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Wisconsin

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West Loop, Fulton Market, East Garfield Park

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

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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

Hear acclaimed contemporary artist Leonardo Drew discuss his bold, monumental work and creative practice in conversation with collector and longtime friend Fred Giuffrida ’73.

Artist Talk: Leonardo Drew

Join Us for an In-Person Presentation by Evanston/California Photobook Artist Richard (Chip) Hay, Jr. on Thursday, September 24, 2026, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at 1310 1/2 B Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL. You are invited to meet Richard (Chip) Hay, Jr. as he presents and leads a discussion on his inaugural photobook, Resounding with Echoes: Sojourns across Africa and America. (Kehrer Verlag, 2026). Through a nuanced interplay of black-and-white and color photography, Hay traces quiet correspondences between West Africa and the Americas, offering a lyrical meditation on everyday life across geography and time. Framed by an essay by renowned Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma, the images are situated within a broader reflective context, collapsing temporal distance and proposing photography as a means of attentive witnessing—one that honors the ordinary while acknowledging the layered histories embedded within it. As part of the discussion, Hay will also provide his insights into the process of using images from a multi-decade archive to create a printed photo volume. Reviews of Resounding with Echoes have appeared in About Photography and in All About Photo. More information about the book can also be found on his website: RHayPhotography.com. About the Artist Richard (Chip) Hay visually explores the dynamics between people and the environments that they create and inhabit.&nbsp;Reflecting his interests and training in sociology, architecture, photography and design, Hay views built and natural environments as cultural manifestations of people and their societies. Hay has exhibited in several group shows including those at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, Blue Ski Gallery and the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel.&nbsp;&nbsp;He studied photography at Northwestern University, where he earned a PhD in Sociology.&nbsp;He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.

Gallery Talk and Book Presentation with Richard (Chip) Hay, Jr.

Join us for a special lecture by Michael Workman, a new Road Scholar. Presented in partnership with the Road Scholars Speakers Bureau. FREE EVENT!

Michael Workman: Writing as Cultural Archaeology and the Poetics of Place

Hyde Park Art Center is proud to celebrate a newly commissioned public mural by multi-disciplinary artist&nbsp;Kari Blak. Titled&nbsp;Nature of Reality, and painted in the artist's signature style in which colorful and approachable characters illustrate complex social challenges, the mural addresses critical aspects of the human-nature relationship and explores themes of change, loss, and potential renewal.<a href="https://oq8cplyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0017KdPZYt_Ag34FVScsgUslhVmrnQ8OTu1dpZNrFegczmkw4KvIGyNMb76Fun4JMHr84qhcEfE6VT4XAy4LTXPfpHp2pVu0aoIAGSuWBTBo-9wYSu0SEJHmelj8r_ymSiomJ4N9vTgTtbVRsraL_BYt_YcV87kLdOi5b_XJLs3kpIpX7uaOBvvoe1lmvzlKG0BhQdeb3M-nNHc1RZY5NwaMm5VC0wuyz5nu3ZiJF_BezetJeoIvFQT9jQswokZZWhH&amp;c=JkkQAdrQMvem6-ji0y83TOxniWfrcIkREsQE4YR4OmzZSCNK5etvJA==&amp;ch=N0WCXgyfsly2HcN5iW5BXWJ68AFFzU9LePui-3IbcZHATsEOnSPsxw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank">RSVP HERE</a><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1789664263/jhlc67lk4jy1k6p4sqio.gif" height="1" width="5">

Q&A With Kari Blak

Photography historian Greg Foster-Rice examines the relationship between picture-making and lived urban experience.

The Modern Metropolis & Images of the City

Please join us on Sunday, October 4 at 4pm for the next in our series of “Perspectives on Photography” events. We’re honored to host Chicago native Patty Carroll for this free, in-person presentation.Patty Carroll is known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs that delight viewers with playful critiques of home and excess. Her ongoing project, “Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise,” is a series of studio installations made for the camera, addressing women and their complicated relationships with domestic life. The resulting photos (made on a full-size “stage”) humorously comment on the mania of running and decorating a home. The objects take over, leading to mishaps and mayhem for the lone figure of a woman. More than 175 “Anonymous Women” have been photographed by Carroll over the years.In a 2024 interview with NewCity Chicago, Carroll revealed some of the strategy behind the staging of the life-size mannequins in her dioramas. “You never see their faces,” she says. “The best response I get is from women who walk around the show and say, ‘That one is me.’ They relate to the domestic situation we’ve created, whether it is collections of crap, a kitchen scene or multitasking.”Carroll’s photographs are exhibited on a dramatically large scale, and previous iterations have been published in several books. The series has been exhibited internationally, has won multiple awards, and has been acknowledged as one of Photolucida’s “Top 50” in 2014 and in 2017, and has been featured in prestigious blogs and international magazines such as the Huffington Post, the BJP in Britain, and NYT LensBlog, Washington Post Insight, Vanity Fair, Italia, and many others. Lecture/Discussion:Sunday, October 4, 2026, In-person4 PM at Perspective GallerySeating is limited and late comers may be turned away. We invite you to arrive early and visit our current exhibition before the event. Regular Gallery Hours:Thursday - Saturday, Noon - 6 PMSunday, Noon - 5 PM Address:&nbsp;1310-½ B Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201Dempster CTA Station (Purple Line) is just two blocks from the Gallery.Founded in 2010 Perspective Group and Photography Gallery is a not-for-profit, community-oriented cooperative of fine art photographers whose purpose is to promote fine art photography. In addition to monthly exhibitions and artist talks, the gallery features:&nbsp;Perspectives on Photography, a guest speaker lecture series;&nbsp;Lens, an international juried exhibition; an annual invitational show;&nbsp;Vicinity, a juried exhibition of photographers from the greater Chicago area; and,&nbsp;Student Perspectives, an annual, juried exhibit for Chicago-area high school students.

Perspectives on Photography: Lecture and Discussion by Patty Carroll

Journalist Natalie Y. Moore discusses the newly opened Obama Presidential Center and its impact on Chicago’s architectural and racial landscape in conversation with historian Leslie M. Harris.

Our Changing City: The Obama Presidential Center

Co-curator Eduardo Bello leads an in-gallery conversation about the exhibition.

Curator's Talk:  Modernity in the Making

Co-curator Corinne Granof leads an in-gallery conversation about the event "All the Noise and the Hurry" on Thursday, November 5, at 3:30 PM.

Curator's Talk: All the Noise and the Hurry

Adrienne Brown, Professor in the Departments of English and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, presents her current research on reimagining urban emptiness.

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