Kimball Arts Center

Kimball Arts Center Kimball Arts Center is a hub of Chicago creativity located next to the 606 Trail in Logan Square.

Home to a collection of independent businesses for over 15 years. Now leasing loft office space, retail, flex space, and artists studios.

We are so excited to welcome Niles Tatum, Gary LaPointe Jr and Prisma Andrade to the building as our Fall & Winter Artis...
09/02/2026

We are so excited to welcome Niles Tatum, Gary LaPointe Jr and Prisma Andrade to the building as our Fall & Winter Artists in Residence!

From September 16th through the end of the year, these artists will have works in exhibition throughout the building, studio space to produce and explore their practice and a variety of opportunities to expand their creative resources and community. We have been building out more public workshops through the AIR program and can’t wait to share what’s next.

Congrats to these three and thank you to all who took the care to apply. Please look out for future events, open studios and open calls in the months to come! We appreciate all of you 🩵

Some shots from our recent Riso Collage Zine workshop with Summer Artist in Resident, Miguel Limón of MATIZ PRESS . Mig...
08/30/2026

Some shots from our recent Riso Collage Zine workshop with Summer Artist in Resident, Miguel Limón of MATIZ PRESS . Miguel guided us through the basics of Riso printing and Zine making through a collective lens. Thank you to everyone who came and collaborated with us! Keep an eye out for future public workshops and AIR turnover announcing next week ✨

Join us August 18th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm for a collective zine and riso collage workshop with current AIR, Miguel Limón...
08/05/2026

Join us August 18th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm for a collective zine and riso collage workshop with current AIR, Miguel Limón of Matiz Press.

In this workshop, participants build collages from their own material and each other’s, then scan their compositions on the risograph flatbed. The scanning process layers everything together, blurring the line between one person’s fragment and another’s. Everyone leaves with a copy of the finished zine, printed on the spot.

Bring your own images: photographs, ephemera, found paper, etc (avoid originals, newspapers or magazines). RSVP on our Events Page ~ web link in bio!

Calling all Chicago Artists! We are now accepting submissions to be a Fall 2026 Artist in Resident at the Kimball Arts C...
07/08/2026

Calling all Chicago Artists! We are now accepting submissions to be a Fall 2026 Artist in Resident at the Kimball Arts Center. Apply through August 16th to for a September install.
✨Exhibit your body of works to sell + gain viewership
💫 Lead public workshops and events around your practice
🌟 Utilize studio space to create new works and host studio visits
🫯Be a part of our archival Print Shop
💥 Grow your network and community ! + more :)

See full program details and apply on our website 💚

Join us Sunday August 2nd from 2-4pm for a low stakes screen printing workshop with our current artist in residence. .mm...
06/26/2026

Join us Sunday August 2nd from 2-4pm for a low stakes screen printing workshop with our current artist in residence. .mmxx ! RSVP on our events page ✨

Screenprinting can seem like an expensive and high effort undertaking, but you can get started with just a screen and a few simple supplies. Bring some old clothes (preferably natural fiber) and/or scrap fabric to practice on; we’ll provide the rest.

$60 charge for screen you can keep + materials for your own work beyond the workshop :)

Join us July 23rd from 6pm to 8:30pm in .chicago for the film screening of Southeast: A City Within a City with our curr...
06/12/2026

Join us July 23rd from 6pm to 8:30pm in .chicago for the film screening of Southeast: A City Within a City with our current AIR and artist

Southeast: A City Within a City is a documentary about Chicago’s Southeast Side, a neighborhood built around steel, and what was left when the mills closed. Directed by Steven J. Walsh, the film follows the impact of deindustrialization on a community that had everything, until it was taken away.

This screening is presented by Miguel Limón for Registros at Kimball Arts Center and Huellas de Paso /Marks of Passage at Comfort Station, two concurrent exhibitions by Limón rooted in the same geography and history; Mexican migrant labor, industrial erasure, and the Southeast Side as living archive. It takes place as the former U.S. Steel South Works site, the mill at the center of the film’s story, is being redeveloped into the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a transformation already generating urgent debate about who benefits, who is protected, and whose history gets carried forward.

Walsh and Limón will be in conversation following the screening.

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.

Presented by Kimball Arts Center AIR and the Comfort Station with Miguel Limón, generously hosted in Clayton Hauck’s .chicago . RSVP on our Events page to secure your spot!

Join us for an Uncomplicated Photography Workshop with AIR Ren Buenviaje June 28th from 2pm to 3:30pm 🫧Overwhelmed by ph...
06/08/2026

Join us for an Uncomplicated Photography Workshop with AIR Ren Buenviaje June 28th from 2pm to 3:30pm 🫧

Overwhelmed by photography jargon like “ISO” and “aperture size”? Or maybe you know these things but your photos still seem to be missing some oomph? Improve your photography by mastering the art of looking. We’ll talk about various ways to frame your subjects and add visual interest to your photos before going out, weather permitting, to put your new learnings into practice. Bring your favorite camera—even a phone will do!—and a small subject to shoot, like a fruit or a bag charm.

RSVP on our Events Page to save your spot. This is a Free event for all!

Kick off our AIR Opening Reception and KAC Open House by joining a free Photo Embroidery workshop with artist in residen...
05/20/2026

Kick off our AIR Opening Reception and KAC Open House by joining a free Photo Embroidery workshop with artist in resident, ! Friday May 29th from 4 to 5:30pm in the Plant Lounge on the 2nd floor . RSVP on our events page to save your spot 🌱💜

All materials are provided, but we encourage you to bring your own photos + anything you’d like to adorn your image with. Light refreshments are available and there will be many more spaces to explore post workshop throughout the building!

Join us next Friday, May 29th for the Opening Reception of our current Artists in Residence exhibition as well as KAC Op...
05/19/2026

Join us next Friday, May 29th for the Opening Reception of our current Artists in Residence exhibition as well as KAC Open House! View the AIR exhibition on the 1st and 2nd floors of the building while you weave in and out of the open studios, workshops and offerings from spaces within KAC! Free and open to the public :)

AIR Exhibition with , , .mmxx

will lead a free Photo Embroidering workshop to start off the night! RSVP on our events page.

Photo Ops! .chicagopets and

Drop in Karaoke and Improv

Art Studios open and

Delicious drinks at

Our AIR Print Shop will also be popping up this day…come check out our incredible selection of archival artist prints from local Chicago Artists :)

SEE YOU THERE ☔️ or ☀️ !

Join us next Friday, May 29th for the Opening Reception of our current Artists in Residence exhibition as well as KAC Op...
05/19/2026

Join us next Friday, May 29th for the Opening Reception of our current Artists in Residence exhibition as well as KAC Open House! View the AIR exhibition on the 1st and 2nd floors of the building while you weave in and out of the open studios, workshops and offerings from spaces within KAC! Free and open to the public :)

AIR Exhibition with , , .mmxx

Photo Ops .chicagopets and

Drop in Karaoke and Improv

Art Studios open and

Delicious drinks at

Our AIR Print Shop will also be popping up this day…come check out our incredible selection of archival artist prints from local Chicago Artists :)

SEE YOU THERE ☔️ or ☀️ !

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