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Side Yard Sounds: Scorpio Celebration
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, October 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Dorian Sylvain – Building a generation of Culture Keepers Lecture
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 11th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Chicago Processing Community Day 2026
@ Mana Contemporary 5th Floor
2233 S Throop St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 11th, from 2PM - 6PM
Harvesting Hope
@ Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, Chicago Sukkah Design Festival
3615 W Douglas Blvd, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, October 11th, from 1PM - 3PM
Kindred Spirits: Margaret Wharton and Betsy Odom – Free Family Day
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd Street, Michigan City, IN 46360
Opening Sunday, October 11th, from 1 PM CT - 3 PM CT
On view through Sunday, October 25th
THIS WEEK
Monday
October 12th
SCA Public Program: Ei Arakawa-Nash
@ Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, October 12th, from 6PM - 7PM
Tuesday
October 13th
Festival del Arte Popular 2026
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Sunday, October 18th
Wednesday
October 14th
Professional Development: Effective Exhibition Proposals
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Suite 201 Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
Brendan Fernandes: Score for the Murphy Auditorium
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
50 East Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 5PM - 7PM
Hanna DiLorenzo: Concerts of Dance
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
50 E Erie St Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, October 17th
Thursday
October 15th
Curator Lecture: Mary Trent on “Cutting and Pasting a World”
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Anthony Dunn: The Anomaly
@ Dorothea Thiel Gallery
15800 S State St, South Holland, IL 60473-1200
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, November 12th
Mike Rea: Post Wet
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
Public Affairs Center (115,) 2200 Ernest Hemingway Dr, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
On view through Thursday, November 19th
Beyond the Covers: Gender-Affirming Pelvic Health, One Book at a Time
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Alana Ferguson: Follow the Leader, Artist Talk
@ NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St. Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, October 15th, at 12:15PM
On view through Friday, October 23rd
Jeff Kimmel and Matthew Mallinger: Drone Rodeo Chicago
@ Guild Row
3130 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
Alexa Frangos: (Re)arranging, artist talk
@ Perspective Gallery
online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 1st
Friday
October 16th
Sounding/BODY: Philomela Fragments with Terns & Ah Young Hong
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, October 16th, at 7PM
A Murmur, A Mutter, A Roar, A Song: Learning the Sounds of the Classroom
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, December 18th
Hermetic: A Group Exhibition
@ Evoke Gallery
3040 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
¡TINTA ARDIENTE! : Igniting Community Through Collective Action
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 21st
13th Annual Beautiful Souls Coffin Show
@ Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Saturday
October 17th
Tangere
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 6th
Body – Space – Time: Movement and Coding Workshop by Codemoves
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 2PM - 4PM
OUT IN COLOR: An Intuit Art Museum Activation with playOUT!
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL, 60642
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
ESS 40th Anniversary Celebration
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, October 17th, at 8PM
MANA Contemporary Fall Open Studios
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 12PM - 5PM
Hui-Min Tsen: After Oakenwald. A Field Guide.
@ Roman Susan at Lake Meadows
E 33rd St and S Rhodes Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 17th, at 11AM
Kind of Representational: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, November 15th
Documentation Workshops and Open Studios
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
Pleasure Power Portal: A Progressive Performance Experience – Pre Fixe Performance
@ Honey Pot Performance
Location to be disclosed upon ticket purchase
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 25th
Hui-min Tsen: After Oakenwald
@ Roman Susan at Lake Meadows
E 32nd Pl and S Rhodes Ave, Chicago IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 17th, at 11AM
Sunday
October 18th
Minor Gestures and Grammatical Propositions, or One location of the lacunae in which sits the massive capacity for concurrent possibilities of this real: an incomplete field guide to particular subtexts of the magical as articulated in conversation with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of flesh
@ Coming Soon
3701 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 8th
Identity Performing Arts 5th Anniversary Gala Performance
@ Edlis Neeson Theater at MCA Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 3PM - 7:30PM
Architect’s Roundtable 2026
@ Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, Chicago Sukkah Design Festival
3615 W Douglas Blvd, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 1PM - 2PM
NEXT WEEK
