In late September 2025, members of The Block Museum of Art’s Board of Advisors traveled to New York and New Haven for two days of art-filled experiences, conversation, and connection. Led by Lisa Corrin, The Block’s Ellen Philips Katz Executive Director, the weekend offered participants a glimpse into the museum’s national network of artists, alumni, […]
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On October 17, 2025, The Block Museum welcomed art historian and Stanford University professor Alexander Nemerov for an evening keynote reflecting on Helen Frankenthaler’s life and work. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper, the program invited audiences to consider what it means to be present […]
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On May 28, 2025, the Block Museum of Art hosted an evening devoted to the power of poetry, story, and language as part of the exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak / Chicagoland. In a program introduced by Erin Northington, Associate Director of Campus and Community Education and Engagement, and moderated by Northwestern English professor […]
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This April, the Block Museum of Art and the Center for Native Futures were honored to host two powerful evenings of artmaking and storytelling led by artist and culture keeper Kelly Church (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi/Ottawa). As a collaborating artist in Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, Church brought to life two traditional Anishinaabe art forms—birchbark […]
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Artist Jordan Ann Craig and poet m.s. RedCherries joined curator Jordan Poorman Cocker at The Block Museum for a powerful keynote conversation exploring Indigenous abstraction, storytelling, and kinship, in celebration of the exhibition it takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig. Watch full talk online.
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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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