Created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, Sixty’s Art Picks is a wide selection of Midwest arts events, handpicked for our audience of artists, cultural workers, and curators, prioritizing the spaces and events of historically marginalized peoples. Our list is broad but by no means comprehensive; please look at venue calendars to find more events.
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March 1-10, 2024
The Chicago European Union Film Festival Spotlight on Belgium
Gene Siskel Film Center: 164 N State St, Chicago
$0-15
March 1-15, 2024
THE HOLLOW OF YOUR THROAT | Luisebastián Sanabria
Stop-gap Projects: 810 E Walnut St, Columbia, MO
Free
March 1-24, 2024
Rachel Hermes & Sara Grant
Art House 310: 310 S Laura, Wichita, KS
Free
March 1-29, 2024
Metamorphosis
Garfield Park Arts Center: 2432 Conservatory Dr, Indianapolis, IN
Free
March 1-30, 2024
Young Artists Showcase 2024
St Louis Artists Guild: 12 N Jackson Ave, St. Louis, MO
Free
March 1-30, 2024
Washington Elementary
St Louis Artists Guild: 12 N Jackson Ave, St. Louis, MO
Free
March 1-30, 2024
Tender Growl
Monaco Project Space: 2701 Cherokee St, Saint Louis, MO
Free
March 1-30, 2024
Relume
Monaco Project Space: 2701 Cherokee St, Saint Louis, MO
Free
March 1-May 26, 2024
Whitfield Lovell: Passages
Cincinnati Art Museum: 953 Eden Park Dr, Cincinnati, OH
Free
March 1-June 9,2024
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago: 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago
Free
March 1-June 15,2024
Stitched, Woven and Hooked
Lubeznik Center for the Arts: 101 W 2nd St, Michigan City, IN
Free
March 1-July 28, 2024
25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts: N50W5050 Portland Rd, Cedarburg, WI
Free
Fri, March 1, 12-5pm
51st Annual Juried Show
Union Art Gallery: 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Fri, March 1, 4-5pm
Re-play Closing Event: trace layer play 4
Hopkins Hall Gallery: 128 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH
Free
Fri, March 1, 5pm
Michelle Chun: Through the thicket, lies a star: Artist Talk
Lillstreet Art Center: 4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 1, 5-8pm
N. Dia Webb: TO THE SAINTS OF MY SANITY
ARC Gallery: 1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 1, 5-8pm
Sydney Swisher: Fabricate
Peoria Art Guild: 203 Harrison St, Peoria, IL
Free
Fri, March 1, 5-8pm
Surreal
Vertical Gallery: 2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 1, 5-8pm
Robert Filiuta
Vertical Gallery: 2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 1, 5-9pm
Ink Preludes: Nanxi Jin, Zelene Jiang Schlosberg, Wen Xie, and Ming Zhang
Xiao Space Gallery: 1522 Greenleaf St, Suite B, Evanston, IL
Free
Fri, March 1, 5:30-9pm
Enjoy – REBECCA HOYER
Reuben Saunders Gallery: 3215 E Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS
Free
Fri, March 1, 6-9pm(EST)
Purdue Polytechnic High School Student Exhibition
1000 Words Gallery: 3328 E 10th St, Indianapolis, IN
Free
Fri, March 1, 6-9pm
CHARLES GAYNOR: Determined Digital
Gallery 12: 412 E Douglas, Wichita, KS
Free
Fri, March 1, 6-9pm
Queer Joy
Purple Window Gallery: 2233 S. Throop St. #845, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 1, 6-10pm
Chad Mundie: Take Me To Your Darkest Room
Weatherproof: 3336 W Lawrence Ave, #303, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 1, 7pm
LOVE AND MONEY, SEX AND DEATH by McKenzie Wark
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 1, 7pm
Iowa Metal Underground
CSPS: 1103 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA
$14
Fri, March 1, 7-9pm
Les Femmes – A Celebration of Woman’s History Month
Vishnu Bunny Tattoo: 202 S Phillips Ave, Sioux Falls, SD
Free
Fri, March 1, 8pm
WNUR’s Sonic Celluloid: Kim Alpert / Chris Corsano Duo, Fetter, Killer Drones w/ Clark Woods
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$15
Fri, March 1, 9pm
Strapped featuring Flaming Homosexual / Spencer Money / D’Cameron May
Empty Bottle: 1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL
$15
March 2-April 27, 2024
Stitches of the Soul: Quilting Series
National Museum of Mexican Art: 1852 W 19th St, Chicago
Free
March 2-June 2, 2024
Marisol: A Retrospective
Toledo Museum of Art: 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH
Free
March 2-June 2, 2024
Aimée Beaubien: Through the Hothouse
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 2, 10-11:30am
Learning Series | The Impact of Food Apartheid in Education, Part 2
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 2, 10am-2pm
Arte de La Borinqueña
The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture: 3015 W Division St, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 2, 10:30am(EST)
Drag Story Hour with Prince Brentlee and Aqua Marie!
Indy Reads: 1066 Virginia Ave, Indianapolis, IN
Free
Sat, March 2, 12-3pm
Octavia Butler Read-a-thon
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 2, 2pm
Overview
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: 227 State Street Madison, WI
Free
Sat, March 2, 3-6pm
Exhibition Reception: Everything Has a Story work by Darlene Wesenberg Rzezotarski IN PERSON
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc: 720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Sat, March 2, 4-5pm
Deep Listening Part 1
Augustana Lutheran Church: 5500 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 2, 4-6pm
Meanwhile: NSFW
Leather Archives & Museum: 6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago
$5-10
Sat, March 2, 4-7pm
25th International Open
Woman Made Gallery: 1332 S Halsted St, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 2, 4-7pm
Yaismel Alba Garib: WOW YEAH
Comfort Station: 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 2, 5-7pm
TinyWurlds
The Hub: 210 N Congress St, Rushville, IL
Free
Sat, March 2, 5:30-7:30pm
Lisa Lapinski: Miss Swiss Book Launch and Conversation
Inga: 1740 W 18th St, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 2, 6-9pm
Emerging Artist Exhibition
Var Gallery 5th Street: 423 W Pierce St. Milwaukee, WI
Free
Sat, March 2, 7pm
Noa Sainz
National Museum of Mexican Art: 1852 W 19th St, Chicago
$15
Sun, March 3, 2-2:30pm
Tour | entre horizontes
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free with admission
Sun, March 3, 2-3pm
No One Ever Sees Indians: Native Americans in Media
The Urbana Free Library: 210 W Green St, Urbana, IL
Free
Sun, March 3, 2-4pm
Chicago Creative Machines: Hunter Brown
Experimental Sound Studio: 5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago
Free
Sun, March 3, 7pm
Concert: Alternating Currents Live presents Michael Zerang w/ Michael Bettine HYBRID
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc: 720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Mon, March 4, 7-9pm
m denney / Christine Burke / Bre Senior
PS1 Cloud House: 538 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA
$10
Tues, March 5, 5:30-6:30pm
Great Plains Talk: Julia Lafreniere
Great Plains Art Museum: 1155 Q St, Lincoln NE
Free
Tues, March 5, 6-7:30pm
Fernando Laposse Lecture
The Art Institute of Chicago: Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago
Free
Tues, March 5, 6:30-8pm
Social Change Now: A Book Launch and Workshop
Haymarket House: Fullerton Hall, 800 W Buena, Chicago
Free
Tues, March 5, 7pm
Katherine Reay, author of The Berlin Letters
Boswell Book: 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Tues, March 5, 8pm
Homeroom Residency: Spectralina w/ Ben LaMar Gay + Frederick Wells
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$10-15
Wed, March 6, 7pm
PROTEST ART WITH B.L.A.C.K. LAWRENCE
Spencer Museum of Art: 1301 MISSISSIPPI ST, LAWRENCE, KS
Free
March 7-23, 2024
Amalgamation
The Northrup King Building: 1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis, MN
Free
March 7-23, 2024
Growing Community: A Forest of Art
The Northrup King Building: 1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis, MN
Free
March 7-April 14, 2024
New Artists 2024
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette: 102 S 10th St, Lafayette, IN
Free
Thurs, March 7, 4-6pm
Ruby Que: Consider a Disappearance: Closing Performance
UIS Visual Arts Gallery: One University Plaza, HSB 201, Springfield, IL
Free
Thurs, March 7, 5:30-6:30pm
Native American Cropping Practices, Pre-Contact to Today with Derrick Kapayou
Christian Petersen Art Museum: 1017 Morrill Hall, 603 Morrill Rd,Ames, IA
Free
Thurs, March 7, 5-7pm
Regin Igloria: Seven Skins
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago
Free
Thurs, March 7, 5-7pm
Nora Benjamin and Arrietta van der Voort: I am, I am, I am
C33 Gallery: 33 E Ida B. Wells Dr, Chicago
Free
March 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Bronze Pouring with Barry Badgett
Ulrich Museum of Art: 1845 Fairmount; Wichita, KS
Free
Thurs, March 7, 6pm(EST)
Clouds and Mono no aware (The transience of things): Artist Lecture by Miya Ando
Detroit Institute of Arts: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
Free
Thurs, March 7, 6pm
History of American Pies: and Illinois is Well Represented
First Baptist Church: 601 Main St, Multi-purpose Room, Carthage, IL
Free
Thurs, March 7, 6-9pm
Black Voices in Contemporary Sculpture
Racine Art Museum: 441 Main St, Racine, WI
Free
Thurs, March 7, 7pm
Jeff Stanek: Pleiades Dances for piano
Arts + Literature Laboratory: 111 S Livingston St, Suite 100, Madison, WI
$15-25
Thurs, March 7, 8-10pm
Blueshift Big Band Vinyl Release of JOYSTICK JAZZ Vol. 2 Live at FSC
Fulton Street Collective: 1821 W Hubbard St, #suite 307, Chicago
$15
Thurs, March 7, 8:30pm
Improvised Music Series: Kwan/Beisel/Harris + Akasha
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$10-15
March 8-9, 2024
Nowhere Near by Miko Revereza
Walker Art Center: 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN
$12-15
March 8-31, 2024
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington
Mixed Blood Theatre Company: 1501 S 4th St, Minneapolis, MN
Pay what you can
March 8-August 11, 2024
ArtReach: The Art of Caring
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: 3750 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Free
March 8-August 11, 2024
Transform Your Hood
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: 3750 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Free
March 8, 2024-February 16, 2025
Thread: Making Patterns
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: 4420 Warwick Blvd, Kansas City, MO
Free
Fri, March 8, 5-7pm
40th Annual High School Art Exhibition
Robert F. DiCaprio Art Gallery
at Moraine Valley Community College: 9000 College Pkwy, Palos Hills, IL
Free
Fri, March 8, 5-9pm
Kal Lee: Dust Beneath Snow
The Center for Mad Culture: 410 S Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 8, 5-8:30pm
Figge Trivia Night Fundraiser
FIGGE ART MUSEUM: 225 W Second St, Davenport, IA
$100
Fri, March 8, 6-9pm
Opening Reception for Spring Exhibitions
Pulitzer Art Foundation: 3716 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Free
Fri, March 8, 7pm
PAST LIVES
Virginia Theatre: 203 W Park Ave, Champaign, IL
$7
Fri, March 8, 7-10pm
Ouroboros by Nejla Yatkin
Links Hall: 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago
$16-42
Fri, March 8, 8pm
CLEAT Series: Big Pal w/ Emily Craver, Paul Hertz and Christopher Walczak ‘Campos | Temporales’
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$10-15
March 9-May 19, 2024
Lucky Monster: Works by Jiha Moon
Fort Wayne Museum of Art: 311 E Main St, Fort Wayne, IN
Free
March 9, 2024-January 19, 2025
Workplace
John Michael Kohler Arts Center: 608 New York Ave: Sheboygan, WI
Free
March 9-August 4, 2024
Creating More Hours: A Temporal Commons
Generator Space: 1804 Vinton St, Omaha, NE
Free
March 9-August 4, 2024
“To Prove that I Exist”: Melissa Shook’s Daily Self-Portraits, 1972–1973
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: 4525 Oak St, Kansas City, MO
Free
Sat, March 9, 12-4pm
Handmade Market
The Empty Bottle: 1035 N Western Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 9, 1pm
Artist Talk: Delcy Morelos
Pulitzer Art Foundation: 3716 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Free
Sat, March 9, 3pm
Ghislaine Leung: Questions
The Renaissance Society: 5811 S Ellis Ave, Swift Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 9, 6pm
Saretta Morgan, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, and Ed Roberson celebrate ALT-NATURE
Pilsen Community Books: 1102 W 18th St, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 9, 6pm
Madison New Music Ensemble Concert
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: 227 State Street Madison, WI
Free
Sat, March 9, 6-9pm
Tooth for a Tooth
LVL3: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave #3, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 9, 7pm
Poetry Reading & Book Launch: Ae Hee Lee (ASTERISM) with Olatunde Osinaike, Mauricio Kilwein Guevara, and Brenda Cárdenas HYBRID
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc: 720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Sat, March 9, 7-9pm
Portal to the Surreal: Vladimir Dikarev
TMORA: 5500 Stevens Ave, Minneapolis, MN
Free
Sat, March 9, 7-10pm
Ben Foch: Proof Of Werq
M. LeBlanc: 3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 9, 8pm
Live Arts | The Next Cup of Tea
Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater: 1650 N Halsted St, Chicago
$11-33
Sat, March 9, 8pm
The Comedy Zone Presents Gina Brillon
Polsky Theatre in the Midwest Trust Center: 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS
$25+
Sun, March 10, 2-4pm
Chicago Creative Machines: Julie Zhu
Experimental Sound Studio: 5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago
Free
Sun, March 10, 2-5pm
Laura – Empire & Harry’s Steakhouse Northern Noir Film Series
Empire Arts Center: 415 DeMers Ave, Grand Forks, ND
Free
Sun, March 10, 4-7pm
Ed Oh: Remote
4th Ward Project Space: 5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago
Free
March 11-April 11, 2024
Peggy West Art Exhibition
Illinois Central College: 1 College Dr, East Peoria
Free
March 11-December 9, 2024
Peggy West Art Exhibition
Illinois Central College: 1 College Dr, East Peoria
Free
March 12-17, 2024
NATIVE AMERICAN FILM SERIES
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center: 313 N 13th St, Lincoln, NE
Free
Tues, March 12, 6-7:30pm
Douglas Kearney Lecture
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago
Free
Tues, March 12, 8pm
Homeroom Residency: Spectralina w/ Norman Long, Ayako Kato, Jason Roebke
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$10-15
Wed, March 13, 2:30-4:30pm
Lawrence Agyei: A Journey
McHenry County College | Galleries One & Two: 8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL
Free
Wed, March 13, 6-7:30pm
Birding to Change the World – a Memoir: Author Visit
Riverside Park. 1500 E Park Pl, Milwaukee, IL
Free
Wed, March 13, 7:30pm
Weekly Comedy Open Mic @ Boss’
boss comedy club: 215 S Main St, Tea, SD
Free
March 14-August 4, 2024
The Image Pool
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago
Free
March 14-August 4, 2024
Selva Aparicio: In Memory Of
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago
Free
Thurs, March 14, 6-7:30pm
Panel Discussion: Native Language Revitalization and Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography: Online
Free
Thurs, March 14, 7pm
THROUGH THE NIGHT LIKE A SNAKE with Megan McDowell and Antonio Díaz Oliva
Pilsen Community Books: 1102 W 18th St, Chicago
Free
Thurs, March 14, 7pm
Reading and conversation: George Abraham and Chrysanthemum w/ Ching-In Chen HYBRID
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc: 720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Thurs, March 14, 7-8:30pm
Divine Dilemmas: Cantinflas, Humor and Tradition in El Padrecito
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St, Chicago
Free
Thurs, March 14, 7-8:30pm
Jenni Sorkin: Deviant Scale: Cloth at the Body’s Margins
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts: 724 S. 12th St, Omaha, NE
Free
Thurs, March 14, 7-9pm
Drag History Movie Night: First Impressions (1977) and Beautiful by Night (2014)
Leather Archives & Museum: 6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 15, 6-10pm
Opening Reception: Pastel Works and Everything To Give & Nowhere To Go
Storage Space Gallery: 121 E 34th St, Indianapolis, IN
Free
March 15-April 5, 2024
Moscoso Cosmos: Victor Moscoso’s Visual Universe
Instituto Cervantes Chicago: 31 W Ohio St, Chicago
Free
March 15-17, 2024
THE MUSEUM OF HOME VIDEO, LIVE AND IN PERSON!
TRYLON: 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN
$8
March 15-June 15, 2024
Crystal Brown | Dre McLeod | Rachel Glusky
ROY G BIV: 435 West Rich St, Columbus, OH
Free
March 15-September 29, 2024
Into the Seven Jeweled Mountain: An Immersive Experience
Cleveland Museum of Art: 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH
Free
Fri, March 15, 6-9pm
Chris Reeves & Lauren Sudbrink: Unlearning Exercises
Roots & Culture: 1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 15, 7pm
Cosmic Resonance: Sound Healing Yoga
PS1 Cloud House: 538 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA
$16
March 16-April 19, 2024
MADNESS 2.0
Gallery Forty-Two: 42 E Washington St, Indianapolis, IN
Free
March 16-July 28, 2024
Termespheres: Without Beginning or End
South Dakota Art Museum: 1036 Medary Ave, Brookings, SD
Free
Sat, March 16, 2-4pm
Creating More Hours: Workshop #1: Poetic Expression
Generator Space: 1804 Vinton St, Omaha, NE
Free
Sat, March 16, 4-6pm(EST)
Drag Story Hour with Prince Brentlee and Aqua Marie!
Indy Reads: 1066 Virginia Ave, Indianapolis, IN
Free
Sat, March 16, 6:30-8:30pm
Cathie Crawford: Relief Printmaking
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria: 305 SW Water St, Peoria, IL
Free
Sat, March 16, 7pm
Reading: Diana Khoi Nguyen, Cindy Juyoung Ok, and Nikki Wallschlaeger HYBRID
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc: 720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Sat, March 16, 7-9pm
Side Yard Sounds: Hali Palombo + Twilight Furniture + Andy Ortmann
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake Street, Oak Park
$15
Sat, March 16, 8pm
Live @ LOW END | TENGGER
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts: 724 S. 12th St, Omaha, NE
Free
Sat, March 16, 10pm
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
The Lincoln Lodge: 2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
$12-16
Sun, March 17, 2-4pm(EST)
Body and Soul
Detroit Institute of Arts: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
Free
Sun, March 17, 2-4pm
Chicago Creative Machines: X.A. Li
Experimental Sound Studio: 5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago
Free
Mon, March 18, 6:30pm
Kareem R Muhammad, author of THE FIGHT FOR BLACK EMPOWERMENT IN THE USA
The Arts Club of Chicago: 201 E Ontario St, Chicago
Free
March 19-23, 2024
FFF24
Various locations: Fargo, ND
$2-150
Tues, March 19, 6-7:15pm
Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable
The Arts Club of Chicago: 201 E Ontario St, Chicago
Free
Tues, March 19, 6-7:30pm
Talk | Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free
Tues, March 19, 6:30pm
The Happy Invention: History and Significance of Picture Postcards
Odell Public Library: 307 S Madison St, Morrison, IL
Free
Tues, March 19, 7pm
They Live + O.C. & Stiggs a part of Highs & Lows – A Film Series
Music Box Theatre: 3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago
$13-15
Wed, March 20, 10-11:30am
Dancing Docents with Mina Estrada
Ulrich Museum of Art: 1845 Fairmount; Wichita, KS
Free
Wed, March 20, 1:30-2:30pm
A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston
Free
Wed, March 20, 6-7:30pm
Lecture in Photography: Marianne Nicolson
Museum of Contemporary Photography: 600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago
Free
Wed, March 20, 6-7:30pm
Artist Talk: “Perspectives on Water” with Courtney M. Leonard
Weisman Art Museum: 333 E River Rd, Minneapolis, MN
Free
Thurs, March 21, 10am-7pm
A Night at Mister Kelly’s
Newberry Library: 60 W Walton St, Chicago
Free
Thurs, March 21, 4:30-6pm
Jason Peot and Perry Pollock: Considerations
Western Illinois University Art Gallery: 1 University Cir, Macomb, IL
Free
Thurs, March 21, 5-6:30pm
Exploring Careers in Museums and Archives
Christian Petersen Art Museum: 1017 Morrill Hall, 603 Morrill Rd,Ames, IA
Free
Thurs, March 21, 5-7pm
Home of the Brave
Stamelos Gallery Center: 4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI
Free
Thurs, March 21, 6pm
Singing Bird and the Importance of Native American Women in Illinois History
Quincy Public Library: 526 Jersey St, Quincy, IL
Free
Thurs, March 21, 7-10pm
March – Open Mic
Pilsen Arts & Community House: 1637 W 18th St, Chicago
Free
Thurs, March 21, 8pm
Live @ LOW END | JJJJJerome Ellis
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts: 724 S. 12th St, Omaha, NE
Free
March 22-23, 2024
PARADOX 03.22.24 featuring REGAL86
Conga Lounge: 501 E Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN
$35
March 22-24, 2024
TOO FAR IN FRONT: MICHAEL ROEMER
TRYLON: 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN
$8
March 22-September 8, 2024
Carpets and Canopies in Mughal India
Cleveland Museum of Art: 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH
Free
Fri, March 22, 10am and 6:30pm(EST)
Recognizing Women Project
Detroit Institute of Arts: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
Free
Fri, March 22, 6-8pm
Phyllis Bramson and David Leggett: Double, Double Toil and Trouble!
ENGAGE Projects: 864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 22, 7:30pm
Thomas Rickers: Retrospective
Eide/Dalrymple Gallery: 2120 S Grange Ave, Sioux Falls, SD
Free
Fri, March 22, 7-8pm
PACH Book Club – March
Pilsen Arts & Community House: 1637 W 18th St, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 22, 8pm
KMRU
Logan Center: 915 E 60th St, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 22, 8pm
Pleiades Series: Jessica Ackerley – Solo and Trio w/ Mai Sugimoto + Tim Daisy
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$10-15
March 23-24, 2024
About Dry Grasses
Detroit Institute of Arts: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
$8.50-10
March 23-April 27, 2024
Nirmal Raja: PAUSE
boundary: 2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago
Free
March 23-June 16, 2024
Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 23, 1pm
Curator Tour of A Love Supreme: McCormick House Reimagined
Elmhurst Art Museum: 150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL
Free
Sat, March 23, 1pm
Weaving Workshop Series: Mee Jey
Pulitzer Art Foundation: 3716 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Free
Sat, March 23, 1pm
Piano, Alone in a Room
Experimental Sound Studio: 5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 23, 1-2:30pm(EST)
Julian Jamaal Jones & Kat Goffnet in Conversation
Big Car: 1125 Cruft St Indianapolis IN
Free
Sat, March 23, 2-3pm
GOLDENBERG DUO
Spencer Museum of Art: 1301 MISSISSIPPI ST, LAWRENCE, KS
Free
Sat, March 23, 2-4pm
Creating More Hours: Workshop #2: Interactive Audio
Generator Space: 1804 Vinton St, Omaha, NE
Free
Sat, March 23, 3pm
Faye Gleisser Lecture
The Renaissance Society: 5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 23, 3-4pm
Queer Poetry, Stories and Place
Moon Palace Books: 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis MN
Free
Sat, March 23, 3-6pm
Soulful Spectacle: Wisconsin Black Art & Culture Expo 2024 Presents Gospel Explosion
UW-Parkside – Bedford Hall: 900 Wood Rd, Racine, WI
$10
Sat, March 23, 5-7:30pm
Tom Palazzolo: Retrospective
Rare Nest Gallery: 3433 N Kedvale Ave, Chicago
Free
Sat, March 23, 6-8pm
Dreaming in Fiber
The Northrup King Building: 1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis, MN
Free
Sat, March 23, 6-9pm
god’s hand / death kill overdrive /texture freq / psyop
PS1 Cloud House: 538 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA
$10
Sun, March 24, 1pm
Angela Hume’s Deep Care
Moon Palace Books: 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis MN
Free
Sun, March 24, 1-2pm(EST)
Museum Tour: Deep-Rooted with Beal Botanical Gardens
MSU Broad Art Museum: 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI
Free
Sun, March 24, 3pm
Mandala South Asian Performing Arts presents Qawwali and Gospel: Singing Together
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts: 915 E 60th St, Chicago
$20-100
March 26-August 3, 2024
Firsthand: Contemporary Craft in Context
Goldstein Museum of Design: 364 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Ave, St. Paul, MN
Free
Tues, March 26, 6-7:30pm
Ruba Katrib & Yasmil Raymond in Conversation: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
The Art Institute of Chicago: Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago
Free
Tues, March 26, 7-9pm
Blackout Poetry Making Night
Full Circle Book Co-Op: 123 W 10th St, Sioux Falls, SD
Free
Tues, March 26, 7:30pm
Bailey Schaumburg & Macallan Lay
The Focal Point: 2720 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood, MO
Free
Tues, March 26, 8pm
Homeroom Residency: Spectralina w/ Chér Jey + Mabel Kwan
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$10-15
Tues, March 26, 8-10pm
LIVE MUSIC – Heinous 3
Icon Event Hall + Lounge: 402 N Main Ave, Sioux Falls, SD
Free
Wed, March 27, 12-1pm
Art Walk: Christian Petersen’s Footsteps
University Library: 701 Morrill Rd, Ames, IA
Free
Wed, March 27, 8-11 pm
A Queer Two-Stepp Night: Swappin Boots
The Queer Social Club
Free
Wed, March 27, 4:30pm
Senior Art Exhibit
Wayne State College: 1111 Main St, Wayne, NE
Free
Wed, March 27, 6-7pm
Guen Montgomery: Junk Drawer
UIS Visual Arts Gallery: One University Plaza, HSB 201, Springfield, IL
Free
Thurs, March 28, 5:30-7pm
Marin Sullivan | History & Impact of Outdoor Sculpture
Ulrich Museum of Art: 1845 Fairmount; Wichita, KS
Free
Thurs, March 28, 7pm
Laurel Premo & Jake Schulman-Ment
Arts + Literature Laboratory: 111 S Livingston St, Suite 100, Madison, WI
$15-25
Thurs, March 28, 7pm
Author Conversation with Dale Corvino, Michael Bullock, and Stephen Patrick Bell
Leather Archives & Museum: 6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago
Free
Thurs, March 28, 7:30pm
Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free
Thurs, March 28, 8pm(EST)
Jeff Parker and The New Breed
Wexner Center for the Arts: 1871 N High St, Columbus, OH
Free
Thurs, March 28, 8:30pm
Beyond the Gate featuring Colin Stetson @ Bohemian National Cemetery
Bohemian Nat’l Cemetery Cathedral: 5255 N Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL
$30
March 29-30, 2024
The Tuba Thieves by Alison O’Daniel
Walker Art Center: 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN
$12-15
March 29-30, 2024
SPT Theatre’s Senses of Humor: Touch
CSPS: 1103 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA
$25-30
March 29-May 12, 2024
Accessible Expressions Ohio
Cincinnati Art Museum: 953 Eden Park Dr, Cincinnati, OH
Free
Fri, March 29, 6pm
Nancy Lu Rosenheim: HARPY · HUMAN · HYBRID · BEAST
Epiphany Center for the Arts: 201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago
Free
Fri, March 29, 7pm
Tim Russell & Liz Sexe | Matt Blair & Abby Frank Taylor
Arts + Literature Laboratory: 111 S Livingston St, Suite 100, Madison, WI
$15-25
Fri, March 29, 7-9pm(EST)
Broad Underground Film Series: Lorelei d’Andriole
MSU Broad Art Museum: 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI
Free
Sat, March 30, 2-4pm
Creating More Hours: Workshop #3: Resourceful Printmaking
Generator Space: 1804 Vinton St, Omaha, NE
Free
Ending March 10
Oscar Howe: Ikíćiksapa
Plains Art Museum: 704 First Ave, N Fargo, ND
Free
Ending March 23
Judith Dean: One Thing and the Others
Bodenrader: 1620 W Carroll Ave, Chicago
Free
Ending March 24
Marco Hernandez: Sin Perder A Mis Raíces (Without Losing My Roots)
Wichita Art Museum: 1400 W Museum Blvd, Wichita, Kansas
Free
Ending March 24
Art of Enterprise: Israhel van Meckenem’s 15th-Century Print Workshop
Chazen Museum of Art: 750 University Ave, Madison, WI
Free
Ending March 24
The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie
Minneapolis Institute of Art:2400 Third Ave S, Minneapolis, MN
Free
Ending March 24
Zumbro Ben: Three Desiring Bodies
Rochester Art Center: 30 Civic Center Drive SE, STE 120, Rochester, MN
$0-$8
Ending March 31
Chronicles of the Chronic
Rochester Art Center: 30 Civic Center Drive SE, STE 120, Rochester, MN
$0-$8
About the illustrator: Julia O’Brien was born and raised in Colorado before earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work explores how the body can hold histories and tell stories as the boundary between internal and external identity. She describes herself as an image maker and a storyteller who loves learning new skills and hearing silenced voices.
