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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November 1-30, 2025
lisa bare: black birds
ADAMAH: 641 N High St. Suite 105, Columbus, OH
Free
Saturday, November 1, 11AM-12PM
Jazz Institute of Chicago presents: Latin Jazz: Many Stories, Many Voices Alejandro Salazar & Afro Cuban Exchange
Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport: 3400 S Halsted St, Chicago
Free
Saturday, November 1, 10-11AM
Virtual Writing Club / Club de Escritura Virtual
Chicago Public Library: Online
Free
Saturday, November 1, 10AM-4PM
Documentation Day at WMQFA
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts: N50W5050 Portland Ave, Cedarburg, WI
Free
Saturday, November 1, 1-2:30PM
Multi-Sensory Zine Workshop w/ Saleem Hue Penny
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St, Chicago
Free
Saturday, November 1, 12-5PM
Little Village Arts Fest
Little Village: West 26th St & S Troy St, Chicago
Free
Saturday, November 1, 4-6PM
Stuffed
Co-Prosperity: 3219 S Morgan St, Chicago
Free
Saturday, November 1, 6PM
Women Artists: Four Centuries of Creativity
Plains Art Museum: 704 1st Ave N, Fargo, ND
Free
Saturday, November 1, 6-9PM(EST)
GHOSTS OF SMOKE AND WATER | Gallery Reception
Camp Washington: 2940 Colerain Ave, Cincinnati, OH
Free
Saturday, November 1, 7PM
2025-11-01 Saturday: Volt Sea (Album Release) // Zipper // Bimbo // Stoned Succubus
Communication Madison: 1741 Commercial Ave. Madison, WI
$10
Saturday, November 1, 7:30PM
Southbank Theatre Presents The Crucible
Shelton Auditorium at Butler Arts Center: 1000 W 42nd St, Indianapolis, IN
$24.70-30.90
Sunday, November 2, 12PM
BUÑUEL: MASTER OF DREAMS: The Unveiling of Luis Buñuel
International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago
Free
Sunday, November 2, 1-2PM
Artist Performance: Cristal Sabbagh and Sharkey Zalek
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art: 2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free
Sunday, November 2, 2-3PM
Rhythms of Our Roots: A Sonic Journey Through Black Chicago History
Chicago Public Library: 310 W Division St, Chicago
Free
Sunday, November 2, 2-4PM
Drone Stories Embroidery Circle
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago
Free
Sunday, November 2, 2:30-6PM
Judith Brotman: It Had To Be You
BASEMENT: A Project Space: 836 W Cullerton St, Apt 1, Peoria St Alley Entrance, Chicago
Free
Sunday, November 2, 3-5PM
1619: The Journey of a People, The Musical
DuSable Museum of African American History: 740 E 56th Pl, Chicago
$44.52+
Sunday, November 2, 3-6PM
Intro to Relief Printmaking – Linocut
Pilsen Arts & Community House: 1637 W 18th St, Chicago
Pay what you can $15-40
Sunday, November 2, 7-8:30PM
Pop Voyage: a performance art drag showcase!
Dorothy: 2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
$12-17
Monday, November 3, 7-8:30PM
Queer Fiber Artist Night at Dorothy
Dorothy: 2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free
Wednesday, November 5, 6-7PM
Trans Thrivance with Alex Iantaffi and Lucie Fielding
Moon Palace Books: 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN
Free
Wednesday, November 5, 6-7:30PM
Resistencia Poster Printmaking
Chicago Public Library Humboldt Park: 1605 N Troy St, Chicago
Free
Wednesday, November 5, 6-7:30PM
Bingo Hall Production
Austin Town Hall Park Cultural Center: 5610 W Lake St, Chicago
Free
November 6-December 28, 2025
Holiday Showcase 2025
PEWABIC: 10125 E Jefferson Ave, Detroit, MI
Free
Thursday, November 6, 7PM
KARMA SWEAT 5
Lemon: 1600 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL
$41.72
Thursday, November 6, 7-8:30PM (EST)
Lecture: Native Roots – Indigenous History of Belle Isle
Northville District Library: 212 W. Cady St, Northville, MI
Free
Thursday, November 6, 8PM
The Chicago Film Society Presents – International Sweethearts of Rhythm: Jazz and Blues Films from the Bob Koester Collection on 16mm
Constellation: 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago
Free
Friday, November 7, 5-7PM
Keila Strong: Closet Chronicles
Logan Center Exhibitions: 915 E 60th St, Chicago
Free
Friday, November 7, 6-7PM
sH3n YvN 2025: A Panel
The Arts Club of Chicago: 201 E Ontario St, Chicago
Free
Friday, November 7, 6-9PM
Alison Chen: The Tenderness of Tides
Filter Space: 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago
Free
Friday, November 7, 6-9PM
Opening of We Black In Every Timeline
5 Points Art Gallery & Studios: 3514 N Port Washington Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Friday, November 7, 7-8PM
Re-Verb Radio
you can stream online here
Free
Friday, November 7, 7PM
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater 30th Anniversary: Love, Joy, Resistance
Logan Center for the Arts: 915 E 60th St, Chicago
$45-500
Friday, November 7, 8PM
Threading Images: Films & Expanded Cinema Performance with Christina Nguyen
Block Museum of Art: 40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL
Free
Saturday, November 8, 10AM
Banned Book Club (Children): Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers by Junauda Petrus
Penumbra Theatre: 270 N Kent St, St. Paul, MN
Free
Saturday, November 8, 10AM-7PM (EST)
Portals – Roots & Routes: Unearthing Our Stories, Forging Our Futures
Newlab at Michigan Central: 2050 15th St, Detroit, MI
Free
Saturday, November 8, 11-11:30AM
GVSU 8‑Hand Piano Ensemble Performance
Grand Rapids Art Museum: 101 Monroe Center St NW, Grand Rapids, MI
Free
Saturday, November 8, 2-3PM
Xochitl-Quetzal Aztec Dance Celebration
Little Village Branch – Chicago Public Library: 2311 S Kedzie Ave, Chicago
Free
Saturday, November 8, 5-7PM
Andi Crist: Live, Laugh, Labor: Thoughts on Usefulness and Other Myths
Cleve Carney Museum of Art: 425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn
Free
Saturday, November 8, 6PM
Día de los Muertos: Love Never Dies Ball
National Museum of Mexican Art: 1852 W 19th St, Chicago
$125-150
Sunday, November 9, 12-3PM
Celebration of Life and Exhibition Reception
National Museum of Mexican Art: 1852 W 19th St, Chicago
Free
Sunday, November 9, 12-3PM
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Patient Info: 902 N Western Ave, Chicago
Free
Thursday, November 13, 6PM
Elaine Lemieux and Sara Zalek: Mooove Voice
Roman Susan at Berger Park Cultural Center: 6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago
Free
November 14-16, 2025
Staple + Stitch Art Book and Print Fair
21c Museum Hotel Chicago: 55 E Ontario St, Chicago
Free
Friday, November 14, 6PM
Stories in the Wind: A Chicago Diaspora Storytelling Open Mic
The Silver Room: 1506 E 53rd St, Chicago
Free
Friday, November 14, 6-10PM
Sarah Whyte – And The Spaces Between
Chicago Art Department: 1926 S Halsted St, Chicago
Free
November 15, 2025-March 14, 2026
Faythe Levine – Time is Running Out
The Lynden Sculpture Garden: 2145 W Brown Deer Rd, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Saturday, November 15, 12-4:30PM
MadMade Print Fair
Access Living: 115 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free
Sunday, November 16, 7PM
Malt Adult #33
Color Club Ballroom: 4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago
Free
November 17-December 19, 2025
Hattie Lee Mendoza: Resilient Joy
McHenry County College | Epping Gallery: 8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake IL
Free
Tuesday, November 18, 3-4PM
Don’t mind if I do: Virtual Tour
Gallery 400: Online
Free
Wednesday, November 19, 4:30-5:30PM
ATP Visiting Artist Talk: Tempestt Hazel
Northwestern University Department of Art, Theory, and Practice: Kresge Hall, 1880 Campus Dr, Room 1515, Evanston
Free
Thursday, November 20, 12-1:30PM
Tactics to Avoid Art Censorship Online
Lawyers for the Creative Arts: Online
Free
Thursday, November 20, 5:30-6:30PM
Slow Looking
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: 700 N 12th St, Wausau, WI
Free
Saturday, November 22, 5:30-6PM
Closing Performance of Liz McCarthy: Imperfect Players
Epiphany Center for the Arts: 201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago
Free
Monday, November 24, 6PM
Cross-Racial Coalition, Past, Present, and Future
Penumbra Theatre: 270 N. Kent St, St. Paul, MN
$15-25
Saturday, November 29, 11-3PM
queer market
Open Book: 1011 Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN
Free
Through November 1, 2025
Braxton Garneau: Antilles Lace
moniquemeloche: 451 N Paulina St, Chicago
Free
Through November 2, 2025
Tam Ochiai: Shopping Bag
Hans Goodrich: 1747 S Halsted St, Chicago
Free
Through November 2, 2025
Iowa Artists 2025 Ben Millett
Des Moines Art Center: 4700 Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA
Free
Through November 2, 2025
And I Will Tell You Mine
John Michael Kohler Arts Center: 608 New York Ave, Sheboygan, WI
Free
Through November 2, 2025
Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s
Chicago History Museum: 1601 N Clark St, Chicago
$19
Through November 7, 2025
Cody Tumblin Words for Everything
No instructions: 2124 E Rusk Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Free
Through November 9, 2025
Puntadas del Alma: Told Through Quilts
National Museum of Mexican Art: 1852 W 19th St, Chicago
Free
Through November 9, 2025
Reyna Garcia: Día de los Muertos
Grand Rapids Art Museum: 101 Monroe Center St NW, Grand Rapids, MI
Free
Through November 13, 2025
DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award Exhibition
IndyArts: 924 N Pennsylvania St, Indianapolis, IN
Free
Through November 15, 2025
SEEN / UNSEEN
Hawthorn Contemporary: 706 5th St Milwaukee, WI
Free
Through November 16, 2025
Black Women and Clay
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art: 2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago
Free
Through November 21, 2025
Designing Detroit
Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education: 460 West Baltimore Detroit, MI
Free
Through November 23, 2025
Florasonic: Sarah Belle Reid
Lincoln Park Conservatory: 2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago
Free
Through November 23, 2025
Aya Nakamura: Parts, Places
4th Ward Project Space: 5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago
Free
About the image maker: Andrea Coleman’s work makes use of found family images, memorabilia, and videos as a basis to produce a series of digital paintings. Combined with expressive mark-making and coloration, each piece addresses elements of nostalgia and a distorted form of memory. Coleman digitally manipulates images found in photo albums, or VHS recordings to challenge ideas of authenticity and re-appropriate the aesthetic of aura and memory. Drawing inspiration from her own, familial relationships and oral histories, the work investigates the intuitive interconnectedness and multidimensional relationship between snapshot and portraiture. Andrea Coleman’s work centers on the use of found family images, memorabilia, and videos to create digital paintings. Through expressive mark-making and vibrant coloration, she explores themes of nostalgia and distorted memory. By digitally manipulating photos from old albums and VHS tapes, Coleman questions notions of authenticity and reinterprets the essence of aura and memory. Influenced by oral histories and personal family connections, her practice investigates the complex relationship between snapshots and portraiture, emphasizing intuitive interconnectedness and multidimensional perspectives.
