21c Chicago

Kelly Kristin Jones: Rib Of Disaster
2022-09-01 - 2022-10-31 | 21c Museum Hotel Chicago, 55 E Ontario, Chicago, IL, 60611
Elevate at 21c Chicago: September 1 – October 31, 2022
Opening reception with the Artist: September 1, 6:00-7:30pm
Plinths for the People Activation: October 2022
Kelly Kristin Jones’s photo-based interventions and counter monuments unsettle well-worn imperial attributes to consider alternative vocabularies. Time-based, collaborative and still works operate by blocking prevailing “master” narratives. Each action embraces the efforts to remove, reinterpret, and restore the landscape. Addressing the slipperiness of both medium and myth, photographic interruptions highlight problematic relationships around public space and memory.

Please join us for the opening reception of Kelly Kristin Jones: Rib of disaster on September 1 from 6:00-7:30pm. The artist will be present and will speak about the work at 6:30pm in Gallery 3.
Kelly Kristin Jones creates photo-based interventions and counter monuments to unsettle well-worn imperial attributes and consider alternative histories. Time-based, collaborative and still works operate by blocking a prevailing “master” narrative. Each action embraces the efforts to remove, reinterpret, and restore landscape. Addressing the slipperiness of both medium and myth, her planned interruptions highlight problematic relationships around public space and memory.
Born and raised on the westside of Chicago, Jones received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships including a 2021 Illinois Arts Council Agency Grant, a 2019 Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH residency, LATITUDE residency, and Luminarts Cultural Foundation Project Grant. Her project, Plinths for the People, was featured in the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Elevate at 21c presents temporary exhibitions of works by artists living and working in the communities surrounding each 21c Museum Hotel Chicago. Elevate provides hotel guests and visitors with unique access to the work of notable regional artists, while featuring their work in the context of 21c’s contemporary art space.

SoFar Sounds Concert @ 21c Chicago
2022-09-10 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-11-19 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-12-18 19:30 - 22:00 UTC
Attn: Live music lovers!
This month, we’re bringing another SoFar Sounds show to YOU! ICYMI, they transform everyday spaces into captivating venues for secret, live music shows. Expect three local and diverse artists, great vibes, and a whole lot of magic– get your tickets here.
Use promo code SOFARSPACES15 for 15% off the show.
Located in the Main Gallery on the 2nd Floor.
Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8:00pm.

21c Chicago x Lululemon Presents: TRIFECTA | A Celebration of movement, lifestyle and, community
2022-09-11 09:30 - 12:00
Notes:
Exercise/Yoga Mats are provided.
Please bring your own water bottle and towel.
OUR SPONSORS:
21c Chicago
Basecamp Fitness
Gotham Bagels
Tula
Sleep Walk
Day-of-Schedule
9:00am: Doors Open
9:30am: Kick-off: Opening Remarks from lululemon.
9:35am: Word from our Sponsors
9:40am – 10:00: 10-min HIIT with Eric Cervantes, lululemon Train Ambassador
10:05am – 10:25am: Half-mile Scenic Run with Arturo Rodarte. lululemon Run Ambassador
10:30am – 10:50am: Yoga and Cool down with Margot Greer, lululemon Yoga Ambassador
10:55am to 11:00am: Closing Remarks 21c
11:00am to 12:00nn: Social Hour, free Mimosas!!!

Jazz Jam Session with The Matt Jarosch Quintet
2022-09-13 19:00 - 22:00
Jazz Jam Session
Tuesday, September 13, 7-10pm
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Free and open to the public.
21c’s Jazz Jam Sessions continue bimonthly!
Jazz jam sessions have long been the place where musicians gather to connect and perform together while honing their skills. The Matt Jarosch Quintet will kick off the night with a 30 minute set before opening the evening to Jazz musicians in the audience to come sit-in!
Musicians can sign up on-site, and fill out a jam session info card listing three to five tunes they can play and improvise on from memory. The jam session host will call on musicians to perform and improvise together in front of an enthusiastic live audience. A vocal microphone, drum set, bass, bass amp, and piano will be provided, otherwise bring your axe!
The evening will feature a fundraiser for BandWith Chicago. Suggested donation is $10 (collected at the door).Wine be served. Lure Fishbar will offer special menu items in conjunction with this event (advance purchase not required, but encouraged).
About BandWith ChicagoFounded in the Fall of 2015 by Annie Palomino, BandWith is a Chicago-based non-profit organization whose mission is to provide lasting access to high quality performing arts instruction to underserved Chicago communities.
Since its inception, BandWith has addressed the need for access to music and creativity in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood. Annie Palomino launched BandWith when the band program was dropped from LEARN Campbell Charter School due to budget cuts. Starting a nonprofit allowed Annie to continue providing free access to music instruction to students at the LEARN Campbell Campus while increasing reach to new students.
Since then, BandWith has developed into a stable organization offering individual and small group instruction, weekly ensemble play and performance opportunities to participants throughout the year. BandWith’s free in-school and after-school programs are located in East Garfield Park. They include our longest standing in-school band program, the Titan Band, within LEARN Charter School. BandWith also provides an after-school performing arts program at Marillac St. Vincent’s Hope Jr. Youth Center, which includes Drumline, WestDance, Studio-Engineering and Vocal Training/Choir. This summer, we partnered with After School Matters to support our growing Drumline Program as well as Chicago West Community Music Center to launch the WestDance Program.
BandWith offers instrumental music programs at 3 additional sites that are fee-for-service. The sites of these are St. Procopius School in Pilsen, St. Helen School in Ukrainian Village, and St. John Berchmans School in Logan Square. The three fee-for-service programs ensure BandWith’s financial viability and stability, and help subsidize the cost of our free programs. All other fundraising efforts are used to support free programs.

21c Chicago & Roosevelt University Presents: Chamber Music Masterworks
2022-09-21 17:30 - 19:00
Join 21c Chicago and Roosevelt University for a two-night performance of the chamber music masterworks in concert
Date: WEdnesday, September 21st (Night 1 of a two-night performance)
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Where: 21c Museum Hotel Chicago (55 E Ontario St. Chicago, IL 60611)
Free and open to the public
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The Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University is delighted to partner with the 21c Museum Hotel Chicago in presenting chamber music masterworks in concert. These highly-talented undergraduate and graduate students hail from some of the top music schools and training centers from around the globe, and their electric performances are not to be missed. You can say later that you heard these young musicians – many bound for superstardom in the field – when they were just getting their starts in Chicago, so, join us in supporting them!
About CCPA at Roosevelt University: Comprising the Music Conservatory, the Theatre Conservatory, and the Interdisciplinary Conservatory, CCPA trains world-class musicians and theatre professionals in the heart of one of the country’s most creatively accomplished cities. We invite you to learn more about the faculty and students within our talented, diverse, and inclusive artistic community.

21c Chicago & Roosevelt University Presents: Chamber Music Masterworks
2022-09-22 17:30 - 19:00
Join 21c Chicago and Roosevelt University for a two-night performance of the chamber music masterworks in concert
Date: Thursday, September 22nd (Night 2 of a two-night performance)
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Where: 21c Museum Hotel Chicago (55 E Ontario St. Chicago, IL 60611)
Free and open to the public
RSVP Here
The Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University is delighted to partner with the 21c Museum Hotel Chicago in presenting chamber music masterworks in concert. These highly-talented undergraduate and graduate students hail from some of the top music schools and training centers from around the globe, and their electric performances are not to be missed. You can say later that you heard these young musicians – many bound for superstardom in the field – when they were just getting their starts in Chicago, so, join us in supporting them!
About CCPA at Roosevelt University: Comprising the Music Conservatory, the Theatre Conservatory, and the Interdisciplinary Conservatory, CCPA trains world-class musicians and theatre professionals in the heart of one of the country’s most creatively accomplished cities. We invite you to learn more about the faculty and students within our talented, diverse, and inclusive artistic community.

Michelle Hartney Sewing Circle and Intimate Conversation with Ameri Klafeta, Director of the Women’s and Reproductive Rights Project (WRRP)
2022-09-23 17:00 - 19:00
21c Museum Hotel Chicago is proud to host a Sewing Circle on September 23rd with Artist in Residence, Michelle Hartney. As part of her collaborative mixed media project and exhibition, Unplanned Parenthood: Letters to an Army of Millions, Hartney will lead the sewing circle and join Ameri Klafeta, Director of the Women’s and Reproductive Rights Project (WRRP), in an intimate conversation surrounding the impact of the overturn of Roe vs. Wade.
As a community, we will gather to sew select letters from Motherhood in Bondage, a collection of letters received by Margaret Sanger in 1928 from mothers asking for help to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Sewing circles have traditionally served as a time for women to gather and talk, sometimes working on projects, such as this one, focused on creating a more just society. On September 23rd, we welcome all genders and community members to join us for sewing and dialog about reproductive rights.
The artist will supply kits during the sewing circle and the first ten participants will receive a fine art print. All events are a safe space for community dialog around reproductive rights.
September 23rd, 5-7pm
Location: Gallery 6
RSVP via Eventbrite here
Unplanned Parenthood exhibition
Unplanned Parenthood is a collaborative, textile-based piece exploring historical attacks on reproductive health access and calling for intersectional reproductive justice. Hartney will work with volunteers from across the country to tell the stories of more than 250,000 women who penned desperate letters in the 1920’s asking for help ending and preventing pregnancies. The letters come from Motherhood in Bondage, a collection published by Margaret Sanger in 1928 of the correspondence she received when any information about contraception was deemed “obscene,” and disseminating it was punishable by law.
Volunteers can participate onsite at 21c Chicago by penning a letter from Motherhood in Bondage onto floral paper designed by the artist or sewing a handwritten letter onto vintage bridal fabrics. Throughout the exhibition, Michelle will be onsite at 21c furthering the development of the project, exhibition, and dialog.
Upcoming Studio Hours:
Aug 4, 12-2pm
Aug 18, 10a-12p
Aug 19, 12-2pm
Aug 22, 10a-12p
September 23rd, 5-7pm** In-person Sewing Circle
Date forthcoming ** Virtual sewing circle with tips and tricks from Michelle Hartney.
Sign up to participate remotely on Michelle Hartney’s website here.
Michelle Hartney is a Chicago based interdisciplinary artist who works with fiber, installation, sculpture, performance, and the internet. Her practice focuses on women’s rights, maternal healthcare issues, and misogyny in art institutions. Hartney’s interest in using art to address social issues began during her graduate studies in art therapy at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow.
In 2016 Hartney founded the Women’s Health Collective, an art collective dedicated to utilizing creative approaches to raise awareness about women’s health issues by linking artists, writers, musicians, and activists to work collaboratively on socially engaged projects.
Ameri Klafeta, Director of Women’s and Reproductive Rights Project
Ameri Klafeta is the Director of the WRRP. In the role, she works to expand access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare and improve gender equality. She joined the ACLU in 2018, helping lead the effort to draft and secure passage of the Illinois Reproductive Health Act and repeal the Parental Notice of Abortion Act in 2021. She previously practices law at Eimer Shahl LLP, where she spent over a decade litigating in state and federal courts across the country.
Ms. Klafeta is a 2002 University of Chicago Law School graduate, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She also received a BBA from the University of Michigan with distinction. After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Mary M. Schroeder on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is active with the American Constitution Society and the League of Women Voters.
ACLU of Illinois
The ACLU of Illinois has been the principal protector of constitutional rights in the state since its founding in 1926.
The ACLU of Illinois (ACLU), and its affiliated Roger Baldwin Foundation (RBF), are non-partisan, non-profit organizations dedicated to protecting the liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, the state Constitution, and state/federal human rights laws. The ACLU accomplishes its goals through litigating, lobbying and educating the public on a broad array of civil liberties issues.

21c Presents: Behind The Lens with Nigel Barker
2022-09-29 17:00 - 21:00
Join internationally renowned fashion photographer Nigel Barker as he takes you behind the lens discussing his career from America’s Next Top Model, photographing celebrity magazine covers to advertising campaigns. The event will showcase his greatest work and include a masterclass and photo walk of downtown Chicago. Nigel will share decades of experience photographing the fashion industry, urban landscape, and how he stays inspired.Following his presentation, Nigel and his team will guide participants on a photo walk from 21c Museum Hotel sharing advice and tips on how to capture the narrative of Chicago from the big picture to the details and help unlock the hidden beauty in the every day. Following the photowalk, participants will return to 21c to share their photographs on a digital gallery wall, socialize during a cocktail reception, and have the opportunity to get their portraits shot by the one and only Nigel Barker!
Date: Thursday, September 29th
RSVP and buy your tickets here
Schedule:
5:00pm – Doors open at 21c Chicago Main Gallery
5:15-5:55pm – Nigel Barker Masterclass presentation at 21c*
6:00pm – Meet in Lobby, depart on Photowalk
7:00pm – Return to 21c Museum Hotel
7:00-9:00pm – Cocktail reception at 21c Museum Hotel
Tickets: $30 general, $15 students
Levels: All photographers of every skill level are encouraged to participate.
Walking Tour: Participants walk to three locations within 10 minutes of 21c. All paths are ADA accessible. Please wear appropriate attire.
Equipment: All camera formats are welcome. Please know how to use the gear prior, technical instruction will not be provided.
Additional Tour Guides: Kambua Chema, Brooke Ellis, and Juli Lowe
* Participants are welcome to join for the Photowalk only. Meet in the lobby at 5:30pm.
** Please contact jlowe@21cchicago.com if you have been affected by Covid and would like to participate at a reduced price.

Pop Stars! - Guided Exhibit Tour with Juli Lowe, 21c Museum Manager
2022-09-30 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-14 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-21 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-28 16:00 - 17:00
Curious about contemporary art? Learn about 21c Chicago’s current exhibition, Pop Stars!, and the artists behind all of the works on a guided tour from 21c’s Museum Manager, Juli Lowe.
Meet us in the lobby at 4 pm to explore. Tours are free and open to the public.

Art and Wine Tour
2022-10-07 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-11-04 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-12-02 17:00 - 18:30
Sip on a glass of wine and enjoy a guided tour of our current exhibit, Pop Stars!. Learn all about contemporary art and the artists behind the work.

Meet in Gallery 5 + 6 on the 2nd Floor.

Tour starts at 5:00pm and is free and open to the public

RSVP via Eventbrite here.

Blue Alice
2022-10-07 18:00 - 19:30
Performance by Irene HsiaoCostume by Vin Reed
Oct. 7, 6:00pm
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“Only the light that falls continually from the sky gives a tree the energy to push powerful roots into the earth. The tree is actually rooted in the sky.” — Simone Weil

Blue Alice (by 21c’s first artist in residence, Irene Hsiao) is a response to the Pop Stars! exhibition, Oct 7 is the third in a series of Blue Alice performances at 21c Chicago, and the April 8, 2022 performance of Blue Alice was the first performance presented at 21c Chicago.

Curatorial Conversations with Kristin Taylor, Museum of Contemporary Photography Curator of Academic Programs & Collections and Chicago based artist, Guanyu Xu 徐冠宇
2022-10-14 18:30 - 20:30
Friday, October 14th – 6:30pm
Wine reception to follow 7:30-8:30pm
Free and open to the public
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago is honored to collaborate with Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) on this month’s Curator Conversation. MoCP’s Photography Curator of Academic Programs & Collections, Kristin Taylor will be in conversation with artist Guanyu Xu 徐冠宇who currently has work on view in MoCP’s exhibition Beyond the Frame curated by Taylor spotlighting MoCP’s permanent collection of more than 16,500 works as a rich resource for harnessing visual literacy skills.
Curator Conversations at 21c Museum Hotel Chicago is a bimonthly series that asks a local art curator to chat with an artist of their choice with ties to the Chicago arts community. Each month those pairing switch up to give viewers a look into the rich arts community in the city.
Join Museum of Contemporary Photography and 21c Museum Hotel Chicago for this free program on Friday, October 14th at 6:30pm.

Brendan Fernandes Performance, Book Signing, and Dance Party!
2022-10-21 18:00 - 22:00
Join 21c and Brendan Fernandes for an immersive museum program featuring an artist talk, performance, book signing, and dance party! The night will commence with a conversation between Fernandes, 21c Chicago Creative Ambassador, Nigel Barker. Immediately following will be a special performance of Révérence performed by Joffrey Academy Dancers alongside a book signing of Fernandes’ forthcoming monograph, Brendan Fernandes: Re/Form. The dance party will kick off at 8pm with DJ Harry Cross!

Peroni, Casa Dragones and Jarritos will provide beverages alongside a champagne and wine bar.
ONLY 50 COPIES of Re/Form will be available during the event, however, you will be able to pre-order the book during the event. Payment can be made via Venmo during the event.
Date: Friday, October 21st
Time: 6:00 – 10:00pm
Location: 21c Chicago Main Gallery (55 E Ontario St. Chicago, IL 60611)
About Brendan Fernandes
Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Currently based out of Chicago, Brendan’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest and other forms of collective movement. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency, Brendan’s projects take on hybrid forms: part Ballet, part queer dance hall, part political protest…always rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity. Brendan is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2007) and a recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Fellowship (2014). In 2010, he was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, and is the recipient of a prestigious 2017 Canada Council New Chapters grant. Brendan is also the recipient of the Artadia Award (2019), a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2020) and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant (2019). His projects have shown at the 2019 Whitney Biennial (New York); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Museum of Modern Art (New York); The Getty Museum (Los Angeles); the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); MAC (Montreal); among a great many others. He is currently Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. Recent and upcoming projects include performances and solo presentations at the Noguchi Museum, New York, NY; Munch Art Museum, Oslo, Norway; The Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC; and The Girl’s Choir + Danish National Radio, Copenhagen, Denmark.
About Re/Form
In an ambitious new monograph, Kenyan-born, Chicago-based Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes (born 1979) chronicles his two most recent exhibitions, Contract and Release at the Noguchi Museum (2019) and Master and Form commissioned by the Graham Foundation in 2018, which was later expanded for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. These performance-based installations feature live dancers interacting with Noguchi’s colorful, unstable sculptures and a collection of architectural steel cages resembling ballet barres. The objects in both exhibitions act as training devices and physical constraints, both aiding and encumbering the dancers, and encouraging poses that test their endurance in overt displays of physical tension and self-control. The work engages with notions of discipline and mastery, pain and pleasure, and aims to disrupt and consolidate ballet and modern dance traditions. Alongside documentation of the performances, this book includes insight into Fernandes’ work with texts by Juliet Bellow, Andrew Campbell, Hendrik Folkerts and Dakin Hart.
Brendan Fernandes: Re/Form is published by Skira in partnership with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
About Révérence
Révérence is a performance that intervenes at cultural events and in public spaces where the dynamics of watching and being watched take place. The piece consists of a team of Ballet dancers, who preform a choreographed routine of bowing. Based on “the révérence” the traditional end to a Ballet where dancers make a procession of bows to each other and the audience, this performance breaks the fourth wall and puts the audience in the ambiguous position of being bowed to by dancers who move through and occupy the same space as the audience does. In this way the performance questions notions of social hierarchy; class; privilege; and the often tense relationship between art worlds and their audiences.

The Chronicles of Fabulous Freddie
2022-10-22 19:00 - 21:00
The Chronicles of Fabulous Freddie
Oct. 22, 7:00-9:00pm
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Fabulous Freddie invites you to experience a new dance work that takes the audience into an autobiographical journey chronicling his life as a young Black Gay man coming into self-claimed greatness. Through his three superhero variant identities, Fabulous Freddie brings his lived experience to the stage for an unforgettable night of dance, soundscapes and wearable design. This multi-practice and multi-media performance weaves a story of healing, heroism and humor into a FABULOUS tale of alchemizing surviving into thriving and shining. The Chronicles of Fabulous Freddie is the capstone work emerging from Fabulous Freddie’s Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Year.
Frederick “Fabulous Freddie Prodigy” Leroy is a Voguer/Bboy in the community. He has been dancing for 12+ years, starting with breaking in high school. Throughout his career, Freddie has learned to grow and adapt with who he is as a dancemaker, experimenting with femininity and masculinity in the artist’s own lexicon of movement. Freddie’s dance journey is a self-exploration and healing practice in claiming himself whole through embodying his masculine and feminine energies as a Black Gay artist. By choosing to express himself through both Breaking and Vogue Femme movement foundations, he has opened a new space for an important conversation to happen through his body.
Partners/Sponsors: Chicago Dancemakers Forum
Social Hashtags:Instagram:@Fabulous_Freddie_Prodigy@chicagodancemakersforumFacebook: Freddie Leroy (Fabulous Freddie Prodigy)#fabulousfreddieprodigy #innovativeiconichouseofprodigy #Chicago #21cmuseumhotel #chicagodancemakersforum #bboy #voguing

The Art of Cinema: Dinner & Movie Night at 21c Chicago
2022-11-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-11 19:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-18 19:00 - 22:00
Throughout the month of November, 21c Chicago will screen films by artists whose work is currently on view as part of and highlights a trope within 21c’s current exhibition, Pop Stars!.
Friday, November 4th: The first feature film, Nowhere Boy, is a 2009 British biographical drama film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson in her directorial debut. Photographer and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson’s video piece, After Van Halen, is on view in Gallery 6.
Friday, November 11th: The second screening will feature Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace. This film follows the artist, Kehinde Wiley, as he steps out of his comfort zone to create a series of paintings of women for the first time. Wiley, known for having painted President Obama’s portrait in 2018 for the National Portrait Gallery, has two artworks on view in 21c Gallery 1, Akilah Walker a bronze sculpture and Portrait of Bintou Fall, a painting from the series profiled in the documentary.
Friday, November 18th: The third screening is Portrait of a Lady on Fire (winner of Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay), a 2019 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel. Set in France in the late 18th century, the film tells the story of a lesbian affair between an aristocrat and a painter commissioned to paint her portrait.
Join 21c Chicago’s Museum Manager, Juli Lowe, at 5pm for a tour of the exhibition and learn more about the artists and their artworks prior to the screening. Wine be served. Lure Fishbar will offer special menu items in conjunction with this event (advance purchase not required, but encouraged).
Nov. 4 Nowhere Boy
Nov. 11 Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace
Nov. 18 Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Jazz Jam Session with The Matt Jarosch Quintet
2022-11-15 19:00 - 22:00
Jazz Jam Session
Tuesday, November 15th, 7-10pm
RSVP here
Free and open to the public.
21c’s Jazz Jam Sessions continue bimonthly!
Jazz jam sessions have long been the place where musicians gather to connect and perform together while honing their skills. The Matt Jarosch Quintet will kick off the night with a 30 minute set before opening the evening to Jazz musicians in the audience to come sit-in!
Musicians can sign up on-site, and fill out a jam session info card listing three to five tunes they can play and improvise on from memory. The jam session host will call on musicians to perform and improvise together in front of an enthusiastic live audience. A vocal microphone, drum set, bass, bass amp, and piano will be provided, otherwise bring your axe!
The evening will feature a fundraiser for BandWith Chicago. Suggested donation is $10 (collected at the door).Wine be served. Lure Fishbar will offer special menu items in conjunction with this event (advance purchase not required, but encouraged).
About BandWith ChicagoFounded in the Fall of 2015 by Annie Palomino, BandWith is a Chicago-based non-profit organization whose mission is to provide lasting access to high quality performing arts instruction to underserved Chicago communities.
Since its inception, BandWith has addressed the need for access to music and creativity in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood. Annie Palomino launched BandWith when the band program was dropped from LEARN Campbell Charter School due to budget cuts. Starting a nonprofit allowed Annie to continue providing free access to music instruction to students at the LEARN Campbell Campus while increasing reach to new students.
Since then, BandWith has developed into a stable organization offering individual and small group instruction, weekly ensemble play and performance opportunities to participants throughout the year. BandWith’s free in-school and after-school programs are located in East Garfield Park. They include our longest standing in-school band program, the Titan Band, within LEARN Charter School. BandWith also provides an after-school performing arts program at Marillac St. Vincent’s Hope Jr. Youth Center, which includes Drumline, WestDance, Studio-Engineering and Vocal Training/Choir. This summer, we partnered with After School Matters to support our growing Drumline Program as well as Chicago West Community Music Center to launch the WestDance Program.
BandWith offers instrumental music programs at 3 additional sites that are fee-for-service. The sites of these are St. Procopius School in Pilsen, St. Helen School in Ukrainian Village, and St. John Berchmans School in Logan Square. The three fee-for-service programs ensure BandWith’s financial viability and stability, and help subsidize the cost of our free programs. All other fundraising efforts are used to support free programs.

Curatorial Conversation: NFTs as a medium
2022-11-16 18:00 - 20:00
NFTs as a mediumWhy, when and how to use NFTs in art – a discussion led by Chicago artists
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21c Museum Hotel is excited to host an in-person conversation led by Chicago based artists and makers who utilize the new technology of Web3 and NFTs to further their conceptual ideas and discourse. Anyone curious about art and NFT’s are encouraged to join in this open discussion about the use of NFTs as a medium within an artist’s practice. Leading minds in Chicago’s art NFT scene will share their work before participants break out into smaller groups to discuss the many facets of NFT’s within the art world.

Introduction and small group discussions run from 6-7pm with a wine reception to follow.

Exclusive viewing of Holding Rhythm with the artist, Colleen Plumb
2022-11-18 18:00 - 19:00
Colleen Plumb’s newest experimental video, Holding Rhythm, 2022, is the first commission made for Elevate: Rm 921. This site-specific video projection is viewable after dusk from the windows of 21c Chicago guests with interior-facing rooms. Join the artist, Colleen Plumb, and 21c Museum Manager, Juli Lowe, for a private viewing of the projection and learn more about the video and artist behind the work!
Read more about Holding Rhythm and Elevate: Rm 921 here.
Meet in the lobby at 6:15pm. Tours are free and open to the public, RSVP is required.
RSVP via Eventbrite here.

Artist Reception Tanya Lunina: Rhythm of the Lake
2022-12-02 18:00 - 19:30
Please join us for an artist reception of Tanya Lunina: Rhythm of the Lake on December 2 from 6:00-7:30pm. The artist will be present and will speak about the work at 6:30pm in Gallery 3. Rhythm of the Lake will be on view December 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023.
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In her ongoing series, Rhythm of the Lake, photographer Tanya Lunina directs her camera at Lake Michigan in Chicago. Solitude within the open space and the various moods of the lake draw Lunina to the expanse of this body of water. Her frequent visits to the lakefront reveal a personal interpretation of a place in the city where the built environment meets the natural landscape. Water, sky, and concrete dissect each photograph into simple forms while the repetition of these elements are visual evidence of change and the passage of time.
Tanya Lunina (b. 1973, Russia) is a fine art photographer based in the Chicagoland area where she settled in 2006. In 2019, Lunina completed the Photo Program at the College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL).
Lunina’s current work is related to the urban and its neighboring waterfront space of the city of Chicago. Her photographs have been exhibited at several galleries including the Perspective Gallery in Evanston and the Cleve Carney Gallery in Glen Ellyn. One of her series was the juror’s choice at the Filter Photo IV Annual Members Exhibition. Lunina’s works have been published in several juried publications by LensWork Publishing. Her photographic projects also received recognition at the 13th – 16th International Julia Margaret Cameron Awards in the architectural and landscape/seascape categories.

Elevate at 21c presents temporary exhibitions of works by artists living and working in the communities surrounding each 21c Museum Hotel Chicago. Elevate provides hotel guests and visitors with unique access to the work of notable regional artists, while featuring their work in the context of 21c’s contemporary art space.

3rd Annual Holiday Cabaret Roosevelt University students
2022-12-07 19:00 - 20:00
Join 21c Chicago and Roosevelt University for a night of merriment and cheer as CCPA students sing and dance to favorite holiday songs! The Holiday Cabaret will include favorite classics such as The Christmas Waltz, Mistletoe and Holly, and more, to get you in to the holiday spirit. RSVP online here

Exclusive viewing of Holding Rhythm with the artist, Colleen Plumb
2022-12-14 17:00 - 18:00
Colleen Plumb’s newest experimental video, Holding Rhythm, 2022, is the first commission made for Elevate: Rm 921. This site-specific video projection is viewable after dusk from the windows of 21c Chicago guests with interior-facing rooms. Join the artist, Colleen Plumb, and 21c Museum Manager, Juli Lowe, for a private viewing of the projection and learn more about the video and artist behind the work!
Read more about Holding Rhythm and Elevate: Rm 921 here.
Meet in the lobby at 5 pm. Tours are free and open to the public, RSVP is required.
RSVP via Eventbrite here.
