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Chicago’s Intuit Art Museum set to unveil $10m renovation(opens in a new window)

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Jim Denomie (Lac Courte Oreilles band of Ojibwe), "Totem, Animal Spirits (installation view), 2021. Wood, oil paint, deer antlers, horse hair, found objects, 78 × 32 × 32 in. Forge Project Collection, traditional lands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck. Copyright Estate of the artist and Bockley Gallery. Photo by Holly Trevan.

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Art for Zhegagoynak and the Politics of Space: Lessons from “Woven Being”(opens in a new window)

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Welcome to Zhegagoynak(opens in a new window)

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Block exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland highlights Indigenous artists(opens in a new window)

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Toy Stories: The Amazing Journey of Dalia Verbickas Ancevicius From Lithuanian Refugee Camp in Germany to Designing Iconic American Toys to, Now, a Museum Show at the Age of Eighty-Six(opens in a new window)

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Meredith McCoy. Photo by Allie Mullin

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Teaching Indigenous History: An Interview with Meredith McCoy(opens in a new window)

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(Courtesy of Chicago Loop Alliance)

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Downtown Day Aims to Expose Chicago’s Youth to Art and Design(opens in a new window)

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Ininwwewi-gichigami, also known today as Lake Michigan, as seen from the lakefront near the Block Museum (Kathleen Bickford Berzock, 2021)

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Meet Marisa Cruz Branco, Woven Being Terra Foundation Curatorial Fellow(opens in a new window)

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Textile by Robert Earl Paige on display in The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (photo Tom Van Eynde)

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Robert Earl Paige’s Colorful Textile Worlds(opens in a new window)

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Typography Exhibit At Design Museum Explores City’s History Through Graphic Design(opens in a new window)

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Image: Beverly Buchanan, slab works, c. 1978–1980. Cast concrete sculptures with acrylic paint. Dimensions unknown. Courtesy the Frances Mulhall Achiles Library, Artist File, Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Grants Awarded Fall 2024

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Sharon Corwin/Photo: Joseph A. Mietus

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Art 50 2024: Advocates and Supporters

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