This winter, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents two exhibitions drawn from recent museum acquisitions of photographic portfolios. The exhibitions Hamdia Traoré’s Des marabouts de Djenné and Muslim Portraiture in Mali and Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years After the Gold King Mine Spill will be on […]
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Fall 2025 exhibition debuts transformative Frankenthaler Foundation gift in dialogue with museum collection. This fall, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper, on view September 17–December 14, 2025. The exhibition explores how artists have used printmaking—and works on paper more broadly—as a site […]
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What stories shape Chicago’s Native art scene? Who holds them, and where do we look to learn more? The Block is proud to share Art for Zhegagoynak: A Resource Guide to a Local History by Jacqueline Lopez, 2024-2025 Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow— chronicling seventy years of Indigenous-led artmaking, mentorship, and community building in the region now […]
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This spring, Corinne Granof, Block Museum Academic Curator and Stephanie S. E. Lee, 2024-25 Art History Graduate Fellow, spent a day at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York, gathering research for the exhibition Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper, opening at The Block in fall 2025. The visit offered insight […]
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The Block Museum of Art is pleased to announce several acquisitions over the course of 2023, 2024 and 2025 related to the exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland. The acquired works include pieces from the four Woven Being collaborating artists —Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent), Kelly Church (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi/Ottawa), Nora Moore Lloyd […]
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Since opening in January 2025, Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland at The Block Museum of Art has inspired tours, talks, classes, workshops, and performances. Now, through the work of Teagan Harris (Cherokee Nation), 2024-25 Terra Foundation Engagement Fellow, Woven Being includes a new kind of interpretive experience: a curated Spotify playlist that serves as a […]
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The Block Museum of Art is honored to be included in Community Engagement Case Studies: 2024, a new publication from Art Design Chicago and the Terra Foundation for American Art. The report highlights five cultural organizations across Chicago that are reimagining community collaboration and engagement in the arts. The Block’s case study focuses on the […]
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Artist Jordan Ann Craig’s (Northern Cheyenne) solo exhibition at The Block Museum at Northwestern University “it takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig” is her largest institutional exhibition to date and her first in the Chicago area. The exhibition invites a deep exploration of seven paintings, shown together for the […]
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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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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University proudly announces it takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig, the first major solo exhibition in the Midwest region of work by Jordan Ann Craig (Northern Cheyenne). Opening January 25, 2025, this exhibition will feature seven large-scale abstract paintings, all displayed together […]
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