March Art Picks
A list of exhibitions, performances, book releases, talks, concerts, screenings, and more happening around the city 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.
FEATURED
Fri, March 2, 7-10pm
S. Nicole Lane: Carved from Sausage
Sustain Gallery (1201 W Leland Ave)
Free
Sat, March 3, 12-6pm
Imani Elizabeth Jackson: Halotherapy | Saltsitting
F4F (2846 W 21st St)
Free
Sun, March 4, 1-3pm
Eclipsing Workshop: Towards a Politics of Healing: Ethics of Storytelling with Patricia Nguyen
Arts Incubator (301 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Thurs, March 8, 6:30-8:30pm
Women of Color Candidate Forum for Illinois
Reunion Chicago (2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647)
Free
Sun, March 11, 1-3pm
The Sick Muse #10: Open Pitch Meeting!
Chicago Independent Publisher’s Resource Center (858 N Ashland Ave)
Free
Thurs, March 15, 6-8pm
Sarita See: Feminist Filipino Resistance in the Imperial American Museums
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (800 S Halsted St)
Free
Fri, March 23, 6-8pm
Arte Diseño Xicágo
National Museum of Mexican Art (1852 W 19th St)
Free
Wed, March 28, 6-9pm
Organizing Skills Series: Strategy & Campaign Development
Chicago Freedom School (719 S State St, 4th Floor)
Free
March Art Picks
Thurs, March 1, 6-7pm
Christine Sun Kim: Lautplan
The Art Institute of Chicago (111 S Michigan Ave)
Free with museum admission
Thurs, March 1, 6-8pm
Eclipsing Workshop: Creative Exchange with Cream Co.
Arts Incubator (301 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Thurs, March 1, 6-8pm
Lee Anne Schmitt: Purge This Land
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (164 N State St)
$5-11
Thurs, March 1, 7:30pm
As the Crow Flies
Links Hall (3111 N Western Ave)
$10-15
Thurs, March 1, 8-11pm
AMFM Juice Open Mic
AMFM Gallery (2151 W 21st St)
Free
Fri, March 2, 5-6:30pm
Rodney McMillian
Northwestern Art Theory and Practice (1880 Campus Dr, Kresge Hall Room 1515, Evanston)
Free
Fri, March 2, 5:30-7pm
Lee Grantham: Reverse Acrylic Paintings (Closing)
Jean Albano Gallery (215 W Superior St)
Free
Fri, March 2, 6-9pm
Superficial Paradise
Chicago Artists Coalition (217 N Carpenter St)
Free
Fri, March 2, 8-11pm
Average / Evening
Studio Archive Services (2412 N Spaulding Ave)
Free
March 3-4
La Cultura Cura Market: Muxeres en Rebeldia
La Catrina Cafe (1011 W 18th St)
Free
Sat, March 3, 12-4pm
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
DePaul University: Richardson Library: Scholar’s Lab (2350 N Kenmore Ave)
Free
Sat, March 3, 1-3pm
North Branch Projects Bookbinding Workshop
Weinberg/Newton Gallery (300 W Superior St, Suite 203)
Free
Sat, March 3, 3-4:30pm
Natalie Hopkinson: Mouth is Always Muzzled
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores (5751 S Woodlawn Ave)
Free
Sat, March 3, 4-7pm
Jessica Vaughn: on the wall
Monique Meloche Gallery (2154 W Division St)
Free
Sat, March 3, 5-8pm
Got You
Ignition project space (3839 W Grand Ave)
Free
Sat, March 3, 6-10pm
Happy Thoughts
All Star Press Chicago (2775 N Milwaukee Ave)
Free
Sat, March 3, 7-10pm
Locals Only
Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery (2780 N Lincoln Ave)
Free
Sun, March 4, 2-4pm
Soul Sunday
AMFM Gallery (2151 W 21st St)
Free
Mon, March 5, 4-6pm
Fabiola Jean-Louis
Gallery 400 (400 S Peoria St)
Free
Mon, March 5, 6-7pm
Amanda Ross-Ho
Department of Visual Arts at The University of Chicago (915 E 60th St)
Free
Mon, March 5, 7-9pm
BlacKorea
Doc Films at the University of Chicago (1212 E 59th St)
Free
Mon, March 5, 7-9pm
Gira Dahnee
Currency Exchange Cafe (305 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Mon, March 5, 7:30pm
Monique Haley: Encounter: Nurturing Embodiment Through Ritual and Community
Links Hall (3111 N Western Ave)
$10-25
Tue, March 6, 6-8pm
In Progress: OTV | Open Television Tonight
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Ave)
Free
Wed, March 7, 6:30-8:30pm
In-Session: Eclipsing – Migration, Movements and Desire
Threewalls (2738 W North Ave)
Free
Thurs, March 8, 6-8pm
Laura Huertas Millán: Ethnographic Fictions
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (164 N State St)
$5-11
Fri, March 9, 6-9pm
Yassaman Moussavi: Roots
Spudnik Press Cooperative (1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 302)
Free
Sat, March 10, 1-2pm
Bringing Together What Wants to Come Apart
Weinberg/Newton Gallery (300 W Superior St, Suite 203)
Free
Sat, March 10, 1-3pm
The Master and Form
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (4 W Burton Pl)
Free
Sat, March 10, 5-8pm
Doug Stapleton: Atlas of the Heavens and Jeffrey Michael Austin: What We Can Handle
Bert Green Fine Art (8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620)
Free
Sat, March 10, 5:30-9pm
Mimi Zaphirato: At the Raw Stage
Elephant Room Gallery (704 S Wabash Ave)
Free
Sun, March 11, 3-5pm
Rebecca Zorach: Objects of Care: Material Memorial for Tamir Rice
Stony Island Arts Bank (6760 S Stony Island Ave)
Free
Sun, March 11, 3-6pm
Work on the Sabbath featuring Angel Bat Dawid
BING Art Books (307 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Tues, March 13, 12-1pm
Naomi Beckwith on Howardena Pindell
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Ave)
Free
Thurs, March 15, 5:30-8pm
Our Chicago: The Role of Literary Arts in Social Movements
National Museum of Mexican Art (1852 W 19th St)
Free
Fri, March 16, 5-8pm
Ain’t Easy to Love and Harder to Hold
Gallery 400 (400 S Peoria St)
Free
Fri, March 16, 7-11pm
Eclipsing Festival: Closing Events
Arts Block (301-307 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Fri, March 16, 7-10pm
A Tender Power: A Black Womanist Visual Manifesto
Rootwork Gallery (645 W 18th St)
Free
Fri, March 16, 6-9pm
Chicago Bound
Orbit (1350 W Erie)
Free
Fri, March 16, 7-11pm
Cornered – Scott Mossman
Heaven Gallery (1550 N Milwaukee)
Free
Sat, March 17, 2-4:30pm
Lifting As They Climbed: Mapping Black Women & the South Side
Arts Incubator (301 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Sat, March 17, 7-10pm
Ireashia Monet : The Pearls My Mother Gave Me
HUME Chicago (3242 W Armitage Av)
Free
Sun, March 18, 2-5pm
Beauty Breaks: Stitch & Fix
F4F (2846 W 21st St)
$0-15
Sun, March 18, 3pm
Celia Calder: Queer Dance Connection: A Workshop Series
Links Hall (3111 N Western Ave)
$5
Tues, March 20, 6-7pm
Artists in Conversation: Tonika Johnson and Amanda Williams
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (820 N Michigan Av)
Free
March 21-24, 2018
2018 Midwest Archives Conference
Sheraton Grand Chicago Hotel (301 E North Water St)
$55-150
March 21-25, 2018
In/Motion Festival
Various Locations in Chicago
$0-20
Fri, March 23, 6-8pm
1979! A Conversation Inspired by Howardena Pindell
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Ave)
$7-15
Fri, March 23, 9-11:59pm
Tashi Dorji
Elastic Arts (3429 W Diversey #208)
$10
Sun, March 25, 2-5pm
Reside | Angela Davis Fegan Open Studio
F4f (2846 W 21st St)
Free
Sun, March 25, 3-6pm
Work on the Sabbath hosted by K-Love the Poet
BING Art Books (307 E Garfield Blvd)
Free
Mon, March 26, 6-8pm
Teju Cole
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Ave)
$7-15
Thurs, March 29, 6-8pm
Thorsten Trimpop: Furusato 古里
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (164 N State St)
$5-11
March 29 – April 7, 2018
Process v. Product Festival
The Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago
Price varies
Sat, March 31, 2-3pm
Otobong Nkanga: Solid Maneuvers
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Ave)
Free with museum admission
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Featured Image: From Got You, a collaborative installation of art and performance by artists Barber and Heidi Wiren Bartlett, happening on Saturday, March 3rd at Ignition Project Space.