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Join your campus art museum for an O-Week wake-up! Enjoy free coffee and breakfast treats in the Smart Museum’s sculpture garden. Plus, learn how to draw using two viscous liquids: black coffee and sumi ink….
Join us for an interactive, back-to-school gathering to celebrate the start of another year of Amplify. Share food and a glass of wine as we experience the diverse arts and cultural educational programs planned with…
Hong-Kong-based artist Samson Young’s exhibition at the Smart Museum draws inspiration from the utopic ideals of Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair, entitled “A Century of Progress.” In this panel presented as part of EXPO Chicago’s Symposium:…
Join the Smart Museum of Art, the Overture Council at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and EXPO CHICAGO for an evening of experimental performances and conversation in conjunction with the opening week of Samson Young: Silver…
Join us for the premiere of artist Samson Young’s first US museum exhibition, Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy of Me? Loosely taking the idealism displayed at the 1933 World’s Fair in…
Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and…
Manet & Mokgosi – Oysters/Butter/Bread Take a drawing voyage through two Chicago art museums this fall and winter. In the first of this two-part program, we’ll immerse ourselves in the lyrical details of painter Edouard…
with Guest Artists Hannah Hirsekorn and Jim Duignan Learn the trade of blacksmithing at the Smart Museum! Join us in our outdoor sculpture garden, check out a mobile forge, and feast on delicious garden greens…
This two-part printmaking workshop presented in collaboration with Spudnik Press is inspired by Tara Donovan: Fieldwork and draws on mundane office materials—rubber bands, erasers, staples, paper clips, and more. FREE. Space may be limited, please…
with Guest Artist Mayra Palafox Join artist and educator Mayra Palafox for a strange and wonderful journey of color and light through the Smart Museum. Take a tour of our current exhibitions Tara Donovan: Fieldwork…