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Since the museum’s volunteer educator program was first established in 1961, these devoted volunteers have sparked a lifelong love of art for thousands of students and visitors.
The Art Institute of Chicago receives many requests to loan works from our collection to institutions around the world. We must carefully assess each request we receive through a formal review process.
The Art Institute boasts an outstanding collection of American Art—fitting for a classic American city. Find some of the icons below.
Responding to disproportionate racial and gender representation within Chicago’s modern and contemporary art scene in the 20th century, women seized the gap by forging their own spaces throughout the city. Learn about the history of placemaking in Chicago art spaces through selections from the Research Center’s Libraries and Archives.
The Art Institute acquired its first work by a black artist—Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Two Disciples at the Tomb—in 1906, the same year it was made.
Latin America spans two continents and comprises a multitude of cultures, while its arts span millennia and represent a world of artistic styles.
Bisa Butler’s quilts are exuberant, colorful, and almost photo-like—arresting and complex objects made entirely of fabric that has been carefully cut, layered, and stitched together.
Four writers select works from four continents in an exploration of the involuntary but essential act of taking in air.
An updated selection of extraordinary paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring works from around the globe and dating from ancient Egypt to the present day.
In The Herring Net (1885), Winslow Homer captures the conflict between man and nature in his depiction of two fishermen hauling in a herring net amidst a stormy and powerful seascape.
Conoce al artista Diego Rivera observando de cerca su cuadro Weaving (Tejiendo) (1936). Observa lentamente y obtén nuevas ideas para tu propia creación artística.
Learn about artist Diego Rivera by taking a close look at his painting Weaving (1936). Engage in slow looking and get new ideas for your own art making.
Thinly and rapidly painted, Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando) (1887-88) has the confident, improvisational quality of a drawing. Its subject is the Circus Fernando, one of the first permanent circuses in Paris.
