September Art Picks

September 1-4, 2022
BUTTER 2
The Stutz: 1060 N Capitol Ave, Indianapolis, IN
$35-175

September 1-October 8, 2022
Ellen Berkenblit: Umberville
Corbett vs. Dempsey: 2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 1, 5-7pm
Afro-Futurist Book Club w/ Lazerrick August Book: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Douglas Park Library: 3353 W 13th St, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 1, 5-7pm
Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic
Krannert Art Museum: 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL
Free

Thurs, September 1, 8-10pm
Whisper & Shout
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria: 305 SW Water St, Peoria, IL
$3-12

Fri, September 2, 7-9pm
AARON SHAPIRO AT SIDE YARD SOUNDS
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
$15

Fri, September 2, 7-11pm
The New Earth
Public Works: 2141 W North Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

September 2 – October 1, 2022
Wow, Nice
Racecar Factory: 1125 E Brookside Ave., Indianapolis, IN
Free

Every Saturday from September 3-December 10, 9-11am
RAWR Series: Reading and Writing Against Racism
The Luminary: 2701 Cherokee St, St Louis, MO
Free

Sat, September 3, 11am-1pm
Walk Back to Your Body
Rochester Art Center: 30 Civic Center Dr SE, STE 120, Rochester, MN
Free

Sat, September 3, 6-9pm
Victoria Martinez: Daughter of Wands
Produce Model: 1918 S Canalport Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 3, 6-9pm
Micah Sweezie: Parting Lines
Trapdoor: 1303 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL
Free

Sat, September 3, 7-9pm
Levinson/Mahlmeister & Joshua Davison at Side Yard Sounds
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
$15

Sat, September 3, 7pm-12am
Back to Life: Heaven Gallery Benefit 2022
Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
$25

Sun, September 4, 3-6pm
Yuge Zhou: Moon Drawings
Chinese American Museum of Chicago: 238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, September 4, 4-7pm
Jesse Malmed: You Can’t Get There from Here
Comfort Station Logan Square: 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, September 4, 11-5pm
ZINEmercado
Comfort Station: 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Wed, September 7, 10:30am
Senior Wednesday: Director’s Talk and Film Screening
Wichita Art Museum: 1400 W Museum Blvd, Wichita, KS
$2

Wed, September 7, 4-7pm
Kino x 3: Alexander Kluge – SHORT FILMS FROM 1960 TO 1970
Comfort Station Logan Square: 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

September 8, 2022
DEMANDING CHANGE, BEARING WITNESS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WILSON GARLING RISEUP! COLLECTION​
DePaul Art Museum: Online
Free

Thurs, September 8, 3:30-5:30pm
Julie Weber: re | process
McHenry County College: 8900 US Hwy 14, Crystal Lake, IL
Free

Thurs, September 8, 5-7pm
Cecilia Beaven: Piece of Consciousness
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 8, 5:30-7:30pm (EST)
People Moving: Stories and Action from 50 Years of the Over-the-Rhine People’s Movement
Contemporary Arts Center Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art: 44 E 6th St, Cincinnati, OH
Free

Thurs, September 8, 6pm
SOLO(S): KRISTA FRANKLIN
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 8, 6pm
M: A Poetry Reading and Conversation with DALE KUSHNER and RACHEL WERNER
A Room of One’s Own: 2717 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI
Free

Thurs, September 8, pm
Alberto Aguilar: YO SOY MUSEO
National Museum of Mexican Art: 1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 8, 6-7:30pm
Poetry Panel
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: 227 State St, Madison, WI
Free

Thurs, September 8, 6-8pm
A NATURAL TURN
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 8, 7pm
Book Launch Party: THE TWO LIVES OF SARA by Catherine Adel West
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 8, 7-8pm
Open Door: Jared Brown, Stevie Cisneros Hanley, Briana Lynn & Mila Methvin
Poetry Foundation: 61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 8, 7-10pm
So You Thought This Would Be Easy
Weatherproof: 3336 W Lawrence Ave, #303, Chicago, IL
Free

September 9-October 23, 2022
Teleportal Presents: Movement
Real Tinsel: 1013 W Historic Mitchell St, Milwaukee, WI
Free

September 9, 2022-January 9, 2023
Citing Black Geographies
Gray Chicago: 2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

September 9, 2022-January 15, 2023
Sentrock: The Boy Who Wanted to Fly
Elmhurst Art Museum: 150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL
Free

September 9, 2022-February 12, 2023
Sukanya Mani: Weight of Shadows
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: 3750 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Free

September 9, 2022-February 12, 2023
We didn’t ask permission, we just did it…
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: 3750 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Free

Fri, September 9, 12pm
Behind the Lens: Anna Shteynshleyger
Museum of Contemporary Photography: Online
Free

Fri, September 9, 5pm
Richie Morales: The Effects of Time on Memory-Los Efectos del Tiempo en La Memoria
Latino Arts, Inc: 1028 S 9th St, Milwaukee, WI
Free

Fri, September 9, 5-8pm
SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial
SAIC Galleries: 33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 9, 6pm
Kioto Aoki: Double Run Eight
Epiphany Center for the Arts: 201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 9, 6pm
Kundiman Poetry Reading, Featuring Melody Gee
Subterranean Books: 6271 Delmar, Saint Louis, MO
Free

Fri, September 9, 6pm
Autumn Maximum
Mu gallery: 1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 9, 6-9pm
MdW Assembly
Mana Contemporary: 2233 S Throop St., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 9, 8pm
Damon Locks’s Black Monument Ensemble
Wexner Center for the Arts: 1871 North High St Columbus, OH
$14-20

September 10, 2022-February 12, 2022
Zaha Hadid Design: Untold
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Michigan State University: 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI
Free

Sat, September 10, 1pm (EST)
FRESHWATER CONVERSATION W/ DREAM HAMPTON + RHEA L. COMBS
MOCAD: 4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
Free

Sat, September 10, 3pm
Arts+Activism: Museums as Spaces for Dialogue
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: Online
Free

Sat, September 10, 3-5pm
Fear of Property
THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY: 5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 10, 3-5pm
Community Sitting Practice with Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde
Tube Factory artspace: 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN
Free

Sat, September 10, 5-8pm
Caroline Kent : Space | Shadow | Script
PATRON: 1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 10, 6-8pm
Raheleh Filsoofi: Debated Narrative
ENGAGE Projects: 864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 10, 6-8pm
Bryana Bibbs: (un)disclosed
1100 Florence Gallery: 1100 Florence Ave., Evanston, IL
Free

Sat, September 10, 6pm-12am
National Hellenic Museum Gala
Hilton Chicago: 720 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
$100-375

Sat, September 10, 7-9pm
MARVIN TATE + BILL MACKAY AT SIDE YARD SOUNDS
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
$15

Sat, September 10, 2:30-7:30pm
Artist Run Bike Tour
Companion Co-op: Multiple locations on West Side of Chicago, IL
Free

September 10 – November 20, 2022
Erin Washington: I Think We’re Alone Now
Cleve Carney Museum of Art: 425 Fawell Blvd. Glen Ellyn, IL

Sun, September 11, 11am-7pm
Cooler By the Lake: South Shore Arts Party
SOUTH SHORE CULTURAL CENTER: 7059 S South Shore Dr, Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, September 11, 2pm
Broken Aquarium
Every House Has a Door: Humboldt Park Boathouse, Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, September 11, 1-5pm
Sundays on the Boulevard: TechTonic Black PARADE
Lawndale Pop-Up Spot: Douglas Blvd. & Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, September 11, 5-8pm
Chloe Munkenbeck: Interior Motives
Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Tue, September 13, 7-9pm
Sustainable Sustenance
6018NORTH: 6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

September 14-18,2022
Filter Photo Festival
21c Museum Hotel: 55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL
Free

Wed, September 14, 5:30-8pm
Suzanne Jackson: Listen’ N Home
The Arts Club of Chicago: 201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL
Free

Wed, September 14, 6pm
Music Under Glass with avery r. young & de deacon board
Garfield Park Conservatory: 300 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Wed, September 14, 7-10pm
The Burning of Loving Repeating with Movies in the Lot
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 15, 6pm
QUEER FORMS, RACIST LOVE: A Conversation with the Authors RAMZI FAWAZ and LESLIE BOW
A Room of One’s Own: 2717 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI
Free

Thurs, September 15, 6-8pm
Emerge: an evening with Lauren Michelle Tracy
The Luminary: 2701 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO 
Donation Based

Thurs, September 15, 6-7pm
Talk: Joy as a Question
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 15, 7-8pm
Celebrating the Visiting Teaching Artists of Forms & Features
Poetry Foundation: Online
Free

September 16-December 30, 2022
HRH Prince Nikolaos: Resilience
National Hellenic Museum: 333 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL
Free with admission

September 16-December 30, 2022
Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective
Wexner Center for the Arts: 1871 North High St Columbus, OH
Free with admission

Fri, September 16, 3pm
Finding Ceremony
Austin Town Hall: 5610 W Lake St, Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 16, 5-8pm
Faisal Abdu’Allah: DARK MATTER
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: 227 State St, Madison, WI
Free

Fri, September 16, 5-9pm
Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes
Pulitzer Arts Foundation: 3716 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Free

Fri, September 16, 5:30pm
Saeed Jones
Wexner Center for the Arts: 1871 North High St Columbus, OH
Free

Fri, September 16, 6-9pm
Daniel Rios Rodriguez: when there is no sun
Western Exhibitions: 1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 16, 6-9pm
Olivia Juarez + Remy Bordas: Continuity Drift
Cleaner Gallery + Projects: 1856 N Richmond St., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 16, 6-9pm
Olivia Zubko: Necessarium
Cleaner Gallery + Projects: 1856 N Richmond St., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 16, 6-9pm
Rose Marie Cromwell: A More Fluid Atmosphere
Filter Photo: 1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 16, 7pm
NO MORE POLICE: A CASE FOR ABOLITION
Haymarket House: 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 16, 7-8:30pm
Metropolis: A City in Black
South Side Community Art Center: 3831 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, September 16, 7-9pm
DESERT LIMINAL AT SIDE YARD SOUNDS
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
$15

Sat, September 17, 5-7pm
Boris Ostrerov: Welcome To the Party and Raeleen Kao: Vital Signs
Bert Green Fine Art: 8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 17, 1-3pm
THE GESTURE ITSELF IS PROTECTION SPELL
South Side Community Art Center: 3831 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

September 17-October 1, 2022
Artist in Residence: Monica Raphael (Anishinaabe – Sicangu Lakota)
Eiteljorg Museum: 500 W Washington St, Indianapolis, IN
Free

Sat, September 17, 5-8pm
Gordon Hall: TURN BACK
DOCUMENT: 1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 17, 6pm
Rashayla Marie Brown: Reality Is Not Good Enough (2021)
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 17, 6pm
Christine Wuenschel / Molly Blumberg
Ignition project space: 3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 17, 6-9pm
José Santiago Pérez
Boundary: 2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 17, 7-9pm
Side Yard Sounds: Jake Wark
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
$15

Sat, September 17, 10am – 1:30pm
MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE: Roundtables on Solidarity, Ecology, Care + Making
Borderless Studio: 4927 S Indiana Ave., 4727 S Indiana Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 17, 1-3pm
THE GESTURE ITSELF IS PROTECTION SPELL
South Side Community Art Center: 3831 S Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

September 16, 17, 18, 2022
Ladies Ring Shout 2.0
Honey Pot Performance: First Church of the Brethren, 425 S Central Park Blvd., Chicago, IL
Free (donations optional)

Sun, September 18, 11am-2pm
Pilsen Mural Tour with Sam Kirk
16TH AND PAULINA, Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, September 18, 1pm
Book-signing with Peggy Macnamara & Janet Voight
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, September 18, 3-5pm
JAMES JANKOWIAK: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
Free

Sun, September 18, 3-6pm
Alice Hargrave and Barbara Diener: Semblance: Unfolded and Brought to Light
Riverside Arts Center: 32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL
Free

Mon, September 19, 7pm
SOLITO by Javier Zamora
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL
Free

Mon, September 19, 4pm
Intro to Prison Abolition
American Repertory Theater: Online
Free

Tues, September 20, 12-1pm
Stafford Smith: Ancestry as Progress
Robert F. DeCaprio Gallery: 9000 W College Pkwy, Palos Hills, IL
Free

September 20 – December 17, 2022
Walter Mercado Pop Up
The National Puerto Rican Museum of Arts & Culture: 3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL
Free

Wed, September 21, 12-1pm
Artist Lecture: Nazafarin Lotfi
University Galleries of Illinois State University: 11 Uptown Circle, Normal, IL
Free

Wed, September 21, 6-7pm
Lecture in Photography: Abelardo Morell
Museum of Contemporary Photography: 600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Wed, September 21, 6:30pm
No One Ever Sees Indians: Native Americans in Media
Fondulac District Library: 400 Richland St, East Peoria, IL
Free

Wed, September 21, 6-7:30pm
“There but for the Grace” A Reading and Conversation with Michael Fischer
Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project: Build Coffee, 6100 S Blackstone Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Thurs, September 22, 7:30pm (EST)
Open Reception – We. The Culture: Works by the Eighteen Art Collective
Newfields + GANGGANG: 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN
$15

Thurs, September 22, 6pm
Artist Talk: Frank Vega
Chuquimarca: Online & at Studio #820, 8th Floor, Mana Contemporary, 2233 S. Throop St, Chicago, IL
Free

September 22 – December 4, 2022
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s – 1980s
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL
Free

September 22 – October 20, 2022
Poly-wave: Seeds of Color and Shape
University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery: One University Plaza, VPA 62, Springfield, IL
Free

September 23-November 5, 2022
Arvie Smith: Call and Response
Moniquemeloche: 451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL
Free

September 23 – October 23, 2022
Stephanie Barlow: They say it better than I ever will.
Companion: Washington Blvd and 38th Street, Indianapolis, IN
Free

September 23 + 24, 2022
West Town Art Walk
Various Locations, West Town, Chicago, IL
Free

September 24-November 5, 2022
The Feminist Biennial
Woman Made Gallery: 2150 S Canalport Ave #4A-3, Chicago, IL
Free

September 24-November 13, 2022
Toolbox @ Twenty: The Seldoms
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

September 24-December 10, 2022
Black on Black on Black on Black
Krannert Art Museum: 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL
Free

September 24-December 29, 2022
Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI
Free

September 24, 2022-January 15, 2023
Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, No Marble
Chicago Cultural Center: 78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 24, 12pm
Artist Talk: Sukanya Mani
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: 3750 Washington Blvd,St. Louis, MO
Free

Sat, September 24, 1-4pm
Improvisers’ Dance Jam at Big Marsh
Big Marsh Park: 11559 S Stony Island, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 24, 2-7pm
JAMES KRONE: A Promise Of Happiness
M. LeBlanc: 3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, September 24, 4-7pm
Su Su: From Your Special Friend
Kavi Gupta Gallery: 835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago
Free

Sun, September 25, 3-4pm
Mellon Archive Innovation Program #1: The Frankie Knuckles Vinyl Collection
Rebuild Foundation: Stony Island Arts Bank, 6760 S Stony Island Ave., Chicago, IL 
Free

Tues, September 27, 5:30pm
Poetry @ The Green at 320
The Green at 320 South Canal: 320 S Canal St., Chicago, IL
Free

Wed, September 28, 6pm
Octavia E. Butler Tarot Deck: A Conversation with adrienne maree brown and Krista Franklin, moderated by Julie E. Moody-Freeman
DePaul Art Museum: Online
Free

Wed, September 28, 6-9pm (EST)
Muslim Journeys at the MSU Broad Art Museum
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Michigan State University: 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI
Free

Wed, September 28, 7pm
Memory Box
Walker Art Center: 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN
$10-12

Wed, September 28, 7-8:30pm
A Night of Poetry w/Ghayath Almadhoun and Krystyna Dąbrowska
PO Box Collective: 6900 N Glenwood Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

September 28, 2022 – January 14, 2023
Past Is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery
Herron Galleries at Eskanazi Hall: 735 W. New York St., Indianapolis, IN
Free

September 28, 5:30-8:pm (EST)
Sonya Clark Talk & ‘Past is Present’ Opening Reception
Eskenazi Hall’s Basile Auditorium: 735 W. New York St., Indianapolis, IN
Free

Fri, September 30, 12pm
Gallery Talk: The Legacy of the New Topographics with Greg Foster Rice
Museum of Contemporary Photography: 600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago
Free

September 30 – November 5, 2022
Ambrin Ling “Hidden, Harmless, Human” & Armando Roman “El Sol Infernal y la Semana Eterna”
Roots & Culture: 1034 N Milwaukee Ave,. Chicago, IL
Free

September 30 – November 5, 2022
Liz McCarthy: MONSTRARE
Belong Gallery: 2712 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Through September 1, 2022
Paige Taul: 71
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL
Free

Through September 3, 2022
TO KNOW THE FIRE: PUEBLO WOMEN POTTERS AND THE SHAPING OF HISTORY
Krannert Art Museum: 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL
Free

Through September 3, 2022
Very Disco
Andrew Rafacz: 1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through September 3, 2022
Down to Earth
Roots & Culture: 1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL
Free

Through September 4, 2022
LtdWear6
LVL3: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave #3, Chicago, IL
Free

Through September 4, 2022
Tom Sachs ‘Furniture’
Anthony Gallery: 6760 S Stony Is Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through September 4, 2022
Social
Apparatus Projects: 1524 S Western Ave. Suite 406, Chicago, IL
Free

Through September 4, 2022
Let’s Be Still
FLXST Contemporary: 2251 South Michigan Avenue Suite 220, Chicago, IL
Free

Through September 10, 2022
James Connolly: Control Signals
The Latent Space: 4150 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

September 10, 2022
Richard Galling Protein Culture
The Green Gallery: 1500 N Farwell Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Free

Through September 11, 2022
All That Light: A Ten Year Retrospective of the Artists-in-Residence Program (2012-2022)
Arts Incubator Gallery: 301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL
Free

September 17, 2022
Noojimo (She Heals)
All My Relations Arts Gallery: 1414 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
Free

Through September 24, 2022
…of the land: acts of refusal and ratification
South Side Community Art Center: 3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through September 25, 2022
Tunde Olaniran: Made a Universe
Cranbrook Art Museum: 39221 Woodward Ave Box 801, Bloomfield Hills, MI
$0-$10