Museums and Galleries
The seven galleries that make up the Columbia Arts District engage the public in the emerging culture of our times--in the languages of painting, collage, sculpture, performance art, and more. Three are dedicated exclusively to student work.
The details:
A&D Gallery
Center for Book and Paper Arts
Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Fashion Columbia Study Collection
Gallery at the Library
A&D Gallery
Gallery hours: variable
Address: 619 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL 60605
What's showing? Check our calendar.
Operated by Columbia's Department of Art and Design, the A + D Gallery presents professional exhibitions and educational programming that encompasses the broadest possible definition of visual art and design. A+D Gallery's exhibitions speak to a vast array of ideas, media, and techniques explored by artists today. More...
Center for the Book and Paper Arts
Gallery hours: variable
Address 1104 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
Located in the historic Ludington Building, the Chicago Center for the Book and Paper Arts celebrates the tradition and possibilities of the paper arts. The gallery is just one aspect of a suite of programs that include community classes, degree programs, and studio rentals.More about the Center...
Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces
The Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces is the student centers and galleries of Columbia College. The spaces offer vibrant environments for students to interact, exchange ideas and showcase bodies of work. Students gain essential, hands-on experience, stimulating artistic expression and professional development. The community spaces feature student work from the college’s visual, performing, and media arts disciplines alongside internationally renowned artists.
DEPS consists of four art galleries: Glass Curtain Gallery, Hokin Gallery, C33 Gallery, and New Media Gallery (coming soon); three event spaces: Conaway Center, Hokin Annex and Stage Two (coming soon) and ShopColumbia, the student art store.More...
Fashion Columbia Study Collection
Hours: By Appointment Only
Address: 1006 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
The Fashion Columbia Study Collection preserves garments and accessories representative of 20th-century men's and women's Western fashion, and ethnic or non-Western costumes, and it provides a research facility for faculty, students, and fashion professionals. More ...
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Gallery hours: Mo-Sa: 10am to 5pm, Th: 10am to 8pm, Su: noon to 5pm
Address: 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
What's happening? Check the calendar.
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) is a stimulating and innovative forum for the collection, creation, and examination of contemporary image-making in its camera tradition and in its expanded vocabulary of digital processes.
Accredited by the American Association of Museums, www.aam-us.org/ the museum is the leading photography museum in the Midwest presenting projects and exhibitions and acquiring works that embrace a wide range of contemporary aesthetics and technologies. The museum offers students, educators, research specialists, and general audiences an intimate and comprehensive visual study center. More ...
Gallery at the Library
Address: 624 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
Presenting the work of Columbia College Chicago students, faculty, staff, and alumni, the Art of the Library program exhibits works in all forms of visual arts, including sculpture, painting, drawings, and paper and book arts. Exhibitions by different artists are shown quarterly on a rotating basis. More...