Exhibitions and Events

Take some time to breathe this holiday season. This workshop invites participants to engage with two galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection through a therapeutic lens. 

Bring mindful attention to your museum visit during this monthly program combining close looking and meditation with artworks in the collection.

Enjoy some creative time with drop-in sketching inspired by the spirited prints and drawings on view in Revolution to Restoration: French Drawings from the Horvitz Collection.

Enjoy singing in the galleries with Uniting Voices Chicago (formerly Chicago Children’s Choir), a nonprofit organization that empowers and unites youth from diverse backgrounds to find their voice and celebrate their common humanity through the power of music.

What does armor tell us about who owned, wore, and produced these steel carapaces of the past? Join curator Jonathan Tavares as he examines Renaissance armor from our galleries, unraveling their mysteries from the material evidence they contain.

Join Interpretation staff members Nancy Chen and Molly Bryson for a creative writing program inspired by the work of Paula Modersohn-Becker, whose paintings and prose explored themes of motherhood, nature, community, and identity.

In celebration of a three-year loan from the Phoebus Foundation in Antwerp, curator Jacquelyn N. Coutré will discuss a painted and carved house altar produced in Brussels in the late 15th century.

Looking for a good place to start your museum visit? Join a knowledgeable guide for a 45-minute ASL tour of museum icons and lesser-known treasures.

Explore this elaborate Nativity scene from Naples, which includes not only the Holy Family but angels, the Three Wise Men, shepherds and their flocks, livestock, musicians, dancers, peddlers, and many others.

Take some time to breathe this holiday season. This workshop invites participants to engage with two galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection through a therapeutic lens.