ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60657

Exhibitions

Closeup of pitch pipe device, which includes smushed glass globe and metal mechanics

June 14th 2025 – July 28th 2025

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Tess Oldfield / Curated by Inés Arango-Guingue

ACRE Projects Lakeview

ACRE is supported in part by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Good Chaos, Field Foundation, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Arts Work Fund, and Illinois Arts Council Agency

Lead Sponsors: Ann Meisinger and Chris Woodbury, Julia and Larry Antonatos, Patti Gilford, Valerie Carberry and Richard Wright, Jay Dandy and Melissa Weber

Event Sponsors: DOCUMENT, OtherPeoples Pixels, Driehaus Museum, ARTPOWER, Marz Brewing, Citadelle Gin, Planteray Rum, Vineyard Brands, Apologue Liqueurs, Exfolia Botanical, Schlep

Updates

Quadrant photo with images of artists on ACRE campus

ACRE Announces 2025 Artist Residents

Grayscale photograph of Inés Arango-Guingue wearing a sweater vest and looking at the camera.

ACRE Announces Inés Arango-Guingue as 2025 - 2027 Curatorial Fellow

A collage of 4 images, 3 people leaning over a screen and painting, a group from a distance in a green landscape on a tour, 4 femme people stand and sit laughing together in outdoors, and a person helps another person work with the chop saw.

Applications Open for Summer 2025 on October 7

Green square with white and black text and a red line that reads: ACRE adopts PACBI, We stand with the Palestinian people struggling for a free and liberated Palestine and with the artists around the world working in solidarity towards this goal.

ACRE adopts PACBI

A collage of 4 images, 3 people leaning over a screen and painting, a group from a distance in a green landscape on a tour, 4 femme people stand and sit laughing together in outdoors, and a person helps another person work with the chop saw.

Applications Open for Summer 2024

a group of artists gather at a picnic table with papers and other materials

What's Happening at ACRE This Summer

Smiling group of artists perched on picnic benches and in grass on a sunny day

ACRE Awarded $80k Chicago Arts Recovery Program Grant

A group of smiling artists pose for an end-of-session portrait in front of tall grass and sloping trees

ACRE Awarded $50k Ruth Arts Core Grant

people in a field

ACRE Announces 2022 Artist Residents

Femme presenting person with dark skin sings into a microphone in front of a band.

ACRE Receives Grant from National Endowment for the Arts

Artists lined up facing each other in front of the lodge doing workshop exercise

ACRE Announces 2021 Artist Residents

Lush green fields of ACRE

ACRE's 2021 Admissions Cycle

Students and teachers pose in Zoom chat with their food creations

ACRE + CAPE Launch Remote Learning Partnership

Exhibition visitors playing with cement blocks

ACRE Awarded DCASE CityArts Program Grant

Group of artists talking a walk in a bright green field

ACRE's Summer Residency Program - COVID-19 Response

ACRE Response to COVID-19 + Resources for Artists

Installation image of exhibition with microphone and pa, crocheted dome, and white room divider with drawings in marker.

COVID-19 Update: ACRE Projects Closed Until Further Notice

People gather in gallery at opening reception

ACRE Participates in Artists Run Chicago 2.0

Artists seated at red picnic table at sunset

ACRE Receives Grant from National Endowment for the Arts

Installation image of exhibition with microphone and pa, crocheted dome, and white room divider with drawings in marker.

ACRE Proudly Announces 2020-2021 Curatorial Fellows