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

SpaceShift Collective Garden Activation with Exhibition Ice Cream at The Arts Club of Chicago

SpaceShift Collective Garden Activation

Join us on Saturday, October 11th at 2pm as we celebrate the closing of Audrey Niffenegger's exhibition Wayward Bodies with a special event featuring the artist and author in conversation. Audrey will discuss her visual work and share a reading from her forthcoming novel The Other Husband, the highly anticipated sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife. Audrey has been at work on The Other Husband since 2012. The novel follows Alba, the time-traveling daughter of Henry and Clare, as she navigates a world of music, art, and mayhem. The book is slated for release in the fall of 2026. Don't miss this opportunity to hear directly from Audrey as she bridges her art and writing in an intimate, celebratory setting. "Fosberg appropriates objects and images, and then creatively alters them to suit her artistic conceit. The stylized paintings are allegories of spiritual quests and the peculiar sculptures are transformed into talismans. Art has done this work for centuries, picturing the ineffable and serving as supernatural intermediaries in our relationship with the unknown. Fosberg imagines places and things of mystery and awe, through which one gets to a higher state of consciousness, with nature often as the gateway, as she puts it. Once again, Fosberg has delivered an exhibition suffused with enchantment." - excerpt from Addendum: Lora Fosberg and the Romantic Sublime by Lisa Wainwright.

Closing Reception: Audrey Niffenegger | Lora Fosberg

Oscar Joyo&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/oscar_joyo/" target="_blank">@oscar_joyo</a>&nbsp;decided to paint a mural of tobacco leaves, Malawi’s primary export, as a way of grounding his largest painting to date in his own roots.This exhibition takes his exploration of identity further, featuring larger canvases, rich textures, and vivid, cosmic-inspired color schemes. Tobacco plants—a major Malawian export used in healing and sacred rituals—glow with bioluminescence, while thermal and infrared skin tones give his subjects a futuristic edge, turning Blackness into a symbol of evolution, revolution, and resilience.&nbsp;Recent political pressures on immigrants have led Joyo to revisit themes of migration, aiming to portray immigration as a source of strength rather than fear. His work reflects the complex emotions of anger, sadness, and longing for his homeland while finding connections between Malawi and Chicago. As a Black immigrant in a city he loves, he continues to evolve and grow. When he finally returns to Malawi, he will not leave as he came.

Oscar Joyo

Gut Symmetry, an exhibition of paintings and prints by Chicago artist Catherine Sollman, opens at OS Projects on August 9, 2025. The exhibition continues through October 11, 2025. OS Projects will host a reception for the artist from 1 – 3 pm on Saturday, August 9. Catherine Sollman uses basic shapes to create abstract forms that refer to the human body or environment, both natural and built. Her work is characterized by precision as well as unconventional color combinations that she often pushes toward garishness in pursuit of a particular vibrational quality. Gut Symmetry comprises two bodies of work: small gouache paintings and monotypes, which are one-of-a-kind prints. The paintings are predicated on a limited set of rules and tools—straightedge, compass, pencil and gouache—and have evolved to occupy an important place in Sollman’s practice. They are an investigation of form, color and relationships as well as an attempt to trigger pulsations between color and shape. Sollman describes them as “a quest for sensation.” While the gouache paintings are created directly and intuitively, the monotypes incorporate an element of chance using ghost prints, migrating motifs and the reuse and reconfiguration of the printed surface or matrix. Their imagery hints at bodily structures, the exchange of matter and the tension between exuberant impulse and the need to withhold. They reflect Sollman’s ongoing interest in exploring print’s capacity to accommodate abstraction, chance, mood and iteration while allowing for formality and humor. Both the gouache paintings and monotype prints in Gut Symmetry function as loci of experimentation for the artist. They are also a meditation on antiquated notions of femininity, impropriety, rightness and order. Within each, Sollman strives to facilitate a type of presence—a small escape, a work that soothes and surprises, a portal to somewhere else. About the Artist Born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, Catherine Sollman is a printmaker and teaching artist whose practice consists of small-scale abstract works on paper that emphasize geometry and color play. She earned her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and continued her studies with Karen Kunc, Terry James Conrad, Katie Baldwin and other notable printmakers. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across the U.S. including the Highpoint Center for Printmaking (Minneapolis, MN), Mixografia (Los Angeles, CA), Print Austin (Austin, TX) and Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL). She was a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at Weir Farm National Historic Park (Wilton, CT) and will be a 2026 Artist-in-Residence at Peninsula School of Art (Fish Creek, WI). Sollman lives and works on Chicago’s West Side. Image: Nicole, Augusta Street by Catherine Sollman, 2025.&nbsp;

Catherine Sollman: Gut Symmetry

Main / Office Galleries Lora Fosberg is an American artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, printmaking, drawing, and sculpture. She received her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992. Lora Fosberg’s work speaks to the power of form, the capacity of iconography to create a universal language that communicates the banalities and complexities of the human experience. Fosberg’s process is deeply anthropological, bound up in the intricacies and intimacies of human life—memories, emotions, our relationships with others and with nature. Disarming her viewers through familiar imagery and language in her work, often rendered in an accessible, animated manner, with a touch of cheeky humor, Fosberg affords them the space to regress to a particular memory, a moment of understanding, a conflict, an absence, a connection to another person, or to nature.​ Her work has been featured in venues across the Midwest and West Coast including the South Bend Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center and international venues in Copenhagen and London. Fosberg’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Illinois State Museum, Eaton Corporation, and Kirkland &amp; Ellis, as well as numerous private collections. She lives and works in Michigan City, Indiana.

Lora Fosberg: I Love it Here, Let's Leave; in Search of the Hill

Flourish: Embracing Indigenous and Scientific KnowledgeSupport Brushwood's impact&nbsp;at the 42nd Annual Smith Nature SymposiumHonoring author, scientist, mother, professor, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer Saturday, October 11, 2025Chicago Botanic Garden1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL 60022 Smith Nature Symposium Co-Chairs:Lois Morrison and Janea Harris About the Smith Nature Symposium 2024 Environmental Leadership Award winner Dr. Mona Hanna with emcees Bill Kurtis and Donna La Pietra at the Smith Nature Symposium Awards DinnerThe Smith Nature Symposium is Brushwood’s largest fundraising event of the year, and all funds raised from the Smith Awards Dinner directly benefit our programs for youth, families, and Veterans across our community.&nbsp;&nbsp;On May 6, 1984, more than 350 people gathered for the first Smith Nature Symposium featuring Roger Tory Peterson. Organized under the leadership of Barbi Donnelley, Symposium Co-Chair, this jam-packed convening of nature-lovers became the first of four decades of annual Symposia memorializing the significant civic legacy of Hermon Dunlap and Ellen Thorne Smith, who donated their land and cabin to help form Ryerson Woods. About Robin Wall Kimmerer Robin Wall Kimmerer&nbsp;is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of&nbsp;The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants&nbsp;and&nbsp;Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.&nbsp;She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. The Serviceberry As Indigenous scientist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most?&nbsp;Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival.&nbsp;&nbsp;As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.” Braiding Sweetgrass As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In&nbsp;Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).&nbsp;Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices.&nbsp;&nbsp;In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

42nd Annual Smith Nature Symposium Awards Dinner

European Furniture &amp; Decorative Arts <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://hindmanauctions.com/auctions/6424-european-furniture-decorative-arts?page=1&amp;per=48&amp;tab=overview" target="_blank">REGISTER TO BID</a> Oct 14, 2025&nbsp;10:00AM CT<h2> </h2>Live / Chicago

European Furniture & Decorative Arts

Fine Timepieces&nbsp;Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 6 - 8 p.m.&nbsp;&nbsp;Heritage Auctions, 312-260-7200, 222 W. Hubbard St., Chicago, IL&nbsp;60654&nbsp;Also available to view October 13 - 15, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.&nbsp;Free and Open to All&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://forms.monday.com/forms/6f05208e9100e0ff73df5d14ff5a5062?r=use1" target="_blank">Register Here</a>&nbsp;Please join us for Watches &amp; Whiskey! Watches and Fine Timepieces Director Corby Chambless invites you to an evening of exemplary timepiece craftsmanship and choice aged whiskey selections courtesy of The Macallan. Peruse and model stunning watches including Rolex, Omega, Patek Philippe, and more - all perfectly paired with whiskey.&nbsp; View all lots and bid at&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://ha.com/5574" target="_blank">HA.com/5574</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://ha.com/21179" target="_blank">HA.com/21179</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://ha.com/21182" target="_blank">HA.com/21182</a>.&nbsp;Signature® Auction on November 20, 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp; Image:&nbsp;Romain Gauthier, "Logical One", Superior Constant-Force Wristwatch, Ruby Link Chain And Fusee Mechanism, circa 2017.

Fine Timepieces

Register <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://forms.monday.com/forms/e17e8c034037bd1b5ba99523ba4978bc?r=use1" target="_blank">Here</a> Please join us for Comic Art! Comic Art Director Matthew McGee and Specialist Jennifer Welsing invite you for an evening of original iconic works that portray larger-than-life characters. Enjoy works of Comic Art ranging from Frank Frazetta to Keif Fromm to Todd McFarlane! View all lots and bid at <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://comics.ha.com/c/search/results.zx?dept=1938&amp;mode=live&amp;auction_name=7443&amp;type=surl-7443" target="_blank">HA.com/7443</a>. Signature® Auction on October 17, 2025.

Comic Art

The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago becomes s literary salon, hosting a conversation featuring poets Gian Maria Annovi and Elisa Biagini, both finalists for recent editions of the Premio Strega Poesia. The evening is part of the 25th Week of the Italian Language in the World, dedicated to the theme “Italophonia: Language Beyond Borders.” The program will include poetry readings, a cross-continental conversation on the state of poetry today, and a question and answer session with the authors. Free event. Registration required. Registration <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://iicchicago.esteri.it/en/gli_eventi/calendario/week-of-italian-language-literary-evening/" target="_blank">link</a>

Week of Italian Language / Literary Evening

What is the relationship between an artwork and its maker? Can we confidently link the two, or do they diverge in meaning and intention?In this keynote lecture, Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University, Department of Art &amp; Art History) will reflect on these enduring questions. Drawing from his acclaimed biography&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=4b0069d16a&amp;e=ec81127d70" target="_blank">Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York</a>, Nemerov will invite audiences to consider how chance, abstraction, and artistic identity intersect in Frankenthaler’s work and legacy.&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=61c7046ef0&amp;e=ec81127d70" target="_blank">RSVP FOR KEYNOTE</a><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=713205aa33&amp;e=ec81127d70" target="_blank">EXPLORE ALL FALL 2025 PROGRAMS</a>

Alexander Nemerov on Helen Frankenthaler’s Diversions

Each month, our space transforms into an intimate screening room where art lovers and film fans alike gather to experience thoughtfully selected movies that spark conversation and connection. Membership is $15/month and supports the continuation of this program. Subscriptions are operated by Ko-Fi, or you can pay at the door. All members are welcome to attend each screening, with snacks and drinks available for purchase with the option of BYOB.&nbsp; Our next screening is Possession (1981) on October 17th at 7pm. A spy returns home to a crumbling marriage, only to uncover his wife’s descent into madness and a terrifying secret. Andrzej Żuławski’s cult classic Possession (1981) is a surreal masterpiece of love, horror, and transformation, featuring Isabelle Adjani’s award-winning performance. Possession (1981)October 17th at 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30pm)2842 W Chicago Ave.&nbsp;

Possession (1981)

Sale Hours &amp; Details <ul><li>October 10 to 18, 2025</li><li>Opening Night Party: Friday, October 10, 5 to 9 PM. Early access tickets ($175) grant first dibs on the collection, followed by general admission at 6 PM ($75)</li><li>Opening weekend: Saturday and Sunday, October 11 to 12 ($10 entry fee)</li><li>Regular Hours: 10 AM to 4 PM daily</li><li>Extended Evening: Wednesday, October 15 until 8 PM</li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://rkcgwygbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001MYKAE6nUXCx5O49fs_yCRK_iTXkgDkRhJSzQU55Kia4tKEO9JFWBZMdQ4bkIzEwNnS0vbN8BxqBhSOiJgAsmrOyXOYSapR-JshONqdGPawD8GMV78TSCaiDidLpGXSa3Lp_KRNjAh3NYDvxke0YC9CZCNF9E7tkrPlybWgrDTeneG7IQ5mnxiaGApigPSGGC_P_cfPwPxv593A3HA8W9pNufqybOAOQtkK0w53l2pH9ZYAvrLshXA9ldfhJSZnRbDaRynF86HldIwX-t_bL08-fnxy1mFL-eMpaG78DtiA3Kho9jv0Zv5A==&amp;c=QC_8yG-fSBWl5tDMcOhfwkaKyAjucw5a97tddCMjGiifO2umXXHrPQ==&amp;ch=s8AwuwvNoBu4Xb0HOGvpg5jQDJ_X86VNFQBZbmXlOxDescbj8gu-SA==" target="_blank">Buy your opening night tickets</a>&nbsp;today!</li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://rkcgwygbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001MYKAE6nUXCx5O49fs_yCRK_iTXkgDkRhJSzQU55Kia4tKEO9JFWBZMdQ4bkIzEwNIyK-WHJ6vWgfNAIfzSMgWl38Dt5N969CDD0zWII8Bc7cSOxaCOD8mP6hxW_ZbXTzrpMx-cQQNmeeITQ_ZwfLx55Q9V3IcwRLkgVZae906xujmJN6L8yR8tvGK3AbP9Ec-mb8v5MFKZhH-eIw2EfhdNRGjfnlgFZ-3OgI4N4lDJ7dVw_2tQDh9Cg2ceXbwZ06C_wxWnS7mvT6krVAjtWoI9RDOXvFspVYpwyTpY9IkkJe1dAE2UyKxdDyOGmLwFdS&amp;c=QC_8yG-fSBWl5tDMcOhfwkaKyAjucw5a97tddCMjGiifO2umXXHrPQ==&amp;ch=s8AwuwvNoBu4Xb0HOGvpg5jQDJ_X86VNFQBZbmXlOxDescbj8gu-SA==" target="_blank">Get your Sponsorship in ASAP to receive full benefits</a>.</li></ul> If you’ve been waiting until the last minute – these are the last minutes! If you have questions or need assistance, call or email Stina Taylor,&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:staylor@theartcenterhp.org" target="_blank">staylor@theartcenterhp.org</a>, 847-432-1888. Location: The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road.

Recycled

Read CGN's recent feature on deathmatch <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/articles/deathmatch-by-mac-pierce-at-bert-green-an-intimate-artistic-exploration-of-war-and-games-both-real-and-pretend" target="_blank">here</a> from the Fall 2025 magazine. Mac Pierce is concerned with the influence of technology on society and culture, with a special emphasis on the tendencies for technocratic overreach and surveillance to contribute to social decay and violence. His work utilizes 3D printing, coding, video, computer hardware, video game content, and carefully selected text and data, synthesized into a conceptual framework.Given contemporary national and world political trends, Pierce’s work takes on added significance as many of his conceptual approaches have shown to be relevant to the realities of recent current events. In addition to an opening reception, the gallery will be hosting a public Halo CE LAN party (participation reservations required), at which players will participate in a competitive in-person video game event scheduled to run all day long. Sponsored by Bawls Energy. Reservation link is above. Mac Pierce (He/Him) (b. 1993, Seattle, WA) is a Chicago based artist and creative technologist. Raised in Idaho, he studied fine arts at the University of Idaho and self-taught various digital technologies to incorporate into his artistic practice. Refining his practice, he received his MFA in studio arts from the Art and Technology Studies department at the School of the Art institute of Chicago. All Day LAN party, Saturday, August 9, 2025Halo CE LAN party - Players will participate in a competitive in-person video game event scheduled to run all day (12pm to Late). Sponsored by Bawls Energy.LAN party sign up <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbZXZuL8Sb4HNijQ2LWGkcHbjVBRBERpmtbNS_Dq7DIm3X8Q/viewform?usp=dialog" target="_blank">link</a>

Mac Pierce: deathmatch

William Blake, Artist in Conversation with Writer Donato LoisSaturday, October 18, 202512-2:30pm

William Blake, Artist in Conversation with Writer Donato Lois

Mac Pierce: deatchmatch Closing ReceptionSaturday October 18, 2-5 pm

Mac Pierce: deathmatch Closing Reception

 Allison Reimus: Repetition with Variety

The Fall West Loop Contemporary Fine Art EXPO... Celebrate Chicago Artist Month at an Art Expo unlike any in Chicagoland! At the Stephen M. Bailey Auditorium in Plumbers Hall | 1340 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607 Located on the fabulous Randolph Street Restaurant Row. A Curated Boutique Expo, featuring more than 40 Invitation-Only Artists, offering Original Art direct to the public. Presenting exemplary Artists from 7 states, this Midwest Exclusive Art Expo takes place in an historic Beaux-Arts auditorium in Chicago's trendy and conveniently located West Loop. The Fall West Loop Contemporary Fine Art Expo will feature a unique collection of eclectic, extraordinary and diverse art including: Abstract &amp; Abstract-Expressionism,Cityscapes, Encaustic, Expressionism, Figurative, Impressionism, Pastel, Plein Air, Post-Impressionism, Pop Art Realism, Sculpture, Still Life, Watercolor and more... Artists will be on-site to discuss their work and offer the opportunity for attendees to purchase fine art at affordable prices. Visit <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.westloopartexpos.com/" target="_blank">www.GourmetExpos.com</a> to see Artists Gallery Expo Hours/Tickets:• First Look Preview, Includes Hor d'oeuvres (Cash Bar), Friday, October 17, 7PM to 10PM - $40• Saturday, 11AM to 7PM• Sunday, 11AM; And Special for Art Lovers &amp; Bears Fans - Post Game Hours Open to 7PM Daily Tickets $20Multiple Day Tickets Available Parking:&nbsp;Plenty of low cost parking on site. For further information and tickets:Gourmet Expos, Beverly Hills, CA <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:info@gourmetexpos.com?subject=CGN%20Inquiry" target="_blank">info@gourmetexpos.com</a><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.westloopartexpos.com/" target="_blank">www.gourmetexpos.com</a>310-358-9097

The Fall West Loop Contemporary Fine Art EXPO

ABOUT THE DRIEHAUS MUSEUMThe Driehaus Museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its permanent collection and temporary exhibitions are presented in an immersive experience within the restored Nickerson Mansion, completed in 1883, at the height of the Gilded Age, and the Murphy Auditorium, built in 1926. The Museum’s collection reflects and is inspired by the collecting interests, vision, and focus of its founder, the late Richard H. Driehaus. For more information, visit<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.driehausmuseum.org/" target="_blank">driehausmuseum.org</a>&nbsp;and connect with the Museum on&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Driehaus-Museum/362867207176025" target="_blank">Facebook</a>,&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://twitter.com/DriehausMuseum" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, and&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/driehausmuseum/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. ABOUT THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA&nbsp;&nbsp;Founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the world’s great orchestras. In April 2024, Klaus Mäkelä was named the Orchestra’s 11th music director, and&nbsp;he&nbsp;will begin an initial five-year tenure as Zell Music Director with the 2027/28 Season. Riccardo Muti, the Orchestra’s&nbsp;distinguished 10th music director from 2010 until 2023,&nbsp;became Music Director Emeritus for Life at the beginning of the&nbsp;2023/24 Season. Daniil Trifonov is the CSO Artist-in-Residence for the 2024/25 Season. The CSO commands a vast repertoire, from baroque through contemporary music. Its renowned musicians perform more than 150 concerts annually, in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center in downtown Chicago and each summer at the Ravinia Festival in suburban Highland Park. The ensemble regularly tours nationally, and since 1892, has made 64 international tours, performing in 29 countries on five continents.&nbsp;&nbsp; Patrons around the globe enjoy weekly radio broadcasts of CSO concerts and recordings via the WFMT Radio Network and online at&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://cso.org/experience/csoradio/" target="_blank">cso.org/radio</a>. Launched in 2007,&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://cso.org/experience/curation/cso-resound/" target="_blank">CSO Resound</a>&nbsp;is the ensemble’s Grammy Award–winning independent record label, featuring live performances with world-class conductors and guest artists. Since 1916, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have amassed an extensive discography that has earned 65 Grammy awards from the Recording Academy.&nbsp; The CSO is part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA), which also includes the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Symphony Center Presents, and the Negaunee Music Institute. The&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://cso.org/about/chicago-symphony-chorus/" target="_blank">Chicago Symphony Chorus</a>, founded by Margaret Hillis in 1957, is the country’s largest professional chorus. Founded by second music director Frederick Stock during the 1919/20 Season, the&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://cso.org/education-community/musician-training/civic-orchestra-of-chicago/" target="_blank">Civic Orchestra of Chicago</a>&nbsp;is a training ensemble for emerging professionals with Ken-David Masur serving as its principal conductor.&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://cso.org/about/scp/" target="_blank">Symphony Center Presents</a>features guest artists and ensembles across an expansive array of genres, including classical, jazz, world and contemporary. The&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://cso.org/education-community/negaunee-music-institute/" target="_blank">Negaunee Music Institute</a>&nbsp;offers community and educational programs that annually engage more than 200,000 people of diverse ages and backgrounds throughout the Chicagoland area.&nbsp; Through the Institute and numerous other activities — including annual free community concerts in Chicago neighborhoods — the CSO is committed to using the power of music to strengthen bonds with its longtime patrons and create connections with new audiences.&nbsp; The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is supported by thousands of patrons, volunteers and institutional and individual donors. The Negaunee Foundation provides generous support in perpetuity for the work of the Negaunee Music Institute.&nbsp;For more information, visit<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.cso.org/" target="_blank">&nbsp;cso.org</a>.

CSO Chamber Music: Tiffany: Beyond the Shade

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.lydia-cheshewalla.com/" target="_blank">Lydia Cheshewalla</a>&nbsp;is an Osage ephemeral artist from Oklahoma, living and working in motion throughout the Great Plains ecoregion. Through the creation of site-specific land art and ephemeral installations grounded in Indigenous land stewardship practices and kinship pedagogies, Lydia engages in multivocal conversations about place and relationship.Before Dreams Are The Last Place We Find You&nbsp;will open at Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods on Sunday, September 7th. This exhibition is an ephemeral, site-specific installation by Cheshewalla, and will be created during her August residency at the&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://u42186243.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.zxVNEzr3j7bKoUk7A4NXGZNB8oOLOqTcAAFFYxtPETDIh9u6QcvOB7PqoU4oq8A01no5_9uHmFFh6MfqDdixRshDhKw2v-2BWPO5Q-2FByyVjUiVuh8fyjMtzsNjgdg5-2FWNEK-2B2Kcv86amq7dUyvCfXsdv-2FaS3HlHCTeyVyRHY24tpeN3jiOaLr4W-2BC5b0g0qJMchE2ifmJzjbTv3q8EZIQQgUd-2B8FmBwG-2BmS6xKeXwMpkLZUX-2BQLDjkZPUn9JOk-2BiPw2V9xvqZmH1DGTi1tf1B6niI7Uug-3D-3D" target="_blank">Center for Humans &amp; Nature</a>in Libertyville, Illinois.Once the work is created, it will be carefully transported to Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods for installation.&nbsp;Because this work is time and season reliant, what it will look like remains to be seen.Cheshewalla’s practice is built on an ethos that views all beings as sacred, with their own agency, and with a right to complete their cycle of life and death. She works mainly with naturally shed material and seeds that are ready for collecting. At the end of installations, each being is returned to its original place in nature where it was gathered, closing the circle of creation.A selection of Cheshewalla’s work will be published by&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://humansandnature.org/digital/" target="_blank">the digital branch of Humans &amp; Nature Press</a>. The Digital Press celebrates diverse sources of wisdom about what it means to be human in an interconnected world.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Before Dreams Are The Last Place We Find You

Paul Mitchell is an art professor and digital artist living in Illinois. This selection is from a body of work reflecting his interest in climate change, beginning in 2006, with the publication of&nbsp;An Inconvenient Truth&nbsp;by Al Gore. This led to the realization that climate change was connected to global warming, ocean acidification, wildlife extinction, and massive migration of life on the planet. Most recently, his focus has been on mitigation of the problems and suffering caused by climate change. The art is meant to work together, supporting a context of healing our planet.&nbsp;Closing reception and gallery talk: October 23, 7-9pm Wadsworth Family GalleryLewis UniversityOremus Fine Arts CenterOpen 9am-9pm DailyContact Natalie Swain for more information,&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:swainna@lewisu.edu" target="_blank">swainna@lewisu.edu</a>

Paul Mitchell

Aesthetics of Power, an exhibition juried by artist Mahwish Chishty, looks closely at how aesthetics can be used to express layered, quietly disruptive ideas. This exhibition features work that surprises, that reveals itself slowly, or that occupies the fragile space where beauty unsettles rather than soothes. Artists in this exhibition reflect on how aesthetic interpretations carry the weight of history, how beauty might obscure or reveal power, and how what is finely wrought can also bear witness. Exhibiting Artists: Parto &amp; Pardis Ahmadpour, Rodrigo Azaola, Jane A Barrow, Rex Cassidy, Kyle Chaput, Lucas Cordes,&nbsp;Vincent Escareno, Morgan Ford Willingham, Tara Sabini, Mack Gingles, Matthew Girson, Briena Harmening, Yuliya Klochan, Roopa Kosuri, Jiselle Ramirez, Sajal Siwakoti, Yaning Xing, Shelly Zhang.

Aesthetics of Power

"Moving On” is a compilation of abstract paintings influenced by the experience of the pandemic, from the days before its onset, to the lasting effects on present day. Eleven bright and complex canvases invite the viewer to connect with the struggle between always changing complexities and mobile, but always present, soothing space.

Elyse Martin: Moving On

Art + Design Faculty Exhibition: Redux&nbsp;is the first faculty exhibition at the Tarble in five years. The exhibition brings together recent and newly created works by current and emeritus studio art faculty from Eastern Illinois University's Department of Art + Design. The term redux, meaning brought back or revived, was chosen to emphasize the long-awaited return of the faculty show to the Tarble’s exhibition cycle. Redux will feature a wide variety of artwork from painting, sculpture, and ceramics to digital media, installation, printmaking, and more. This exhibition presents a remarkable opportunity to engage with the creative work of the educators who shape the future generations of artists and designers.&nbsp; Featuring:&nbsp;Matt Boonstra, Jenny Chi, Ann Coddington, Hannah Eads, Burçak Gezeroğlu Christensen, Bill Heyduck, Chris Kahler, Alicia Little, Dwain Naragon, Laura O'Donnell, Brad Olson, Robert Petersen, Alan Pocaro, Erin Rice, David Richardson, and Samantha Tableriou.

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