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<h2>Feel Free</h2> Featuring Paulina Ho, Rachel Hayden, Jeremy Miranda, and Hanna Lee Joshi. May 15 to June 27, 2026 <a href="https://luma.com/mft1i4iz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Details and opening RSVP</a>

Feel Free

This body of work utilizes the performative self-portrait as a feminist act of claiming space, rewriting boundaries, and reimagining what it means to belong. Begun over five years ago,&nbsp;Homesick&nbsp;examines the contrast of Rodrigues’ multinational, transient upbringing with her current life parenting in a Chicago suburb. The images embody a spectrum of emotions: dark humor, maternal frustration, yearning, and hopefulness. They reveal both comfort and discomfort, acknowledging the contradictions of domesticity as both refuge and constraint. Ultimately, this work celebrates the moments of rootedness Rodrigues attempts to build after a lifetime of movement.Homesick&nbsp;opens on Thursday, June 4, 2026&nbsp;with an Opening Reception on Saturday, June 6, 2026 from 5- 7 PM. The exhibit runs through Sunday, June 28, 2026.A Virtual Artist’s Talk will be held on Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 7 PM. To register for the talk,&nbsp;<a href="https://perspectivegallery.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=04a588cae42ffc5c2d944d823&amp;id=e037db3d4f&amp;e=d73170d386" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>!

Kathryn Rodrigues: Homesick

The John D. Nichols Collection is now on display. Come and explore the largest exhibit and public sale of ancient Chinese tomb pottery in North America. The exhibit is museum-like in its breadth and presentation, ranging from 4000-year-old Neolithic jars to Ming Dynasty equestrian figures. All pieces are now online with complete photosets, descriptions, and pricing. About The Collection The John D. Nichols Collection includes over two hundred pieces of terra cotta pottery and bronzes spanning the period between 2000 BCE and 1000 CE, mostly from archeological sites in Northern China. The pieces are very diverse, including vessels, human figures, animals, architectural models, and ritual objects. All were buried for the afterlife, their locations forgotten over thousands of years. As China developed in the 1990's and early 2000's, large new buildings were erected in the oldest inhabited areas, requiring deep excavations. Many of these construction sites yielded ancient artifacts. Frenzied global interest followed, with excavated pieces first heading to Hong Kong and eventually to collectors in Paris, New York and Chicago. Legal restrictions followed and by 2009, importation to the US was all but banned by treaty. Ancient Chinese pottery is now rarely seen outside of museums.

Echoes of the Afterlife

The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) is pleased to presentBetween Voice and Silence, an international group exhibition on view May 1 throughJune 28, 2025. The exhibition brings together three artists, Katya Lisova (Kyiv), MatviiVaisberg (Kyiv), Ira Bondarenko (Ann Arbor), whose works in textiles, printmaking, ceramics, and fiber examine empathy, resilience, and the endurance of cultural identity against the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine.The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov(1990–2024), who was killed defending his country in January 2023, only months after the publication of his debut collection. His writing, which locates tenderness and humanity amid destruction, serves as a moral and artistic touchstone for the works on view.Between Voice and Silence&nbsp;takes its title Maksym’s poem “In that space between Voice and Silence” and alludes to the liminal space that defines wartime experience and the territory between what can be said and what is rendered unspeakable. The exhibition reflects on the limits and power of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive&nbsp;in&nbsp;the most oppressive darkness.Working across distinct media and generations, the three participating artists deploy Ukrainian visual vocabularies to contest cultural erasure and affirm collective memory.Image: Katya Lisova,&nbsp;Old Chestnut (Старий каштан),&nbsp;2024 - 2025,&nbsp;2’(W) x 3' (H)

Between Voice and Silence

<a href="https://www.evanstonartcenter.org/exhibitions/thinking-through-tapestry-american-tapestry-alliance" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thinking Through Tapestry</a>&nbsp;is a juried exhibition featuring work that celebrates, explores, and builds upon specialized techniques often associated with tapestry.&nbsp;Selected artists&nbsp;explore techniques that consist of discontinuous weft-faced woven processes rooted in tapestry techniques, such as wedge weave, pulled tapestry, the use of hachures, or other structures, including the H.V. (Handarbetets Vänner) technique. The exhibition highlights work illustrating the close relationship between tapestry weaving, drawing, painting, and sculpture.&nbsp;The jurors of the exhibition are Emily Silver and Erin M. Riley.Emily Silver lives and works in Los Angeles and is on the faculty at Santa Monica College in the Sculpture Department and the Director/Curator of the Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery. She is also the co-founder of L.A. Tactile Lab, along with Svetlana Shigroff and Liv Aanrud.Erin M. Riley is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work focuses on women and women’s issues primarily in hand-woven, hand-dyed wool tapestries. Riley’s work challenges society’s comfort level by displaying shocking images, including nudity, drugs, violence, self-harm, sexuality, and menstruation.A catalog accompanies the exhibition and is available for purchase on the American Tapestry Alliance’s website.&nbsp;Juried Artists:Laura Burcin, Barbara Burns, Emily Cabaniss, Ching-Ting Chiu, Jasmine Claros, Molly Cleator, Deborah Corsini, Nancy Crampton, Sharon Crary, Liliana Crespi, Sam Dienst, Alex Friedman, Rama Ganesan, Tricia Goldberg, Anne Heide, Barbara Heller, Sally Heller, Sofia Herr, Connie Lynn Higgs, Christine Holtz, Rebecca Hooper, Cameron Kashani, Judit Eszter Kárpáti, Kristin Kelley-Munoz, Brendan Kenny, Riley Klein, Robbie LaFleur, Mary Lane, Fannie Lee, Monique Lehman, Connie Lippert, Kyle McKeown Mansfield, Ann Marie Miller, Pip Milton, Janet Moore, Annabelle O’Reilly, Tea Okropiridze, Anna Olsson, Libby Raab, Ellen Ramsey, Helena Richardson, Minna Rothman, Wendy Saam, Kristin Tinsa Saeterdal, Jennifer Sargent, Rowen Schussheim-Anderson, Mary-Ann Sievert, Kyla Sjogren, Rebecca Smith, Linda Soranno, Karmen Steigenga, Vicki Stone, Adrienn Szabo, Kathe Todd-Hooker, Trang Tran, Alta Turner, David van Buskirk, Stevie Van Housen, Ginny Wallace, Sue Weil, and Xingyi Zhao.GALLERY HOURS &amp; VISITOR INFORMATION:This exhibition will be held in the First Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). Masks are optional but strongly recommended for students, visitors, and staff.Gallery HoursMonday–Thursday: 9am–6pmFriday: 9am–5pmSaturday–Sunday: 9am–4pmHOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORKArtwork sale proceeds benefit both the artist and the Evanston Art Center.&nbsp;If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact&nbsp;Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development and Exhibitions, at&nbsp;egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org&nbsp;or (847) 475-5300 x 102.This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.Image Credits (L to R):&nbsp;Sam Dienst,&nbsp;Tea Okropiridze, and Libby Raab

Thinking Through Tapestry | American Tapestry Alliance

Hosted by the Evanston ASPA (Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander American) Association Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6th, 4 to 6 PM&nbsp; Exhibition duration: ends June 28th <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1780357521/dvh3qoekh6q17xbzoisn.jpg">

In the Absence of Space

Bookmark Activity:&nbsp;10 – 11 amStory time with CPL:&nbsp;11 am – 12 pmIn partnership with the Chicago Public Library, creating a handmade bookmark to use with all of your favorite reads, then listen along to Librarian Megan as she share stories about pattern and color.Free with RSVP.<a href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=bf2065a19b&amp;e=00938adab1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Register Here</a>

Tuesdays Together: Story Time at the Smart

Woman Made Gallery presents "Routes &amp; Roots," a juried virtual exhibition exploring immigration and migration through the work of women and non-binary artists. On view May 18–June 30, 2026.Juried by Eliana Miranda, the exhibition takes its name from the two forces shaping every immigrant story: the paths we travel and the ties we carry. Selected works span border crossings and&nbsp;ordeals, exile and quiet acts of belonging, cultural hybridity, intergenerational memory, and more. <a href="https://womanmade.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77610ec6940e4a7c0d652a863&amp;id=6b96d5a34c&amp;e=a3993dd90f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EXPLORE THE EXHIBITION</a> Exhibiting Artists:&nbsp;Patricia Anderson-Turner, Alexandra Buxbaum, Mandel Cameron, Melisa Celaya, Colleen Coleman, Lauren Doorish, Michel Flores, Jennifer Godinez, Javiera González Velásquez, Sol Henriquez, Jee Hwang, Doina Iacob, Kelly Johnson, Yian Lin, Crystal Marshall, Danielle Muzina, Carol Neiger, Priscilla Otani, Jennie E. Park, Isabella Picardi, Julianna Sanroman, Jo Scheder, Marie Scherpe, Stephanie Tirado, Sharmeen Uqaili, Lucero Vargas, Alyssa Wilson, Jenn Wright, Elmira Yousefi, Amo Zeng<a href="https://womanmade.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77610ec6940e4a7c0d652a863&amp;id=2ad6bc8a31&amp;e=a3993dd90f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SEE THEIR WORK AND STATEMENTS</a>

Routes & Roots

June Special Exhibitor: Amy MalcolmExhibit:&nbsp;Moon ShadowOpening: Friday, June 5th, 5-7 PM This month, we're excited to be exhibiting new work from&nbsp;special exhibitor Amy Malcolm! Amy is a Chicago-area artist who creates&nbsp;painterly cartoon-like art inspired by her work as a professional illustrator and as an employee at DC Comics. She combines spontaneous line with narrative inspiration to concoct visual satire;&nbsp;much of her work depicts women in various states of being female.&nbsp; These satirical "cartoons" allow viewers to&nbsp;create their own stories about the women being depicted.&nbsp;This work is a breath of fresh air - stop in and let it wash over you! <a href="https://vividartgallery.net/amy-malcolm-june-special-exhibitor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">See More of the Exhibit</a> First Friday - This Friday, 4-7 PM

Amy Malcolm: Moon Shadow

The paintings of Chicago artist Joan Holleb occupy an exciting place between between process and image, between poetry and narrative. The material qualities of these&nbsp;works set them apart from most paintings, generating the unexpected effect of slowing down our gaze and causing us to look carefully at the interaction of copper, patina, and paint on the surface of the work.Holleb begins the act of painting by pouring a patina solution on the surface of the copper and letting it run in various directions and oxidize. Typically, this process dictates the direction the composition will develop, and the use of chance and spontaneous activity becomes the foundation for all that follows. Says Holleb: "I actually paint/draw with the patinas and splash them across the metal because I enjoy the uncertainty of what will happen - it creates a challenge as to how to paint the piece."As Holleb develops the work, the paintings become compelling and ambitious meditations on our relationship to the natural world. Holleb uses oil paint to seemingly coax a landscape from the surface of the painting. In some of the recent work, her focus has turned upward, and the light through leaves and branches in the forest has become her subject. "For me, the light in my paintings is not just the light we see with our eyes but is also an allegorical light, something I think we all need every day in our lives to give us hope." Holleb continues: "I want my paintings to vibrate on the wall and I want viewers to have to stop and wonder for a moment, 'What am I looking at?' - I want to encourage them to create their own interpretations."&nbsp;

Joan Holleb: Woodland Tales

These artists employ a wide variety of artistic strategies and materials. Some utilize unconventional materials such as spray paint and PVC surfaces as canvases, while others incorporate traditional media in innovative and exciting ways, including encaustic and oil painting techniques. What unifies their work is a bold and dynamic use of color. True to modern sensibilities, color itself becomes the primary subject expressed through striking forms, expressive brushwork, and energetic processes. A public reception is scheduled for&nbsp;Thursday, June 4, from 11:00 AM–1:00 PM.&nbsp;Please join us as we celebrate the work of these outstanding artists. The exhibition opens tomorrow, Tuesday, May 26, and continues through July 2, 2026. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM.

The Shape of Color

Presented by: Ron Jerak &amp; Michael PreskiWhat happens when you bring an Abstract painter and a Surrealist together in one exhibition? The audience gets to take a journey through the artists’ story laid out on canvas, doused in color and covered in a vision.Ron Jerak creates the images he envisions by using strong color and contrast, incorporating straight lines and sharp angles. Symmetry is often present in his works, though asymmetrical compositions are employed as well. Michael Preski creates intricate and often highly detailed imagery with multiple mediums, layering different segments until they form the final piece. Like Ron’s works, they can cover a full range of concepts with their subjects, but all of them tell a story. Both of their stories are contained within each individual piece as well as the whole of their works. These stories are often drawn from everyday events, emotions and general life experiences as how the viewers experience the world. And though every piece is open to the audience’s interpretation, the artists guide their perceptions using the visuals themselves as a map. So feel free to join these two artists as they share their stories depicted in vibrant colors and unwavering imagery.<a href="https://www.bridgeportart.com/canvas-color-vision/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Details</a>

Canvas, Color, & Vision

This exhibition foregrounds the University of Chicago’s pivotal role in studying and exhibiting contemporary Chinese art since the mid-1990s. In February 1999, Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Chinese Art History at the university, opened his first exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art. Entitled&nbsp;Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century&nbsp;(1999),&nbsp;&nbsp;the exhibition – and many more Wu curated in the ensuing years – was field-defining and forged new avenues for situating Chinese art within a broader global contemporary framework.Taking these earlier exhibitions as points of departure,&nbsp;Beyond Boundaries: Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art at the Smart&nbsp;reflects on the enduring adaptability of contemporary art from China as it continues to grow within and beyond cultural and academic institutions. Bringing together artworks acquired by the Museum over the last three decades, archival materials, ephemera, as well as new work,&nbsp;Beyond Boundaries&nbsp;explores how artists navigate and challenge physical limitations across cultural, environmental, and political terrains. Through strategies of fluidity, they confront dominant social expectations and political hegemonies – not only within a rapidly transforming China, but also amid broader global uncertainties. In doing so,&nbsp;Beyond Boundaries&nbsp;invites us to revisit fleeting moments, environments, and actions, and urges us to reconnect, return, and remember.Support for&nbsp;Beyond Boundaries&nbsp;is provided&nbsp;by Markovitz Family Foundation for the Arts and Education. Additional support is provided by the Smart Museum's Board of Governors, and SmartPartners.&nbsp;Presented in&nbsp;the Robert and Joan Feitler Gallery, and the Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery.

Beyond Boundaries: Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art at the Smart

From a 6th-century gilt bronze Buddhist sculpture to white porcelain and contemporary paintings of the late 20th century, the works of art in this exhibition demonstrate the artistic legacy produced on the Korean peninsula over millennia. Among the 140 artworks on view, 22 are officially recognized as National Treasures or Treasures by the Korean government.

Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art

For our summer exhibition, we will present five distinct bodies of work that exist somewhere between a traditional group show and a series of solo exhibitions. Spanning all three gallery spaces, the exhibition offers independent presentations by each artist, creating the experience of moving through a collection of intimate, mini solo shows housed within a larger collective framework.The gallery is especially thrilled to present New York based artist Melody Tuttle for the first time.&nbsp;Additionally, and we look forward to expanding on this in the coming weeks, we are pleased to announce that the gallery now fully represents Isamar Medina. This exhibition will debut the first of four planned bodies of work to be presented over the next two years, each with 6 works on paper and two paintings, culminating in Medina's first solo exhibition with the gallery in 2027.&nbsp;

Five Bodies

Alma Thomas (1891–1978) is a singular figure of twentieth-century American art. She developed her form of abstraction – characterized by the dazzling interplay of pattern and hue – late in life, after retiring from a long career as a schoolteacher. Her vibrant and rhythmic art transcended established genres, incorporating elements of gestural abstraction and color field painting and creating a style distinctly her own.Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas&nbsp;draws on the extensive holdings of the artist’s paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and offers an intimate view of Thomas’s evolving practice during her most prolific period, from 1959 to 1978. At a deeply politicized moment in American life, Thomas’s abiding sources of inspiration became the cosmos, nature, and music. As she stated, “Through color I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s inhumanity to man.” The exhibition&nbsp;invites visitors to see the world through the eyes of Alma Thomas.SUPPORTComposing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas&nbsp;is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Generous support has been provided by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Chris G. Harris, the Wolf Kahn Foundation, and Susan Talley.

Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas

Join us Friday, May 29th, from 6-10pm for the Opening Reception of PRIDE! - Jackson Junge Gallery’s newest group exhibition featuring artists from the LGBTQ+ community. Giving queer and non-binary creators a platform to share their experiences through art, the gallery hopes to foster an inclusive space for marginalized voices. Explore your own identity and challenge traditional notions of gender and sexuality with PRIDE!

PRIDE! Group Exhibition

Our Free Days Are Taking The Night Shift! From March through November, we’re returning to Free First Tuesdays! On the first Tuesday of every month, enjoy extended hours from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm - admission is free for all, no residency restrictions.

Free First Tuesday

On Thursday, June 18 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm the JDMF invites you to attend the opening of the SkyART Teaching Artist exhibition. This new venture celebrates the success of SkyART's service to youth on Chicago's South and West sides The John David Mooney Foundation is proud to exhibit the work of the Chicago Artists who teach and uplift young artists from under-served communities, bringing local and emerging talent to our International Currents Gallery for the first time! SkyART The Teaching Artists Exhibition will be on display, free and open to the public, from June 18 to July 8, 2026 International Currents GalleryJohn David Mooney Foundation114 W. Kinzie St. Chicago IL, 60654 <a href="https://www.mooneyfoundation.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.mooneyfoundation.org </a> Valet Parking Available &amp; Reduced Rate Parking across the street at Sterling Park Garage Image: Victoria Jimenez, ‘Going on a Walk’, mixed media on paper, 18 x 24 in, 2021

SkyART Teaching Artist Exhibition

The devastation of the two world wars played a pivotal role in shaping the field of modern plastic surgery. In the early twentieth century, surgeons became artisans—suturing torn flesh like tailors mending fabric, reinforcing facial structures like carpenters restoring damaged frames. These groundbreaking reconstructive techniques laid the foundation for a discipline that would evolve beyond necessity into the realm of aesthetics.Simultaneously, artists—painters, sculptors, and draftsmen documenting the wars—engaged in parallel work. They studied the human form, deconstructing and reimagining faces and bodies through drawings, sculpture, and canvas. Anatomical study, once central to classical realism, became a bridge between art and medicine, guiding surgeons in their quest to restore symmetry, balance, and expression. The artist’s eye informed the surgeon’s hand, just as surgical reconstructions inspired new artistic interpretations of the human body.By the latter half of the twentieth century, plastic surgery had moved beyond reconstruction to self-reinvention. Like artists shaping raw material into beauty, surgeons refined and reshaped faces and bodies to align with personal desires and cultural ideals. The line between restoration and enhancement blurred, and the human body itself became a canvas for transformation.With the dawn of the new millennium came once-unimaginable feats—most notably, full-face transplantation. Surgeons, like sculptors working in living clay, not only rebuilt faces but gave patients entirely new ones. These innovations merged medicine, aesthetics, and identity in unprecedented ways.Today, the relationship between plastic surgery and art continues to evolve. Surgeons and artists share a common pursuit: to shape, refine, and redefine the human form. Whether working with marble or muscle, canvas or cartilage, both seek to capture the essence of beauty, resilience, and identity in constant flux.The International Museum of Surgical Science is proud to present these coinciding exhibitions as&nbsp;"A Year of Plastic Surgery"—a yearlong exploration of this remarkable field. Through monthly programs, we celebrate the masters of both flesh and form, bridging the worlds of surgical innovation and figurative art. Header Image: A soldier of Company K, 110th Regt. Infantry (formerly 3rd and 10th Inf., Pennsylvania National Guard), just wounded, receiving first-aid treatment from a comrade. Varennes-en-Argonne, France, on September 26, 1918. U.S. Army / U.S. National Archives

The Artistry of Plastic Surgery

PLEASE JOIN US FOR AN EVENING RECEPTION ON THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 14TH FROM 6 - 8 PMSPARKLING WINE, SMALL BITES AND&nbsp;GORGEOUS ART WILL BE SERVEDRosenthal Fine Art is pleased to present eleven glorious paintings as a retrospective of Raffael's later works from1985 to 2020 -- the year before his death in 2021.&nbsp;In an interview with Betsy Dillard Stroud, Raffael reveals his process as almost a conversation with mystery. Nancy Hoffman, a well-respected New York dealer who knew Raffael well, was asked by Stroud how she would place Raffael in the contemporary art scene.&nbsp;She replied: "I don't think about him in the contemporary scene. It's not a relevant question, because he addresses the issue of beauty. He celebrates nature and stays true to his vision. No one uses watercolor the way he does."Clearly, Joseph Raffael transcends labeling, which underscores what Kierkegaard wrote: "Labeling me, negates me."As Betsy Dillard Stroud left Joseph Raffael's world she recalls, "When I think of Raffael's paintings, forms dissolve revealing a new universe of light charged with a confluence of incredible colors perhaps not found in anyone's vocabulary, and I remember what the great theologian Thomas Merton wrote: "The last great mystery to be solved will be the mystery of color."Surely, the answer to that mystery lies in the paintings of Joseph Raffael as he moves toward the light.

Joseph Raffael: Moving Toward the Light – A Retrospective

Flying Kites in a Windless World is composed of artworks from Filley’s projects over the past eight years. The works are inspired by a wide range of influences, including Emily Dickinson’s poem “We Send the Wave to Find the Wave,” drawings and weavings by Lenore Tawney, quilts passed down through generations, migratory patterns of birds, the shifting light of sunrise and sunset, and other investigations into the built and natural world. Filley generates her paper-based works using a methodical, repetitive process which functions as an act of discovery for the artist and a form of ritual that opens a pathway to the spiritual. Doing the same things over and over again--dot making, stitching, blending pencil marks—facilitates a close analysis of the how and why of doing. Repetition also allows for pattern to emerge and invites the question of how something might grow, shift or evolve over time. For Filley, moving through the world is an act of gathering disparate pieces—of “massing stardust,” in the artist’s words—that slowly cohere as experience is filtered into understanding. Her drawings, which can be likened to imagined cosmic maps, become the conduit for exploring an aspect of existence that is collective rather than individual. Beyond capturing a single moment, Filley’s art practice seeks to bridge time, expand an understanding of the present and come into harmony with that which is beyond the self. Merging sacred geometry and geometric abstraction with the error and energy of the human hand, her artwork expresses how the act of making transforms the body into a portal through which something unknown can pass.

Vanessa Filley: Flying Kites in a Windless World

Japeth Mennes: I will always love ewe

Featuring one-of-a-kind fine art prints, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative is displaying a gallery show focused on the monoprint &amp; monotype. Come to the Reception on Thursday, April 2nd from 5-8pm for a first look at this selection of gorgeous prints.&nbsp; <a href="https://chicagoprintmakers.com/print-making-gallery-chicago/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monoprint: one of a kind</a>&nbsp;will be on view through mid July, 2026.

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