Best Chicago art exhibitions of 2022
Best Chicago art exhibitions of 2022: ‘Tea, Torture & Reparations’ at DePaul, an outdoor ‘Flourish’ and a big year for the Cultural...
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- Dec 23, 2022
- 2 min
A Review: What does freedom look like?
Chicago Reader Review: A Review: What does freedom look like?
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
December 16: Screening Documentary A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home"
Dec 16: Screening Documentary A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home"
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
December 9: Premiere Documentary A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home"
December 9: Premiere Documentary A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home"
- Oct 23, 2022
- 3 min
Opening Oct 14: Can You See Me?
Can you see me?
Opening: October 14, 5-7pm
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Exhibition run: Oct 14 - Dec 17
- Oct 23, 2022
- 5 min
AIC Blog: An Exercise in Empathy and Trust: Collaborating with Lions
AIC Blog: Kirsten Leenaars and Joan Podkul: An Exercise in Empathy and Trust: Collaborating with Lions
- Sep 9, 2022
- 7 min
Review Newcity Art: A Lion for Every House
Review Newcity Art: A Lion for Every House
- Jun 25, 2022
- 2 min
June 25: Boulevard Dreamers on the Beach!
Water Music on the Beach Boulevard Dreamers Saturday, June 25 from 4-7 PM Lane Beach, 5915 N Sheridan Rd Join us this Saturday for Water...
- Jun 24, 2022
- 4 min
Boulevard Dreamers on WBEZ: A weird, wonderful variety show pays tribute to Chicago culture
You’ll find a little bit of everything in Water Music on the Beach: Boulevard Dreamers, where every performer gets equal pay and stage...
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
Opening June 11: A Lion for Every House, Art Institute of Chicago
A Lion for Every House opens on Saturday, June 11th, at the Art Institute Chicago. The opening is from 11am-2pm at the museum. Michigan...
- Apr 29, 2022
- 2 min
Publication: Till My Feet Hit the Warm Concrete: Letters from Young People Incarcerated
A Letter to the City: “jail is not my home”, the second project of collaborators artist Kirsten Leenaars and restorative justice...
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
Opening: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Opening: Friday, April 15th, 6pm – 9pm. Open hours Saturday, April 16th, 10am – 5pm. Design Museum of...
- Feb 16, 2022
- 1 min
Artist Talk: Kirsten Leenaars & Whitney Bradshaw: Embodiments in Time
Kirsten Leenaars & Whitney Bradshaw: Embodiments in Time Public (Virtual) Lecture, Tuesday, January 25th: Zoom webinar. When: Jan 25,...
- Jan 9, 2022
- 1 min
Exhibition: Body, Mind, Spirit: Embodiments in Time
Moreau Art Galleries at Saint Mary's College present: Body, Mind, Spirit: Embodiments in Time -- a collaborative project and gallery...
- Sep 20, 2021
- 2 min
On the set!
Filming this week our documentary, funded by the DCASE Artist Response Grant A Letter to the City: “Jail is not my home” Circles &...
- Jul 20, 2021
- 1 min
Art Advancing Justice Auction
Chicago API Artists United is raising money to support @advancingjusticechicago
- Jul 19, 2021
- 5 min
MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions
MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions
- Jul 19, 2021
- 2 min
"The Broadcast" video project acquired by Broad Museum of Art MSU
"The Broadcast" video project acquired by Broad Museum of Art MSU.
- Jul 19, 2021
- 1 min
Interviews with the Artists, Round One
Join Lit & Luz Wednesdays, May 12, at 7:30PM CT as we revisit the amazing, collaborative videos created for last fall's Lit & Luz Festival.
- Jul 19, 2021
- 4 min
Five Artists Rewarded Artist Response Grant
Artist Response Program is going to five individual artists and artist teams in project-related grants
- Jul 19, 2021
- 5 min
Five Chicago artists and artistic teams have been awarded $100,000 grants from DCASE.
Five Chicago artists and artistic teams have been awarded $100,000 grants from DCASE.
- Jul 19, 2021
- 2 min
Kirsten Leenaars awarded Artist Response Grant ($100,000) by the City of Chicago
Kirsten Leenaars awarded Artist Response Grant ($100,000) by the City of Chicago.
- Feb 19, 2021
- 2 min
Butler University JCA SIGNATURE SERIES: Kirsten Leenaars
Who gets to imagine what? The act of imagining itself is not a fair, objective, thing. What happens when you follow 24 young people?
- Oct 25, 2020
- 1 min
Opening: The Long Dream at the MCA, Chicago
Against the backdrop of a global pandemic and a renewed reckoning over racial justice and inequality, trough the eyes of 70 local artists.
- Oct 22, 2020
- 1 min
Artist Talk: The Politics of Imagination
Artist talk: The Politics of Imagination with Kirsten Leenaars
- Oct 22, 2020
- 1 min
(Re)Housing The American Dream: Freedom Principles showing at Luminocity by Kamloops Art Gallery
Luminocity returns this fall for its fourth biennial iteration. A week-long video art exhibition
- Oct 9, 2020
- 3 min
Newcity Film 50, 2020: Chicago's Screen Gems
Film 50 2020: Chicago’s Screen Gems
- Oct 9, 2020
- 1 min
Lit&Luz Live Magazine Show, Friday Oct 9, 7pm
The annual edition of the Lit & Luz Festival culminates in a world premiere of the festival’s first virtual Live Magazine Show.
- Sep 19, 2020
- 1 min
60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC Review: The Broadcast
The Broadcast proposes that the youth of this country have voices that badly need to be heard amidst the noise and chaos of our media landsc
- May 28, 2020
- 1 min
Watch the recording of the MCA Virtual Studio Visit: in conversation with Kirsten Leenaars
Chicago artist Kirsten Leenaars uses collaborative techniques to create artworks that investigate our media landscape and encourage critical
- May 28, 2020
- 1 min
Cleve Carney Museum of Art: Stuck in the Studio: Kirsten Leenaars
As part of Cleve Carney Museum of Art Create's ongoing series 'Stuck in the Studio' CCMA curator Justin Witte talks with Chicago-based video
- May 23, 2020
- 1 min
Release Party: “The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia”
join us via Lumpen Radio's twitch stream to celebrate the official release of "The World's Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia."
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
Imaginary Homelands Video Project: Open Call
This new documentary project by artist Kirsten Leenaars, structured as a series of video portraits across the US, traces stories of belongin
- May 11, 2020
- 2 min
Museum of Contemporary Art Virtual Studio Visit: Kirsten Leenaars Tue, May 12, 2020, noon –12:30 pm
Join Leenaars to as she discusses her artistic practice and the latest evolution in her video-based work The Broadcast in conversation with
- Apr 24, 2020
- 1 min
Performance Writing the Truth: 5 Difficulties @COVIDTV, April 26
THE FRANKLIN is proud to present artists and friends in action. Over 20 Chicago artists will be connecting LIVE for a 14-hour Instagram LIVE
- Feb 19, 2020
- 1 min
Follow and watch The Broadcast episodes online!
Watch new episodes of The Broadcast every other day: https://www.instagram.com/kirstenleenaars_thebroadcas
- Feb 19, 2020
- 2 min
The Broadcast at the Broad Museum of Art, MSU, East Lansing showing until April 5
The Broadcast
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University
November 10, 2019–April 5, 2020
- Feb 19, 2020
- 1 min
Exhibition at Chicago Cultural Center: In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration
Exhibition In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration
- Nov 26, 2019
- 3 min
The State News: New Broad Art exhibit features multimedia and local students
Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will be previewing their new multimedia exhibit titled “The Broadcast."
- Nov 26, 2019
- 2 min
Opening: The Broadcast at the Broad Museum of Art MSU
Opening: The Broadcast at the Broad Museum of Art MSU.
- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
Opening: Living Architecture at the Lubeznik Center
Living Architecture invites viewers to consider the ongoing impact and influence that immigrants have on art, design, labor and innovation.
- Nov 26, 2019
- 2 min
ARTSY: 6 Artists Imagine What a World without Prisons Looks Like
Over the past two years, Chicago artists and locals have turned to art to consider criminal justice reform.
- Sep 19, 2019
- 1 min
Fall Exhibitions Reception at Sullivan Galleries
Friday September 20th. Fall Exhibitions reception at Sullivan Galleries. 6-9 pm
- Sep 10, 2019
- 1 min
New Drawings at Faculty Projects Exhibition
Faculty Projects Exhibition
Public Reception: Friday September 20, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. August 23, 2019–October 19, 2019 Sullivan Galleries
- Sep 2, 2019
- 1 min
Local artists take on the criminal justice system in new exhibit
Local artists take on the criminal justice system in new exhibit
- Aug 3, 2019
- 1 min
Opening Envisioning Justice: An Exhibition
Envisioning Justice: An Exhibition is curated by Alexandria Eregbu and Danny Orendorff together with Illinois Humanities, opening: August 6
- Jul 21, 2019
- 1 min
The Broadcast in production
The Broadcast is a video project commissioned for the BroadMSU Museum in East Lansing (MI) and part of subsequent show at the museum.
- May 5, 2019
- 1 min
Unveiling DCASE Video Commission Public Library, Albany Park, Chicago,
The four permanent video works commissioned by DCASE /The Chicago Public Art Program will be unveiled at the Albany Park Branch Library
- Mar 2, 2019
- 2 min
COCO FUSCO, KIRSTEN LEENAARS TO TALK ART AND DESIGN AS PART OF MICA MIXED MEDIA SPEAKER SERIES
"Making Good: Big Questions in Art and Design" with Coco Fusco and Kirsten Leenaars as part of MICA Mixed Media Speaker Series
- Feb 12, 2019
- 2 min
Illinois Humanities, Envisioning Justice Commission
Illinois Humanities to award seven commissions at February 13 event Illinois Humanities is commissioning seven artists to create works...
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