EVENTS CALENDAR
Join us at AGITATOR GALLERY for these exhibitions, performances, lectures, recurring classes and workshops; all open to the public.
Figure DRAWING
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
Off-Site Performance: Kat Karasi & Blue Dreams
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!
Riot in Flatland - Exhibit Opening
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
Agitator Comics! Worldwide- Publication Release
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.
Figure DRAWING
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Artists Salon Crits
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.
Figure DRAWING
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Artists Salon Crits
Agitator Gallery invites artists to present their work to be critiqued. In one evening up to 6 artists will display select pieces to a group of peers invited to analyze and discuss the artwork. Each artist will have 15-20 minutes to 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.
Free Jazz Orchestra
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.
Unsettled Territories - Collage Workshop
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
Artists Salon Crits
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.
Unsettled Territories - Artist Talk
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Free Jazz Orchestra
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Unsettled Territories - exhibit opening
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.
Figure DRAWING
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Free Jazz Orchestra
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 Talk & Group Critique
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.
Figure DRAWING
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Sacred Madness: A Retrospective
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
Figure DRAWING
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
Off-Site Performance: Smith & Mosley
Agitator Artists Collective and Sheep Cult Comics proudly presents: The Chicago Noise Free-Jazz Orchestra, (CNFJO) Performance Series featuring: Smith & Mosley
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!
STARTWARZ / WARSSTAR / WARZSTART Artist Talk & Exhibition Closing
Tonight meet the artists, hear them discuss their love of Star Wars and their history as graffiti writers. Tonight is the closing of the exhibit and last chance to see these one-of-a-kind art pieces created by talented local graffiti writers, street artists & visual artists.
ARTIST TALK runs from 7:30-9:00pm
Figure DRAWING
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
Off-Site Performance: Rue Mori and Braeden Rodriguez
Agitator Artists Collective and Sheep Cult Comics proudly presents: The Chicago Noise Free-Jazz Orchestra, (CNFJO) Performance Series featuring: Rue Mori and Braeden Rodriguez
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!
Free Jazz Orchestra
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
Figure DRAWING
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: $15-$20
Off-Site Performance: Pepper Pepper Pepper
Agitator Artists Collective and Sheep Cult Comics proudly presents: The Chicago Noise Free-Jazz Orchestra, (CNFJO) Performance Series featuring: PEPPER PEPPER PEPPER
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!
Figure DRAWING
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
Cirkus Sparks!! Evening of Art/Performance
Chicagos’ local artists, poets, acrobats, clowns and circus performers come together for a night of festivities and celebration to raise funds for the SPARK CIRCUS’ Stardust School of Circus Arts in Mae Sot Thailand. Come one, come all! FREE admission; though donations encouraged. Buy some art, support community empowerment through circus arts & enjoy an evening of variety entertainment.
Off-Site Performance: Geyser Lense
Agitator Artists Collective and Sheep Cult Comics proudly presents: The Chicago Noise Free-Jazz Orchestra, (CNFJO) Performance Series featuring: GEYSER LENSE
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!
Figure DRAWING
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: $15-$20
Propagation Lab - Stop Motion Plant
STOP MOTION PLANT are the 2025-2026 Artists in Residence at Agitator Gallery. They host monthly PROPAGATION LABS to offer open studio time to share ideas, create community and work on projects together. Just like their Salon Series, the Propagation Labs are “masks required” (to keep all safe). Join us, meet new people, make new art and have fun!
MONDAY EVENINGS - First Monday of the month
Labs are 6:30 - 9:00pm / Free to join in!
STARTWARZ / WARSSTAR / WARZSTART Exhibition
Agitator Gallery and Renegades of Funk announce a graffiti-centered art exhibition celebrating one of the most impactful franchises in film history–Star Wars. The exhibit will feature a dazzling array of one-of-a-kind art pieces created by talented local graffiti writers, street artists & visual artists.
EXHIBITION runs from May 2 through 27
ART.NIGHT Chicago: EVENING of PRESENTATIONS
The Agitator Artist Collective are pleased to host: ART.NIGHT CHICAGO a series of artistic, academic, cultural, personal topics... presenters share their passions to the ArtNight crowd in this lyceum series. Tonightwill feature these presenters:
- ABIERRE MINOR - BRAD MEINEKE - EMILY KAPP - BOBBI RUTH - MATTHEW HAMILTON