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5-9:30 PM

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Art and theater in one night? Sounds ideal.

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Join us for the first program in our ON VIEW series! Through immersive, two part evenings, the ON VIEW series creates dynamic moments of peak cultural engagement by merging the worlds of live performance and visual art. Designed for those curious about artistic expression beyond the gallery and museum walls, the series embraces a range of mediums from theater and ballet to opera and experimental performance, placing them in thoughtful dialogue with contemporary art.

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For ON VIEW: PATRON x Steppenwolf, we’ll begin at PATRON with a private cocktail hour and guided walkthrough of Nyeema Morgan’s solo exhibition, then make our way to Steppenwolf for the 7:30 pm performance of Windfall.

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Nyeema Morgan’s work draws on familiar cultural material—recipes, fables, canonical artworks, jokes—to examine the quiet authority of systems: how knowledge is shaped, how meaning is produced, and how representation structures what we see and understand. Her practice invites close looking and layered conversation.

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From there, we shift into the intimacy of live theater. In the world premiere of Windfall, Academy Award–winning ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney offers a searing meditation on grief, activism, and the true cost of survival. Both urgent and deeply personal, the play interrogates the most indifferent system of all/, the almighty dollar, and asks what it means to choose between comfort and conviction.

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Two distinct yet resonant experiences, in one thoughtfully paced night—designed to leave you inspired and more connected to those beside you.

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YOUR TICKET INCLUDES:

• Access for one to a private cocktail party and guided walkthrough at PATRON (with drinks and charcuterie)
• One ticket to the Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 pm performance of Windfall at Steppenwolf
• Access to the post-show discussion
• A drink ticket to enjoy during intermission or after the show

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ABOUT NYEEMA MORGAN

Nyeema Morgan’s work references familiar cultural material such as recipes, fables, canonical artworks and jokes to prompt reflection on the soft aesthetic power of systems of knowledge, information production and the mechanics of representation. Her conceptually layered works, ranging from large-scale drawings to sculptural installation and print based media, raise questions about how we articulate and construct meaning within a complex system of socio-political relations.

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ABOUT WINDFALL

This is a story about money. Don’t let them fool you otherwise. When a father loses his child in a clash with the police, he is visited by three strangers who advise him to take the city’s cash settlement, relocate and forget his grief–or else remain, haunted by memories of the world his child fought so hard to protect. This lyrical world premiere from Academy Award-winning ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney is a vital and timely look at the spirit of activism set against the most indifferent system of them all: the almighty dollar.

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ABOUT PATRON

PATRON is a contemporary art gallery in Chicago created by Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar in 2015. PATRON is founded on the defining characteristics of a patron of the arts: a person chosen, named or honored as a special guardian, protector or supporter. With this foundation set as a cornerstone, the gallery hopes to help open new avenues for audiences to engage with and find access to contemporary art.

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ABOUT STEPPENWOLF

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theater company founded in 1974 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in Highland Park, Illinois. Over the course of the 1980s, the company continuously expanded, producing plays that went on to receive national and international attention. In 1991, Steppenwolf built its current theater at 1650 N. Halsted St in Chicago with three performing spaces, the largest seating 550. Striving to create thrilling, courageous and provocative art in a thoughtful and inclusive environment, Steppenwolf has now grown into a company, which includes 49 ensemble members whose strengths include acting, directing, playwriting and textual adaptation. Now in its fifth decade as a professional theatre company, Steppenwolf has received unprecedented national and international recognition, including a series of Tony Awards and The National Medal of Arts.

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5-9:30 PM