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Studios + Art Centers
Artist studios are the real workplaces of Chicago's creative community, and the opportunities to visit studios and see artists at work are exciting and unique. Many studios are concentrated on the city's north side as well as throughout Pilsen. Many artist studios are located in the same building or art center and host regular open studio events. Contact info is correct as of posting time but can change frequently. We recommend you call studios & artists prior to visiting. The following is just a sample of these spaces, from small, avant-garde studios to large-scale centers housed in historic buildings. Go visit and take a tour, meet locally working artists, and become a part of our unique art community. Select individual Studios + Art Centers to view current exhibition schedules and contact information.

David Adler Cultural Center
The David Adler Music and Arts Center is dedicated to promoting music and the arts as an integral part of everyday life. The Center maintains and interprets the historic home of architect David Adler, which is the base of its activities.
Anatomically Correct Art in Public Spaces
Anatomically Correct is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to showcasing work by visual artists in alternative spaces in a combined effort to diversify, educate and promote community awareness of the visual arts.
Around the Coyote
As of May 8, 2010 Around the Coyote is closed.
The Art Center Highland Park
Artisans 21 Gallery
Located in Hyde Park
The Arts of Life, Inc.
The Arts of Life is proud to announce that it will be operating two locations starting in 2010. Our new studio serving the North Shore area of Chicagoland is located at 1963 Johns Drive in Glenview, IL 60025.
The Arts Club of Chicago
The Ravenswood ArtWalk (AWR)
Our Mission: to generate community investment in the artistic, industrial and historic importance of Ravenswood and to raise awareness for the unique hub of creative practices that exists here.
Ongoing events:
RAWednesdays, 7-9pm
Beverly Art Center
Brickton Art Center
Albany-Carroll Arts Building
Center on Halsted Visual Arts Gallery
Chesterton Art Center
Chicago Art Department (CAD)
For the past 5 years The Chicago Art Department has been committed to providing opportunities for Chicago's emerging artists. To celebrate the opening of our new studio we are now offering membership opportunities at an extremely affordable rate.
Members show their artworks in our exhibits, make their artworks in our new studio and inspire one another in our classes all for only $200 per month.
Space and time are limited so please sign-up soon.
For more information visit our website, or if you have any questions, contact Nathan Peck @ 773-837-8582 or Abe Velazquez @ 312-371-8915.
Chicago Arts District
The Chicago Arts District co-ordinates 2nd Fridays Gallery Nights in 30 galleries and studios, as well as the Pilsen East Artist's Open House, and other special programs throughout the year.
Chicago Photography Center
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
Co-Prosperity Sphere
The Co-Prosperity Sphere (C-PS) is an experimental cultural center located in Bridgeport. C-PS is Chicago’s leading independent non-profit contemporary art space producing experimental exhibitions, projects, publications and initiatives with emerging and mid career artists from around the world.
The C-PS hosts exhibitions, screenings, presentations, installations, festivals, meetings, and performance programs in its 5,000+ square foot complex.
The Cornelia Arts Building
Located at 1800 W. Cornelia Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, the Cornelia Arts Building has provided studio space to local and international working artists since 1986. Visit our website to view individual artists and learn about Open House events.
Dayton Street Studios
Energy Up Jorge Del Busto
ETA Creative Arts Foundation Gallery
The eta Visual Arts Gallery is one of the most sought after exhibition spaces on Chicago's South side. A major venue for the sale of African American art, the Visual Arts Gallery commands recognition and respect from Chicago's artists and art lovers for filling the dearth of exhibition space available in the community.
Evanston Art Center
Expressions Graphics
Expressions Graphics is a non-profit printmaking cooperative and fine arts gallery. Our volunteer-run facilities include a working press shop, committed to safe and eco-friendly alternative methods, and a gallery space open to the public. We offer classes and education outreach programs for children and adults of all skill levels. Our gallery presents monthly exhibitions and printmaking demonstrations in order to share our expertise with the community and to promote a general interest in art.
Alex Fedirko Studio
Located in the Fountainhead Lofts Building in the Chicago Arts District in Pilsen East
Fine Arts Building (FAB) Studios
Visit our website for a full list of studios and artists located in the FAB.
Finestra Art Space
Tony Fitzpatrick Studio/Big Cat Press
Flat Iron Arts Building
Flat Iron Artists' Association Presents Wicker Park / Bucktown First Fridays
First Friday of each month
On the first Friday of each month, Wicker Park Bucktown is alive celebrating art. Everyone is invited from 6-10pm.

Start the evening at the historic Flat Iron Arts Building at Damen, Milwaukee and North avenues in Chicago. The Flat Iron artists and the guest artists invite you to explore art throughout the Flat Iron Arts Building.
Wicker Park Bucktown is a unique neighborhood with shopping, dining and nightlife. The celebration of art continues through the weekend. So please join us the first Friday of each month!
Fountainhead Lofts Building (FHL)
Multiple studios and artist spaces occupy this landmark building on S. Halsted in Pilsen East in the Chicago Arts District.
Fulton Street Collective
Gahlberg Gallery / McAninch Arts Center
Samuel Gillis Studio
Greenleaf Art Center
Hinsdale Center for the Arts
Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC)
lllinois Artisans Shop
Indianapolis Art Center
Krasl Art Center
Anna Kunz Studio
Lakeside Legacy Arts Park
Lill Street Art Center
Little Black Pearl Art and Design Center
Liz Long Gallery at URBAN ART RETREAT
Lubeznik Center for the Arts
Mambo Marilyn's Studio
Brian Mancl
Maxim’s: The Nancy Goldberg International Center
McCord Gallery and Cultural Center
Mess Hall
Mess Hall is an experimental cultural center. It is a place where visual art, radical politics, creative urban planning, applied ecological design and other things intersect and inform each other. We host exhibitions, discussions, film screenings, brunchlucks (brunch + potluck), workshops, concerts, campaigns, meetings (both closed and open) and more.
Old Town Triangle Art Center
Open Studio Project's Gallery 901
Park West Ceramics
Pilsen Open Studios
Pilsen Open Studios is an artist run art walk that takes place in October. Each year artists, galleries, cultural centers and cafes open their doors during special hours. Over 30 spaces, 60+ artists from May St. to Western St. and from 16th St. to 23rd st.
Resident Artist Studios at River East Art Center
KS Rives
also visit: www.beforeidieiwantto.org
Riverside Arts Center
Larry Roberts Studio
Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
South Shore Arts
South Shore Cultural Center
South Side Community Art Center
Bryan Sperry Studio
Story Studio Chicago
Studio Chicago
Studio Chicago is a yearlong collaborative project that focuses on the artist's studio. Through exhibitions, talks, publications, tours, and research, participating organizations will celebrate the working artist and reveal their sites of creative production from historical and contemporary perspectives. With concepts ranging from the "studio as muse," "virtual studios," "street as studio,"and "gallery as studio," Studio Chicago invites participation from artists and the art-curious, beginning with Chicago Artists Month in October 2009.
Core Studio Chicago partners include:
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Columbia College, Gallery 400, Hyde Park Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and threewalls.
Switching Stations Artists Lofts
Tall Grass Arts Association
Tapestry Center
The Splat Flats
As of the Summer of 2009, The Splat Flats as a community was dissovled because of the impending sale of the L. Miller & Son’s complex. It is with a heavy heart that this is now the homepage of The Splat Flats.
Woman Made Gallery
Zhou Brothers Art Center


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