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Join your campus art museum for an O-Week wake-up! Enjoy free illy coffee and breakfast treats in the Smart Museum’s sculpture garden. Plus, learn how to draw using two viscous liquids: black coffee and sumi…
The Smart Museum hosts the official EXPO ART WEEK after-party. Revolution Every Night features live performances by La Stampa (ft. art critics Jörg Heiser and Jan Verwoert and band members Jons Vukorep and Günter Reznicek)…
This /Dialogues panel at EXPO CHICAGO focuses on lyricism in the expanded sense, from the contemporary art review to sonic adaptations. How does the metric of language—rhythm, rhyme, and lyricism—change within these contexts? Art critics…
Join Moroccan-French visual artist, Bouchra Khalili and Cauleen Smith, an American interdisciplinary filmmaker, for a conversation about national identity and social activism in moving image and media. Both artists are included in Singing Stones, curated…
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…
Landscape, Memory, and the Artist’s MArk with guest artist Tim Nickodemus Join the Smart Museum and the Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a two-part drawing workshop…
Join us for a public reception for the teen-curated exhibition Together We Can Dream. The evening features music, art, food, refreshments, and fellowship in honor of the work of the teen participants in the Smart’s…
Join the Smart Museum and the Poetry Foundation for a two-part journey and writing workshop that explores the ancient form of Japanese haibun poetry. Part I Tuesday, August 8, 6–8 pm Smart Museum of Art…
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…
Join the Smart Museum of Art and UChicago’s student organization Outside the Lines for a figure drawing session in the evening light of the Smart Museum’s Vera and A.D. Elden Sculpture Garden. When posing, live…