Lost Goddess Civilizations of Old Europe
2022-04-14 13:44 (America/Chicago) | IL
The Ukrainian National Museum invites you to a presentation on ancient civilizations by scholar Marilyn Hrymak. Learn about the mysteries of the Trypillia civilization, who existed from 7500 to 3500 BC, before the Sumerians and Egyptians, with no evidence of military weapons. Hrymak’s presentation will describe the life, art and Goddess religion of these egalitarian people. Their innovations still influence us today.

March 26th, Saturday at 4 pm.
$10 entry fee

Kaffeeklatsch
2022-04-14 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-04-21 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-04-28 17:30 - 18:30 | Online Event
DANK Haus hosts a gemütliche chat online every Thursday at 5:30pm, with German speakers at every level welcome.
We will be talking about “Gott und die Welt”, and this Klatsch will be moderated by a friendly and enthusiastic German speaker.

Please RSVP to receive the online link. This link can be used every week. https://dankhaus.com/event-4475997
Please contact us at languageschool@dankhaus.com should you have any questions.

Neighborhood Nights feat. Congressman Quigley
2022-04-14 19:00 - 23:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Come enjoy a beverage with a spectacular view from our 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
April 14, 2022 — FEAT. CONGRESSMAN QUIGLEY

Kulturküche | German Pretzels Cooking Class
2022-04-15 13:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-22 18:30 - 20:30 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
The Pretzel Blitz is back!
We are hosting 5 pretzel making classes in April. Why? We LOVE pretzels! These pretzel-making classes will be offered in-person. We will host up to 20 students in our industrial kitchen at the DANK Haus. These 20 students will get hands on training from Reinhard Richter, our resident Pretzel Meister, and take home their homemade pretzels at the end of the class.
We have 5 classes to choose from. The April 29th class will be taught entirely in German (auf Deutsch)! All students will get the recipe and be able to communicate directly with our chef.

Opening Reception: Emergence
2022-04-15 18:00 - 20:00 | South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60653, United States
This exhibition positions SSCAC as an important anchor for Black LGBTQ artists who belonged to its community.

About this event

We invite you to come out and celebrate the opening of EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center!

EMERGENCE highlights The South Side Community Art Center’s historical role in supporting a full spectrum of Black artists through an intersectional viewpoint.
EMERGENCE features work by Ralph Arnold, Richmond Barthé,Sylvester Britton, William S. Carter, Mikki Ferrill, Jonathan Green, Juarez Hawkins, Berry Horton, Patric McCoy, Charles Sebree, Allen Stringfellow, and Ellis Wilson. The first exhibition of its kind at the South Side Community Art Center, artworks in the exhibition address themes of identity, community, queer spaces, and performance, in collage, painting, sculpture, photography, and more.
The exhibition is organized by Rebecca Zorach and curated by LaMar Gayles Jr. and zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal.

Open Haus Stammtisch | Frühlingsfest
2022-04-15 19:30 - 23:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Friday April 15th is a night of fun at our Open Haus! This month’s theme is spring (Frühling in German)! We will have German Bier on tap and food for purchase!
Our Open Haus is a great way to meet new friends, or bring your friends and introduce them to the Haus! This event is located in our popular 6th Floor Skyline Lounge, complete with vintage bar and sweeping panoramic views of the Chicago skyline.

Free parking at 5/3 Bank after 6:00 PM located at Western and Gunnison

Spring Community Powwow
2022-04-16 17:00 - 19:30 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Everyone welcome at the Spring Community Powwow, Saturday, April 16. Dinner served at 5pm, Grand Entry at 6:30pm.

38th Annual Chicago Latino Film Festival
2022-04-21 - 2022-05-01 | Online Event
Produced by the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, the 38th Chicago Latino Film Festival, April 21st-May 1st, will showcase films from all over Latin America, Spain, Portugal and the United States. The Festival will once again adopt a hybrid format with in-person screenings at the Landmark Century Center, 2828 N. Clark St., several Drive-In presentations at ChiTown Movies, 2343 S. Throop St., and with virtual screenings via Eventive accessible to residents of Illinois and the Midwest states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.
View the full list of films and purchase tickets at https://chicagolatinofilmfestival.org/

Art After Work: Earth Day
2022-04-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Online Event
Intuit partners with Weinberg/Newton Gallery to host a special edition of Art After Work in celebration of Earth Day.

About this event

Join Intuit for Art After Work, a free series of facilitated art-making workshops. This month, Intuit is partnering with our neighbor Weinberg/Newton Gallery to host a special edition of Art After Work in celebration of Earth Day (Friday, April 22, 2022). In the virtual program, Weinberg/Newton Gallery educator Lisa Lindvay will spotlight the gallery’s exhibition Human/Nature, an exhibition addressing one of the most urgent issues of our time: climate change. Following the discussion, Lindvay will facilitate an embroidery workshop inspired by conceptual craft artist Karen Reimer, whose work is exhibited in Human/Nature.

Suggested materials

Recycled patterned fabric
Embroidery floss
Needle
Scissors
Embroidery hoop

Optional materials (for sketching)

Pencils
Paper

Please note: If you are in Chicago and would like to pick up materials for this Art After Work, Weinberg/Newton Gallery has art kits at the ready! Please contact Lisa Lindvay at lisa@weinbergnewtongallery.com with questions about the kits.
Art After Work is for everyone, including beginners and people who say they “are not artists.” We can all be artists! It is a guided workshop, and instruction will begin at 5 p.m. central.
Closed captions will be available at the virtual program. Please contact Lindsey Wurz at lindsey@art.org with questions related to accessibility accommodations.
Art After Work is free to join! To show your support to Intuit, please consider the pay-what-you-can option when you complete your reservation. Your contributions help ensure the sustainability of our public programs and support guest lecturers and teaching artists.
Two hours before the event, Intuit will email the Zoom link to those who RSVP on Eventbrite. Please check your junk folder; unfortunately, these emails are sent there sometimes.

Art After Work is funded in part by the Alphawood Foundation, the Department of Cultural Affairs, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Illinois Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trust, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations from Intuit members and supporters.

About Weinberg/Newton Gallery
Weinberg/Newton Gallery is a non-commercial gallery with a mission to collaborate with nonprofit organizations and artists to educate and engage the public on social justice issues. Through artwork and programming, the gallery provides a vital space for open discourse on critical contemporary issues facing our communities.
Human/Nature is presented by Weinberg/Newton Gallery in partnership with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Meet Lisa Lindvay
Lisa Lindvay is a Chicago-based artist and educator. She is currently the Education Coordinator at Weinberg/Newton Gallery and is an adjunct photography professor at Columbia College Chicago. Lindvay earned her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2009) and BFA in Applied Media Arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (2005). Lindvay’s photographs have been exhibited at Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass.; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Johalla Projects, Chicago; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisc.; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Turner Contemporary, Margate, England; and Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, N.C.; among others. Her photographs are included in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection as well as various private collections. She is the recipient of the 3Arts Artist Award (2011) and Chicago Artadia Award (2012).

Artecito Virtual: Selvas
2022-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
Artecito is a Spanish-language workshop for families presented in partnership between OPEN Center for the Arts and Lincoln Park Zoo

Las selvas tropicales tiene un ecosistema muy diverso, la selva tropical es el hogar de más de la mitad de las plantas y animales del planeta, aunque la selva tropical solo cubre alrededor del 6% de la superficie del mundo.
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre selvas con nuestros amigos en Lincoln Park Zoo!
Conéctate aquí: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoSelvas
____________________________________
Rainforests have a very diverse ecosystem, are home for more than half of the planets plants and animals, even though rainforest only cover around 6% of the worlds surface.
Join us as we explore more about rainforests with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Connect here: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoSelvas

NHM Virtual Book Club: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
2022-04-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
On Thursday, April 21st at 7pm we will be discussing The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri Virtually via Zoom

About this event

Join the National Hellenic Museum’s Virtual Book Club!
Facilitated by NHM’s Resident Scholar Dr. Katherine Kelaidis & Manager of Programs & Events Cairo Dye, each month the NHM Virtual Book Club chooses a book that is either inspired by the Hellenic legacy or by a Greek American author (and sometimes both!). Then we gather to discuss the book on Zoom.
Book Club is free to join and meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7pm CST
In April we will be discussing The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri.
Support NHM with your purchase of The Beekeeper of Aleppo! When you buy your copy through this link , a portion of the proceeds will go to NHM: https://amzn.to/3IKZlwS
Click here to see all of our upcoming book selections
More about The Beekeeper of Aleppo:
Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo–until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. On the way, Nuri is sustained by the knowledge that waiting for them is Mustafa, his cousin and business partner, who has started an apiary and is teaching fellow refugees in Yorkshire to keep bees.
As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss, but dangers that would overwhelm the bravest of souls. Above all, they must journey to find each other again.
Moving, powerful, compassionate, and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit. It is the kind of book that reminds us of the power of storytelling.

Irish Art in Practice: Women’s Work?
2022-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave., Chicago, IL, 60630, United States
The Irish American Heritage Center, in partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland, Midwest, presents Irish Art in Practice. Join Jennifer Keating, Ph.D. as she brings us through the world of Irish arts and artists, and the living applications and impressions it makes on the world around us. Jennifer Keating is a Senior Lecturer and the Writing in the Disciplines Specialist in the William S. Dietrich II Institute for Writing Excellence. Most recently, she served as Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives in the Dietrich College for Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She brings an educator’s perspective to this fascinating series.

Women’s Work? – Presented in-person, and via Zoom, April 21st, 7:00pm CST
Irish Art in Practice: Ursula Burke, Rita Duffy, Mairéad McClean and Paula McFetridge, the forthcoming book by Jennifer Keating, explores contemporary artistic practice in Ireland. In Women’s Work we will view key examples of each artists’ work as we consider their individual concerns and contributions to contemporary art in Irish and international contexts. In addition, we will mine the influence of embodiment: what features of gender emerge in each artist’s work? What concerns pertaining to women in Ireland come forward in their practice? What features of masculinity or gender fluidity are explored or interrogated?
Register here for the in-person presentation of Women’s Work? in the Library at the Irish American Heritage Center.
Register here for the Women’s Work Zoom presentation: Women’s Work

Swedish Museum Pop-Up Cafe
2022-04-22 11:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-23 11:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-24 11:00 - 15:00 | Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Join us at the Museum for a fika in our spring pop-up café! It will be open from April 22nd – 24th @ 11 A.M. to 3 P.M.
If the weather permits we will open the seating in our Courtyard in addition to the Main Gallery.

Opening Reception: Sichtverrückt.Lost and Found
2022-04-22 18:00 - 21:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
German artist Beate Axmann’s concept “Sicht.Verrückt” translates roughly to gaze, shifted. It is a directive to look not once, not twice, but thrice, even four times. In today’s atmosphere of rising extremism and polemics (in Germany and abroad), it is critical to shift one’s gaze––to look at issues from multiple angles. Sichtverrückt is the overarching theme that Beate Axmann has used for the whole of her artistic work since 2018.

Axmann is from the Black Forest region of Germany and works in acrylic paint on canvas, paper, and wood as well as ink on paper. Her subjects include people (especially women), nature, the Black Forest, and the continuum of human cultures that she greets on her travels. Collaboration and cooperation with others are centrally important to Axmann.
Axmann’s show will run through May 20, and will include public programs such as:

Panel discussion with Joanna Pinsky of Art Encounter
2 live performances in which Axmann will create collaborative paintings with Joanna Pinsky and Sergio Gomez
All-ages art workshops (which Axmann will lead, speaking German!) in which you will create 1 or 2 experimental collages

Continue to check dankhaus.com/art and our Facebook events for event details.

In The Realm Of Senses Presents: Fundraiser for Ukraine
2022-04-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60607, United States
An immersive fund raiser concert featuring music, visual arts, perfumery, and gastronomy to help Ukraine in its time of need.

About this event

In The Realm Of Senses presents its fully immersive duo version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition for two players and seven instruments with works by Ukrainian born composers Skoryk, Yashchenko, Bortkiewicz and Prokofiev, presented by Chinese-American, Russian-American and Belarusian-Americans who support Ukraine’s fight for freedom and peace. This concert will feature visual projections paired to music by many Chicago-based international artists as well as two perfume pairings to music by Christophe Laudamiel, and dessert pairings by local chefs. We will perform various works by Ukrainian-born composers including first movement of Prokofiev’s violin sonata No.1 and end with the “Great Gate of Kiev” movement from Pictures, paired to a unique perfume. Music and art transcends all and will bring people of all backgrounds together to support Ukraine in its great time of need.
Our co-sponsors are Epiphany Center for the Arts and Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, who will be donating the venue for this event and helping us bring the word to the Ukrainian and Chicago communities at large. All proceeds will go towards vetted charities to directly support Ukraine. Thanks for ITROS, Epiphany, and UIMA for the opportunity to create beauty, music, and art to do a greater good for people in need in this trying time of war.
Concert begins at 8pm, doors at Epiphany Art Center will be open from 5-8pm for their fabulous Golden Hour and food, cocktails, and music before the show. More information at: https://epiphanychi.com/golden-hour
Jeff Yang: violin, viola, cello, baroque recorders
Lyudmila Lakisova: piano
Galina Shevchenko: visual projections
Christophe Laudamiel: scent sculptures
Visual artists include: LIviu Pasare, Farnaz Khosh-Sirat, John Gaudette, Maja Bosen, Azadeh Houssaini, Kioto Aoki, and more.
Gastronomy pairings by Katherine Ann Confections and Fancy Plants Kitchen
All proceeds of this concert will go directly to Ukrainian American Medical Association, Ukraine Trust Chain, and United Methodist Committee on Relief

The Bridge to Native Chicago
2022-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
The Bridge to Native Chicago
Members of RedLine, a local Chicago Native American Drum group, and interdisciplinary artist Ronnie Preston (San Carlos Apache), along with jazz musicians from France, collectively known as The Bridge, will be the featured musicians for this unique collaboration.

The Bridge intends to form a network for exchange, production, and diffusion, to build a transatlantic bridge that will be crossed on a regular basis by French and American musicians as part of collaborative projects. And, in addition to the scheduled projects, encourage meetings and relationships between creative musicians and perpetuate them. In other words: to give them the times and spaces to join and rejoin on both sides of the ocean and to deepen their exchanges.

RedLine is a group of intertribal singers who perform songs from the great Oklahoma Nations of the Southern Plains. RedLine formed in 2012 to address a vital need for a community-based Drum. This action was necessary as it created resurgence in arts engagement needed to mobilize and build community and introduce/reintroduce cultural practice among youth and young adults in the Native American community. Through song, RedLine shares a small taste of southern plains culture with Chicago and the Midwest big water area, while providing a circle for intergenerational teaching and learning.

Champion grass dancer and hoop dancer, singer, storyteller, and accomplished artist, Ronnie Preston is dedicated to sharing the cultures of Native American tribes and nations through music and dance. As a performing artist and spokesperson, Mr. Preston has toured from coast to coast, frequently as a guest on college campuses. A descendant of the San Carlos Apache nation in Arizona, he began dancing and attending pow wow celebrations as a young child. Now residing in Chicago, he is a celebrated teacher, performer throughout the Midwest, a guest for events at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and other venues, and performer and emcee for pow wows and many other presentations celebrating Native American culture.

Kaffee, Kuchen, und Kino
2022-04-23 12:00 - 15:00 | DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, 4740 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join us for 2 Saturday a month for a German language film screening! Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee & cakes) will be served at 12:00 PM and the film will begin at 1:00 PM. Stick around after the credits roll to discuss the film and flex your German language skills.

THIS WEEK’S FILM:
Die lustige Witwe*

RSVP: https://dankhaus.com/event-4591018
2nd Floor, Brauhaus Room
Members: $4 | Non-Members: $6
*Film may be subject to change

MAGIC MOMENTS: Balzekas Museum Women's Guild Luncheon, Magic Show, and Craft Fair
2022-04-24 13:00 - 16:00 | Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL, 60629, United States
Spring Luncheon & Fundraiser of the Women’s Guild of the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture: Magic show, Craft Fair + Lithuanian Cuisine!

About this event

Please join the Women’s Guild for an afternoon of “Magic Moments” at our annual spring luncheon and fundraiser. Enjoy a spectacular magic show, artisan crafts, delicious Lithuanian cuisine, live music, raffles, and a cash bar. Everyone is welcome to attend.
All proceeds benefit the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture.
Tickets: $40
Date: Sunday, April 24 at 1pm
Location: Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 S. Pulaski Rd., Chicago IL 60629
Information and Reservations by April 15: 708-652-4211
Learn more about the Balzekas Museum: https://balzekasmuseum.org

Virtual Film Screening and Discussion: Inhabitants
2022-04-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
Join is virtually for our Earth Week Activities!

About this event

In celebration of Earth Day and Earth Week, join us for a virtual screening of the film Inhabitants. You can view the film at your leisure anytime between April 22-29th, 2022. Be sure to join us on Sunday, April 24th at 7:00pm for a panel discussion with filmmakers Costa Boutsikaris and Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson. *All links will be emailed before April 22nd.

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World
For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain their traditional land management practices. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the US are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. The five stories include sustaining traditions of Hopi dryland farming in Arizona; restoring buffalo to the Blackfeet reservation in Montana; maintaining sustainable forestry on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin; reviving native food forests in Hawaii; and returning prescribed fire to the landscape by the Karuk Tribe of California. As the climate crisis escalates these time-tested practices of North America’s original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.
Website: www.INHABITANTSFILM.com
Instagram: @InhabitantsFilm
FaceBook: www.FaceBook.com/InhabitantsFilm

Filmmakers:
Costa Boutsikaris – Co-Director/Cinematographer/Editor
Costa is a New York-based director and cinematographer. In 2015 he released his first feature documentary entitled INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective. In 2016 it took home the Audience Choice Award at The Environmental Film Festival At Yale and the Princeton Environmental Film Festival and won Best In Theme at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival.
Directors Statement

We, Anna Palmer and Costa Boutsikaris, have had the immense privilege of getting the opportunity to help Native project leaders share their stories and visions of the future. In 2017 Anna Palmer was working for the USDA helping develop climate adaptation plans for Tribes in the Southwest. While attending academic conferences on Climate Change Adaptation she continued to hear a constant request for higher quality media of Native land management projects. Through conversations with Tribal project leaders and our supporting foundations we developed a plan for creating a film to help document these projects. This film was made collaboratively with our Tribal Advisory Board, which includes representatives from each of the Tribes highlighted in the film and the Kalliopeia Foundation. These partnerships allowed the film subjects to ensure that the film is accurate, culturally appropriate and meets the needs of their communities.

For more information about this program, contact info@mitchellmuseum.org

Swedish Cooking Class Online
2022-04-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Join us for another cooking class series either online or in person. In April we will be making crepes. For the online class you will receive the recipe in advance. You can then either cook alongside or watch and try later. It is an interactive Zoom so you will be able to ask questions. The in person class takes four participants and is a hands on class. Cost for the in person class is $25 for Museum members and $35 for non members. The online class is $10 for members and $15 for non members.

Swedish Cooking Class In-person
2022-04-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Join us for another cooking class series either online or in person. In April we will be making Swedish crepes. For the online class you will receive the recipe in advance. You can then either cook alongside or watch and try later. It is an interactive Zoom so you will be able to ask questions. The in person class takes four participants and is a hands on class. Cost for the in person class is $25 for Museum members and $35 for non members. The online class is $10 for members and $15 for non members.

We Are Here: Music From The Holocaust, A Community-Wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration
2022-04-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Temple Sholom Chicago, 3480 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, 60657, United States
Conceived by Ira Antelis, hosted by Rabbi Shoshanah Conover, and produced by David Mendelson along with Ira Antelis and Jeremy Perlin, the concert will honor the memory of those who were murdered and highlight the artists and writers who, in the worst of times, continued to create. With a 25-piece choir and performances and readings from some of Chicago’s top artists, cantors, and leaders, this powerful concert will include a candle-lighting ceremony and memorial prayers.
This program is free to the public.
Online or in-person.
Doors open at 6:30 pm. Program begins at 7:00 pm CDT.

One Night Stand: Pauline Simon
2022-04-27 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event
One piece. By one artist. For one night.

About this event

Join Intuit for One Night Stand, a free series of art talks that focus on individual works of art from the museum’s collections and exhibitions. This month, art historian and curator Lisa Stone will engage attendees in a conversation about artist Pauline Simon and her piece The Ocean.

Closed captions will be available at the virtual program. Please contact Lindsey Wurz at lindsey@art.org with questions related to accessibility accommodations.
One Night Stand is free to join! To show your support to Intuit, please consider the pay-what-you-can option when you complete your reservation. Your contributions help ensure the sustainability of our public programs and support guest lecturers and teaching artists.
Two hours before the event, Intuit will email the Zoom link to those who RSVP on Eventbrite. Please check your junk folder; unfortunately, these emails are sent there sometimes.

One Night Stand is funded in part by the Alphawood Foundation, the Department of Cultural Affairs, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Illinois Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trust, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations from Intuit members and supporters.

Meet Lisa Stone
Lisa Stone is a member of the Vivian Society and the 2021 recipient of the Visionary Award. She recently retired as a senior lecturer in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she earned a Master of Science in Historic Preservation. Her research, teaching, writing and curating concern the preservation and interpretation of artist-built environments and the realms of non-mainstream art. Stone was curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection (1997–2020) and currently consults for the John Michael Kohler Art Center’s Art Preserve in Sheboygan, Wisc. She was co-curator with Kenneth C. Burkhart of Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow, that traveled from Chicago to Paris; Kaufbeuren, Germany; Lausanne, Switzerland; and Amsterdam.

Image: Pauline Simon (American, 1894–1976). The Ocean, n.d. Oil on canvas, 28 x 40 in. Collection of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, gift of Phyllis Kind, 2006.17.2

Author Talk: Making Mexican Chicago
2022-04-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL, 60610, United States
In Making Mexican Chicago, Mike Amezcua offers a powerful multiracial history of Chicago that sheds new light on the origins and endurance of urban inequality. Amezcua visits the Newberry to discuss how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in the face of white resistance.
Though Chicago is often popularly defined by its Polish, Black, and Irish populations, Cook County is home to the third-largest Mexican American population in the United States. The story of Mexican immigration and integration into the city is one of complex political struggles, deeply entwined with issues of housing and neighborhood control.
In the decades after World War II, working-class Chicago neighborhoods like Pilsen and Little Village became sites of upheaval and renewal. Mexican Americans attempted to build new communities in the face of white resistance that cast them as perpetual aliens. Mike Amezcua charts the diverse strategies used by Mexican Chicagoans to fight the forces of segregation, economic predation, and gentrification, focusing on how unlikely combinations of social conservatism and real estate market savvy paved new paths for Latinx assimilation.
For this event, Amezcua will speak with James Akerman, Curator of Maps at the Newberry and the curator of the exhibition Crossings: Mapping American Journeys.
Purchase Making Mexican Chicago online from the Newberry Bookshop.
This event is being held in conjunction with Crossings: Mapping American Journeys . The exhibition runs at the Newberry from February 25 through June 25.

This program is free and open to all; free tickets required.

WBEZ Presents: Legally Stolen Live
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Kennedy-King College, 740 West 63rd Street, Chicago, IL, 60621, United States
Join us for Legally Stolen Live featuring Tiff Beatty and Tonika Lewis Johnson. The event will focus on inequality in real estate.

About this event

Legally Stolen Live is a podcast event hosted by Tiff Beatty of the National Public Housing Museum and Social Justice Artist Tonika Lewis Johnson as part of her project, Inequity for Sale, a virtual and physical exploration of Englewood homes sold on Land Sale Contracts in the 50s and 60s. Featured guests will discuss reparations and redress for legalized theft from Black people and communities impacted by predatory real estate practices and art as a catalyst for change.
What to expect?
A recap of Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Inequity for Sale project, which culminated as 3-part podcast with the National Public Housing Museum. Hosts Tonika and NPHM Programming Director, Tiff Beatty will interview community members that are actively involved in addressing Chicago’s ongoing housing crisis.
This program will include open captions.
Tonika Lewis Johnson is a photographer, social justice artist and life-long resident of Chicago’s South Side neighborhood of Englewood. She is also co-founder of the Englewood Arts Collective and Resident Association of Greater Englewood. Her critically acclaimed Folded Map project visually investigates disparities among Chicago residents and brings them together for conversation. Most recently, Tonika was selected as the National Public Housing Museum’s 2021 Artist as Instigator. In that role, she created her newest project: Inequity for Sale, which highlights the living history of Greater Englewood homes sold on Land Sale Contracts in the 50s and 60s.
Tiff Beatty is a cultural organizer, arts administrator, performance poet, and host. She is the current program director of arts, culture, and public policy at National Public Housing Museum in Chicago. Tiff Beatty was a 2019-2021 Chicago United for Equity Fellow and Senior Fellow and received the additional distinction of the 2019 Field Leader Award from the Field Foundation of Illinois. She was previously the program director at the Chicago Humanities Festival and Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture.
Robin Rue Simmons is the Founder and Executive Director of FirstRepair, a new not-for-profit organization that informs local reparations, nationally. She is the former 5th Ward Alderman for the City of Evanston, IL, where she led, in collaboration with others, the passage of the nation’s first municipal-funded reparations legislation.
Amber Hendley passionate researcher, educator and activist. She is the co-author of The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago Report (2019). which quantified the amount legally, but unjustly, extracted from the African American community in Chicago through predatory residential contract selling during the Second Great Migration.
