West Town, Wicker Park, Ukrainian Village, Kinzie Corridor, Humboldt Park

West Town

Wisconsin

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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

Toomey &amp; Co.'s Prints &amp; Multiples auction consists of various editioned works, such as lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and screenprints as well as sculptures, ceramics, and metalwork. Artists include major figures from the 19th century to the present, with many hailing from Chicago or the Midwest. We regularly offer works by: Gustave Baumann, Frances Gearhart, John Sloan, Martin Lewis, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Alexander Calder, Richard Hunt, Ed Paschke, and others.

Prints & Multiples

Maia Cruz Palileo&nbsp;(they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, installations, sculptures, and drawings navigate themes of migration and the permeable concept of home. Influenced by the oral history of their family’s arrival in the United States from the Philippines, as well as the history between the two countries, Palileo infuses these narratives using both memory and imagination. They produce paintings of dream-like quality that hover between fact and fiction. Investigating the malleable language of the medium, Palileo’s works offer a panoramic lens through which to investigate the larger questions&nbsp;pertaining to&nbsp;forgotten histories and how best to honor these stories in perpetuity. Sourcing subject matter through various photographic archives, their paintings recontextualize the stories, portraits, and images to resuscitate these figures from the exploitative gaze of the ethnographic image.&nbsp; Palileo (b.1979, Chicago, IL) received an MFA in sculpture from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY (2008) and BA in Studio Art at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (2001). Palileo has had solo exhibitions at&nbsp;David&nbsp;Kordansky&nbsp;Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2025);&nbsp;moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2023, 2021, 2019);&nbsp;The Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL (2023);&nbsp;Kimball Arts Center, Park City, UT (2022); the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (2021); the&nbsp;Katzen&nbsp;Arts Center, Washington D.C. (2019);&nbsp;Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2018); Taymour&nbsp;Grahne&nbsp;Gallery, New York, NY (2017); and&nbsp;Cuchifritos&nbsp;Gallery + Project Space, curated by Jordan&nbsp;Buschur, New York, NY (2015).&nbsp;Palileo has been featured in recent group exhibitions at&nbsp;the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2024);&nbsp;Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2024); Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, LA (2024);&nbsp;Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2023);&nbsp;Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (2023); The Nasher Museum, Durham, NC (2023);&nbsp;National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (2022); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2022); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (2022); Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022); The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (2018); and the Bureau of General Services Queer Division, New York, NY.&nbsp;Palileo will present&nbsp;a&nbsp;solo show&nbsp;at&nbsp;moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL&nbsp;(2025).&nbsp;&nbsp;Their work is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD;&nbsp;The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA;&nbsp;Cummer Museum of Art &amp; Gardens. Jacksonville, FL; The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C;&nbsp;The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC;&nbsp;The Speed Museum, Louisville, KY;&nbsp;and The&nbsp;Fredriksen&nbsp;Collection at the National Museum of Oslo, Norway.&nbsp;Palileo is a recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas&nbsp;Studio Program Award, NY (2022); NYFA Painting Fellowship (2021); Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Program Grant (2017); Rema&nbsp;Hort&nbsp;Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2014); Astraea Visual Arts Fund Award (2009); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters &amp; Sculptors Grant (2008); and Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award (2018).&nbsp;Palileo has&nbsp;participated&nbsp;in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME; Lower East Side Print Shop, NY; Millay Colony, Austerlitz, New York; and the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans. They currently live and work in Brooklyn, NY.&nbsp; Image: Maia Cruz Palileo,&nbsp;I Am Well, How Are You?, 2025, oil on linen, 72 x 68 in

Maia Cruz Palileo: Branch Dance

Pedro Montilla is a Colombian artist whose practice unfolds through painting as a way to understand the experience of being alive and surrounded by life. His work stems from the understanding of painting as a mystical being, voracious and capable of imbuing objects with life. Through this lens, his practice becomes a space for transformation, reflection, and attentive presence. Pedro works primarily on fique fabric, a fiber cultivated, dried, and woven in the Colombian Andes, traditionally used to transport coffee beans and harvests. This surface mirrors both belonging to a place while also holding a sense of dislocation and memory for what it touches. On it, he creates hybrid objects that exist between painting and tapestry, holding an imagery of landscapes, scenes, and abstractions that reflect an amalgam of internal states and lived experience.&nbsp;Montilla (b.1997, Bogotá, Colombia) holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2025) and a BFA from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (2020). He has presented solo exhibitions at Policroma Galería, Medellín (2023; 2021), and participated in group exhibitions at the Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL (2025); Chili Art Projects, London, UK (2024); National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL (2024); Galería El Museo, Bogotá (2024); SGR Galería, Bogotá (2021); among others. He was a Fellow at Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI (2025) and is currently a resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL. Montilla lives and works in Chicago, IL and is currently a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Image: Pedro Montilla, Primero&nbsp;está la soledad / First there is loneliness, 2025, oil and tempera on fique, 57 x 78 in

Pedro Montilla

The Kim Storage Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition&nbsp;Mostly Stripes: Assemblages and Collages&nbsp;featuring Madison Artist&nbsp;Kevin Henkes.&nbsp;Kim Storage Gallery is pleased to present Mostly Stripes – Assemblages and Collages, a solo exhibition featuring a striking body of paper collages and wooden box assemblages by acclaimed artist and author Kevin Henkes. In this exhibition, stripes emerge as a recurring visual language—sometimes bold and rhythmic, other times subtle and understated. Whether appearing as cut paper elements in collages or as linear structures within wooden box assemblages, stripes anchor Henkes’s explorations of space, repetition, and variation. The title Mostly Stripes reflects both the prevalence of this motif across the works and the artist’s playful acknowledgement of its quiet insistence.Known internationally for his award-winning career as a children’s book author and illustrator, Henkes here extends his visual practice into new material realms. His collages, assembled from cut and layered papers, embody a delicate interplay of line, shape, and color. The wooden box constructions, by contrast, explore depth, texture, and spatial composition, creating intimate environments that feel at once playful and contemplative.Drawing upon a lifetime of storytelling through images and words, Henkes’s fine art reflects the same clarity, restraint, and emotional resonance that distinguish his books. Influences range from modernist abstraction and collage traditions to the narrative sensibility honed across more than four decades of bookmaking. Together, these works offer a glimpseinto the artist’s evolving exploration of form, material, and imagination.Kevin Henkes is the celebrated creator of over fifty books for young readers, spanning picture books, beginning readers, and novels. He is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for Kitten’s First Full Moon and a Newbery Honor for Olive’s Ocean, among numerous other distinctions including Caldecott Honors, Geisel Honors, and the Children’s Literature Legacy Award. His work has been translated into many languages and cherished by generations of readers worldwide.Beyond his literary acclaim, Henkes has long pursued drawing and painting as part of his daily practice. His collages and assemblages—now presented publicly in this exhibition—extend that visual language into a new and surprising register.He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, Laura Dronzek, a renowned artist and illustrator.Image: Cathedral, Mixed Media, 9 x 6.75 x 2.5"

Mostly Stripes: Assemblages and Collages: Kevin Henkes

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 pmNovember 15: Public Hours, 11 am - 6 pmNovember 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

Artists from around the country submit two self-portraits that depict change, progress, growth or other personal developments in a wide range of styles and media.

Mirror Mirror Exhibition

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is excited to announce the Chicago presentation of Firelei Báez, the first North American survey exhibition of the artist, running from November 15, 2025, to May 31, 2026. This landmark exhibition spans two decades of Báez’s spirited practice, showcasing her vibrant and captivating paintings and installations. Through a bold visual language that blends folklore, fantasy, mythology, and science fiction, Báez constructs layered worlds that challenge dominant historical narratives and unsettle the often-fixed categories of race, gender, and nationality. The exhibition emphasizes resilience and creative agency, especially among marginalized communities who have always found ways to create refuge and power in defiance of systems of repression. Known for her richly pigmented, multidisciplinary approach, Báez combines saturated colors, intricate patterns, and expressive figuration with abstract gestures, architectural plans, colonial-era maps, and culturally resonant symbols. Her work draws deeply from Afro-Caribbean traditions and acts as a cultural and historical crossroads for the enduring legacies of colonialism across the Americas, the African Diaspora, and the cultural nexus of the Caribbean. This major exhibition reaffirms Báez’s place as one of the most compelling and visionary artists of her generation. In addition to her dynamic paintings, the exhibition will feature one of her more immersive pieces, A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways) (2019), which will occupy an entire gallery at the MCA. This large-scale work consists of paintings, mesh, papier-mâché, cutout tarp, and plants that transport visitors into one of Báez’s created worlds. Chicago is also highlighted in the exhibition: The trace, whether we are attending to it or not (a space for each other’s breathing) (2019) features a ciguapa (a feminine, trickster creature from Dominican folklore) bending over an architectural plan of the Illinois Central Railroad, uniting both sides of the tracks, which run between New Orleans and Chicago, to restore the divisions left by colonial trade. Firelei Báez is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Deputy Director and Director of Curatorial Programs, Vancouver Art Gallery (former Barbara Lee Chief Curator, ICA/Boston), with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator, ICA/Boston. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presentation is organized by Carla Acevedo-Yates, former Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, with Cecilia González Godino, former Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow, and Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate.

Firelei Báez

1340 W Washington, Chicago, ILIndoorFind the most unusual and stylishly crafted mix of vintage and modern decorative objects, housewares, fashion for men/women/children, art, hostess gifts and more from 125 vendors! Browse vendors on three floors in the Plumbers Hall building! Tickets on sale soon.<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://randolphstreetmarket.com/schedule/#" target="_blank">Details</a>

Randolph Street Holiday Market 

The Block Collects&nbsp;- November 15 - 12:30PM&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=367bdedafc&amp;e=ac2aadcc58" target="_blank">RSVP</a>Explore artworks in depth through lively conversation and fresh perspectives with our Student Associate team.Join us for Art Talks!, a unique, participatory tour where Block Museum Student Associates (BMSA)&nbsp;lead discussion-based sessions focusing on artworks that ignite their curiosity. These 45-60 minute drop-in talks offer an opportunity to explore 1-3 selected artworks in depth, encouraging ample discussion and diverse perspectives. Open to all,&nbsp;Art Talks! highlight&nbsp;the interdisciplinary insights of our Student Associates and are ideal for anyone interested in a dynamic and interactive approach the museum.&nbsp;Upcoming Art Talks! include:

Art Talks! with Block Museum Student Associates 

Join artists Maia Cruz Palileo and Pedro Montilla in conversation with curator and Director of Exhibitions at Hyde Park Art Center Mariela Acuña for a talk discussing their respective exhibitions at the gallery,&nbsp;Branch Dance&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mirar abajo. <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://t8j4tqkab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001MVVBJLykS1vhUIHvvGH_662HPf9XUv1mSw03zVlZp7WmdAxgzqIB4W-2Dqpl6zJnse0BU99sp7hgj93ynZNSmMJ9mc41gLOPw2_c5knHYaAKtQFKqTeHpgE8GfC_jlHDCE4vh7JjpR2jGqZDtGMqtF0xzkbkGYc9MYcnjBpkmnE=&amp;c=vC8c5RgenbxfH1l2OLZEgSdiJ2p05iiv7_W2EM_jreSGQ6gQcafbxA==&amp;ch=v6vsyc6N8jR3B8BYZ2_FNzzbKmt-ARzSgA2GoGTSOOdMhmIubVQyLQ==" target="_blank">RSVP here</a>

﻿Maia Cruz Palileo and Pedro Montilla moderated by Mariela Acuña

Artist Talk with Michael J. Miller at SoNa Chicago Contemporary ArtSaturday, Nov 15, from 2:00 - 3:30 pmSoNa Chicago Contemporary Art, 1527 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60622&nbsp;Join us for a lively discussion with artist Michael J. Miller, moderated by SoNa Chicago co-curator Molly O'Donnell. Come hear about Michael's artistic process, his career, and his music. View his wonderful solo show, "A Measure of Time," which includes paintings, banners, wood sculpture, furniture, and handmade resonator guitars. Also view the SoNa Gallery Annex for "Selected Large Works by SoNa Gallery Artists" featuring Sharon Bladholm, Monica J. Brown, Mirentxu Ganzarain, Laleh Motlagh, and Jack Poker.

Artist Talk with Michael J. Miller

Join us for an artist panel discussion between solo artist Jacqueline Surdell and survey artists Jeff Carter and Amy Vogel, moderated by Pia Singh.This panel discussion will explore common themes found throughout both Surdell’s solo exhibition&nbsp;The Conversion: Rings, Rupture, and the Forest Archive&nbsp;and the invitational group exhibition&nbsp;Natura Non Constristatur. Pia Singh will lead a discussion investigating the fraught relationship between nature and humanity, philosophical constructs of time as it pertains to the artists’ practice, and the role of the sublime in a contemporary society.&nbsp;The artist talk will conclude by 4pm with a reception to follow.

Artist Panel Discussion moderated by Pia Singh

On the occasion of Once upon a midnight dreary, please join us on Saturday, November 15 at 12 p.m for a conversation between French painter, Djabril Boukhenaïssi and Editor-in-Chief of Poetry magazine, Adrian Matejka. Taking the exhibition as a point of departure, this conversation will explore Boukhenaïssi’s poetic investigations into the darkness of night as both subject and metaphor; reflecting on how the night, once a realm of mystery and imagination, has been eroded by modern light pollution and how this loss reshapes society.

Once upon a midnight dreary Artist Talk

Please join us Saturday, November 15 at&nbsp;2:30 PM&nbsp;for an&nbsp;artist talk with Scott Stack as part of his current exhibition. Scott Stack, installation view, 2025, image credit: Holly Murkerson

Artist Talk: Scott Stack

Artist Talk:&nbsp;Saturday, Nov. 15th, 2025 – 3-5pmTimeless Bodies interprets the human form through sculptural realism and abstraction. Throughout history, the human form has been symbolized as a container of life, emotion, and spirit, reflecting both fragility and resilience. How does the body hold and convey our stories, memories, or cultural history? Artists were encouraged to celebrate the interplay of form and storytelling in clay.&nbsp;Juror &amp; Curator:&nbsp;Nancy Pirri is an artist from Chicago, working primarily in ceramics and creating figures of all sizes. Pirri has won awards from the Beverly Arts Center and the Rockford Art Museum, including work published in ‘500 Figures in Clay’ V2. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA in Chicago representing women's rights anniversaries, and has acquired collectors from all over the world.&nbsp;She has exhibited with numerous galleries in the Midwest and is currently represented by Oliva Gallery, J. Petter Galleries (MI), Design at 329/Primitive/The Stalls, and Inner Haven Gallery.&nbsp; Image: Linda Marcus

Timeless Bodies Artist Talk

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.hydeparkart.org/" target="_blank">Hyde Park Art Center</a>, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, hosts its <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.hydeparkart.org/gala/" target="_blank">2025 Gala "Artists at the Center</a>”&nbsp;&nbsp;activating the entire building on&nbsp;Saturday, November 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., with an afterparty that goes till&nbsp;11:30 p.m.&nbsp;The lively event honors arts leader&nbsp;Esther Grimm&nbsp;and artist&nbsp;Amanda Williams,&nbsp;and is packed with hands-on art activities, commissioned performances, open studios, art auctions, and DJs from Lumpen Radio. The gala co-chairs are&nbsp;Mirja Spooner Haffner, Founder of The Laksmi Project,&nbsp;andChristy MacLear,&nbsp;President of&nbsp;Good Chaos. The Gala after-party is hosted in partnership with Lumpen Radio, with standalone tickets at $75 available for purchase on the Art Center’s website. Guests may RSVP and make donations at&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.hydeparkart.org/gala." target="_blank">www.hydeparkart.org/gala.</a> With a “creative cocktail” dress code, the evening will feature a cocktail party running from 5:30-7:00 p.m., followed by a seated dinner with remarks by Art Center leadership and artists. With a reputation as one of the city’s most “hands-on” art parties, the Gala will feature an after-party in collaboration with Lumpen Radio from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. that includes the popular Interactive Artist Interventions, resident artist open studios, performances, DJs, late-night bites, and more.&nbsp; Interactive Artist Interventions have been a highlight of past Art Center Galas, where guests were engaged in inventive interactions, such as getting inked by a tattoo artist and eating cake off a wall. The 2025 Gala will feature artist interventions by:&nbsp;Rabbit Foot Puppetry, an lgbtqia+ troupe that creates spectacle puppet shows;&nbsp;Cristal Sabbagh&nbsp;and&nbsp;Scott Rubin&nbsp;who will present an interdisciplinary performance of improvised music and drawing;&nbsp;Gabriela Estrada Loochkartt&nbsp;with an eco-feminist performance;&nbsp;Madeleine Aguilar&nbsp;with a musical activation and windchime workshop; and&nbsp;Regin Igloria&nbsp;with a bookbinding workshop.&nbsp;For more information on participating artists, visit<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://hydeparkart.org/gala" target="_blank">hydeparkart.org/gala</a>. The three DJs from Lumpen Radio are:&nbsp;DJ Colocha, who specializes in Cumbia and other Latin genres, drawing inspiration from both her New York upbringing and her Mexican heritage;&nbsp;DJ AfroQbano, an eclectic record collector, music producer, radio host, and founder of Future Rootz Records whose work is deeply rooted in the rhythms and traditions of the African diaspora, infused with the pulse of his Afro-Cuban identity; and&nbsp;DJ Logan Bay, a life long advocate for underground party scenes who has rocked parties across the globe for over 25 years. Gala tickets are available for $750 with host committee sponsorship levels beginning at $2,500. Guests may RSVP and make donations at<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.hydeparkart.org/gala" target="_blank">hydeparkart.org/gala</a>. For more information on sponsorship levels, please contact Samantha Foster at&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:sfoster@hydeparkart.org" target="_blank">sfoster@hydeparkart.org</a>. About the honoreesEsther Grimm&nbsp;has a career-long work in the arts that spans philanthropy, museum education, arts education, and executive coaching. From 2002 through 2024, she was the Executive Director/Founder of 3Arts, a social justice-based grant-making and arts service organization that advocates for and supports artists, including women artists, artists of color, and Deaf and disabled artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts in the Chicago area and in Southern Illinois. Since 2019, after earning her&nbsp;accreditation from the International Coaching Federation, Grimm has been working as a leadership coach with National Arts Strategies and as an independent life and leadership coach through Now Voyager, supporting arts, nonprofit, and culture leaders and artists at every stage of their careers. In 2020, she was appointed to the Cultural Advisory Council, completed National Arts Strategies’ Leadership Coaching Training Program, and was presented with the Diversity Award on behalf of 3Arts from the College Art Association. In 2017, She received the Kathryn V. Lamkey Spirit of Diversity Award from the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee of Actors’ Equity Association. Esther also received the Wren Award in honor of women in theater from Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, and the Women Who Make a Difference Award from Lakeside Bank. Amanda Williams&nbsp;is a visual artist who trained as an architect. Her breakthrough series,&nbsp;Color(ed) Theory, was recently named by the New York Times as one of the twenty-five most significant works of postwar architecture in the world. Williams has exhibited widely, including the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the MCA Chicago, and a public commission at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. She is co-designer of a forthcoming permanent monument to Shirley Chisholm in Brooklyn NY and part of the Museum Design Team for the Obama Presidential Center. Williams has garnered critical acclaim and been recognized as a USA Ford Fellow, a Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture grantee, a 3Arts Next Level awardee, and is the inaugural Artist-In-Residence at Smith College. She is a highly sought-after lecturer, including a mainstage 2018 TedTalk. Williams sits on the boards of the Graham Foundation, The Black Reconstruction Collective, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Her work is in several permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and the Museum of Modern Art. Her projects have recently been published in ‘Black Futures’ and ‘Radical Architecture of the Future’. Williams lives and works on the south side of Chicago. About Lumpen RadioLumpen Radio, WLPN-LP Chicago 105.5FM, launched in 2016 and broadcasts 24/7. WLPN-LP is operated by a community of curators working to connect audiences with music and ideas. Lumpen’s aim is to spotlight the hidden parts of the city by amplifying its voices and sounds. Lumpen promotes open media, uniting communities and magnifying the hard work of artists, musicians, activists and cultural workers. WLPN is a project of Public Media Institute (PMI). PMI is a non-profit 501(c)3, community-based art and culture organization located in the city of Chicago since 2001. PMI’s mission is to create, incubate and sustain innovative cultural programming through the production of socially engaged projects, festivals, spaces, exhibitions, and media. About Hyde Park Art CenterHyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering, production, and exhibition space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of artists to establishing a strong legacy of risk-taking and experimentation, emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. Today, the Art Center offers a diverse suite of programs for artists and art lovers of all backgrounds, ages, and stages in their careers including: contemporary art exhibitions in six galleries; an open-access community-based school with 2,000 annual enrollments; weekly arts education to 1,000 elementary school students in public schools; weekly and summer teen programs for 100 teen artists; professional-advancement programs for artists; a local and international artist residency; and public programs that connect residents with Chicago art and artists. The Art Center’s Oakman Clinton School + Studio is the nation’s first fully contribute-what-you-can visual art school for all ages. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for creative voices of today and tomorrow, providing the space to cultivate new work and connections. For more information, visit<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.hydeparkart.org/" target="_blank">www.hydeparkart.org</a>.

The Art Center 2025 Gala

SAWHORSE is pleased to present Great Mud Flood, a group exhibition featuring work by Ryan Richey, Yigit Ural, Fallon Wrede, Pedro Albertini, Amy Pearl Lang, and Jackson Daughety.

Great Mud Flood

Tickets available <a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://renaissancesociety.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28258b64874e626df0979c0de&amp;id=9a8094508d&amp;e=375d06b725" target="_blank">Here</a>Lyra Pramuk, an American multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin, has conceived a unique form of devotional music that harmonizes the open-ended potential of the human voice with the magic of technology as it rapidly evolves. Following the success of her last album Fountain, Pramuk’s expansive new release, Hymnal, is her own book of transformational worship songs, drawing from folk, house, techno, gospel and her formal classical education to construct a symphonic universe. A passionate live performer, Pramuk prefers staging her shows in churches, cathedrals and purpose-built theaters, embracing the space as an integral part of the experience, while using delay, feedback, reverb and pitch-shifting and pedals to alter her voice. For this performance in Bond Chapel, Pramuk brings Hymnal to Chicago.&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://renaissancesociety.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28258b64874e626df0979c0de&amp;id=7df26e2dd3&amp;e=375d06b725" target="_blank">Learn more.</a> Lyra Pramuk, Photo by Leonardo Scotti.

Lyra Pramuk

Andy will be in the gallery on Friday, November 21st from 6-8 pm.&nbsp;Newman’s journey to professional artistry is as compelling as his paintings. After spending over 15 years practicing law in Washington, D.C., he discovered his true calling when a friend gifted him painting tools. The choice became clear: he much preferred creating art to office life. At 36, Newman made the leap to become a full-time artist.Working primarily in oil while also exploring pastels, acrylics, and colored pencils, Newman specializes in landscapes, abstracts, and figures—often combining them in striking and creative ways. His artistic vision draws from diverse influences spanning 19th and 20th century American and European masters, including Giorgio Morandi, Edward Hopper, and Maurice de Vlaminck, alongside classical Baroque pioneers Georges de La Tour and Caravaggio. Represented in over ten galleries across Europe and North America, Newman maintains his studio at the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, Massachusetts.&nbsp;Whether you’re seeking your first gallery piece or adding to a growing collection, or looking for the best holiday gift ever, these small wonders remind us that profound beauty can come in small proportions. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Bright Lights, Small Treasures

Irish artist Elaine Byrne and Aliza Shvarts, Director of SAIC's Low-Residency MFA and Assistant Professor, Performance will discuss how borders political, social, and psycho- logical- define, divide, and drift, shaping the sense of belonging and exclusion. Drawing on Byrne's Drifting Sovereignty and her research into borders and the essay film, the conversa- tion explores how art can make visible the fluidity of environmental and geopolitical change.

In Conversation: Boundaries/Borders a discussion with Elaine Byrne & Aliza Shvarts

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=4c60f6170c&amp;e=ec81127d70" target="_blank">RSVP</a> Join&nbsp;Dyani White Hawk and Caroline Kent for a conversation on abstraction, feminism, and their overlapping artistic interests.In her multidisciplinary practice,&nbsp;Dyani White Hawk&nbsp;(Sičáŋǧu Lakota) brings together Lakota artistic traditions with Minimalist, and Color Field artistic influences. Working across painting, sculpture, and print, Dyani White Hawk emphasizes how color, shape, pattern, and material can carry meaning. Her recent series&nbsp;They Gifted (Night)&nbsp;and&nbsp;They Gifted (Day),&nbsp;is on view in&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=d2eb88c636&amp;e=ec81127d70" target="_blank">The Living Room at The Block</a>&nbsp;from November 12 to December 14, 2025.&nbsp;Caroline Kent&nbsp;(Northwestern University, Art, Theory, and Practice) uses abstraction to explore the possibilities and limits of language. Her richly layered compositions speculate on communication and miscommunication, drawing attention to how meaning can shift across context and culture.Together, White Hawk and Kent will discuss their artistic influences, conceptual frameworks, and the evolving role of abstraction as a space for cultural reflection, resistance, and reimagination.&nbsp;The evening will be introduced by&nbsp;Megan Baker,&nbsp;Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Dyani White Hawk&nbsp;(Sičáŋǧu Lakota) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. White Hawk was featured in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and the recent solo exhibition Speaking to Relatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, Joan Mitchell Foundation and McKnight Foundation. Her work can be found within collections such as the Guggenheim, Brooklyn Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MoMA, NY, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Caroline Kent is a Chicago-based visual artist. Kent speculates in both the potential and the limitations of language, and ultimately questions the modernist canon of abstraction. She earned an MFA at the University of Minnesota. She has exhibited widely at sites including the Walker Art Center, The Flag Art Foundation, the DePaul Art Museum, the California African American Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Kent is a 2025 USA Fellow and received the 2025 Aspen Arts Prize for innovation in abstraction.&nbsp;She has received grants from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, and The Jerome Foundation.&nbsp;Kent is Assistant Professor of Art, Theory and Practice, at Northwestern University.

Artist Talk: Dyani White Hawk and Caroline Kent in Conversation

In conjunction with artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi’s exhibition, indigenous scholar and practitioner Stephanie Morningstar speaks on themes related to her work and to Ogunbiyi’s. A storyteller connecting people, plants, and the land, Stephanie bridges Indigenous and Western paradigms, helping communities reclaim relationships with the natural world and each other.Free and Open to the Public.&nbsp;Photo:&nbsp;You will feel out of many one people, 2019. Varnished Japanese ink and acrylic on found fabric. 54 x 36 in (137.1 x 91.4 cm).

Stephanie Morningstar on Indigenous Plant Knowledge

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://perspectivegallery.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=04a588cae42ffc5c2d944d823&amp;id=5f075450b2&amp;e=49b9939ea4" target="_blank">Register here</a>This November, Perspective Gallery presents&nbsp;In Their Gardens of Good and Evil, a two-person exhibition contrasting two visions of nature shaped by personal tradition and belief.In The 7th Year,&nbsp;artist&nbsp;Susan Isaacson&nbsp;reflects on the Jewish custom of letting the land rest every seventh year. Her work explores themes of renewal, connection, and oneness with the natural world, offering comfort while confronting life’s fragility and transience.In contrast, artist&nbsp;Katsy Johnson&nbsp;unveils&nbsp;Evil Flowers, a modern floral representation of the Seven Deadly Sins. Drawing on classical still-life traditions, Johnson transforms lush bouquets into dark meditations on human vice, weaving in unsettling modern intrusions such as cell phones, doll artifacts, and even live animals.Together, these works invite viewers into a “garden” that is both sanctuary and snare—where renewal and temptation bloom side by side.

Virtual Artists’ Talk: Susan Isaacson and Katsy Johnson

25 Years: Art + Design Alumni, 2000–2025, showcases the breadth of creativity and talent that emanates from the Department of Art + Design at Eastern Illinois University. As a quarter-century survey, the exhibition welcomes back former students and families to reflect on and celebrate what it means to have "bled blue"—on canvas, in the round, or anything in between or beyond—while inviting current and prospective students and community members to see what is possible after graduation.&nbsp;

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