The Learning Studio: Workshop with Artist Victoria Martinez
Saturday, August 2, 2pm
Join DPAM for another exciting Learning Studio program! Inspired by Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures, Chicago-based artist Victoria Martinez will guide an all-ages workshop where participants use photographs, textiles, and everyday materials like fruit nets and bubble wrap to craft unexpected and creative collages.
This program is generously supported by the Vincentian Endowment Fund.
Image credits:
Victoria Martinez, Batman incognito at the U.S. / Mexican border, 2019, Yale University School of Art.
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Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 6 – 8pm
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Please join us for an in-person reception celebrating the opening of DPAM’s Fall/Winter 2025-26 exhibitions. Light refreshments will be served.
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing presents site-specific works that blur the line between art and utility, inviting viewers to meditate on the role and “usefulness” of art in society. Manglano-Ovalle’s challenges notions of function, beauty, and purpose in art, calls us to inhabit the present moment fully, and urges us to consider: How does the work draw us in, and how do we, in turn, respond to it—right here, right now?
Tengo Lincoln Park en Mi Corazón: Young Lords in Chicago explores the Young Lords Organization's trajectory in the Lincoln Park neighborhood amidst gentrification and urban renewal. This exhibition highlights the displacement of a vibrant Puerto Rican community in the 1950s and 1960s, and the intersections of history, activism, and the geography of memory within one of the most influential movements in Latinx civil rights history.
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Artist-Curator Conversation and Walkthrough: "Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing"
Sunday, September 21, 2025, 11am – 12:30pm
Join renowned artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and DPAM Curator Ionit Behar for a conversation exploring the artist’s solo exhibition A Want for Nothing. Together, they will discuss Manglano-Ovalle’s artistic process and how his work critically engages with pressing contemporary issues. The conversation will be followed by a guided walkthrough of the exhibition and an audience Q&A.
This program is presented in partnership with Chicago Exhibition Weekend.
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Walking Tour: Lincoln Park and the Young Lords
Saturday, September 27, 2025, 2pm – 3pm
Join us for a historical walking tour of Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood led by Derek Potts, Instruction and Outreach Archivist at DePaul University. Covering approximately 1.5 miles, the tour will highlight key sites of activism and community organizing, with a focus on the influential history of the Young Lords Organization (YLO) and the urban renewal efforts of the late 1960s.
Presented in partnership with DePaul University’s Special Collections and Archives and the Center for Latino Research.
Image credits: A member of the Young Lords writes in chalk as a family looks on during a Puerto Rican heritage festival at the Armitage Methodist Church, 1969.ST-40001976-0057, Chicago Sun-Times collection, Chicago History Museum.
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Let's Talk About Art: A Want for Nothing
Wednesday, October 1 (virtual) and Thursday, October 2 (in-person), 1pm – 2pm
"Let’s Talk About Art" is an innovative hybrid learning program designed for older adults (65+) to explore and discuss visual and performing arts through both virtual and in-person experiences. This special program begins with a virtual session on Tuesday, October 1, from 1–2 PM, featuring a conversation with curator Ionit Behar, PhD, followed by an in-person guided tour on Wednesday, October 2, at 1 PM at the museum.
Free & open to individuals aged 65+. Registration limited to 25 participants.
Presented in partnership with the Hyde Park Art Center.
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Conversation with Iris Morales and Jacqui Lazú
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 6pm – 8pm
All are welcome to a conversation between Latinx civil rights activist, author, and filmmaker Iris Morales, and guest curator of Tengo Lincoln Park en mi Corazón: Young Lords in Chicago Dr. Jacqueline Lazú. Exploring the impact of the Young Lords Organization in both the streets of Chicago and the barrios of New York City, Morales and Lazú will develop inter-city dialogues that connect activism and memory across the country. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A.
Iris Morales is the founding director and executive editor of Red Sugarcane Press dedicated to publishing works about the Puerto Rican and Latinx diasporas in the Americas. Currently, she serves on the advisory board of the Instituto de Formación Política of Mijente, a political home for Latinx people who seek racial, economic, gender, and climate justice.
Dr. Jacqueline Lazú is a scholar of Cultural Studies, Latinx civil rights history, and public history. She is a Society of Vincent DePaul Professor at DePaul University, where she teaches Modern Languages and is affiliated with African and Black Diaspora Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, and Criminology. She earned her PhD from Stanford University and her BA from Dartmouth College. Her research explores Latinx and Caribbean history, expressive culture, race and ethnic relations, and decolonial aesthetics. She has published widely and is completing forthcoming books: “Young Lords Speak” (Haymarket Books, 2025) and “Stone Revolutionaries: The Origins of the Young Lords Movement” (Duke University Press).
This program is in partnership with the Center for Latino Research and the department of Women and Gender Studies.
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Student-led Exhibition Walkthrough
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 11am – 12pm
In celebration of DePaul University’s Alumni and Family Weekend, please join us for a guided tour of DPAM’s Fall/Winter 2025-26 exhibitions, Tengo Lincoln Park en mi Corazón: Young Lords in Chicago and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing, led by DPAM’s student staff – Kayla Hodge, Eloise Lyons, Bernardo Soares, and Erin Zeman – who will share insights into the exhibitions and their broader historical and artistic contexts.
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Roundtable on Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 6pm – 7:30pm
In conjunction with Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing at DPAM, join us for a roundtable discussion exploring the artist’s deep engagement with conceptual art. Participants include Hannah Higgins, Sean Kirkland, Lane Relyea, and Manglano-Ovalle himself, in a conversation moderated by DPAM Curator Ionit Behar.
This program is in partnership with DePaul’s Philosophy Department, DePaul’s Institute for Nature and Culture, DePaul’s Institute of Humanities, Northwestern’s Art, Theory, Practice Department, and University of Illinois at Chicago’s Department of Art.
Image credit: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Well 35°58’16”N - 106°5’21”W (Santa Clara Pueblo, NM), 2014. Pictured: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle. Courtesy of the artist.
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