Programs & Events

Marisol | Chicago Restaurant Week 2024

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21Minus | Call for Proposals

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

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Screening and Talk | David Lamelas: This Is My Place

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Members’ Preview | Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

9:30 am - 6:00 pm

OFF-SITE

Talk | Puerto Rican Archives: Preserving Community Memory

10:00 am - 3:15 pm

OFF-SITE

Talk | Puerto Rican Archives: Preserving Community Memory

TCA Application 2024–25

2:00 pm - 2:35 pm

Tour | Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk and Book Signing | Politics of Poetics: CAConrad

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Vernissage 2024

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Spring Blooms

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Teacher Institute Curriculum Share-out | 2023–24

7:30 pm

Samita Sinha, Tremor

7:30 pm

Samita Sinha, Tremor

7:30 pm

Samita Sinha, Tremor

7:30 pm

Laura Ortman, Smoke Rings Shimmers Endless Blur

7:30 pm

Laura Ortman, Smoke Rings Shimmers Endless Blur

10:00 am - 11:30 am

This event is free with registration.

Learning Series | The Impact of Food Apartheid in Education Part 3

11:00 am - 2:00 pm

OFFSITE

Día del Niño | Celebration of Children

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Talk | Access Praxis: Ariella Granados

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

OFF-SITE

Live Arts | Listening Party + Reading with Everett Saunders & Marjani Forté-Saunders

Members’ Double Discount Days

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Roundtable on Virginia Jaramillo

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Members’ Mingle | Roundtable on Virginia Jaramillo

7:30 pm

7NMS | Marjani Forté-Saunders and Everett Saunders, Prophet: The Order of the Lyricist

7:30 pm

7NMS | Marjani Forté-Saunders and Everett Saunders, Prophet: The Order of the Lyricist

7:30 pm

7NMS | Marjani Forté-Saunders and Everett Saunders, Prophet: The Order of the Lyricist

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Migration Stories

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Circle Tour | Descending the Staircase

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Deem Symposium | Designing for Dignity 02: A Convening of Possibilities

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Live Arts | Emilio Rojas, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Sensory-Friendly Morning

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Learning Series | The Impact of Food Apartheid in Education, Part 4

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

#OTVTonight: A Window Into Love

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Arthur Jafa and Theaster Gates

7:00 am - 2:00 pm

Every Tuesday from 7 am to 2 pm.

SOAR Farmers Market 2024

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Live Arts | Noé Martínez, viento aparente, viento real

6:30 pm - 11:00 pm

ArtEdge 2024

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Store | Book Signing with Dont Fret and Kevin Coval

1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

21Minus | Love & Liberation

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Screening and Talk | The Project of Togetherness with the New Art School Modality

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Jorge Morataya: Marimba

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Maggie Brown

12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Cripping the Galleries | Janhavi Khemka

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Shaun J. Wright

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

POSTPONED

Live Arts | Jamshid Jam Performance

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Heliacal Rising of Sothis, featuring Sharon Udoh and Yaw Agyeman

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Willie Cole

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Music Talk | An Oral History of Alice Coltrane

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | A Celebration of Alice Coltrane with Brandee Younger

5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Member Appreciation Night at Tuesdays on the Terrace

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Rudy de Anda

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Andrea Carlson

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Julian Davis Reid’s Circle of Trust

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Educator Workshop | Care Practices through Artistic Lineages, Part 1

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Store | Sidewalk Sale

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Store | Sidewalk Sale

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | The Aggregation featuring Justin Dillard

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Sistazz of The Nitty Gritty

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesdays on the Terrace | Alexis Lombre

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Circle Tour | Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Members’ Open House

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Educator Workshop | Care Practices through Artistic Lineages, Part 2

7:30 pm

Chicago Performs | Lykanthea, Some Viscera

7:30 pm

Chicago Performs | Lykanthea, Some Viscera

2:00 pm

Chicago Performs | Every house has a door, Broken Aquarium

7:30 pm

Chicago Performs | cat mahari, blk ark: the impossible manifestation

8:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Chicago Performs | After Party

4:00 pm

Chicago Performs | Every house has a door, Broken Aquarium

2:00 pm

Chicago Performs | cat mahari, blk ark: the impossible manifestation

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Store | Meet Chicago Street Artist Sentrock

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Learning Series | The Creative Classroom and Post-Quarantine Gaps, Part 1

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Notes in the Margins: “Why I Don’t Talk About ‘The Body'”

11:00 am - 1:30 pm

OFF-SITE

Visionary: Celebrating Leadership in the Arts

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Patterns & Portals

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Store | Meet and Greet with Chelsea B

10:00 am - 9:00 pm

Screening | The D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift

7:30 pm

Edgar Arceneaux, Until, Until, Until . . .

7:30 pm

Edgar Arceneaux, Until, Until, Until . . .

7:30 pm

Edgar Arceneaux, Until, Until, Until . . .

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Live Arts | Joseph Lefthand

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | Politics of Poetics: Heid E. Erdrich and Andrea Carlson

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

OFF-SITE

Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Heid E. Erdrich

9:00 am - 11:00 am

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

37th Annual Streeterville Dog Halloween Party

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Live Arts | Lit & Luz Festival: Live Magazine Show

10:00 am - 11:30 am

POSTPONED

Sensory-Friendly Morning

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Members’ Preview | The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Screen Time

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Talk | The Living End Artist Roundtable

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Talk and Book Signing | Lee Quiñones, Dao-Yi Chow, and Romi Crawford

Members’ Double Discount Days

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Learning Series | The Creative Classroom and Post-Quarantine Gaps, Part 2

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

Live Arts | Jamshid Jam Performance

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day | Press Play

7:30 pm

Elisa Harkins, Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ

7:30 pm

Elisa Harkins, Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ