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06/24/2026

Object Chat: Sage on Martin Wong's "Heaven"

How does a brick wall become heaven? Sage examines how brick is a recurring motif in Wong's work, celebrating urban life and the intrigue of what lies beyond them.

Sage Lin is an educator at Wrightwood 659 and a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist from Taiwan whose work explores memory, language, and the poetics of light and shadow through animation, installation, moving-image sculpture, and weaving.

Video by Cody Schlabaugh.

Educator Insight: Evelyn on Seba CalfuqueoHow can a community’s relationship to water be a source of freedom? Evelyn exp...
06/20/2026

Educator Insight: Evelyn on Seba Calfuqueo

How can a community’s relationship to water be a source of freedom? Evelyn explores Seba Calfuqueo’s works “Mercado de aguas” and “Kowkülen (ser liquido)” to highlight Mapuche relationships with Chile’s freshwater.

Evelyn Hernández is an educator at Wrightwood 659 and arts worker* from Chicago. Having worked within creative spaces, she’s committed to create purposeful art experiences that provide self-reflection, an understanding and connection with others, and overall bring joy into people’s lives, believing that through art we can build a kinder world.

Images: Seba Calfugueo, still from “Kowkülen (Ser Liquido),” digital video, 2020, 3:29 min. Courtesy of the artist.

Seba Calfugueo, detail still from “Kowkülen (Ser Liquido),” digital video, 2020, 3:29 min. Courtesy of the artist.

Installation view of “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present,” at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Shanti Knight.

Seba Calfugueo, detail still from “Kowkülen (Ser Liquido),” digital video, 2020, 3:29 min. Courtesy of the artist.

Educator Insight: Henry on Wilson Díaz's "Sementario"How can body politics take the form of Abstract expressionism? Henr...
06/19/2026

Educator Insight: Henry on Wilson Díaz's "Sementario"

How can body politics take the form of Abstract expressionism? Henry examines Wilson Díaz's "Sementario" to investigate how Diaz challenges concepts of stigma and morality.

Henry Tegethoff is an educator at Wrightwood 659, a practicing artist, and an art historian whose work focuses primarily on prehispanic visual cultures of the Americas and their connections to pre-extractivist modes of living.

Images: Detailed installation view of "Sementario" by Wilson Díaz (1996) installed at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Michael Vallera.

Detailed installation view of "Sementario" by Wilson Díaz (1996) installed at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Michael Vallera.

Installation view of "Sementario" by Wilson Díaz (1996) installed at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Michael Vallera.

ARTIST TALKJune 25"Nuestros mitos, nuestras memorias"[Our Myths, Our Memories: A Chat with Rember Yahuarcani]with curato...
06/18/2026

ARTIST TALK
June 25
"Nuestros mitos, nuestras memorias"
[Our Myths, Our Memories: A Chat with Rember Yahuarcani]
with curator Eduardo Carrera R.
Language: Spanish

Join us for a talk with Uitoto artist Rember Yahuarcani, a painter and activist whose work preserves and reimagines the myths and spiritual traditions of his culture. Through vivid, dreamlike imagery, his work captures Indigenous knowledge and memory — interlacing humans, spirits, flora, and fauna. His painting, "Conversación entre Juma, el dios Garza Blanca y Jitoma, el dios Sol" (2026), is the first painting guests see when they enter the exhibition, as it is a poignant work of art which gets to the core of the curation of the "Dispossessions in the Americas."

Following the lecture, Yahuarcani will discuss his recent painting commission for "Dispossessions in the Americas" with exhibition co-curator Eduardo Carrera R.

Yahuarcani is one of 36 artists featured in Dispossessions in the Americas. His work was recently presented at the 60th Venice Biennale, and he is widely recognized as one of the leading contemporary artists to emerge from the Amazonian region.

This event will include an interpreter who will translate Spanish to English.

Image: Installation view of "Conversación entre Juma, el dios Garza Blanca y Jitoma, el dios Sol" (2026), at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Shanti Knight.

Join us on June 20 at 5 PM at the Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church for a free screening and artist talk with Mapenzi Chi...
06/17/2026

Join us on June 20 at 5 PM at the Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church for a free screening and artist talk with Mapenzi Chibale Nonó of the duo Las Nietas de Nonó, in conversation with curator Jonathan D. Katz. The event is part of the exhibition "Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present," on view at Wrightwood 659 through July 18.

The program's location is distinctive and aligns with the socially engaged values of Wrightwood 659. Since the 1980s, Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church has supported people migrating to the United States and has consistently supported the LGBTQ+ community. In the ensuing years and through subsequent immigration-related crises, the church's immigration work has expanded under the guidance of the Rev. Dr. Beth Brown. As thousands of migrants were bused to Chicago in 2023, Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church led the formation of the Faith Community Initiative, an ecumenical partnership of Chicagoland faith communities committed to supporting, accompanying, and housing migrant families.

We look forward to welcoming you to this event!

Images: Las Nietas de Nonó, still of "Centurión," 2025, video. Cortesía del artistas.

Image of Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church.

Headshot of Mapenzi Chibale Nonó.

Headshot of Jonathan D. Katz.

06/17/2026

Object Chat: Linye on Martin Wong's "Chinese Laundry: A Portrait of the Artist's Parents"

What does it mean to paint a place where your family began? Educator Linye reflects on how Martin Wong's painting, "Chinese Laundry: A Portrait of the Artist's Parents" is an homage to the immigrant experience.

江麟冶 Linye Jiang is an educator at Wrightwood 659 and an artist living and working in Chicago whose practice evolves from the lens-based medium into sculptural and site-specific installation.



Video by Cody Shlabaugh.

PRIDE GALLERY WALKQ***r and Trans Artists in Focus"Dispossessions in the Americas"with curator Eduardo Carrera R.Join us...
06/16/2026

PRIDE GALLERY WALK
Q***r and Trans Artists in Focus
"Dispossessions in the Americas"
with curator Eduardo Carrera R.

Join us for a Pride Month gallery walk exploring q***r and trans artistic practices across the exhibition. We will look at how artists engage body, memory, desire, displacement, resistance, and collective histories through their work.

📍 Open to all
🗓️ Friday, June 26
🕐 1:00 PM & 4:00 PM
🗣️ English & Spanish

Images: Miguel Ángel Rojas, detail of "Me llaman Trinity y Nevada Smith," 1972. Graphite pencil on paper. 98 × 69.5 cm. Collection of Michael Sodomick.

Colectivo Tawna (Collaboration with Maite Arias), "LLAKI" (2025), photographs and video frames. Courtesy of Tawna.

Installation view of "Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present", at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Shanti Knight.

06/15/2026

The "Dispossessions in the Americas" Video Cycle is on now through July 18, 2026! Free to all, join us at Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church bi-weekly to experience a curated selection of groundbreaking video works.

"Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito" (Mommy and Me and My Little Rooster) (2019) is a personal short documentary by Dominican American artist and filmmaker Arisleyda Dilone, centering intersex embodiment, family narratives, and gender identity. In this 16-minute work, Dilone engages in a candid conversation with her mother about her childhood, body, surgical decisions, and experiences as an intersex person within a Dominican American family. Rejecting conventional documentary distance, the film employs quiet, direct address to explore intersections of migration, femininity, and familial expectation. Screened at venues including BAM, New Orleans Film Festival, Harvard University, Mercer Union, and MIX NYC, it exemplifies Dilone’s focus on lived experience as visual testimony and intergenerational reckoning.

Educator Insight: Jake on Lulu Molinares' "Camisa de fuerza para yo (contra)"How can craft practices function as a form ...
06/13/2026

Educator Insight: Jake on Lulu Molinares' "Camisa de fuerza para yo (contra)"

How can craft practices function as a form of resistance? Educator Jake examines how Lulu Molinares' sculpture, "Camisa de fuerza para yo (contra)" challenges societal norms through crocheted storytelling.

Jake Planer is an educator at Wrightwood 659 and is an art collector and independent curator especially interested in contemporary prints and paintings.

Images: Installation view of "Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present", at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Shanti Knight.

Installation view of "Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present", at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Shanti Knight.

Installation view of "Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present", at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Shanti Knight.

Educator Insight: Ese on Camilo Godoy's "What did they actually see?"How can the reinterpretation of histories through p...
06/12/2026

Educator Insight: Ese on Camilo Godoy's "What did they actually see?"

How can the reinterpretation of histories through performance and lens-based media disrupt colonial narratives of disenfranchised peoples? Educator Ese explores Camilo Godoy's intentional subversion of the colonial gaze in his series "What did they actually see?"

Ese Ametri Gagoh is an educator at Wrightwood 659 and Chicago based artist with focuses in photography, music production, film, and printmaking. Themes of religion, ritual, q***rness, relationships, and nature loom throughout their work, seeking to bring forth a sense of tranquility and togetherness.

Images: [Enhanced] Camilo Godoy, detail of "What did they actually see? (“Possessed”)," 2018, archival pigment print mounted on aluminum (printed 2026). Courtesy of the artist and PROXYCO Gallery, New York.

Installation view of "Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present," at Wrightwood 659, 2026. Photo by Shanti Knight.

[Enhanced] Camilo Godoy, detail of "What did they actually see? (“Deviant”)," 2018, archival pigment print mounted on aluminum (printed 2026). Courtesy of the artist and PROXYCO Gallery, New York.

[Enhanced] Camilo Godoy, "What did they actually see? (“Possessed”)," 2018, archival pigment print mounted on aluminum (printed 2026). Courtesy of the artist and PROXYCO Gallery, New York.

[Enhanced] Camilo Godoy, "What did they actually see? (“Pervert”)," 2018, archival pigment print mounted on aluminum (printed 2026). Courtesy of the artist and PROXYCO Gallery, New York.

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