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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.

  • 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 9, 2018, 6–7:30 p.m.

Art Speaks: Why is This Here? The Many Lives of Chicago's Public Art

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
  • October 10, 2018, 5:30–7 p.m.

Art in Lincoln Park Lecture Series: Yasuhiro Ishimoto in Lincoln Park

DePaul Art Museum
  • October 10, 2018, 6–8 p.m.

Opening Conversation - Break a Rule: Ed Paschke’s Art and Teaching

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
  • 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 12, 2018, 7–8:30 p.m.

Designers in Film: Films by the Goldsholls and Company

The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
  • 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, 10–11 a.m.

Second Saturday in October: All the World Is Here

Newberry Library
  • 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 16, 2018, 6:30–9 p.m.

Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America Book Launch

Newberry Library
  • October 17, 2018, 6–7:30 p.m.

Music at the 1893 World's Fair

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

The Open Plan Office in the Windy City

Newberry Library
  • October 18, 2018, 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Why Chicago?

Minneapolis Institute of Art
  • October 18, 2018

Concert: Sun Ra Arkestra

The Art Institute of Chicago
  • 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 19, 2018, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

From Ruin to Splendor

Union League Club of Chicago
  • October 19, 2018, 12:30–2:30 p.m.

For Freedoms Activation

Chicago Public Library, Jeffrey Manor Branch
  • October 19, 2018, 1–3:45 p.m.

Can Cows be Purple? A Participatory Arts Art Therapy Workshop

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents Dining Hall
  • October 19, 2018, 6:30–9 p.m.

Chicago Collects

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
  • October 19, 2018, 7–8:30 p.m.

Designers in Context: Film, Advertising, and Modernism

The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
  • October 20, 2018, 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Murals & More Bus Tour

North side of Millennium Park
  • October 20, 2018, 10:30 a.m.–3 p.m.

Family Festival: Who Are You?

The Art Institute of Chicago