ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60657

Exhibitions

Black and white pencil drawing of two candles. One candle sits in a candle holder while the other is held in an outstretched hand. The wicks of the two cancles touch. A second hand holds a lighter that lights both of the candles at once. The drawing is in a brick-patterned frame and hung from two white brackets.

January 17th 2025 – February 28th 2025

I Am A Thing That Holds Something Else

ACRE Projects Lakeview

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

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

Image composite of 4 images artists working in the ceramics area, holding a studio visit, a landscape with sunset, and working in the screen print studio.

ACRE Announces 2019 Artist Residents

Announcing 2019 Admission Panelists