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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.

  • November 10, 2018, 6:30–9 p.m.

Film Screening: The Mural Movement and the Black Arts Movement

South Side Community Art Center
  • November 14, 2018, 5:30–7 p.m.

Women with the World at their Feet? Representing Women at Chicago World’s Fairs

Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
  • November 20, 2018, 6–7:30 p.m.

Between the World Wars: Jewish and African American Art in Chicago

Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
  • November 29, 2018, 3–5 p.m.

Exhibiting African American Design in Chicago, 1900-1980

Newberry Library
  • November 29, 2018, 5:30–7 p.m.

“The Decorator Works for the World!" Edgar Miller and early Twentieth Century Ideologies of the Artist-Designer

DePaul Art Museum
  • November 29, 2018, 6–7:30 p.m.

Meet the Author: Art Deco Chicago

Newberry Library
  • December 1, 2018, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.

Chicago Style: A Holiday Card-Making Workshop and Talk

Newberry Library
  • December 8, 2018, 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

Chicago’s Two World’s Fairs

The Newberry Library
  • December 9, 2018, 1–2:30 p.m.

Art Speaks: Chicago Imagists, Early Urban Art

Chicago Cultural Center
  • December 13, 2018, 6–7:30 p.m.

Segregation and Immigration in Chicago Art

Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
  • February 28–March 1, 2019

Expanding Outliers in American Art

Various locations
  • March 1, 2019, 6–7:30 p.m.

Common Things Surprise Us: Black Chicago’s Artists and Models Balls and the Politics of Middlebrow(n) Taste

Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
  • April 10–12, 2019

Internationales Bauhaus-Kolloquium

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
  • September 19, 2019, 3–5 p.m.

The Politics of Design in Chicago’s History of Disability Rights, 1940–1990

Newberry Library
  • November 14, 2019, 3–5 p.m.

Three Artists: Vantongerloo, Bill and Florsheim

Newberry Library
  • January 16, 2020, 3–5 p.m.

The 1947–49 Chicago Printer’s Strike and the History of Typography

Newberry Library
  • March 12, 2020, 3–5 p.m.

Packaging Environments: The Art and Design Program at the Container Corporation of America

Newberry Library
  • May 7, 2020, 3–5 p.m.

Game Plans: Strategic Design and Positioning Methods in Chicago, 1970–

Newberry Library