Event Calendar

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 …
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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 …
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Performance by Irene HsiaoCostume by Vin Reed Oct. 7, 6:00pm RSVP here “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 …
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Friday, October 14th - 6:30pm Wine reception to follow 7:30-8:30pm Free and open to the public RSVP Here 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 …
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The Chronicles of Fabulous Freddie Oct. 22, 7:00-9:00pm RSVP here 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 …
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NFTs as a mediumWhy, when and how to use NFTs in art - a discussion led by Chicago artists RSVP here. 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 …
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