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Martine Syms Profiled in the New Yorker

The New Yorker recently published a profile of SAIC alum Martine Syms (BFA 2007). Syms discusses the inspiration behind the works...

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Statement by Dean of Faculty Lisa Wainwright on Academic Freedom

In recent media stories such as those published on F News, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed...

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SAIC Participating in EXPO CHICAGO 2017

SAIC will be out in full force at EXPO CHICAGO 2017, managing a booth while faculty and alumni present work, and curate video...

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SAIC Offers New Museum Education Graduate Scholars Program

This fall, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will launch its Museum Education Graduate Scholars Program, a joint venture...

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February 27, 2017

Rashayla Marie Brown To Exhibit at High Concept Labs

Chicago-based artist and director of SAIC Student Affairs for Diversity and Inclusion, Rashayla Marie Brown (BFA 2015) has been chosen as one of eight artists included in High Concept Labs’ Spring 2017 Sponsored Artists.

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February 27, 2017

Cheryl Pope Talks Contemporary Art to Kenyon College Students

SAIC faculty in the Fashion Design program, Cheryl Pope (BFA 2003, MDes 2010) received a Mellon Fellowship from Gund Gallery at Kenyon College in order to host her new project Community is Built on Empathy. In collaboration with students at Kenyon College, Pope gathered a number of statements from students, which were then made into banners and hung along the walls of the school’s athletic center.

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February 27, 2017

Coco Gordon Moore Featured in Teen Vogue

Coco Gordon Moore (BFA 2016) has been featured in Teen Vogue as one of the Gap’s stars in their new 90’s inspired campaign.

Fashion Design
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February 27, 2017

Faculty Member Works on Antiwar Video Game

SAIC faculty in the Departments of Contemporary Practices and Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Kerry Richardson (MFA 1996) is working on a video game through her new media art collective Plug-In Studio.

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February 27, 2017

Melika Bass Interviewed by TimeOut Chicago

SAIC alum and faculty member Melika Bass (MFA 2007, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation) recently caught up with TimeOut Chicago to discuss her filmmaking practice, influences, and her films Waking Things, Shoals, and Songs from the Shed.

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February 23, 2017

Andres Hernandez, Jennifer Park, and Norman Teague Among Obama Presidential Center Collaborators

Internationally-acclaimed SAIC faculty members and alumni round out the list of architects and designers assigned to Jackson Park's forthcoming Obama Presidential Center.

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February 23, 2017

SAIC Named a Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Students

CHICAGO–The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs recently recognized the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) as one of two specialized institutions in the nation with the most U.S. Fulbright students. Two SAIC students received Fulbright awards for 2016–17, and since 2002, 34 students have represented SAIC as U.S. student Fulbright fellows. SAIC joins the University of Chicago and Northwestern University as the only Illinois colleges to be included on the list.

February 20, 2017

Alumni Films Shortlisted for Biennale of Moving Images

SAIC alumni Joseph Houlberg (MFA 2017) and Bahar Noorizadeh (MFA 2015) scored spots on Digicult’s 10 shortlisted films to see during the 15th Biennale of Moving Images (BIM).

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Alumni

February 20, 2017

Alum to Exhibit at the Venice Biennale

Peter Miller (MFA 2005) will be exhibiting work in the central show of the 2017 Venice Biennale, curated by Christine Macel, chief curator at the Centre Pompidou.

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Alumni

February 20, 2017

SAIC Faculty Featured in Architects Newspaper

SAIC faculty member John Clark (AIADO) and partner Taylor Holloway were recently featured in Architects Newspaper for their exhibit Ancient Age: An Endless Journey in Place, representing the end of the last Ice Age—the Pleistocene Era—when the Midwest’s last ice sheet was recessing.

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February 20, 2017

Art History, Theory, and Criticism Professor Featured in BBC News

BBC News recently featured Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History, Nora Taylor in an article illuminating a fascinating Singaporean hoarder, Koh Nguang How.

Art History Theory and Criticism
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February 20, 2017

Associate Art Therapy Professor Featured in The New York Times

Doctor Savneet Talwar (Art Therapy) was recently featured in the New York Times for her response to Karen Pence’s support of art therapy programming.

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