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Public art on campus is a fascinating, spontaneous experience, with some sculptures boldly claiming open spaces and others tucked unexpectedly…
The Smart is headed to Millennium Park for some summer fun! For five days in August, we will head off…
Celebrate the historic and ongoing role that art and design played in growing communities and strengthening neighborhoods on Chicago’s South…
For Freedoms—a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists—in collaboration with the Smart Museum of Art, Sankofa,…
Premiere performance of Dialogo Dialogo, a new improvisatory dance installation choreographed by Irene Hsiao and set to a carillon composition…
Local artist Norman Long leads an experimental soundwalk of the Woodlawn neighborhood. Long, born and raised Chicago’s South Side, will…
This symposium addresses the historic significance of the South Side as a community, a set of institutions, and a collection…
While this event has limited capacity and is an invitation-only event for Black cultural workers in Chicago, we welcome anyone…
Presented by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago in conjunction with…
The International Black Writers Conference, Revisited reflects on a conference that has served as an important convening of Black writers…