Event Month: February
Join a 1-hour guided tour of Theaster Gates: Unto Thee, led by Smart Museum Fellow, Ian Brundige. Please arrive 10…
Inspired by Theaster Gates’s work in ceramics and sculpture, families will create 3-D art objects using air-dry clay. In collaboration…
Join us for an open mic night of poetry readings and performances. All are welcome to recite a short poem–whether…
Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club, Smart Reads! In our first 2021 Smart Reads selection, The…
Conversation Pieces is a programming series that invites University of Chicago scholars and their surprise guests to enter into dialogue…
Virtual gathering The Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club returns in 2023 with monthly gatherings and an updated format….
Join renowned Blues musician and educator Katherine Davis for an interactive virtual workshop that explores the creative ecology of public…
Join University of Chicago’s student jazz group Early Summer for a musical performance embedded in South Side artist, designer, and…
Guillermo Gómez-Peña has an obsession with rewriting and restaging so-called “Western Art History” while highlighting colonial legacies of systematic exclusion,…
Virtual program In honor of Black History Month, Art after Dark celebrates the incomparable Nina Simone through the eyes of…