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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 14, 2018, 5–8 p.m.

Opening Reception: Chicago Disability Activism, Arts, and Design: 1970s to Today

Gallery 400
  • September 20, 2018, 6–7:30 p.m.

“All That Glitters” Chicago Portraits in the Gilded Age

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
  • September 27, 2018, 6–8 p.m.

Martine Syms on Blackness in the Media

Stony Island Arts Bank
  • September 27, 2018, 6–8 p.m.

Screening: Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
  • September 28, 2018, 2–5 p.m.

American Art and Visual Culture Seminar: The Uncanny Design of the Thorne Miniature Rooms

Art Institute of Chicago
  • September 28, 2018, 5–6 p.m.

Book Signing | Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now

/Dialogues Stage at EXPO CHICAGO
  • October 3, 2018, 4–7 p.m.

Virtual Asian American Art Museum Launch Party and Panel

DePaul Art Museum
  • October 4, 2018, 5:30–7 p.m.

Reconstructing Paris: Miller's Direction of the 1933 World's Fair "Streets of Paris"

DePaul Art Museum
  • October 5, 2018, 6–8 p.m.

Book Launch: Art in Chicago

Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater and G.A.R. Rotunda
  • October 6, 2018, 2–4 p.m.

Up Is Down - Exhibition Opening Talk with Author Thomas Dyja, The Third Coast

The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
  • 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 16, 2018, 6:30–9 p.m.

Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America Book Launch

Newberry Library
  • October 18, 2018, 3–5 p.m.

The Open Plan Office in the Windy City

Newberry Library
  • 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 24, 2018, 6–7:30 p.m.

Collective Thought: Chicago Clubs and Their Patrons, 1880 to 1920

Newberry Library
  • October 24, 2018, 6–8 p.m.

Ellen Lupton: Design is Art That People Use

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
  • October 25, 2018, 5:30–7 p.m.

Sculpture as Texture: Edgar Miller's Reliefs

DePaul Art Museum
  • October 25, 2018, 6–8 p.m.October 26, 2018, 3–7 p.m.

3-D Doings Symposium

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
  • 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, 2–4 p.m.

Chicago New Media Symposium

Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • November 2-3, 2018

The Designs of African American Life

Chicago Cultural Center
  • November 8–10, 2018

Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives, Questions and Methods

The Art Institute of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • November 10, 2018, 1–4 p.m.

Special Topic Workshop: Pop Culture Collages

Art Institute of Chicago