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Established in 1887, the Chicago Society of Artists is now into its third century. Much of CSA's renown is due to its members' abilities to express and interpret the human experience via artistic versatility and eclectic&nbsp;styles across a variety of art mediums. CSA members honor the legacy of the past by creating an artistic legacy for the future. Image:&nbsp;Reaching,&nbsp;oil on canvas, by Jeanine Hill-Soldner&nbsp; 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>

Chicago Society of Artists: An Artistic Dialogue

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, Sept 12, 2025 5-8pmOn view Sept 12 through Nov 1, 2025Group Exhibition -&nbsp;Misha Goro: Images of the City. Oil paintings on aluminum.

Misha Goro: Images of the City

Theaster Gates: Unto Thee&nbsp;centers on the multifaceted practice of Theaster Gates and&nbsp;explores how he employs sculpture to expose the complexities of surrender and accumulation through a series of large-scale installations, music and film, and the redeployment of deaccessioned objects from the University of Chicago, where Gates is currently Professor of Visual Arts.&nbsp;Through a series of sculptural interventions meditating on sacrifice,&nbsp;rites, consecration, libation, vows and offerings, Gates elevates invisible labor, interrogates artistic legacies, questions economies of power, and, equally, celebrates Black&nbsp;artistic and intellectual contributions.&nbsp;The exhibition will present Gates's latest work that continues to build on&nbsp;the material legacies of under-recognized histories, voices, and, in some cases, institutional structures&nbsp;first mined in these University objects. Gates will temporarily reunite these objects and collections back at the University for this special exhibition.&nbsp;The large-scale solo exhibition will also be accompanied by a site-specific installation as part of the Museum’s Threshold Lobby Series, which will be on view through July 2026.<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=6d81ba16bf&amp;e=a6ad3ea4a5" target="_blank">Read the Exhibition Listing</a>

Theaster Gates: Unto Thee

RAHELEH FILSOOFI&nbsp;is a collector of soil and sound, an itinerant artist, feminist curator, and community service advocate. Her work synthesizes socio-political statements as a point of departure and further challenges these fundamental arguments by&nbsp;incorporating ancient and contemporary media such as ceramics, poetry, ambient sound, and video. Her interdisciplinary practices act as interplay between the literal and figurative contexts of land, ownership, immigration, and border. Her work has been shown individually and collaboratively both in Iran and the United States, including the recent interactive multimedia solo exhibitions Inh(a/i)bited, an interactive multimedia installation in Spinello Project Gallery in Miami (2020), and The Overview Effect, an interactive Multimedia Installation in Betty Foy Sanders Gallery at Georgia Southern University (2019).&nbsp;Filsoofi’s ‘Imagined Boundaries’, a multimedia digital installation on border issues, consisting of two separate exhibitions, debuted concurrently in a solo exhibition at the Abad Art Gallery in Tehran and group exhibition (‘Dual Frequency’) at The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida in 2017.&nbsp;The installations in each country connected audiences in the U.S. and Iran for few hours in the nights of the show openings. Her multifaceted curatorial project ‘Fold: Art, Metaphor and Practice’, which engaged over 20 artists, scholars, and educators in exhibitions, performances, and lectures over a period of one year in Edinburg and McAllen, Texas, has been a milestone in her professional career. She has been the recipient of grants and awards, including the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.&nbsp;She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University. She holds an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University and a B.F.A. in Ceramics from Al-Zahra University in Tehran, Iran.

Raheleh Filsoofi

November 7, 2025 - January 3, 2026 Opening reception:&nbsp;&nbsp;Friday, November 7th -&nbsp;4pm to 7pm South Gallery

Hermann Aguirre

November 7, 2025 - January 3, 2026 Opening reception:&nbsp;&nbsp;Friday, November 7th -&nbsp;4pm to 7pm Main / Office Galleries

Sebastian Thomas

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, Nov 7, 2025 5-8pm On view through Jan 1, 2026 Solo Exhibition -&nbsp;TBA

Solo Exhibition

Staple + Stitch is an art book and print fair. A celebration and engagement with art, text, print, and paper hosted at 21c Museum Hotel Chicago. Exhibitors include arts publishers, small and independent presses, book artists, zine makers, and printmakers across the 2nd-floor spaces of the 21c Chicago. Tandem programming includes book signings, workshops, and demonstrations open to all ages. The three-day fair is free and open to the public with an emphasis on publications, artist books, zines, and other print-related materials. Fair Hours - all events free and open to the public. November 14: Preview Night, 6 - 9 pm November 15: Public Hours, 11 am - 6 pm November 16: Public Hours, 11 am - 6 pm <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.stapleandstitchfair.com/" target="_blank">Details</a>

Staple + Stitch Art Book and Print Fair

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