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March Art Picks

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A fresh list of art openings, talks, screenings, performances, lectures and more to keep you warm this month.

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.

This is a growing list, so check back often for new additions.

March Art Picks

Fri, March 1, 12-1pm
Karolina Gnatowski: Some Kind of Duty and Betsy Odom: Butchcraft Curator’s Tour
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave
Free

Fri, March 1, 6-8pm
Catherine Hu: Very Little Changes
gallery no one: 1579 N Milwaukee Ave
Free

Fri, March 1, 6-9pm
Sirimas Benz Amatayakul and Alex Stark: Aggregate
Roots & Culture: 1034 N Milwaukee Ave
Free

Fri, March 1, 7-9pm
Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne: Entr’acte
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: 4 W Burton Pl
Free

Fri, March 1, 8-9:30am
The Future is Friday: Tonika Johnson
Leo Burnett: 35 W Wacker Dr
$5-10

Fri, March 1, 6-8pm
invisible collage
Cobalt Studios: 1950 W 21st St
Free

Fri, March 1, 6-9pm
Remnants: Works on Paper
Gallery Studio Oh: 4839 N Damen Ave
Free

Fri, March 1, 6pm-12am
Don’t be Scurred: Closing Night Musical Celebration
Hairpin Arts Center: 2810 N Milwaukee Ave
Pay what you can

Fri, March 1, 6-8pm
TooTiredChicago: A Conversation on Mental Health and Photography
LATITUDE: 1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207
Free

Fri, March 1, 6-8pm
Tracy Ostmann Haschke
One River School of Art and Design: 4625 N Lincoln Ave
Free

Fri, March 1, 5-8pm
Spontaneous Remarks
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St
Free

Fri, March 1, 9am-7pm
All Have the Same Breath: The Symposium
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St
Free

Fri, March 1, 6pm
Anarchival Impulse
ACRE Projects: 1345 W 19th St
Free

Fri, March 1, 6-9pm
In My Feelings
Young Chicago Authors: 1180 N Milwaukee Ave
Free

Fri, March 1, 5-7:30pm
Robert Heinecken: Mr. President… Mr. President…
Rhona Hoffman Gallery: 1711 W Chicago Ave
Free

Fri, March 1, 7-10pm
The Day Saints
The Dime: 1513 N Western Ave, Unit 104
Free

Fri, March 1, 5-8pm
PAMELA FRASER
Paris London Hong Kong: 1709 W Chicago Ave
Free

Fri, March 1, 5-8pm
Stan Shellabarger
Western Exhibitions: 1709 W Chicago Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 1-3pm
Badass Herstory Workshop with Shannon Downey
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W. Fullerton Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 11am-2pm
Black Lives Matter Witness Quilt
Village Leadership Academy: 800 S Wells St, #90
Free

Sat, March 2, 6-10pm
Sequences
Chicago Truborn: 1741 W Chicago Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 6-9pm
Matthew Nichols: Squint
Julius Caesar: 3311 W Carroll Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 4-11pm
… Smell The Roses
Chicago Art Department: 1932 S Halsted St
Free

Sat, March 2, 12-3pm
Creative Impulse
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art: 756 N Milwaukee Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 7-10pm
Luke Chueh: Between Black and White
Rotofugi Designer Toy Store and Gallery: 2780 N Lincoln Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 6-11pm
Zoetic: A celebration of visual, aural, and botanic art
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, Ste 208
$10, BYOB

Sat, March 2, 5-8pm
Yesenia Bello and Nataliya Kotlova: Till It Sticks
Comfort Station: 2579 N Milwaukee Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 3:30-5:30pm
Bochay Drum: How Are We Looking Today?
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St
Free

Sat, March 2, 3-4:30pm
Talk: A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 2-3pm
Paul Lamantia
One After 909: 906 N Ashland Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 4-7pm
Megan Greene: Beasts Unseen
Regards: 2216 W Chicago Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 1-3pm
Courage and Compassion: Our Shared Story of the Japanese American World War II Experience
Trickster Gallery: 190 S Roselle Rd, Schaumburg
Free

Sat, March 2, 8am-8pm
Queertopia 2019 LGBTQ Media Cultures
Kresge Hall: 1880 Campus Dr, Evanston
Free

Sat, March 2, 6-7pm
Bethany Collins and Samuel Levi Jones: Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
Smart Museum of Art: 5550 S Greenwood Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 5-8pm
Salvador Campos
Ice House Gallery Evanston: 609 South Boulevard, Evanston
Free

Sat, March 2, 4-7pm
Inner Balance
Open Studio Project: 903 Sherman Ave, Evanston
Free

Sat, March 2, 2-4pm
Change the Canvas Change the World
South Side Community Art Center: 3831 S Michigan Ave
Free

Sat, March 2, 3-5pm
Katie Wood: IMMANENT DOMAIN / EXHIBIT A
LITHIUM: 1932 S Halsted St, Suite 200
Free

Sun, March 3, 2-4pm
Grappling With A Luminous Doom
Beverly Arts Center: 2407 W 111th St
Free

Sun, March 3, 7pm
Stein Songs: F-PLUS with Lisa Perry
Poetry Foundation: 61 W Superior St
Free

Tues, March 5, 6-7:30pm
Emory Douglas
The Art Institute of Chicago: Rubloff Auditorium: 230 S Columbus Dr
Free

Tues, March 5, 5:30-8:30pm
Artist Case Studies: Connecting with an Audience + Community
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St
$0-20

Tues, March 5, 6-7pm
Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
Newberry Library: 60 W Walton St
Free

Tues, March 5, 3:30-5pm
USSA Postal Service: Chicago Casting Call
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society: 5701 S Woodlawn Ave
Free

Tues, March 5, 4-6pm
Bonnie Honig: Bartleby or the Bacchae? A Feminist Theory of Refusal
Institute for the Humanities, UIC: 701 S Morgan St, MC 206
Free

Wed, March 6, 7-8:30pm
Am I Man Enough?
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St
Free

Wed, March 6, 7-9pm
Morag Kersel: The Consequences of Buying Holy Land Antiquities
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago: 1155 E 58th St
Free

Wed, March 6, 6-9pm
Joestine Con-ui: now, now, now!
table: 3240 N Springfield Ave, No 02
Free

Wed, March 6, 6-9pm
A Sharp Light That Shines
Columbia College Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ferguson Hall: 600 S Michigan Ave
Free

Wed, March 6, 6-8pm
Antoinette Carroll: Activism + Impact
IIT Institute of Design: 3137 S Federal St 2nd fl
Free

Wed, March 6, 1-3pm
The Arts as Tools of Social Change
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston
Free

Thurs, March 7, 6-8pm
Dimensions of Citizenship Panel Discussion: Satellite Citizens
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: 4 W Burton Pl
Free

Thurs, March 7, 7-8pm
Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St
Free

Thurs, March 7, 5-8pm
Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 70’s and Today
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S Wabash Ave
Free

Thurs, March 7, 7pm
Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché & Javier Zamora
Poetry Foundation: 61 W Superior St
Free

Thurs, March 7, 6-8pm
Quiet Time – Changing Students’ Lives
Weinberg/Newton Gallery: 300 W Superior St, Suite 203
Free

Thurs, Marc 7, 6-8pm
Forms and Features: Poetry and the Collective Experience
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St
Free

Fri, March 8, 7-9pm
Plexiglas #2
The Gray Center: 929 E 60th St
Free

Fri, March 8, 6-9pm
Both Sides Now
ADDS DONNA: 3252 W North Ave
Free

Fri, March 8, 7-10pm
Stateless
Baby Blue Gallery: 2201 S Halsted St
Free

Fri, March 8, 6:30-8pm
Wild You
Iceberg Projects: 7714 N Sheridan Rd
Free

Fri, March 8, 7-9pm
Gather Mixtape Listening Party
Comfort Station Logan Square: 2579 N Milwaukee Ave
$10 Suggested Donation

Fri, March 8, 5-10pm
TRAUMA
Oliva Gallery: 3816 W Armitage Ave
Free

Sat, March 9, 6-9pm
Michael Robert Pollard: A Dreamer of Pictures
Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave
Free

Sat, March 9, 5-8pm
Oli Rodriguez: The Last Seduction and Grey James: Testosterone
Bert Green Fine Art: 8 S Michigan Ave Suite 620
Free

Sat, March 9, 6-10pm
Take Care
You Are Beautiful: 3368 N Elston
Free

Sun, March 10, 6-9pm
Antibody Corporation: 10 Years | FUTURE
Defibrillator Gallery: 1029 W 35th St
Free

Sun, March 10, 3-4pm
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib – “Go Ahead in the Rain”
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Free

Sun, March 10, 4-7pm
Carol Jackson: Green Door
4th Ward Project Space: 5338 S Kimbark Ave
Free

Tues, March 12, 7:30pm
Parts of Speech: Hari Kunzru
Music Box Theatre: 3733 N Southport Ave
Free

Tues, March 12, 12:30-2pm
Disability and Pleasure with Carrie Kaufman
UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center: 1101 W. Taylor Street, Suite 310
Free

Wed, March 13, 6:30-8:30pm
Halal If You Hear Me
Young Chicago Authors: 1180 N Milwaukee Ave
Free

Thurs, March 14, 7pm
Still/Here Interactive Workshop
Free Street Theater: 1419 W. Blackhawk St. (inside the Pulaski Park Field House), Room 207
Free

March 14 – 16
La Femme Dance Festival
Green Line Performing Arts Center: 329 E Garfield Blvd
Free

Thurs, March 14, 5:30pm
Feminism in Your Face: Public Art Resistance
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Fl
Free

Thurs, March 14, 7-9pm
Tangelo 13
Tangelo: 2451 S Oakley Ave
Free

Fri, March 15, 5-8pm
ALL WELL AND GOOD
Circle Contemporary: 2010 W Carroll Ave
Free

Fri, March 15, 7-11pm
Surabhi Ghosh + Olivia Valentine: Margins, Material and Metaphor
Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd fl
Free

Fri, March 15, 6-8pm
Still Here: Torture, Resiliency and the Art of Memorializing
Arts and Public Life: 301 E Garfield Blvd
Free

Fri, March 15, 7-11pm
Ellen Hanson + Aimée Beaubien: Hold Sway
Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd fl
Free

Fri, March 15, 6-9pm
Cleveland Dean: I Am? – The Insecurity of Divinity
One After 909: 906 N Ashland Ave
Free

Sat, March 16, 2-6pm
Careful Material
The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food: 1371 W Estes Ave
Free

Sat, March 16
The Sick Muse: Issue no. 11 Release Party
RSVP at thesickmuse.com
$8

Sat, March 16, 6pm
Nibble / Memory Forest
Ignition project space: 3839 W Grand Ave
Free

Sat, March 16, 7-9pm
Gather: Moonbones // Rocio Zavala
Comfort Station Logan Square: 2579 N Milwaukee Ave
$5 Suggested Donation

Sun, March 17, 3-6pm
Kuras & MacKenzie: 2001 Annual Meeting / Meghan Borah: I’d Rather Be a Hammer Than a Nail
Goldfinch: 319 N. Albany
Free

March 18 – 22
2019 Ibero and Latin American Film Festival at UIC
Richard J. Daley Library: 801 S. Morgan
Free

Tues, March 19, 6-7:30pm
More Than Machines: Women in Science Fiction Shorts
Harold Washington Library: 400 S State St
Free

Tues, March 19, 6-7:30pm
Hương Ngô
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St
Free

Thurs, March 19, 7-8pm
Open Door Series: Jenny Boully & Sara Wainscott
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine: 61 W Superior St
Free

Wed, March 20, 4:58-9pm
Persian New Year (نوروز Nowruz)
6018North: 6018 N Kenmore Ave
Free

Wed, March 20, 5:30-7:30pm
Poetry Workshop: Migration, Fragmentation, and Translation
The Block Museum: 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston
Free

Thurs, March 21, 5-7pm
Karolina Gnatowski: Some Kind of Duty Book Release and Potluck
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave
Free, RSVP suggested

Thurs, March 21, 7-9:30pm
ON / Being Read
LVL3: 1542 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Fl
Free

Thurs, March 21, 6-8pm
Evan Meaney: We Will Love You Forever
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 164 N State St
Get Tickets

Fri, March 22, 8-11pm
Lykanthea
ACRE Projects: 1345 W 19th St
Free

Fri, March 22, 6-9pm
HANA Center Presents: Asian American Storytelling Through Art
200 W Madison Street, 9th Floor
$65

Sat, March 23, 7pm
Notes from Performing the Archive: Jackie Kennedy Flees the Scene of Her Husband’s Murder
6018North: 6018 N Kenmore Ave
Free

Thurs, March 28, 6-8pm
Disorienting Diasporas, Curated by Queer Media Database Canada-Québec Project
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 164 N State St
Get Tickets

Sat, March 30, 5pm
Protest in Fashion Show: An Evolution of Fashion in Social Justice
Overdier Hall: 1545 W Morse Ave
Free

Sat, March 30, 7-9pm
Princess: Out There
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave
Free, RSVP suggested

Sat, March 30, 6-9pm
Black Girls Love Art Presents Wellness Matters
Pearl Paint Sip and Hip: 2105 W Division St
Free

Sun, March 31, 11am-2pm
CSaraNoa Mark: Communal beach drawing
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St
Free

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Featured Image: From the show Oli Rodriguez: The Last Seduction and Grey James: Testosterone at Bert Green Fine Art, which opens March 9th.

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