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October 2020

Imagine a Day Without Water

October 21, 2020 12:00-1:30pm
Sweet Water Foundation Think-Do House
5749 S Perry Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60621

The Fall of the House of Lead

October 31, 2020 1:00-2:30pm

November 2020

Panel Discussion: Arts, Community, and Activism

November 18, 2020 12:30-2:30pm

January 2021

A Conversation with Jason De León, Wendy Ewald, Daysi Funes, and Susana Salgado

January 12, 2021 12:00-1:00pm

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Poetic Jams and Songs from 2000-2017, Part 1

January 27, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

February 2021

Guillermo Gómez-Peña: An Open Letter to the Museums of the Future

February 3, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Poetic Jams and Songs from 2000-2017, Part 2

February 17, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

March 2021

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: P.C. “The Pandemic Chronicles,” Part 1

March 3, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Border X Frontera

March 17, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

April 2021

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Norte/Sur

April 7, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Border Notebooks

April 21, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

May 2021

Center Sunday: Fundred Drawing Workshop

May 2, 2021 1:00-3:00pm
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60615

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Requiem for a Broken America

May 5, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

Animating Value in Community: Toward a Future Free of Lead Contamination

May 22, 2021 1:00-4:00pm

Amalia Mesa-Bains: The Cabinet of Curiosities

May 25, 2021 3:30-5:00pm

June 2021

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Medicine Poetry, Part 1

June 2, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

Virtual Opening: Much Unseen is Also Here

June 3, 2021 6:00-7:00pm

Center Sunday: Fundred Drawing Workshop

June 6, 2021 1:00-3:00pm
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60615

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Día de los Muertos

June 9, 2021 3:30-5:00pm

CHOP IT UP: Black Wall Street Journey

June 9, 2021 5:30-7:00pm

Smart Reads: The Undercommons

June 17, 2021 6:00-7:30pm

Women’s Absence from Chicago’s Monumental Landscape

June 17, 2021 6:00-7:00pm

Reclaiming Indigenous Material Culture

June 18, 2021 12:00-1:00pm

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Medicine Poetry, Part 2

June 30, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

July 2021

CHOP IT UP: Black Wall Street Journey

July 8, 2021 5:30-7:00pm

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Medicine Poetry, Part 3

July 14, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

Opening Celebration

July 17, 2021 12:00-4:00pm
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Black Wall Street Journey: Pop-Up Gallery Opening

July 17, 2021 12:00-4:00pm
Urban Juncture
5061 S Prairie Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60615

Conversation: An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander

July 22, 2021 6:00-7:00pm

On the Lawn with Katherine Davis In Celebration of Njideka Akunyili Crosby

July 22, 2021 6:00-7:00pm
1322 W Taylor St
1322 W Taylor St
Chicago, Illinois 60607

August 2021

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: P.C. “The Pandemia Chronicles,” Part 2

August 4, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

CHOP IT UP: Black Wall Street Journey

August 12, 2021 5:30-7:00pm

Summer Teacher Institute

August 16-20, 10:00am-4:00pm
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Classified Episode, Part 1

August 18, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

September 2021

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Classified Episode, Part 2

September 15, 2021 6:30-7:00pm

Family Arts Crawl

September 18, 2021 1:00-4:00pm
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60637

In Conversation: Kara Walker and Hamza Walker

September 27, 2021 7:00-8:00pm

Photography and Community

September 28, 2021 7:00-8:15pm

October 2021

Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra Chicago Residency Kick-off

October 1, 2021 6:00-8:00pm

La Pocha Nostra Intensive Virtual Workshop

October 2, 2021 2:00-6:00pm

The World is a Child’s Classroom: Lessons from the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School

October 6, 2021 6:00-7:30pm

Storytelling, Climate Justice, and Self-Determined Indigenous Futures

October 7, 2021 6:00-7:00pm

Relational Futures: A Symposium for Indigenous Land, Water, and Environment

October 8, 2021 10:00am-4:30pm
Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Public Trust: A Dialogue on Sacred Lands, Outdoor Recreation, and Indigenous Stewardship

October 8, 2021 7:00-10:00pm
Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Mex Files LIVE: The Pandemia Chronicles

October 19, 2021 8:00-9:30pm
School of Theatre & Music
1040 W Harrison St
Chicago, Illinois 60607

Black Wall Street Journey: The Economics of Black Chicago

October 20, 2021 5:30-6:30pm

Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra Takeover Hull-House

October 21, 2021 2:00-5:00pm
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St
Chicago, Illinois 60607

MacArturos/Pláticas

October 21, 2021 6:00-8:00pm

November 2021

Black Radical Pedagogy in Chicago

November 3, 2021 6:00-7:30pm

Just Earth: Films for a Sustainable Future

November 4, 2021 8:00-10:00pm
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Wendy Ewald: Artist Talk

November 8, 2021 6:00-7:30pm

Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu in Conversation

November 8, 2021 6:30-7:45pm

Artmaking Workshop: Xu Bing’s Forest Project (Seniors)

November 20, 2021 11:00am-12:00pm
Blackstone Branch, Chicago Public Library
4904 S Lake Park Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60615

Artmaking Workshop: Xu Bing’s Forest Project (Families)

November 20, 2021 1:00-2:30pm
Blackstone Branch, Chicago Public Library
4904 S Lake Park Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60615

December 2021

Art, Activation, and Reflection: Black Wall Street Journey

December 2, 2021 6:00-8:00pm
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60637

The Black Schoolhouse Manual: Blueprints for Black Radical Education and Space

December 7, 2021 6:00-7:30pm

Mirrors and Misconceptions: Poetry Reading + Activation

December 17, 2021 6:00-8:00pm
Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60649

Mirrors and Misconceptions: Gallery Talk + Collage Activity

December 18, 2021 2:00-4:00pm
Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60649

February 2022

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: The Crying Opera

February 9, 2022 6:30-7:00pm

March 2022

VIVA! Chicago

March 1, 2022 7:00-8:00pm

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Chicago Poets, Part I

March 2, 2022 6:30-7:00pm

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Chicago Poets, Part II

March 9, 2022 6:30-7:00pm