Exhibitions and Events

Just for teens, these open studio sessions offer drop-in art making inspired by a different exhibition on select Fridays and Saturdays all summer long.

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.

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.

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.

Get inspired, create art, and build community! Visitors are invited to take inspiration from Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost with a surprise activity designed and led by our After School Matters Summer Teen Interns.

Join us for a sketching program exploring how contemporary artists can use shape to structure space.

How can visual art inspire writing? How can writing enhance or change the way we see? In this multi-session course, we’ll investigate these and other questions through a series of close-looking and generative writing exercises in response to works of art.

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.