April 2023
Anders Lindseth: Thin grass does for a mattress, the blue sky makes a good quilt, happy with a stone under head.
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 21st
Hypnagogue, Erica Miller, Dathon, Alexander Adams
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 23rd, at 7PM
Edra Soto: Destination/El Destino: a decade of GRAFT
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, August 6th
YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL by Maggie Smith
@ Wilson Abbey
935 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, at 7PM
The Taxonomy of Peggy Macnamara: Behind the Scenes Tour at the Field Museum
@ Glass Curtain Gallery—Columbia College Chicago
1400 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Laura Kina: Over the Rainbow, One More Time: Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Words & Silences
@ Plug Gallery
1328 Agnes Ave, Kansas City, MO 64127
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 31st
New Scratchart by Les Scott
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 14th
William R. Weidner: Relationships
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Side Yard Sounds: These Wonderful Evils, Zak Boerger and Melissa Oresky
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
We Are One: Open mic with C.A.S.T. LIVE!
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
Samira Gdisis: Petals & Wings
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Artist talk with Sarah Krepp, Olivia Petrides, and Michelle Stone
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 3:30PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 22nd
The Art Connection Fair
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 10AM - 4PM
Soundtrack | CQQCHIFRUIT
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 3:30PM - 5PM
The Arranged Flower: Ikebana and Flora in Japanese Prints
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Wednesday, July 19th
BARELY FAIR Symposium: Minor Matters
@ COLOR CLUB
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, at 2PM
Maria Hinojosa: Behind the Microphone
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, at 6:30PM
Pure Fantasy
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 4th
A Practicum for Processing
@ Northwestern University Death Studies Research Group
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 9:30am - 5PM
BYOA (BRING YOUR OWN ART)EXHIBIT
@ Pose Cultural Art Gallery
2136 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 3PM - 7PM
South Side Community Archiving Now
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 11AM - 2PM
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS
@ SULK CHICAGO
525 S Dearborn St, Apt 209, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Family Art Workshop
@ The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 11AM - 1PM
Spring Fling
@ Art of Gallery
747 S Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
Kimmel/Ali/Harris Album Release with Norman Long
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, at 8:30PM
Intermissions: Özgür Kar
@ Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 12PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 23rd
Spring Educator Workshop | Harold Green for Flowers for the Living Foundation presents, Black Roses and Black Oak
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 10:30AM - 12PM
Testimonies on Paper: Art and Poetry of South Asian Women
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 10th
Dads Rap ||
@ Digital Art Demo Space
2515 S Archer Ave, Suite 2, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, at 8PM
Art Kleinman: Structure and Chaos: A Delicate Balance
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 12 PM - 5 PM
On view through Sunday, June 18th
THE THICK AND THE LEAN by Chana Porter
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N. Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, April 21st, at 7PM
BLACK PLANT-IT: HERBAL EXHIBIT
@ Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Douglas Blvd. & Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, April 21st, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 21st
Perspective(s): 2023 CAPE After School Exhibition
@ CAPE
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, May 3rd
2023 UIC MFA Thesis Show 2: CTRL + histories: Panel Discussion and Closing Reception
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 22nd
A SELF-INDUCED HALLUCINATION (2018) with Jane Schoenbrun virtual Q&A
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Don’t I Get a Dream for Myself?
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
Gift Economy
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Second Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, May 28th
Talk | Diasporic Rhythms
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 12PM - 1:30PM
AnySquared Artist Showcase Curated by Natalie Fuentes-Alemann
@ AnySquared
6200 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Friday, June 9th
AIRMW Presents: Mingling – the Bold with the New
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, April 21st, at 8PM
Crystal Hartman: On a Sheet of Ice, a Flower
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 28th
The History of Capitalism Seminar
@ Newberry Library
Online
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 3PM - 5PM
Open Waters: Permeating Territories
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Friday, May 19th
WNDR After Dark: Spring Cleaning
@ WNDR Museum
1130 W Monroe, Chicago, IL 60202
Opening Friday, April 21st, from 6:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Marwa Arsanios: WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY, PART 3 and PART 4
@ Conversations at the Edge at Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 20th, at 6PM
Newberry Transcribathon: Social Activism Collections
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 1PM - 3PM
Poetry off the Shelf: Renee Gladman, Eileen Myles & Simone White
@ The Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Laughter Therapy with Eric Dean Spruth
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 5PM - 6PM
Poesía en Abril: Pulso: Festival internacional de poesía en español en Chicago
@ DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | INSTITUTO CERVANTES | COPROSPERITY SPHERE
Various Locations
Opening Thursday, April 20th, at 5:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 22nd
John Jennings: Go Back and Get It
@ Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Thursday, April 20th, at 5:30PM
Open Mic + Exhibition
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
Art After Work: Nikki Heusman
@ Arts of Life
1963 Johns Dr, Glenview, IL 60025
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Science on Screen: OUR HEAVENLY BODIES (1925) with live accompaniment
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 20th, at 7PM
Objects Worth Keeping
@ NIU Art Museum
1425 W Lincoln Hwy, Altgeld Hall 116, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Rearview Mirror Sessions with Duane Powell – Luther Vandross
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Trailblazing Women Writers Tour
@ American Writers Museum
180 N Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 20th, at 3PM
On view through Monday, May 15th
This Library is QUEER! The Gerber/Hart Spring Soiree
@ Sidetrack The Video Bar
3349 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
Forward Looking: Black Visual Artists in Conversation
@ Woodson Library Auditorium
9525 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Resistimos (We Resist)
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Figure Drawing: Portraits, Past and Present
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Spring SPRUNG reception: Cramer & Convery collaboration
@ Slacks Window Gallery
5752 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60646
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
Ulher/Genetti/Leonardson and Moore/Meryhew/Himelstein
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, April 20th, at 8:30PM
IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES: BOKYKIN/WINSTON DUO & DAVID BOYKIN’S EXPANSE
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, April 20th, at 8:30PM
Comfort Music+ : Homeroom presents Jackson/Bishop/Shelton/Samarov
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Night Visions: Nina Weiss
@ Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Art Encounter
Online
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Fragments of Nature
@ https://artwork.chicagoartsource.com/exhibitions/40-fragments-of-nature-new-work-by-cynthia-bjorn-shar-coulson-and/works/
1871 N Clybourn Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 24th
Grown Folks Stories
@ The Promontory
5311 S Lake Park Ave West, Chicago, IL, 60615
Opening Thursday, April 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
Signal Decay, Dorothy Carlos, Hali Palombo, Keeyan Haack, Instinct Control
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 20th, at 7PM
International Solidarities
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Marwa Arsanios: WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY, PART 1 and PART 2
@ Conversations at the Edge at Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, at 6PM
Blue Hour Reading & Workshop Series
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, April 19th
Church Basement Cinema on 16mm – A STRANGER IN MY FOREST (1976)
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, from 8PM - 10PM
Space Art Symposium
@ Space + Art | SAIC Sharp Building Room 327
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, from 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Paul Ramírez Jonas: ART NOW! Lecture
@ Columbia College Chicago, Film Row Cinema
1104 S Wabash Ave, Room 813, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, at 6PM
In-Session | In Reciprocity: Reclaiming Narratives of Care
@ Honeycomb Network
2659 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
PO Box Poetry Reading Series
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Oh, the terms of ambiguity
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, April 19th
Sgraffito Cups Workshop with Liz Born
@ GnarWare Workshop
1838 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
Exploring “Pre-Columbian influence” in the Art of Estuardo Maldonado
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Voices of the Rainforest: A Day in the Life of Bosavi
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, at 7PM
In-Session | In Reciprocity: Reclaiming Narratives of Care
@ Honeycomb Network
2659 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Forms & Features Online: Pantoum
@ The Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 20th
VOICES: Salomé Voegelin
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, April 18th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
The Don Powell Distinguished Architect Series: Annabelle Selldorf
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 18th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
Talk | Access Praxis: Cripistemology and the Arts
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Artist Talk: Shahidul Alam on Vocabularies of Resistance
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Tuesday, April 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
Boil, Toil & Trouble: Movement meditation with Camille Bacon
@ Art in Common
400 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, April 18th, at 6PM
Talk | Access Praxis: Cripistemology and the Arts
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Elastro Series: Tamarisk (TX), Veronica Anne Salinas, Gabbert/Goulet/Sowa
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Tuesday, April 18th, at 8PM
Spirituality in Song —Mexican Choirbooks of the Newberry Library
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Opening Tuesday, April 18th, at 6PM
Anagram Series: Katie Ernst Solo & Clark Sommers Quartet
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, April 17th, at 8PM
Tanda: Los Nuevos Ayllus: Collaborative Resistance and Pedagogical Resonances from the Global South
@ Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Monday, April 17th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Moderated conversation w Safi Alia Shabaik on Making Difficult Work
@ 1100 Florence Gallery
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Monday, April 17th, from 7PM - 8PM
Third Monday Fibers Night
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Monday, April 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
Jon Melrod and Bill Ayers celebrate FIGHTING TIMES
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, April 17th, at 7PM
