February Art Picks

February 1-28, 2022
Suspension
Flint Institute of Arts: 1120 E Kearsley St, Flint, Mi
$0-10

Tues, February 1, 7pm
Homeroom Residency: AvreeAYl RA and Dream Stuff
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL
$15

Tues, February 1, 9pm
Mission: Kiss A Boo w/ DJ Ca$h Era, DJ SKOLi, & DJ Cymba
Hideout: 1354 West Wabansia Ave
$5-7

Wed, February 2, 6pm
Lecture in Photography: Zora J Murff
Museum of Contemporary Photography: 600 S Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Wed, February 2, 6pm
Just Help! How to Build a Better World with author U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Chicago Public Library: Online
Free

Wed, February 2, 7-10pm
Homeroom Residency: AvreeAYl RA and Dream Stuff
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL
$15

Thurs, February 3, 11:30am
Layla F. Saad: Me and White Supremacy: Young Readers Edition
The Book Cellar: Online
Free

Thurs, February 3, 6-8pm
Opening Reception – Public Conversation: Printmaking in Public
University YMCA: 1001 S Wright St., Champaign, IL
Free

Thurs, February 3, 1pm
Museum Subjectivities / Subjetividad en los museos
DePaul Art Museum: Online
Free

Thurs, February 3, 5pm
Dr. Jessica Wolfendale presents Philosophy and State Violence
Haggerty Museum of Art: 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI
Free

Thurs, February 3, 5:30-8:30pm
Anything Can Be A Dragon, Anything Can Be A Snake
NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery: 5500 N St Louis Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, February 3, 6-7pm
A Simple Cotton Sack: A Conversation about African American Women, Trauma, and Resistance
Newberry Library: Online
Free

Thurs, February 3, 6-7pm
Judith Brotman Artist Talk
Glass Curtain Gallery: Online
Free

Thurs, February 3, 7pm
Virtual Event: Imani Perry in conversation with Eve L. Ewing
Women & Children First Bookstore: Online
Free

February 4-March 20, 2022
Kris Graves: A Southern Horror
Tube Factory artspace: 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN
Free

February 4-March 26, 2022
Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron: IMPORTANT PAPERS
SPACES: 2900 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH
Free

February 4 – July 2, 2022
Through My Lens: Justin Cooper
Gallery 400: 400 S. Peoria Street, Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, February 4, 4-5:30pm
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Haymarket Books: Online
$0-$5

Fri, February 4, 7pm
Opening of A View from The Sun : Collective Art Residency Exhibit
The Honeycomb Network: 2659 West Division St., Chicago, IL
Donation

Fri, February 4, 4-6pm
Houses of Tomorrow: Solar Homes from Keck to Today
Elmhurst Art Museum: 150 Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL
Free

Fri, February 4, 6-8pm
Honoring Our Mothers: Featuring – Sharing Grandmothers
DuSable Museum of African American History: 740 E 56th Pl., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, February 4, 6-8pm
Anna McKeown: Stand Up
The Martin: 2500 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, February 4, 6-10pm
VANISHING POINT: Black Mask, IWW, Atelier Populaire
Gallery Sabine: 1002 W 18th St., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, February 4, 7-10pm
Distance Stations: Jonathan Worcester
Belong Gallery: 2712 W North Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, February 4, 8-11pm
Opening Reception: Paul Heyer
Soccer Club Club: 2923 N Cicero Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

February 5 – March 19, 2022
La Vie en Rose
MARIANE IBRAHIM: 437 N Paulina St., Chicago, IL
Free

February 5 – March 19, 2022
Tomokazu Matsuyama: The Best Part About Us
Kavi Gupta Gallery: 219 N Elizabeth St., Chicago, IL
Free

February 5 – March 19, 2022
Megan Greene: Shrimp Eagle Owl
Regards: 2216 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

February 5 – April 2, 2022
Judith Roston Freilich and Lilach Schrag: Naturally
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art: 2320 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

February 5 – May 14, 2022
Malika Jackson: Whispers of a World Without Words
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, February 5, 12-4pm
Erol Scott Harris: LORE
Tiger Strikes Asteroid: 2233 S Throop St, Unit 419, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, February 5, 12:30-1pm
Place and Memory: Art Talks with Block Museum Student Associates
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL
Free

Sat, February 5, 4-8pm
FEMME
FLXST Contemporary: 2251 S Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, February 5, 6-8pm
Out Loud: Artist’s Reception
Anatomically Correct: 4400 Greenwood St Skokie, IL
Free

Sun, February 6, 11am-3pm
‘Stay-Up’ Opening Session for HERE & NOW
Frame Chicago: 1627 N Clybourn Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, February 6, 1-5pm
Chicago Winter Art Fair
Sleeping Village: 3734 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, February 6, 1-4pm
Dream Activations: “Whose Lakefront?” and “The Dirty Books”
Hyde Park Art Center: Online
Free

Sun, February 6, 1-4pm
Center Days: Dream
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL
Free

Mon, February 7, 8-10pm
Poonie’s Cabaret
Links Hall: 3111 N Western Ave., Chicago, IL
$20

Tue, February 8, 6pm
A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence – A Northwestern University Panel Discussion
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: Online
Free

Tue, February 8, 6pm
Nancy Johnson: The Kindest Lie
American Writer’s Museum:180 North Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Tue, February 8, 6-7pm
Badia Ahad-Legardy: Afro-Nostalgia
57th Street Books: Online
Free

Tue, February 8, 7pm
Virtual Book Launch: COST OF LIVING: ESSAYS by Emily Maloney
Women & Children First Bookstore: Online
Free

Tues, February 8, 9:30pm
Kenneth Leftridge Jr. & Rhea The Second
Hideout: 1354 West Wabansia Ave., Chicago, IL
$12

Wed, February 9, 1pm
Meet This Author! Bernadine Evaristo – Manifesto
Left Bank Books: 399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO
Free

Wed, February 9, 7pm
February Intro to Printing Workshop
LATITUDE: 1821 W Hubbard St., Chicago, IL
$55-70

Wed, February 9, 6-7:15pm
Cameron Rowland
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Online
Free

Wed, February 9, 7pm
Austin Channing Brown: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Dominican University: Online
Free

February 10-April 10, 2022
Ayanah Moor: I Wish I Could Be You More Often
The Cleve Carney Museum of Art and McAninch Arts Center: 425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL
Free

Thurs, February 10, 6pm
Claire Ashley Artist Talk
Glass Curtain Gallery: Online
Free

Thurs, February 10, 6pm
The American Sector (2020) with filmmaker Courtney Stephens
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: 40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL
Free

Thurs, February 10, 7-10pm
Open Door Reading Series: George Abraham, Diamond Forde, Nabila Lovelace & Fargo Tbakhi
Poetry Foundation: Online
Free

Thurs, February 10, 7pm
Virtual Poetry Reading: Paul Tran with Alison C. Rollins
Women & Children First Bookstore: Online
Free

Thurs, February 10, 6pm
DANCE@30FPS: A festival of dance-film
Wexner Center for the Arts: Online
Free

Thurs, February 10, 8-9pm
Live @ LOW END | Molly Joyce
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts: 724 S 12th St, Omaha, NE
Free

February 11-March 12, 2022
CARLA ANDERSON: WANDERINGS
M Contemporary Art: 205 East 9 Mile, Ferndale, MI
Free

Fri, February 11, 1-3pm
Reckless Law, Shameless Order: An Intimate Experience of Incarceration
Krannert Art Museum: 500 E Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL
Free

Fri, February 11, 5-9pm
Flor, Manal Kara, & Caleb Yono: THEM
Roots & Culture: 1034 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, February 11, 6-9pm
Micaela Felix: Conditional Beauty
The Martin: 2500 W Chicago Ave
Free

Fri, February 11, 7-10pm
ART INSPIRED BY ARTISTS
Fulton Street Collective: 1821 W Hubbard St., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, February 11, 7-10:30pm
CLEAT Series: JoVia Armstrong’s Eunoia Society
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave., Chicago, IL
$15

Fri, February 11, 6-8pm
POLYRHYTHMS: Interspecies Sound Performance
Hunter Oaks Equestrian Center:  236 Macallen Lake Rd, Carlock, IL 
Free

February 12-April 9, 2022
2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Fort Wayne Museum of Art: 311 E Main St, Fort Wayne, IN
Free

February 12-August 23, 2022
Art Along the River, Grand
MSU Broad: 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI
Free

Sat, February 12, 4-7pm
Word of Mouth: ARTISTS WALKTHROUGH
Woman Made Gallery: 2150 S Canalport St., Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, February 12, 5-7pm
Yoonshin Park: In/Visible
Beverly Arts Center: 2407 W 111th St., Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, February 12, 7:30pm
Wild & Sublime
Hungry Brain: 2319 W Belmont Ave., Chicago, IL
$25

Sat, February 12, 6pm
Decolonial Open Mic – All About Love
Chi Resists: Online
Free

February 12 – April 9, 2022
Larger work, (“tea for two” Monk’s version)
Produce Model Gallery: 1918 S Canalport Ave, Chicago IL
Free

Sun, February 13, 1-3pm
Youth Art Month
Sioux City Art Center: 225 Nebraska St, Sioux City, Iowa
Free

Sun, February 13, 4:30-6:30pm
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: IL and Federal Tax Workshop for SWs
SWOP Chicago: Online
Free

February 15- May 15, 2022
Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine
Smart Museum of Art: 5550 S Greenwood Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Tues, February 15, 4:30-5:30pm
The Politics of Home in “Internment,” with Samira Ahmed
57th Street Books: Online
Free

Tues, February 15, 5-6pm
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Meet the Author Laura F. Edwards
Newberry Library: Online
Free

Tues, February 15, 9pm
Orisun & Kiwicha
Hideout: 1354 West Wabansia Ave., Chicago, IL
$12

Wed, February 16, 2022
Equiano.Stories International Watch Day
DuSable Museum of African American History: Online
Free

Wed, February 16, 4-6pm
Hope Wang: The Vacant Plot of Sky
McHenry County College: 8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL
Free

Wed, February 16, 6:30-7:30pm
Chicago Poetry Center Blue Hour reading w/Dominique Christina & Ola Faleti
Chicago Poetry Center: Online
Free

Wed, February 16, 8-10pm
Pleiades Series Special Edition: Full Moon Deep Listening with Veronica Anne Salinas
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL
$15

Wed, February 16, 8pm
FORCE! Presents Cadenza Screening with Open Panel Discussion
Open Television: Online
Free 

February 17-May 28, 2022
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Exits Exist
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: 4 W Burton Pl., Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, February 17, 6-7pm
Buffalo Arts & Crafts, Industry vs Artisan
Wrightwood 659: Online
Free

Thurs, February 17, 6pm
Artist Talk: Laylah Ali and Bethany Collins
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: 40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL
Free

Thurs, February 17, 6-7pm
Habiba Ibrahim: Black Age
57th Street Books: Online
Free

Thurs, February 17, 8-10:30pm
Saxofonix Quartet Live at Fulton Street Collective
Fulton Street Collective: 1821 W Hubbard St., Chicago, IL
$15

Thurs, February 17, 12-9pm
ON DRAWING DRAWING ON: Film Screening: Cauleen Smith, Three Songs About Liberation
Logan Center Performance Hall: 915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, February 17, 6pm
RE: Ebony and Jet
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: 3750 Washington Boulevard St. Louis, MO
Free

Thurs, February 17, 5-6:30pm
Artist Talk: Max Guy
Gallery 400: Online
Free

Fri, February 18, 11:30am-1pm (EST)
Artist Talk with Charmaine Spencer
The Sculpture Center: Online
Free

Fri, February 18, 1-3pm
My Name is Inanna | Reading by Maryam Abdi
Krannert Art Museum: 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL
Free

Fri, February 18, 6-9pm
Darin Latimer: SuperDeath pt. 1 (Let it Bleed)
Elephant Room Gallery: 704 S Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, February 18, 6-10pm
Josh Grotto: Heroes & Villains
Grace Jane: 3203 S Halsted St
Free

February 18 – March 19, 2022
Vikesh Kapoork: See You At Home
Filter Photo: 1821 W Hubbard St., Suite 207, Chicago, IL
Free

February 19 – June 5, 2022
Linling Lu: Musical Meditations
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: 314 S. Park Street, Kalamazoo MI
$2-$5

Mon, February 21, 1-2:30pm
Voices: Raven Chacon
Gallery 400: online
Free

Tues, February 22, 6:30-7:45pm
Trenton Doyle Hancock
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Online
Free

Wed, February 23, 12-1pm
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain
Milwaukee Art Museum: Online
Free

Wed, February 23, 6-7pm
Curator Talk: The Life and Death of Charles Williams
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art: Online
Free

Wed, February 23, 7-8:30pm
Afrofuturism, a virtual dialogue
Illinois Humanities: Online
Free

Thurs, February 24, 2:30pm
Maia Chaka: Understanding History to Make HERstory
Dominican University: Online
Free

Thurs, February 24, 5:30pm
A.D. Carson: i used to love to dream: Going Into Language, Rap, & Storytellingly Invention
Krannert Art Museum: 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL
Free

Thurs, February 24, 6-7pm
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
Poetry Foundation: Online
Free

Thurs, February 24, 6-7pm
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
Poetry Foundation: Online
Free

February 25-26, 2022
Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ogresse: Envisioned
The Walker Art Center: 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN
$36-45

February 25-26, 2022
Restoration: Sambizanga
The Walker Art Center: 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN
$10-12

February 25-June 25, 2022
Crossings: Mapping American Journeys
Newberry Library: 60 W Walton St
Free

February 25-April 1, 2022
ARTcetera 2022
Sioux City Art Center: 225 Nebraska St, Sioux City, Iowa
Free

February 26-April 2, 2022
Andrew Bearnot
ENGAGE Projects: 864 N Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

February 26-April 9, 2022
Melissa Leandro
Andrew Rafacz: 1749 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

February 26-April 9, 2022
Jake Troyli: Slow Clap
Moniquemeloche: 451 N Paulina St., Chicago, IL
Free

February 26 – April 3, 2022
Abstraction as Metaphor: Corey Postiglione & Kathie Shaw
Evanston Art Center: 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL
Free

Sat, February 26, 1-2pm
DANCE PAMOJA CHALLENGE
Red Clay Dance Company: Online
Free

Sat, February 26, 6:30-8:30pm
Lorraine
Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts: 201 Schaumburg Ct, Schaumburg, IL
Free

Sat, February 26, 8-11pm
AfriClassical Futures: Charles Joseph Smith
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL
$15

Sun, February 27, 4-8pm
Art & Legacy: The Kulture Museum closing reception & Panel on Remembering Mayor Harold Washington
The Kulture Museum: 629 W. Cermak, Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, February 27, 9pm
Sam Weinberg Trio
Hungry Brain: 2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL
$25

February 27 – April 9, 2022
Unseen Things Are Still There: Alexandra Antoine, JB Daniel, Kate Ingold, Esau McGhee, and Elsa Muñoz
Riverside Arts Center: 32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL
Free

Mon, February 28, 7pm
Meet This Author! Jess T. Dugan – Look at me like you love me
Left Bank Books: 399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO
Free

Through February 5, 2022
Rui Sha: Non-Decorative Wall Light
Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
Free

Through February 5, 2022
A New Day
The Alice Wilds: 900 S 5th St, Ste 102, Milwaukee, WI 
Free

Through February 6, 2022
Vistas: Visions of China, Japan, and Korea
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: 314 S. Park Street, Kalamazoo MI
$2-$5

Through February 12, 2022
Diana Gabriel: Permanence
Goldfinch: 319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 12, 2022
Word of Mouth
Woman Made Gallery: 2150 S Canalport St, 4A 3, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 12, 2022
Carris Adams: Get Over, Get Under, Get Easy, Get Greasy
Goldfinch: 319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 13, 2022
Selina Trepp: I’m Thinking About Painting
Space & Time: 3307 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 17, 2022
Kyle Bellucci Johanson: for spacious skies
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St., Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 17, 2022
The Rounds
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St., Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 18, 2022
GuruShots Photo Exhibition: Chicago Debut
The Bridgeport Art Center, Third Floor Gallery: 1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 18, 2022
Soft Allergy
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 19, 2022
TL Solien: The Lonesome Dervish
Devening Projects: 3039 West Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 19, 2022
Greg Breda
PATRON: 1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 19, 2022
Dan Gunn: of the land behind them
Monique Meloche: 451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 19, 2022
Tricky Passage
Rhona Hoffman: 1711 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 19, 2022
No Body
Cleaner Gallery + Projects: 1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 20, 2022
American Epidemic: Guns in the United States
Museum of Contemporary Photography: 600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 25, 2022
Experiments in Dark Matter
Mu Gallery: 1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 26, 2022
Anneke Eussen: Blank Pages
Document: 1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 26, 2022
Private Quarters III
Volume Gallery: 1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 26, 2022
Land
Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design: 60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH
Free

Through February 27, 2022
PEPPI BOTTROP | ROBERT JANITZ
M. LeBlanc: 3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 27, 2022
Clifton Henri: Fight or Flight
Jackson Junge Gallery: 1389 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 27, 2022
Adam Augustyn ‘The Sky is Falling’
Vertical Gallery: 2006 W. Chicago Ave. #1R, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 27, 2022
Adeshola Makinde: Is Where It’s At!
Anthony Gallery & Stoney Island Art Bank: 6760 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 27, 2022
All the Pieces We Left Behind
5 Points Gallery + Studios: 3514 N. Port Washington Ave., Milwaukee, WI
Free

Through February 27, 2022
August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean
Goodman’s Albert Theater: 170 N Dearborn St., Chicago, IL
$35+

Through February 27, 2022
Lorna Simpson: Heads
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: 3750 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO
Free

Through February 27, 2022
Gregory Bae
Julius Caesar: 3311 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through February 28, 2022
Shonna Pryor: Of Portals and Pathways
Material: 2025 West Belmont Ave, Chicago IL
Free