Exhibition Type: Has Educator Resources

In response to Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star, this exhibition showcases photographs and films by Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol pulled from the museum’s permanent collection and the Midwest Photographers Project.

Exploring Puerto Rico’s contemporary history, this exhibition showcases documentation of protests, life during and after María, and art of the resistance.

Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the MoCP invited seven faculty members from Columbia College Chicago to mine the MoCP’s permanent collection of 16,000 objects.

Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency explores the psychological, physical, and emotional realities women encounter in the years leading up to, during, and after fertility.

Much Unseen is Also Here brings together the works of two major artists who both consider the theater of the landscape, monumentality, cultural history, and representation.

Exploring how sexism, racism, colorism, transphobia, and other biases are embedded in visual popular culture.

Examining family stories originating during World War II, the Qaddafi regime in Libya, and the Croatian War of Independence, Traversing the Past: Adam Golfer, Diana Matar, Hrvoje Slovenc is a visual meditation on the complex relationship between personal narratives and political histories.

A companion exhibition to The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics, Echoes: Reframing Collage examines the parallels between Arnold’s work and 21st-century artists.