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From LEDs to Bees: SAIC Achieves Carbon Neutrality and Advances Sustainability Efforts

From LEDs to bees and renewable energy in between, for the past 10 years the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been busy becoming a sustainable and resilient campus. SAIC ...

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Lecturer Eric Hotchkiss and SAIC Students Design a Minigolf Course

Eric Hotchkiss, lecturer in the Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects department, and SAIC students are featured in Block Club Chicago. In the article, students of...

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Linda Keane
Linda Keane Honored with AIA Award and Featured in Architect Magazine

Professor Linda Keane (Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects) was recently honored with the 2019 American Institute of Architects Illinois Nathan Clifford Ricker Award...

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Terracotta Moonjar at Beyond Tradition exhibition at Numeroventi gallery, Florence, Italy (2019) (Courtesy the Artist)
The Architect's Newspaper Interviews Alum Yoon-Young Hur

Yoon-Young Hur (BFA 2006) was featured in the Architect's Newspaper about how she channls architecture into her ceramic work, which is deeply rooted in her Korean heritage. “There’s this...

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Walter Hood Spotlighted in Architectural Digest

Walter Hood (MFA 2013) and his Oakland, California, based design firm, Hood Design Studio were recently spotlighted in an article in Architectural Digest. In the article, Hood’s attraction...

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Luftwerk and Iker Gil's installation at the Farnsworth House
Luftwerk and Iker Gil's Light Installation at Farnsworth House Featured in ArchDaily

Geometry of Light, a collaboration between Petra Bachmaier (BFA 1999) and Sean Gallero (SAIC 1993–98) of Luftwerk and Lecturer Iker Gil (Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed...

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From left to right: Ramon Jimenez Cardenas (BFA 2018), Chelsea Lombardo (BFA 2019), Amber Cao (BFA 2019), and Liam Wilson (BFA 2018)
Prepared for the Pressures
Studio Potluck wins first place at Make48 design competition show.
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2019's 3Arts Awards recipients (left to right, top): Richard Costes, Laksha Dantran, Ivelisse Diaz, Stephanie Diaz, Damon Locks; (left to right, bottom): Jumaane Taylor, Norman Teague, Bethany Thomas, Sam Trump, and Santiago X. (3Arts)
Three Alums Receive 3Arts Awards

Damon Locks (BFA 1991), Norman Teague (MFA 2016), and Santiago X (MFA 2018) were awarded grants from 3Arts, reports the Chicago Tribune. The alums are among the 10 local teaching...

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AIADO Students Contribute to the McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum

The McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum has launched a new way of experiencing Chicago’s horizontal landscape ascend to a vertical orientation. As the boats on the Chicago River...

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Paola Aguirre Serrano Featured in New York Magazine

Architectural and urban designer and current full-time visiting artist in the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, Paola Aguirre Serrano ...

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Surrounds: 11 Installations exhibit at MoMA
MoMA's Reopening Features Exhibit Curated by Alum Yasmil Raymond

On October 21, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will reopen after a summer-long closure and an ambitious renovation project of its gallery spaces. Among the 10 fall shows opening,...

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Photo courtesy of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Walter Hood Wins Gish Prize

Walter Hood (MFA 2013), landscape and public artist, who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship two weeks ago has been selected as the winner of this year's Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize...

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