Welcome to Color Factory Chicago!

Get ready to take an interactive journey through 14 immersive art exhibits as stunning as they are colorful. Fun for all ages, Color Factory Chicago is the place for celebrations, reunions, or just a family day out! Our museum celebrates the many shades of Chicago – from the blue stripes of its iconic flag to the green pickles atop a Chicago dog.

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Each visit to Color Factory includes surprise giveaways, sweet treats, and complimentary digital photos that capture every step of your journey through the experience. Designed in partnership with an exceptional roster of local and international artists and collaborators, this multi-hued homage to Chicago will leave you inspired. Ready to jump into color?

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Take a peek at some of the colorful experiences inside Color Factory

Chicago
Have a Ball in Shades of Green

Sink into the many shades of green that make Chicago so special in our 2,600-square-feet ball pit (complete with 2 slides)!

Have a Ball in Shades of Green
Get a Taste of the Theatre

Put on a show for your taste buds at the first theater made just for mouths. You’ll match flavors and colors with the help of a viewfinder and examine how your senses interact.

Get a Taste of the Theatre
Discover your Color Horoscope

Astrologer Michele Bernhardt has connected each day of the year with a color. Find your birthday and discover unique and colorful insights about yourself.

Discover your Color Horoscope
Play in Piles of Confetti

Pay homage to the Chicago flag by getting swept up in a flutter of color! With a palette that reflects the colors of its stars & stripes, our confetti room will enrobe you in city pride.

Play in Piles of Confetti
Connect and Create With Another

Sit opposite a partner (just like colors in the color wheel) and participate in a guided exercise that encourages connection and creativity.

Connect and Create With Another
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Included (free!) with every visit:

Sweet treats throughout the exhibit
Sweet treats throughout the exhibit
Artist-designed keepsakes
Artist-designed keepsakes
Digital images from our hands-free photo stations
Digital images from our hands-free photo stations
ARTISTS
Color Factory brings together artists and creatives to create immersive experiences that tell different stories about color. Each installation engages the senses to take you out of the everyday – breaking down walls, inspiring emotion, and reminding you what it means to slow down and be present.
Camille Walala
Known for her large-scale and explosively vibrant public art, Walala uses the power of color and pattern to spark positivity.
Adrian Kay Wong
A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Adrian’s murals portray everyday life, exploring the subtleties of the ordinary and often missed.
Liz West
West creates vivid environments by mixing luminous color and radiant light to heighten sensory awareness.
Edra Soto
Peer through Soto's interactive sculptures inspired by traditional Puerto-Rican architecture to catch glimpses of other realms.
Akilah Townsend
A South Side native, Townsend’s photography focuses on Black representation and uses storytelling to make her subjects feel seen.
Anne Patterson
Patterson's work explores the repeated use of a material to create a powerful visual that is larger than the sum of its parts.
Tomislav Topic
Topic's pieces use layers of color and pattern to simulate movement, playing with perspective to create a mesmerizing dynamic.
Yuri Suzuki
An artist and electronic musician, Suzuki's projects question how visual art and sound evolve and interact to create personal experiences.
Christine Wong Yap
Wong Yap’s artistic experiments explore the dimensions of wellbeing relating to belonging, interdependence, and collaboration.
Emilie Baltz
Using food as a medium (and metaphor), Baltz creates multi-sensory experiences one lick, bite, and sniff at a time.
Bee Harris
Harris combines bold colors, abstract shapes, and charismatic characters to express Black femininity with power & style.
Anthony Lewellen
Lewellen’s artwork is rooted in a love of drawing and combines a simple, bold palette with playful characters inspired by Chicago.
Michele Bernhardt
Michele Bernhardt is an astrologer and numerologist that created a system that associates a color with your zodiac.
Collaborators
Jelly Belly
MCA Chicago
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Busy Beaver Button Co
SocialWorks
La Fournette
Kurimu
MOCHI KIDS
Jelly Belly
MCA Chicago
826CHI
Busy Beaver Button Co
SocialWorks
La Fournette
Kurimu
MOCHI KIDS
Jelly Belly
MCA Chicago
826CHI
Busy Beaver Button Co
SocialWorks
La Fournette
Kurimu
MOCHI KIDS
Location
Color Factory
Chicago

Color Factory Chicago
Willis Tower, Lower Level 2

320 W Jackson Blvd.

Chicago, IL 60606

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We’re located inside Catalog at Willis Tower. Please enter via Jackson Boulevard (south side of building), and take the escalator down to Lower Level 2. Find our ticketing kiosks to the left of the Sky Deck entrance.

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The closest train stops are Quincy (CTA) and Chicago Union Station (Amtrak/Metra). Discounted parking (with validation) is available at Traders Self-Park (326 S. Wells / 329 S. Franklin) and Tower Self-Park Garage (211 W. Adams / 241 S. Franklin). Validation is available at Coat Check in Color Factory’s lobby.

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