February 14, 2019
Dox Thrash: Creator of Opheliagraph
SAIC alum Dox Thrash depicted African American life through a printmaking process he helped invent and perfect called carbordundum printing. Thrash used the medium's incredible range of black-and-white-gradation to create transfixing portraits of African Americans before the dawn of the civil rights movement.
February 12, 2019
Ayesha Singh Mentioned in Forbes 30 Under 30
Ayesha Singh (MFA 2018) has been named 30 Under 30 in Forbes India for her artistry.
February 11, 2019
Caroline Picard Takes a Look at Creative Placemaking
Caroline Picard (MFA 2010) recently shut the doors of the Logan Square bookstore, gallery, and performing arts space Sector 2337.
February 8, 2019
STATE and Diorama Performances Featured in Newcity
STATE, the performance by Ingri Fiksdal and Henrik Vibskov at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, along with Diorama, a collaborative outdoor performance with Fiksdal, Fredrik Floen, and MFA students from SAIC were featured in Newcity.
February 8, 2019
Eric Leonardson Leads Soundwalk through Chicago Pedway
The Chicago Reader recently spoke with Eric Leonardson (MFA 1983) the founder of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) and adjunct associate professor in the Sound department about soundwalks in the Chicago Pedway.
February 4, 2019
Zhu Shengze’s Film Wins Top Prize at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam
Zhu Shengze's (MFA 2017) film was named the winner of the 2019 Tiger Award presented at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam.
January 29, 2019
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Wins Artes Mundi 8 Prize
Artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins the UK's leading prize for international and contemporary art.
January 25, 2019
Eduardo Kac's Work Featured in Show and Anthology on Internet Art
Professor of Art and Technology Studies Eduardo Kac's 1985 work Reabracadabra is featured in an exhibition The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics at the New Museum.
January 25, 2019
Rashid Johnson's Native Son Picked up by HBO Films
Rashid Johnson's (SAIC 2003–04, HON 2018) first film, Native Son, has been picked up by HBO Films reports Vulture.
January 23, 2019
Carole Frances Lung and Wu Tsang Awarded 2019 USA Fellowships
Carole Frances Lung (BFA 2005, MFA 2007) and Wu Tsang (BFA 2004) were among the recipients of the United States Artists (USA) 2019 Fellowship Award, which grants up to $50,000 in unrestricted funds to artists.
January 22, 2019
Ni'Ja Whitson Receives a 2019 Creative Capital Award
Ni’Ja Whitson (MFA 2007) was awarded the 2019 Creative Capital Award.
January 22, 2019
She Persists: An All-Female and Woman-Identifying Show Features SAIC Alum
The New York Times has spotlighted She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York, an installation in the public spaces of New York’s Gracie Mansion, residence of the city's mayor.
