Two annual fairs, SOFA Chicago and the Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art, shacked up together at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall in 2010 and ’11. This weekend SOFA (aka Sculpture Objects and Functional Art) will be going it alone. But there’s still plenty of Intuit DNA to be found in lectures like Outsider Art 101, given by Henry Darger maven Michael Bonesteel (Fri-Sat 2 PM), a panel on the urge to transform one’s surroundings titled Sculptural Environments in Self-Taught Art (Fri 4 PM), and two special exhibitions: “A Glimpse at Outsider Art” and the Mr. Imagination retrospective “Eye of Mr. I: A Tribute.” Here are some other highlights:
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Public preview Thu 11/1, 7-9 PM, $50. Then 11/2-11/4: Fri-Sat 11 AM-7 PM, Sun noon-6 PM, Festival Hall, Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand, sofaexpo.com, $12-$15, $25 for three-day pass.
