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Drop by the Smart Museum and meet other first-generation college students and first-generation immigrants at the University of Chicago. This second annual event is designed by the Smart’s own first-gen docents for first-gen college students…
Organized by artist Bethany Collins, this four-hour performance in Mies van der Rohe’s “God Box” presents a chronological retelling of American history, politics and culture through many lyrical variations of My Country ’Tis of Thee….
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…
Join Rebecca Zorach for a discussion and signing of her new book Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975. Drawing on the Smart’s collection, Zorach will reflect on the prolific creative…
In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus school of design, this two-part program explores Bauhaus-connected works in the Smart Museum’s collection through looking, discussion, and hands-on art-making. FREE. Participants have…
In this two-part program presented in collaboration with the University of Chicago Library’s Special Collections Research Center and the Poetry Foundation, explore the concept of motherhood through contemporary art, medical and anatomical publications, and poetry….
In this two-part program, explore identity with special guest artist and heteroflexible cisgender woman of distinction, Irregular Girl. PART I Wednesday, April 17, 6–8pm Smart Museum of Art The University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood…
A tour and discussion of Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do presented in collaboration with the UChicago Common Book Initiative. Join exhibition curator Issa Lampe for a tour of Smart to the Core: Embodying…
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…
In this two-part program presented in collaboration with the University of Chicago Library’s Special Collections Research Center and the Poetry Foundation, explore the concept of motherhood through contemporary art, medical and anatomical publications, and poetry….