, emotional labor, and radical tenderness inherent in caregiving. Born organically through an interconnected community of artist mothers, this collective was founded as a space of solidarity.
Not a Soft Thing is not only about their identity, but also about how they keep showing up—building community with and for one another creating, caring, and telling stories that shape contemporary art and culture. This exhibition is both a call to action and an invitation—to recognize caregiving not as a barrier to creativity, but as a powerful, generative force within it. Included in the exhibition are artworks uniquely designed to be kid-friendly and serve as an open invitation for audience participation, creating space for meaningful, memorable interactions for all generations.
Exhibiting artists include A.Martinez, Angela Lopez, Aubrey Ingmar, Bobbi Meier, Connie Noyes, Cydney M Lewis, Jenny Halpern, Jihae Park, Katie Kirk, Keeley Haftner, Noelle Garcia, Orr Menirom, Sarana Mehra, Tulika Ladsariya, and Yemisi Oyeniyi.
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Chicago-based artist Alberto Aguilar presents a two-part retrospective exploring the themes of communication, translation and collaboration. Through distinctive acts of translation and shared authorship, Aguilar invites artists, friends, family members and even strangers into his creative process, transforming the exhibition into a living dialogue.
The exhibition features works created with a range of collaborators including Saoirse Ahumada Furin, Jess Bass, Cecilia Beaven, Julieta Beltrán Lazo, Alex Bradley Cohen, Maria Burundarena, Jooeun Kim, Joshua Mitchell, Jonas Müller-Anheim, Ricardo Vilas Freire and Zespo.
Please click here for more information on this exhibition.
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Apr. 2, 2026 | 4–8 p.m.
DCASE invites artists, creatives and cultural workers to the Chicago Cultural Center Open House for an evening of workshops, networking opportunities and creative exploration across multiple floors of the historic jewel of the city.
Visitors can participate in hands-on workshops, artist talks, portfolio reviews and networking sessions designed to support Chicago’s creative community. Programs will span disciplines including music, film, theater, visual arts and professional development for artists.
Highlights include creative career workshops, an indie filmmaker pitch showcase presented by Film Girlz Brunch, an artist opportunities fair, exhibition tours and speed networking with Chicago curators, along with open rehearsals and wellness programming for creative workers. Please see the full schedule below.
Learning Lab – 1st floor
5–7 p.m. — Artist Statements and Biographies Workshop
Welcome Center – 1st floor
4–5 p.m. — Artist Pitch Workshop with Arts Administrator Sam Brown
5:30–6:30 p.m. — “The Creative Core” Social Hour
Dance Studio – 1st floor
6–7:30 p.m. — Dance Studio Residency Open Rehearsal: Anniela Huidobro
G.A.R. Hall – 2nd floor
4–5 p.m. — Drumming Workshop with Victoria Djembe
5:15–6 p.m. — “From Vision to Stage” Theater Workshop with Kendra Jamaica (DAMA Productions)
6:15–7 p.m. — Clowning Performance Workshop with Journey of Newport Theater
7–8 p.m. — “A Soft Place to Land” Wellness Workshop for Creative Workers
G.A.R. Rotunda – 2nd floor
4–8 p.m. — DCASE Opportunities Fair
5–6:30 p.m. — One-on-One Project Development Sessions with DCASE staff
Claudia Cassidy Theater – 2nd floor
Creative Futures in Film (presented by Film Girlz Brunch)
4–5:30 p.m. — Indie Filmmaker Pitch & Connect Showcase
5:30–6:30 p.m. — Short Film Screening + Q&A
6:30–7:30 p.m. — Creative Career Clarity Workshop
7:30–8 p.m. — Open Networking
Preston Bradley Hall – 3rd floor
4–8 p.m. — Chicago Collage Community Hands-On Collage Workshop
5–6 p.m. — OVERRIDE Artist Showcase
4:30–7:30 p.m. — Headshots & Artist Photos
6–7:30 p.m. — Speed Networking / Portfolio Review with Chicago Curators
Room 408 – 4th floor
5–6 p.m. — Chicago Cultural Center Exhibitions Open Call Information Session
6:30–7:30 p.m. — Financial Foundations for Artists with Ladder Up
Exhibit Hall – 4th floor
5 p.m. — Curator Tour: Alberto Aguilar: I just really want to tell you this one thing
Chicago Rooms, Chicago Cultural Center
Ornament & Information presents artists working in Chicago and Vienna whose practices explore the historic intellectual exchange between the two cities — from modern architecture to mid-century economic thought. Through sculpture, painting and conceptual approaches, the exhibition reflects on how ideas evolve as they move between cultural contexts.
The exhibition is curated in partnership with Gertie Chicago and featured artists include Anna Sophie Berger, Gaylen Gerber, Benjamin Hirte, B. Ingrid Olson, Devin T. Mays, Max Guy, Josef Strau, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Walter Pichler, Diane Simpson, Miriam Stoney, Valentina Triet, Micah Schippa Wildfong, Heimo Zobernig.
Public programs include an opening reception on Friday, April 10, 6-7pm in the Chicago Rooms and additional performances and artist-led events throughout the exhibition duration. The first performance will be held Saturday, April 11, at 3 p.m. inside the Chicago Rooms.
Please click here for more information on this exhibition.
Image: Viennese Drinking Fountain, Hans Muhr, Presented to the City of Chicago on October 2, 1998
Michigan Avenue Galleries, Chicago Cultural Center
Photographer Lauren Deutsch and filmmaker Jonathan Woods present an immersive exhibition translating the energy of Chicago’s improvised music scene into color, movement and visual form. Developed by the Tangible Sound Collaborative, the project celebrates the city’s legendary experimental music community and honors the influence of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).
Through photography, film and installation, the exhibition explores how music can inspire visual expression while celebrating the artists and ancestors whose creativity continues to shape Chicago’s cultural identity.
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Viewings every Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
Claudia Cassidy Theater Lobby, Chicago Cultural Center in partnership with the Consulate General of Mexico in Chicago | 78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
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Reception: September 24, 3 - 5pm
The Big Picture: Midwest Large Format Asylum: Large Format Photography, opening this August at the Renaissance Court Gallery in the Chicago Cultural Center.
This exhibition brings together more than 70 works by photographers from the greater Midwest and beyond, celebrating the enduring vitality of large format photography — from historic view camera traditions to contemporary artistic practice. The show is organized by the Midwest Large Format Asylum, an association of large-format photographers, dedicated to continuing the traditional practices of large format photography and expanding them.
At a time when digital photography and AI increasingly shape how images are made, The Big Picture invites us to slow down and consider the continued power of craft, attention, material process, and the hand-made image.
The exhibition will also include artist talks, demonstrations, hands-on workshops, a cyanotype workshop, a large format self-portrait experience, and the Chicago premiere of George Tice: Seeing Beyond the Moment.
Curated by Hillary Irene Johnson, MFA
Organized by the Midwest Large Format Asylum
Alongside The Big Picture, we’re offering a full series of public programs exploring large format photography — from historic processes to hands-on experiences. Visitors can attend talks and demonstrations on wet-plate collodion, long-term documentary work, historic and contemporary cameras, cyanotype, photographic motion, and more. There will also be chances to make your own cyanotype and even create a large format self-portrait using a 4 × 5 view camera.
Some workshops require advance registration. All events are free and open to the public at the Renaissance Court Gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center
Workshops and Presentations
1. History of Large Format Photography and the Collodion Process
Thursday, August 13, 12:30–2:30 pm
Wet-plate collodion is one of the most important early photographic processes in the history of large format photography.
Join Eric Nelson and D Anson Brody for a lecture and demonstration exploring the history, material beauty, and technical demands of this process, which requires each glass or metal plate to be prepared, exposed, and processed while still wet.
2. Creating a Long-Term Photo Documentary
Monday, August 17, 12:30–2:30 pm
What does it mean to build a photographic project over decades?
Chris Walker has spent more than 30 years photographing youth culture through rural county fairs. In this program, he will discuss the technical, aesthetic, and conceptual choices that shaped the work, including his move from 35mm film to an 8 × 10 inch view camera.
3. Introduction to Large Format Photography: What’s the Big Deal?
Thursday, August 20, 10:30 am–12:30 pm
Why do artists still choose large format photography in a digital age?
This introductory program brings together historic and contemporary cameras, including Deardorff, Crown Graphic, Cirkut, stereo, and ultra-large format cameras. Photographers will share their cameras, examples of their work, and what continues to draw them to this slow and powerful format.
4. Taking Your Own Large Format Self-Portrait
Friday, August 21, 10:30 am–1:30 pm
Experience large format photography firsthand.
In this hands-on program, Francis Fullam will guide participants in making their own self-portrait with a 4 × 5 inch view camera and direct positive paper. Photographs will be developed on site at the Renaissance Court Gallery.
Space is limited to 20 participants, and advance registration is required. Register by calling the Renaissance Court Gallery (312) 744-4550.
5. Making Your Own Cyanotype
Thursday, September 10, 10:15 am–12:30 pm
Make your own cyanotype.
Cyanotype is one of the earliest photographic processes, known for its distinctive deep blue color. In this hands-on workshop, Ryan Zoghlin will introduce the process and provide materials for participants to assemble and expose their own images using sunlight.
Participants will take home their finished cyanotype prints.
Space is limited to 24 participants, and advance registration is required. Register by calling the Renaissance Court Gallery (312) 744-4550.
6. Screening of George Tice: Seeing Beyond the Moment
Monday, September 21, 12:30–2:00 pm
Join us for the Chicago premiere of George Tice: Seeing Beyond the Moment.
This 72-minute documentary offers an intimate look at the life, process, and artistic development of George Tice, an influential postwar photographer known for his work with the 8 × 10 inch view camera.
7. Reception: Come Meet The Big Picture Photographers
Thursday, September 24, 3:00–5:00 pm
Join us for the public reception for The Big Picture.
Meet participating photographers, view the exhibition, and learn more about the cameras, processes, and ideas behind the works on display. The exhibition includes large format photographs spanning abstraction, landscape, portraiture, still life, documentary photography, and more.
Light refreshments will be served.
8. Expanding Photographic Possibilities
Monday, September 28, 12:30–2:00 pm
How can still photography reveal motion?
Seder Burns will discuss the history of photographic motion studies, from Eadweard Muybridge to contemporary experiments, and introduce his current work with a large format digital scanning camera he developed.
This program explores new ways of seeing movement, time, and photographic possibility.
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