Flat Iron Building

Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village


Galleries, studios and workshops fill the landmark Flat Iron Building, with contemporary painters, realist photographers, digital animators, pop-art printmakers, experimental videographers and metal sculptors all doing their thing here. There’s an open house on the first Friday of every month (6pm to 10pm; suggested donation $5), as well as group shows around the winter holidays. You can usually walk inside and see what's going on any day.

Transportation

  • metro: Blue Line to Damen

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