Our Art Picks are created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, and cross-promoted through Windy City Times, one of the longest locally-published LGBTQ weeklies with a national reach. This is a growing list, so check back often for new additions.
Throughout 2018 we will be highlighting exhibitions and events that are part of Art Design Chicago 
, a year-long celebration of the unique and vital role Chicago plays as America’s crossroads of art and design, creativity and commerce, organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art. As part of an editorial partnership with Illinois Humanities, Sixty will also be highlighting events that are part of Envisioning Justice 
, a 19-month project that looks into how Chicagoans and Chicago artists respond to the the impact of incarceration in local communities and how the arts and humanities are used to devise strategies for lessening this impact.
FEATURED
Wed, July 4, 9:30-12:30pm
Terrain 4th July Parade: Migration is a Human Right
Meet at Adams and Cuyler in Oak Park
Free
Sun, July 8, 12:30-2:30pm
Community Archiving / Archives Festival Volunteer Orientation
Read/Write Library Chicago (914 N California Ave)
Free
Fri, July 13, 6-9pm; July 14, 11am-9pm
Chicago Archives + Artists Festival: Art Design Chicago Edition
Read/Write Library Chicago (914 N California Ave)
Free
Sat, July 21, 11am – 10pm
15th Annual Silver Room Block Party
53rd and Harper Av, Hyde Park
Suggested Donation
Sat, July 21, 10:30am – 10:30pm
Art Institute of Chicago First Annual Block Party
In and around the entire museum
Open to the public, general admission tickets required.
July 22, 11am-12pm
Art Design Chicago Storytelling Series
Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, Drawing Room Library (12 South Michigan Av)
Free
Sun, July 22, 11am-6pm
ZINEmercado
Comfort Station Logan Square (2579 N Milwaukee Ave)
Free
Tues, July 24, 6-8:30pm
Breaking the Birth to Prison Pipeline
Roberts Temple Church of God (4021 S State St # 1)
Free
July Art Picks
On view through August 18
Jeff Sonhouse: Entrapment
Monique Meloche Gallery (451 N Paulina St)
Free
Through Sept 30th
A Johnson Publishing Story ,
Stony Island Arts Bank (6760 S Stony Island Av)
Free
Mon, July 2, 5-6:45pm
2 Race on the Outside: Art, Architecture + Spatial Justice
Design Workshop (125 S Clark St, Suite 660)
Free
Tues, July 3, 6:15pm
PERSONAL PROBLEMS
Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N State St)
$6-11
Wed, July 4, 3pm
Fourth of July at AMFM
AMFM Gallery (2151 W 21st St)
Free
Fri, July 6, 4-10pm
flat earth curved body
New Works & Horses Two (Montrose Beach)
Free
Thurs, July 5, 5-8pm
First Thursday – July 2018
53rd Street – Hyde Park
Free
Fri, July 6, 5:30-7:30pm
Victoria Martinez: Celestial House
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (820 N Michigan Ave)
Free
Fri, July 6, 5:30-7:30pm
Following the Box
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (820 N Michigan Ave)
Free
Fri, July 6, 5:30-7:30pm
Tonika Lewis Johnson: Folded Map
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (820 N Michigan Ave)
Free
Fri, July 6, 6-9pm
David Anthony Geary
AMFM Gallery (2151 W 21st St)
Free
Fri, July 6, 6-9pm
Nights not made for crowds
ACRE Projects (1345 W 19th St)
Free
Fri, July 6, 6:30-9pm
Social Dance + Music: Black Celebrations
Arts Incubator (301 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Sat, July 7, 8am-9pm
28th Chosen Few Picnic and Festival
Jackson Park (6300 Hayes Dr)
Free
Sat, July 7, 4-6pm
More dangerous than a thousand rioters: Lucy Parsons, anarchist
The BreathingRoom Space (1434 W. 51st St)
Free
Sat, July 7, 1-2:30pm
Following the Box Tour
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (820 N Michigan Ave)
Free
Sat, July 7, 2-4pm
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends
Compound Yellow (244 Lake St, Oak Park)
Free
Sat, July 7, 6:30-9pm
Brian Dovie Golden: Silver Lining: Closing Reception
Elephant Room Gallery (704 S Wabash Ave)
Free
Sun, July 8, 1:30-4:30pm
Reinterpreting Religion
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (2320 W Chicago Ave)
Free
Mon, July 9, 7-9pm
Participatory Music Coalition
Arts and Public Life: Arts Incubator in Washington Park (301 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Tue, July 10, 6:30-8pm
Embodying Diaspora: a monthly dance workshop series
Arts and Public Life: Arts Incubator in Washington Park (301 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Wed, July 11, 5:30-7pm
Halfway to California: A Conversation about Midwest Aesthetics
DePaul Art Museum (935 W Fullerton Ave)
Free
Thurs, July 12, 5-8pm
Cleveland Dean: Recto/Verso: Duality of a Fragile Ego: Artist Talk
Chicago Cultural Center (78 E Washington St)
Free
Thurs, July 12, 5:30-8:30pm
Chicago Dancemakers Forum 2018 Awards Celebration and Benefit
The Arts Club of Chicago (201 E Ontario St)
$50-5,000
Fri, July 13, 6-7pm
Trevor Paglen
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Ave)
Free
Fri, July 13, 6-9pm
You will be the archivist of your desires
Chicago Art Department (1932 S Halsted St, Ste 100)
Free
Fri, July 13, 5-9pm
The BreathingRoom Series: The Black Carpet
The BreathingRoom Space (1434 W. 51st St)
Free
Fri, July 13, 6-9pm
House: Queens of House Music
Grant Park
Free
Fri, July 13, 7:30-10pm
Angela Dugan + Justin Casselle
Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative (1456 E 70th St)
Free
Fri, July 13, 9-11pm
Streetlight
Roman Susan (1224 W Loyola Ave)
Free
Thurs, July 12, 5-8pm
Sculpting a Chicago Artist: Richard Hunt
Koehnline Museum of Art (1600 East Golf Road, Des Plaines)
Free
Sat, July 14, 10am-6pm
BARRIO ARTS FEST 2018
National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (3015 W Division St)
Free
Sat, July 14, 11am
Arts and Crafts Fair
DuSable Museum of African American History (740 E 56th Pl)
Free
July 14, 6-9pm; Runs July 5 – 31st
Everyday Englewood: a solo exhibition of photographs by Tonika Johnson / Granded: a solo window exhibition by Scott Mossman
Ignition project space (3839 W Grand Av)
Free
Sat, July 14, 1-3pm
Peter Fagundo, Joseriberto Perez, Leonard Suryajaya, Alice Tippit
Shane Campbell Gallery (2021 S Wabash Ave)
Free
Sat, July 14, 2-8pm
Back Alley Jazz
S. Paxton Between 73rd & 74th
Free
Sat, July 14, 2-8pm
TRUTH CLAIM
Carrie Secrist Gallery (835 W Washington Blvd)
Free
Sun, July 15, 3-4:30pm
Inquiry 01: Gallery Talk
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership (610 S Michigan Ave)
Free
Tues, July 17, 4-6pm
How Data Shapes Us
Open Center for the Arts (2214 S Sacramento Av)
Free
Tuesdays July 17-August 24, 7pm
Summer Workshop: Experiments in Writing
Literacenter (641 W Lake St)
$275
Tuesdays July 17-August 24, 7pm
Summer Workshop: Page to Stage: Writing + Performance
Literacenter (641 W Lake St)
$275
Thursdays July 19-August 23, 7pm
Summer Workshop: Introduction to Poetry Writing
Literacenter (641 W Lake St)
$275
Fri, July 20, 7:30-10pm
BCH Mixtape: Vol. 5
Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative (1456 E 70th St)
Free
Sat, July 21, 11am-12pm
15th Annual Disability Pride Parade
Meet at Balbo & Columbus Drive
Free
Sun, July 22, 11am-1pm
BGIO Self-Care Sunday Series: New America
Reunion Chicago (2557 W North Ave)
Free
Wed, July 25, 6:30-9:30pm
Word Play Way Community Info Session!
David L. Hoyt Education Foundation (4054 N. Lincoln Ave)
Free
July 26, 6-8pm
Humboldt Park Walking Tour with Chicago historian Julia S. Bachrach
Humboldt Park Boathouse (1301 North Humboldt Dr)
Free
Sat, July 28, 10am-10pm
GhanaFest™ 2018
Washington Park
Free
Sat, July 28, 10am-10pm
BANTU FEST 2018
1130 Midway Plaissance (Near 60th & Ellis)
Free
Sat, July 28, 10:30am-12pm
Living Architecture: Tour and Performance at Tree Studios
Tree Studios (4 E Ohio St)
Free
Sat, July 28, 7-10pm
Urban Garden Art Exhibition & Pop-Up Market
Reunion Chicago (2557 W North Ave)
Free
Sat, July 31, 6-8pm
Inclusive Methodologies: Curators Panel Discussion
Gallery 400 (400 S Peoria St)
Free
Sat, July 31, 7:30-10pm
Ballast
Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative (1456 E 70th St)
Free
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Featured Image: Installation view of Cleveland Dean: Recto/Verso at the Chicago Cultural Center. The image shows a series of ten, relatively small white-framed mirrors that each have text on them, either a single word or a short phrase. The largest one closest to the right says “REAL” while the next one says “I Worked Hard For This.” Image courtesy of the Chicago Cultural Center.
