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Antonio Fava,&nbsp;Maestro of Commedia dell’arte, will present his book “Vita Morte e Resurrezione di Pulcinella” (Pulcinella’s Life, Death and Resurrection)&nbsp;at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with Laughing Stock Theatre.“This work is not a philological or historical work. It is a work of aesthetics, poetics, and structural analysis on what is nowadays called Commedia dell’Arte. This type of theater is the most concrete, long-lived, structured theatrical genre or system of theatrical genres. The character of Pulcinella provides the powerful aesthetic-poetic, and structural basis for viewing Commedia.” –&nbsp;Antonio FavaA book signing with the author will follow.The event is free with <a style="color: rgb(11, 76, 180);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://iicchicago.esteri.it/en/gli_eventi/calendario/book-presentation-pulcinellas-life-death-and-resurrection-by-antonio-fava/" target="_blank">registration</a>.&nbsp;

“Pulcinella’s Life, Death, and Resurrection” book presentation by Antonio Fava

Photographer of the Year and Annual Spring Student Show Apr. 21 - May 15, 2025 Reception will coincide with Humanities Day

Photographer of the Year and Annual Spring Student Show 

Free, Register Online Join artists LaKela Brown and Abdolreza Aminlari, studio collaborator Katharine L. DeLamater, and strategic advisor to Dieu Donné John Shorb for a panel discussion about art in paper, co-creative practices, and their work in the Smart's permanent collection currently featured in&nbsp;Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories. The panel will be followed by a reception with light refreshments.

Smart Salon: Dieu Donné

Join us for a conversation with artists Jonathan Michael Castillo, Teresita Carson, Juan Molina Hernandez, and Jonathan Vega, moderated by DPAM’s Curator Ionit Behar. Based in Chicago and exploring their Latinx identity, these artists tackle themes of immigration, displacement, belonging, grief, memory, and lineage.&nbsp;In partnership with Gertie and Early Work with support from&nbsp;DePaul's Center for Latino Research and&nbsp;Latitude.Image credits:Juan Molina Hernández,&nbsp;para no desaparecer: doble filo I (not to disappear: double edge I)&nbsp;(detail), 2022. Found frames, found glass shards, archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.

Panel on Chicago Latinx Photography

Writer and critic Seph Rodney joins Yasmin Spiro in conversation to discuss her exhibition&nbsp;in relation to colonial and post-colonial Caribbean culture, land, body, and identity.

Yasmin Spiro in conversation with Seph Rodney

A community-wide celebration of Madison’s vibrant art scene. Gallery Night is a long-time Madison arts tradition that showcases the city’s vibrant arts community. Organized by MMoCA, Gallery Night offers art lovers and art novices alike an opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of exhibitions, opening receptions, special events, and demonstrations at venues throughout the city. During Gallery Night, dozens of venues open their doors to invite the public in to see and shop for original artwork. Gallery Night takes place from 5–9 PM, though some participating venues set their own hours. All venues participating in Gallery Night are open free of charge.

Gallery Night

Image: Jonathan Worcester, Untitled,&nbsp;2024, acrylic on canvas wrapped panel 48 x 68.75 x 3.5 inches

Jonathan Worcester: Dead Reckoning

Epiphany Center for the Arts | Sanctuary Hall Gallery201 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago&nbsp;60607Musical instruments can often be seen as objects of exquisite complexity and beauty. Aesthetically, they are beautiful objects in themselves, but it is when they are played that instruments become mesmerizing and transformative. Inspired by the vivid colors and playful motifs in Henri Matisse’s 1939 painting&nbsp;La Musique (The Music), Jonathan Franklin’s exhibition&nbsp;The Yellow Guitar&nbsp;pays homage to Matisse’s masterwork, while presenting a whimsical array of musical instruments and performers in perfect harmony with Epiphany Center for the Arts’ historic Sanctuary space and intimate music venue. For Franklin, the guitar has always represented something accessible and romantic. Unlike a piano, the guitar is portable, and its six strings open to a world of acoustic and vocal possibilities. He credits Elvis Presley and the Beatles for sparking his first inclination to play the guitar. As a teenager, Franklin belonged to a group called&nbsp;The&nbsp;Insex, which was the best (and only) American rock band between Calcutta and Bangkok. Since those halcyon days from decades ago, his love for music in all its shapes and forms has never ebbed. In this series of paintings, the characters showcase a variety of instruments, from guitars to drums, violins, and saxophones, among others. All that is left for the viewer is to imagine the music.For more information, go to: www.epiphanychi.comPhoto credit: Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan Franklin: The Yellow Guitar

Two Opening ReceptionsFri., April 11, 5-8 pmWed., April 23, 6-10 pm&nbsp;SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art is proud to present the exhibition, Article 1: Human Dignity Shall Be Inviolable, featuring the artwork of Kermit Berg. The exhibit highlights both the beauty and the vulnerability of democracy.&nbsp;In 2015, the American artist Kermit Berg was invited by the German government to photograph the buildings of the German Parliament in Berlin, known as the Bundestag. The building design includes architectural elements that highlight attributes of democracy such as transparency in government and governance by the people. Berg's photographs of the building capture these elements in his signature style.&nbsp;The exhibition was to be shown in the newly constructed Library of Parliament building in Germany. The exhibition never happened due to lengthy construction delays, although the work was acquired by the Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany. Several years later, his body of work was slated for a show at the German Embassy in Moscow. However, criticism by the Russian government derailed these plans. An alternative location outside of Moscow was ultimately abandoned when Russia invaded Ukraine.&nbsp;Today, democracy is palpably under threat around the world. For Berg, this means introspection, revisiting, and literally ripping up some of his earlier works. The result is his photographic series: “Torn” where he destroys and reassembles his prints with their fragments to represent the fragile nature of democracy.Berg's “Bundestag” portfolio is not the first time he has examined democracy and political systems through his own very subtle lens. His 2013 series “Nuclear Family’’ documents the post-World War II relationship between a West Berlin family and an American family in rural Indiana. “Nuclear Family” led to a solo museum exhibition at Maerkisches Museum in Berlin, and has since been shown as part of the Kermit Berg retrospective at the Christel De Hahn Fine Arts Center in Indianapolis. Several of his works from the Nuclear Family portfolio are also in the exhibition at SoNa Chicago. As with “Article 1” his keen eye explores and reveals the heart of the theme, in this case, the nascent democracy in West Germany.&nbsp;Article 1 is the first of nineteen proclamations of basic human rights comprising the beginning of the newly developed constitution of the Federal Republic of West Germany. It was ratified in 1949 and later adopted upon the reunification of Germany in 1990. This conscious intention to spell out basic rights at the very beginning of Germany’s new constitution paved the binding path forward for the emerging democracy. The framers of the basic rights document went on to say that to respect and protect human dignity is so important that it shall be the duty of all government authority to protect it, and that Article I cannot be changed or removed.Yet this fundamental right is under strain in Germany, the U.S., and around the world.Kermit Berg has developed a refined language in photography. His attention to detail is exquisite, visually sharing powerful observations and messages on a broader scale. The exhibition at SoNa Chicago features never before shown selections from the Bundestag and Torn portfolios, as well as selections from Nuclear Family, and other works from his 25 years as a practicing artist. Berg creates photography-based archival prints where he lives and works in Palm Springs, California, after living in Chicago, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, and Shanghai. He is grateful to his longtime representative in Germany, Nicole von Vietinghof, for arranging the project with the German government at the Bundestag.SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art is located at 1527 N. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The gallery is open Fridays from 5–7 pm, Saturdays from 12-4 pm, and by appointment.&nbsp;

Kermit Berg | Article 1: Human Dignity Shall Be Inviolable

Epiphany Center for the Arts | Chase Gallery201 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago&nbsp;60607QUALIA&nbsp;is an invitation for an amplified embodied sensory experience -&nbsp;the way it feels to “feel.” Quale (s)/ qualia(pl), defined as instance(s) of subjective conscious experience, presents a paradox: debated as something that does not exist, or conversely, be something of great neuroscientific significance. Katrin Schnabl views&nbsp;QUALIA&nbsp;as a sensory phenomenon, an inter-firing that naturally occurs without thought, yet possesses a visceral impact all its own. Schnabl’s exhibit presents a series of sculptures and scrolls,&nbsp;SISTERS, along with several works from her&nbsp;PORTAL&nbsp;series, which resemble doorframes and scrolls swathed in a surface of sheer, colorful fabrics, curvilinearly stitched together, forming a dimensional unit. EWNS&nbsp;(an acronym for East West North South) is a large format hanging tapestry, structured as a triptych.&nbsp;EWNS&nbsp;forms a continuous circle, split open, and experienced in three, 30-foot sections. Conjuring maps and migratory patterns over a spherical form, it is a meditation on the complementing function of our bodies’ halves: a side for fielding circular inputs, and a side for cardinal directions. Participatorily, it offers an embodied deliberation on what is embedded into many languages as the&nbsp;right&nbsp;and the&nbsp;left, highlighting distinctions between what is considered proper and lawful versus what is deemed less important or significant. As a visual journey across a landscape, the structure’s borders become an activation of color fields, a continuous series of neighboring contact points with varying resonances, direction, and dimension via line, texture, form, light, and movement. Schnabl is interested in the experiential dimensions of her work. A commonality is its invitation for a somatic sensory reading; a sense-making through moving and exploring its dynamic and dimensional potential. Schnabl’s work invokes an impulse to&nbsp;“step inside,”&nbsp;as a way to process its information with the entire body, and she considers this as “yoU aRe A Work Of Art “– short&nbsp;URAWOA.&nbsp;Her offering leans into the trust the individual brings to their body as an extraordinary instrument, and Schnabl’s wish for that amplification.&nbsp;For more information, go to: www.epiphanychi.comPhoto credit: James Prinz

Katrin Schnabl: Qualia

Epiphany Center for the Arts | Catacombs Gallery201 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago&nbsp;60607After spending hours at the world’s largest wastewater treatment plant in Stickney, Illinois interviewing personnel, attending seminars and reading deeply, Lindsay Olson learned the science behind what engineers do to treat human wastewater. Returning to the studio, she used an assortment of elegant fibers, embroidery and stitching techniques to create richly colored textiles that help explain how water can be endlessly recycled if we care for it properly. Wastewater treatment has been the most successful public health initiative in the history of human beings and Olson’s&nbsp;Manufactured River&nbsp;brings awareness to its importance to the future of clean water. Located subgrade in the undercroft of the historic former Church of the Epiphany, the brick and timbered Catacombs Gallery alludes to spaces where wastewater flows and atmospherically lends as a backdrop for the exhibit. Experientially for visitors, the exhibit will additionally present a choreographed sound installation composed by music engineer and producer Jon Smith, recorded in part, on site at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant. Olson extends her thanks project partner,&nbsp;Dick Lanyon,&nbsp;Retired Executive Director of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and to&nbsp;Tony Glymph,&nbsp;Consultant - Wastewater Microbiologist, retired Chief Microbiologist MWRD, plus a special thanks to the many professionals at the MWRD of Greater Chicago who spent time teaching her about the wastewater treatment process. And to Columbia College Chicago faculty development grant to support this project.For more information, go to: www.epiphanychi.comPhoto credit: Lindsay Olson

Lindsay Olson: Manufactured River

Epiphany Center for the Arts | Barcelona Room201 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago&nbsp;60607Guardian Threads&nbsp;brings together the evocative works of Helen Geglio and Anders Zanichkowsky, highlighting deep themes of comfort, protection, and peace woven into their textiles to mark the passage of time.&nbsp; A selection of work from Helen Geglio's various textile series delve into narratives of memory, motherhood, and resilience, using repurposed materials to craft intricate pieces that protect and honor life journeys and the stories of women. Her&nbsp;Amulet Bundles&nbsp;are meditations on motherhood. Worries and fears for our children are bundled up and tied, held tightly inside protective layers of cloth.&nbsp;Anxiety Shields&nbsp;ward off the circular thoughts of sleepless nights when the world seems on end. Geglio’s&nbsp;Wisdom Cloaks&nbsp;pay tribute to the accumulated knowledge, experience and maturity of women, while honoring the resilience and wisdom of women through the ages. Anders Zanichkowsky's burial blankets offer a distinctive sense of comfort and peace. Long before they’re used as a burial shroud, these&nbsp;memento mori&nbsp;are meant to serve as a blanket, bedspread, wall hanging, altar piece, or shawl that gathers the essence of personal memories over time. The handwoven shrouds, crafted from natural fibers, then provide a gentle, protective cocoon that honors the departed while supporting eco-friendly burial practices. As these blankets transition from everyday use to their final, sacred purpose, they embody a seamless journey from life to death, offering profound solace and tranquility to both the living and the departed.Together, within Epiphany Center for the Arts’ most intimate gallery, Geglio and Zanichkowsky’s works invite viewers to reflect on the comforting and protective qualities of textiles, the peace they bring both in life and death, and the enduring legacies woven into the fabric of our lives. For more information, go to: www.epiphanychi.comPhoto credit: Epiphany Center for the Arts

Helen Geglio & Anders Zanichkowsky: Guardian Threads

Join us for a night of Art, Drinks, and Music in support of the Evanston Art Center! Tickets are on Sale now!&nbsp; For more information on the event and ways to support visit our website! <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://my.onecause.com/event/organizations/sf-0018000000kI1AnAAK/events/vevt:2a1d5d20-8fa6-40a9-960f-09eb22453290/home/story" target="_blank">DETAILS AND TICKETS</a>

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Regina Agu: Shore|Lines from January 23, 2024 – May 18, 2024. Drawing on methods of field work and landscape photography, Agu examines waterways and natural environments as defining sites of Black life and belonging. This exhibition presents an original commission, large-scale panoramic installation at MoCP as part of an exploration of placemaking and community memory—tracing sites and legacies of historical Black North American migration through the medium and expansive tradition of the panoramic form. Regina Agu: Shore|Lines brings together discourses of Black geographies, landscape photography, and site-specific land histories, using the methodology of landscape panorama as a format for relating ideas and themes of Black cultural memory connected to place. The exhibition includes an artist book that Agu refers to as a “field guide,” connecting her Midwest and Gulf South experiences of the landscapes. Shore|Lines is curated by Associate Curator Asha Iman Veal and generously supported by <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mocp.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e4250b7536dc23e9352b28ee&amp;id=46b3a2aa71&amp;e=62775191de" target="_blank">The Joyce Foundation Joyce Award</a> to Regina Agu and MoCP, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mocp.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e4250b7536dc23e9352b28ee&amp;id=46fd17a84f&amp;e=62775191de" target="_blank">National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)</a>, and <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mocp.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e4250b7536dc23e9352b28ee&amp;id=40e7381ef5&amp;e=62775191de" target="_blank">The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts</a>.

Regina Agu: Shore | Lines

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor NorthCurated by Elise Butterfieldtwo hundred and fifty-one days, a solo exhibition by Bryana Bibbs, is an artist's exploration of loss, ancestry, time, and memory. The show’s title references the span of time between the death of Bibbs' grandfather on December 18, 2023, and her grandmother on August 25, 2024, during which Bibbs, along with her mom, lived in her grandparents’ home and cared for her grandmother. In&nbsp;two hundred and fifty-one days, Bibbs incorporates the objects of her grandparents’ everyday lives into weaving and print series. Painstakingly and lovingly, she took apart hospital blankets and favorite shirts to weave them into new artifacts; she cataloged socks and adult bibs in black and white prints. Bibbs’ repetitive artistic practice and commitment to witnessing her own inner landscape lays bare the profoundly emotional and yet mundane experience of processing the death of a loved one. Each object in&nbsp;two hundred and fifty-one days&nbsp;is a testament to the transformative potential of grief.&nbsp;

Bryana Bibbs: two hundred and fifty-one days

Reception and Gallery Talk, May 8, 7-9pm The Lewis University Department of Art and Design is proud to present the Senior Capstone Exhibition. This biannual art show coincides with the capstone course, Senior Project. The course challenges graduating students to put their newly acquired skills and understanding of art to the test by participating in a professional exhibition experience. Artists:Carissa HooverLorain LopezNatalia NykazaCourtney PawliszAlexis PragidesJasmine Pryor&nbsp; Image:&nbsp;Left Corner,&nbsp;Acrylic on Canvas, by Jasmine Pryor

Senior Capstone Exhibition

Donna Tadelman

Early 20th Century Design <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://hindmanauctions.com/auctions/6326-early-20th-century-design?page=1&amp;per=48&amp;tab=overview" target="_blank">Details</a> May 20, 2025&nbsp;9:00AM CT Live / Chicago

Early 20th Century Design

Modern Design <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://hindmanauctions.com/auctions/6327-modern-design?page=1&amp;per=48&amp;tab=overview" target="_blank">Details</a> May 20, 2025&nbsp;12:00PM CT Live / Chicago

Modern Design

Discussion and exhibition walk-through&nbsp;with curator Karsten Lund and physicist Daniel Holz As the exhibition draws on different concepts of space-time,&nbsp;Germinations&nbsp;explores the relation of Andean and ancestral knowledge and contemporary scientific&nbsp;knowledge. For this casual talk and exhibition tour, curator Karsten Lund is joined by physicist and cosmologist Daniel Holz, from the University of Chicago. Holz is a leading researcher into gravitational waves, studying how ripples in space-time reveal the hidden lives of black holes and an expanding universe.

Notes on Space-Time

Antiquities and Ancient Art <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://hindmanauctions.com/auctions/6344-c11173d8-3cc7-45c0-80c1-aed333949d35?page=1&amp;per=48&amp;tab=overview" target="_blank">Details</a> May 22, 2025&nbsp;10:00AM CT Live / Chicago

Antiquities and Ancient Art

Join us for&nbsp;the public culmination of the UChicago course “Site-Based Practice: Choreographing the Smart Museum,” led by Julia Rhoads, Director of the Dance Program in&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://taps.uchicago.edu/" target="_blank">Theater and Performance Studies</a>.&nbsp;Through the course, students created a collaborative work using embodied research methods that interact with the Smart Museum through moving, sensing, and listening, while also responding to the current exhibitions&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/expanding-the-50th-shared-stories/" target="_blank">Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/robert-earl-paige-give-the-drummer-some/" target="_blank">Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!</a>

Choreographing the Smart

Contemporary Curated is an art exhibition running from April 10 to May 23 at McCormick Gallery's new location at 2251 W. Grand Ave, Chicago, IL. The exhibition features a curated selection of contemporary artists, including Gwen Yen Chiu, Michael Hedges, Anna Kunz, Melanie Pankau, Kim Piotrowski, Pooja Pittie, Gordon Powell, Janis Pozzi-Johnson, Sheri Rush, John Sabraw, John Santoro, Ben Tinsley, and Vidvuds Zviedris.Artist talks will be held during EXPO weekend on Saturday, April 26, with Michael Hedges speaking at 11 AM and Janis Pozzi-Johnson at 2 PM.

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