Exhibitions and Programs
Fall 2025
Eye to Eye
September 2 - December 11, 2025
Mark Takamichi Miller, Moving Couple, 2003, Acrylic on canvas
Eye to Eye is an exhibition exploring portraiture as a vehicle to share personal, historical, and mythological stories about identity, cultural memory and contemporary life. This interdisciplinary exhibition showcases photographs, paintings, prints, and sculptures by more than 40 artists spanning over 180 years.
Pokagon Potawatomi Black Ash Baskets: Our Storytellers
April 29 - December 11, 2025
John Low, Photograph of "Strawberry Basket" by Jamie Chapman
On view at the Schingoethe Center and the Edith Farnsworth House.
Pokagon Potawatomi Black Ash Baskets: Our Storytellers explores the artistry, tradition, and importance of basketmaking among the Pokagon band of the Potawatomi people. For the Pokagon Potawatomi, these baskets are regarded with the utmost honor, treated as living members of the community. However, over the past century, the practice of basket weaving has been threatened; first by the enforcement of oppressive government regulations and now by the ecological threat presented by the Emerald Ash Borer beetle.
Spring 2026
Mapping Territories: The Art of Exile in
Pilsen - Chicago
January 13 - May 15, 2026
René Arceo, Monarca cielo arriba | Papillon monarque, ciel levé | Monarch Sky Above, 2003
José Austin Andreu, Botecito soñando árbol | Petit bâteau rêvant d'un arbre | Little boat dreaming tree, 2007
The exhibition Mapping Territories: The Art of Exile in Pilsen traces work created by printmakers in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood over the last century. The works featured in the exhibition demonstrate the social and political struggles migrants faced and the resilient cultural neighborhood they created.
Click here for Past Exhibits and Programs.
Ongoing Exhibitions
Contemporary Native American Art Display
Marlin Johnston Gallery
Installation view of Contemporary Native American gallery
View selections of contemporary Native American art from the Schingoethe Center Collection. Artists on display include:
- Peggy Black (Navajo)
- Julie Buffalohead (Ponca)
- Dan Friday (Lummi)
- Tammy Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo)
- Edgar Hachivi Heap of Birds (Cheyenne)
- Lisa Holt (Cochiti Pueblo)
- Erica Lord (Athabascan / Inupiat)
- Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo)
- Chris Pappan (Kanza / Osage / Lakota Descent)
- Lilliana Pitt (Warm Springs / Wasco / Yakama)
- Harlan Reano (Santo Domingo Pueblo)
- Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke)
- Preston Singletary (Tlingit)
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish)
- Angela Swedberg (Tribally Certified Indian Artisan)
- Emmi Whitehorse (Navajo)
- Dwayne Wilcox (Oglala Lakota)
- Debra Yepa-Pappan (Jemez Pueblo)
Click here to see works currently on display.