On November 12, 2025, The Block Museum welcomed artists Anna Kunz and Soo Shin and art historian Lane Relyea for Printmaking in Process, an evening shaped by the spirit of experimentation at the heart of Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper. Moderated by exhibition co-curator Stephanie S. E. Lee, the conversation […]
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On November 5, 2025, The Block Museum welcomed artist Chitra Ganesh for a public conversation celebrating the 2024–25 Student Acquisition: three prints from She the Question, her vivid series originally published as a 24-page comic book. Known for her subversive visual language, Ganesh draws from pop culture, science fiction, mythology, and Indian visual traditions to […]
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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 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 multidimensional work of artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) employs video, photography, music, and poetry as different pathways approaching Indigenous experience. In his two-channel video installation, Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer (2019) – on view in Fall 2021 alongside Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection – image, sound, and text […]
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As part of the Block Museum’s Student Acquisition initiative, Northwestern students in the 2020-2021 Block Museum Student Associates program selected artist Leonard Suryajaya’s Quarantine Blues (2020) for the museum’s collection. Suryajaya’s work explores complex intersections of intimacy, community and family, and how the “everyday is layered with histories, meanings, and potential.” In October 2021, Suryajaya joined the […]
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Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection considers our constantly changing understanding of the past through the lens of artistic practice. On September 29, 2021 the Block Museum hosed a keynote conversation with exhibition artists Andrea Carlson, Tonika Lewis Johnson, and Chris Pappan who discussed how artists, artworks, and museums shape and challenge […]
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This past October writer, curator, and graphic designer Ellen Lupton shared her perspective on design at the Goldsholl studio, the focus of the 2018 Block exhibition Up is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio. In the 1950s and ’60s, the Goldsholl design firm’s creative experiments with light and media found […]
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Over 350 guests joined artist Hank Willis Thomas at the Block Museum on April 14, 2018 for a talk on his politically charged work and the Block Museum exhibition Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded. The exhibition brings together selections from two bodies of work: Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968-2008 and Unbranded: A Century of White […]
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From January 21 to April 16 Kader Attia’s Reflecting Memory will be on display at the Block Museum. Attia’s exploration of cultural differences, specifically concepts of trauma and repair, afforded him the 2016 Prix Marcel Duchamp at the Centre Pompidou. The work being shown at the Block is based in part on his research at […]
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