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Lillstreet Gallery represents new & emerging artists in Chicago and around the US. Lillstreet Gallery is located on the first floor in Lillstreet Art Center.

The nationally curated gallery represents over 80 ceramic artists and over 30 jewelry artists. Along with handmade ceramics and jewelry, our gallery also has a 'museum store' that has an eclectic array of handmade (many vendors are affiliated with Lillstreet or are locally made) books, prints and paper goods, toys, beauty products, furniture, textiles and knitted goods, and more.

05/29/2026

New batch of pots from .by.be going quick! Catch them before they are gone in our shop or online!

05/22/2026

Doug Jeppesen is an associate professor of Art at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Doug organized and hosted the 2016 International Wood Fire Conference at Waubonsee Community College.

Come see what’s new in the gallery today!

05/13/2026

Threads Of Becoming- Aneliya Chalakova
May 1- 29
Annex Gallery

✨This contemporary weaving series explores the connection between nature and humanity-how both evolve, heal, and renew through cyclical rhythms. Rooted in a mindful, contemporary practice, the work combines natural fibers, texture, and design to reflect emotional landscapes and the harmony between the natural world and inner life.

Closing reception & Artist Talk
Friday, May 29, 5-7 pm

05/11/2026

Cindy Heineman
Critters and Blooms
Lounge Gallery
May 1- 31st, 2026

✨My father was a watercolor artist, and my mom a needlepoint artist, both creating their own work throughout my youth. Though for the most part not taught or trained by them, my world was formed by colorful creators around me, which gave me a sense of color. I never considered myself good at drawing and painting, though I constantly had my hands busy with various crafts, including knitting, rug hooking, embroidering, weaving, macrame, sewing, lacemaking and enameling. I was introduced to Lillstreet in 2009 by a friend, took a class with Neil and began to integrate metals into my work.
I’ve always appreciated nature and my work is increasingly reflecting this. I honor, document,and appreciate the natural world. Over time, my 2 dimensional work has evolving to reflect my interest in animals and flowers. Though I have used various media, the process is roughly the same. I usually begin by taking a picture, sizing it down, then making either a pattern or paper stencil from it. After transferring a patt to the base (metal, paper, or fabric), I build the color needed for the selected design through stenciling, painting, or stitching.

05/04/2026

We are kicking off Spring with a new Monthly Featured Artist program and we are delighted to begin with Chicago based ceramicist Dara Schuman! Stunning vases and mugs architecturally designed that you have to see in person. Stop by now or shop online for this amazing collection!

✨Each month Lillstreet highlights an artist celebrating the breadth of contemporary ceramics. We are deeply committed to showcasing a diverse selection of artists working at various stages of their creative and professional journeys.

04/06/2026

✨(Lounge Gallery) OUTGROWN: Kitt Gallan

Kitt is a mixed media artist currently based in Chicago. She works primarily in ceramics but dabbles in a variety of media including painting, drawing, metals, and textiles. Her current work explores how these materials can be woven together to form a cohesive narrative.

A gated vase tries to contain her garden but it is easy to see in, the geese migrate on to the next phase of their lives. Together, these works express the push and pull between being grounded and the desire to change and move forward, where attempts at holding back are at odds with the inevitability of exposure.

Kitt enjoys observing the everyday details of the world around her and collecting visual imagery and fabrication techniques to assemble illustrative expressions of her inner world. These works embrace fracture, repair, and adaptation as part of the making process, leaving the physical history visible in each piece.

She works out of Studio 202 at Lillstreet Art Center where she also works as a Studio Glaze Technician in the Ceramics Department.

Join us for an opening reception
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 5-8pm

03/11/2026

・・・
Hey everyone, I want to invite you all to my solo show here at lillstreet “The Ride Home”. As part of my residency here at the art center I’ve been given the opportunity to display and showcase my work in their upstairs gallery. The Reception and Artist talk will be on March 20th and start at 5pm and end at 7ish. There is also going to be a zoom call set up for anyone who wishes to see the talk an aren physically here in chicago, so feel free to sign up for that on the lillstreet sight or shoot a text send you that zoom link for the event.☀️

A bit about this show. Ive been creating work at the start of this residency that ties into a variety of thoughts and relationships between myself and the area and people I grew up around with back in my hometown of El Paso. There are images andreferences that display as homages and appreciation for a handful of people that carry an influence in my life and an understanding into who I am today. These ideas and thoughts and the pursuit of this show begin to gradually launch into my thesis projects and ideas of exploring forms of masculinity through vulnerability and the idea of how culture, traditions, and stereotypes prevent us from pursuing actions and voicing our thoughts in which might minimized. The cars and the rigged figures and idols of people that are presented in my work can reveal the contrast and exposure that I want to portray through the work as I continue my studies. Through this is a brief idea of what I’m hoping to discuss at my artist talk, i hope to explain more into depth and answer more thoughts and questions through conversations on the day of. Hope to see you all there. 🍻

✨Rooted in memories of growing up in El Paso, my ceramic work explores home as a site of family, vulnerability, and cultural belonging. Drawing from family photographs, neighborhood architecture, sculptural car forms, the work pays homage to the people and stories that shaped my early life in my community.

🍷 Closing reception & artist talk Friday, March 20, 5-7 pm.

03/04/2026

✨SHAPING VISION:

Faculty Exhibition, Drawing and Painting Department. March 1-31st, 2026

Shaping Vision explores the ways in which teaching artists develop their own work, while also cultivating the education of student painters. The work featured is in a wide variety of techniques taught at Lillstreet such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, collage, gouache, ink, mixed media pencil and charcoal, both realistic and abstract. It is a dizzying array of the talented teaching artists at Lillstreet.

Join us for the opening reception
🍷 Thursday, March 5, 5-8 pm.

Featuring works by Sarah Bastress, Erik Brown, Melanie Brown, Lydia Cash, Heather Charley, Karen Dana, Caitlyn Doran, John Fleck, Shanti Grandhi, True Markham, Susan Marx, Patrick Miceli, Ken Minami, Amanda Mulcahy, Blue Brooks O’Leary, Tara Sabini, Julie Sulzen, Elizabeth Wilson.

02/24/2026

Drawing and Painting Artist-in-Residence Lydia Cash presents Violet. Her work bridges the gap between her visual art and music through her most recent collection of paintings, named after her upcoming album, “Violet”.

At its core, “Violet” is about healing one’s inner child. Vulnerable, honest, and defiant, it is a glittering ode to radical self-love and female empowerment. Each of the ten paintings are inspired the ten songs on the album. Cash views the act of painting itself as a healing practice, through risk-taking, play, and intuitive mark making.

Annex Gallery
February 1 - 28, 2026
Closing reception and Artist talk : Feb 27, 2026 5 PM

02/16/2026

Don’t miss artwork by Kelsey Stegner from the Lillstreet Textiles dept, up through the end of February in the Lounge Gallery.
Kelsey’s work is rooted in her background of line drawing and block printing, creating a graphic yet organic look which layers realism with abstraction.

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4401 N. Ravenswood Avenue
Chicago, IL
60640

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 7:30pm
Tuesday	10am - 7:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 7:30pm
Thursday	10am - 7:30pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+17737694226

Website

http://lillstreetgallery.com/

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