Owen McHugh and Abstraction in the Permanent Collection Saturday, October 8 - Sunday, December 4, 2022 Opening Reception: October 8 12:00-4:00 pm The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is delighted to announce Owen McHugh and Abstraction in the Permanent Collection. This exhibition highlights abstract, non-representational works in UIMA’s Permanent Collection alongside Owen McHugh’s most recent […]
At Home: Cindy Bernhard, Ellen Greene, Ann Toebbe, Gwendolyn Zabicki OCTOBER 8- DECEMEBR 4, 2022 This exhibition presents works by four Chicago artists with a focus on paintings. As the exhibition title suggests, the show's premise is about the artist's exploration of the layered emotional resonance of the concept of home. We have been living […]
Our upcoming exhibition 9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features work from the Dandelion Black Women Artists collective. These nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that transcend and transform events in the year 2020. In their eyes, art-making became a transgressive act through activism, documentation and vision. All based in the DMV region, otherwise […]
Oct 8, Saturday 2pm to 4pm – FANHS Greater Chicago Chapter is hosting the Film Screening of Honor Thy Mother to be followed by a panel discussion on the racial-ethnic spectrum of Filipino American mestizos (mixed race) and how social consequences of their ethnicity—such as racism and self-identity issues—have affected their lives.. Guest panelists include […]
Manto is a 2018 Indian biographical drama film based on the life of the prominent Urdu author Saadat Hasan Manto. About this event Manto Manto is a 2018 Indian biographical film based on the life of the prominent author Saadat Hasan Manto, written and directed by Nandita Das. Manto is based on the 1940s post-Independence […]
This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. Sharing a cultural experience through song & dance @ AIC 69th Annual Chicago Powwow. This will be a special collaborative performance of Indigenous song and dance between Intertribal Native American powwow culture and Puerto Rican Indigenous Bomba culture, […]
This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. For this hands-on, art-making workshop, children will learn about the artistic symbolism on our nations' flags (primary examples will include the Assyrian and Ukrainian flags, as well as the American and Chicago flags). Everyone will then have the […]
Join us as we celebrate the American Indian Center's 69th Annual Chicago Powwow! This event is open to the public!
This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. For this event, take a journey through Filipino and Polish culture through two of their most iconic dishes; lumpia and pierogi! Enjoy a mini-Dumpling Fest with samples of the dumplings from each of these cultures, along with fun […]
Two days of dance, music, and other performances to celebrate the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Sky People Entertainment and the Old Town School of Folk Music bring Chicago the FIRST Indigenous Peoples Day festival to celebrate Indigeneity all weekend long! This two-night event will bring full musical performances by Indigenous artists. Night one […]
Nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that transcend and transform events in the year 2020. In their eyes, art-making became a transgressive act through activism, documentation and vision. Utilizing book-making, craft-making and works on paper, 9 Artists/9 Months/ 9 Perspectives presents a birth of vision under hardship felt worldwide, collectively […]
Join us to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Indigenous Peoples’ Day honors the culture and history of Native people past, present, and future. Join us at the Mitchell Museum along with our friends from St. Kateri Center to celebrate the diversity and vibrancy of Indigenous cultures with FREE admission to the museum all day. Bring your friends and your family to enrich […]
Two days of dance, music, and other performances to celebrate the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Sky People Entertainment and the Old Town School of Folk Music bring Chicago the FIRST Indigenous Peoples Day festival to celebrate Indigeneity all weekend long! This two-night event will bring full musical performances by Indigenous artists. Night one […]
A Conversation on 1919, Black Chicago and Resilience. About this event A hot summer day set Chicago ablaze in 1919. Seventeen-year-old Eugene Williams crossed an invisible line in Lake Michigan that divided the segregated shores, and he was killed by a group of white beachgoers. His death sparked a deadly 13-day riot. The fighting spread […]
This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. Every object has a story. And if it’s a cherished object that invokes our cultural identity, the story is even more salient. It jogs our memory, reminds us of close relationships, takes us back in time and place. […]
Please join us for a lecture by VLADIMÍR DZURO – Chief of Headquarters Office at the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, retired Czech Police Commissioner, war crimes investigator, and author of The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War – on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 at 7pm. Mr. Dzuro will discuss his personal account of war […]
COME ENJOY A BEVERAGE WITH A SPECTACULAR EXPERIENCE IN OUR ICONIC 6TH FLOOR SKYLINE LOUNGE & TERRACE A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! Each 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month from 7-11 PM. Proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum
BOMBA is the oldest musical tradition of Puerto Rico and one of the greatest expressions of the Island’s African ancestry. Since its establishment in Chicago in the late 1980's and early 1990's, enthusiasts, practitioners and teachers of Bomba had come through SRBCC to develop, share and cultivate their craft and honor this ancestral art form […]
Guided tours with Roman Villarreal of one of his studios in South Chicago and of the exhibition at Intuit in West Town. About this event Immerse yourself in the art of Roman Villarreal on this cross-Chicago tour. First gathering at Intuit, attendees will take a bus trip to South Chicago for an intimate, behind-the-scenes tour […]
This event is part of Journey Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Alliance's annual citywide festival of cross-cultural events. The program will be a panel discussion between a Sami person (Scandinavian Indigenous person) and a North American Indigenous person. The discussion will explore similarities and differences between the two panelists' cultures, and reflect on their individual experiences. […]