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Can boys wear pink or brides wear red? Does bright orange make you think of a sunset or a parking ticket? Using images from the Smart Museum collection, this 90-minute interactive virtual workshop will examine…
Join us for a discussion addressing the intersection between environmental justice, socially engaged artistic practice, and community organizing. Our discussion will be led by cultural activist Dr. Lisa Lee in conversation with category-defying artist Mel…
Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s new virtual book club, Smart Reads! Our first Smart Reads selection, All About Love is by feminist icon bell hooks. We invite you to read along with us…
A Live Celebration Toward Common Cause exhibiting artist Mel Chin inaugurates the Civic Arts Church at Sweet Water Foundation as headquarters for the Chicago Fundred Initiative: A Bill for IL. Presented on the 12th anniversary…
This panel consider the central components of Jenny Holzer’s new work, YOU BE MY ALLY—including the built environment, text sources, as well as so-called “new media” and mass media—to consider the University’s commission in relationship…
Join us for a virtual gathering that mixes art inquiry, music sharing, and communal art making. Led by Mayra Cecilia Palafox, this Art After Dark program looks at Slow Dance by Kerry James Marshall, a…
Please join the Smart Museum and Sweet Water Foundation and communities across the nation on October 21 as we Imagine a Day Without Water. Sweet Water Foundation (SWF), in partnership with the Smart, is hosting…
As part of the University of Chicago’s Homecoming celebration, please join us for a virtual sneak peek into the Smart Museum’s exhibition Take Care. Take Care seeks to unpack matters of care from the personal…
Open your screens as a family and delve into ancient trading practices, make your own money, and create your own cool coins in this collaborative family day with the OI Museum and Smart Museum of…
University of Chicago students are invited to join Jennifer Carty, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, for a virtual private tour of Claudia Wieser: Generations. Drawing upon the history of art, design and architecture—from…