Programs & Events

8:00 pm

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, Touch of RED

8:00 pm

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, Touch of RED

8:00 pm

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, Touch of RED

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | We Are Rooted, We Are Flowing

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

OFF-SITE

Talk | Shamel Pitts in Conversation with Jafari S. Allen

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Vernissage 2023

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

EXPO CHICAGO | /Dialogues Conversation with Madeleine Grynsztejn

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Talk | Access Praxis: Cripistemology and the Arts

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

VIRTUAL

Talk | Diasporic Rhythms

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Spring Educator Workshop | Harold Green for Flowers for the Living Foundation presents Black Roses and Black Oak

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Soundtrack | CQQCHIFRUIT

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tony Tasset Book Signing

7:30 pm

Will Rawls, [siccer]

7:30 pm

Will Rawls, [siccer]

7:30 pm

Will Rawls, [siccer]

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Will Rawls in Conversation with Taylor Renee Aldridge

2:00 pm

Will Rawls, [siccer]

Teacher Institute | Residency Application

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

RESCHEDULED

Talk | Barak adé Soleil with “Promenade” Performers

Soundtrack | Katinka Kleijn

5:30 pm - 9:30 pm

OFF-SITE

Talk | In Conversation In the Community: Spirit Work

Members’ Double Discount Days

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Barak adé Soleil, SHIFT

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

APIDA Arts Festival

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Poetry and Improv

TCA Application 2023–24

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

#OTVTonight: A Return to Fellowship

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Learning Series | Access and Arts Education

POSTPONED

Soundtrack | JazStarr

7:00 am - 2:00 pm

EVERY TUESDAY, JUN–OCT

SOAR Farmer’s Market 2023

6:30 pm - 11:00 pm

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of ArtEdge and the opening of Gary Simmons: Public Enemy

ArtEdge | Celebrating 10 Years

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Teacher Institute Curriculum Share-out

9:30 pm - 11:00 pm

Chaka Khan Live at the MCA

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Members’ Preview | Gary Simmons: Public Enemy

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Gary Simmons

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Coco Elysses: Robbins Juke Joint

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk | Barak adé Soleil with SHIFT Community Participants

1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

21Minus | What Was, What Is

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Victor Garcia: Tribute to Tito Puente

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Sensory-Friendly Morning

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Mzz. Reese and the Reese’s Pieces

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays On The Terrace | TRIBE + Club Crib

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Thaddeus Tukes: Tribute to Milt Jackson

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Talk | Shilpa Gupta

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Alysha Monique and the Family Divine

1:00 pm - 9:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Dance | Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark, A Celebration of Chicago’s Social Dance History

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | F.A.B.L.E

Live Arts | Tanya Lukin Linklater, Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth.

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk | Politics of Poetics: Layli Long Soldier and Tanya Lukin Linklater

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Honey Water Band

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Educator Workshop | Color Alchemy: An Immersive Meditative Art Experience

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark, Dorian Sylvain and Family

4:00 pm

Live Arts | Activating the Sun Ra Archive

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | The Jazz Hoofing Quartet

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | SolDial

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Live Arts | Celebrate the Opening of entre horizontes

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Live Arts | nibia pastrana santiago with Eduardo F. Rosario, el agua era el cielo

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Talk | José E. López and Carla Acevedo-Yates

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Store | Sidewalk Sale

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Bomberxs D’Cora of La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón

1:00 pm - 10:00 pm

OFF-SITE

MCA x Blanc: It’s a Dorian Sylvain Family Affair

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Rajiv Halim

POSTPONED

Anjal Chande, The Next Cup of Tea

2:00 pm

Irene Hsiao, Blue Alice

2:00 pm

Irene Hsiao, Blue Alice

7:30 pm

Jonas Becker, New Normal

2:00 pm

Jonas Becker, New Normal

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Talk | Chicago Performs Artists

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Sensory-Friendly Morning

6:30 pm - 11:00 pm

Online and on-site ticket sales end at 9:30 pm on Friday, September 29.

Music | Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark, ChiBrations x MCA: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Rebecca Morris and Jamillah James

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Visionary: Celebrating Leadership in the Arts

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Educator Workshop | Color Alchemy: An Immersive Meditative Art Experience

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk | Sky Hopinka

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Screening | DEPOT – Reflecting Boijmans

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Party!

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Talk | Jason Hammel on The Lula Cafe Cookbook with Book Signing

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Learning Series | The Impact of Food Apartheid in Education

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Live Arts | Lit & Luz Festival: Live Magazine Show

7:00 am - 2:00 pm

Store | Sidewalk Sale at SOAR Farmers Market

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Enter through the MCA's back gate bordering Lake Shore Park.

Streeterville Dog Halloween Party 2023

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk | Helen Molesworth and Madeleine Grynsztejn

Members’ Double Discount Days | Fall 2023

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Natural History

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Members’ Preview | Faith Ringgold: American People

6:30 pm - 8:15 pm

Live Arts | Muslim Writers Collective: Intersectionality

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Screening | Everyone I Know is Sick

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Members-Only Holiday Party

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Family Day | Pocket Con

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Teen Creative Agency | Zine Fest 2023

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Quilts and Stories

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Store | Indoor “Sidewalk” Sale

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

POSTPONED

Talk | Sowing Change with Erika Allen and Linda Goode Bryant

Marisol | Chicago Restaurant Week 2024

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Educator Workshop | Color Alchemy: An Immersive Meditative Art Experience

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Lotus L. Kang with Lola Kramer and Jack Schneider

Submissions for 21Minus are now closed.

21Minus | Call for Proposals

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Talk & Workshop | #Blkgrlswurld ZINE

10:00 am - 11:30 am

CANCELED

Sensory-Friendly Morning

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

SOLD OUT

Talk | Roundtable on Faith Ringgold

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Circle Tour | Faith Ringgold: American People

10:30 am - 5:00 pm

Screening | The Sojourner Truth Film Festival

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk | Sowing Change with Erika Allen and Linda Goode Bryant

Store | Friends + Family Event

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Love Is Love

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Live Arts | Wu Tsang: MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Live Arts | Wu Tsang: MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Live Arts | Wu Tsang: MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Talk | Chotin’: Curatorial Practices at the Edge

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Talk | Gerardo Mosquera

2:00 pm

Tour | Faith Ringgold: American People

2:00 pm

Tour | Faith Ringgold: American People

5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Members | Last Chance for Faith Ringgold

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

In Progress | Micah Schippa: Negative Ecstasies

2:00 pm

Tour | Faith Ringgold: American People

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Learning Series | The Impact of Food Apartheid in Education, Part 2

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Store | Book Signing with Cody Hudson and Ed Marszewski

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

8:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Live Arts | The Next Cup of Tea

8:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Live Arts | The Next Cup of Tea

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Book Day

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

8:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Live Arts | The Next Cup of Tea

8:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Live Arts | The Next Cup of Tea

8:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Live Arts | The Next Cup of Tea

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk | Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Circle Tour | Chicago Works: Maryam Taghavi

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

7:30 pm

Anna Martine Whitehead, FORCE! an opera in three acts

7:30 pm

Anna Martine Whitehead, FORCE! an opera in three acts

7:30 pm

Anna Martine Whitehead, FORCE! an opera in three acts

Teacher Institute | Residency Application

2:00 pm

Tour | entre horizontes

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Sensory-Friendly Morning

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk and Book Signing | Rebecca Morris and Amy Sillman