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Art Design Chicago exhibitions and events took place mainly in 2018, with some programming extending into 2019 and beyond. Use the search tool above to explore past, current, and upcoming programming.

  • September 29, 2018, 6–9 p.m.

Film Screening: The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Chicago State University Library
  • September 30, 2018, 2–6 p.m.

Madd Crates: Bring Your Own Vinyl

Stony Island Arts Bank
  • October 3, 2018, 4–7 p.m.

Virtual Asian American Art Museum Launch Party and Panel

DePaul Art Museum
  • October 4, 2018, 6–7 p.m.

The Vanishing City: Excavating the World's Fair

Newberry Library
  • October 5, 2018, 6–8 p.m.

Book Launch: Art in Chicago

Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater and G.A.R. Rotunda
  • November 2, 2018, 8:30–9 p.m.October 26, 2018, 8:30–9 p.m.October 12, 2018, 8:30–9 p.m.October 5, 2018, 8:30–9 p.m.

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  • October 7, 2018, 1–2:30 p.m.

Art Speaks: Working Together, A History of Women’s Art Organizations in Chicago 1890–2015

Chicago Cultural Center
  • October 11, 2018, 5–7 p.m.

Opening Reception: The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold

Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • October 12, 2018, 6–7 p.m.

“Say It With Pictures” Then and Now: Chicago’s African American Photographers

Ferguson Hall, Columbia College Chicago
  • October 13, 2018, at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Diasporal Rhythms 2018 Collectors' Home Tours

Departs from DuSable Museum of African American History
  • October 13, 2018, 1–4 p.m.

Family Day: FrankenToyMobile Workshop

Elmhurst Art Museum
  • October 13, 2018, 2–5 p.m.

Public Art Representations of the Native American and Cambodian Communities

American Indian Center
  • October 19–20, 2018

Symposium: Unfinished Business! The South Side and Chicago Art

Columbia College Chicago and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
  • October 20, 2018, 10:30 a.m.–3 p.m.

Family Festival: Who Are You?

The Art Institute of Chicago
  • October 20, 2018, 1–3 p.m.

Print. Sculpt. Write. Annotate History. Like Margaret.

DuSable Museum of African American History
  • October 20, 2018, 7–9 p.m.

Film Screening: The Cry of Jazz and Chicago Blues

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
  • October 23–25, 2018

Participatory Arts: The Legacy of Chicago's Hull-House Artists

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
  • October 24, 2018, 6–8 p.m.

Everyone's a Designer/Everyone's Design October Program and Exhibition

Austin Town Hall Cultural Center
  • October 25, 2018, 6–7 p.m.

Conversation: Photography and the Black Arts Movement

Art Institute of Chicago
  • October 25, 2018, 6–7 p.m.

The New Bauhaus: A Behind-the-Scenes Look

The Arts Club of Chicago
  • November 1–2, 2018

Where the Future Came From Symposium

Conaway Center at Columbia College Chicago

  • January 3, 2019, 12:15–1 p.m.January 17, 2019, 12:15–1 p.m.December 6, 2018, 12:15–1 p.m.November 15, 2018, 12:15–1 p.m.November 1, 2018, 12:15–1 p.m.February 21, 2019, 12:15–1 p.m.

Gallery Talk

Chicago Cultural Center
  • November 1, 2018, 6–7:30 p.m.

Politics of the Studio: Race and Design in Mid-Century America

The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
  • November 2-3, 2018

The Designs of African American Life

Chicago Cultural Center