November Art Picks

November 1-30, 2023
PALESTINIAN VOICES Free Film Screenings
Arab Film and Media Institute: Online
Free

Wed, November 1,6-7:30pm
Native Futures: Le’Ana Asher and Lydia Cheshewalla
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston
Free

Thurs, November 2, 6-9pm
Fall Party
Plains Art Museum: 704 First Ave N Fargo, ND
Free

Thurs, November 2, 7-9pm(EST)
Broad Underground: Record, Recollect, Repatriate
MSU Wells Hall: 619 Red Cedar Rd, East Lansing, MI
Free

November 3 – 16, 2023
29th Black Harvest Film Festival
Gene Siskel Film Center: 164 N. State Street, Chicago
Tickets Required

Fri, November 3, 5-8pm
1/24th Light Over Light
Volume Gallery: 1709 Chicago Ave 2nd floor, Chicago
Free

Fri, November 3, 5-10pm(EST)
Opening Celebration of Terri Sisson Park
Tube Factory artspace: 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN
Free

Fri, November 3, 5-8pm(EST)
Dia de los Muertos Celebration
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI
Free

Fri, November 3, 5-8pm(EST)
OPEN SPACE: ART ABOUT THE LAND
The Anderson Museum of Art: 32 W 10th St, Anderson, IN
Free

Fri, November 3, 5-8pm
November First Friday Event
The Burkholder Project: 719 P St, Lincoln, NE
Free

Fri, November 3, 6pm
PORTRAITS
The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space: 623 E Adams St, Springfield, IL
Free

Fri, November 3, 6-7pm
Conversation: The Intersection of Contemporary Art and Hip Hop
Saint Louis Art Museum: One Fine Arts Dr, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
Free

Fri, November 3, 6-9pm
Then and Now
Artists’ Cooperative Gallery: 405 S 11th St, Omaha, NE
Free

Fri, November 3, 7-8:30pm
Following My Spirit Home: Sam Zimmerman
Birchbark Bizhiw: 1629 Hennepin Ave, #275 Minneapolis, MN
Free

Sat, November 4, 3-5pm
THE WRITER’S ROOM: A Town Hall on Dance + Performance Writing
Online + at Blanc Gallery: 4445 S. Dr. MLK Drive, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 4, 1pm
ArtSmart: The Art of Collages with Diasporal Rhythms
Navy Pier: 600 E Grand, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 4, 1-3pm
DR. BURROUGHS LEGACY DAY
South Side Community Art Center: 3831 Michigan Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 4, 2-5pm
Shamiana: Grow & Gather
Devon & Artesian, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 4, 2pm
Game Misconduct book signing
Macy’s State Street: 111 N State St, Lower Level, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, November 4, 4-7pm
Waveforms
High Concept Labs: 2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 4, 6-8pm
Kiki—A Sky of Changing Lights… Book Launch & Reading
Chicago Art Department: 1926 S Halsted St, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 4, 6-9:30pm
Little Lizard w/ Vanity Plate, Ghouls and Parliament Lite
The Aquarium: 226 Broadway N, Fargo, ND
$10-12

Sat, November 4, 6-9pm
Vice Grip
LVL3: 1542 N Milkwaukee Ave, 3rd floor, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 4, 7pm
Philip Daniel Concert
The Golden Husk: 129 S 16th St, ​Ord, NE
$12-100

Sat, November 4, 7pm-12am
Heaven Gallery Annual Benefit 2023: Becoming!
Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, #2, Chicago
$30-40

Sun, November 5, 1-3pm
Vice Grip
High Concept Labs: Online
Free

Sun, November 5, 2pm(EST)
Ofrendas: Celebrating el Día de Muertos—Artist Talk
Detroit Institute of Arts: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
Free

Sun, November 5, 3-5pm
Sean Noonan and Alberte Tranberg: A Net for Catching Days
Devening Projects: 3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago
Free

Mon, November 6, 6-7:30pm
There’re Worse Things Than Being Dead
East Peoria Campus, Academic Building: 1 College Dr, East Peoria, IL
Free

Tues, November 7, 1-2:30pm(EST)
Gallery Chat: Underneath Everything
Grand Rapids Art Museum: 101 Monroe Center St NW, Grand Rapids, MI
Free

Wed, November 8, 10:30am
Joslyn Around Town
Omaha Public Library, Abrahams Branch: 5111 N 90th St, Omaha, NE
Free

Wed, November 8, 3-5pm(EST)
Dementia Friendly Film Series
Dementia Friendly Bloomington: 505 W 4th St. Bloomington, IN
Free

Wed, November 8, 5:30-7pm
Chicago Underwater: The Impacts of Flooding
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St, Chicago
Free

Wed, November 8, 7pm
GEOFF MCFETRIDGE: DRAWING A LIFE
The Trylon Cinema: 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN
$15

Wed, November 8, 7-8pm
Queer Book Club
Quatrefoil Library: 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN
Free

Thurs, November 9, 5-7pm
Rhonda Wheatley: There Are Universes…
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago
Free

Thurs, November 9, 6-8pm
Thirsty Thursdays at the Blue Rider
Blue Rider: 118 1st Ave, Southeast Minot, ND
Free

Thurs, November 9, 8-9pm
Live @ LOW END | Marc Vilanova
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts: 724 S. 12th St, Omaha, NE
Free

November 10, 2023- January 5, 2024
Derrick Woods-Morrow: Scirocco – Arifi: Where the Sand Meets the Sea
ENGAGE-Projects: 864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, November 10, 6-9pm
Courtney Mackedanz: Bad Pasture
Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago
Free

Fri, November 10, 7:30pm
Hasta La Muerte: A Day of the Dead show by Las Cafeteras
ORPHEUM THEATER: 409 S 16th St, Omaha, NE
$22

Fri, November 10, 7:30pm
Bette Smith
HOLLAND MUSIC CLUB: 1200 Douglas St, Omaha, NE
$15-30

Fri, November 10, 8pm
Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival Day One : Takashi Shallow, Devon Osamu Tipp
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$15

Fri, November 10, 8pm(EST)
Soul Clap – Open to Close
Spot Lite Detroit: 2905 Beaufait St #4, Detroit, MI
$20-25

Sat Nov 11, 5-7:30pm
Dialogues
Patron Gallery: 1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free

November 11-December 16, 2023
INTER/INTRA (2023)
Camp Washington: 2940 Colerain Ave, Cincinnati, OH
Free

November 11, 2023- February 25, 2024
Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2023
Eiteljorg Museum: 500 W Washington St, Indianapolis, IN
Free

November 11, 2023- March 4, 2024
Candace Hunter: The Alien-Nations and Sovereign States of Octavia E Butler
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 11, 11am-3pm
The Art of Pysanky with Kathleen Nepsha-Suchok-Eich
TMORA: 5500 Stevens Ave, Minneapolis, MN
Free

Sat, November 11, 2-3:30pm
Kid’s Day: Indigenous Lifeways in the Central Illinois River Valley
Dickson Mounds Museum: 10956 N Dickson Mounds Rd, Lewistown, IL
Free

Sat, November 11, 2-4pm
On the Homestead — Judy Thompson
Bone Creek Art Museum: 575 E Street, David City, NE
Free

Sat, November 11, 3-4pm
Book Launch: Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-Matter
The Seminary Co-op Bookstore: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 11, 7-9pm
Big Fish
Devonshire Cultural Center: 4400 Greenwood St, Skokie, IL
$15-20

November 12-December 14, 2023
Katie Vasbinder: Flow & Pop
Bismarck State College Galleries: 1500 Edwards Ave, Bismarck, ND
Free

Sun, November 12, 2:30pm
WITH PETER BRADLEY
The Trylon Cinema: 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN
$15

Sun, November 12, 7-9:30pm
Dirty Laundry: a night of film & immersive storytelling by Gina Cornejo
The Martin: 2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
$15-25

Tues, November 14, 7-8:30pm
Before Roads and Rails: Waterways to the Midwest
Online
Free

Wed, November 15, 7-9pm
Get Lit. Open Mic Night
Lit. on Fire Books: 712 W Main St, Peoria, IL
Free

Wed, November 15, 7:30pm
Juliann Wang ‘Notes in the Wind’ 16-Channel Listening Experience
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago
$15

Thurs, November 16, 2023
The Future Is Not What It Used To Be: ArtsLink Assembly 2023
Experimental Station: 6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago
Registration Required

November 16, 2023
Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce Thanksgiving Luncheon
Peoria Civic Center: 201 SW Jefferson Ave,Peoria, IL
Free

November 16, 2023
Form, Growth, and Variation: The Experimental Prints of Helen Phillips
Wright Museum of Art: 700 College St, Beloit, WI
Free

Thurs, November 16, 6-7:30pm(EST)
Artist Performance: Access Hollywood: Pure Michigan
MSU Broad Art Museum: 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI
Free

Thurs, November 16, 7-9pm
The Loft’s Fall 2023 Student Reading
The Loft at Open Book: 1011 Washington Ave, South Minneapolis, MN
Free

Thurs, November 16, 8-9pm
Live @ LOW END | M34N STR33T
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts: 724 S. 12th St, Omaha, NE
Free

November 17-19, 2023
Orlando: My Political Biography
Detroit Film Theatre: 5200 Woodward Ave,, Detroit, MI
Free

November 17, 2023-January 7, 2024
Dan Jones: Changing Seasons
The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum: 521 Main Ave, Moorhead, MN
Free

Fri, November 17, 9am-5:30pm
Friends of the Library Book Sale
Urbana Free Library: 201 W Green St, Urbana, IL
Free

Fri, November 17, 4pm
Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson
Center for Great Plains Studies: 1155 Q St, Lincoln, NE
Free

Fri, November 17, 6pm
THE VULNERABLES: An Evening With SIGRID NUNEZ
A Room of One’s Own: 2717 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI
Free

Fri, November 17, 7pm(EST)
Friday Night Live! Sunitha Anathaswamy and Xiao Dong Wei
Rivera Court: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
Free

Fri, November 17, 7-9pm(EST)
Akea Brionne
Library Street Collective: 1274 Library St (Alley), Detroit, MI
Free

Fri, November 17, 7-11pm
CPS Lives, Class of 2023 Vol. II
Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, #2, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 18, 2pm(EST)
Stories and Dances of the Ho-Chunk Nation
Rivera Court: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
Free

Sat, November 18, 6-9pm
HOMOGENEOUS HUES
The Bridgeport Art Center: 1200 W 35th St, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 18, 6-9pm
POP!
The Bridgeport Art Center: 1200 W 35th St, Chicago
Free

Sat, November 18, 6:30-8:30pm
Justin Henry Miller: Regards From The Black Hole
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria: 305 SW Water St, Peoria, IL
Free

Sun, November 19, 2-4pm
Illinois Archaeology Lecture Series
Dickson Mounds Museum: 10956 N Dickson Mounds Rd, Lewistown, IL
Free

Fri, November 24, 7pm(EST)
Friday Night Live! Odu Afrobeat Orchestra
Rivera Court: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
Free

November 28, 2023 – March 30, 2024
Indigenous Portraits Unbound
Newberry Library: 60 West Walton Street, Chicago
Free

Wed, November 29, 6-7:30pm(EST)
Power of Influence: The Intersection of Arts and Sports for Social Change
MSU Broad Art Museum: 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI
Free

Wed, November 29, 7:30pm
Black Nativity: Written by Langston Hughes
Penumbra Theatre: 270 N. Kent St, St. Paul, MN
$20

Thurs, November 30, 12-2pm
Beyond Access: Disability and Urban Design
Art Design Chicago: 2233 S. Throop (Mana Contemporary)
Free

Through December 10
James Kao : Thicket
Chinese American Museum of Chicago: 238 West 23rd St
Free