Press & Pull: A Legacy of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

September 11–December 12, 2026


A comparative exhibition surveying the US’s oldest continuously operating cooperative workshop alongside its historical similarities and differences within Chicago's printmaking history from the 1930s to today.



Imagination Doctors

January 16–March 21, 2026


Nine artists respond to the long arc of the Pros Arts Studio ensemble and their influential legacy on Chicago’s art and education scene.



agustine zegers: A toxin threatens, but it also beckons

September 23–December 13, 2025


agustine zegers questions the aliveness of everyday toxins and our body’s porosity to them through the lens of single-use plastics.



Maria Gaspar: We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat (After Angela Davis)

July 23, 2025


A spellbinding performance that activated a sonic sculpture made from salvaged iron prison bars from the now-demolished Division I building, the oldest section of Cook County Jail.

Mandela Hudson: Stars Shown in the East

January 17–March 1, 2025


A photographic monograph that challenges the notion of sole authorship in storytelling.

Learning Together: Art Education and Community

January 17–March 1, 2025


The first broad telling of Chicago’s progressive art pedagogy from the mid-1960s through the 2010s.

The Mask of Prosperity

May 10–August 3, 2024


Richly varied reflections on the question: how do we come into possession of material and intangible things, and what are their lasting impressions on determining our sense of self?