On February 21, 2026, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University hosted a keynote conversation in conjunction with the exhibition Hamdia Traoré: Des marabouts de Djenné and Muslim Portraiture in Mali.
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Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Exhibition Keynote [Video]
On February 7, 2026, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University opened Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill, an exhibition by artist and anthropologist Teresa Montoya (Diné). The evening featured a keynote address by Montoya, followed by a conversation with art historian Carl Fuldner. The program was introduced […]
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The Block Museum presents 2026 photography exhibitions by Hamdia Traoré and Teresa Montoya
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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Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art Presents “Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper”
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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Art for Zhegagoynak: A Resource Guide to a Local History
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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Color Tests and Cookbooks: Inside the Frankenthaler Archives
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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More than 20 new works acquired by The Block in conjunction with the exhibition “Woven Being”
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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“Woven Being: A Sound Reflection” offers a new way to engage with the exhibition
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 Featured in Art Design Chicago Community Engagement Case Studies
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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Putting Down Roots: Jacqueline Lopez on the work of Jordan Ann Craig
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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