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Faculty Lori Waxman appears on WBEZ's Eight Fourty-Eight

2009-10-30 14:43:43.453

Art History, Theory, and Criticism faculty Lori Waxman joined Bad at Sports executive producer and host Duncan MacKenzie (MFA 2002) on the WBEZ Tuesday edition of Eight Forty-Eight (10/27) for a 10-minute overview of current local exhibitions. Waxman begins with a silver-lining analysis of the current economic climate she calls the "pop-up gallery phenomenon." MacKenzie adds, "It's a great time...for community-oriented art. Now's a great time for all of the little galleries...run by people who really believe in the stuff their showing."

Jaume Plensa's Public Lecture at SAIC Previewed by Dexigner, Sun-Times

2009-10-21 12:40:53.11

Jaume Plensa
William and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Free Public Lecture
Wednesday, November 11, 6 p.m.
Rubloff Auditorium, The Art Institute of Chicago, 230 S. Columbus Dr.

Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa's Crown Fountain in Millennium Park is one of his most important and ambitious pieces of public art, engaging site, audience, technology, form, and history in unprecedented ways. This interdisciplinary public work was made possible, in part, by a collaborative effort with SAIC faculty and students. Join Plensa as he discusses this and other internationally renowned projects installed across the globe. In Spring 2010, Plensa will become the second William and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor, teaching a course at School of the Art Institute of Chicago with faculty members John Manning and Jan Tichy on the process of realizing public art projects.

The design website Dexigner is looking forward to the lecture. Dexigner reaches more than 2.5 million visitors every month. The website, as well as the Tuesday (10/27) "Metro Briefs" section of the Chicago Sun-Times, also noted that in Spring 2010, Plensa will become SAIC's William and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor. The Spanish sculptor will teach Public Light & Space: Public Art Projects for the 21st Century, a course in which 12 SAIC undergraduate and graduate students will develop project proposals for public works, culminating in a student exhibition and catalogue. The Chicago Sun-Times' weekday circulation is 312,000.

Learning Modern covered in Time Out Chicago, Wall Street Journal, and Daily Candy.

2009-10-23 15:49:41.64

The Daily Candy's Weekend Guide recommends visiting the Learning Modern exhibit at SAIC's Sullivan Galleries. The Bauhaus-influenced exhibit features art installations and experimental videos, including the noteworthy "trippy projection collage, Knowledge Box by Ken Isaacs. The Daily Candy distributes 3 million e-mail subscriptions via 28 editions.

The Learning Modern exhibit and Ken Isaacs's Knowledge Box were featured in a fascinating article by Alastair Gordon for WSJ., the Wall Street Journal's daily magazine. Gordon delves into the history and cultural significance of Isaacs's conceptual box, which was originally unveiled in 1962 and re-created by SAIC and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in collaboration with Isaacs for Learning Modern. The box is a nine-by-nine foot cube with 24 slide projectors flooding the interior with black-and-white images and a synchronized sound collage. Gordon writes, "[The box] is oddly moving and makes one think about turning points and tipping points, pregnant moments, and being on the brink of something that's ultra modern and new." The article is accompanied by photos of Knowledge Box and was distributed in more than 800,000 copies of the magazine.

Art critic Lauren Weinberg reviews Learning Modern in this week's edition of Time Out Chicago (10/22), right alongside a feature on retired SAIC photography professor Barbara Crane. Weinberg calls Learning Modern "a fun, sprawling exhibition," and notes, "As you look out the huge windows of Louis Sullivan's former Carson Pirie Scott building, and observe the green roofs sprouting around Chicago, it's hard to imagine a more suitable place to explore modern architecture." More than 52,000 Chicagoans read Time Out each week. The tribute to Crane, which mentions SAIC in its first sentence, notes, "To understand how seriously the art world takes Crane today, consider that she's the subject of three current exhibitions in Chicago."

SAIC alumni in the news and recognized for their achievements

2009-10-30 13:52:36.723

SAIC alumnus Mariano Chavez's (BFA 2003) Agent Gallery, a just-opened storefront gallery at 916 North Damen Avenue, was covered on the design blog Strange Closets on Tuesday (10/27). Writer Tate Gunnerson writes, "Mariano does a brisk business online...In fact, opening a bricks and mortar store is more of a nice-to-have, a base of operations that doubles as storage and gives Mariano the opportunity to meet his customers face-to-face."

SAIC alumnus Robert Guinan (MFA 1967) was on Eight-Forty-Eight Tuesday (10/27) for a profile that closes Chicago Artist's Month on the program. The lead-in notes that while Guinan is internationally collected and renowned, he's never had an exhibition here, and no local art dealer has represented him.

W Magazine's November issue includes a feature by Kevin West covering SAIC alumnus Aaron Curry (BFA 2002) and his friendship with artist Thomas Houseago. The story, which mentions Curry's SAIC education as well as his MFA from the Art Center College of Design, chronicles the interest in Picasso shared by the two artists. W is circulated in 468,835 issues each month.

The Boston Globe's health page, "White Coat Notes," reported last week (10/22) that SAIC alumna Sarah Iselin is leaving her position as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy to take over the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. The article notes that Iselin received her undergraduate degree from SAIC before earning a master's degree in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health. The Globe's weekday circulation is more than 302,000.

SAIC AIADO alumna Emily Pilloton (MFA 2005) is making waves with her new book, Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People. The industrial design magazine Core77 recently featured an interview with Pilloton, in which she discusses the impetus for the book, describing it as "a call-to-action for, and a compendium of product design that empowers." She also talks about her charitable organization, Project H Design, which "supports, creates, delivers, and scales life-improving humanitarian product design solutions."

SAIC alumnus John Gerrard (MFA 2000) is exhibiting his work at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. The exhibit, entitled Directions, features Gerrard's reimagined landscape art and runs from November 5 through May 31, 2010.

November's Vogue magazine features alumnus Gary Graham (BFA 1992), who has been selected as a finalist for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund grand prize. Graham has a full-page photo with a model wearing items from his Spring collection in the issue, which boasts an audited circulation of 1,298,480. An accompanying interview notes his SAIC background.

Chicago Magazine's review of Fashion Focus 2009 by Editor Cassie Walker begins, "the best presentation overall belongs to Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, a Chicago designer who sells through Wicker Park boutique p.45...Her embellishments are few but well-chosen...and she drew the most discerning crowd, a mix of shop-owners and faculty and students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Glaum-Lathbury is an SAIC grad)." The Chicago Tribune's preview (10/18) of her show also notes Glaum-Lathbury's SAIC roots, and reports she was "recently named a Rising Star by Fashion Group International of Chicago and best Chicago clothing designer by the Chicago Reader."

SAIC leads all art schools in Fulbright applications and awards

2009-10-23 16:30:26.95

The October 18 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education features a list of the Top U.S. Producers of Fulbright Students, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago leads all art schools in both applications (21) and awards (5). SAIC candidates earned as many Fulbrights this year as RISD, Cal Arts, and Cranbrook combined. The Chronicle is read by 450,000 college and university faculty and administrators, and is considered the most-renowned U.S.-based source in the field.

James McManus featured in Chronicle of Higher Education and Chicago Tribune

2009-10-23 16:27:02.213

Writing Faculty Jim McManus's book Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker is Amazon's Best Book of the Month, November 2009: "Professional sports such as football and baseball may tout themselves as "America's Game," but according to James McManus, poker is the true American pastime. Cowboys Full is McManus's brilliant homage to the game that inspired his 2003 bestseller, Positively Fifth Street." Amazon.com Review

In the October 18 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education, the cover story of the Chronicle Review is a three-page feature by Writing Program Professor James McManus adapted from his most recent book, Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, to be published in November by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. McManus writes in the first sentence of the article, "Since 1996 I've been teaching a course on the literature of poker at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago." A hard copy of the article is available in the Marketing Office (Sullivan 1205).

The Chicago Tribune published a full-page review of Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by columnist Rick Kogan on Saturday (10/24), who writes, "McManus is a writer of immense talent, deft with language and with an ear that seems to catch all the right conversations. And he has a cast of characters that would be the envy of the most imaginative novelist." The article is accompanied by a large format photo of McManus and was distributed in more than 377,000 copies of the paper.

SAIC alumna Nancy Spero passed away at the age of 83

2009-10-23 16:08:34.573

SAIC alumna Nancy Spero passed away in Manhattan on Sunday, October 18, at the age of 83. Holland Cotter's obituary in the New York Times on Monday (10/19) notes, "Born in Cleveland in 1926, Ms. Spero studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and there met her husband, the painter Leon Golub, to whom she was married for 53 years until his death, in 2004." The obituary was circulated nationally in more than one million copies of the paper. It concludes, "Ms. Spero herself, who experienced both being dismissed and celebrated, said simply of her work, 'I am speaking of equality, and about a certain kind of power of movement in the world, and yet I am not offering any systematic solutions.'"

James Yood is guest on WBEZ

2009-10-23 15:53:17.27

Adjunct Professor James Yood was the guest on WBEZ's tribute to Spero, with host Aurora Aguilar on the program Eight-Forty-Eight on Thursday. Yood is a regular contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate, which averages 547,000 listeners per week. The segment is available online.

ACADIA and astronaut John Grunsfeld appearance receive coverage in Sun-Times

2009-10-23 15:45:32.03

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Brad Spirrison noted the arrival of the ACADIA conference to Chicago in his Monday column (10/19), mentioning that SAIC brought the prestigious conference to Chicago for the first time in its 30-year history. Spirrison lauds a conference focused on responsive architecture and points readers to the ACADIA website in the write-up, circulated in more than 312,000 copies.

In more news related to events organized by SAIC's Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker informed readers of the forthcoming AIADO lecture with astronaut John Grunsfeld in the October 15 edition of the paper. Zwecker noted that the lecture is free and will be held at the SAIC Ballroom, 112 South Michigan Avenue.

Dress Code fashion show receives press coverage

2009-10-23 15:40:36.84

The Dress Code fashion show featuring five SAIC alumni—Tina Park, Jessica Mikesell, Kelly Kroener, Olivia Kim, and Genevieve Clifford—has been receiving coverage throughout the city leading up to tonight's event in Millennium Park. While other local schools are participating in the show, SAIC is the only institution mentioned in the write-up in this week's Crain's Chicago Business (circulation 47,678), which notes, "Check out the latest bursts of creativity from those likely to be the next up-and-coming designers." The show is also listed in Time Out Chicago and was featured on NBC 5 news.

Margaret Hawkins' A Year of Cats and Dogs released

2009-10-23 15:37:07.64

New Arts Journalism faculty Margaret Hawkins released her debut novel this week, A Year of Cats and Dogs (Permanent Press). Hawkins, covered in a full-page article in the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday (10/18), wrote the book in complete secrecy and sold it herself. In addition to teaching journalism courses at SAIC such as "Constructing Cultural News", Hawkins is a freelance art critic for local and national publications. The Sun-Times' Sunday circulation is more than 254,000.

Anne Harris's work featured at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

2009-10-23 15:33:31.82

Painting and Drawing faculty Anne Harris is one of 49 artists selected from 3,300 entries featured in the exhibition of the 2009 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, on view October 23-August 22, 2010. The contest, which is open to submissions in which the artist had direct contact with the sitter, was juried by New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl, artist Kerry James Marshall, Stanford University art historian Wanda Corn, Portrait Gallery director Martin E. Sullivan, and others.

Fischerspooner appearance at MoMA featured by e-flux announcements

2009-10-23 15:27:15.703

The Thursday edition (10/22) of e-flux announcements—the daily digest put together in cooperation with nearly a thousand leading international museums, art centers, foundations, galleries, biennials, and art journals—features the November 1 performance by Fischerspooner at MoMA, noting, " Fischerspooner is Casey Spooner (b. 1970) and Warren Fischer (b. 1968), who met at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago." Established in 1999 in New York, e-flux reaches more than 50,000 visual art professionals on a daily basis through its website, e-mail list, and special projects.

Phyllis Bramson receives 2009 Anonymous is a Woman Grant

2009-10-23 12:17:38.35

Painting and Drawing faculty Phyllis Bramson has received a 2009 Anonymous is a Woman Grant, a privately juried prize of $25,000. The award, for which nominations and selections are made in secret, has been granted to ten female artists over the age of 45 each year since 1995.

Conversations at the Edge featured on WBEZ

2009-10-09 15:10:17.313

The Vision in Motion series for Conversations at the Edge was reviewed by WBEZ film correspondent Jonathan Miller on Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight Thursday, 10/1. SAIC alumna Audrey Niffenegger was featured in the same broadcast. WBEZ averages 547,000 listeners per week.

Michael Ryan’s Art on Track receives press coverage

2009-10-09 15:07:10.963

The national blog trueslant.com, which has just opened its Chicago bureau, ran a feature on Art on Track Thursday (10/8) that includes an interview with Director of Exhibition Practices Michael Ryan, and the Chicago Tribune calls Art on Track "a nice reprieve from your yawn-filled morning commute" in Friday's edition (10/9).

15th Annual BareWalls fundraiser

2009-10-09 15:03:15.703

The 15th Annual BareWalls fundraiser was featured on the homepage of Chicago Gallery News this week (10/5), along with Art on Track, the mobile art experience organized by SAIC alumni Tristan Hummel (BFA 2009), David Temchulla (BFA 2009), and Aaron Straus (BFA 2008). Chicago Gallery News has a circulation in Chicago of 18,000.

BareWalls was also featured by Crain's Chicago Business in Margaret Littman's "Ten Things to Do this Weekend" column (10/8), as well as Chicago Magazine's "Best of the Rest" weekly summary, which notes that more than 100 faculty and alumni create art during the evening. Crain's reaches more than 47,000 readers each week. The Chicago Sun-Times featured BareWalls in the Weekend section of Friday's edition (10/8), describing the event in its column The Mix.

Jan Tichy featured on Huffington Post

2009-10-09 15:00:31.263

The Huffington Post announced SAIC faculty Jan Tichy's latest solo exhibition in Chicago Thursday (10/8). Correspondent Paul Klein writes, "Richard Gray Gallery has been exemplary, and...steps up its game yet again this weekend [with] a one-person installation of sensitive work by Jan Tichy, who just received his master's from the School of the Art Institute."

Learning Modern reviews in Newcity and ChicagoNow

2009-10-09 14:57:45.84

The 10/1 edition of Newcity features a lengthy review of Learning Modern by art critic Jason Foumberg, who writes, "As any showroom of power ought to, Learning Modern inspires awe...This vast playground on the seventh floor of Louis Sullivan's rehabbed masterpiece (formerly Carson's department store) presents a philosophy about better living through art so totalizing it could be called the 2009 World's Columbian Exposition."

Learning Modern was also reviewed by the Tribune's ChicagoNow correspondent Monica Labelle, who writes, "It's easy to take for granted the influence of the Bauhaus in industrial design and architecture...There are gems here to experience."

Adventure with George Lucas benefit photos in North Shore magazine

2009-10-09 14:55:27.233

The October issue of North Shore magazine, delivered to more than 45,000 readers, features photos from last summer's Adventure with George Lucas benefit for the Gene Siskel Film Center. At the Four Seasons Hotel Lucas poses with Mellody Hobson and President Wellington Reiter, while Stephanie and Bill Sick of Winnetka are also pictured alongside Michael and Marsha Goldstein. The magazines Michigan Avenue also featured images from the event. Copies are available in the Marketing and Graphics office (1205 Sullivan).

Mary Jane Jacob interviewed by ArtPrize

2009-10-09 14:51:36.74

Learning Modern organizing curator Mary Jane Jacob is interviewed by ArtPrize correspondent Nicole Caruth in a feature released Thursday (10/8). ArtPrize, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is making its debut this year as the "World's Largest Art Prize" by awarding $250,000 to a single artist as well as additional prizes to nine others. The initiative was covered in the Thursday (10/8) New York Times.

SAIC Partners with Mayors Office for Fashion Focus 2009

2009-10-08 15:25:59.15

Design by 2009 SAIC Graduate Genevieve Clifford

Textile Innovator Joanna Berzowska Speaks on "Wearable Technology" as Part of the SAIC's "Behind the Seams" Lecture Series Thursday, October 22 at 6 p.m.

Rising Stars in the World of Fashion Design, 2009 SAIC Alumni Present Original New Works at Free Dress Code Fashion Show in Millennium Park Friday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Fashion Design Department, recognized internationally for developing the next generation of top designers and for its unique interdisciplinary program within the foundation of a fine arts education, is proud to participate in the city of Chicago's 5th Annual Fashion Focus Chicago 2009. The initiative is a celebration of Chicago's thriving fashion industry, and offers a number of exciting events from Thursday, Oct. 22 to Sunday, Oct. 25. SAIC Fashion Design Department alumni Nick Cave, Lara Miller and Maria Pinto are all members of Mayor Daley's Fashion Council, which is committed to elevating and educating local Chicago designers and boutiques.

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Conversations at the Edge press coverage

2009-10-02 16:18:04.28

The latest installment of Conversations at the Edge from the department of Film, Video, and New Media is a critic's pick in this week's Time Out Chicago (Oct. 1). The two-day Vision in Motion series—featuring work by acclaimed faculty and students of the Institute of Design, as well as an opening-night roundtable including Hattula Moholy-Nagy, scholar and daughter of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy—tops the Art & Design picks on page 49 for covering a "Modernist god" from "Chicago's answer to the Bauhaus." The series is also featured in the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Journal.

Concertina Gallery featured in Time Out Chicago

2009-10-02 16:04:57.373

Time Out Chicago includes a four-star review of the inaugural exhibition at the Concertina Gallery, a new space on Milwaukee Avenue organized by SAIC students Corinna Kirsch and Katherine Pill. Critic Candice Weber writes, "No More Worlds feels remarkably fresh...If more curators bring Concertina Gallery's level of professionalism to Milwaukee Avenue's many empty storefronts, Logan Square may finally fulfill its potential as an art district."

Alumna Audrey Niffenegger releases second novel, receives press coverage

2009-10-02 15:46:11.15

SAIC alumna Audrey Niffenegger (BFA, 1985) is featured on the cover of this week's Newcity (10/1) as her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, is released in stores. Tom Lynch's article notes that her artwork, featured most prominently in her stunning graphic novel The Three Incestuous Sisters, often draws comparisons to the work of fellow SAIC alumnus Edward Gorey. Her Fearful Symmetry follows the runaway success of The Time Traveler's Wife, which opened in the top ten of the New York Times' Bestseller list in 2003.

Both the Newcity article and a Sunday feature in the Chicago Tribune mention Niffenegger's studies at SAIC, where she began the 13-year process of creating The Three Incestuous Sisters. Christopher Borelli's article calls the author "an artist first," and includes an online gallery of her work. For 25 years, Niffenegger has had solo art shows at Printworks Gallery on Superior Street.

SAIC Fashion Design alum Melissa Serpico featured on ABC 7 news

2009-10-02 15:26:45.49

The latest cocktail collection from SAIC Fashion Design alum Melissa Serpico (MFA 2006) was featured on ABC 7 news Tuesday (9/29). The Wicker Park-based designer's dresses and gowns will also be featured Monday (10/5) at noon during Fiera Italiana on Daley Plaza. Serpico, who won the SAIC Marshall Field's Perry Ellis Award in 2005 and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation's Award for excellence in fashion in 2006, has owned a boutique in Wicker Park since 2008.

FIDM Museum lauds Learning Modern Claire McCardell installation

2009-10-02 15:05:09.323

The Learning Modern installation examining American fashion designer Claire McCardell was lauded this week by Los Angeles' FIDM Museum, which is devoted to the exhibition and interpretation of dress and textiles. The Fashion Resource Center's Gillion Carrara and Caroline Bellios organized the installation in the Sullivan Galleries, featuring both garments and period publications from McCardell's career.

Alumna Rosy Keyser featured in her second solo exhibition

2009-10-02 15:02:27.18

Recent SAIC alumna Rosy Keyser (MFA, 2003) is featured in her second solo exhibition at Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, through November 14. The Brooklyn-based artist is including sculpture in an exhibition for the first time. SAIC alumni Adiwit Ansathammarat and Michael Cline are also currently on view in New York, at the CUE Foundation and Daniel Reich Gallery & Marc Jancou Contemporary, respectively.

Anne Wilson on west-coast lecture trip

2009-10-02 14:57:59.41

Professor and Chair of the Department of Fiber and Material Studies Anne Wilson is on a west coast lecture trip this week, speaking at CCA on October 7 before traveling to Portland to speak at Reed College and, with her former student Josh Faught, at the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

SAIC Hosts International Architecture and Technology Conference October 22-25

2009-09-21 16:44:31.633

The Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects (AIADO) of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) proudly hosts The Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA) 2009 international conference, ACADIA 09: reForm() Oct. 22-25. At this critical juncture in history when the world seeks to create new models of sustainability to build newer, more productive and responsible urban environments, ACADIA 09: reForm() will present 40 papers by leading architects, engineers, artists, and designers from the U.S. and abroad that explore ideas for using new hardware, software and networking technologies to positively transform the performance and operation of cities and buildings.
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Time Out Chicago Reviews We Must Indeed All Hang Together Exhibition

2009-09-18 11:24:30.91

Lauren Weinberg reviews We Must Indeed All Hang Together in the September 17 edition of Time Out Chicago. She elaborates on Jesse Jagtiani's How Dare You Call Me Un-American! and Rachel Mason's The Ambassadors ("Her kitschy medium renders even Margaret Thatcher endearing") while calling the exhibition "the best of four shows in Sullivan Galleries' New Approaches." An image of Daniel Everett's work in the show is also included. Read the review.

Print-design Journal FPO Praises the SAIC Graduate Admissions Catalog

2009-09-18 11:21:21.89

The print-design online journal FPO praises the new SAIC graduate admissions catalog as "unflinchingly contemporary" in its profile posted Friday, September 11. Alongside ten images of the publication and its details, the catalog is lauded for its "immediate presence" and for providing SAIC with a "visual edge." See it online here.

Sound Suits by Nick Cave featured in Out Magazine

2009-09-18 11:18:50.743

Six new sound suits by Fashion Design faculty Nick Cave are revealed in full-page photos inside the October issue of OUT magazine, now available nationwide. The photos by Terry Tsiolis accompany a feature article by Glenn O'Brien, who writes, "Cave is a transformer, an alchemist who takes detritus and low materials and changes them into magic tools that come alive with glamour, power, and possibility, usually in direct collaboration with the body." A copy is available in the Marketing and Graphics office (Sullivan 1205).

HOW magazine lists SAIC in top nine institutions for graphic-design professionals

2009-09-18 11:16:08.483

The August edition of HOW magazine includes SAIC among its top nine continuing studies institutions for graphic-design professionals, encouraging readers to "learn how to keep your competitive edge." SVA, Parsons, and Ringling are some others included in the cover story, of which a copy is available in the Marketing and Graphics office (Sullivan 1205). SAIC's write-up includes mentions for printmaking, art therapy, sound, performance, art history, film, video, and new media courses.

SAIC alum Charles Sparks featured in CS Interiors

2009-09-18 11:12:40.563

The summer edition of CS Interiors includes a feature on page 32 about the Modern Wing Shop and its creator, award-winning retail designer and SAIC alum Charles Sparks. Quotes from Sparks, who was hired "to create a merchandise space that would blend seamlessly into the architecture," are included beneath an image of the store, are available here.

AIADO grad students' exhibition featured in Chicago Tribune

2009-09-15 17:20:37.923

Seven AIADO grad students showing projects at the Prairie Avenue Gallery through September 27 this fall are featured in today's Chicago Tribune (9/11/09). The story by Jennifer Day on the cover of Section 4 includes photos and quotes from AIADO Master of Architecture student Lauren Thomas. The students created their designs-event spaces incorporating the Glessner House Museum on Prairie Avenue and the adjacent Women's Park-last spring, in a course taught by Adjunct Professor Odile Compagnon. The students involved are Audry Tsang Luan Grill, Annie Claire Kasper, Becky Ann Midden, Kim Kristi Richter, Jamie Marissa Sandy, Lauren Ashley Thomas, and Kim Anne Tran. Read it here.

SAIC Chancellor Tony Jones featured in the Dallas Morning News

2009-09-15 17:16:37.42

SAIC Chancellor Tony Jones was featured in the Dallas Morning News on September 3 for his role in the groundbreaking of Dallas's forthcoming 5.2-acre deck park over Woodall Rodgers Freeway. Jones delivers the September 14 keynote address at a breakfast for participants to discuss how Chicago has been transformed by Millennium Park, which is described as "a model for urban regeneration worldwide." Read it here.

F Newsmagazine is a semi-finalist for the Pacemaker Award

2009-09-15 17:13:51.843

F Newsmagazine is a semi-finalist again for the Pacemaker Award, a prize sponsored by the Associated College Press and appointed by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. The magazine won the award last year in its category, in which Columbia College's Chronicle and University of Chicago's Chicago Maroon are also semi-finalists. Staffers Eric Garcia and Alexandra Westrich are finalists for Cartoonist of the Year, as well. This year's winners will be announced at the National College Media Convention October 28-November 1 in Austin.
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Fashion Design faculty Eia Radosavljevic's designs in Chicago magazine

2009-09-15 17:11:09.153

SAIC Fashion Design faculty Eia Radosavljevic's headwear designs are featured on the cover of the September issue of Chicago magazine as well as pages 57, 61, 66, 68-69. To see all pages, visit the Chicago magazine website.

Art and Technology faculty Eduardo Kac wins the Prix Ars Electronica

2009-09-15 17:08:19.093

The Ars Electronica Festival 2009 has announced that Art and Technology faculty Eduardo Kac is this year's winner of the Prix Ars Electronica in the Hybrid Art category for his work on the project Natural History of Enigma with partners from the University of Minnesota. Kac extracted a gene from his DNA and spliced it with that of a flower for the project. One of the most important awards for creativity in the field of digital media, the Prix-also known as the Golden Nica-has been issued annually in eight categories by the Austria-based Ars Electronica Foundation since 1987. Watch an interview with Kac here.

Faculty Peggy Macnamara exhibits at the Chicago Botanic Garden

2009-09-15 17:04:55.68

Visual Communication Design faculty Peggy Macnamara is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden through September 28. An article on her work is published in the September edition of North Shore magazine. Macnamara teaches Scientific Illustration at SAIC and is Artist in Residence at the Field Museum of Natural History, where she has worked with scientists for the past 20 years. The exhibition on view in the Garden's Joutras Gallery, The Natural Art of Nests, features artwork from her recently published fourth book, Architecture by Birds & Insects.

SAIC alum Zachary Formwalt's solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel

2009-09-15 16:59:57.08

Art Knowledge News reports that SAIC alum Zachary Formwalt has a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel through November 15, the artist's first major individual exhibition in Europe. Formwalt has been living and working in Amsterdam as a resident of the Rijksakademie since 2008. The article is online with images from the show at this link.

Fall Exhibitions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2009-09-14 14:47:06.413

Lorraine Peltz, Playdate, 2009 (detail). From the exhibition Faculty Projects (through Sept. 25). Image courtesy of the artist

SAIC's Sullivan Galleries—filling over 32,000 square feet inside one of Chicago's most renowned architectural landmarks—offer museum-quality exhibitions at no charge to the public year-round, along with the Rymer Gallery and Student Union Galleries LG Space and Gallery X. For more information and exhibition listings, go here to learn more.

Fiber Alum Jovencio de la Paz (2008) Named a finalist for Betty Bowen Award

2009-09-08 15:05:40.213

According to ArtDaily.com, Fiber and Material Studies alum Jovencio de la Paz (2008) has been named a finalist for this year's Betty Bowen Award, a Seattle-based prize of $15,000 that also includes an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. La Paz, who now lives in Gresham, Oregon, is one of five finalists selected from 494 applications. The winner will be announced October 23. more info

SAIC alum Abigail Glaum-Lathbury in Time Out Chicago

2009-09-08 15:03:09.483

For more science-inspired creativity, check out Jessica Herman's recent profile of SAIC alum Abigail Glaum-Lathbury in Time Out Chicago. Glaum-Lathbury, who will be featured in Chicago's Fashion Focus 2009 October 22-29, took inspiration for her latest clothing line from graphs depicting electron band structures of different metals. Read it here.

Chicago Tribune Features SAIC's Ox-Bow Summer School of Art and Artists' Residency

2009-09-08 14:57:55.0

The Sunday Chicago Tribune on August 30 included a travel article on Saugatuck, Michigan that featured SAIC's Ox-Bow Summer School of Art and Artists' Residency. The story, by John Handley, comes after the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated Saugatuck one of the nation's Dozen Distinctive Destinations. The article is available online here.

Chicago architecture expert Lynn Becker covered upcoming Visiting Artists Program

2009-09-08 14:44:39.59

Chicago architecture expert Lynn Becker covered SAIC's upcoming Visiting Artists Program fall lectures with Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Narelle Jubelin in the September round-up on his popular blog, ArchitectureChicago Plus. A frequent contributor to the Chicago Reader on architecture matters, Becker published his report on August 31, listing VAP alongside this month's gala celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Unity Temple and goings-on at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. His summary is available online here.

Faculty James Elkins is quoted in an article from the American Physical Society

2009-09-08 14:36:34.28

Writing by E. C. Chadbourne Chair in Art History James Elkins is quoted in an August 31 article from the American Physical Society covering prominent examples of art inspired by scientific examinations. The story, a profile of artist Jim Sanborn, notes that Sanborn recently "established a scientific-compound-cum-studio on an island in the Potomac, and has built a real, live, working particle accelerator." Elkins' words come from an essay by photographer Stanley Greenburg. Read it here.

Faculty Ken Fandell Featured on the The Chicagoist

2009-09-08 14:13:18.553

SAIC Faculty Ken Fandell was featured on the popular blog The Chicagoist August 24, in an interview covering current events in his busy schedule. Among the topics discussed are a forthcoming lecture at Washington D.C.'s Hamiltonian Gallery, a site-specific piece at the Asheville (N.C.) Art Museum in October, and a collage made from 111 pictures of his finger at different angles and bends. The interview is available online here.

In Downtown Chicago, Innovative Works of Art Re-Engage the Ideal of the Modern

2009-08-26 14:32:44.013

Arturo Vittori, Model for Atlas Coelestis, 2009, in collaboration with School of the Art Institute of Chicago student team

The legacy of the Bauhaus informs a wide-ranging exhibition of installation, design, video, and digital works co-organized and presented by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the Mies van der Rohe Society at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) this fall.

Learning Modern is on view from September 26, 2009 to January 9, 2010 in the SAIC Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State Street, a vast, open exhibition space carved out of an architectural landmark, Louis Sullivan's former Carson Pirie Scott department store.

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SAIC Presents its Fall and Winter Program Highlights

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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago offers the students of SAIC and the Chicago community the opportunity to explore an exhilarating range of cultural events including avant-garde performance art, exhibitions, Nobel Prize-winning poets and novelists, the best independent and international films and videos, lectures and artist's talks by compelling thinkers, artists and designers.

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