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With Guest Artist Edra Soto 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…
With guest artist Alberto Aguilar 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…
Join artist Alberto Aguilar for a lunchtime artist talk in Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural. Learn more about his work in the exhibition, experience traveling in Cuba, Guest Walks series on Instagram, and approach to making. FREE,…
Join the Smart Museum and National Museum of Mexican Art for a festive summer opening celebration of the exhibition Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural. The outdoor evening get-together features a DJ set from the collective (((SONORAMA))), a…
Join us for the public opening of Tara Donovan: Fieldwork. Tara Donovan transforms mundane materials like plastic straws, index cards, rubber bands, Slinkys, and sheets of mylar into elaborate, mind-bending objects. The exhibition celebrates the…
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…
On successive days each reading period, UChicago’s museums, galleries, and art centers are transformed into inspiring study halls. Join us under the stars for a special study session in the Smart’s outdoor sculpture garden. The…
Six University of Chicago undergraduate Smart Scholars and Research Associates share outcomes of their research projects based in the Museum’s collection and exhibitions. Presenters Juhi Gupta Clare Kemmerer Martina Lentino Caroline Longo Mary Moon Zach…
A multilingual ensemble drawn from the University of Chicago community performs River, Tributary, _______, created by Udita Upadhyaya working with composer Molly Jones. In this second iteration of River, Tributary, _____, Upadhyaya hones in on…
Lional “Brother El” Freeman performs a series of four Live PA electronic compositions commissioned in conjunction with Solidary & Solitary. Performed in the galleries, each installment is designed for a different section of the exhibition…