CWAC Exhibitions

Framed works of art, some hanging on a white wall, others resting on a maroon couch awaiting installation
Works by Betty Young Kim

CWAC Exhibitions (CWAC Exh) presents student- and course-curated exhibitions in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center. This opportunity provides a supported environment for emerging curators, artists, and museum workers to hone their skills while activating CWAC spaces with artwork and installations.

Archive and News Updates

Call for Proposals

The call for proposals has closed, our exhibition schedule for academic year 2025-26 is full.

We plan to open the call for 2026-27 in Spring 2026. 

For more information about our installation spaces, the collaborative support we offer, and our evaluation criteria, please visit our guide to Preparing a Proposal for CWAC Exhibitions and review our Evaluation Criteria.

Proposal Resources

Support

CWAC Exhibitions is organized by the Department of Art History’s Visual Resources Center. We are grateful for many campus colleagues and collaborators, including the Center for the Art of East Asia, the Department of Visual Arts, and the Smart Museum of Art. CWAC Exhibitions’s inaugural year (2023–2024) was supported by a generous gift from Brenda Shapiro with additional support from the College Curricular Innovation Fund. 

Related

Upcoming Exhibitions

  • November 12, 2025 - December 12, 2025

    The LAND as they left it

    Debris and silt floating in a deep blue-green, waving body of water

    The LAND as they left it highlights the changes made to the natural landscape of Chicago’s Washington Park and Lakefront Trail in the wake of the forced removal of many Indigenous people from their ancestral lands. Taylor Pate's photographs display the land both as a memorial site to the past but also as a reflection on the occupation that continues to this day.

Past Exhibitions