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Join exhibiting artist Endia Beal for a virtual conversation about the personal and contemporary stories of women of color working within the corporate space. Beal’s work merges fine arts with social justice. She uses photography…
A Symposium for Indigenous Land, Water, and Environment Hybrid program, consisting of on-site experiences and livestream broadcasts For whom have environments been protected, conserved, or honored? The prolonged impacts of environmental racism and settler colonialism,…
Explore the social and perceptual impact of visual culture at this special opening of Smart to the Core: Medium / Image. With the exhibition designed and curated around the University of Chicago’s popular “Media Aesthetics”…
UChicago students—line up and select a work of art form the Art to Live With collection to hang in your dorm room for the entire academic year. FREE, works are available to UChicago students living…
Join us for a back-to-school event and preview of the Art to Live With collection. Drop in for free food, enjoy an art-filled social event in the Smart Museum’s courtyard, and learn more about the…
Community-based photography provides a lens through which to record the intergenerational visual history of people and places as seen from the artist’s insider perspective. Chicago Humanities Festival convenes a virtual panel discussion on how artistic…
Join Hamza Walker and Kara Walker for a virtual discussion as they reflect on Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May…
Thaddeus Tukes and Ashley Jackson perform in the Smart Museum’s courtyard as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, a weekend of free performances at cultural venues throughout the neighborhood. FREE, open to all. Visit…
Geof Bradfield, Dana Hall, and Ben Goldberg perform in the Smart Museum’s courtyard as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, a weekend of free performances at cultural venues throughout the neighborhood. FREE, open to…
Join us for an afternoon of scavenger hunts, kid-friendly tours, and hands-on art activities at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Logan Center for the Arts, and Smart Museum of Art. This creative trek…