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Mary Bartelme Park115 South Sangamon StreetChicago IL, 60607 Come doodle, draw, and color with Gallery 400, the University of Illinois at Chicago’s contemporary art gallery. Create an exciting work of art with your friends, family, and neighbors in a fun, laid-back environment. Your flag will then be flown on Gallery 400’s 25-foot flagpole, located on the UIC campus at 404 South Peoria Street, for the community to...   [more]

Drop by and join in the free family activities at the Smart on the first Saturday of every month! This Saturday, make and decorate pottery inspired by the Museum’s collection of Asian art and the special exhibition "From the Land of the Morning Calm: Traditions of Korean Art."The afternoon’s art activity will involve traditional Korean stamp ware called buncheong that is decorated with images o...   [more]

Please join us for our closing reception for our current exhibition, Robots Will Keep Us as Pets including work from Andreas Fischer, Ariel Dill, Sofia Leiby, Amanda Dalton Innis, and Trew Schriefer.    [more]

On Sunday, August 5, from 3 pm to 4 pm, the Hyde Park Art Center invites you to join Melissa Oresky for an artist talk about her newest exhibition Trail. This collage production blurs the boundaries between natural and synthetic spaces while generating unexpected combinations of colors and textures. Oresky will also discuss her first ever animated video work, also on view. Questions and comments...   [more]

Join curator Karl Wirsum as he explains his selections for Karl Wirsum Eyeballs the Intuit Collection and how it feels for this artist to be on the other side of the canvas.   [more]

Join Karsten Lund and Heidi Norton as they discuss Norton's exhibition which opened Aug 7th at the MCA.  BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Heidi Norton Aug 7–Oct 23, 2012 http://www.mcachicago.org/programs/now/all/2012/p1221   [more]

In conjunction with Ex-Static, join WBEZ's arts and culture reporter Alison Cuddy for an intimate evening of live conversation. Cuddy will be interviewing self-taught Chicago artist George Kagan and Laura Shaeffer, co-director of Hyde Park Kunstverein, about Kagan's love of radios.   [more]

Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity Curator Talk Friday, August 17, noon Meet by the Visitor Service Desk on the second floor   Visitors are invited to walk through the Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity exhibition with Michael Darling, MCA James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, to learn about the criteria and ideas that guided his selection of artists and artworks.   Sk...   [more]