This week · Arts, Chicago

All day. ID Show: Oakton Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Des Plaines Campus

All day. We the People: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Beauty in Greektown Chicago Greektown Chicago

All day. America@250 - Now is the Time: Artists Go to Work Court Theatre

12:00 AM. Listening Hours at The Land School 7200 South Dorchester Avenue

12:00 AM. Day of the Dead fashion show 2317 West 18th Street

12:05 AM. People's Choice Voting! Jesuit Heritage Month Art Contest Sign in to download the location

8:00 AM. “Pulitzer on the Road: Prize-Winning Works That Inform, Empower & Inspire” Harold Washington Library Center

9:00 AM. Made to Belong: Woven Perspectives Sign in to download the location

9:00 AM. Goodnight Moon Exhibition at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

9:00 AM. Beginning Sewing Nov 5-Dec 17 Dole Center Multipurpose Room 3 – Art Studio (3rd Floor)

9:00 AM. Sewing with Help Dole Center Multipurpose Room 3 – Art Studio (3rd Floor)

9:30 AM. Art Therapy Group Halsted

10:00 AM. Poetry Pop-Up at the Field Museum Field Museum

10:00 AM. Moving Identities: 16 Voices of Belonging Chicago Cultural Center – Claudia Cassidy Theater

10:00 AM. Resisting the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion Chicago Cultural Center

10:00 AM. Tangible Sound: Arrival to a Higher Ground Chicago Cultural Center

10:00 AM. Castle Chicago Children’s Museum

10:00 AM. Flyway City: Architecture for a Flourishing Ecosystem Chicago Architecture Center

10:15 AM. Art Open Studio Dole Center Multipurpose Room 2 – Classroom (3rd Floor)

11:00 AM. Unspoken Influence: The Legacy of Indus 1925 South Michigan Avenue

11:00 AM. Emma Stebbins: Carving out History at Driehaus Museum Driehaus Museum

11:00 AM. LeRoy Neiman: A Keen Observer of Style Exhibit School of the Art Institute

11:00 AM. Serial Killer: The Exhibition Cinespace

12:00 PM. Weaving Open Studio Dole Center Studio 4 – Weaving/Stained Glass (Basement)

3:00 PM. Vladimir Theater Wit

4:00 PM. High School Outreach Nights BUILD- Austin Campus

4:00 PM. Art Discoveries North Riverside Public Library

4:00 PM. Haunted by Our Dark Side: Chicago Ghosts, Gangsters, and True Crime Tour Inside Chicago Walking Tours

5:00 PM. Dinosaur Stuffed Animal Taxidermy Saeli Community Room

5:00 PM. RAI + Monarch present Metamorphosis: The Evolution of Migration Sign in to download the location

5:00 PM. The Metamorphosis: The Evolution of Migration Damen Student Center

5:30 PM. Design Graveyard: An Exhibition of Unbuilt Chicago Design 135 S LaSalle St

6:00 PM. Perler Bead Fun Meeting room – Lower Level

6:00 PM. "Fall" Into a Craft with LASO! Sign in to download the location

6:00 PM. Weeb x Weave Sign in to download the location

6:00 PM. Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson: “Mexodus” American Writers Museum

6:00 PM. Cutting and Pasting a World: The Paper Craft of Henry Darger Intuit Art Museum

6:00 PM. Court Convening 1: America@250 Breasted Hall at the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

6:00 PM. Abbie Gamboa - Chicago, IL - Have You Ever Looked Around Tour House of Blues

6:30 PM. Black Designers in Chicago Book Talk and Reception Richard J. Daley Library (1-470)

7:00 PM. 11/5: Veteran Panel - Women’s Experiences DuPage County Historical Museum

7:00 PM. Cricut Design Space - Leather Earrings Makerspace – 2nd Floor

7:00 PM. Maggie Winters & Friends iO Theater

7:00 PM. You Are Here Presents: Fear Dorothy

7:00 PM. Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Fall Tour 2026 The Vic Theatre

7:00 PM. iO 45th Anniversary Thursday 1-Day Pass iO Theater

7:00 PM. iO 45th Anniversary - 3-Day Pass iO Theater

7:30 PM. Re:working - Educating and Engaging The Next Generation The Understudy Coffee and Books

7:30 PM. Vape! The Grease Parody Apollo Theater

7:30 PM. 73 Seconds Northwestern University Chicago Campus – Abbott Hall Wirtz Theatre

7:30 PM. Jerker, or The Helping Hand Open Space Arts

7:30 PM. Sophia Bush: A Life in Progress Rubloff Auditorium

7:30 PM. Year One Greenhouse Theater Center

9:00 PM. Gallery Cabaret Open Mic Gallery Cabaret

All day. ID Show: Oakton Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Des Plaines Campus

12:05 AM. People's Choice Voting! Jesuit Heritage Month Art Contest Sign in to download the location

10:00 AM. Resisting the Long War: 2026 Veteran Art Summit Hyde Park Art Center

12:00 PM. Charnley-Persky House Tours FRIDAYS 2025-2026 1365 North Astor Street

3:00 PM. Chicago's Best 90-Min Architecture Boat Tour on The Chicago River River City Marina 900 South Wells St.

6:00 PM. Kintsugi for Beginners 3500 South Morgan Street

6:00 PM. Collective Brilliance Art Opening at Fulton Street Collective Fulton Street Collective

7:00 PM. Palette & Pours: Grandma Moses Gorton Center

7:00 PM. Amateur, Avant-Garde, or Underground? Gay Filmmaking at Mid-Century Logan Center for the Arts

All day. ID Show: Oakton Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Des Plaines Campus

12:05 AM. People's Choice Voting! Jesuit Heritage Month Art Contest Sign in to download the location

9:00 AM. Embroider the Skyline Gorton Center

9:00 AM. Abstract Painting with Oil & Cold Wax Workshop La Grange Art League

10:30 AM. Puerto Rican Arts Alliance: Studio Arts Program

11:00 AM. Advanced Art (ages 9-13) BUILD- Austin Campus

11:00 AM. Puppeteering (ages 9-13) BUILD- Austin Campus

11:00 AM. Adult Sewing (18+) BUILD- Austin Campus

12:00 PM. Charnley-Persky House Tours SATURDAYS 2025-2026 1365 North Astor Street

1:00 PM. ART: Sketch at Sketchbook Sketchbook Brewing Co - Evanston

1:00 PM. Knit & Crochet Group Saeli Community Room

4:00 PM. Booze N' Brush Next to Naked Sip n' Paint Chicago, IL - Exotic Male Model 209 West Lake Street

6:00 PM. Rug Tufting (Chicago, IL) 2927 South Archer Avenue

7:00 PM. Old Town Meets Montmartre Old Town Triangle Association

12:05 AM. People's Choice Voting! Jesuit Heritage Month Art Contest Sign in to download the location

12:00 PM. "Aquí en Chicago" Closing Program Chicago History Museum

12:00 PM. Gourd Ornament Decorating with Abeni Pierson

4:00 PM. Opening Reception for Phyllis Martin: Shine Bright Artist of the Season Fall 2026 Shine Bright in Life

7:00 PM. Gallery Cabaret Open Mic Gallery Cabaret

All day. ID Show: Oakton Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Des Plaines Campus

12:05 AM. People's Choice Voting! Jesuit Heritage Month Art Contest Sign in to download the location

10:00 AM. Cup of Kindness Week: Create, Connect & Give Back I Just Am Studio in Northbrook

1:00 PM. Terapia de Arte para Mamás Highwood Library & Community Center

4:00 PM. Mixed Media Art (ages 9-13) BUILD- Austin Campus

4:00 PM. Crochet Club (18+) BUILD- Austin Campus

5:00 PM. “The Art of Regalia Making” exhibit Trickster Cultural Center

5:15 PM. Sewing (ages 9-13) BUILD- Austin Campus

5:15 PM. Adult Make + Take Art (18+) BUILD- Austin Campus

6:00 PM. Craft Lab* Program Room – Lower Level

All day. ID Show: Oakton Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Des Plaines Campus

12:00 AM. Holly Market La Grange Art League

12:05 AM. People's Choice Voting! Jesuit Heritage Month Art Contest Sign in to download the location

10:00 AM. Small Serendipity River Trail Nature Center

11:00 AM. Anthony Dunn Closing Artist Reception South Suburban College – Dorothea Thiel Gallery

2:00 PM. Queercrip Coffee Break: Collaging Trans Liberation

4:00 PM. High School Outreach Nights BUILD- Austin Campus

6:00 PM. Art Impact Project: I Am Thankful For... Gorton Center

6:30 PM. Postcard Project: Gratifood Gorton Center

7:00 PM. ASIA Painting Night Sign in to download the location

All day. ID Show: Oakton Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Des Plaines Campus

12:05 AM. People's Choice Voting! Jesuit Heritage Month Art Contest Sign in to download the location

7:30 PM. Paint Your Path Through Neuroscience Sign in to download the location