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

Artists&nbsp;Bob Faust and Mayumi Lake&nbsp;lead a tour through the exhibition and answer questions from the audience. The artists will share their thoughts about how the Shakkei principle has informed their artmaking and their process of collaboration for this exhibition.&nbsp;SHAKKEI: Artist Talk &amp; Exhibition TourSaturday, September 131:00-2:30pmIncluded with museum admission. Members are free <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://elmhurstartmuseum.org/events/shakkei%20artist%20talk?utm_source=EAM+General+Mailing+List&amp;utm_campaign=b0af74010e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_24_08_17_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_2e43eedea7-b0af74010e-374555725&amp;mc_cid=b0af74010e&amp;mc_eid=9f943455be" target="_blank">SHAKKEI ARTISTS TOUR OF EXHIBITION</a>

SHAKKEI: Artist Talk & Exhibition Tour

An artist walkthrough of the exhibition of the&nbsp;Industry of the Ordinary (IOTO) Summer Residency 2025 will take place on Saturday, September 13th from 5–7pm, offering deeper insight into the artists’ processes and the evolution of the work.SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art is proud to host the culminating exhibition of the&nbsp;Industry of the Ordinary (IOTO) Summer Residency 2025, opening Saturday,&nbsp;September 6th, and running through&nbsp;September 27th, 2025. Now in its&nbsp;eighth year, IOTO's enduring and ever-evolving program continues to offer a platform for critical experimentation and bold expression by emerging artists.The 2025 residency expands its reach with a three-week public exhibition, offering viewers an extended opportunity to engage with the fresh, challenging, and diverse perspectives produced over the course of this unique summer program. For the first time, the show will take place at&nbsp;SoNa Chicago, creating a new context for these artists to consider the economic and spatial realities of exhibiting work professionally — including the opportunity to offer work for sale.At the opening on Saturday, September 6th from 5–8pm, all 15 residents will activate the full site of the exhibition address - moving beyond the traditional white cube to engage both interior and exterior spaces. Visitors can expect a mix of time-based, performative, and spatial interventions alongside two- and three-dimensional works, continuing the Residency’s longstanding commitment to diverse and experimental practices.At its core, the IOTO Summer Residency is rooted in the belief that&nbsp;art has the unique power to bring diverse voices together, revealing new dimensions of what it means to be human. The program is structured around intensive studio development, open discussion, and critical inquiry — with weekly meetings and mentorship from&nbsp;Industry of the Ordinary, whose own practice challenges the boundaries between the personal and the public, the ordinary and the extraordinary.Housed primarily at IOTO’s studio at&nbsp;Mana Contemporary&nbsp;in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, the residency invites participants to develop new work across a variety of media while engaging in deep conversations around process, form, value, and impact. This year's cohort reflects the spirit of the program: intellectually curious, materially adventurous, and socially aware. Their work, shaped through both individual exploration and group dialogue, invites us to consider not only artistic outcomes but also the systems of meaning and connection through which those outcomes arise.Since its founding in 2015, the IOTO Summer Residency has cultivated a space for radical questioning and creative rigor. This year’s exhibition continues that tradition, inviting visitors to witness the unfolding of new artistic voices engaged in both&nbsp;personal narrative and public discourse&nbsp;— and to be part of a conversation that extends well beyond the gallery walls.&nbsp;Contact: Laura Botwinick, Phone: (773) 513-4436, Email:&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:lkbotwinick@gmail.com" target="_blank">lkbotwinick@gmail.com</a>&nbsp;Gallery website:&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sonachicagoart.com/" target="_blank">https://sonachicagoart.com/</a>&nbsp;Facebook &amp; Instagram: @sonachicagoartIndustry of the Ordinary (Adam Brooks, 773-301-7162,&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:adambrooks9@gmail.com" target="_blank">adambrooks9@gmail.com</a>; Mathew Wilson,&nbsp;312-927-8855,&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:mathewcwilson98@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mathewcwilson98@yahoo.com</a>)<a style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.industryoftheordinary.com/" target="_blank">www.industryoftheordinary.com</a> Image: Akemi Nomo,&nbsp;LifeTime ( 人间，人間 )Photo credit: Industry of the Ordinary

Artist walkthrough

Explore Chicago’s West Town gallery scene with Art Encounter co-founder Joanna Pinsky. Begin at Patron Gallery with a solo exhibition by Bethany Collins, a multidisciplinary artist whose works examine the relationship of language and race, history and identity. Working with 19th century musical scores and US Dept of Justice reports, she erases, obscures, and rewrites the text. &nbsp;Switching gears, we head down the street to Volume Gallery for an exhibition of richly-colored weavings by California based artist Porfirio Gutiérrez, who brings the techniques of his Zapotec background to his modernist work.Next, we examine intricate large scale representational graphite drawings by Journie Cirdain at Western Exhibitions. The gallery is also featuring fanciful, delicate paintings on paper and mixed media sculpture by Italian born, New York based artist Simone Mantellassi.Our morning ends at Document Gallery with a two person show of sculptors Kiah Celeste and Gordon Hall, who work with functional items such as fluorescent lights and cast hangers mixed with art materials to create poetic and thought-provoking artworks.Image Credit: Previous Weekend Art Walk at GRAY ChicagoLink to Register: <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.artencounter.org/weekend-art-walks" target="_blank">https://www.artencounter.org/weekend-art-walks</a>

Weekend Art Walk: West Chicago Avenue Galleries

On&nbsp;September 21 from&nbsp;1:00-2:00pm, join expert guest docent&nbsp;Bobbi Pinkert from the Chicago Architecture Center&nbsp;for a special McCormick House tour in celebration of the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. As a self-named “archiholic,” Bobbi Pinkert has been a CAC docent since 1999. She is the leader of many tours including the First Lady, Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise. Pinkert will share her expertise about the McCormick House, Mies van der Rohe, and modernist architecture. The McCormick House is a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. It is one of only three free-standing residences designed and built by Mies in the United States--and one of only two open to the public.&nbsp;Advance tickets recommended due to limited capacity. Tours are free for members (please call the museum to reserve your ticket 630-834-0202 ex 13 ).&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://elmhurstartmuseum.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=79cd6ec4fe739f4c6b4128435&amp;id=df0275aa96&amp;e=9f943455be" target="_blank">Tickets for non-members are available online.</a>

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