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Art Design Chicago Search Search Close this search box. Search Search Close this search box. Experience Design Culture History Art in your backyard Home About Events & Exhibitions Stories ADC Updates Inside Look In the News Partners Resources Menu Home About Events & Exhibitions Stories ADC Updates Inside Look In the News Partners Resources An initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with artists and organizations across the city, Art Design Chicago is a series of events and exhibitions that highlight the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities. NOW + NEXT September 16, 2023-May 17, 2024 Native Futures Center for Native Futures Learn More Exhibition March 23, 2024-June 16, 2024 Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles Hyde Park Art Center Learn More Exhibition April 6, 2024-July 28, 2024 Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories Chicago Cultural Center Learn More Exhibition April 6, 2024-October 27, 2024 Parapluie Hyde Park Art Center Learn More Exhibition April 6, 2024-October 27, 2024 The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige Hyde Park Art Center Learn More Exhibition April 12, 2024-August 11, 2024 Arte Diseño Xicágo II • From the World’s Fair to the Present Day National Museum of Mexican Art Learn More Exhibition April 14, 2024-November 2, 2024 Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People The GREYSTONE Collective Learn More Exhibition April 20, 2024-August 11, 2024 Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective Art Institute Chicago Learn More Exhibition May 4, 2024-August 25, 2024 Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris – Chicago Cultural Center Chicago Cultural Center Learn More Exhibition May 17, 2024-May 19, 2024 Designing For Dignity: A Convening of Possibilities 02 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Learn More Conference Talk Workshop May 18, 2024-June 28, 2025 Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s Chicago History Museum Learn More Exhibition May 18, 2024-October 26, 2024 What is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago South Asia Institute Learn More Exhibition May 18, 2024 Hebru Brantley: The Art of Representation Illinois Tech Learn More Talk May 18, 2024 SALA: A LIVING ROOM OF IDEAS (S2EP2) 105.5FM Chicago or lumpenradio.com Learn More Talk May 19, 2024 Opening Weekend of Designing for Change Chicago History Museum Learn More Opening May 24, 2024 Gallery Conversation: Christina Ramberg at the Art Institute Art Institute Chicago Learn More Talk May 26, 2024 Eliza Fernand: Graveyard Meander Saint Boniface Cemetery Learn More Tour May 30, 2024 Houselessness and Criminalization in Public Space Mana Contemporary Learn More Talk May 31, 2024 The BLACK Domestic Dining Roomscape – Meal Time The GREYSTONE Collective Learn More Performance Talk June 1, 2024 The BLACK Domestic Living & Dining Roomscapes – Closing Reception The GREYSTONE Collective Learn More Exhibition June 3, 2024-December 31, 2024 Akito Tsuda: Pilsen Days Harold Washington Library Learn More Exhibition June 6, 2024 Drop-In Sketching Art Institute Chicago Learn More Workshop June 6, 2024 Contemporary Collage Conversations Hyde Park Art Center Learn More Talk June 6, 2024 Pilsen Walking Tour led by Photographer Akito Tsuda Chicago Public Library Lozano Branch Learn More Tour June 8, 2024 Venerate, Venerate! – Opening Reception The GREYSTONE Collective Learn More Exhibition Opening June 14, 2024-August 31, 2024 Of Her Becoming: Elizabeth Catlett’s Legacy in Chicago Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago Learn More Exhibition June 14, 2024 Opening: Of Her Becoming: Elizabeth Catlett’s Legacy in Chicago Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago Learn More Opening June 16, 2024 Venerate, Venerate! – Creative Conversation The GREYSTONE Collective Learn More Performance Talk June 20, 2024 Conversation: Painting, Quilting, Sourcing—Christina Ramberg’s Artistic Practices Art Institute Chicago Learn More Talk June 21, 2024-June 23, 2024 Venerate, Venerate! – Artists’ Book Mark Making Workshop The GREYSTONE Collective Learn More Tour Workshop July 11, 2024 A Landmark of Work: African Americans in Decorative Arts Hyde Park Art Center Learn More Talk July 20, 2024-November 16, 2024 Persistence: The Lions’ Roar in the Puerto Rican Arts / Persistencia: El Rugido de los Leones en la plástica puertorriqueña” PRAA Center Gallery Learn More Exhibition August 15, 2024-December 17, 2024 Still Here: Linking Histories of Displacement National Public Housing Museum Learn More Exhibition August 17, 2024 The Existence of Black Art Hyde Park Art Center Learn More Talk August 30, 2024-December 20, 2024 Prospetto a Mare Museum of Contemporary Photography Learn More Exhibition September 1, 2024-September 30, 2024 Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats Floating Museum Learn More Exhibition September 2, 2024-September 2, 2025 Anishinaabe Art: Stories of Today Mitchell Museum of the American Indian Learn More Exhibition September 5, 2024-December 14, 2024 Learning Together: Art, Education, and Community Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago Learn More Exhibition September 5, 2024 Opening Reception: Prospetto a Mare Museum of Contemporary Photography Learn More Opening September 6, 2024-July 27, 2025 Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935 Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Learn More Exhibition September 6, 2024 Opening: Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935 Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Learn More Opening September 12, 2024-February 23, 2025 Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967 DePaul Art Museum Learn More Exhibition September 12, 2024-February 23, 2025 Theaster Gates: When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive Stony Island Arts Bank Learn More Exhibition September 12, 2024-January 4, 2025 Indigenous Chicago Newberry Library Learn More Exhibition September 21, 2024-December 22, 2024 Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art Learn More Exhibition September 22, 2024-June 27, 2025 The Myth of the Organic City 6018North Learn More Exhibition September 22, 2024 Opening Reception: The Myth of the Organic City 6018North Learn More Opening September 28, 2024-May 17, 2025 beLONGING: Lithuanian Artists in Chicago 1900 to Now Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture Learn More Exhibition September 28, 2024 Hyde Park Jazz Festival Collaboration Hyde Park Art Center Learn More November 9, 2024-April 4, 2025 Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types Design Museum of Chicago Learn More Exhibition December 6, 2024-April 5, 2025 Inverse Surveillance Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) Learn More Exhibition December 12, 2024-March 29, 2025 Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago Newberry Library Learn More Exhibition January 2, 2025-May 27, 2025 Chicago as Catalyst: Immigrant Communities Nourish Self-Taught Artists Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Learn More Exhibition January 26, 2025-July 13, 2025 Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University Learn More Exhibition VIEW ALL EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS STORIES Learn about the people, places, and ideas that drive Chicago’s dynamic arts ecosystem. 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