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

Join artist Yoonshin Park and Director of Exhibitions and Residency Mariela Acuña, as they discuss the work in the exhibition&nbsp;Yoonshin Park: Prompt and Prompted.&nbsp;The conversation will offer insights into the artist’s interest in artists books, methodologies in her practice, and how her teaching practice has informed and expanded her ideas of what artists books can be.&nbsp;The artist talk will take place Thursday, February 19, from 6 - 7 PM.A Q&amp;A will follow the conversation.&nbsp;This program is free and open to all!&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://oq8cplyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001OAvFu-cOrbnfxV4l2KXQPCHd--IxcB1Keg4OdOQw0qnBzOwpVGQfhgBocHQ8WHUAjopAV-F-TqHN_NZUhVuW7ZMXjCYxyEoOd11Ny1N2zrLNIee_KxuywMUhe7mxICk5ba_jcJHDAmXK8LjhapIN3hIImGQ3C5ZYezoedlJYel_LBC6aIVj2AxBWMXH3ow8UOwixDvbdZusxQ3s9nKmOFzD-nwri2avTzP3-71WrtT1ZxSa-g73gOQ==&amp;c=2cAzjmAYpTwkuQ9-Lg7AULP9qOve3_zR5j3STpKnTvAiHnfJ9xd_TA==&amp;ch=5fW2A2bAIQVGksqHUOCMxewSDSvG93haJ6DaIwbwBITfRW_UahM2QA==" target="_blank">MORE INFO</a>

Artist talk with Yoonshin Park & curator Mariela Acuña

RECEPTION AND GALLERY TALK: FEBRUARY 19, 7PMCelebrate Women Artists at the Field with Rebecca Banasiak, Peggy Macnamara, and Adrienne Stroup, whose work bridges art and science in bold, imaginative ways. Inspired by the museum’s collections and mission to connect all of us to the natural world, their creations reveal the beauty of discovery and the power of visual storytelling. Join this visionary collective during Women’s History Month, February–March 2026, in celebration of STEAM and creativity.

Gallery Talk: Women Artists in the Field

Register&nbsp;for the Virtual Artist's&nbsp;Talk&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://perspectivegallery.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=04a588cae42ffc5c2d944d823&amp;id=9baafc17b6&amp;e=d73170d386" target="_blank">here</a>Join us this evening from 5-7pm at Perspective Gallery in Evanston for an opening reception for&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://perspectivegallery.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=04a588cae42ffc5c2d944d823&amp;id=992d0b9f13&amp;e=d73170d386" target="_blank">Hold</a>,&nbsp;our invitational show&nbsp;featuring six artists currently pursuing their BFA in photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Curated by Aimée Beaubien, Professor and Chair, Department of Photography, SAIC,&nbsp;Hold&nbsp;is a meditation on loss, distance, identity and memory. The&nbsp;exhibition reflects the many ways images attempt to grasp what is already slipping&nbsp;away, asking us to consider what we keep, what we return to and what holds us. Featured artists are:Abigail Brooke Ackles&nbsp;@abi_brooke.jpgEthan Kunoff&nbsp;@ethankunoff.artIsabel Lim&nbsp;@_isabellimCollin Lust&nbsp;@carbon_lustSarah Price&nbsp;@sarahpricephotosDev Kili Stolkiner&nbsp;@dev_photographs In this show, we are invited to enter a space of continuum, where photographs become conduits between generations, between past and present, between the remembered and the reconstructed. Childhood homes are revisited and family snapshots of everyday life are re-contextualized within the emotional architecture&nbsp;of belonging. These photographs invite us to&nbsp;look with, through and all around - to linger, to listen and to recognize the echoes of our own histories held&nbsp;in proximity.The exhibition runs through Sunday, March 1, 2026 with a&nbsp;virtual artists' talk&nbsp;on Thursday, February 19&nbsp;at 7pm. This Zoom event is free to join but preregistration is required. You can sign up for the talk&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://perspectivegallery.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=04a588cae42ffc5c2d944d823&amp;id=8d4c1b8bd2&amp;e=d73170d386" target="_blank">here</a>.

Artist's Talk (virtual)

The conversation with Ivy Wilson, Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University, and John Corbett about Duke Ellington's 1939 U.S. passport&nbsp;has been postponed. Please join us on&nbsp;Saturday, February 21&nbsp;at&nbsp;2pm&nbsp;to dive into this fascinating artifact, the significance of personal documentation in periods of international crisis, and the status of ephemeral material culture in African American history.

In conversation with Ivy Wilson

Saturday, February 21, 2PM, In-Person, FREE﻿The thirty portraits in the exhibition&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=2a032550f6&amp;e=64540e863b" target="_blank">Hamdia Traoré’s “Des marabouts de Djenné” and Muslim Portraiture in Mali&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;reflect the artist's intimate connections to the city’s people and deep history. Learned and devout, marabouts teach in Jenne’s over 50 Qur’anic schools, offer spiritual guidance, and treat ailments through their knowledge of the Qur’an. This public program will discuss Hamdia Traoré’s portraits of marabouts in relation to an earlier generation of Muslim portraiture, and will also consider the role of archives in preserving the history of West African photography.<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=81c7a85e25&amp;e=64540e863b" target="_blank">RSVP FOR OPENING KEYNOTE</a>

Hamdia Traoré’s "Des Marabouts de Djenné," West African Portraiture and the Archive

Tuesday, February 24, 5:30–6:30 p.m. In this lecture, Jason Farago, critic at large for&nbsp;The New York Times, will discuss how screens, devices, platforms, and algorithms have transformed both the work of art and our encounter with it, and will explore whether and how culture can still champion human values in an inattentive age. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/th0vwl/td1dw8/dty5ycb" target="_blank">Read more</a>

Lecture by Jason Farago: “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Distraction”

Lecture in Photography: Joel SternfeldThursday, February 26, 202612:00 pm Ferguson Lecture Hall600 S. Michigan Ave.Chicago, IL

Lecture in Photography: Joel Sternfeld

In this conversation with tattoo artist Beth Mintzer and decorative arts curator Elizabeth McGoey, discover how Tiffany lamps have shaped artistic expression from historic interiors to contemporary tattoo studios.

Ornament & Identity: From Tiffany Studios to Tattoo Studios

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.mocp.org/events/lecture-in-photography-bob-thall/" target="_blank">Lecture in Photography: Bob Thall</a> Thursday, March 12, 20266:00-7:30 pmMoCP600 S. Michigan Ave.Chicago, IL Please join MoCP and Columbia College Chicago School of Visual Arts for a Lecture in Photography with Bob Thall. *Ferguson Lecture Hall is located on the ground level of 600 S. Michigan Ave. For several decades, Bob Thall has been known for his formally rigorous and deadpan portrayals of the urban and suburban landscape in Chicago, photographing in sharp detail a view camera. His new project looks at cities across the US and his long term commitment to black and white large format work. Thall served on the faculty at Columbia College Chicago from 1976 to 2017 and chaired the Photography Department from 1999 to 2011. His work and scholarship have played a crucial role in the museum’s history and the broader educational landscape. Lectures in Photography is co-sponsored in partnership with MoCP and Columbia College Chicago School of Visual Arts.

Lecture in Photography: Bob Thall

DiscussionSpecial Guests of the ArtistWith Danny Bredar, Gaylen Gerber, and Oscar ZhengSun, Mar 22, 2pm For this informal discussion in the gallery space, Leah Ke Yi Zheng is joined by three people from her close circle: artists Danny Bredar and Gaylen Gerber, and her son Oscar Zheng. Each of them brings an intimate familiarity with her practice and a deeply personal perspective on her work. In an impromptu, unscripted exchange, they surface aspects of Zheng’s exhibition that might not emerge in a formal artist talk. Their conversation mirrors the spirit of the&nbsp;I Ching&nbsp;itself, which, according to Zheng, absorbs all aspects of life. Visit&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://renaissancesociety.org/" target="_blank">renaissancesociety.org</a>&nbsp;for more information.

Discussion with Danny Bredar, Gaylen Gerber, and Oscar Zheng

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.mocp.org/events/talk-and-workshop-reimagining-the-photo-album-with-matthew-finley/" target="_blank">Talk and Workshop: Reimagining the Photo Album&nbsp;with Matthew Finley</a> Saturday, April 11, 202612- 1 pm Lecture1-2:30 pm Workshop MoCP600 S. Michigan Ave.Chicago, IL Join MoCP collection artist Matthew Finley (American, b. 1972) for a lecture and workshop exploring the creative possibilities of family and personal archives. Participants will reimagine the photo album as a space for personal or fictional storytelling, using either their own pictures or provided images to create imaginative, curated albums. This program is inspired by Finley’s series and new book&nbsp;An Impossibly Normal Life, a fictional narrative composed of sourced snapshots from around the world that reimagine his late uncle’s life and their shared experiences of coming out and belonging.&nbsp; This program will be held in the MoCP print study room. It is free but requires registration (link is forthcoming).

Talk and Workshop: Reimagining the Photo Album with Matthew Finley

On View: April 2-24Reception and Awards: April 9, 7pmGallery Talk with Prize Winners: April 22, 2pm The President’s 18th Annual Art Exhibition highlights the top artwork from Lewis Students and Alumni. This important juried exhibition is hosted by the Department of Art and Design and sponsored by Dr. David Livingston,President of Lewis University. Image Description:&nbsp;Electric Madonna, oil on canvas by Annabelle Makselan, First Place 2025

Gallery Talk with Prize Winners: The President’s 18th Annual Art Exhibition

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.mocp.org/events/lecture-in-photography-carla-williams/" target="_blank">Lecture in Photography: Carla Williams</a>Wednesday, May 6, 20266:00-7:30 pm Ferguson Lecture Hall600 S. Michigan Ave.Chicago, IL&nbsp; Carla Williams (American, b. 1965) is a photographer and curator known for her explorations of identity, race, gender, and representation. In her early work in the 1980s, she used a large-format camera to explore her own image, in work that reflected the lack of visibility of Black women in photographic history. Williams is the co-author of&nbsp;The Black Female Body: A Photographic History&nbsp;(2002) with Deborah Willis. She served as a curator of photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and was a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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