Chicago Cultural Center Open House
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
4-8pm • FREE Admission • RSVP Online
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Join us at the Chicago Cultural Center on Thursday, April 11th for a Spring Open House event from 4-8pm! Experience music, new visual art exhibitions, a poetry open mic*, and great networking opportunities in our architecturally stunning home base.
Artists are encouraged to attend as a photographer will be on-site to take portraits/headshots - free of charge!* Visual artists will also have the opportunity to have their portfolio reviewed by professional curators Aquil Charlton, S.Y., Denny Mwaura, and Ines Arango.*
Enjoy mocktails, meet artists in their studios, and more. Full schedule below. RSVPs are encouraged via Eventbrite; but not required.
*These activities require in-person sign up and have limited slots for participation. Sign up opens at 4pm. It's free to attend and participate in all the activities.
1st Floor
Learning Lab
5-7pm: Meet An Artist in Residence, Pugs Atomz
Welcome Center
6pm: Building Tour Meet Up
Our classic tour, after hours
Dance Studio
6:30-8pm: Dance Studio Resident, Aaliyah Christina
Learn the fundamentals of Black majorette dance
Randolph Square
4-8pm: Hangout/Chill Space
5:30: After School Matters
Horticulture and Botany program demonstration
Buddy
5:30-6:30pm: Meet an Artist, Nayeon Yang
2nd Floor
Claudia Cassidy Theater
4-8pm: The Dyke Show & Under The Dome Concerts
Grand Army of the Republic Rotunda
4-7:45pm: Ask DCASE - grants, festivals, opportunities & more
Grand Army of the Republic Hall
4-8pm: Mocktails with In Good Spirits
4-5:30pm: OPEN MIC with The Chicago Poetry Center *
6-7:30pm: Portfolio Review/Curator Speed Networking *
Exhibition: Surviving the Long Wars: Transformative Threads
Chicago Rooms
Until 7:45pm: Exhibition: Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories
3rd Floor
Preston Bradley Hall
4:30-6pm: Artists Portraits with photographer Colectivo Multipolar *
4-8pm: Gerber Hart Library & Archive presents items from the collection in celebration of the upcoming exhibition Images on which to build: 1970s-1990s, opening April 20
4th Floor
Room 408
4:30-5:30pm: Application Info Session For Visual Arts Exhibitions
Visit us:
Admission is FREE
Open Daily, 10am–5pm
Exhibitions close 15 minutes before the building closes
(Closed Holidays)
Find us:
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602
Take CTA to Chicago Cultural Center
- From the elevated lines: exit at Washington/Wabash and walk east.
- From the subway: exit at Lake (Red Line) or Washington (Blue Line) and walk east.
- Served by Michigan Avenue buses 3, 4, 19, 20, 26, 60, 66, 124, 143, 147, 151, 157 and Washington St. buses 4, J14, 20, 56, 66, 147