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• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Mon, Oct 19 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Last Week on View | Stitching Ecologies

  Tue, Oct 20 · 10:00 AM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  Freeworkshop

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Wed, Oct 21 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Writing in the Galleries: One Person, Many Selves

  Wed, Oct 21 · 12:00 PM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Viva la Vida: Embroidery

  Thu, Oct 22 · 10:00 AM · National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago

  FreeworkshopRegistration required

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Thu, Oct 22 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Viva la Vida: Embroidery

  Thu, Oct 22 · 1:30 PM · National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago

  FreeworkshopRegistration required

• Visiting Artist Talk: Tyson E. Lewis

  Thu, Oct 22 · 5:30 PM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  Freelecture

• Lecture in Photography and Book Signing with Leigh Raiford

  Thu, Oct 22 · 6:00 PM · Museum of Contemporary Photography · Chicago

  FreelectureRegistration required

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Fri, Oct 23 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Sat, Oct 24 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Teen Studio Workshop: In the Dark

  Sat, Oct 24 · 1:00 PM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Día de los Muertos Xicágo

  Sat, Oct 24 · 3:00 PM · National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago

  FreeworkshopRegistration required

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Sun, Oct 25 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Mon, Oct 26 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Café Conversations with Director Stephanie Smith

  Tue, Oct 27 · 4:00 PM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  FreelectureDrop-in

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Wed, Oct 28 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Café Conversations with Director Stephanie Smith

  Wed, Oct 28 · 4:00 PM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  FreelectureDrop-in

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Thu, Oct 29 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Visiting Artist Talk: Antawan Byrd

  Thu, Oct 29 · 5:30 PM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  Freelecture

• Lecture with Deborah Willis

  Thu, Oct 29 · 6:00 PM · Museum of Contemporary Photography · Chicago

  FreelectureRegistration required

• Lecture: Modern Woman—Mary Cassatt's 1893 Mural for Chicago

  Thu, Oct 29 · 6:00 PM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  FreelectureRegistration required

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Fri, Oct 30 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Conversation Piece: Rebekah Israel Cross

  Fri, Oct 30 · 12:30 PM · Smart Museum of Art · Chicago

  Freelecture

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Sat, Oct 31 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Sun, Nov 1 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Teen Open Studio: Clay Bodies

  Mon, Nov 2 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  FreeworkshopAges 13–18

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Mon, Nov 2 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Wed, Nov 4 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Close Looking: Drop-in Meditation at the Block

  Wed, Nov 4 · 12:15 PM · Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art · Evanston

  FreeworkshopDrop-in

• Mindfulness at the Museum: Drop-in Guided Meditation

  Wed, Nov 4 · 12:15 PM · Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art · Evanston

  FreeworkshopDrop-in

• Reception & MillerComm Lecture | Landscape as Storytelling: The Journey of "Yao’s Black Divine Comedy"

  Wed, Nov 4 · 4:00 PM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  Freelecture

• MillerComm Lecture | "Landscape as Storytelling" with Yao Jui-Chung and Kao Chien-Hui

  Wed, Nov 4 · 4:00 PM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  Freelecture

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Thu, Nov 5 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Drop-In Sketching (Nov 5)

  Thu, Nov 5 · 12:00 PM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  FreeworkshopDrop-in

• Curator’s Talk: All the Noise and the Hurry

  Thu, Nov 5 · 3:30 PM · Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art · Evanston

  Freelecture

• Lecture: Body and Being in African Art

  Thu, Nov 5 · 6:00 PM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  FreelectureRegistration required

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Fri, Nov 6 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Ink Shower Artists Panel Discussion

  Fri, Nov 6 · 2:00 PM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  Freelecture

• Mañanas en el museo

  Sat, Nov 7 · 9:00 AM · National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Curator Talk & Tour | Ink Shower

  Sat, Nov 7 · 10:30 AM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  Freelecture

• Family Day: Picture This

  Sat, Nov 7 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  FreeworkshopRegistration required

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Sat, Nov 7 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Clay Sculpting with Fab R

  Sat, Nov 7 · 1:00 PM · National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago

  workshopRegistration required

• Artist Conversation: Jordan Ann Craig

  Sat, Nov 7 · 2:00 PM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  FreelectureRegistration required

• Talk | Rashid Johnson and Jack Schneider

  Sat, Nov 7 · 2:00 PM · Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago · Chicago

  lectureRegistration required

• Día de Muertos: Love Never Dies Ball

  Sat, Nov 7 · 6:00 PM · National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago

  workshopRegistration required

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Sun, Nov 8 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Mon, Nov 9 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Wed, Nov 11 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Vacant Stares: Adrienne Brown on Rethinking Urban Emptiness

  Wed, Nov 11 · 6:00 PM · Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art · Evanston

  Freelecture

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Thu, Nov 12 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Artist Talk: Hyejeong Kim—The Journeying Potter

  Thu, Nov 12 · 6:00 PM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  FreelectureRegistration required

• LECTURE - Abbott Pattison: The Figure Forward

  Thu, Nov 12 · 6:30 PM · Elmhurst Art Museum · Elmhurst

  lecture

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Fri, Nov 13 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

• Noontime Gallery Talk & Tour

  Fri, Nov 13 · 12:00 PM · Krannert Art Museum · Champaign

  Freelecture

• Gallery Conversation: Storytelling in Body and Being in African Art

  Fri, Nov 13 · 2:00 PM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freelecture

• Lapidary Activity Day

  Sat, Nov 14 · 10:00 AM · Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art · Oak Brook

  Freeworkshop

• Family Day: Seeing the Invisible World to Build a New One

  Sat, Nov 14 · 10:00 AM · Smart Museum of Art · Chicago

  FreeworkshopRegistration required

• The Artist's Studio: Care and Share

  Sat, Nov 14 · 11:00 AM · Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago

  Freeworkshop

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Art museums in Illinois

• Art Institute of ChicagoChicago, IL91 upcoming · 90 freeOfficial site
• Museum of Contemporary Art ChicagoChicago, IL6 upcoming · 3 freeOfficial site
• Krannert Art MuseumChampaign, IL14 upcoming · 14 freeOfficial site
• Smart Museum of ArtChicago, IL9 upcoming · 9 freeOfficial site
• National Museum of Mexican ArtChicago, IL6 upcoming · 4 freeOfficial site
• Mary and Leigh Block Museum of ArtEvanston, IL5 upcoming · 5 freeOfficial site
• Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary ArtOak Brook, IL7 upcoming · 4 freeOfficial site
• Museum of Contemporary PhotographyChicago, IL2 upcoming · 2 freeOfficial site
• Elmhurst Art MuseumElmhurst, IL2 upcomingOfficial site