The programs, which are free and open to the public, are as follows:

• Summer ’68: Chicago, Mass Media and the Age of Dissent, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, Museum’s North Gallery, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago. This screening brings together work by the social-activist Film Group of Chicago, as well as a documentary commissioned by the city of Chicago offering an alternative perspective on the week of rioting and violence surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

An introduction and question/answer session will feature Bill Cottle, member of the Film Group. Films to be shown are “The Right to Dissent: A Press Conference” (The Film Group, 1969); “Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Avenue” (The Film Group, 1969); “Law and Order versus Dissent” (The Film Group, 1969); and “What Trees Do They Plant?” (Henry Ushijima Productions for the City of Chicago, 1968). This series is presented courtesy of the Chicago Film Archives.

• Oppositional Media: Antiwar Protest and Experimental Film, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, Museum’s North Gallery. This program, produced from 1966 to 1968, explores experimental film used in the late 1960s by artists to register dissent and examine the broader cultural implications of the Vietnam War. Films are Carolee Schneemann’s “Viet-Flakes” (1966); Joyce Wieland’s “Rat Life and Diet in North America” (1968); “Week of the Angry Arts,” “For Life,” and selections from “Against the War” (1967).

• The Personal is Political: Vietnam, the Women’s Movement and Black Power, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, Museum’s North Gallery. These works reconsider the social and political possibilities of protest through the activities of various antiwar organizations, including the Yippies, women’s groups and the Black Panthers. Films are Norman Fruchter and John Douglas’ “Summer ’68” (Newsreel, 1969); “Yippie” (1968); “Jeannette Rankin Brigade” (Newsreel, 1968); Sheila Page’s “Testing, Testing, How Do You Do?” (1969); and “Black Power – We’re Goin’ Survive America” (1968).

• “After 1968: Art, Politics, History” symposium, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 25, Room 154, Schmitt Academic Center, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago. This symposium uses the exhibition “1968: Art and Politics in Chicago,” as a point of departure to consider the relationship between art and politics, and to bring together scholars whose work, regardless of methodological approach or specific area of study, engages the complex and often contradictory ways in which artists negotiate the sociopolitical sphere. Participants include Francis Frascina, Keele University; Hannah Higgins, University of Illinois, Chicago; Jonathan Katz, University of Manchester, UK; Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Harvard University; David Raskin, Art Institute of Chicago; Judith Rodenbeck, Sarah Lawrence College; Blake Stimson, University of California, Davis; and Tom Williams, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

“1968: Art and Politics in Chicago” and accompanying programs are sponsored by a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of its “American Art American City” program, a multi-year initiative that encourages residents and visitors to explore diverse American art on display in museums, galleries and public spaces in Chicago.

The exhibit, which runs through Nov. 23, features the work of international luminaries such as Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell and Claes Oldenburg as well as local artists such as Ellen Lanyon, Don Baum and Gladys Nilsson. Curated by Patricia Kelly, an assistant professor of art history at DePaul, the exhibition brings together 42 works created in response to the turbulent events surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.

Artwork featured in the exhibition range from Ellen Lanyon’s image of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson conceived as a giant puppet to Roy Lichtenstein’s menacing “Pistol” that depicts the violence of the time. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The DePaul Art Museum is open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. For more information about “1968: Art and Politics in Chicago” or other museum programs and exhibitions, please call 773/325-7506 or visit http://museums.depaul.edu/artwebsite/.