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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

Join us for a reading and conversation with Micheal O'Siadhail, the world's leading living Irish poet. For over 50 years, his lyrical mediations have captured relationships between humanity and nature, despair and faith, and courage and healing. Tonight, he will read from his newest book The Essential Poems, which brings together selected works from throughout his career. Poet and Director of Northwestern University Press Parneshia Jones will lead a conversation following the reading. Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu.

Reading and Conversation with Micheal O'Siadhail

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

teamLab member Sohee Hong and curator Allison Martino discuss teamLab’s creative practice and interests in perception through artworks in the exhibition.

teamLab & Allison Martino in conversation

This multi-day gathering will feature keynote lectures, panel discussions, and roundtables that explore the lives and afterlives of religious objects within museum collections.

Symposium: Religion, Art, and Provenance in Museums

Join artists and cultural workers Jasmin Cardenas, Érika Ordosgoitti, and Nazafarin Lotfi for a conversation moderated by Susan Gzesh as they explore the intersection of community arts, sanctuary, and civic action.

Conversation on the Intersection of Community Arts, Sanctuary, and Civic Action

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

Curator's Talk:  Modernity in the Making

Celebrate art and community at Hyde Park Art Center—enjoy a conversation between Jackman Goldwasser resident Pooja Pittie and artist Soumya Netrabile, followed by a community dinner, free and open to all. Pittie is the inaugural resident of the Beyond Bodies of Work: A 3Arts + Hyde Park Art Center Residency.

Beyond Bodies of Work: A 3Arts + Hyde Park Art Center Residency

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.

Vacant Stares: Adrienne Brown on Rethinking Urban Emptiness

Neurologist, Professor, and Director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics Anjan Chatterjee and glass artist Judith Schaechter discuss how the brain perceives, creates, and responds to art.

Anjan Chatterjee & Judith Schaechter on Neuroaesthetics

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Christine Laquet, Jennifer Pitts, &amp; Zachary Cahill on the Climate Crisis. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, December 1st, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Zachary Cahill, Director of Programs and Fellowships at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, will moderate a discussion with the 2026-2027 Gray Fellows.

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