June Art Picks

June 1- 3, 2023
PrideFest
Henry W. Maier Festival Park: 200 N Harbor Dr, Milwaukee, WI
Free

June 1- August 27, 2023
Jerry Jordan: Expressions for a New Renaissance
MOWA | West Bend Hours: 205 Veterans Ave, West Bend, WI
Free

Thurs, June 1, 4pm
Circuitous Matter: Living With Photography and Print Publications
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago: Online
Free

Thurs, June 1, 5:30pm
Poetry and Conversation: Luther Hughes, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, and Natasha Oladokun
A Room of One’s Own: 2717 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI
Free

June 2- 3, 2023
Var Gallery Presents: Prez Harris with special guest Foreverxx
Var Gallery, 643 S 2nd St, Milwaukee, WI
Free

June 2- July 23, 2023
Haykidd &Thee Black Card-Hey Black Kidd
Big Car: 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN
Free

June 2- July 23, 2023
Nasreen Khan: Cic·a·trix
Big Car: 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN
Free

June 2- August 6, 2023
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund FELLOWSHIPS FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS 2022
Haggerty Museum of Art: 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI
Free

Fri, June 2, 5-7pm
Meetup Event for Artists with Disabilities
Central West Center: 2102 W Ogden Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 2, 5-8pm
Richard Bellia
Tamarkin Camera: 213 W Institute Pl, #403, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 2, 5-8pm
Dog Show
Circle Contemporary: 2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 2, 6-7:30pm
In-Session | Wayfinding: Collective Love Rituals
North Park Nature Village (Field House): 5801 N Pulaski Rd, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 2, 6-8pm
Xie Hongdong: The Third Compass
ENGAGE Projects: 864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 2, 6-9pm
Julia Klein: Procession
Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 2, 6-9pm
Galen Odell-Smedley: PEACH PEACH and Cain Baum: Warbling
Ignition project space: 3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 2, 7-8pm
AMY PEARL LANG: OBJECT PERMANENCE
SULK CHICAGO: 525 S Dearborn St, Apt 209, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 2, 7:30-9pm
Ofrendas en Sinestesia; experiments in shared dance rituals
Links Hall: 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago
$16-42

June 3-July 15, 2023
Lucas Simões: Luscofusco
PATRON: 1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free

June 3-July 15, 2023
Dianna Frid: pre-knowing / un-knowing
PATRON: 1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 10am-6pm
Hyde Park Community Art Fair
Bixler Park Chicago: 5641 S Kenwood Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 11am-5pm
57th Street Art Fair
57th Street: 57th Street, Hyde Park, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 12-2pm
El Diseño: On LatinX Design in Public Space
Chicago Cultural Center: 78 E Washington St, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 1-2pm
Artist Talk: Dr. Charles Smith
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art: 756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 1-4pm
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
Comfort Station Logan Square: 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 1-4pm
Bringing Peace to the City Open Mic & Market
2240 Gallery: 2240 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, June 3, 1-7pm
Well Fest 2023
Soulside Healing Arts: 1311 SW Adams St. Suite D, Peoria, IL
Free

Sat, June 3, 5-8pm
THE BODY OF EVIDENCE: A CONVERSATION ABOUT REPARATIONS
Lawndale Pop-Up Spot: 3601 W Douglas Blvd Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 5-9pm
Outmoded Shapes
Blanc Gallery: 4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 6-8pm
El Chiquito Big Book Publication Release
Pilsen Community Books: 1102 W 18th St, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 6-10pm
Sebastian Sandu: Beauty Marks
NYCH Gallery: 2025 S Laflin St, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 6-11pm
Full Moon Performances
Co-Prosperity Sphere: 3129 S Morgan St, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 7pm
Hidden Voices Writers: Poet Fabu, Sherry Lucille, and Catrina J. Sparkman
Arts + Literature Laboratory: 111 S Livingston St, Suite 100, Madison, WI
Free

Sat, June 3, 7-9pm
Destination
W. gallery: 600 W Van Buren St, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 3, 8:30pm
Relative Intensity Noise ft. Meredith Haines, Toni Kunst, Helen Lee, Rin Peisert, and Kezia Waters
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$15

Sat, June 3, 10pm-2am
Drag Wars
Guido’s Bar & Grill: 2 E Main St, Champaign, IL
Free

Sun, June 4, 1-3pm
Maggie Bridger | Lab E: Training Group
Experimental Station: 6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago
Free

Sun, June 4, 7pm
Queer Dance Freakout
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$5-40

June 5- August 13, 2023
Phillip Chen: No Ideas but in Things
University Galleries of Illinois State University: 11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL
Free

Mon, June 5, 6pm
Poetry @ The Green at 320: June 2023
The Green at 320: 320 S Canal St, Chicago
Free

Tues, June 6, 4-5pm
Rest and Labor: A Gravity Pleasure Switchback Tour
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St, Chicago
Free

Tues, June 6, 7pm
OUTspoken! LGBTQ+ Storytelling
Sidetrack The Video Bar: 3349 N Halsted St, Chicago
Free

Tues, June 6, 7:30-8:30pm
Soundtrack | JazStarr
MCA Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free

Wed, June 7, 6-8pm
Zine 101 Workshop
Skunk Cabbage Books: 2826 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Free

Thurs, June 8, 10:30-12pm
SPARK!
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: 700 North 12th St, Wausau, WI
Free

Thurs, June 8, 6-7pm
When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
Newberry Library: 60 W Walton St, Chicago
Free

Thurs, June 8, 6-9pm
Dreaming of a Future: Opening Soiree
Central Standard Rooftop: 231 S La Salle St, Chicago
Free

Thurs, June 8, 7pm(EST)
AMP SEED SERIES: MY BODY, MY MOVEMENT
MOCAD: 4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
$10

Thurs, June 8, 7-9pm
Northern Valley Labor Council – Film – Stand
Empire Arts Center: 415 Demers Ave, Grand Forks, ND
Free

Thurs, June 8, 7pm
I AM ACE Panel with Cody Daigle, Bruce Owen Grimm, Ashabi Owagboriaye, & Adam Rhodes
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St, Chicago
Free

Thurs, June 8, 8-9pm
Live @ LOW END | Salami Rose Joe Louis
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts: 724 S. 12th St, Omaha, NE
Free

June 8-10
Rest.Rise.Move.Nourish.Heal
Red Clay Dance Company: 119 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago
$15-$150

June 9-11, 2023
2023 PrideFest
2643 Beaver Ave, # 170, Des Moines, IA
$45-150

June 9-July 15, 2023
PHILIP VON ZWECK
65GRAND: 3252 W North Ave, Chicago
Free

June 9-July 29, 2023
Antonius-Tín Bui: There are many ways to hold water without being called a vase
moniquemeloche: 451 N Paulina St, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 9, 5-8pm
A Lone Slant of Light
Real Tinsel: 1013 W Historic Mitchell St, Milwaukee, WI
Free

Fri, June 9, 5-9pm
Vani Aguilar & Juan Arango Palacios: El Brillo en Sus Ojos
Roots & Culture: 1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 9, 5-9pm
Corinne D. Peterson and Pinar Aral: Truth Be Told
Oliva Gallery: 3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 9, 6pm
Marta Turk, Anthropologist- gallery talk
El Museo Latino: 4701 S 25 St, Omaha, NE
Free

Fri, June 9, 6-9pm
Yuqing Zhu: To Create Yourself a Soul
Elephant Room Gallery: 704 S Wabash Ave, ​Chicago
Free

Fri, June 9, 7-8:30pm
2023 Co-Mission Festival of New Works: Rika Lin
Links Hall: 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago
$16-42

Fri, June 9, 7-8:30pm
Juke 4 Liberation
Links Hall: 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago
$16-42

Fri, June 9, 7-9pm
Quentin Yang: Soft Telling
Parlour and Ramp Gallery: 2130 W 21st St, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 9, 7:30pm (EST)
DAMIEN JURADO
MOCAD: 4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
$25-35

Sat, June 10, 1-3pm
A Queer Bronzeville History Tour
South Side Community Art Center: 3831 South Michigan Ave
Free

Sat, June 10, 6pm-10pm
Abolition is Radical Imagination: Photographs by Sarah-Ji
33WF: 3248 W Montrose Ave, Chicago
Free

June 10- 11, 2023
Motor City Pride Festival
Hart Plaza: Detroit, MI
Free

June 10- September 17, 2023
Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe
South Dakota Art Museum: 1036 Medary Ave, Brookings, SD
Free

Sat, June 10, 1-4pm
The Art of Critique with the Peoria Guild of Black Artists
Sunbeam Building: 923 N. Sheridan Rd, Peoria, IL
Free

Sat, June 10, 10am-12pm(CST)
2023 Indy Pride Parade
Indianapolis, IN
Free

Sat, June 10, 11am
JeeYeun Lee: Shore Land – Berger Park to Belmont Harbor
Berger Park Cultural Center: 6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 10, 11am-1pm
Forms & Features with Giulia Ottavia Frattini
The Poetry Foundation: Online
Free

Sat, June 10, 12-2pm
Weavers from Oaxaca will demonstrate weaving on a Back-Strap
El Museo Latino: 4701 S 25 St, Omaha, NE
Free

Sat, June 10, 2-4pm
Library Experimental w/ [star] and Pastel Fractal
Jefferson Park Library: 5363 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 10, 4pm
Men of a Certain Age
Wrightwood 659: 659 Wrightwood Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 10, 4-8pm
The Role Of Blue
Purple Window Gallery: 2233 S Throop St, #845, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 10, 5:30pm
Clearly Indigenous Exhibition Preview Party
Wichita Art Museum: 1400 W Museum Blvd, Wichita, KS
$175

Sat, June 10, 5-8:30pm
Genevieve Ramos: Crip Paint Power
Curb Appeal Gallery: email: info@curbappeal.gallery for address
Free

Sat, June 10, 6pm
THE MAGICIAN: PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Gene Siskel Film Center: 164 North State Street, Chicago
$13

Sat, June 10, 2pm
QP (aka QUEEN POEM): JARED BROWN AND REGINA MARTINEZ
Graham Foundation: 4 W Burton Pl, Chicago
Free

Sun, June 11, 10am-12pm
GRID in the Prairie
The Prairie in Millwork Commons: 1229 Millwork Ave, Omaha, NE
Free

Sun, June 11, 12-1pm
Costume Designing Black History with Ruth E. Carter
Music Box Theatre: 3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago
$0-20

Sun, June 11, 12-1pm
Inch Wide/Mile Deep: Artist Talk
Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, #2, Chicago
Free

Sun, June 11, 2-5:30pm
Overview
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: 227 State St, Madison, WI
Free

Sun, June 11, 3-7pm
Building Our Archives: Pilsen Design and Lettering Workshop
Pilsen Arts & Community House: 1637 W 18th St, Chicago
Free

Mon, June 12, 6pm
Poetry @ The Green at 320: June 2023
The Green at 320: 320 S Canal St, Chicago
Free

Mon, June 12, 7pm
PAGEBOY: An Evening with ELLIOT PAGE
The Barrymore Theatre: 2090 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI
Free

Mon, June 12, 8pm
NOSTALGIA & MEMORIA: LO QUE DEJAMOS ATRÁS (NOSTALGIA & MEMORY: WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND)
Gene Siskel Film Center: 164 North State Street, Chicago
$13

Tues, June 13, 8pm
Notes on Masculinity: A Drag-Centered Cabaret
The California Clipper: 1002 N California Ave, Chicago
$10

Tues, June 13, 11am-2pm
The Mix: A Sculpture show
Christopher Art Gallery at Prairie State College: 202 S Halsted St, Chicago Heights, IL
Free

Tues, June 13, 7-9pm
Fetish and Kink Figure Drawing
Leather Archives & Museum: 6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago
$10

Wed, June 14, 7pm
All Told: Films by Paige Taul
Arts + Literature Laboratory: 111 S Livingston St, Suite 100, Madison, WI
Free

Wed, June 14, 8:30-10pm
The Films of Maya Deren
Comfort Station: 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Free

Thurs, June 15, 12pm
Emeka Ogboh and Bani Abidi: Remaking the Anthem
Goethe-Institut Chicago: Online
Free

June 15-June 18
ADIFF CHICAGO 2023
Gene Siskel Film Center: 164 North State Street, Chicago
$13-20

Fri, June 16-Sat, Aug 19
Esthetic Local
Rupture and Public Works: 2141 W North Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 17, 6pm-8pm
Summer Concert Series: JoVia Armstrong Trio
Kenwood Gardens: 6929 S Kenwood Ave
Free

Fri, June 16, 6pm
Satrangi: a desi queer open mic and storytelling event
South Asia Institute: 1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 16, 7:30pm
Celebrating Juneteenth ft. avery r young + de deacon board
Old Town School of Folk Music: 4544 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 16, 11am-4pm
JUNETEENTH
Flint Institute of Arts: 1120 E Kearsley St, Flint, MI
Free

Sat, June 17, 10:30am-2pm
Daniel Minter: In the Healing Language of Trees, a natural act of transformation restructured for curing many ills
Lynden Sculpture Garden: 2145 West Brown Deer Rd., Milwaukee
Free

Sat, June 17, 12-4pm
3831 JUNETEENTH
South Side Community Art Center: 3831 South Michigan Ave, Chicago
Free

June 17-Oct 29
Eneida Sanches: MATERIAL TRANCE
Lynden Sculpture Garden: 2145 West Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI
Free

June 17- February 25, 2024
Rose B. Simpson: Counterculture
John Michael Kohler Arts Center: 608 New York Ave
Sheboygan, WI
Free

June 17, 2023 – September 24, 2023
Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other
Cranbrook Art Museum: 39221 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Free

Sat, June 17, 3-5pm
Spoken Dialogues: Testimonies on Paper (A Poetry Reading)
South Asia Institute: 1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 17, 4:30-9:30pm
Collaboration as Critique & Open Mic with the Peoria Guild of Black Artists
Sunbeam Building: 923 N. Sheridan Rd, Peoria, IL
Free

Sat, June 17, 11am-4pm(EST)
Juneteenth and Jazz Community Celebration
Eiteljorg Museum: 500 W Washington St, Indianapolis, IN
Free

Sat, June 17, 2-5pm
Jesse Howard Artist Talk
Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace: 32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL
Free

Sat, June 17, 2-5pm
Sip and Stitch: Vulgar Mixed Media Embroidery at Shoppes at Grand Prairie
Peoria Art Guild: 203 Harrison St, Peoria, IL
$40

Sat, June 17, 6:30pm
GoldGrrl Fest
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208
Free

Sun, June 18, 2pm-3:30pm
Yaw Agyeman Sings at the Stony Island Arts Bank
Stony Island Arts Bank: 6760 S Stony Island Ave
Free

Sun, June 18, 2:30-9:30pm
Juneteenth Celebration of Black American Music
Arts + Literature Laboratory: 111 S Livingston St, Suite 100, Madison, WI
Free

Mon, June 19, 7-8pm
The Graphic History Collective celebrates Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe
Pilsen Community Books: 1102 W 18th St, Chicago
Free

Wed, June 21, 7-10pm
Get Lit. Open Mic Night
Lit. on Fire Books: 712 W Main St, Peoria, IL
Free

Thurs, June 22, 5pm
VGA Fireside READER EDITION
VGA Gallery: Online
Free

Thurs, June 22, 5:30pm
Tami Neilson
City Green: 710 New York Ave, Sheboygan, WI
Free

Thurs, June 22, 6pm
Green Roof Poetry Curated by All My Relations Arts’
Walker: 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN
Free

Thurs, June 22, 7pm
Movie Night with DayLong Film Festival
Dorothy: 2500 W. Chicago Ave
$10-20

June 23-August 5, 2023
Mrs. x DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT: 1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, June 23, 6-9pm(EST)
KALEIGH BLEVINS // CAILYN DAWSON
M Contemporary Art: 205 East 9 Mile, Ferndale, MI
Free

Fri, June 23, 5-7pm
Black is Beautiful: Photographs by Tony Smith (Artist Reception)
Cafe Logan: 915 E 60th St, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 24, 1pm-10pm (EST)
Larchmere Porchfest
Larchmere Blvd, Shaker Heights, OH
Free

Sat, June 24, 5-8pm
Respair Production & Media Launch Party
Haymarket House: 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, June 24, 9pm-12:30am
“How I Show My Pride” LGBQT+ Pride Month Drag Show
The Aquarium: 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND
$10-15

Sun, June 25, 3pm-5pm
Celebrating Tamir
Stony Island Arts Bank: 6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago
Free

Tues, June 25, 4-6pm
FREE Film at the Figge: Joyland (2022)
FIGGE ART MUSEUM: 225 W Second St, Davenport, IA
Free

Mon, June 26, 6pm
Poetry @ The Green at 320: June 2023
The Green at 320: 320 S Canal St, Chicago
Free

Mon, June 26, 3:30-5pm
Surviving the Long Wars: Index of the Disappeared Activation and Discussion
Chicago Cultural Center: 78 East Washington St
Free

Mon, June 26, 7pm
THE TERRAFORMERS by Annalee Newitz
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St, Chicago
Free

Wed, June 28, 9pm
ADI OASIS W/ KYRA HORTON
Sleeping Village: 3734 W Belmont Ave
$18

Wed, June 28, 6pm
Queer & Trans Open Mic
A Room of One’s Own: 2717 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI
Free

Thurs, June 29, 5-6:30pm
K Anderson: Fissures of Displeasure
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St, Chicago
Free

Thurs, June 29, 6pm
Community Opening: Kahlil Robert Irving
Walker: 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN
Free

June 30- October, 2023
Sculpture Milwaukee
Various Locations: Milwaukee, WI
Free

Closing June 2, 7-9pm
The Pilsen Open – Closing Reception
Parlour and Ramp: 2130 W 21st St, Chicago
Free

Closing June 2
MAMÁ SAID: A REFLECTION ON MATERNAL FIGURES
Latino Arts, Inc: 1028 S 9TH ST. MILWAUKEE, WI
$25

Closing June 3
Mikey Mosher: Biofeedback: Closing Reception
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
Free

Closing June 10
Craig Deppen Auge, CJ Charbonneau, Sam Haan, Mary Clara Hutchison, Cesar Lopez
GRANITE CITY ART & DESIGN DISTRICT: 1800 block of State Street, Granite City, IL
Free

Closing June 18
Voices & Visions
Contemporary Arts Center Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art: 44 E 6th St, Cincinnati, OH
Free

Closing June 18
KeepIt500
Gallery 924: 924 N. Pennsylvania St, Indianapolis, IN
Free

Closing June 24
Pat Kroth: Saved, Salvaged and Stitched
Arts + Literature Laboratory: 111 S Livingston St, Suite 100, Madison, WI
Free

Closing June 24
Zoe McGuire: Earthshine
Library Street Collective: 1274 Library St, Detroit, MI
Free

Closing June 24
SITE Seeing
Charlotte Street: 3333 Wyoming St, Kansas City, MO
Free

Closing June 25
re:mancipation
Chazen Museum of Art: University of Wisconsin, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI
Free

Closing June 25
Native America: In Translation
Milwaukee Art Museum: 700 N. Art Museum Drive Milwaukee, WI 
$22

Closing June 26
Through Her Eyes: Mama Representation Project
Contemporary Arts Center Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art: 44 E 6th St, Cincinnati, OH
Free