Events Archive
Behind the Lens: Hyers + Mebane
Photos at Zoom: Finding Joy in Community
Photos at Zoom: Politics and Protest
Lecture in Photography: Mimi Plumb
Teen Workshop: Remixing the Archive
FIRST LOOK: Fine Print Party
Lecture in Photography: Kristine Potter 
Conversations With the Curators: What Does Democracy Look Like? (Part II)
Conversations With the Curators: What Does Democracy Look Like? (Part I)
Lecture in Photography: Sam Contis
Voting Matters: Suppression, Access, and Democracy
Focal Point live with Jess T. Dugan and Rafael Soldi
MoCP Highlights: Viewing the Vault with Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director
MoCP Behind the Lens: Adriana Parrilla
Video Playlist: Historias del Pueblo
Plena Combativa Virtual Concert
Kiskeya Salón: Habla Más Que Tu Boca es Tuya: Part II
Kiskeya Salón: Habla Más Que Tu Boca es Tuya
MoCP Behind the Lens: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo 
MoCP Behind the Lens: Erika P. Rodríguez
Edra Soto Virtual Gallery Talk
MoCP Behind the Lens: Akinbode Akinbiyi
Photos at Zoom: Picturing Chicago
MoCP Behind the Lens: Carlos Javier Ortiz
Photos at Zoom: Approaches to Documentary
MoCP Behind the Lens: Aimée Beaubien 
Photos at Zoom: Alternative Processes
MoCP Behind the Lens: Lorenzo Triburgo
Photos at Zoom: Queerness and the Image
MoCP Behind the Lens: Christopher Gregory-Rivera
Photos at Zoom: Latin American Street Photography
MoCP Behind the Lens: Vera Lutter
Cyanotype Workshop
Photos at Zoom: Into the Vault with MoCP Director Natasha Egan
Lecture in Photography: Sarah Meister
Photos at Zoom: Recent Acquisitions 
MoCP Behind the Lens: Priya Kambli
Photos at Zoom: Photography as Social Practice
MoCP Behind the Lens: Ross Sawyers
Photos at Zoom: Portraiture and the Human Subject with Curatorial Assistant Lindley Warren Mickunas
MoCP Behind the Lens: Jay Wolke
Lecture in Photography: Anastasia Samoylova
Photos at Zoom: Constructed and Staged Images with Kristin Taylor
MoCP Behind the Lens: Mark Klett
Photos at Zoom: Color Theory with Curatorial Assistant Dylan Yarbrough
MoCP Behind the Lens: Cecil McDonald, Jr.
Photos at Zoom: Landscape and Place with Curatorial Assistant Jordan Putt
MoCP Behind the Lens: Clarissa Bonet
Photos at Zoom: Photographing the Domestic with Curatorial Assistant Emilie Plunkett
Photos at Zoom: Fundamentals of Photography
POSTPONED: The Bio-Adapter 
Public Tour and Gallery Talk with Leo Selvaggio 
Teen Night with Leo Selvaggio
CANCELLED - Focal Point Live: Lorenzo Triburgo and Che Gossett
Lecture in Photography: Stephanie Dinkins
Dragonfly Eyes Screening with Xu Bing
Opening Reception: In Real Life
Holiday Photo Book Bazaar
Lecture in Photography: Jessica Labatte
CANCELLED Lecture in Photography: Larry Fink
Teen Night
Photos at Noon: Contemporary Photography in China and Beyond
Video Playlist: Infinite Loops
MoCP After Dark
Honors Program: Day of the Dead Social
Curatorial Tour and Gallery Talk 
Opening Reception: Third Realm
Lectures in Photography: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa 
Lecture in Photography: Teju Cole - Writing and Thinking Photography
Eighth Blackbird
Photos at Noon: Viewer's Choice
Photos at Noon: Recent Acquisitions
Teen Night
Opening Reception: Go Down Moses
Photos at Noon: Chicago
FIRST LOOK: 2019 MoCP Fine Print Party
Teen Night: CPS Lives
Photos at Noon: Approaches to Documentary
Tonika Johnson: Folded Map
Lecture in Photography: Rebecca Senf
Chicago Stories: Unpacking Segregation in Chicago, Then and Now
Conversation: Dawoud Bey and Gaëlle Morel
Opening Reception
Big Read Kick-Off Event: Views of Global Migration: Haiti 
Curatorial Tour 
Film Screening: A Sharp Light That Shines
DARKROOM
Lecture in Photography: Lalla Essaydi
Photos at Noon: Global Migration
MoCP Teen Summit
Lecture in Photography: Shimon Attie
Symposium
Opening Reception: Stateless: Views of Global Migration
Holiday Photo Book Bazaar
Lecture in Photography: Barbara Kasten
MoCP After Dark
Video Playlist: Ralph Arnold and Outtakes
Lecture in Photography: Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Photos at Noon: Collage
Curatorial Tour and Gallery Talk 
Symposium: Unfinished Business! The South Side and Chicago Art
“Say It With Pictures” Then and Now: Chicago’s African American Photographers 
Opening Reception: The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold and Echoes: Reframing Collage
Lecture in Photography: Lucas Foglia
Honors Program Student Meet and Greet
Celebrating South Side Stories
Florence Williams: The Nature Fix
Photos at Noon: Constructed and Staged Images
Photos at Noon: Landscape and Place
Family Day: Natural Elements
Photos at Noon: Portraiture and the Human Subject
MoCP Teen Night
Urban Nature Walk
Photos at Noon: Fundamentals of Photography
Photos at Noon: Race and Representation
FIRST LOOK: 2018 MoCP Fine Print Party
Beyond Black Panther: Celebrating Sci-Fi in Books and Comic Books 
Lecture in Photography: Lesley A. Martin
Post Now and Post New: Afrofuturist Themes in Contemporary Art Practice 
Special Teen Workshop: Afrofuturist Art + Writing
Video Playlist: Ten Toes Down
Artist Talk: Alun Be
In Their Own Form: Opening Reception + Artist Talk
Lecture in Photography: Jennifer Blessing
Lunch and Learn: Socially Engaged Art with the Dammeyer Fellow
DARKROOM 2018
Print Viewing
Lecture in Photography: Diana Matar
Opening Reception: Traversing the Past
Book Signing Party
Video Playlist: Inside/outside
Lecture in Photography: Zackary Drucker
Panel Discussion: Vulnerability and the LGBTQ Community
Reception: Jess T. Dugan at Center on Halsted
MoCP After Dark
Lecture in Photography: Corey Keller | Take a Picture, It'll Last Longer
Satellite Exhibition: Center on Halsted
Dammeyer Fellow Fall Reception
Opening Reception + Conversation
Lecture in Photography: John Divola
Print Viewing with Kelli Connell
MoCP Family Day
Print Viewing: Found Photography
A Walk to Meet the Remediators 
re:collection Print Viewing
Opening Reception: re:collection
Exhibition Tour
Never Sorry Screening at Low Res Studio
#AiWeiwei Book Release Party
FIRST LOOK: 2017 MoCP Fine Print Party
MoCP Museum Council Social - #AiWeiwei 
#AiWeiwei at the MoCP - MANIFEST
Lecture in Photography: Charlotte Cotton
Earth Day Celebration - Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy on the Southeast Side
Panel Discussion: Art, Politics, and the Media in the Era of Post-Truth
Conversation: About Ai Weiwei - Natasha Egan, Dr. John Tancock, and Jennifer Dorothy Lee
Opening Reception: #AiWeiwei
Lecture in Photography: Malcolm Daniel
Poetry Reading: Maria Barnas and Danielle Rosen
Video Playlist: Tantrum of Textures
Lecture in Photography: Barbara Tannenbaum | Will Success Spoil Photography?
The Shadow
Opening Reception - Viviane Sasssen: UMBRA
Viviane Sassen: UMBRA
Artist Talk: The Trinity Project
Lecture in Photography: Vik Muniz
Nollywood Panel Discussion and Book Signing
Wabash Arts Corridor Crawl at MoCP
Lecture in Photography: Iké Udé
Opening Reception - Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty
Excursion: The Black Snake Tour of Aurora 
MoCP Museum Council Fall Social
Lecture in Photography: Joel-Peter Witkin
Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy Symposium
Lecture in Photography: Martha Rosler
Workshop - Seeing Dust: DIY Particle Sensor
Workshop and Discussion: Mapping Petroleum Lives
Excursion: Bubbles and Clouds
Opening Reception - Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy
FIRST LOOK: 2016 Fine Print Party
Video Playlist: In the here and the there 
MoCP Presents: Picture Me Student Exhibition
Book Signing and Reception with Christina Seely, Brad Temkin and Alice Hargrave
Opening Reception: Burnt Generation and Midwest Photographers Project - Hossein Fatemi
Lecture in Photography: Nadav Kander
Lecture in Photography: Mark Sealy
Symposium: The Unstable Image
DARKROOM 2016
Lecture in Photography: Zanele Muholi
Opening Reception: MoCP at 40
MoCP at 40
Lecture in Photography: Christian Boltanski
Conversation: Armin Linke and Lisa Yun Lee
Lecture in Photography: Richard Mosse
Video Playlist: Genius Loci 
Panel Discussion: Iman Issa, Basim Magdy, and Onur Öztürk; moderated by Karen Irvine
Opening Reception: Grace of Intention
Lecture in Photography: Deana Lawson
Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument
Lecture: The Cultural Context of North Korean Politics with Bruce Cumings 
Lecture: Penelope Umbrico
Panel Discussion: Inside North Korea
Lecture in Photography: Anne Wilkes Tucker
North Korean Perspectives Opening Reception
North Korean Perspectives
FIRST LOOK: MoCP 2015 Fine Print Release Party
Video Playlist: Rashayla Marie Brown
Lectures in Photography: Broomberg and Chanarin
Ekphest: Eric Elshtain and Mikey Peterson at MoCP
Symposium - Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity
Opening Reception: Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity
Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity
Talking Back: Chicago Youth Respond Opening Reception
Lectures in Photography: Jeffrey Hoone
Film Screening: Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Video Playlist: An Ordinary Instant
DARKROOM
Lectures in Photography: Britt Salvesen
Reading and Discussion: Meena Alexander
You and Me
What Remains
Studio Visit to Mana Contemporary
MoCP Holiday Book Sale
Blues in Black and White: Documenting the Culture of a Music With David Grazian, Tom Lunt, and Mark Pohlad, moderated by Monica Hairston O’Connell
Ekphest; A Festival of Art + Word at MoCP
The Chicago Music Scene: Jim DeRogatis and Jessica Hopper
Lecture in Photography: Michael Schmelling
MoCP Museum Council Fall Social
Exhibition Opening Reception - Michael Schmelling: Your Blues
Michael Schmelling: Your Blues
MoCP Presents: Yr Blues (Concert) at the Empty Bottle
Video Playlist: The Old Spaghetti Factory
Lecture in Photography: Carrie Mae Weems
Phantoms in the Dirt: Curator's Tour
Michael L. Abramson: Pulse of the Night - Exhibition Reception
Artist Discussion with Anya Gallaccio, Jay Heikes and Adam Schreiber
Michael L. Abramson: Pulse of the Night
Exhibition Opening Reception: Phantoms in the Dirt 
Phantoms in the Dirt
FIRST LOOK: MoCP Fine Print Release Party
Film Screening, Conversation and Book Signing - Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Video Playlist: A Space For The Thing I Am Given
Mother's Day at MoCP
Panel Discussion: Representations of Motherhood
Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Ann Fessler
Lectures in Photography & co-presentation with the MoCP : Susan Bright 
Exhibition Opening Reception: Home Truths
Gallery Talk and Book Signing: Exhibiting artists Tierney Gearon, Elinor Carucci and MoCP Curator and Associate Director Karen Irvine
Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood
Talking Back: Chicago Youth Respond
Lectures in Photography: Quentin Bajac
Gallery Talk: Exhibiting artist Thomas Sauvin and exhibition curator and MoCP Director Natasha Egan
Gallery Talk and Reception with Simon Menner
Lectures in Photography: Todd Hido
aroundcenter Panel and Chicago Projections Book Launch
Exhibition Reception: Archive State
Friends of MoCP Event: Archive State VIP Breakfast
Archive State Panel Discussion
Archive State
Discussion: Dieter Roelstraete, David Hartt and Geissler/Sann
Video Playlist: Gravitational Pull
Exhibition Tour with Curator Karen Irvine
An Evening with David Plowden: Closing Reception for Heartland: The Plains and the Prairie exhibit. 
Andrew Forsthoefel Talk: Walking to Listen
Lectures in Photography: Leslie Hewitt
Of Walking Exhibition Reception
Lectures in Photography: LaToya Ruby Frazier
Exhibition Reception and Gallery Talk
Backstory Creative Response Readings 
Wabash Arts Corridor Crawl: Backstory Reception 
Reading and Discussion: Nicholas Muellner
Tour of Field Museum Exhibition Featuring Work by Artist Terry Evans
Print Viewing: Backstory: Into the Collection 
Exhibition Tour with Curator Karen Irvine
2013 MoCP Fine Print Release Party
Spectators Sports Gallery Talk
Members-Only Reception: "Model Studies" at the Graham Foundation
Conversation with Exhibiting Artist Michelle Grabner and Exhibition Curator Allison Grant
Video Playlist: Closed Circuit Sparks curated by Michael Robinson
Book Release Party and Signing: Teaching Artist Handbook: Volume 1
Screening and Discussion with Brett Kashmere and Lester Munson
Spectator Sports Opening Reception and Gallery Talk
Talking Back: Chicago Youth Respond Opening Reception
The Poetics of Place: Reading and Discussion
Members Cocktails and Tour of Victoria Sambunaris
Collection Viewing: Picturing the American Landscape
Exhibition Tour with MoCP Director Natasha Egan
Reception and Lecture: Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape
