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. Click here to get our Art Picks and latest articles delivered to your inbox monthly. Save the date for The Visualist’s fundraiser, Bake Sale, on Saturday, July 27th, 7-11pm at Read/Write Library Chicago (914 N California Ave). This is a growing list, so check back often for new additions.

July Art Picks

Fri, June 28, 7-11pm Alternate Space: A Simulated Art Fair Heaven Gallery: 1550 N. Milwaukee Av Free Mon, July 1, 6-8pm Fibers Night and the Wandering Uterus Project Workshop PO Box Collective: 6900 N Glenwood Ave Free Mon, July 1, 6:30-9pm Chicago Design Milestones 1920–2019 150 Media Stream: 150 N Riverside Plaza Free Fri, July 5, 6-9pm B.LEN: CONDUIT 2: A Ribbon in the Sky Blanc Gallery: 4445 S King Dr Free Fri, July 5, 6-9pm Isaac Rafael Galvan: DREAM WORK Humboldt Park Boathouse Gallery: 1301 N Sacramento Blvd Free Fri, July 5, 6-10pm Ricardo Xavier Serment: Round One: Primera Caída Pilsen Outpost: 1637 W 18th St Free July 6 – Aug 15 Thrown Stone, Spitten Image: Mark Blanchard, Cass Davis, kwabena foli, and Kelly Kristin Jones Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W. Fulton St Free Sat, July 6, 9am-1pm Las Topo Chicas Patio Pop-Up Build Coffee: 6100 S Blackstone Ave Free Sat, July 6, 11am-1pm Processing the Unthinkable: Community Roundtable Stony Island Arts Bank: 6760 S Stony Island Ave Free Sat, July 6, 1-3pm Andrea Carlson: Interruptions by Native Artists Chicago Cultural Center, Learning Lab: 78 E Washington St Free Sat, July 6, 2pm Tours of The Legacy of Chicago Dance Newberry Library: 60 W Walton St Free Sat, July 6, 3:30-6:30pm Black Panther Film Series (6) Stony Island Arts Bank: 6760 S Stony Island Ave Free Sat, July 6, 4-6pm FMSBWTÖZÄU PGGIV-..?MÜ (FOR STEPHEN FOSTER) Shane Campbell Gallery: 2021 S Wabash Ave Free Sat, July 6, 6-8pm Body Keeps the Score: A Reading Night Mana Contemporary Chicago: 2233 S Throop St Free Sat, July 6, 7-9pm American Girl Doll Chapbook Release Volumes Bookcafe: 1474 N Milwaukee Ave Free Sat, July 6, 8-11pm Benefit for Chicago Community Bond Fund Okay Gallery: 2215 S Union St, #406 $10 Sun, July 7, 2pm ¡Vamos al Museo! Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave Free with museum admission Sun, July 7, 3-5pm Slow-Res: a Free and Self-Taught MFA Community Read/Write Library: 914 N California Ave Free Sun, July 7, 5-8pm Hyun Jung Jun: Teyo’s Lightshield Fresh Bread: email freshbreadgallery@gmail.com for address Free Mon, July 8, 6-7:30pm My Pressure Suit: A Presentation and Dialogue With Dark Matter Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave Free Mon, July 8, 7pm Ada Cheng: Straight to the Heart! Read/Write Library: 914 N California Ave Free Tue, July 9, 6-8pm Creative Community: Artist Talk & Workshop by Oda Hekiun Hairpin Arts Center: 2810 N Milwaukee Ave Free Wed, July 10, 6:30-8:30pm Richard “Richie” Parks SAIC at Homan Square: 906 S Homan Ave Free Wed, July 10, 5:30-7pm Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave Free Thurs, July 11, 5-7pm As Long As We Remember Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts: 915 E 60th St Free Thurs, July 11, 6pm Open Sessions with BraveSoul Movement Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative: 1456 E 70th St Free Thurs, July 11, 6-8pm Mev Luna: Far from the distance we see: Closing Reception Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St Free Thurs, July 11, 6-9pm Kara Jackson: Bloodstone Cowboy Young Chicago Authors: 1180 N Milwaukee Ave Free Thurs, July 11, 6-9pm Rear View Mirror Sessions: Death of Disco Green Line Performing Arts Center: 329 E Garfield Blvd Free Fri, July 12, 7-10pm Tender Alchemists Basic Studios: 3551 W Diversey Ave Free Fri, July 12, 5-8pm Whit Forrester and Roni Packer: Coning Aspect/Ratio: 864 N Ashland Ave Free Fri, July 12, 5-7:30pm Martha Tuttle Rhona Hoffman Gallery: 1711 W Chicago Ave Free Fri, July 12, 6-9pm OTV Cycle 4 Celebration Stage 18 Chicago: 2558 W 16th St $15 Fri, July 12, 6-9pm Jon Veal: Blonde Judas Chicago Art Department: 1932 S Halsted St Free Fri, July 12, 7pm La Politique des Autres: Short Films by Agnès Varda (Program II) Filmfront: 1740 W 18th St $8-10 Fri, July 12, 7pm Screening: Yara Travieso: La Medea Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave $8-10 Fri, July 12, 6-10pm Zakkiyyah Najeebah: Relearning With Mentions Chicago Art Department: 1932 S Halsted St Free Fri, July 12, 6-10pm Graham v Connor 1989. Fighting Police Violence in Chicago Uri-Eichen Gallery: 2101 S Halsted St Free July 13-14, 2019 Barrio Arts Fest The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture: 3015 W Division St $0-5 Sat, July 13, 1-2pm Gentrification without Art Displacement Talk Heaven Gallery: 1550 N. Milwaukee Av Free Sat, July 13, 9am-7pm Juan Molina Hernández: autoretrato o piel vieja y lo que sobra de una manda cumplida (self-portrait or old skin and remnants of a prayer answered) Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave Free Sat, July 13, 3-5pm The Tokyo Show: Black & Brown Are Beautiful Hyde Park Art Center Free Sat, July 13, 12-2pm Eve L. Ewing: Ironheart FIRST AID COMICS: 1617 East 55th St Free Sat, July 13, 2-3pm The Hippest Trip In America: Soul Train Stony Island Arts Bank: 6760 S Stony Island Ave Free Sat, July 13, 2-5pm Manifestations: Artist Talk One After 909: 906 N Ashland Ave Free Sat, July 13, 4-6pm Naimah Thomas: Wounded Healer Build Coffee: 6100 S Blackstone Ave Free Sat, July 13, 6-9pm 80 Years Young: A Birthday Party Bash for Hyde Park Art Center Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave Free July 13 – July 20 Garbage Fyre Festival Milwaukee, WI Sun, July 14, 6:30-9:30pm Dual Queer Zine Release Party Ojo De Fortuna: 2024 S Ashland Ave Free Sun, July 14, 3-4:30pm Cathy Hsiao and Lakshmi Ramgopal: Mala/Maalai DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave Free Mon, July 15, 6:30-8:30pm Poets for Reproductive Justice Young Chicago Authors: 1180 N Milwaukee Ave Free Tues, July 16, 5-7pm Memory Magic: A Journaling and Manifesting Workshop Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts: 915 E 60th St Free Tues, July 16, 6-8pm Creative Community: Daisaku Ueno & Hiroshi Mehata Artist Talk Hairpin Arts Center: 2810 N Milwaukee Ave Free Wed, July 17, 6-7:30pm Creative Community: Daisaku Ueno & Hiroshi Mehata Artist Talk Spudnik Press Cooperative: 1821 W Hubbard St Free Wed, July 17, 6-8pm TIES Stony Island Arts Bank: 6760 S Stony Island Ave Free Wed, July 17, 7:30-9pm Speaking Truths Series: Straddling the Borderland National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial: 2831 W Lawrence Ave $5 Wed, July 17, 7:30-10pm AirGo Live! with guests Tasha and Eve L. Ewing Green Line Performing Arts Center: 329 E Garfield Blvd Free Thurs, July 18, 5-7pm Go Down Moses Museum of Contemporary Photography: 600 S Michigan Ave Free Thurs, July 18, 6-7pm Ocean Vuong: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous The Seminary Co-op Bookstores: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave Free Thurs, July 18, 6-7pm Jesse Malmed: Been Theres Then DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave Free Thurs, July 18, 6-8pm Alberto Aguilar and Alex Bradley Cohen: Feeling Shapey Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St Free Thurs, July 18, 6-8pm Post-Studio: Keith Nelson in Conversation with Shane McAdams Haggerty Museum of Art: 1234 W Tory Hill Street, Milwaukee, WI Free Fri, July 19, 10pm – 1am Official Pitchfork Aftershow with Title TK DJs & Sasha No Disco Smartbar: 3730 N Clark St $6-10 Fri, July 19, 5-8pm Mutant Dust Bunnies Roots & Culture: 1034 N Milwaukee Av Free Fri, July 19, 12-1pm Eric J. Garcia: The Bald Eagle’s Toupee: Curator’s Tour DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave Free Fri, July 19, 6-8pm Serious Vanity One After 909: 906 N Ashland Ave Free Fri, July 19, 6-9pm Brian Hofmeister: Permutations Center on Halsted: 3656 N Halsted St Free Fri, July 19, 7-9pm Stonewall 50, A Celebration Call Bar: 1547 W Bryn Mawr Ave Free Fri, July 19, 7-9pm Cuban Visions 4: Emerging Women Filmmakers Full Spectrum Features: 2936 N Southport Ave $10-14 Fri, July 19, 5-9pm Summer Gallery Night at MIAD Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design: 273 E Erie St, Milwaukee, WI Free Fri, July 19, 6-9pm GET READY WITH ME: Sam Jaffe At Vital Signs, MKE Vital Signs Free Fri, July 19, 6-9pm Modern Love Scout Gallery: 1104 W. Mitchell Street, Milwaukee, WI Free Fri, July 19, 5-8pm Var Collective Exhibition 2019 | AIR Reopening Var Gallery & Studios: 643 S 2nd St, Milwaukee, WI Free Fri, July 19, 5-7pm Flesh, Temporal & Eternal: Debo Mouloudji & Jamaal Clarke Artist talk on July 24th Nō Studios: 1037 W McKinley Avenue, Milwaukee, WI Free July 19-20, 2019 Jenna Youngwood: Firmament Panel Discussion with Shane Walsh & Kate Mothes (YoungSpace) The Alice Wilds: 900 S 5th St, Ste 102, Milwaukee, WI Free July 19-20, 2019 Arts @ Large Community Center Grand Opening Arts @ Large: 1100 S 5th St, Milwaukee, WI Free July 20-21, 2019 ComplexCon Chicago McCormick Place: 2301 S Martin Luther King Dr $80-600 Sat, July 20, 9am-1pm Books for the Imprisoned! Patio Pop-Up Build Coffee: 6100 S Blackstone Ave Free Sat, July 20, 12-10pm The 16th Annual Silver Room Sound System Block Party 5235 S Harper Ct Free Sat, July 20, 1-3pm SSW Workshop: Mapping for Journalism Experimental Sound Studio: 6100 S Blackstone Ave Free Sat, July 20, 6pm Julie Kooser: Spectrum: An Exploration of Gender Positive Space Studios: 3520 W Fullerton Ave Free Sat, July 20, 9pm AMFM Presents A Pitchfork Music Festival Aftershow with Dua Saleh + more The Empty Bottle: 1035 N Western Ave $10-15 Sat, July 20, Rafael Francisco Salas, For God and Country (Artist Talk) Portrait Society Gallery: 207 E Buffalo St, Ste 526, Milwaukee, WI Free Sat, July 20, 2-3pm SPARK A Material Studios Exhibition Curator and Artist Talk Frank Juarez Gallery: 207 E Buffalo St., Ste 600, Milwaukee, WI Free Sun, July 21, 10:30am-5pm Block Party 2019 The Art Institute of Chicago: 111 S Michigan Ave Free Sun, July 21, 2:30-4pm Inside the Suitcases She Carries The Art Institute of Chicago: 111 S Michigan Ave Free Sun, July 21, 3-5pm Norman W. Long, Andrew Clinkman, Lia Kohl Experimental Sound Studio: 5925 N Ravenswood Ave Free Mon, July 22, 5-7pm SOARS (Story of a Rape Survivor) Multimedia Performance SAIC MacLean Ballroom: 112 S Michigan Ave Free July 25 – July 28 2019 Newberry Library Book Fair Newberry Library: 60 W Walton St Free July 25 – August 3 Still/Here: Manifesting joy and survival Various Locations (listed below) Free

• Thurs, July 25th, 6pm @ South Shore Cultural Center
• Sat, July 27th, 3pm @ Humboldt Park
• Thurs, August 1st, 6pm @ Cornell Square Park, 1809 W. 50th St.
• Sat, August 3rd, 3pm @ Walsh Park, 1722 N. Ashland Ave.

Thurs, July 25, 5:30-7:30pm Black and Brown Lives in Green Spaces DuSable Museum of African American History: 740 E 56th Pl Free Thurs, July 25, 5:30-7pm The Modern Art of Tarot DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave Free Thurs, July 25, 6-8pm Diane Simpson: Architecture in Motion Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: 4 W Burton Pl Free Thurs, July 25, 7-8pm Verónica Gerber Bicecci: EMPTY SET Volumes Bookcafe: 1474 N Milwaukee Ave Free Fri, July 26, 6-10pm Works on Paper Grace Jane Projects: 3203 S Halsted Free Fri, July 26, 6-8pm Amid Kinship: Jarvis Boyland, Brandon Breaux , and Amina Ross Arts and Public Life: 301 E Garfield Blvd Free Fri, July 26, 6-8pm Soundtrack: CQQCHiFRUIT Dentata (Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave Free Fri, July 26, 6-10pm Mom told me to go play downstairs Yours Truly: 833 e center street, Milwaukee, WI Free Fri, July 26, 7-10pm LUNA presents: SOL Genesis: 720 North Milwaukee St, Milwaukee, WI Free July 27-28, 2019 LA&M Kinky Rummage Sale Leather Archives & Museum: 6418 N Greenview Ave Free July 27-28, 2019 BANTU FEST 2019 Midway Plaisance, Chicago (in Hyde Park, by the University of Chicago): 1130 Midway Plaissance Free July 27, 3-10om + July 28, 3-9pm Fiesta de la Luna Ojo De Fortuna: 2024 S Ashland Ave Free Sat, July 27, 9am-8pm Compound Yellow YART SALE! Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park Free Sat, July 27, 12-8pm Second Annual Back Alley Jazz 7300 Block of S Paxton Ave Free Sat, July 27, 1-3pm Land Justice Workshop – Family Action Day! First Nations Garden: Wilson and Pulaski Free Sat, July 27, 3-8pm Fourth Annual Chicago Poetry Block Party National Museum of Mexican Art: 1852 W 19th St Free Sat, July 27, 4-5pm On Style and Democratic Design with NO SESSO and Universal Standard Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave, $8-15 Sat, July 27, 7-11pm Bake Sale Read/Write Library Chicago: 914 N California Ave $20 Sun, July 28, 7pm Art Is Bonfire (Last Sundays) Promontory Point: 5491 S Shore Dr Free Fri, July 31, 6-8pm Indiana Green 10th Anniversary Cedarburg Cultural Center: W62N546 Washington Ave, Cedarburg, WI Free Wed, July 31, 6-8pm Spirit of the Waves: Performance (for Albert) Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: 4 W Burton Pl Free _ Featured Image: Flyer for The Visualist’s fundraiser, Bake Sale, on Saturday, July 27th, 7-11pm at Read/Write Library Chicago (914 N California Ave), featuring baked goods by 062, ACRE Kitchen, ADDS DONNA, Agitator Co-operative Gallery, Aspect/Ratio, boundary, Chicago Arts Writers, Compound Yellow, Filmfront, EXTRA Projects, Ground Level Platform, Happy Gallery, Ignition Project Space, Insatiable, Jackson Junge Gallery, Julius Caesar, LVL3, MICKEY, North Pole Exhibitions, Ohklahomo, PATRON, Riverside Art Center, Roman Susan, Slow, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Threewalls, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, Woman Made Gallery, and more.