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EXPO ART WEEK kicks off with an evening of overlapping receptions and programming, ending at the Smart with a special celebration of The Time is Now! The party features the live collaborative performance “Cultural Confluence”…
For Freedoms—a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists—in collaboration with the Smart Museum of Art, Sankofa, Sweet Water Foundation, and EXPO CHICAGO, presents a town hall that aims to model how…
With guest artist Sandra Bridges Artist Sandra Bridges leads an oil painting workshop inspired by works on view at the Smart Museum. The evening begins with tours of paintings on view in The Time Is…
Celebrate the historic and ongoing role that art and design played in growing communities and strengthening neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. This all-day festival of art, music, film, and food kicks off a series of…
Led by special guest Alisha Webster Drop by and join in the Smart’s free family activities every month! Each Family Day features hands-on art activities designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively…
The Smart is headed to Millennium Park for some summer fun! For five days in August, we will head off site to share our unique style of family-friendly programming as part of the annual Family…
Drop by and join in the Smart’s free family activities every month! Each Family Day features hands-on art activities designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively to art and the world around…
Art, music, poetry, food, drink, and conversation at the Smart Museum of Art. Join us for a festive summer evening featuring an outdoor musical performance by Growing Concerns Poetry Collective and a series of site-specific…
Art historian Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol reflects on the relationship between Tang Chang’s formally daring artistic practice and the social history of the tumultuous 1960s in Thailand. Participants will be invited to look at artworks alongside…
Jennifer Scappettone on International Visual and Concrete Poetry Join Jennifer Scappettone, poet and Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, as she reflects on international poetry movements as context for works on…