On April 3, 2025 Block Cinema will host a historic screening of The Waiting Room (1974), marking its first public showing in over five decades. This rare cinematic event will take place at the Wirtz Center Chicago in Abbott Hall on Northwestern University’s Downtown Chicago campus, coinciding with the 2025 Society for Cinema and Media […]
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March 2025 program showcases rediscovered archival films and contemporary works by trans filmmakers. Block Cinema at Northwestern University proudly presents Trans Portraiture, a groundbreaking film series running throughout March 2025 that explores historical and contemporary representations of transgender lives on screen. Timed to culminate with International Trans Day of Visibility (March 31), the series spotlights […]
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On February 1, 2025, The Block Museum of Art welcomed a full house of visitors to a sunlit Galvin Recital Hall to celebrate the opening of Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak. Three of the exhibition’s collaborating anchor artists—Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), Jason Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), and […]
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On January 16, 2025, Terra Engagement Fellow Teagan Harris gave a virtual talk placing Shan Goshorn’s Cherokee Burden Basket: A Song for Balance (2012) in dialogue with Louise Erdrich’s novel The Night Watchman, the 2024-2025 One Book, One Northwestern selection. This talk is the second in a series exploring connections between works in The Block’s […]
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On November 13th, The Block Museum of Art was thrilled to welcome artist Cara Romero to Northwestern’s campus. Romero’s visit was a joyful chapter in a months-long collaboration with The Block that began in April, when two of her photographs, TV Indians (2017) and Amber Morningstar (2018), were acquired for The Block’s permanent collection through […]
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On October 23, 2024, The Block Museum of Art hosted a conversation between artist Federico Solmi and Ozge Samanci, Associate Professor in the School of Communication, moderated by exhibition curator Janet Dees. The evening highlighted Solmi’s immersive installation, “The Great Farce,” an intense, satirical exploration of power and historical narratives, on display at the museum. […]
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Despite the current exhibition of her photography at the Block, Bev Grant remains conflicted about being described as an artist. “The artistic eye which informed what I shot and how I framed it belongs to me,” she acknowledges, but “in fact, I took these photos mostly as part of my activism.” On October 9th, to […]
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On a sunny afternoon in late August, 16 people gathered in the grass of Northwestern’s sculpture garden to make a film. A cohort that included Northwestern faculty, Chicagoland graduate students, and analog film fanatics of all varieties, they came armed with 600 feet of 16mm film, film processing supplies, film splicers and tape, an array […]
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A Historic Festival Revisited offers a Tribute to Women Filmmakers and their Legacies This fall, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University and the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago proudly announce a joint celebration of the 50th anniversary of the pioneering Films by Women/Chicago ’74 festival. […]
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In a pair of selections from the artist’s Motion series, photographer Laura Aguilar’s body becomes a feature of the landscapes around her. Pictured alongside other women, her downturned face and nude body, angled away from the camera, appear almost topographical – luminous, human features frozen into the landscapes around them and detailed by the shadows […]
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