From vintage markets to major museum shows to community-rooted installations, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alums are once again at the center of Chicago’s summer arts season. Whether ...

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For Damon Locks (BFA 1989), Chicago is a city of reverberations. “Walking these same streets that Curtis Mayfield or Mahalia Jackson walked is pretty amazing,” he said. That sense of lineage—both ...

Stephanie and Bill Sick Professor of Fashion, Body and Garment Nick Cave and Professor Emeritus in Fiber and Material Studies Anne Wilson were named the 2024 Gold Medalists for Consummate ...

SAIC has been at the forefront of art education for more than a century and a half, fostering critical thinking, rigorous investigation, and playful creativity. The School was among the first to ...

A close-up image of David Lozano's Edgewater Mélange at the Berwyn red line stop. Photo courtesy of Chicago Transit Authority. Photo Credit: DOCUMENT Lecturer Cecilia Beaven, Lecturer FÁTIMA, and ...

Associate Professor Sarah Ross, founder and director of Walls Turned Sideways, has been awarded an A.R.T. (Art for Radical Transformation) grant from the Field Foundation, in partnership with the ...

On the Subreddit for the movie Tangled, there’s a thread about an iconic sequence where Flynn Rider dies in Rapunzel’s arms. The thread is about whether the scene makes people cry, and there’s a clear ...

Since its emergence in the mid-20th century, pop art has engaged the layered context of popular mass media and consumer culture that lies beneath its iconic look and feel, often sharpened by irony. It ...

The expansive, white-walled studio where Stephanie and Bill Sick Professor of Fashion, Body and Garment Nick Cave teaches isn't a typical fashion classroom. Yes, there are dress forms propped up next ...

Graduation is its own creative turning point, when new alums begin exploring what their practices look like beyond campus. Recent School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) graduates Uy Pham (BFA ...

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