Hokin Gallery invites students to “color outside the lines” and submit creative works that can be considered a creative risk or experimentation. Artists are encouraged to submit work that incorporates new techniques, processes, materials, ideas or work that pushes the creative boundary of academic major or area of study. All creative projects are accepted including: photography, fashion, sculpture, creative writing, video, fiber arts, ceramics, quilting, video gaming, sound, site-specific installation, drawing, painting, illustration, graphic design, interior architecture renderings, performance and dance. Projects can be created outside of area of study. All students enrolled in the 2025-2026 academic year are eligible.
Submissions may be a work in progress.
Not sure what to submit? The gallery team can make suggestions or narrow ideas.
Not sure where to make your project? The Makerspace (754 S Wabash Ave, 2nd fl) might have the equipment. and tools needed.
Not sure how to present your project in an art gallery? Contact us, we can help!
Submission Deadline- Monday, January 12, 2026
More info/Submit work HERE
Are you working on a project in one of our amazing on-campus facilities?
If so, please submit photos, sketches or a brief description. Finished works and
works in-progress are welcome!
Made it Here! will be open to the public in Hokin Gallery June 25-September 11, 2026
Current students of all majors are welcome to participate.
Deadline April 1, 2026
Submit your work HERE
Not sure how to present your project in an art gallery? Contact us, we can help!
Questions- Student Spaces for Art and Collaboration/Mark Porter, mporter@colum.edu
Located on the 1st floor of 623 S Wabash Ave., Hokin Gallery presents a year-round schedule of exhibitions and events that showcase the talents of Columbia College Chicago students. To provide hands-on, outside of the classroom learning experiences, the gallery offers many open-call and curatorial opportunities. The gallery also provides a welcoming and safe environment for study, socializing and exhibition viewing.
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday 9 a.m.– 5p.m.
Closed on Saturday and Sunday.
Land Acknowledgement
We collectively acknowledge that Columbia College Chicago occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg—Three Fires Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, as well as the Miami, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Illinois, Sac and Fox nations. Although there are no recognized Indian nations in the state of Illinois, we recognize, support and advocate for the sovereignty of all Indian nations, for the historic Indigenous communities in Illinois, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live in the Chicagoland area, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. By offering this Land Acknowledgment, we reaffirm our College’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mission statement, and affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will hold Columbia College Chicago more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.