Join us for an open house at our off-campus art classroom in the Nichols Tower, located in Chicago’s Homan Square community. SAIC’s programming in the Nichols Tower includes art and design courses, artist residencies, and workshops focusing on community-engaged art education for residents of the North Lawndale neighborhood.
Learn more about the work students, faculty, staff, and community residents are doing to expand art and design education in North Lawndale.
Visit SAIC’s first classroom space outside of the Loop.
Meet SAIC’s Homan Square Artists-in- Residence Mashaun Hendricks, Sadie Woods, Rae Chardonnay, and SAIC faculty member Cheryl Pope
View public art created by SAIC students from the class bLumen:The Grow | Light | Community led by artists Petra Bachmaier and Iker Gil