Programs & Events

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Screening | Red Reminds Me . . .

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | On Techno and Art: Robert Hood, Arthur Jafa, and DeForrest Brown Jr.

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Members’ Holiday Party

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Zines!

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Teen Creative Agency | Zine Fest for Families

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

CANCELED

Live Arts | Jamshid Jam Performance

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Press Play

2:00 pm - 2:35 pm

Tour | The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk | New Art School Modality: Making New Monuments

21Minus | Call for Proposals

7:30 pm

Elisa Harkins, Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ

7:30 pm

Elisa Harkins, Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

OFF-SITE

Talk | Wafaa Bilal and Bana Kattan

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Comfy Cozy

7:30 pm

Anne Collod & Guests, Moving alter-natives

7:30 pm

Anne Collod & Guests, Moving alter-natives

7:30 pm

Anne Collod & Guests, Moving alter-natives

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Screening | Out of the Picture

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Talk | Publishing Arts Criticism

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Learning Series | Painting, Pedagogy & Other Technologies

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Live Arts | Natural Information Society and the Films of Stan Brakhage

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Future Past

TCA Application 2025–26

7:30 pm

Miguel Gutierrez, Super Nothing

7:30 pm

Miguel Gutierrez, Super Nothing

2:00 pm

Miguel Gutierrez, Super Nothing

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Politics of Poetics: Molly McCully Brown and Matt Bodett

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

POSTPONED

The Sara Albrecht Emerge Artist Talk: Selva Aparicio

Teacher Institute | Residency Application

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | It’s Alive!

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | On Process, Performance, and Monumentality: Kaneza Schaal with Natacha Nsabimana, moderated by Jane Saks

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk | Access Praxis: Pooja Pittie

7:30 pm

Kaneza Schaal, KLII

7:30 pm

Kaneza Schaal, KLII

7:30 pm

Kaneza Schaal, KLII

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Teacher Institute | Curriculum Share-Out

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Vernissage 2025

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Members’ Preview | Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Youth-Led Programming | Next Up In Dialogue with Chicago Creatives

2:00 pm

Every Wednesday and Sunday at 2 pm

Tour | Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Paul Pfeiffer, Iyko Day, and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Playoffs

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Learning Series | The Space Between

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Store | Sueños x MCA Collaboration Featuring Runsy

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Youth-Led Programming | Reflections on Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me

7:00 am - 2:00 pm

Every Tuesday from 7 am to 2 pm.

SOAR Farmers Market 2025

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

MCA Store | Ruptur Collaboration Launch

6:30 pm - 11:00 pm

The Art Auction

Screenings at 10:30 am & 2:30 pm

Screening | The Price of Everything

1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

21Minus | Time

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Educator Workshop | Color Alchemy

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

CANCELED

Talk | Politics of Poetics: Solmaz Sharif and Wafaa Bilal

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

CANCELED

Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Solmaz Sharif

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Twin Talk

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Kouri Hall

2:00 pm

Screening and Talk | Alma’s Rainbow

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Shawnee Dez

3:00 pm

Brendan Fernandes, The Rite

3:00 pm

Brendan Fernandes, The Rite

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

LIMITED WALK-UP TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE.

Prime Time | City in a Garden

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Rotary Connection 222

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Music Talk | Remembering Charles Stepney, with Duane Powell and the Stepney Sisters

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Nadima-Chi

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Family Junket

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Tromblau & Friends

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Store Sidewalk Sale

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Cripping the Galleries | Matt Bodett

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Store Sidewalk Sale

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Bethany Pickens Soulful Coalition

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Performance | Amreeka

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Corey Wilkes

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk and Book Signing | Dorian Sylvain

1:00 pm

Brendan Fernandes, The Rite

1:00 pm

Brendan Fernandes, The Rite

7:30 pm

Robyn Mineko Williams & Artists, To Leave You

1:00 pm

Brendan Fernandes, The Rite

7:30 pm

Robyn Mineko Williams & Artists, To Leave You

7:30 pm

Red Clay Dance Company, Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar

Session 1: 10:30; Session 2: 3 pm

Helen Lee/Momentum Sensorium, Curiosities of Wellness in Bodies of Grief and Joy

8:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Chicago Performs | After Party

2:00 pm

Red Clay Dance Company, Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

OTV: Beyond the Screen

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Learning Series | Cabrini Art House

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Educator Workshop | Color Alchemy

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Talk | Jeff Mills & Tomorrow Comes the Harvest

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Neighbors

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

SOLD OUT

Circle Preview | Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

SOLD OUT

Members’ Preview | Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

2:00 pm

Every Wednesday and Sunday at 2 pm

Tour | Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

The Sara Albrecht Emerge Artist Talk: Selva Aparicio

SOLD OUT

Designing for Dignity 3: Kickoff

11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Designing for Dignity 3: A Convening of Possibilities

9:00 am - 11:00 am

38th Annual Streeterville Dog Halloween Party

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

SOLD OUT

City in a Garden Roundtable | Nick Cave, Edie Fake, and Mary Patten

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Learning Series | Built Rebellions: On Screens

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Bad at Sports Live Tailgate

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Six Scores for Yoko Ono

11:00 am - 1:30 pm

OFF-SITE

Visionary: Celebrating Leadership in the Arts

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Yes!

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Lit & Luz: Live Magazine Show

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Members-Only Hours | Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

SOLD OUT

Screening & Talk | One to One: John & Yoko

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Members-Only Hours | Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk | Nadya Tolokonnikova and Joey Orr

10:00 am - 9:00 pm

Performance | Nadya Tolokonnikova: POLICE STATE

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Performance | Nadya Tolokonnikova: POLICE STATE

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Performance | Nadya Tolokonnikova: POLICE STATE

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Performance | Nadya Tolokonnikova: POLICE STATE

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Performance | Nadya Tolokonnikova: POLICE STATE

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Visual AIDS: Day With(out) Art | Meet Us Where We’re At

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Members-Only Hours | Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Members-Only Hours | Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

3:00 pm

Brendan Fernandes, The Rite

3:00 pm

Brendan Fernandes, The Rite