Exhibitions and Events

Inspired by the exhibition Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, join us in the Art Exchange to make your own Surrealist sketchbook.

This iteration of Writing in the Galleries, led by Ginia Sweeney, is dedicated to the idea of archives. We’ll look at copies of real archival documents from the Art Institute’s files, then write our own imagined documents that gesture to a larger story. 

Inspired by the exhibition Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, join us in the Art Exchange to make your own Surrealist sketchbook.

Inspired by the exhibition Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, join us in the Art Exchange to make your own Surrealist sketchbook.

Inspired by the exhibition Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, join us in the Art Exchange to make your own Surrealist sketchbook.

Draw on the windows of the RLC in this activity inspired by Raqib Shaw’s monumental painting, Paradise Lost.

Inspired by the exhibition Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, join us in the Art Exchange to make your own Surrealist sketchbook.

Inspired by the exhibition Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, join us in the Art Exchange to make your own Surrealist sketchbook.

This summer, take inspiration from the exhibition Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World, and join us in the Art Exchange to make your own mixed-media landscape of Chicago.

This summer, take inspiration from the exhibition Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World, and join us in the Art Exchange to make your own mixed-media landscape of Chicago.