West Town, Wicker Park, Ukrainian Village, Kinzie Corridor, Humboldt Park

West Town

Wisconsin

IL • MI • IN

West Loop, Fulton Market, East Garfield Park

West Loop and West Side

Evanston, The North Shore, Northern, Western and Southern Suburbs

Suburbs

Old Town, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Roscoe Village, Bucktown, Wicker Park, Logan Square, Lincoln Square, Ravenswood, Uptown, Edgewater, Andersonville, Rogers Park

North Side

Michigan Avenue, Streeterville, The Gold Coast, The Loop, and South Loop

Michigan Avenue

Pilsen, Bridgeport, Chinatown, plus Hyde Park, Jackson Park/Dorchester, and Bronzeville

South Side

Superior and Franklin streets, West Chicago Ave, and down to Merchandise Mart and the River

River North

Weeds Grow in All Directions&nbsp;is an exhibition of Cydney Lewis's collage works and large-scale assemblages. Using everyday materials found in her daily life–plastic bags, packing paper, magazine cutouts, as well as rhinestones and textiles–Lewis creates otherworldly landscapes that prompt meditation on the destruction and resilience of the natural world. The works in the exhibition reward close looking—to find the extraordinary in the overlooked, to reconnect with energies around us, and to feel the pulse of our shared ecology through playful wonder and poignant reflection. In this body of work, the resilient weed is both metaphor and guide, challenging our perceptions of the disregarded and revealing the quiet spirit inherent in all natural matter. In Lewis's work, the material world intersects with the realm of elemental spirits, creating a layered tapestry of human emotion and urgent ecological awareness.

Cydney M. Lewis: Weeds Grow in All Directions

Palomar&nbsp;is a group exhibition about watching the sky, something that appears deceptively simple. Featuring twenty-eight artists, it unfolds in two parts, each five weeks long. Some works remain in place while others come and go, this encounter in time acting like a double exposure. Gradually, the familiar act of looking up spills over into a sense of life that is more layered and complex, or even contradictory. It turns out there is a lot at stake in the space above us.&nbsp;Decades ago, after the launch of the first satellite into orbit, humans had big dreams of leaving the Earth. Politicians, poets, and scientists made public comments in this spirit. Today it’s mostly billionaires who talk of escape, or of mining the planets out there. The rest of us look to the sky from the ground as life carries on. An earlier age of optimism around space exploration and human progress has given way to a new era, as the stars fade from view in our cities, new technologies emerge with unsettling effects, and those in power surveil from above. Through it all, the sky is a steady presence. The sun rises and sets. The moon, too. The stars come out, where you can see them. We organize our lives by these patterns. They infuse our concepts, our sense of time, and our language, even when they’re not on our minds.Part 1 of&nbsp;Palomar&nbsp;introduces certain celestial rhythms and cycles, while thinking about astronomy and other forms of observation in everyday life. It also begins to draw out experiences of time, as it is marked, measured, and perceived. Part 2 brings into view changing relationships with technology and the militarization of the skies. Both parts are shadowed by the question of what one sees and what one doesn’t, and the roles that images play, especially photographs, often wrapped up with the comforts and discomforts of distance.&nbsp;The exhibition borrows its title from the name of an observatory on a California mountaintop, which once had the largest optical telescope in the world. It lost that distinction in 1976, but it is still used to study the stars. In the eighties, Italo Calvino wrote a book about a man who shares his name with that place:&nbsp;Mr. Palomar, a seeker of the cosmic in the commonplace and an unflagging, if absentminded, observer. Taken together, these two touchstones evoke different kinds of observation and attention.&nbsp;Looking overhead can be a way to understand one’s place in the world, as it has been for thousands of years. Given the many ways people watch the sky or look to the cosmos, from scientific study to the habits of daily life, there are just as many different things to think or feel. The movement of the heavenly bodies offers a measure of continuity in the face of destabilizing change; the view above can be a source of solace, a realm of startling beauty, a reminder of something larger than oneself. The sky can also be a dark premonition, a site of violence or grief, a reminder of what there is to lose, or for many what is already gone. Sometimes it’s all of this at once.Curated by Karsten Lund.&nbsp;Artists featured:Part 1 (May 2–June 7, 2026)&nbsp;Darren Almond, Sarah &amp; Joseph Belknap, Myriam Boulos, Vija Celmins, Paul Fägersköld, Pierre Huyghe, Rinko Kawauchi, Jason Lazarus, Tony Lewis, Aspen Mays, Eadward Muybridge, John Opera, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Kathleen Ryan, Carrie Schneider, Heji Shin, Erin ShirreffPart 2 (June 10–July 13, 2026)&nbsp;Sarah &amp; Joseph Belknap, Myriam Boulos, Vija Celmins, Cynthia Daignault, Paul Fägersköld, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sebastian Jefford, Jordan Kantor, Tony Lewis, Eadweard Muybridge, John Opera, Trevor Paglen, Torbjørn Rødland, Kathleen Ryan, Heji Shin, Erin Shirreff, Alec Soth, Shomei Tomatsu, Samira Yamin&nbsp;Videos online&nbsp;(Parts 1 &amp; 2)Allora &amp; Calzadilla, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Simon Starling, Alice Wang&nbsp;CreditsLead support for this exhibition is provided by School Museum Fund, The Hees Family.&nbsp;Friends of Palomar Patron Circle: Maria Christina &amp; Guy-Karim Caland Puymartin, and Zach Smith.&nbsp;Renaissance Society programs are supported by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.&nbsp;EventsOpening Reception (Part 1)Sat, May 2, 4–7pmTalk at 4PM between curator Karsten Lund and Steven L. Bridges (MSU Broad Art Museum)&nbsp;Walkthrough (Part 1)Sun, May 17, 1PMLed by Karsten Lund&nbsp;WorkshopSun, May 17, 3PMLed by Karsten Lund and Joshi Radin Flores&nbsp;Performance: Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie StewartSat, Jun 13, 4PM&nbsp;Opening Reception (Part 2)Sat, Jun 13, 5–7PM&nbsp;Walkthrough (Part 2)Thu, Jun 18, 6:30PMLed by Karsten Lund&nbsp;Performance Lecture: Day &amp; Night with Sarah &amp; Joseph Belknap&nbsp;Sun, Jun 21, 12PM &amp; 10PM12PM Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room10PM Midway Plaisance Winter GardenVisit&nbsp;<a href="http://renaissancesociety.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">renaissancesociety.org</a>&nbsp;for more information.&nbsp;

Palomar (Part 2)

Krasl Art Center is pleased to introduce a public beer garden and Arts Mainstage into the 2026 event. The beer garden will be located on Krasl Art Center grounds at 707 Lake Blvd., St. Joseph, MI. There is a $5 cover charge to enter. The beer garden will be open from 10 AM to 6 PM on Saturday and 10 AM to 5 PM on Sunday.&nbsp;Krasl Executive Director Tami Fauver shared, “We are thrilled to be adding this additional amenity to the Art Fair. We hope people come to relax and enjoy the programming being offered on the stage.”&nbsp;Beverages featured in the public beer garden include wine from Domaine Berrien Cellars, the brand new&nbsp;Krasl Handcrafted Custom Cocktail&nbsp;created through a special partnership with Watermark Brewing Co., canned beer, and soda provided by Pepsi. Krasl is thankful to all of our drink sponsors and the support of Beverage Specialists of St. Joseph, Michigan.&nbsp; Krasl Art Fair Director Jamie Balkin said, “I am so thrilled with the line up that we have put together for the Arts Mainstage. It is a true reflection of the talented community that we live in. The stage line up will start and end with two competitions, both are going to be so fun to watch.”NEW IN 2026In addition to enjoying the art, food, and music, attendees can look forward to these new options at the year's Art Fair!<ul><li>SHUTTLE SERVICE-There will be two shuttle stops in 2026. One at St. Joseph High School located at 2521 Stadium Drive in St. Joseph and the second at Michigan Works! located at 499 W. Main Street in Benton Harbor.</li><li>GOLF CARTS-&nbsp;Chauffeured golf cart rides up and down the bluff will be offered. Donations encouraged for this service. The golf carts are sponsored by Point Blue, Floor Art, and Parrett Company.</li><li>BEER GARDEN &amp; CUSTOM COCKTAIL-A public Beer Garden will be available on the Krasl Art Center grounds at 707 Lake Blvd. in St. Joseph, MI. There is a fee to get in. Featuring the Krasl Handcrafted custom cocktail, don’t miss purchasing a KRASL HANDCRAFTED PASS for unlimited access.</li><li>ARTS-RELATED PROGRAMMING-&nbsp;New in 2026 is the Arts Main Stage on Krasl Art Center grounds Featuring arts–related programming throughout the weekend.</li></ul> Join us in celebrating creativity and supporting the arts. We look forward to seeing you at the Art Fair! Visit our&nbsp;<a href="https://sfpwlrdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001DQDs0GIcqgxzhhf99VK5QJIB6siuCpDaBGUcPVkJALJmYZZ6YqPSCMojba08UZCUZvXmv1oKgiTCt0qzxits933sc8X57TO6sI2unM_FRjM92Juzcfc-annpjZ8DxK-BFSbgjqGVg1GC0f1OXJDezg==&amp;c=MF9SHvJZi2GY8x8WELkqYRcvM6ozqyNeO_yKIu0dzQ6aXM81FJXfhA==&amp;ch=OTz1TrX3mLZaZTr3KZy9dvT4UQ0wiSJB7maJ29omtqBLZPaxIIIZuw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>&nbsp;for additional event information and updates.&nbsp;For more information on&nbsp;1st Source Bank Wealth Advisory Services, visit:&nbsp;<a href="https://sfpwlrdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001DQDs0GIcqgxzhhf99VK5QJIB6siuCpDaBGUcPVkJALJmYZZ6YqPSCO70hGSr36ZjMdxS23OXi-7HK3hSs9Tk0-bkvQ-cLP83bMQ8ubOoOZaF1vKThWfNO4YpUM2jht7rDh7v8Txy1cmuzjJS9sxFgkXCWy51npsR7Iu1peDZGWmnbI3nUPYCzsKDG20M4fqKHY4iz2-5I3I=&amp;c=MF9SHvJZi2GY8x8WELkqYRcvM6ozqyNeO_yKIu0dzQ6aXM81FJXfhA==&amp;ch=OTz1TrX3mLZaZTr3KZy9dvT4UQ0wiSJB7maJ29omtqBLZPaxIIIZuw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.1stsource.com/personal/wealth-management</a>/.

Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff 

The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture today announced the headlining performers set to appear at this year’s 26th Barrio Arts Fest, celebrating and preserving the arts and culture of Puerto Rico with a weekend full of music, food, community, and joy. Admission is free and open to the public Saturday, July 11, from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 12, 2026, from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. on the historic grounds of the Museum at 3015 W. Division St. in Chicago’s Humboldt Park. Long known as one of the most popular annual events in Humboldt Park, last year’s Barrio Art Fest saw record attendance as Chicagoans flocked to show their support for the Museum and the artistic community following an unannounced visit by Department of Homeland Security agents just days before.&nbsp;“Chicago is far from Puerto Rico, but never apart from it,” said National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts &amp; Culture CEO Billy Ocasio. “For the last 26 years, the Barrio Arts Fest has kept our culture loud and alive in Chicago, with every drumbeat, every dance, every story passed hand to hand. At a time when so much is at stake here and around the world, celebrating our art and culture isn’t just a party. It’s how we remember who we are, and how we ensure the next generation knows it too.”

 Barrio Arts Fest 2026

Third Wednesday: Music in Motion from Ireland to Chicago is inspired by Ink &amp; Outrage: 18th-Century Satirical Prints in London &amp; Dublin. This program features the interplay of the Irish harp and the accordion.<a href="https://driehausmuseum.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=32343bbcd4e3063e18cdf64bf&amp;id=9111c600f4&amp;e=d1db3f815c" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TICKETS</a>

Third Wednesday: Music in Motion from Ireland to Chicago

Every third Thursday, IAM stays open until 8 pm with after-hours programming designed to help you end your day inspired. Explore Drawing with Metal: Sculpture by Bill Brady with an evening of conversation and making.

Art After Work: Drawing with Metal

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1780937416/w8nbdtjyfpqiztqb93vv.jpg" width="560"> She Loved the water...&nbsp;her father, Lt. Commander Henry Livermore Abbott, was a sailor, a decorated submarine captain&nbsp;in the First World War and a Naval advisor to the FDR administration during WWII. As an introduction, I've written a&nbsp;little remembrance&nbsp; The Last Time I Saw Mary… In May of 2019 I traveled to the Long Island enclave of Southampton for my annual visit with Mary Abbott. I’d been making this pilgrimage for about 15 years, where I would visit with Mary in her tidy ranch house at 125 Corrigan Street. We would catch up on life, go to lunch, sit in her garden, have some wine&nbsp;and spend time mucking about in her studio. There, I would pick out paintings to send back to Chicago and unearth works on paper from her disarrayed flat file drawers. These were generally unsigned and I would sit her down, put a pencil in her hand and make her sign away. Mary didn’t have a commercial bone in her body and did not enjoy signing her work. She had horrible handwriting, was dyslexic and had a hard time fitting her name in the space provided. Very often works received her scribble only on the day they left her studio. Often I would be soundly reprimanded for forcing her to do this small but heinous task:&nbsp;"Oh, just leave me alone!" &nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1780937417/slyalqkx56l62uzgd4uo.jpg" width="560">I Am a Sailor’s Daughterwatercolor on paper9 x 12 inchessigned at lower right; signed and titled on frame backing board, estate stamped verso#11580 Mary loved to paint watery watercolors of the ocean, sky, and clouds, often from a perch on the beach at Southampton.&nbsp;On this visit I arrived to find Mary still in bed, which was not particularly unusual as she liked to lounge around but I was told she had been spending much more time there. Wanda, her housekeeper, was puttering about the kitchen and her Girl Friday, Mary Stubelek, arrived soon after. She began filling me in on Mary Abbott’s slowly declining health — she was 98 and had heart problems. But, she was perky and chatty, though there would be no lunch date on this visit. So I sat with her in the bedroom looking out the window at her lovely garden, listening to the birds scold an errant squirrel. After a while Mary S, and I wandered away to talk privately about the fact that Mary A. was not going to live forever and we should put some thought into what comes next. We knew Mary had a will, prepared years before, but as far as we knew it had never really been completed or possibly even signed. She had no children and, really, no heirs. In 2007 Abbott had asked me to look into setting up some sort of trust or foundation that, after her death, could use the proceeds from her estate to support emerging women artists. It was a wonderful idea and I contacted Artadia, the non-profit grant-maker in New York, about partnering in such an endeavor. They were very interested and we organized a couple of meetings with attorneys and stakeholders in nearby Jamesport. Mary was happy and excited about this and just as things began to gel I received a phone call from the lawyer in New York City who, years before, had written her original will. This fellow, who I’m not naming, came on like a rabid dog saying if I knew what was good for me I’d mind my own damn business and leave Mary Abbott’s affairs alone! Full stop! Well… he scared the hell out of me, so we stopped. This was both disappointing and embarrassing,&nbsp;as I had to contact everyone and apologize for wasting their time. Worst of all, her will remained unresolved, as far as we knew, and we assumed that when she would eventually pass things would be a mess. This visit lasted a few more days. Mary Stubelek and I worked on organizing her studio, sorting through piles of blank paper and unfinished drawings… investigating long ignored rolls of canvas, and generally trying to bring some order to her 98 years of life. We poked around an off-site storage unit but it was just too much to tackle. A&nbsp;few days later I said my goodbyes and left Corrigan Street, fairly certain I wouldn’t see Mary Abbott again. She died two months later on August 23, 2019. &nbsp;Sure enough, what followed was a mess. Another attorney, and old friend of Mary’s, acted as her executor and I did not envy him the chore. He allowed me, working with Mary Stubelek, to continue representing the estate while he began sorting things out. I was well treated and appreciated the opportunity to keep working with Mary’s wonderful legacy. Eventually, in August of 2020, we were instructed to return everything we had on consignment in Chicago — I think there were about 70 canvases or so and many works on paper.&nbsp;And suddenly, after 19 years, that was that.&nbsp; Since then good things have continued to happen for Mary Lee Abbott. In 2021 we published a 120 page Abbott biography drawing on stories and photos from my nineteen year friendship and interviews with her many friends and colleagues. Her estate found a home with the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, where Mary taught for a decade in the 1970s. Last year Schoelkopf Gallery presented a major Abbott exhibition in New York,&nbsp;To Draw Imagination, and interest in her work has continued to grow.&nbsp; Over the past 25 years we have placed well over 400 Mary Abbott paintings, watercolors and drawings. We have a wide selection of small, watery watercolors such as these 4 x 6 inch works. All are signed or initialed and estate stamped.&nbsp; <a href="https://us.list-manage.com/pcr35qALife?e=4e60073cbe&amp;c2id=4d50cb5e36083b5514fb6b314e231f0b" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);" target="_blank">Buy the Biography HERE</a> To view more images of the exhibition<a href="https://us.list-manage.com/bQegXl2WznN?e=4e60073cbe&amp;c2id=4d50cb5e36083b5514fb6b314e231f0b" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>

Mary Abbott: I Am a Sailor's Daughter

Treasures from the Law Offices of Abraham Lincoln Preview Reception Featuring a Gallery Talk from Renowned Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer This gallery talk will draw from decades of Harold Holzer's experience researching, writing, and lecturing about Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. Holzer is a leading academic authority on Lincoln and winner of The 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize and the 2008 National Humanities Medal. The Director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Holzer has authored many books and appears frequently on television as a Lincoln expert. Drawing from the Auction Preview of the Alfred Orendorff Archive of manuscripts, furniture, and other ephemera from Lincoln's Springfield law office, Holzer will discuss the role this office and its contents played in Lincoln's life, politics, and the legacy of Lincoln's tenure as president of the U.S. The pieces featured in the lecture will be offered in a dedicated sale on July 30. Wednesday, July 15 | 5 - 7 p.m. Gallery Talk begins promptly at 6 p.m. 222 W Hubbard St, Suite 110 Chicago, IL 60654 | 312-260-7200 RSVP | AngelaG@HA.com

Treasures from the Law Offices of Abraham Lincoln 

The color spectrum—Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet—is the focus of this show. Showcasing art from across the country, the gallery will be a rainbow of color. This exhibition will showcase artwork from over 30 artists, many from Illinois. Fine Line will host an in-person reception on Thursday, June 18, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM to officially open the show, with several of the participating artists in attendance. As with all Fine Line gallery receptions, this event is free and open to everyone. Light refreshments will be served during the evening.

Pick a Color

The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) is pleased to announce Home Grown (Vol. III), the third iteration of curator Lauren Iacoponi’s ongoing exhibition series exploring sustainable processes and the relationship between people and plants. On view from July 11 through September 6, 2026, the exhibition transformsUIMA’s galleries into an immersive environment where sculpture, eco-dye textiles, hand papermaking, and botanical installations are integrated directly into a living landscape of plants.Home Grown began in 2022 as a booth installation at the MdW Fair at Mana Contemporary Chicago, and returned in 2025 for a second iteration at Heaven Gallery.&nbsp;For its third installment, UIMA serves as the flagship location, with new and returning artists creating work that responds to eco-friendly materials and processes — from artist-made bioplastic to sculptures grown from living mycelium.&nbsp;Visitors to Home Grown (Vol. III) will encounter work that blurs the line between artwork and ecosystem. Featured artists work in mycology, natural dye, fiber, ceramic, photography, and assemblage, often incorporating organic materials that continue to grow, change, or decompose over the course of the exhibition. Highlights include Erin LaRocque’s reishi mycelium sculptures, Noelani Jones’ participatory sprouting chia-seed textiles, SK Reed’s natural pigment paintings, and Rachel Meyers Heffernan’s homestead weavings made with her sheep’s wool.A central feature of Home Grown (Vol. III) is its roving counterpart, Unpacked Mobile Gallery, a 16-foot truck outfitted as a traveling exhibition space. Throughout the first week of the exhibition (Saturday, July 11 - Saturday, July 18) , Unpacked will bring nature-centered artwork and participatory workshops directly into public parks, cultural institutions, and community gardens across Chicago, including Comfort Station (Logan Square), Plant Chicago (Back of the Yards), Met West Community Garden (West Town), The Weaving Mill Dye Garden and Seed Library (Humboldt Park), Sand Ridge Nature Center (Cook County Nature Preserve), the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UkrainianVillage), and additional Chicago public parks. The project also partners with Jeremy Ohems of Wild World Gardens (Native plant sale with pre-order pickups), and Spudnik Press (plant sale partner and risograph residency in support of Home Grown exhibition).Free public programming will include eco-dye and natural ink workshops, foraging presentations, native plant lectures, and plant cutting exchanges, designed for intergenerational and cross-cultural participation. Workshop facilitators include artists SK Reed and Maven Kennedy (natural pigments), Katelyn Patton (natural dye), Tulika Ladsariya (cyanotype), Allen Moore and Grace Papineau-Couture (performance), and educators from the Weaving Mill Dye Garden, and Prairie Friends Native Plant Nursery. About Lauren IacoponiLauren Iacoponi is a Chicago-based curator and Curatorial Assistant at the UkrainianInstitute of Modern Art. She is the co-founder and director of Unpacked Mobile Gallery and the founder of Purple Window Gallery, and has curated exhibitions at venues including Elmhurst Art Museum, Heaven Gallery, and the MdW Fair at Mana Contemporary Chicago. About the Ukrainian Institute of Modern ArtThe Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) preserves and promotes contemporary art as a shared expression of the Ukrainian and American experience. Founded in 1971 inChicago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood, UIMA has for more than fifty years offered an alternative exhibition space for nationally and internationally recognized artists working outside the mainstream. The Institute presents a robust annual schedule of exhibitions, concerts, literary events, lectures, and films, and is a core member of the Chicago Cultural Alliance.

Home Grown (Vol. III) 

Martin Wong: Chinatown USA&nbsp;traces the development of the work of the queer painter and poet, highlighting Wong’s connection with the art and&nbsp;culture&nbsp;of&nbsp;Asia,&nbsp;inparticular through&nbsp;his&nbsp;collecting&nbsp;of&nbsp;pre-modern&nbsp;Asian&nbsp;art and antiquities and his explorations of the Chinatowns of New York and San Francisco from 1970 through the 1990s. A large portion of the exhibition is devoted to his Chinatown paintings, which were the subject of a major exhibition titled&nbsp;Chinatown USA&nbsp;presented at P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City and the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. These works depict notable architecture such as the Chinese pagoda-style building at 241 Canal Street, iconic actor Bruce Lee and Peking opera performer Mei Lanfang, festivities like the Chinese New Year Parade, and&nbsp;street&nbsp;scenes. The exhibition also explores Wong’s interest in counterculture communities (such as Puerto Rican poets and graffiti artists) and language through his poetry and American Sign Language paintings. The latter are presented alongside a&nbsp;small&nbsp;selection&nbsp;of works by artists of the modern graffiti movement from Wong’s personal&nbsp;collection,&nbsp;which he donatedto&nbsp;the Museum&nbsp;of the City of New York in 1994. Wong died in 1999 at the age of 53 from an AIDS-related illness.&nbsp;Martin Wong: Chinatown USA&nbsp;is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by Halsted A&amp;A Foundation and Gregory R. Miller &amp; Co. Edited by Yasufumi Nakamori, it includes six essays by leading scholars Solomon&nbsp;Adler, Lisa Hsiao Chen, Mark&nbsp;D.&nbsp;Johnson,&nbsp;Vivian&nbsp;Li, Margo Machida, and Lydia Yee.

Martin Wong: Chinatown USA

‘What We Saved: Femmage Revisited’ is a juried exhibition organized by The Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics and the Chicago Collage Community. The included work highlights collage as a uniquely feminine art form of saving, fragmenting, and mending to tell women’s stories.&nbsp;This exhibition aims to honor collage and its history while inspiring contemporary collage artists to reconsider their work through the Femmage framework, which is both openly political and deeply personal.

What We Saved: Femmage Revisited

Join ARC Gallery Members &amp; Melanie P. Brown for an artist talk about her new solo exhibition, Driving My Meat Machine: Flight Fantasies. Melanie P. Brown has a long standing practice of painting in direct response to sound, music, and motion. Since 2020 her process has centered on live and recorded sound, her gestures and movements while painting, and video of birds and her own body in motion. Preparing extensive palettes and integrating pastel and charcoal, she translates rhythm, texture, and spatial perception into layered compositions. Her latest series combines all of these elements and explores how it feels to be inside a body as it moves through space as well as the image of the body itself. In some of the pieces she uses gestures of birds in flight which merge with the body as a way of expressing the feeling of unbounded space and infinite freedom that exists inside the mind. She believes that the most accurate portraits capture what something is doing rather than their static form and describes these paintings as kinetic portraits of the inner and outer self. Exhibition dates: July 10 – 31, 2026 Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm

Artist Talk with Melanie P. Brown

The Path to Nowhere Errol Ortiz and Stanley Dean Edwards Oliva Gallery presents The Path to Nowhere, a two-person exhibition featuring Errol Ortiz and Stanley Dean Edwards. Bringing together two distinct Chicago-connected artists, the exhibition places Ortiz’s charged, symbol-rich Imagist language in direct conversation with Edwards’s disciplined geometric abstraction. Ortiz’s work moves through current events, social tension, pattern, humor, and unease, while Edwards builds pressure through structure, color, and precise compositional restraint. Together, their work creates a space of visual suspension, where images scatter, forms lock into place, and two very different artistic logics meet in unexpected cohesion.The opening reception will also include a screening of a short documentary on Errol Ortiz by On The Real Film in collaboration with Pentimenti Productions. The film premieres at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on May 26 as part of a series on Chicago artists, with the June 12 reception offering a more intimate opportunity to view the film and meet the artist.

The Path to Nowhere with Errol Ortiz and Stanley Dean Edwards

<a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/free-and-independent" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Free and Independent: The Declaration of Independence and the Words That Made the United States</a>, features a rare early copy of the Declaration. The exhibition features more than two dozen historic items inviting visitors to survey selected phrases from the Declaration, such as "All Men are created equal," and to consider some of the surprising ideas behind those words. Collection items highlight influential figures such as John Locke, Benjamin Franklin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. On display will be the only surviving manuscript copy of John Jay’s&nbsp;Federalist no. 3, one of only five surviving manuscript drafts of any of the Federalist essays. The exhibition is curated by Eric Slauter, Deputy Dean of the Arts and Humanities Division and the College at University of Chicago. Slauter is the author of&nbsp;The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution, essays on the language of rights and equality in early America, and a forthcoming book on the origins, meanings, and afterlives of the Declaration of Independence. The Newberry's copy of the Declaration is a rare broadside from Newport, Rhode Island, mistakenly dated June 13 rather than July 13, 1776, that demonstrates how supporters and opponents of independence might have first encountered the empire-shattering news.&nbsp;Only in August 1776, as the document began to circulate in Europe, did delegates of Congress sign the famous handwritten parchment scroll currently at the National Archives.&nbsp; Other exhibition items include:<ul><li>A 1776 map of America;</li><li>A revolutionary timeline dedicated to Benjamin Franklin;</li><li>One of the first petitions by enslaved people to circulate widely in print;</li><li>Notes of a meeting between members of Congress and representatives of Native nations taken by Thomas Paine;</li><li>The biography of Deborah Sampson, a woman who disguised herself as a man to fight in the army.</li></ul> Free and Independent&nbsp;will be on view in the Hanson Gallery through July 18’s NewberryFest open house celebration, and is part of an array of programs and events related to the 250th&nbsp;anniversary of the Declaration. The Newberry is proud to be a partner in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.il250.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">Illinois America 250</a>, an inclusive, statewide effort to bring together Illinoisans’ diverse perspectives about our history – and our future. Learn more at:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newberry.org/the-newberry-observes-america-250" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">https://www.newberry.org/the-newberry-observes-america-250.</a> Free Public Programs being held along with the exhibition include: <a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/coffee-nation" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">May 7, 6pm</a>“Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States.” Presenters: Author Michelle McDonald in conversation with curator and scholar Eric Slauter. Coffee Nation challenges traditional interpretations of the American Revolution, as coffee’s spectacular profitability in US markets and popularity on the new nation’s tables by the mid-nineteenth century was the antithesis of independence.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/allen-stephenson-conversation" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">June 6, 2pm</a>Annual Colonial History Program: “The Declaration of Independence.” Discussants: Scholar/author Danielle Allen (Harvard University) and historian Scott Stephenson (Museum of the American Revolution), in partnership with Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois. The discussion will be followed by a book signing of Dr. Allen’s latest book,&nbsp;Radical Duke.&nbsp;Reproduction artifacts from the Museum of the American Revolution will be available for viewing, including a recreation of George Washington’s tent in Washington Square Park, located across the street from the Newberry’s main entrance. <a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/declaration-reading" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">July 8, 5pm</a>Sharing the Spirit of America: A Statewide &amp; National Reading of the Declaration of Independence Gather with special guests, fellow visitors, and library staff for a live, simultaneous nationwide public reading of the Declaration of Independence with one and all in Chicago and across the country. <a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/newberryfest-250" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">July 18, 10am</a>NewberryFest: 250 Years of the United States Learn more about the history and legacy of the American Revolution by exploring our collection and try your own hand at historical calligraphy techniques. Celebrate all things Newberry with collection presentations, hands-on activities, tours, a mini used book sale, and so much more at this open house event. Image: Declaration of Independence broadside, Newport, RI: Solomon Southwick, 1776, VAULT Case broadside E221 .U57.

Free and Independent: The Declaration of Independence and the Words That Made the United States

Marking the gallery’s second solo exhibition with Jennifer Rochlin, on view in Chicago from June 6 through July 18, 2026, the presentation will unveil a new body of ceramic vessels and paintings in which personal narrative, memory, and material experimentation are closely interwoven.Returning to the city where she received her MFA in painting in 1999, Rochlin approaches&nbsp;The Horizon Keeps Moving&nbsp;as both a form of return and excavation. The works are shaped by layered impressions of Chicago—its lakefront horizon, the river, its architectural density, and its more intimate geographies of bars, alleys, and domestic thresholds. These elements surface as sculpted anecdotes across ceramic forms, where drawing and surface function as extensions of thought. In this context, the city operates not simply as backdrop but as a structuring logic—one through which memory, subjectivity, and narrative are continuously reassembled.<a href="http://link.marianeibrahim.com/ls/click?upn=u001.QEhnWBve3x4w-2FznpuSOKkHDHeH9lWxp-2BpojXmbdTFEfNIzMO4Fk0hZGVAcuFTnrwh8bO4SorqqInd4p4CD6AREU9uXdzg2BZ6OB0F2jAgIQ-2BzEgmloUlTMCFMoxelkmP-2FAEuyLOJeI3TqDkkRsl8IA-3D-3DeeEq_0g5QiKQ3ANfCkWXxwzczn1phIok0-2FnBF8GNWXrNhq2-2B4ftGj9DI8Jn4AfRAGeAJVikNEQwxpwEcoOyKbtwuEcKJX9jU3-2BoN-2BCdE2f3amVWjwnMunuiQFw-2B6GbgGdZ5PMEAxUdzfeQ1q0Cgxmxj62b7kuA1dPk003xaNSZsrD7SFXwaXF2Si1YtC8-2BnL2v2VWwMVxu3F9tVJIWGR-2BztJUOorRk15QF10xD-2F4qvAG5RCYPucXcnse5l1WApBcTL1XF24kkUzjCEAiNRXvNFRkhETYeKp-2BTrBz31NWadQNASJTN6OixVNohqfHY0pqOQSJeAq-2FdEdulcbC3pp-2B3ZkeIhPrGjWK6UPmGbCxvIZP8t8UEpkw6iWmodF9mG87T0zF2vPOYoacO8495462sQ1JGycI1ASakMew7L-2Fr9ZoY-2Bxyc9K6S64teg-2B5gO-2FMFCRVWk9c-2Fg76e2T5hC8HNl7hxwHPOHObAXz152qYCmwQ76FgF-2FOhX8QReW9e4eAATWC5ZK5lFsVMVo0PKjXxprjQ8jCMixisLn8L2DRG8OVjHpKejG70hEBJCjc51k0ACXkB1VXkOwX5lX-2FCR4Rf-2FZH9-2F-2FBy8281378CwRDyIphGrXiQ4ZuzGMFWsDjDbXj6-2F8ldgKKq8XstIaMgwxYvjNCItN8KCubueIIA0T8FGLeYpM41i8-2FRz7-2F7Nv4zVumjU1Oes2iZQiswnbcCySDcRzv283J12c-2FdHMnm7NJlh2bVpjXMLdPwGCb9UOopNzhHVEYt4Bf2MlLiAUt6sgUdg1aCVabimCm4ezOVNB-2FjD-2BCPjnnAyVktICDeT2cTsSYQn5WQ2XFm-2B74p7gVNKJuMcj5T6vPQ-3D-3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MORE ON THE EXHIBITION</a> Jennifer Rochlin (b. 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland; lives and works in Altadena, CA) received her MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Later moving to the west coast, an unexpected opportunity teaching ceramics at an all-girls Catholic high school prompted her first experiments with clay. Largely self-taught in the medium, vessels eventually became central to her practice.&nbsp;Rochlin builds terracotta pots through coil and slab construction, through which the imperfect marks of the artist’s hand are left imprinted on the surface of the clay. The sculptures are engraved with sgraffito techniquesand take on unusual shapes, where imagery moves fluidly across portraiture, politics, art history, and floral patterns, oscillating between personal and collective vignettes. Image: Jennifer Rochlin,&nbsp;Spring in Chicago with Georgia O’Keefe Clouds, 2026.&nbsp;Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.

Jennifer Rochlin: The Horizon Keeps Moving

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) invites you to attend and help share the 56th Midsummer Festival of the Arts, taking place July 18–19, 2026, in downtown Sheboygan.This free, two-day event brings together more than 100 juried artists from across the country, live music through the Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series, artist demonstrations, hands-on artmaking activities, family-friendly programming, food vendors, and community partners. The festival annually attracts thousands of visitors and celebrates creativity, community, and artistic excellence.Highlights this year include:• More than 100 juried artists representing a wide range of artistic disciplines• Live music and performances throughout the weekend• An Emerging Artist area featuring five regional artists• Community partner organizations including RCS Empowers, Project Onward, and Impressions Fine Art Gallery• Interactive artmaking experiences inspired by current Arts Center exhibitions

56th Midsummer Festival of the Arts

Chicago Rooms, Chicago Cultural Center&nbsp;Ornament &amp; Information&nbsp;presents artists working in Chicago and Vienna whose practices explore the historic intellectual exchange between the two cities&nbsp;—&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;Public programs include an&nbsp;opening reception on&nbsp;Friday,&nbsp;April 10,&nbsp;6-7pm in the&nbsp;Chicago Rooms&nbsp;and&nbsp;additional&nbsp;performances and artist-led events throughout the exhibition&nbsp;duration.&nbsp;The first performance&nbsp;will be held&nbsp;Saturday,&nbsp;April 11,&nbsp;at 3&nbsp;p.m.&nbsp;inside the&nbsp;Chicago Rooms.&nbsp;Please click&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.CSSunAOBvEOR4GhykBjJWWnTwxFlkUDDBF-2Fji248p2y6hFXsBorvoCC9fZuH5e36Pn-2BTTdSEqSZcF6S-2FCbBA0-2Fq9IH6tXX2BG5b0Mps0RIwEBqRxy-2BD7ec1SCRVfkVtG_fmR_0g5QiKQ3ANfCkWXxwzczn1phIok0-2FnBF8GNWXrNhq2-2B4ftGj9DI8Jn4AfRAGeAJVn7gGoI0v4yHfyxNzcTgWoLurliSnTAPDeTMjcpIoytOOx4olIMMV-2FUlia6rP-2BnJxXYH5O8tvn-2Fktq8OM7hVEsSIVa5QMZTlavNfGLkxY-2Bv5Ob8cNxVZY2QQwdDW7CjMxGACT3QdirHvuvzc-2FrsOP9qq38FKVrw-2Bh9GrF70Ft5aLbE8Nue-2F99yQjGNHjMHb-2B3klk5eNOWFwW9KoazpZWTUcBbiIMt1fpkZVbGxYby8-2FZaNQF4a7WBLAQ6RzIXxH8YyP-2F0HccGKvy2aTPy9pvMm3xHybxP0PGZAjjh3XTrzdo312fc-2BPPYJJGr0RPZuVeVLIsYvy4aTZbNapQwdWH-2Ffw-3D-3D" target="_blank">here</a>&nbsp;for more information on&nbsp;this&nbsp;exhibition.&nbsp;&nbsp;Image: Viennese Drinking Fountain, Hans Muhr, Presented to the City of Chicago on October 2, 1998

Ornament & Information 

Drawn from the Art Institute’s collection, this exhibition focuses on Greek multidisciplinary artist Lucas Samaras’s innovative photographs, as well as sculptures and paintings recently gifted to the museum by the Samaras Estate. These works offer a glimpse into Samaras’s broader practice and invites us into his creative, engaged, and focused life.

Lucas Samaras: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking

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Prints & Multiples

Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 10am CSTThis diverse sale - made up of fine, vintage, and vernacular photographs - will focus closely on the snapshot. Once considered mere "fabrics of yesteryear," these fleeting images have been recently reclaimed by the collecting community, and appreciated for their candid, historical, and visual depth. But all genres of photographs will be represented, with featured lots to include space and NASA material, sideshow cabinet cards, fine art photos, and vernacular works of all types. Place your bids now at <a href="http://url2796.potterauctions.com/ls/click?upn=u001.Xrkv5MDx4JU-2BcO33dbI1-2BQkLeC4Nhem9skMoCbF6bGTlMpvd2axwZTvc5s4Oz2NRU7Oh0eZgvyu-2FMgZ1o1EWktuvdLhxeEJu06n3CHXUfrONd7nDCgFBQIQDxNf5Ts0bTKve7UK0HGSDsZKlvLyTgvjlIdb7NIauJpA3zsBCqFJsJpCwKhN0XmYO6IG40HCkVWEF_F-2B18IOO1ZU6iY4K-2F9Q9GBGu5rvP-2BL20ZUrVQMSgnAy2dkeZXZkSsnZVlr-2Bsr2mNTUSMMfJD2V-2FRPtVrL8NfH4LjbshrkP16gIreN0kI9-2BHzXyx9b-2BXvJPlxSqoJxoKZgm-2BbADMGAYA0kFAJAIgl-2FV4Q-2FCZEhykImaLc-2BWp3ZaiRkeLFxCmCiu6tlK4TnC4l5f1P0GL1AtpXGYi3BQ1SgktJ6g3kXxchkqbX4XvxOv-2FVySAx4zBNBlaUQiIfOB7MFy2HjWqg8QR1E5PVmnNuU8fJwG73kCfWM9XKceZtBMQzTvII3NMs1eTqLfDlMYIzj" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank">POTTERAUCTIONS.COM</a><a href="http://url2796.potterauctions.com/ls/click?upn=u001.Xrkv5MDx4JU-2BcO33dbI1-2BQkLeC4Nhem9skMoCbF6bGTwWvV7W6IocFx6yAX4Lr8y5Skx7M5G-2B4Pgmfgpym8LjQ-3D-3Dm4tE_F-2B18IOO1ZU6iY4K-2F9Q9GBGu5rvP-2BL20ZUrVQMSgnAy2dkeZXZkSsnZVlr-2Bsr2mNTUSMMfJD2V-2FRPtVrL8NfH4LjbshrkP16gIreN0kI9-2BHzXyx9b-2BXvJPlxSqoJxoKZgm-2BbADMGAYA0kFAJAIgl-2FV81V0dd5Pf1aUQq2NmvBiDJi1UTkwhFVSnlM6kfnRgqBG-2FveVOXxbtQ-2Fh4W1exlqxNOSxJAgUS0C1gnujLHCuNT8kQZvpr45NNIXoqtZEuELTPBYV6ZJBADdrO8qGUedXVSd9O2QdvzDIe-2BN-2FdveYplV0ywKHkm8fUouOkgcyYUd" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank">Register now</a> or <a href="http://url2796.potterauctions.com/ls/click?upn=u001.Xrkv5MDx4JU-2BcO33dbI1-2BQkLeC4Nhem9skMoCbF6bGTwWvV7W6IocFx6yAX4Lr8ysLJDk6xWcmZMLAkQMEZtkA-3D-3DUAdT_F-2B18IOO1ZU6iY4K-2F9Q9GBGu5rvP-2BL20ZUrVQMSgnAy2dkeZXZkSsnZVlr-2Bsr2mNTUSMMfJD2V-2FRPtVrL8NfH4LjbshrkP16gIreN0kI9-2BHzXyx9b-2BXvJPlxSqoJxoKZgm-2BbADMGAYA0kFAJAIgl-2FVwfLaxmi-2B4kQp2AYM-2B6KIuuttEo-2BlME01vV9NBUfHLw9DqL8JFs65IPiL5E42znZpaX-2FjIiKv2Jqs-2BHga8HcynNodauZrF-2FGqmx65UI6qrznob8s73BFrK-2F4eQO2rVc-2B7I-2Fy61bLOC26zxmZTnoDwYidKy3KdhCLcWRpNwLyNBuy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank">Sign in</a> below. EMAIL us or call 773.472.1442 to leave phone or absentee bids.

Glimpses: Vintage, Fine, and Vernacular Photography

Volume Gallery x Stony Island Arts BankReceptionWednesday, June 245-7pm &nbsp;Join us Wednesday, June 24th, 5-7 PM for bubbles to celebrate the launch of Volume Gallery’s collaboration with Stony Island Arts Bank. Design and architecture have been a shared language for Theaster Gates, Heiji Choy Black, and the founders of Volume Gallery, Sam Vinz and Claire Warner, since the beginning of their friendship. The Stony Island Arts Bank and Volume Gallery have long championed many of the greatest contemporary emerging and established designers and artists, bringing their work to the worldfrom their spaces in Chicago. In this group exhibition, artists and designers share a common desire to honor where they come from with objects of beauty and brilliance and of enduring meaning and substance. The many perspectives, cultures, and geographies represented in Chicago are brought to life here as these makers intend to better our world through art and craft. Featuring work by: Tanya AguiñigaRobell AwakeStephen BurksSung JangTerumi SaitoSHENEQUALarry TchogninouNorman Teague&nbsp;Stony Island Arts Bank6760 S Stony Island Ave2nd Fl GalleryChicago, IL 60649&nbsp;More about exhibited works&nbsp;<a href="https://ymlps3.com/74799mhmqataeqjsmagaujsarajbsm/click.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(137, 137, 137);" target="_blank">here.</a>

Volume Gallery x Stony Island Arts Bank

Volume Gallery announces&nbsp;Coyolxauhqui Imperative,&nbsp;a solo exhibition&nbsp;by Tanya Aguiñiga, opening Saturday, June 13, 2026, from 3 to 6 p.m in gallery two. Tanya Aguiñiga is a Los Angeles-based artist and activist raised in Tijuana, Mexico. Her ongoing investigations of identity and belonging made with meaningful materials are both deeply personal and an expression of her community.In this new body of work, Aguiñiga strategically removes threads from the warp and weft of delicate gauze to create images — a subtractive process like reverse embroidery. Mounted over black velvet, sections of open weave catch light and shadow to outline animals long held sacred across Mesoamerica: opossums, coyotes, vultures, snakes, and bats. These creatures occupied central roles in Indigenous life and cosmology, and some of their Nahuatl names,&nbsp;tlacuatzin&nbsp;and&nbsp;coyotl, persist in daily language as quiet evidence of their cultural significance. Today, they are largely vilified as pests or nuisances, despite their vital ecological roles. Aguińiga’s imagery is inspired by depictions of these sacred animals in Pre-Columbian codices, pictorial manuscripts covering everything from history and geography to mythology.The opossum—today dismissed or even feared—was among the most revered figures in Mesoamerican cosmology: a Robin Hood-like hero who stole fire from the gods and delivered it to humanity and who was credited in Maya tradition as an embodiment of feminine creative force, linked to the earth-lunar goddess. The vulture was also seen as far more than a scavenger; across Mesoamerican and South American traditions, it was understood as a transformer, converting death and filth into life and light. Known to the ancient world as a cathartic cleanser, the vulture appears throughout mythology as a keeper of fire and a shamanic figure associated with celestial brightness.These animals were venerated figures, woven into creation myths, healing practices, and the highest expressions of spiritual life. Indigenous Peoples have understood that these animals perform quiet, necessary labor in our ecosystems, consuming decaying materials that spread disease. Performing an essential role, they are indispensable and deserving of respect. Ultimately, Aguiñiga’s new textile works are about perception and the effects of misunderstanding. These essential animals are metaphors for those whose value goes unrecognized, whose presence is treated as a burden rather than a gift. Like the migrants who cross the same borderlands these creatures inhabit, they are fundamental to our society, yet widely maligned.For Aguiñiga, this work is also an act of ancestral recovery. Patterns referencing Otomi weaving and the craft traditions of Michoacán and Jalisco — regions tied to her own family history — speak to a Mestizo lineage fractured by colonization, now accessible only via fragments: a tourist object, a surviving codex, a persisting craft tradition. By working with gauze-like textile — used across Mesoamerica for everything from lacework to fishing nets — she draws on a material lineage that is at once sacred and utilitarian. Through material, image, and pattern, she reaches toward what has been lost, making meaning out of erasure.Coyolxauhqui Imperative&nbsp;will be on view through July 25, 2026. Tanya Aguiñiga&nbsp;holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from San Diego State University. In her formative years, she created various collaborative installations with the Border Arts Workshop, an artists’ group that engages the languages of activism and community-based public art. Aguiñiga is the founder and director of AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of artist interventions and commuter collaborations that address bi-national transition and identity in the US/Mexico border regions. AMBOS seeks to create a greater sense of interconnectedness while simultaneously documenting the border. Aguiñiga is a 2024 Center for Craft Catalyst Award Recipient, a 2023 Loewe Craft Prize finalist, a 2022 Latinx Artist Fellow, a recipient of the 26th annual Heinz Award, a United States Artists Target Fellow in the field of Crafts and Traditional Arts, a NALAC Grant Recipient, and a Creative Capital 2016 Grant Awardee. She is the inaugural fellow for Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities. She has been the subject of numerous articles in American Craft Magazine and has been featured in Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century, KCET’s Artbound, and PBS’s Craft in America Series.Recent museum exhibitions include&nbsp;m\other&nbsp;at The Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA,&nbsp;Border Fall Height&nbsp;at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA,&nbsp;Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga &amp; Porfirio Gutiérrez en Conversación/in Conversation&nbsp;at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA,&nbsp;Intertwined: Weaving in Community&nbsp;at the Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID,&nbsp;In the Shadow of the Wall&nbsp;at Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT,&nbsp;Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living&nbsp;as part of AMBOS at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, A&nbsp;More Perfect Union: American Artists and the Currents of Our Time&nbsp;curated by U.S. Art in Embassies,&nbsp;This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World&nbsp;at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.,&nbsp;Hella Feminist&nbsp;at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, the&nbsp;2022 California Biennial&nbsp;at the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA,&nbsp;LatinXAmerican&nbsp;at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL,&nbsp;Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018&nbsp;at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., and&nbsp;Craft and Care&nbsp;at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Her work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, DePaul Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Oakland Museum of California, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, and The Wichita Art Museum. ﻿

Tanya Aguiñiga: Coyolxauhqui Imperative

Volume Gallery announces&nbsp;Urban Drama,&nbsp;Joe Feddersen’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, opening June 13, 2026, from 3 to 6 p.m. Working across woven linen baskets, blown and fused glass, and printmaking, Joe Feddersen, a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes based in Omak, Washington, brings together ancestral modalities with contemporary iconography to create work that reflects his lived experience. The multi-disciplinary artist speaks from a Plateau perspective—one that honors our inseparable connection with the landscape.Feddersen’s visual language is exemplified by stylized outlines—abstractions of everyday figures rendered graphic, like signs. At first glance, his work might seem traditional, and in some ways, his approach is a continuation of ancestral artistic innovations, just as Plateau people wove slanted triangles to depict mountains or painted pictographs on stone, Feddersen uses the same economy of form to depict the scenery he observes today. Parking lots, power lines, and tire tracks appear alongside bear tracks, eagles, and snakes—each given equal visual weight, each acknowledged as a character in our environment. Nature and society are shown entwined—creating indexical and unromanticized portraits of the American landscape as it actually is, shaped by industrialization, land use, and ongoing human presence.His precise linen baskets, a continuation of centuries-old Plateau “sally bag” designs, are renderings of our world—its conflicts, infrastructures, and ironies. Feddersen’s compositions are taken directly from the landscape: aerial views of parking lots, the sinuous path of a snake, the diamond geometry of high-voltage towers. The towers carry particular resonance for Feddersen, who understands them as monuments to dispossession—invasive structures on Indigenous land lost to bad-faith deals and flooding when dams were built. One recent basket,&nbsp;Wild Peaks, takes its name from an SUV tire brand, its tread abstracted into repetitive forms that read like a mountain range; the imagery’s double meaning is a wry commentary on the idealized vision of the American West that consumer culture sells back to us. Additional recent pieces show protesters and ICE agents, urgent depictions of ongoing conflict and resistance. Protesters drawn with heads of affinity animals document gatherings in the small town of Omak, the cast of characters acting as a pictorial record of a moment in history.Feddersen’s glass vessels are blown and then sandblasted with the artist’s signature symbology—trucks, bicycles, and animals are layered over subtler, weaving-like patterns etched beneath. Feddersen’s large-scale&nbsp;Charmed&nbsp;glass installations combine several ideas: a petroglyph wall, a wind chime, and a charm bracelet. Hundreds of clear fused-glass pendants, ranging from four to ten inches each, hang suspended across the wall, casting shifting shadows that animate the space around them. Feddersen’s&nbsp;Charmed&nbsp;pieces portray a teeming crowd of moments from our surroundings, in this latest iteration, cars and trucks mingle with protesters and buffalo.With a long-time background as a printmaker, Feddersen thinks in layers across his practice. His&nbsp;Urban Drama&nbsp;monoprints are painterly and energetic, incorporating spray paint and collage. High-voltage towers are reduced to pure geometry, explored through reversals of positive and negative space and Pop-like repetition. Feddersen’s decades of experience in the medium are evident in the assured, direct, and indirect application of color and labyrinthine pattern.At the heart of Feddersen’s practice is a commitment to observing, documenting, and storytelling. Viewing making as an act of reciprocity with the earth, he documents a landscape shaped by history, industry, and survival. With a finely tuned sense of humor, his work reminds us that the marks we leave on the land are all part of the same ongoing story.Urban Drama&nbsp;will be on view through July 25, 2026. Joe Feddersen&nbsp;(b. 1953, Omak, WA) emerged in the 1980s as part of a new generation of Indigenous artists along with colleagues such as Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Truman Lowe, Kay WalkingStick, and James Lavadour. Their generation was bolstered by a new found sense of unity and agency with grass-roots Native-run alternative spaces and community centers cropping up across the country. Feddersen started out as a printmaker, his major at the University of Washington where he earned his B.F.A. While still grounded in printmaking’s layered imagery and processes, his repertoire has expanded to painting, photography, large-scale multi-media installations, collage, glass, and basket weaving. Throughout, Feddersen’s work explores his experiences in the world he inhabits as a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, a lineage grounded in the northern region of the historic Plateau territory. His work combines traditional Plateau imagery and techniques with references to the present day; geometric designs and motifs—mountains, elk, canoes, and petroglyphs—merge with geometries of the modern West—computer game animations, electrical towers, hard-edge abstraction, and graffiti. Feddersen’s work weaves its way through Indigenous thought and visual heritage, settler histories, and contemporary American art and culture.Since completing his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, Feddersen has exhibited extensively both regionally and nationally. Until 2009, he taught at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where he is now Emeritus Faculty. In 2023, Feddersen’s work was featured at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., as well as the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, and in 2024 he was included in the exhibition&nbsp;Implicit Explicit&nbsp;at Hauser &amp; Wirth, Los Angeles. A major retrospective of Feddersen’s work entitled&nbsp;Earth, Water, Sky&nbsp;opened at the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture in Spokane, Washington in 2024, traveled to the High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon, and will open September 2026 at the Missoula Art Museum, Montana. The exhibition features 120 works created throughout his 45-year career. Feddersen received the Governor’s Arts &amp; Heritage Award for significant contributions to Washington State’s arts landscape or cultural heritage in 2024. Feddersen’s work appears in numerous institutional collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Seattle Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

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