• March 23, 2018, 6–8 p.m.

Arte Diseño Xicágo Exhibition Opening Reception

National Museum of Mexican Art

1852 West 19th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60608

Enrique Alférez (1901-1999) seated front right at a luncheon in Lorado Taft’s Midway Studio, c. 1925. Photo courtesy of the University of IL Archives

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Celebrate the opening of the National Museum of Mexican Art’s exhibition, Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World’s Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era. Through photographs, artifacts, and works of art dating from 1893 to the 1970s, this exhibition surveys the early artistic involvement and creative influence of Mexican travelers and immigrants in Chicago.

This venue is wheelchair accessible.

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