This fall 2024, we are offering public exhibition tours at DePaul Art Museum and walking tours in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago. Join us for one of our upcoming Saturday tour dates!
Learn more and register below.

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967
& The Spaces We Call Home

Edgar Miller Legacy is proud to partner with DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) to facilitate in-depth public tours of the current exhibition Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967. Miller (1899–1993) arrived in Chicago in 1917, and over the next fifty years, established a successful career as a multi-hyphenate creative practitioner. He worked as an architect, artist, craftsperson, curator, designer, and illustrator during a particularly rich period that saw the ascendancy of modernism across the visual culture of the city.

These guided exhibition tours will give attendees a closer look at the stories behind many of the pieces on display by Edgar Miller, Jesús Torres, Hester Miller Murray, Andrew Rebori, and other influential contemporaries of Miller. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to peruse media and images from the Edgar Miller Legacy archive to go even deeper into the stories behind many of the over 85 pieces of original art on display within the DPAM gallery spaces. The tour will also include a walk-through of the contemporary artist showcase, The Spaces We Call Home, running in conjunction with the Edgar Miller exhibition, with artwork by Chicago-centered artists influenced by practices of and places designed by Miller.

Space is limited and registration is required. There is no admission charge to visit the DePaul Art Museum. Ticket sales for this tour help support Edgar Miller Legacy’s ongoing mission to preserve and celebrate Edgar Miller’s work and story.

Register for one of the following tour dates:

Public exhibition tours will be held promptly at DePaul Art Museum, located at 935 W. Fullerton Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614. The Museum is fully accessible for people in wheelchairs. Please see DPAM’s visitation information page for opening hours and any further directions to help plan your visit. See our programs page for upcoming associated exhibition programs..

Edgar Miller’s Handmade Homes of Old Town

Explore the storied history of Edgar Miller's Handmade Homes of Old Town this October with an hour-long, one-mile walking tour. Attendees will visit sites within and around the West Burton Place Historic District and up into the Old Town Triangle, viewing the exteriors of Edgar Miller and Sol Kogen's Carl Street Studios and Kogen-Miller Studios complexes. Other stops along the way will include some of the inspired "handmade" residential projects that are also home to artwork and design by Miller, Jesús Torres, and many others.

Learn about how the artist colony projects of Old Town came about through the ingenious collaborative effort of Edgar Miller, Sol Kogen, and their fellow artists and artisans, as well as the countless other local historical figures who have lived in and around these special sites. And view the dozens of incredible embedded art pieces hidden throughout the neighborhood of these architectural gems.

Attendees will have the unique opportunity to peruse media and images from the Edgar Miller Legacy archive to go even deeper into the stories behind the uniquely modernist built environment of the Old Town neighborhoods.

Our walking tours have closed for the season, but keep an eye out for walking and site tour dates in the spring. Sign up to our monthly newsletter to stay on top of all tour date announcements!

For private group tour information, please contact Edgar Miller Legacy at info@edgarmiller.org.