Community Calendar

Featuring work by the following senior Studio Art majors: Ilana Diddams, Rowan Howe, Joan Kobayashi, Isa Norris-Howard, Sarah Seligman, and Eloise Van Meter.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 10, 2026 at 4-6 p.m.

Free with museum admission, Kids, teens, and Members free. Reservations required for family tours.  

Inspired by the Illustrators of Light exhibition, kids and families can explore how Norman Rockwell and other artists captured attention and sold ideas through illustration. These artists didn’t just tell stories; they designed advertisements to make products irresistible and showcase everyday life in captivating ways. Take a tour with one of our educators, to learn more, then see if you have what it takes to create an eye-catching advertisement just like the masters!

Family Tours at 10:15 pm, 11:30 am, 1 pm, 2:30 pm
Tours Recommended for ages 5-12; reservations required

Drop-In Artmaking activities – 10 am to 4 pm
All ages welcome; no reservations required

An exploration of the relations between performance and architecture—performing architecture, performance as architecture, and architecture as performance—to see how they affect our understanding, imagination, and habitation of physical and discursive space. Presentations by Jane Sawyer, Founder/Director, Cook County Arts Collective; Ross Elfline, Art and Art History, Carleton College; Claire Grace, Art History, Wesleyan University; Andrea Moore, Music, Smith College; and Mechtild Widrich, Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The first day of the symposium begins Friday, April 10th at 5:00 pm.

March 17 - April 18 Plastique
An exhibition of artists from Project Vortex, an international collective of artists, designers, and architects actively focusing on the global problem of plastic pollution, curated by Aurora Robson. Free and open to the public.

Trash Chic!, at The Sketchbook Gallery, is a celebration of creativity that transforms the often discarded, overlooked, and thrown away. This diverse group of artists challenge the ideas of value, beauty, and permanence while highlighting the potential within what we throw away. We invite viewers to reconsider what “trash”is and discover how imagination can turn trash into something striking, meaningful, and new.

This exhibition is in conjunction with Matter Out of Place at Jane St. Art.

This exhibition brings together six invited artists who work with found objects, transforming overlooked materials into works of new meaning and possibility. Through the process of reimagining, these artists advocate for environmental concerns, drawing attention to using discarded materials while approaching their own creative practices with intentionality and care.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Trash Chic! at The Sketchbook Gallery.

SAT April 11, 2:00pm-3:00pm An Afternoon of Jazz and Poetry
Hosted by Stage & Stanza host and poet Carol Durant with music from EW Duo.
Music fully funded by the Music Performance Trust Fund and Local 14. Free and open to the public. April is Jazz Appreciation Month AND National Poetry Month--join Stage & Stanza host and poet Carol Durant for poetry readings interspersed with jazz from EW Duo.

Featuring work by the following senior Studio Art majors: Ilana Diddams, Rowan Howe, Joan Kobayashi, Isa Norris-Howard, Sarah Seligman, and Eloise Van Meter.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 10, 2026 at 4-6 p.m.

March 17 - April 18 Plastique
An exhibition of artists from Project Vortex, an international collective of artists, designers, and architects actively focusing on the global problem of plastic pollution, curated by Aurora Robson. Free and open to the public.

Trash Chic!, at The Sketchbook Gallery, is a celebration of creativity that transforms the often discarded, overlooked, and thrown away. This diverse group of artists challenge the ideas of value, beauty, and permanence while highlighting the potential within what we throw away. We invite viewers to reconsider what “trash”is and discover how imagination can turn trash into something striking, meaningful, and new.

This exhibition is in conjunction with Matter Out of Place at Jane St. Art.