Chicago Cultural Center

Completed in 1897 as Chicago’s first central library, the building was established as the Chicago Cultural Center, the nation's first and most comprehensive free municipal cultural venue, in 1991. One of the most visited attractions in Chicago, the stunning landmark building is home to two magnificent stained-glass domes, as well as free visual art exhibitions, performances, tours, lectures, family activities, music, and more – presented by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and many others. Learn about the latest events and news at ChicagoCulturalCenter.org and by following the Chicago Cultural Center on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Image: rendering of Kerry James Marshall mural on the back of the Chicago Cultural Center on Garland Court, fall 2017

78 E. Washington Chicago, IL 60602

dcase@cityofchicago.org

www.chicagoculturalcenter.org

Open Daily 10am–5pm

Mind's Eye

22nd Annual Winter Arts & Crafts Expo

Chicago Cultural Center

Current and Upcoming Events at Chicago Cultural Center

Surviving the Long Wars: Transformative Threads

Past Events

Tend

Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s: Gallery Talk

Summer Open House

Artist Talk: Dorothy Graden

Dorothy Graden: Timeless Mysteries

Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris: Gallery Talk at the Chicago Cultural Center

Opening Passages: Artists Respond to Chicago and Paris

Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s

Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories: Conversation with Curator Iris Colburn

Spring Open House

Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories Talk & Tour

Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories

Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar

First Look: Artworks by the Inaugural Cohort of the CPS RE:ALIZE Early College Arts Program

Surviving the Long Wars: Reckon and Reimagine

Reimagine Your Public Library: Presented by Chicago Architecture Biennial

Giving Back: The Soul of Philanthropy Reframed and Exhibited

“Music for Light” – Katinca Kleijn and Lia Kohl in response to Exact Dutch Yellow

How Artists with Disabilities Fit into the Greater Art World

The Ethics of Exhibiting Artists with Neurodevelopmental and Mental Health Disabilities

Luftwerk: Exact Dutch Yellow

Artists First: 25 Years of Studio Art at Thresholds

"Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, No Marble"

Gallery Talk with Daniel Schulman on Robert Colescott

Jin Lee: Views & Scenes

An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman

“It’s the satire that kills the serpent, you know…”: Robert Colescott and the Art of Racial Irony

Gallery Talk with Daniel Schulman on Robert Colescott

The Great Chicago Fire in Focus

Gallery Talks with Daniel Schulman DCASE Director of Visual Arts

Colescott Night: Comedy and Performances Curated and Hosted by Melissa DuPrey

Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott

InDialogue: Architecture and the City Ecosystem

Performance: Norman W. Long

Jin Lee: Views & Scenes

CHICAGO: Where Comics Came to Life (1880-1960)

what flies but never lands?

Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford: League of Nations

Great Ideas of Humanity

In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration

Luis Sahagun: Both Eagle and Serpent

Requiem: A White Wanderer

Growing Community

Edra Soto: Screenhouse

Millennium Park Art Market

Chicago Architecture Biennial

Chicago Jazz Festival

ReelAbilities Film Festival

Dance to China!

Chicago Digital Media Production Fund Showcase

Tim Samuelson: Bronzeville Echoes

Crossing Borders Music

Container Vegetable Garden Lecture

The Lavender Scare

Columbia College Chicago Community Schools Dance Concert

National Veterans Art Museum Triennial: On War & Survival

National Veterans Art Museum Triennial: On War & Survival

Goat Island Archive: We have discovered the performance by making it

Panoramic Vistas: Photography by David Bechtol

Chicago Children's Choir Open Rehearsal: Black History Month Concert Series

Forgotten Forms

In Good Company

Furtive

Bronzeville Echoes: Faces and Places of Chicago’s African American Music

Chicago! The Play, The Movies, The Musical...The Murders

Cecil McDonald, Jr.: In the Company of Black

Everyone's a Designer: Live Storytelling Event

University of Chicago First Friday Lecture Series

African American Designers in Chicago: Gallery Talk

Everyone's a Designer: Learning Lab Meet an Artist

Pocket Con 2018

Everyone’s a Designer/Everyone’s Design

University of Chicago First Friday Lecture Series

Jukebox Featuring Bollywood Grove

Opening Passages: Artists Respond to Chicago and Paris 