We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

This exhibition brings together a multi-generational collective of diverse Chicago-based artists who use the art of portraiture to examine the human condition delving into its deep archive of history, resilience, and personal truth. By intentionally mixing artists of all ages and abilities, the exhibition collapses traditional hierarchies, focusing instead on the universal impulse to see and be seen. EXHIBITION runs from SEPT 5 through 26

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

These 23 animation artists demonstrate a wide variety of visual styles, subject matters, narrative perspectives and they employ diverse methods of storytelling. All were chosen because they demonstrate the excellence of local and international DIY animators. 

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

Agitator Gallery invites artists from the Riot In Flatland Exhibit & Worldwide Journal to present their work to be critiqued. Today’s session will focus on a moderated panel discussion featuring exhibiting artists discussing their art practices. Other artists are invited to display select pieces to a group of peers invited to analyze and discuss the artwork. Each artist will introduce your work, answer questions and receive feedback. These critique sessions are a great opportunity to network, workshop ideas and get input as you promote projects or develop new pieces. To participate contact Agitator member Alex Wilson at AudioImageChicago@gmail.com. Include your name, description of your art project and jpeg picture files of each piece. $15-20 donation encouraged to help support gallery operating costs, or pay what you can / no one turned away.

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

PUBLICATION RELEASE PARTY - for Agitator Comics WORLDWIDE / Journal Vol 6. The artists featured tonight (published in the comics journal) will present and engage in a symposium discussion about the role of comics artists in worldwide cultural exchange and other broad international influences within the field. All the while selling their comics at the expo table sales; come get unique and local DIY comics art titles! EVENT is off-site at Sheep Cult Comics / 1632 N Milwaukee Ave.

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

An exhibition of DRAWN CONCLUSIONS. These artists utilize observation of the physical world and then incorporate it with imaginative interventions of the mind to create images composed by handmarking (literally the act of drawing a stylus or material across a surface). EXHIBITION runs from AUG 1 through 29

PUBLICATION RELEASE PARTY - Comics artists recruited from Korea, Europe, and other international locales present their work with Chicago artists in our gallery exhibition and are published in Agitator Comics! WORLDWIDE: (journal #6) that spans audiences across all languages and cultures. Get first copies of the newly published comics anthology.

Agitator Artists Collective and Sheep Cult Comics proudly presents: The Chicago Noise Free-Jazz Orchestra, (CNFJO) Performance Series featuring: Kat Karasi & Blue Dreams
Performing at: Sheep Cult Comics, 1632 N Milwaukee Ave.
These are free shows. Still, please consider buying stuff. You know, Stuff. Like a book or musician’s merch or something!

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

Join us at the gallery for an artist led workshop of mixing, mash-ups, hybridity and intersectionality.  Participants will use printed matter (newspapers, magazines, discarded books) to create new works of art. All are welcome to bring your own ephemera (printed materials, etc.) Adhesives, paper and scissors will be supplied. All ages & technical levels welcome. 

Workshop led by Unsettled Territories artists: JEANNIE HUA , KATHRYN HEMPEL & MICHAEL ANTHONY GARCIA

Agitator Gallery invites artists to present their work to be critiqued. Today’s session will focus on a moderated panel discussion featuring all three exhibiting artists on their art practices. Other artists are invited to display select pieces to a group of peers invited to analyze and discuss the artwork. Each artist will introduce your work, answer questions and receive feedback. These critique sessions are a great opportunity to network, workshop ideas and get input as you promote projects or develop new pieces. To participate contact Agitator member Alex Wilson at AudioImageChicago@gmail.com. Include your name, description of your art project and jpeg picture files of each piece. $15-20 donation encouraged to help support gallery operating costs, or pay what you can / no one turned away.

Join the artists at the gallery for a guided discussion about their works and the process—and artforms of— collage and content-mixing, mash-ups, hybridity and intersectionality. Others are welcome to bring your own art for critique but contact the organizers ahead of time.

Talk/Crit led by Unsettled Territories artists: JEANNIE HUA , KATHRYN HEMPEL & MICHAEL ANTHONY GARCIA

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

The Chicago Noise / Free Jazz Orchestra is an experiment. By intention there is no one prescribed way the orchestra will function. Musicians arrive by 7:00pm for refreshments and set up. We start at 7:30pm and finish up around 10:30pm. The conductor sets the rules. Free jazz and noise musicians are invited to participate. Bring your own amps, cables, extension cords, and power strips.

THURSDAY EVENINGS – the THIRD Thurs of the month

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

KATHRYN HEMPEL, MICHAEL ANTHONY GARCIA & JEANNIE HUA / Three artists exhibit works which utilize strategies of collage, construction, recontextualization and interweaving to create layered totems of meaning. Across photography, mixed media, and sculptural intervention, the artists reveal the unseen infrastructures—emotional and physical, political and personal—that govern how we inhabit the world. Their works do not merely depict fragmented realities; they inhabit them, making visible the ruptures and possibilities that form contemporary lived experience. 

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $12 - $20 to pay the model

The Chicago Noise / Free Jazz Orchestra is an experiment. By intention there is no one prescribed way the orchestra will function. Musicians arrive by 7:00pm for refreshments and set up. We start at 7:30pm and finish up around 10:30pm. The conductor sets the rules. Free jazz and noise musicians are invited to participate. Bring your own amps, cables, extension cords, and power strips.

Artist Agusto Yanacopulos and curator Alonso Galue will discuss the artworks in the exhibit Sacred Madness and also…Agitator Gallery invites artists to present work to be discussed by a group of your peers. In one evening up to 6 artists will display their art to a panel who are invited to analyze the work.

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model

For four decades, Augusto Yanacopulos has transformed “sacred madness” into a creative method. This retrospective exhibit brings together for the first time his emblematic paintings, mythological hybrids, nude figures in dreamlike landscapes, and theatrical scenographies turned into art, alongside documentation of his most celebrated stage designs. EXHIBITION runs from June 5 through 27

We strive to offer as wide a range of figure models as possible, to reflect the fact we live in a very diverse society. Beginners and attendees without prior figure drawing experience are welcome. Feel free to ask the session monitors for guidance and advice. We’ve got basic drawing materials to share too. Donations: sliding scale $15 - $20 to pay the model